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Pls turn off your light for 1 hour. This is to due to the Earth Hour campaign to help finding climate change solutions.

Earth Hour is a global event created to symbolize that each one of us, working together, can make a positive impact on climate change – no matter who we are or where we live.

Created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, Earth Hour has grown from a single event into a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 35 US cities will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco.

Earth Hour brings together communities, local governments, corporate and nongovernmental organizations to heighten awareness about climate change and to inspire our nation to take practical actions to reduce their own carbon footprints.

Earth Hour: March 29, 2008 8 – 9 PM

- Cities around the world will join together in literally turning off the lights for one hour to offer leadership and symbolize their commitment to finding climate change solutions.
- Lights will be turned off at iconic buildings and national landmarks from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.
- Local businesses and restaurants will also be asked to turn off their lights.
- People at home can take advantage of the hour by replacing their standard light bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.

doPDF is a free PDF converter for both personal and commercial use. Using doPDF you can create PDF files by selecting the “Print” command from virtually any application. With one click you can convert your Microsoft Excel, Word or PowerPoint documents or your emails and favorite web sites to PDF files.

Once installed, a virtual printer driver will appear under your printer and faxes menu. To convert to PDF, you just have to print the document to the doPDF free pdf converter. Open a document (with Microsoft Word, WordPad, NotePad or any other software), choose Print and select doPDF. It will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer.

Toshiba Portege G900 is a personal horizontal slider phone packed with mobile technology, including an innovative fingerprint sensor and full QWERTY keyboard.As one of the first phones to include Windows Mobile® 6, you can read and respond to emails as soon as they’re received, organise your calendar and access familiar Microsoft Office® applications. Plus it has a large 3 inch screen, two cameras, a high-quality MP3 player, video streaming, and much more.

The Portégé G900 gives you everything you need to work or play on the move^*. In fact, it’s so good, you’ll soon forget why you ever needed to go to the office. It works as a true extension of your Notebook and office, and is one of the first devices to include Windows Mobile® 6 for a familiar computing environment with added capabilities.

Key Features:
* Fingerprint sensor feature for extra security and easy menu navigation
* Windows Mobile 6
* Full keyboard making it easy to write messages and emails on the move
* 3-inch wide, colour W-VGA display for enhanced viewing quality
* Read and write access to a USB flash memory device
* Full connectivity with Triband, HSDPA, 3G, EDGE, Bluetooth™, WiFi® and USB
* Extended PC connectivity
* High speed internet access with worldwide HSDPA, 3G or WiFi
* Direct Push Email
* 2 mega pixel camera
* Secondary camera for video telephony
* Support for VoIP
* 64MB of internal memory and support for miniSD card
* Music playback

Review

This phone is available in Malaysia with retail price of RM2199. I just hands on this phone this afternoon, but couldn’t test it due to run out of battery… what a waste…  Personally, i like this phone especially the biometric fingerprint sensor and the price of RM2199 which is cheaper then others brand such as HTC or Dopod… But this device is a bit bulky and heavy, some more the VGA camera only 2M… Should i get it? haha…

ClamWin is a free antivirus program that support Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

Features:

• High detection rates for viruses and spyware;
• Scanning Scheduler;
• Automatic downloads of regularly updated Virus Database.
• Standalone virus scanner and right-click menu integration to Microsoft Windows Explorer;
• Addin to Microsoft Outlook to remove virus-infected attachments automatically.

But this software does not provides on access scanning, user need to manually scan system. But i like this, because it can save some resources for better performance on low level pc.

Update Checker is a tiny tool that can scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.

Once u click the green arrow, it will automatically download the latest version of softwares from filehippo server for u. Easy right ?

PS: It only download for u only, u still need to install manually…

Finally, election is over and the result is shocking…The opposition finally able to deny the ruling Barisan Nasional its crucial two-thirds majority.

Result between Election 2008 and Election 2004.

More detail result for each state and parties can refer to below link.

http://thestar.com.my/election/results/results.html

Opposition parties form new state government for Penang, Perak, Selangor, and Kedah. Kelantan is defended by PAS.

Congratulation to Jeff Ooi that he manage to head inside parliament.

Election is coming soon and very hot… Even well known blogger Jeff Ooi also contesting in his first general election for Jelutong MP seat. This coming Saturday is voting day. This is my 1st time since i registered last year.

To check your voting place, u can log on to below website and enter your IC no.

http://daftarj.spr.gov.my/

Below is my voting place. I will be voting for my “kampung” at Ipoh Perak. hehe

I found DAP video clip is very meaningful.

The Voice of Democracy, Conscience of Parliament – DAP

Well, as what former PM Tun Mahathir said, do not vote blindly, vote for what u want !

Active Desktop is a features available since Mircrosoft Window 98, which enables a user to use their desktop as a web page where user can get content from the Internet and display it on their desktop. Users who want to view the latest news, stock quotes, comic, etc… but don’t want to open a browser each time to view the content may find this feature useful.

To enable/disable it is very simple.

For Window XP:

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Open Display Properties.
3. Click the Desktop tab.
4. Click the Customize Desktop button.
5. Click the Web tab in the Desktop Items window.

If you wish to enable the Active Desktop, check “My Current Home Page”. Add your current home page into your desktop or click New to add another web page and/or other Active Desktop features. To update the content, click the Synchronize button.

If you wish to disable Active Desktop, make sure all checkboxes in this window are un-checked.

For Window 98, ME, 2000:

1. Open the Control Panel.
2. Open Display Properties.
3. Click the Web tab in the Display Properties window.

If you wish to enable the Active Desktop, check the checkbox for “Show Web content on my Active Desktop” and select the home page you wish to use as the active desktop.

If you wish to disable Active Desktop, make sure that “Show Web content on my Active Desktop” is unchecked.