Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
When did that happen? In a demo that reminded me of days working in large software houses, I showed my brother-in-law how he could add Google to his IE9 search engine list by just going to Google's homepage and right-clicking the search engine drop-down list for the "Add Google Search..." ...
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
It was my birthday a few days ago, so I told everybody that I was now "The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything". If you're not familiar with Douglas Adams' book (or the BBC TV serialisation) "The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy", that probably won't mean anything to ...
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
A couple of customers of Lolyco.com have been asking this weekend when their orders will be delivered to Australia. When an order is shipped from Lolyco.com, an email is sent to the customer with a link to Pos Malaysia's Parcel Tracking System and the Parcel Tracking Reference. First things first, ...
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
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The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
My brother-in-law had the worst Acer TravelMate laptop (a 528TE) in the world. It wasn't a bad set of hardware, it was just that the plastic case had so completely degraded that he had to carry the laptop around in a cardboard box to keep all the pieces together. The ...
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