Google has launched its own web browser in an attempt to get the market share of Internet Explorer =P, but I don't know... I think most of the people who don't like IE changed to Firefox already, so don't know how many people are going to try. =P
According to a newspaper article I read, it's extremely fast... Anyone tried it?
Here're the 10 features of Google Chrome:
According to this video, really seemed faster...
Showing posts with label Computer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Computer. Show all posts
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
McDonald's Breakfast and my eeePC
I chose Egg Sausage McMuffin set again not just because I love it (tho I do =) it tastes so good), also because the other breakfast sets are just so environmentally unfriendly with the disposable plates and covers. =P
I don't understand why they have "No Straws Day" to try to save the environment, you just compare the straw with the plate/cover... or maybe even with the plastic cover of the cup... you'll realise how insignificant it is, even though I opt to drink my coke without the straw. I forgot to ask them not to put in the ice cubes again! Every single time I try to drink this without a straw!! I forgot all those cubes are going to fall when I try to drink!!
And enjoy my breakfast with internet on my eeePC! YEAH! I can only surf the web, but not check emails, since there is still no way to access the internet securely at McDonald's.
Two posts about McDonald's on the same day, haha!
Monday, July 07, 2008
wi-fi
Today, I had breakfast at McDonald's, and while I was there, I suddenly remembered there is supposed to be free wi-fi, so I got my eeePC out, and did a little search...
(Sorry for the poor quality of the screen capture)
Surprisingly, there were quite a few wi-fi networks in the TST McDonald's... but only 2 were secured wi-fi and I don't think they are free. Apart from the wi-fi provided by the government, is there are secure free wi-fi anywhere in Hong Kong? How can I check emails and stuff with these unsecured networks... hmm...??
What's meant by "universities via Y5Zone"... that's a secure network, but I can't find anything about it on the Y5Zone website... I'm supposed to have 100 minutes of free wi-fi every month with Y5Zone now with my new broadband plan... but I supposed it's probably the unsecured network...
Oh I found what's universities via Y5Zone, it's provided for students and staff of the various HK universities, but how come they don't provide secure networks to other people?? hmm... weird... it's WPA encrypted... so it's good...
(Sorry for the poor quality of the screen capture)
Surprisingly, there were quite a few wi-fi networks in the TST McDonald's... but only 2 were secured wi-fi and I don't think they are free. Apart from the wi-fi provided by the government, is there are secure free wi-fi anywhere in Hong Kong? How can I check emails and stuff with these unsecured networks... hmm...??
What's meant by "universities via Y5Zone"... that's a secure network, but I can't find anything about it on the Y5Zone website... I'm supposed to have 100 minutes of free wi-fi every month with Y5Zone now with my new broadband plan... but I supposed it's probably the unsecured network...
Oh I found what's universities via Y5Zone, it's provided for students and staff of the various HK universities, but how come they don't provide secure networks to other people?? hmm... weird... it's WPA encrypted... so it's good...
Monday, June 16, 2008
Firefox 3 Download Day
Firefox 3 will be launched on Jun 17!! Help set the record for most software downloads in 24 hours.
haha. I don't like IE!!
Field Guide to Firefox 3
Sunday, December 02, 2007
ASUS Eee PC
I've been thinking about buying a UMPC for quite some time... I saw this computer today... The specs are really lousy, but the price is really attractive...It is actually LESS THAN HK$3000!!!
Wow!
With a 4GB harddrive, most people suggested using an external memory... hmm... 4GB is really really not enough for me when I go travelling and taking pictures crazily... I can bring my external harddrive I suppose, but I really don't want to carry that many things around...
Thursday, October 25, 2007
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Sex toy?? No!
This is actually a COMPUTER!!! I don't mean a robot... I mean it's actually a computer...
Don't believe me... Read more here...
This "Ten Commandments" computer is really unbelievable as well...
