I’m in love with the new LCDs. They got 19″ Lenovo L192 Wide Tft monitors for their IT section. Last time they have pretty cool IBM flat screens and now upgraded with Lenovo wide screens.

The Lenovo L192 Wide Monitor offers users to view images in a 16 x 10 wide aspect ratio. It is available in business black. This monitor is best suited for complex spreadsheets, multitasking, general business applications and multiple-monitor environments.

Features & Benefits:

• 19-inch (483-mm) viewable image size
• Optimum resolution: 1440 x 900
• Tilt stand for viewing comfort adjustments
• 16 x 10 aspect ratio
• Analog attachment
• Internal power
• Meets 100 mm VESA requirement

Specifications: Lenovo L192 Wide Monitor

I hook it up with my ugly laptop screen and use it as dual extended monitor.
What a sensational sight! hehe

Arh so IE + Firefox = MS Firefox

+ =

Such an ugly icon. The fox now looks like a lobster with one mustache. Also it got such a long name – “Microsoft Firefox 2007 Professional Edition“. What’s up with MS and their long versions? Professional version, developer version, standard version, etc.

The combination of Microsoft’s power and might along with Firefox’s extensive fan database will create one of the world’s largest, most innovative and diversified browsers ever. The acquisition brings together two of the industry’s strongest contenders and is the most ubiquitous incorporation of technologies for creating, managing and delivering compelling spyware and viral experiences across multiple operating systems, devices and media (Subject to Microsoft Compatibility).

Features

• Simplified User Experience
• Amazing Marginal Manipulation
• Instant Search Box
• Favorites Center
• RSS (Real Simple Sex)
• Tabbed Browsing
• Quick Tabs
• Tab Groups
• Page Zoom, etc..etc..

So now what? Do we ditch recent IE7 and replace with this MSFF? Anymore IE series to come? hmm…
Full Features | Get MS Firefox 2007 Professional Edition

Don’t feel like testing it yet. Kinda ZzzZz..Zzz at the moment. Let me know how it goes if you tested it.

Hey guys, check this site out, ziptophone.com. It’s free text messaging using Ajax and MooTools effects.

ZipToPhone is a free text messaging service. Using this tool, you can easily send text messages and send MMS messages to a cell phone. This is ideal for sending custom ringtones, games, wallpapers, logos, photos, or any other file that your cell phone can process. It’s also perfect for sending a quick message to a friend when you are without your phone.

Very clean, no registration required, no ads and nothing what soever at all. Very simple and sweet. Works like a charm. I tried it to my gangs in Fiji. All works and very fast too. Most of free sms sites doesn’t offer service to send to Fiji but this one does, so i’m sure if Fiji can receive it, other countries will be just fine.

Currently, there is a limit of 5 messages per day per IP address. We’ll be rolling out the option to upgrade your account and send more messages soon.

But ofcos, there is a limit of 5 messages per day from one IP. It’s very new site, so may be they’re still test driving.

Have you guys notice about this feature on Google Reader?
There is this “Original audio source” link with flash-based audio player showing up for some posts that have audio links. I saw that on a few posts but I thought it was the blogger’s doing. But now I just saw that on my own music pick post and realised that it was actually one of Greader features.

Pretty cool huh? You can play all the mp3 the first mp3 source on the page directly without the need of downloading. Sweet!

I’ve tested the Google Reader since it came out but in the beginning it gave me errors while importing my subscriptions, messed up the folders and tags so I continued with my Bloglines.

After the newly upgraded Google Reader I was able to transfer all my subscriptions successfully. Now I’ve completely switched across Google Reader and loving it.

Some functionalities on Google Reader I like to see are:

• to check numbers of subscriber to individual feed,
• to show feed description,
• to have the left hand panel draggable or collapsable,
• may be improve in iconomy would be great too, like adding favicons to each feeds as they have for Bloglines and Rojo.

I’m sure the developers are improving as we speak cos’ just now I’ve discovered this new feature called “Trends” where you can view the stats of your reading trends by “Last 30 days”, “Time of day” and “Day of week”. It also tells you how much you’ve read in a brief summary as my stats here:

From your 453 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 5,008 items, starred 0 items, and shared 15 items.

There are “Reading trends”, “Subscription trends” and “Tags” where the more items a tag has, the bigger it appears. The more of those items you have read, the darker it is. In my case, my tags are my folders.

Seems like you got more control over your reading habits and quite fun checking out neat little stats along the way. Have fun analyzing your “Trends“.

Incase if you haven’t notice, 24 ways – 2006 is already started.

24 ways was started last year 1st December by a group of professionals who post one great article per day till 24th December. So that’s 24 articles.

It’s started again this year and already there are three articles to check out. You can also browse the last year articles here.

After many mishaps and frustrations, I’ve successfully installed .net 3.0 and all other extensions. I find installing .net 3.0 a painful process yet your case might be as easy as 1 2 3. Just for my own note and whoever with the similar situation can cross-check, I’ve listed down the followings.

You need at least half a day work in installing all required setups for .net 3.0, not including the downloading time for installer files. Make sure you already have VS.Net 2005 installed. Ofcos have WinXP with all those latest service packs, just to be sure.

• Clean up your machine and get at least 6 GB freespace,
• Remove any previously installed versions of beta and RC releases,
• Follow the installation order and notes below.

Order of Installation
Installation order plays an important part here. You must follow the following order to run files smoothly.

1. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Redistributable Package : dotnetfx3setup.exe (2.8MB)
2. Microsoft® Windows® Software Development Kit for Windows Vista™ and .NET Framework 3.0 Runtime Components : Setup.exe (400KB)
3. Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (WCF & WPF), November 2006 CTP : vsextwfx.msi (3.64MB)
4. Visual Studio 2005 extensions for .NET Framework 3.0 (Windows Workflow Foundation) : Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation (EN).exe (6.46MB)

N.B: #2

The setup file will load the sdk installation wizard which do direct installation. If your net is crappy like mine or if you need to install on multiple machines, then direct installation is just not right. In that case, you either need an installer DVD or get an iso image file like this one: 6.0.6000.0.0.WindowsSDK_Vista_rtm.DVD.Rel.img (1.15 GB) (My friend downloaded from somewhere…)

You might need Virtual Clone Drive to run that iso image file. Free Download from here: Virtual Clone Drive 5.1.4.5.

These are some of the problems I faced while installing and the fixes.

Error: WWF extension for VS.net

SDKSetup encountered an error: Unable to find the file SDKSetup.cab at the installation source. The most likely reason that you received this message is because the source location of your original installation is unavailable. If you installed from a DVD please re-insert the DVD. If you installed from the Internet, please check your connection.

Fix: Place the WWF installer exe file in the same directory as your iso image file, then run again.

Error: SDK Installation

Error 1303. The installer has insufficient privileges to access this directory: C:\Config.msi. The installation cannot continue. Log on as administrator or contact your system administrator.

Fix: Ignore and click “Continue” button. Might get this error twice or so, just ignore and continue installation.

N.B: Make sure you log in as Administrator to your system and checks on C: drive that you have given full previlidge to “System” or “Everyone” account. Better to have full access on “System” account. Shouldn’t have any problem if you installing directly from internet.

Well, at least I’ve taken one big step in upgrading to .net 3.0. Now all I need to do is, start digging and go dirty with it. I got a few online labs to play around and some good resource sites. I’ll write more about it once I get started. I’m getting my eyes on WWF labs at the moment. I’ll keep you updated.

Tell me about your installation experiences and share some tips/resources too k?

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