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Being an IT administrator, I have always wanting to make life simpler for myself; i.e. to carry my programs (or program files) and use them whenever I  go.

A laptop is a good mobility tool but sometimes you can’t possibly use it at work or carry it everywhere ( do note my Lenovo is like 3kg and the battery life last for about an hour and a half on full charge).

Though this is a laptop blog, I would also like to share with you technologies that can be made much more simpler for us users.

I’ve recently made my imation Flash Go! USB drive a portable application.

To make my explanation sounds simpler, I can now run my office suite, browser, chat program, media player,  password manager tool, anti-virus, pdf reader, e-mail client and much more … all from my USB thumbdrive.

That’s a lot of stuffs there and my thumdrive is only 4 Gb, so how is this possible?

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The title might sound a bit ridulous to most but I’m not surprised if the are a few of visitors of this years IT Show (which is held at Suntec City) will be doing just that.

To top that, LCD TVs has their prices nose-dived and if someone were to say that they are going to get a 42 LCD TV for thie  laptop display ; I’m not particularly surprised.

Just take a look at the Panasonic TH-42PV8H  below.

This baby is now going down below the retail price of SGD$1299 !

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It has been a long while since I did a poll on this blog and what better time to do it; duing the first day of the IT Show 2009.

Well just have a survey or sorts …… you can have more than one selections in this very poll.

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Get that IT Show spirirt going and see ya’ all there …..

There’s been such a buzz recently on portable applications, if you might have noticed.

Well …… let’s first define portable applications or portable apps in short.

Portable apps allows you to run your favourites programs (program files) by merely using a thumbdrive or flash drive.

Which means, if you’re a designer and need to finish up your work by using other computer which does not have that particular program file such as Adobe Falsh Professional for example, you can have that program file in your thumbdrive and still have that particular application working in any computer.

There are some pros and cons regarding this however

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Since it is a reality fact that laptop sales increases as compared to desktops, the right posture on how you can use the laptop is very important.

You did not want to end the day with stiff necks and shoulders …. wouldn’t you.

Watch the video below and you can learn on how different methods on using the laptop actually helps you to stay vital throughtout the day.

One thing for sure that I  haven’t covered in this blog on the laptop accesories area is about laptop bags.

It is a very important accessory and without a laptop bag, how are you to carry your stronglaptop/strong around.

Anyway below is a clip by 2 lovely ladies who did a review on a couple of laptop bags …… ladies style. It is a bit different from the normal, plain, black in colour laptop bags which men tend to prefer.

Anyway enjoy this review and I’ll catch you later with another post from Laptop Info Today

I was doing my anonymous surfing yesterday (on my trusty old laptop of course) when i stumbled on this site AWSurveys.com.

For those who has been the internet long enough will know that AW Surveys is an online survey site that actually pays their registered users after completing a survey or a website evaluation; a range of $2 till $25 (not bad for a 5 till 10 minutes of work ).

I’ve never tried online surveys before but I did a buzz about it months ago and decided to give it a try.

Not bad for starters, I earned $6 just by doing a website evaluation and I complete that in less than 5 minutes.

Well the terms and conditions must be strictly followed as you must be aged 18 and above to register. No spamming is allowed and the maximum earning you can achieve per year (1 Jan ~ 31 Dec) is $550. Amounts more than that will be brought forward to the next year.

You can start redeeming your payment at a minimum amount of $75 which can be paid by check or money transfers (for U.S users) and Paypal for (both U.S and international users).

It’s fun and registration and creation of your account in AW Surveys is FREE.

I was approached by one of my colleagues today for whom is having difficulty on how to edit and export his music (from .wav to .mp3) on his laptop.

He wanted to have this done using a freeware and of all the softwares he stumbled, it is all pay per use.

Well, I recommend a software called Audacity.

Audacity is a tiny music editor that works very well (even if it is running on a laptop) and the trick about getting your .wav file to export to .mp3 format is that you need to patch the software with a file (dll) called lame_enc.dll which is available for free at dll-files.com.

It is a cross-platform software which means it works on Microsoft Windows, Mac OsX and Linux operating systems.

There is a lot of features that Audacity has to offer like :-

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more!

But if you are into serious sound editing, softwares like Sony’s Soundforge for example is a great and value for money software.