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Macbook
Saw this in a shop last week... WOW!! It's so good looking!!! (The picture above simply doesn't do it justice.) And so small!! I want to buy it, but my Fujitsu notebook is working really fine... =P Maybe I'll buy it as a gift to myself if I pass my exams...
However, I'll need to buy Microsoft Office for Mac if I'm really gonna use it... and it's real expensive... hmm...
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Facebook... again?!
I've been adding more and more friends on Facebook, and browsing through their pages and the groups they have joined...
I have joined a group called-- People Who Always Have To Spell Their Names For Other People, I'm not talking about my first name, but my last name AND my Chinese name... which is unbelievable because both are such easy, though I have been called so many different names since I was in kindergarten... sigh... even from people I have known for some time... sigh...
Back to some more interesting group names, here're some more for my friends at work
I Hate Stupid Consults From Stupid Doctors
I'm a doctor and I hope my patients don't see me on facebook....
"Things I learned on "Grey's Anatomy" that I didn't learn in medical school
And some selected items from the last group... I have only watched 1 or 2 episodes of Grey's Anatomy while I was in Auckland, my only impression was that it was more about relationship (especially sex) than medicine... =P I remembered I've been sitting there for 1/2 an hour watching character A slept with B, then C with D, then E with F... (sorry I don't know/remember the characters...) quite boring actually, but this list is hilarious! And these mistakes are present in almost EVERY medical drama... (Sorry to the fans of the series)
1. Residents perform (and direct) complex surgeries without an attending present
2. Surgical interns rotate through OB/Gyn
3. Asystole is a shockable rhythm (I saw this on the Taiwanese medical drama recently shown on TV as well...)
4. Anesthesiologists are a myth (except when needed to run out of the room in a panic) !!!!!!! (This is true even for ER!!! I mean on the TV series!)
5. A major university teaching hospital has only a surgical residency program and no medical students
6. Patients need only oxygen via a nasal cannula while undergoing surgery
7. Surgical residents dictate all care given to every patient in the hospital
8. A surgical resident has more power than the chief of surgery
9. Orthopedics residents perform any type of surgery, including Gyn surgeries
10. The chief of surgery runs the hospital
11. Internship lasts for 3 years
12. World-class neurosurgeons live in trailers
13. Clinical brain death leads to absolutely no long-term neurological consequences and has an extremely short recovery time
14. Interns perform fellowship-level procedures after studying for a couple hours
15. There is no ancillary staff at most hospitals
16. Surgeons run the ER
17. Informed consent is a myth
18. Organ transplants are given to patients with an "in" with the chief of surgery
19. Interns perform surgeries solo on the first day of internship (all we really needed to know about surgery we learned in medical school)
20. Cardiothoracic surgeons routinely perform appendectomies
21. Nurses play no routine role in patient care
22. Doctors routinely develop romantic relationships with their patients
22a. This is in no way frowned-upon
23. Familial consent is not necessary to perform an autopsy
24. HIPAA is a myth
25. OB/Gyn training includes pediatric cardiothoracic surgery training
26. Intubation is not a standard, accepted medical practice (see #6)
27. Interns routinely perform their own MRIs
28. 100% recovery of functioning is routine after every surgical procedure
29. Surgical interns insert epidural catheters without supervision (also, see #4) Well, at least these script writer KNEW about epidurals... =P Can that be a consolation?
30. Symptoms of a cerebellar herniation mimic those of a common cold
31. Surgeons know enough medicine to run a clinic
32. The Bell Commission rules seemingly haven't reached all hospitals yet
32a. Despite seemingly working 100+ hours a week, interns still have time to look beautiful
33. Cardiothoracic surgeons manage arrhythmias intra-op (see #4) They also give blood transfusion... =P in most medical drama...
