To Mac, or to Windows? That’s your question, here’s my answer

Find out why I think Macs are a real compelling platform to consider as your next PC, even if you still need Windows to run some of your stuff.

How to get your own email domain name with Gmail

Ever wanted to get your own domain name for your email address? What if I say that's really a simple process and you can get the email service for FREE! Yes, you just need to register your domain name for a nominal fee of less than US$10 per year and thanks to Google Apps, you can get all this done within a single day!

How to access your files anywhere with SugarSync

Ever felt that even having a tablet, you still could never leave your notebook behind because you always have 'that' file that you might need. Well, here's how SugarSync, a cloud storage solution, can help you leave that notebook behind for good.

VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7: A User’s POV

If you are uncertain whether to go for Parallels Desktop 7 or VMWare Fusion 4, perhaps this article could help you. Here's my A usability-based comparison of VMWare Fusion 4 vs Parallels Desktop 7. No useless benchmarks, no pointless feature-by-feature comparisons. Just purely based on my use of the two.

Keep your MacBook alive with an SSD upgrade

If you really want a fast and responsive machine, instead of buying a new system, consider upgrading with an SSD storage. You will be surprise how responsive your MacBook can be just by using an SSD!

Parallels or VMWare Virtual Machines on an SSD: Is it worth it?

SSD is very expensive in terms of it's real estate and you simply do not want to put just about any junk you have that's not worth it's space there. Therefore, you would want to make sure if it's really worth plunking the tens of GBs worth of VM image onto your precious SSD storage. So, should you or should you not? Is there significant performance improvements that warrant the large chunk of the SSD dedicated to the VM image? Read on to find out!

Posts tagged tricks

Who else wants push e-mail, even when it’s not supported?

January 13, 2010

by Ken Ng

Push e-mail seems to be the in thing these days. O.K. It’s the in thing ever since berries started to grow batteries and sold by phone companies. And since then, the iPhone has caught up as well. Unfortunately, it’s only available on Microsoft Exchange, Apple’s MobileMe, Gmail (via Google Sync), and Yahoo Mail.

However, if you are have more than one email accounts that uses Exchange ActiveSync, or, if your email server is not supported by the More >

Windows 7′s ‘God-Mode’. As useful as IDDQD?

January 4, 2010

by Ken Ng

I recently stumbled across a link to enable an easter egg on Windows 7, interestingly called “God Mode”. You can read more about it here but essentially it’s just a special folder that contains ALL the options that is available from the Control Panel, all 279 of them (at least on my machine).

Too lazy to check out the site to get this yourself, well, it’s really simple.

Go create a new folder and name it exactly this: More >

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