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Broadband Ranking

I’ve checked through SpeedTest on global internet connection speed. Below is the data.

Malaysia ranking 85 in download speed, which is around 2.23Mbps. Our neighbour country Singapore is ranking 25 where the download speed is 8.17Mbps. Wow, so big different.

February 26, 2010 - 9:08 AM No Comments

Watch PPStream On Ubuntu 9.10

Since PPStream didnt release client for linux based, thus we can only watch it through totem plugin.

Run below command from terminal to install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:portis25/cnav
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 27F5B2C1B3EAC8D9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install totem-pps

To run it, open Totem player, then open ppstream online watching page–>http://kan.pps.tv/

Select your movie. click the “Open in client player” link.



Drag it to your Totem Player playlist, and u r done.

In order to play it directly from browser, then u need to install GreaseMonkey add on. Then, install this script.  Once finish, u can directly play through browser.

Via LDCN – 使用 totem-pps 在 Ubuntu 下完美地观看 PPS 电影
February 22, 2010 - 10:10 PM No Comments

Avatar



Synopsis:When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order to mine for the precious material scattered throughout their rich woodland. In exchange for the spinal surgery that will fix his legs, Jake gathers intel for the cooperating military unit spearheaded by gung-ho Colonel Quaritch, while simultaneously attempting to infiltrate the Na’vi people with the use of an “avatar” identity. While Jake begins to bond with the native tribe and quickly falls in love with the beautiful alien Neytiri, the restless Colonel moves forward with his ruthless extermination tactics, forcing the soldier to take a stand – and fight back in an epic battle for the fate of Pandora.

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February 20, 2010 - 1:30 AM No Comments

TestDrive – Test Drive an Ubuntu ISO in a Virtual Machine

TestDrive is a project that makes it very easy to download and run the latest daily Ubuntu development snapshot in a virtual machine. Actually, it can be configured to download and run any URL-access ISO in a virtual machine.

But the primary goal is to provide a very simple method for allowing non-technical Ubuntu users to test and provide feedback on the current Ubuntu release under development.
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February 19, 2010 - 3:02 PM No Comments

WinSCP

WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client and FTP client for Windows. Legacy SCP protocol is also supported. Its main function is safe copying of files between a local and a remote computer.


Features:

* Graphical user interface

* Translated into several languages

* Integration with Windows (drag&drop, URL, shortcut icons)

* U3 support

* All common operations with files

* Support for SFTP and SCP protocols over SSH-1 and SSH-2 and plain old FTP protocol

* Batch file scripting and command-line interface

* Directory synchronization in several semi or fully automatic ways

* Integrated text editor

* Support for SSH password, keyboard-interactive, public key and Kerberos (GSS) authentication

* Integrates with Pageant (PuTTY authentication agent) for full support of public key authentication with SSH

* Explorer and Commander interfaces

* Optionally stores session information

* Optionally supports portable operation using a configuration file in place of registry entries, suitable for operation from removable media

February 18, 2010 - 9:05 AM No Comments

PeaZip

PeaZip can extract most of archive formats both from Windows and Unix worlds, ranging from mainstream formats as 7Z, RAR, TAR and ZIP to experimental ones like PAQ/LPAQ family, currently the most powerful compressor available. PeaZip supports creating archives with a wide range of compression and encryption standards, and allows to export job definition as scripts to bridge the gap between GUI and console applications, and let the user pick the best of the two worlds. PeaZip is a reliable solution for most of the archive types you may met, and will help you in finding the right tool for a wide range of specific needs if you are searching for speed, or maximum compression, or strong encryption.


Supported formats:

  • create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, PAQ/ZPAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX, ZIP
  • extract 118 archive types: ACE, ARJ, CAB, DMG, ISO, LHA, RAR, UDF and many
February 15, 2010 - 2:51 AM No Comments

AbiWord

AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.


Features:

Multi Platform

Enjoy your favorite Word Processor on the operating system you like to use – be it Windows, Linux, QNX, FreeBSD or Solaris.

Interoperability

AbiWord is able to read and write all industry standard document types, such as OpenOffice.org documents, Microsoft Word documents, WordPerfect documents, Rich Text Format documents, HTML web pages and many more.

Advanced Document Layout

Give your document that professional, scientific or fun-to-read look using AbiWord’s advanced document layout options. Use tables, bullets, lists, images, footnotes, endnotes and styles to enhance the way your document looks.

Internationalization

AbiWord comes in many different languages. AbiWord is available in most common and many not-so-common languages. Dictionaries exist for over 30 languages.

February 13, 2010 - 11:08 PM No Comments

NetworkPasswordDecryptor

NetworkPasswordDecryptor is the free tool to instantly recover the network passwords stored in the ‘Credential Store’ of Windows. Windows ‘Credential Store’ provides the framework for storing various network authentication based passwords in secure encrypted format. Not only Windows uses it to store network authentication passwords, but also other applications such as Outlook, Windows Live Messenger, Remote Destktop, Gmail Notifier etc uses it for storing their login passwords.


These network passwords are saved only when the user has selected ‘Remember Password’ option during login time.These network passwords are stored in encrypted format and even administrator cannot view these passwords. Also some type of passwords cannot be decrypted even by administrators as they require special privileges. In this context, NetworkPasswordDecryptor makes it easy to enumerate and decrypt all the stored network passwords from Credential Store.

February 8, 2010 - 10:52 PM No Comments

PureSync

PureSync is a file backup and synchronization software that can automatically keep a backup of your important files, import files from your digital camera and synchronize the contents of multiple folders. The program offers a step-by-step wizard to configure your backup and synchronization tasks and set advanced options like file exclusions, conflicts management, compare options and more. You can choose to run the backups manually as needed or automatically on a regular schedule. The program can also synchronize your files automatically when it detects that they have been modified, or when a specific device (e.g a USB drive) is connected or a certain folder is found.

February 3, 2010 - 12:16 AM No Comments

TweakNow WinSecret

As a long time Windows user you might have heard about registry. The registry is a special file in your hard disk that hold most of Windows settings data. Wish to improve your internet speed or display message at Windows logon?  No problem, those tasks can easily be done by simply editing the registry value. Unfortunately registry is not a friendly place for most people.  Changing a wrong value in the registry may cause an unpredictable problem to your Windows. This is why novice users should not edit registry value directly using a registry editor by them self. In TweakNow WinSecret, we have gathered the most popular Windows XP/Vista registry settings and provide them for you in an easy and safe user interface.


All settings are divided in  the following sections:

  • Applications
  • Control Panel
  • Desktop
  • Miscellaneous
  • Network & Internet
  • OEM Info
  • Special Folders
  • Start Menu
  • User Accounts
  • Windows Core
  • Windows Explorer
February 1, 2010 - 11:44 PM No Comments