34. Face masks are optional in the OR
35. Interns must, in addition to sleeping with an attending, pass a test in order to move on to PGY2
36. You can keep your license after cutting a patient's LVAD wire on purpose and "going on probation" for the hospital with no legal consequences
37. It is completely professional for medical staff to fight each other in front of patients
38. Unlike other forms of alcohol, tequila actually does not impair your ability to render decisions on critical medical issues
39. Hospital shifts start at a decent morning hour
40. Surgical interns have time to eat lunch. Sitting down. All at the same time.
41. Residents schedule their own surgeries (and can cancel them for personal diversions)
42. Standard first-line treatment for hiccups is chlorpromazine given IM, without consent
43. Standard first-line treatment for GERD is endoscopic fundal plication
43a. H2 blockers and PPIs are a myth
44. Bacterial endocarditis "is nothing to worry about"
45. Toxic megacolon "just happens" and "is nothing to worry about"
46. Placenta accreta is an obscure medical term that only OB/Gyn's seem to know
46a. It is standard to attempt a vaginal delivery with a diagnosis of placenta accreta
47. It is impossible to determine the paternity of a fetus while it is still in utero
48. Regulations regarding hospital privileges and state licensing are a myth
49. The five lowest-scoring interns on the "intern test" do not get asked back to the program (see #35)
50. "Do you have any pain?... Any... anything?" constitutes sufficient history-taking when a patient has been in a car accident
51. General surgery interns routinely work in the NICU
52. Orthopedics chief residents preside over general surgery residents
53. This chief of surgery, when he reaches his mid-50's, should probably step down for being "too old"
54. PGY4 Orthopedics residents are the only available surgeons with enough expertise to bounce back and forth between 3 concurrent surgeries
I have joined a group called-- People Who Always Have To Spell Their Names For Other People, I'm not talking about my first name, but my last name AND my Chinese name... which is unbelievable because both are such easy, though I have been called so many different names since I was in kindergarten... sigh... even from people I have known for some time... sigh...
Back to some more interesting group names, here're some more for my friends at work
I Hate Stupid Consults From Stupid Doctors
I'm a doctor and I hope my patients don't see me on facebook....
"Things I learned on "Grey's Anatomy" that I didn't learn in medical school
And some selected items from the last group... I have only watched 1 or 2 episodes of Grey's Anatomy while I was in Auckland, my only impression was that it was more about relationship (especially sex) than medicine... =P I remembered I've been sitting there for 1/2 an hour watching character A slept with B, then C with D, then E with F... (sorry I don't know/remember the characters...) quite boring actually, but this list is hilarious! And these mistakes are present in almost EVERY medical drama... (Sorry to the fans of the series)
1. Residents perform (and direct) complex surgeries without an attending present
2. Surgical interns rotate through OB/Gyn
3. Asystole is a shockable rhythm (I saw this on the Taiwanese medical drama recently shown on TV as well...)
4. Anesthesiologists are a myth (except when needed to run out of the room in a panic) !!!!!!! (This is true even for ER!!! I mean on the TV series!)
5. A major university teaching hospital has only a surgical residency program and no medical students
6. Patients need only oxygen via a nasal cannula while undergoing surgery
7. Surgical residents dictate all care given to every patient in the hospital
8. A surgical resident has more power than the chief of surgery
9. Orthopedics residents perform any type of surgery, including Gyn surgeries
10. The chief of surgery runs the hospital
11. Internship lasts for 3 years
12. World-class neurosurgeons live in trailers
13. Clinical brain death leads to absolutely no long-term neurological consequences and has an extremely short recovery time
14. Interns perform fellowship-level procedures after studying for a couple hours
15. There is no ancillary staff at most hospitals
16. Surgeons run the ER
17. Informed consent is a myth
18. Organ transplants are given to patients with an "in" with the chief of surgery
19. Interns perform surgeries solo on the first day of internship (all we really needed to know about surgery we learned in medical school)
20. Cardiothoracic surgeons routinely perform appendectomies
21. Nurses play no routine role in patient care
22. Doctors routinely develop romantic relationships with their patients
22a. This is in no way frowned-upon
23. Familial consent is not necessary to perform an autopsy
24. HIPAA is a myth
25. OB/Gyn training includes pediatric cardiothoracic surgery training
26. Intubation is not a standard, accepted medical practice (see #6)
27. Interns routinely perform their own MRIs
28. 100% recovery of functioning is routine after every surgical procedure
29. Surgical interns insert epidural catheters without supervision (also, see #4) Well, at least these script writer KNEW about epidurals... =P Can that be a consolation?
