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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a usability consultant, site producer, information architect, and web developer. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for the 'Apps' Category

Death by Spam

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I finally bade farewell to my Yahoo email, setting it into its grave. It was a long and fruitful relationship but spammers got to it.

I had used it as my website contact years ago but quickly switched to typing the various spam avoidance configurations such as emailaddress[at]yahoo.com, emailaddress[at]yahoo dot com, and even emailaddressNOSPAM[at]yahoo dot [...]

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Best iPhone Games

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

After months with my iTouch now, I feel I know it as well as the back of my hand. So does Jack, my almost-3 year-old, hence more apps have been downloaded for him than myself and I daresay he spends more time on it than me. Educational games of course, and here are the best, [...]

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SD Card Reader Down

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos!
While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get:
Windows cannot load the device [...]

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Flock Rocks

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I’ve been using Flock for a while now and I have to say it rocks better than any other, even Firefox 3.0, which I find a vast improvement over Firefox 2 but its drop-down address bar just annoys me too much and I can’t be bothered to change it now that I have Flock.
Its green [...]

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Must-Have App for the Nokia N82

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

One of the faults with the N82 is that it is awfully hard to see the time when it is on screensaver or power-saving mode. Unlike the e61i and the 6280, it looks almost invisible.
Since I am already half-blind, the Large Clock Screensaver is a real lifesaver. It shows you the time, date, and even [...]

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Twittering on Wordpress

Monday, May 26th, 2008

The Twittering begins!
I’ve finally got Twitter on both my main blogs, this one and Strange Machines. Although there are tons of Twitter plugins for Wordpress blogs (and having installed 2 that don’t seem to work), I found it easiest to cut and paste the custom HTML and Javascript Twitter code myself.
Here’s how:
1. First ensure your [...]

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A very useful plugin for anyone who needs to count the number of words (and characters) in a textarea.
Go check out the Text Area Word Counter by Gina Trapani.
(Source: Blogger for Dollars)

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