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Well guys …. it took me actually 2 weeks since my last (short) post and I have to say again I am still busy with lots of my current projects coming on….

Well this post has nothing to do with laptops or technologies in general but what I want to say to my loyal visitors out there, “This blog ain’t dead yet”.

I am (ever) presently busy with my sharepoint stuffs and yes (it is confirm), I will be doing a SharePoint blog to share my tips with you on this mostly sought collaboration portal. That blog will be at www.sharepointeasy.com .

The whole 2 weeks ago was quite tensed (from my point of view). I had screwed up the domain transfer to my godaddy account and moving 2 of blogs which are Izzy Rocks Music Site and Laptop Info Today. As this was my first experience on moving blogs to another hosting company (how I’m on Hostmonster), I tend learn things the tough and rough ways and like any first-timers making mistakes that could nearly ruin everything! I was grateful everything turn out fine till yesterday (except some minor wordpress plugins glitches on my music blog). For the domain part ….. I was persistent enough to get transferred in a week (with some minor glitch up to my previous domain registrar).

But to be on the positive note, I’m back and hopefully soon enough (this week) you will see great contents that I’ll be posting on this blog and my SharePoint blog and of course you will be enjoying great music videos daily from my music blog……

Till then ….. cheers and rock forever.

Well most of you will think that I will be saying hello Windows 7, hmm …. not really…

The past 2 days has been quite horrifying for me. I decided to finally bow out of Windows Vista and welcome back Windows XP on my Lenovo Y300 laptop.

Well it’s an unthinkable thought but I finally gave up on Vista due to the following reasons.

Here’s  my take on Vista.

1. The constant prompts like allowing file operation to proceed and so on is damn annoying and performance is by far slagging even thought I’ve upgraded my RAM to 3GB.
2. It took me 5 minutes to transfer 1 GB of data from my Local D drive to my external 1TB Western Digital Hard drive in XP but in Vista it tooks me over 45 minutes!
3. There are a couple of sites that hangs upon browsing…. which finally lead me to this downgrading process.

Before you perform any downgrading there are a couple of things you MUST take note.

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Hi guys, it’s been a long time ( a month actually) since I did any posting and to my fellow visitors, some might wonder what actually happens to me and all my new posts?

I’m back from the dead (to say the least) as I was pre-occupied with developments on the Windows SharePoint platform (MOSS) and my first ever experience with Rapidshare.

Due to all these activities, I kinda neglect a bit of my blogging and to tell you the truth ……. it’s been a hell of activities and experiences for the past month.

I would like to thank my fellow visitors for visiting this blog of mine and for some wonderful comments posted in this blog.

During the time, MYBOXPRO.com has an increased in Page Rank from PR 1 to PR2.

I’m very grateful for all the support given by my fellow visitors and for continuous tips and tricks, this site will continue to provide more of that.

I’m back and this site is back and who knows since I could even do a blog on SharePoint in the future .

Just as the time when lots of applications on the web are running on Adobe Flash (e.g watching videos on youtube.com), Microsoft so-called flash based web application named “Silverlight” is gaining momentum as more and more web-based mash-ups/applications are based on that.

Question ….. what has it gotta do do with me?

Well, it actually has an effect on users and a techie guy like who is always on the internet; it definately does.

As more and more web applications run on silverlight, internet browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and many others will be affected.

How it affects the user, is when a website prompts “You need the latest version of Silverlight” message box appears on the desktop and it will be a complete disaster if your web browser does not support Silverlight.

Till now linux based browser Konqueror and cross-platform based browser Opera has yet had official support for Silverlight. Whether is it a Microsoft tactic to kill Adobe Flash or web browser competition is yet been known.

Websurfers, like you and me however, can enjoy the rich and dynamics of websites that is being displayed on our desktop.

For some, the title of this post might a bit ridiculous …… but it is actually true.

What did I do to get this service?

Well you simply need to get an internet connection ready, a laptop and your mobile phone with you.

Poketalk.com allows you to sign up for free and have your mobile calls made for free too. Seems confusing ….. 

Well this is how it works…..

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For the first time, I felt very satisfied and grateful for the things that I bought during the IT Show fair.

It has been a while since I really bought anything during a fair and it was a last minute rush hour since it happen.

There was the external hard which I always wanted …. a dream WD MyBook 1 TB for SGD$169.90 for my laptop, a 2GB notebook ram (SGD$32) and a 2GB M2 memory card for my mobile phone for only SGD$13.50.

Overall, it was a satisfying evening.

The annual Singapore IT Show 2009 will open tomorrow morning at 11 am at Suntec City and you can rest assure that thousands of IT enthusiasts, consumers, gamers and freaks ( I’m one of them ), will be there in one of the spectacular events during this week.

Anyway to get the heat fired up before the opening, you can view the floorplan of the event right here on my blog !

The floor plan will showcase 2 levels [Level 4 & 6] - which will have the most shops btw, at Suntec City. So for those who are planning to go there with a plan in mind and have a knowledge on where your targeted shops/brands will be ….. check out the image gallery below …..

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Have fun and see you there….

Like many, I wear a pair of glasses most of the time especially when I’m using my trusty old laptop.

With that in mind, it is important for me to take care of my eyes while using the laptop or any computer for that matter as the LCD screens from our laptop emit UV (ultra-violet) and HEV (high energy violet) rays which can harm my eyes even further.

Recently I went to a nearby optical store to get my eyes checked and to my surprise it went 50 degress higher. Like most I do my shopping online and I stumbled upon a site called Zenni Optical. It is a one stop site which has a variety choice of eyeglasses and frames for those people who need glasses like you and me.

Best of all you need not spend a huge sum of money to get the design you want. The cost efficent factor coupled with great eye lenses and good protection for my eyes is more than enough to convince me to make my purchase. 

In fact Zenni Optical is also featured in the recent news article in the NY Times. The article has mentioned Zenni Optical’s low cost frames and how you can see with a clear vision without having a big hole in your pocket.

Check out Zenni Optical eyeglasses  and always take care of your eyes especially if you are spending long hours on your laptop.