30. Symptoms of a cerebellar herniation mimic those of a common cold
31. Surgeons know enough medicine to run a clinic
32. The Bell Commission rules seemingly haven't reached all hospitals yet
32a. Despite seemingly working 100+ hours a week, interns still have time to look beautiful
33. Cardiothoracic surgeons manage arrhythmias intra-op (see #4) They also give blood transfusion... =P in most medical drama...
34. Face masks are optional in the OR
35. Interns must, in addition to sleeping with an attending, pass a test in order to move on to PGY2
36. You can keep your license after cutting a patient's LVAD wire on purpose and "going on probation" for the hospital with no legal consequences
37. It is completely professional for medical staff to fight each other in front of patients
38. Unlike other forms of alcohol, tequila actually does not impair your ability to render decisions on critical medical issues
39. Hospital shifts start at a decent morning hour
40. Surgical interns have time to eat lunch. Sitting down. All at the same time.
41. Residents schedule their own surgeries (and can cancel them for personal diversions)
42. Standard first-line treatment for hiccups is chlorpromazine given IM, without consent
43. Standard first-line treatment for GERD is endoscopic fundal plication
43a. H2 blockers and PPIs are a myth
44. Bacterial endocarditis "is nothing to worry about"
45. Toxic megacolon "just happens" and "is nothing to worry about"
46. Placenta accreta is an obscure medical term that only OB/Gyn's seem to know
46a. It is standard to attempt a vaginal delivery with a diagnosis of placenta accreta
47. It is impossible to determine the paternity of a fetus while it is still in utero
48. Regulations regarding hospital privileges and state licensing are a myth
49. The five lowest-scoring interns on the "intern test" do not get asked back to the program (see #35)
50. "Do you have any pain?... Any... anything?" constitutes sufficient history-taking when a patient has been in a car accident
51. General surgery interns routinely work in the NICU
52. Orthopedics chief residents preside over general surgery residents
53. This chief of surgery, when he reaches his mid-50's, should probably step down for being "too old"
54. PGY4 Orthopedics residents are the only available surgeons with enough expertise to bounce back and forth between 3 concurrent surgeries
Monday, September 03, 2007
Like many people, I have become addicted to Facebook. This is an article I found on Time.com about Facebook.
Facebook is, in Silicon Vall--ese, a "social network": a website for keeping track of your friends and sending them messages and sharing photos and doing all those other things that a good little Web 2.0 company is supposed to help you do. It was started by Harvard students in 2004 as a tool for meeting-- or at least discreetly ogling--other Harvard students, and it still has a reputation as a hangout for teenagers and the teenaged-at-heart. Which is ironic because Facebook is really about making the Web grow up.
Whereas Google is a brilliant technological hack, Facebook is primarily a feat of social engineering. (It wouldn't be a bad idea for Google to acquire Facebook, the way it snaffled YouTube, but it's almost certainly too late in the day for that. Yahoo! offered a billion for Facebook last year and was rebuffed.) Facebook's appeal is both obvious and rather subtle. It's a website, but in a sense, it's another version of the Internet itself: a Net within the Net, one that's everything the larger Net is not. Facebook is cleanly designed and has a classy, upmarket feel to it--a whiff of the Ivy League still clings. People tend to use their real names on Facebook. They also declare their sex, age, whereabouts, romantic status and institutional affiliations. Identity is not a performance or a toy on Facebook; it is a fixed and orderly fact. Nobody does anything secretly: a news feed constantly updates your friends on your activities. On Facebook, everybody knows you're a dog.
