Facebook’s new so-called feature “Sponsored Stories” is a very bad idea, it enables Facebook to turn your clicks into some companies’ ads with your name and profile photo in the ads, and the worst part is you don’t have the option to stop it, like it or not. This bad feature makes me wonder if Facebook is facing some serious finance problems making them so desperate that they start taking more advantage of Facebook users […]
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I am having a very weird situation now and I hope someone can shed some light. I cannot access the TightVNC.com web site from my Windows 7 PC. First, I thought there is something wrong with my own PC, so I asked my co-worker to give it try, but he could not access the web site either from his Windows 7 PC. Then, I thought maybe my company blocks this web site because TightVNC is […]
Merry Christmas! My Christmas gift this year is a Slinky toy, the coolest toy in the whole wild world IMHO, even though it has nothing to do with computer or technology.
Thinking about upgrading to Visual Studio 2010? Here is a free eBook from Microsoft Press that will help you make the decision: Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/microsoft_press/archive/2010/09/13/free-ebook-moving-to-microsoft-visual-studio-2010.aspx)
In my previous post on how to fix System.Data.OracleClient BadImageFormatException error on 64-bit machine, I mentioned a quick way to fix the error by changing the application’s Target CPU to x86 in Visual Studio. It seems that it works on Windows XP x64 OS, but if you use Windows Vista or Windows 7 x64, the fix will not work and you will keep getting the same error. It seems that IIS 7 still runs in […]
In Windows 7, if you pin a program to the taskbar, then when you launch the program, Windows 7 will group your program’s window icon into the taskbar icon and change the taskbar icon’s style so you can tell that an instance of the program is running. However, I recently noticed that Windows Live Mail does not follow this rule. When you launch Windows Live Mail, a new window icon is created in the taskbar, […]
If you are a Windows Live Essentials user as I am, then you should give the new Windows Live Essentials beta a try. The beta product was released to public last week and finally I decided to install it. Among all Windows Live Essentials products, I use Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Writer, and Windows Live Sync, especially Windows Live Mail and Writer, I use them almost every day. The beta version […]
Chase bank decided to drop Google Chrome and Opera from their supported browser list and only supports IE 6 and higher, FireFox 2.0 and higher, and Safari 3.0 and higher. As a matter of fact, after July 18, 2010, if you browse Chase web site with an unsupported browser, you will get a “Page Not Found” error, so you will have to use those supported browsers to be able to access your account on-line. Chase […]
When I was asked to create a custom header with collaged photos by one of my customers for his business web site, the first thing I did was to Google for a free good collage tool. Not surprisingly, I found a list of free collage software that seem to be very promising, such as Shape Collage, Scrapbook Flair, and E.M. Free Photo Collage, however, none of them works for me because they either don’t have […]
Google released Google Voice to public(well so far for people in US only) free of charge today. If you have not heard about Google Voice and want to know what it is, then watch this video below: Once you sign up and choose a Google Voice phone number, you can add your home, work, or mobile phone to your Google Voice account, then once someone call your Google Voice phone number, all phones that you […]