A Day with your Doctor

EverNote Overhauls to Version 2 - Rivals MS OneNote 2007




Capture, store and manage data with EverNote 2.0, the latest version of the popular note-taking application.


New to the program is embedded to-dos: You can insert to-do checkboxes anywhere within your notes, an action that automatically adds the note to the To-Do category. There's also a new clip tool that lets you add any visible screen content to a note. Other additions include a Note List view, note flags and a category locator

Portal Phenom Endorses Thunderbird 2


Thunderbird 2 features many new enhancements to help you better manage your unruly inbox, and stay informed. Thunderbird 2 scales to the most sophisticated organizational needs while making it easy to find what you need.


A must download for all existing users from [here]

PC Manufacturers Offering Windows XP Again


"With so many consumers still asking for Windows XP to be loaded on Dell's consumer level PCs, the PC maker has finally decided to offer that as an option. 'Like most computer makers, Dell switched nearly entirely to Vista-based systems following Microsoft's mainstream launch of the operating system in January. However, the company said its customers have been asking for XP as part of its IdeaStorm project, which asks customers to help the company come up with product ideas. Starting immediately, Dell said, it is adding XP Home and Professional as options on four Inspiron laptop models and two Dimension desktops.' The Dell models with the Windows XP option are: Dell Inspiron 1405, 1705, 1505, and 1501; and Dell Dimension E520 and E521."

Recover Data from Damaged Harddrives


This week's download highlight - Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece of a file and put the pieces together. Using this method most types of files can be made useable even if some parts were not recoverable in the end.

Download [here]

The Size of your Next Laptop Display?



A microminiaturized display, typically with a screen size less than 1.5" diagonal. They are used in head mounted displays (HMDs), in data projectors, rear screen projectors and in the traditional viewfinders of digital cameras. Reflective displays bounce light off the displayed image into the viewer's lens or the projection lens. Transmissive displays are similar to backlit, portable computer screens using LCD and EL technologies.

Gen 10 - Thinking Pointers

1. Japheth had 7 sons and 7 grandsons recorded; Ham 4 sons, 18 grandsons and 2 great grandsons
2. "Isle of the gentiles" denote a sort of island where they all lived and imply a gradual distinction of people with and without the fear of God slowly populating the earth
3. Nimrod - the famous hunter was believed to the first empire builder, having a paganistic belief to call men to unite and resist the command of God to go forth spreading and occupying the rest of the earth
4. Some belief its throught this defying act that the common tongue was replaced with over 70 languages by God shortly after
5. Shem had 5 sons, 5 grandsons and 1 great-grandson. Shem's line is deeply described in this chapter, against Ham and Japhath's

Business Users Virus Awareness Bulletin

1. Dont assume anything. Make some time to learn about securing your system.
2. Acquire and use a reliable antivirus program. Select an antivirus that has a consistent track record. Checkmark, AV-Test.org and TuV are among the most respected independent testers of antivirus software.
3. Acquire and use a reliable firewall solution. Again, independent reviewers are your best bet for reasonable choices. Some operating systems come with a firewall which only filters incoming traffic. Use a firewall that can control both incoming and outgoing Internet traffic.
4. Do not open e-mails coming from unknown or distrusted sources. Many viruses spread via e-mail messages so please ask for a confirmation from the sender if you are in any doubt.
5. Do not open the attachments of messages with a suspicious or unexpected subject. If you want to open them, first save them to your hard disk and scan them with an updated antivirus program.
6. Delete any chain e-mails or unwanted messages. Do not forward them or reply to their senders. This kind of messages is considered spam, because it is undesired and unsolicited and it overloads the Internet traffic.
7. Avoid installing services and applications which are not needed in day-by-day operations in a desktop role, such as file transfer and file sharing servers, remote desktop servers and the like. Such programs are potential hazards, and should not be installed if not absolutely necessary.
8. Update your system and applications as often as possible. Some operating systems and applications can be set to update automatically. Make full use of this facility. Failure to patch your system often enough may leave it vulnerable to threats for which fixes already exist.
9. Do not copy any file if you don't know or don't trust its source. Check the source (provenance) of files you download and make sure that an antivirus program has already verified the files at their source.
10. Make backups of important personal files (correspondence, documents, pictures and such) on a regular basis. Store these copies on removable media such as CD or DVD. Keep your archive in a different location than the one your computer is in.

