Yearly Archives: 2014

55 posts

DropBox Mailbox App? No thank you

DropBox Management: “Guys, we have a serious problem.” DropBox Developer: “…” DropBox Management: “We all know that the competition in cloud storage is bloody. And the evil Google Drive just dropped their prices so low that we cannot possibly match them, and many of our customers left for Google Drive. We must do something to keep our customers and hopefully to get some old customers back.” DropBox Developer: “Hmmm, there is really nothing new to […]

Google steps in, customers benefit

Every time Google steps in an area, customers benefit from the competition Google brings in. Here are some examples: 1. Internet Search I don’t know what to say if you don’t agree with me on this. 2. Email Remember before GMail was introduced, we had to be careful about our mailbox quota? GMail’s “2 GB and counting” size of mailbox forced other email providers to give their customers more mailbox space. Thanks to Google, we […]

Google AdSense tracks extraterrestrial visits to your site

Google AdSense now can track the visitors beyond the earth. After you login to your AdSense account, you will be able to see how many visits to your site are from the other planets and how much revenue those visits have generated. Unfortunately, my blog site is not that popular, so it didn’t attract many extraterrestrial visits, thus didn’t generate any revenue. How about your site?  

When was the last time you used a disk?

Do you still remember when you used a disk last time? Or do you even know what a floppy disk or zip disk is? I don’t recall when was the last time I used a floppy disk, though I have a box of floppy disks lying there. But I remember it was in 2002 when I used a zip disk to transfer some “large” amount of files. So what is the next in line to […]

High memory usage in Windows 8.1 Pro – Again

In my previous post regarding the high memory usage issue with my new HP Envy laptop, which runs on Windows 8.1 Pro with 8GB RAM, I disabled Ndu.sys which, according to some people’s experience, was said to be the culprit. However, Ndu.sys does not seem to be the root cause of my issue because the high memory usage issue came back again yesterday, and eventually my computer crashed with a blue screen shown below.   […]