ClamAV/Clamwin Scores High in Adoption by Big Corporation

As to date, the following business/academic entities uses Clamwin/ClamAV in their production environment:

State of Vermont
Vermont State government (U.S.) uses ClamAV on its frontend email hubs, which handle several hundred domains and scan approximately 250000 messages each day.

Michigan State University
Our central email system serves over 120000 users with a cluster of 30 boxes. ClamAV scans over two million email messages a day, which translates to about 46 GB of traffic. That’s a lot of zeroes. Our users thank you!

Barracuda Networks
Barracuda Networks’ Levow sees considerable merit in the use of opensource antivirus and antispam tools, and [[specifically [barracudanews]] points to ClamAV as the largest and also most widely used opensource antivirus technology: ‘’With a well-built team of contributors helping improve the accuracy and virus definitions as they enter the digital age, ClamAV is a highly respected and very accurate antivirus engine’’ said Levov.

Webmail.us
Webmail.us specializes in providing small businesses with company-wide email hosting services. All solutions are protected by ClamAV, which runs on 16 Athlon 3200 servers with Red Hat Linux ES 3.0, protecting 15.000 businesses, and ~10 million messages per day (as of January 2006). New virus definitions are pushed to all servers in real-time as updates are released by ClamAV.

Read more [here]

New WORMS Attacks Skype Users

A worm targeting Skype's VoIP application is harvesting e-mail addresses and directing users to a range of sites hosting other malicious software. Once a machine is infected, the worm sends a malicious link via instant messages to other users in person's Skype contact list, according to F-Secure's blog.

The link leads to an executable file that downloads a Trojan horse capable of downloading other malicious software, F-Secure said. It then shows a photo of a "lightly dressed" woman. F-Secure calls the worm "IM-Worm:W32/Pykse.A," and Sophos named it "Mal/Pykse-A."

Windows XP to be retired in 2008

Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008.

Microsoft is keeping to a plan to stop selling the operating system even though surveys show a lukewarm response to Windows Vista among consumers.

A poll by US market research firm Harris Interactive found that only 10% of those questioned were planning to upgrade to Vista in the near future.

Read more [here]

Gen 9 - Thinking Pointers

1. What does it actually mean or transpired when God "blessed" Noah?
2. The new era after the flood brought fear into the earth, where it affects the animal kingdom towards mankind - an order was set among creation (something non-existent before the flood)
3. Mankind was given the go-ahead to consume meat, (again something not known before the flood), implying a vicious cycle to killing has began
4. Meat are not to be eaten raw with blood for each kill, for blood symbolize life
5. Taking the life of another man entails immediate judgement by God, as it signifies a neglect of God's image in man
6. The existence of a rainbow will today sets a reminder between God and man, that He will not destroy the earth with a flood again (but with fire!) - Have you seen a rainbow lately? (No universal flood does not imply no localized floods worldwide)
7. First occupation mentioned in the Bible is a farmer!
8. Making wine is a 5-step process - harvest/crush/press/ferment/mature/finish, a knowledge already discovered in the primitive age of Noah
9. Who are the canaanites, that the Bible began to suddenly mentioned, as Ham is the father of it?
10. Filial respect is what Ham lack for his parent, with a curse following those who still practise this today
11. What effect has such a curse on canaan been seen later? The issue of blessing/cursing became a common act in the Bible from henceforth

Gen 8 - Thinking Pointers

1. With all these waters from the deep poured out to cover (and later abated into) the entire world, one cannot help but wonder why the earth core is today still formed with molten magma!
2. As the Lord remembereth Noah and the ark, an amazing fact reveals that the entire boat's occupants relied only on one unopened window for their air supply for over 200 days! Some sort of air vent must have been incorporated into the ark!
3. Moreover, the window of the ark must have been located beyond the physical reach of Noah without a tool. Otherwise, he would have gazed upon the condition of the flood without the need to send forth a dove
4. The worship of God signifies the utmost focus of Noah's mind/heart as he started a new life. It's the first thing he did before all else!
5. The curse on the ground is lifted - where proliferation of fruits, vegetation and trees resumed - a relief for mankind that we still enjoy today
6. God's promise not to destroy every living things on earth with a sweep of His judgement does not mean he will not judge mankind in their sins specifically
7. "while the earth remaineth" denotes a limited span of time whereby the earth will ultimately be gone

Noah's Ark and Mount Ararat


The Mountains of Ararat is the place named in the Book of Genesis where Noah's ark came to rest after the great flood (Genesis 8:4). Abrahamic tradition associates the mountains of Ararat with Mount Ararat in Turkey located 750 miles (1200 kilometers) northeast of Jerusalem. Mount Ararat was, for many centuries, part of the Armenian states, but through several conquests it eventually fell into the hands of the Ottoman Empire and later the Persian Empire (Iran). After the Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828 and the Treaty of Turkmanchai it was incorporated into the Russian Empire as part of the Armenian Oblast and later the Erivan Governate. After World War I, it came under the administration of the Democratic Republic of Armenia as part of the Ararat province but was ceded to Turkey by the Soviet Union in the Treaty of Kars.

Just something you would ask when you read Genesis 8...

Ryan is Well and Sleepy...

A big thank you from Nigel and Jenny to those who could attend Ryan's one month celebration! Never knew there are more than three YMCA in town! (Apology to Brian for misinformation)

Well, from many's opinion and mine, Ryan looks more like Jenny at the moment...but things can change again as usual. He's also sleepy, with a thick layer of blanket around him that Saturday and Brian, Daisy, Robert and Reba and I met Nigel's uncle - Robert over the luncheon.

Robert is from Malaysia and lives alone, and again, we gradually steer our conversation over many topics. Now One thing most interesting is Ryan's status of citizenship. Nigel is also a Malaysian citizen, who works and live as a PR in Australia for almost all his life, marries a local and now stays with us here! So, theoretically, Ryan should be a Malaysian! But Nigel says otherwise!

Interesting...

Welcome Sus and John's Family Back!

The recent change in weather usually means a sea of air-borne viruses released around us, and many including myself has been a victim of this infection. It's a type of virus that is much more persistent than before, attacking the tired and stress individuals. Apology for not updating the blog as often as I should in this case.

It usually begins with your throat and work itself to the whole body if you are weak but thanks be to God that my immune system is holding it just there, with much coughs and running noses. Yes, I managed to bring my grandmum to the church last Sunday for the Chinese worship and an opporunity was given to share the gospel over lunch outside church...

You see...my granddad past away some five years back, and briefly since then, grandmum begins to relate to me her accounts of where she thinks granddad went (you know, being over sorrowful and all). Nevertheless, the gospel's relayed once again...and I pray (will you pray too?) that she runs to the Saviour. Interestingly, I found out that my granddad's entire family is the first christian family back in mainland china, in a province I forgot its name. I was also told they were faithful believers and that my granddad used to attend sunday schools faithfully when he was a kid...will share with you all when we meet.

OK. I believe Sus and John is back in town....and from brian's communication with him, may not be too pleased with the unexpected cold weather in China. We'll hear from John...and now that he has a new camera, I am sure, we can now see where they actually been to. Also, for Sus, who is back from South Africa...welcome back.

Lastly, I cannot over-emphasize the importance of witness for this SF, as its the sole purpose of why we are a family - to be a strong, loving witness to those around us, in casting that life line of hope to those putting up a strong front but lost in life.

Tell us your account of Easter and who we can pray for to bring them in...

Compiere ERP Shifts Into Spotlight

In the month of February, two major industry publications listed Compiere as one of the top ERP vendors, and we are in good company with a number of top vendors on each of these lists.

CRN, a publication targeting VARs and integrators, put together a list of the 6 key players in ERP. The article and list associated with it was targeted at the small business market, and Compiere was one of six vendors on the list along with Microsoft, Sage, Intuit, and others. In addition to making the list, CRN made a couple of great points about the ERP market and Compiere. CRN stated that “In the SMB sector, the ground is slowly shifting to open-source ERP alternatives. Solution providers are exploring low-cost open-source ERP alternatives because they have full control of the software and can easily differentiate themselves.” This is certainly a trend that we have been seeing at Compiere. As more customers look for flexible solutions, they are naturally turning toward open source products. CRM also points out that “Compiere is an out-of-the-box ERP product, but with an unusual twist—the software uses a generic model-driven architecture to change the application and add new features.” This model driven architecture in addition to having access to the Compiere source code is what provides our customers and partners the flexibility to create customized solutions to meet a particular need. One of the biggest advantages of Compiere in the SMB market is our ability to scale. A company can start with a Compiere solution when they have only a few employees, and the same solution can continue to scale as the company moves from small to medium to large enterprise without the pain and cost of migrating to a new ERP provider.

CIO magazine put together a list of Open-Source ERP's Big 3 with Compiere featured prominently at the top of the list as the oldest open source ERP vendor. The article states that “at least five open-source ERP projects exist today, but just three of those—Compiere, Open For Business and Openbravo—have gained traction, analysts say.” Compiere “has the most adoption and 'has grown into a significant level of functionality,' says Paul Hamerman, a Forrester Research analyst.” This list was part of a broader article answering the question “Is Open Source the Answer to ERP?” The short answer is: “A growing number of mid-market CIOs say yes. In the wake of recent ERP vendor consolidation, open source promises flexibility for the future. Plus it fits the need to customize—affordably.”

A big thank you to Wilfrido Solano at WOSS Business Solutions, one of Compiere's new partners in 2007, for reminding me to blog about these articles!

Bagel Holder = CD Holder


Some hungry nerd somewhere really needed to take his bagel with him to a meeting, and thus, the CD Bagel Holder was born. We don't know if the story is true (it's probably not) but it's only slightly more interesting than someone looking at his bagel, looking at his spindle, and wondering aloud whether it would fit.

Ipod Saves Lives!


Kevin Garrad of the 3rd Infantry Division is an iPod user for life—which incidentally got extended thanks to Apple's little music player. He was on patrol in Iraq when he met an armed insurgent carrying an AK-47. Both opened fire, and the bullet heading toward Kevin hit his chest right where his iPod was, which was enough to slow down the bullet to not pierce entirely through the body armor.


The fact that he had a 20GB (older and thicker) iPod probably helped slow down the bullet more than if he had one of the newer (and thinner) 30GB ones. In that sense, an Archos would probably be enough to stop a tank shell.

FlipStart Micro Laptop Finally Available


This device has the typical clamshell shape of a laptop, but is just 5.9 inches wide, 4.5 inches tall, and 1.6 inches thick and weighs only 1.8 pounds (with extended battery).

It is bigger and heaver than some of its competition, like the Sony Vaio UX180P or OQO's model 02, but has a larger screen and keyboard.

In addition to its 5.6-inch, 1024-by-600-pixel (SVGA) primary display, it has a 1.9-inch, 220-by-176-pixel external screen that can show information from Microsoft Outlook, including the user's email, calendar, and contacts.

Wireless WEP Encryption Cracked

Your home or office WiFi network may be even less secure than you think. Researchers have now shown that they can break 104-bit WEP, a common 802.11b/g/n security mechanism, in as little as one or two minutes. A team at the Technische Universität Darmstadt said that they can grab the key with a 95 percent probability of success in as little as two minutes using a 1.7GHz Pentium-M machine to do the calculations.

Read more [here]

Speeding Up Windows Vista


Performance is probably the most coveted intangible when it comes to PCs, and tweaking, to the performance hungry, is considered more of a necessity than an option. Gearheads go to great lengths to get quicker system response times, faster-running games, and shorter PC bootup and shutdown times.

One way is to overclock the heck out of the poor components (and then, for bragging rights, to log on to a message board and claim a stable CPU frequency of about 300MHz faster than what's actually possible). Another way is to tweak out the operating system itself.


Unlike previous Microsoft operating systems, Windows Vista is pretty streamlined right out of the box. It makes terrific use of a system's resources, but it's built as much for pretty looks and increased stability and security as it is for horsepower. It's time now for a course of action that will take the ball and chain off this baby and let it fly.

Read the rest [here]

Yahoo Mail Storage Space Turns Unlimited


The news around the net surrounds the topic of Yahoo announcing their unlimited email storage plans which coincide with the soon to be released Apple iPhone. Unlimited Yahoo email translates into unlimited email for your shiny iPhone whenever those are released.

Hold your horses though as this will be in effect only in May 2007.

Get your Yahoo mail account [here]

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Boot Windows XP on a Windows Vista Machine


You just got a new PC with Windows Vista pre-installed, and you want to dual-boot Windows XP for old programs - or just nostalgia's sake. You already know how to dual-boot Windows Vista on your XP machine, but you can also set up Windows XP to boot from a separate partition on your Vista PC.

First you'll need to repartition your hard drive inside Vista, install Windows XP on that new partition, and then use previously-mentioned VistaBootPro to set up your bootloader. A poster at the ProNetworks forum has the detailed rundown, along with helpful screenshots.

Read more [here]

Introducing Collanos Team Collaboration Tool


Collanos Workplace is a free online collaboration software for teams with members working from different locations. It offers a suite of streamlined online tools, including virtual workspaces, file sharing, online group discussions, messaging, and a handful of virtual objects such as notes, shared URLs, and tasks.

Here’s what you need to know about this program:

  • Virtual workspaces: these are simply tabs that each user creates within the program that belong to the user. You can create a workspace for each project, for example, if that makes sense to you. These workspaces contain all other objects and employ a simple, explorer-like virtual folder structure.
  • File sharing: once you grant someone permission to share any one of your workspaces, you can drag and drop any file to the folders within it and these will be available to the other person.
  • Discussions: once you create a discussion within a workspace, all members who can access that workspace can participate (read or write). Discussions are essentially multi-way chats that are logged (with dates) and stored as an object. They can be deleted or kept for reference or as an ongoing conversation.
  • Security: Collanos states that all data transfers are encrypted using “256-Bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)”. This program employs P2P technology and no data is ever stored on central servers. The makers state that they may introduce features in the future that may require some centralized data storage, but that they will ask for explicit permissions to do so, and they will guarantee its safety.
  • Setup: this program works instantly through firewalls. Create an account and password, share your account name with your friends, and you’re up and running. Unlike other programs I have tested, I did not have to do any complicated router setup / port forwarding, or messing with IP addresses. Having said that I should also point out that the documentation states that “TCP ports 9700-9800 and 80 need to be opened to the outside to allow Collanos Workplace to operate behind firewalls
Download from [here] free

OpenOffice Now Supports Chinese

OpenOffice.org 是一套跨平台的辦公室軟體套件,能在 Windows、Linux、MacOS X (X11)、和 Solaris 等作業系統上執行。它與各個主要的辦公室軟體套件相容。OpenOffice.org 是自由軟體,任何人都可以免費下載、使用、及散佈它。下列是 OpenOffice.org 的主要元件:

ooowriter Writer (文書) oooimpress Impress (簡報)
ooocalc Calc (試算表) ooodraw Draw (繪圖)
ooomath Math (公式) ooobase Base (資料庫管理)

OpenOffice Launched OO 2.2

OpenOffice.org is an open-source, multiplatform and multilingual office suite comparable with MS Office.

It is compatible with all other major office suites and is free to download, use, and distribute. It was previously known as StarOffice before it became an open-source project. OpenOffice comes with OpenWriter - a word processor, OpenCalc - a spreadsheet and OpenImpress - a presentational package.

  • The first office suite to use the new OASIS OpenDocument format, the future-proof international standard for office software
  • Easy to install, with a whole new look and feel, matched to the type of computer in use
  • More intuitive, more easy to use than ever, with a host of new usability features
  • Complete with Base: an easy-to-use database manager with a fully integrated database
  • Compatible with other software packages - now understands even obscure and rarely used features in major competitors.
Download [here]

Getting Children Ready for School and Life

Tip #1 - It is CRITICAL to spend time with your kids to

  • talk (may by one way for a start),
  • read them (even though they may not respond immediately)
  • teach (exposing them out to walk/shop/travel countries/dress/brush teeth/etc.)
  • train (e.g. how to brush their teeth right) with a reward/discipline system
  • play (e.g. draw)
  • pray (family worship or anytime when it is necessary)

48% of Americans Reject Evolution

MSNBC has up an article discussing the results of a Newsweek poll on faith and religion among members of the US populace. Given the straightforward question, 'Is evolution well-supported by evidence and widely accepted within the scientific community?', some 48% of Americans said 'No'. Furthermore, 34% of college graduates said they accept the Biblical story of creation as fact. An alarmingly high number of individuals responded that they believe the earth is only 10,000 years old, and that a deity created our species in its present form at the start of that period.

Mozilla Firefox Sues Microsoft

The Mozilla Foundation is suing Microsoft over the use of tabbed browsing in Internet Explorer 7. The Mozilla Foundation owns the patent 5,160,296 through one of their developers (Solomon Katz, a former Opera dev) and has begun suing Microsoft in Mountainview, California. The Foundation wants that MS immediately ceases to distribute IE 7 and pays 1.4 Billion dollars in damages. Heise reports that Microsoft has issued no official response, but is contemplating to ship IE 7 NT (no tabs).

PC WORLD Top Picks for Free Software 2007

  • Antispyware - Ad-Aware SE Personal
  • Web-Based E-Mail - Google GMail
  • Instant Messaging - Microsoft Windows Live Messenger
  • Media Playback - AOL Nullsoft Winamp
  • Desktop Search - Google Desktop
  • Video Sharing - YouTube
  • Image Editing - Google Picasa

Gen 7 - Thinking Pointers

1. Animals were first classified as clean and unclean, with no explanation provided for its purpose of such classes
2. All the animals were "arranged" by supernatural means to enter the ark in pairs and does not imply Noah's capturing and transporting them into the ark
3. The flood came from both the ground and continuous raining, hence explaining the sudden death and fossilizing of many living creatures under such sudden pressure the sea water exerts
4. All sea creatures survived the flood naturally but one would wonder why God choose to preserve them in such manner of judgement on Earth
5. The flood is not used to remove sin from mankind but serve to seek as a reflection of God's imminent pronouncing of "justice" judgement against sin and mankind once again in the future
6. The food supply Noah prepared has to last 190 days!

Gen 6 - Thinking Pointers

1. At the time of Noah, it is estimated that the world population has reached millions
2. A breach in those who are God-centered with the wicked resulted in a world filled with wickedness and rampant decay
3. Giants denote men of great renown and prowess, and does not imply men of extraordinary physical stature as we so commonly know
4. God's sorrow in men's wicked condition does not imply that a mistake in creating man was made but only reaffirm's God's justice to deal with the whole situation decisively
5. Only Noah (out of the millions) stayed close to God and that made the difference! As individuals, believe today that each of our single conduct can still move God's hand in the known universe!
6. The ark's dimension is 157m (length) by 26m (breadth) by 15.7m (height), made with water-repellent kopher wood (wood with bitumen) and only with a window!
7. We are constantly reminded to work to the fullest potential of the boundary God set in our lives - God did not need to tell Noah that the flood will last 40 days while he readies the food supply
8. Plain, simple obedience is what God looks for in us, not superfluous piety, formalities, and form - as when Noah obeyed to build the ark with his family