Maybe that's why Facebook's fastest-growing demographic consists of people 35 or older: they're refugees from the uncouth wider Web. Every community must negotiate the imperatives of individual freedom and collective social order, and Facebook constitutes a critical rebalancing of the Internet's founding vision of unfettered electronic liberty. Of course, it is possible to misbehave on Facebook--it's just self-defeating. Unlike the Internet, Facebook is structured around an opt-in philosophy; people have to consent to have contact with or even see others on the network. If you're annoying folks, you'll essentially cease to exist, as those you annoy drop you off the grid.
Facebook has taken steps this year to expand its functionality by allowing outside developers to create applications that integrate with its pages, which brings with it expanded opportunities for abuse. (No doubt Griffith is hard at work on FacebookScanner.) But it has also hung on doggedly to its core insight: that the most important function of a social network is connecting people and that its second most important function is keeping them apart.
1 billion!!! WOW!!I love all the additional functionality! Although I'm not 35 or older =P
I have recorded all my trips with the Trips application, and some of my books with the iRead application... and we can give free virtual gifts to friends as well... Not to mention I have found dozens of long lost friends...
Yeah, I know I'm addicted... =P
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Monday, June 11, 2007
Google Sightseeing
I've downloaded Google Earth long ago, but seldom use it nowadays.
And someone made this Google sightseeing website.
"Why bother seeing the world for real? Join us as we go sightseeing around the globe with satellite images from Google Earth and Google Maps."
You can even see the house where Paris Hilton lives in... wow...
There are sights from Hong Kong as well.
And someone made this Google sightseeing website.
"Why bother seeing the world for real? Join us as we go sightseeing around the globe with satellite images from Google Earth and Google Maps."
You can even see the house where Paris Hilton lives in... wow...
There are sights from Hong Kong as well.
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Online Communities
This is kinda like the map in the bottom, haha, see how many different "places" I've been to... well, Friendster, Facebook, Windows Live, AOL (yes, because I'm on the Books and Writers Community), youtube, Flickr, Technorati, Wikipedia, Usenet, IRC...
Saturday, March 31, 2007
No Script
I've been using Firefox for quite some time. It's much better than IE, even IE 7. Not to mention much safer.
And today I've decided to install another add-on for Firefox- No Script, that is supposed to make Firefox even safer!
Here's the official introduction from Firefox website.
Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox.
It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site.
Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality...
Experts do agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript ;-)
To download, click here.
And today I've decided to install another add-on for Firefox- No Script, that is supposed to make Firefox even safer!
Here's the official introduction from Firefox website.
Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool provides extra protection to your Firefox.
It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site.
Such a preemptive approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality...
Experts do agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript ;-)
To download, click here.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
I'm making a difference
If you see me on MSN, you'll notice I've just added "i'm" in front of my name. What's that about?
Now if you add this icon, every time you chat with your friends with MSN, some of the ad revenue will be donated to one charitable organisation of your choice. Just add this code *xxx in front of/behind your name! Easy!
These include:
I chose StopGlobalWarming.org, what about you?
(One thing I'm not sure... the list on the official site is shorter than what one of my friends sent me... hmm... I'm going to be safe and stick with the official list, though I want to choose WWF more...)
Now if you add this icon, every time you chat with your friends with MSN, some of the ad revenue will be donated to one charitable organisation of your choice. Just add this code *xxx in front of/behind your name! Easy!
These include:
| Text Code | Cause |
| *red+u | American Red Cross |
| *bgca | Boys & Girls Clubs of America |
| *naf | National AIDS Fund |
| *mssoc | National Multiple Sclerosis Society |
| *9mil | ninemillion.org |
| *sierra | Sierra Club |
| *help | StopGlobalWarming.org |
| *komen | Susan G. Komen for the Cure |
| *unicef | The US fund for UNICEF |
I chose StopGlobalWarming.org, what about you?
(One thing I'm not sure... the list on the official site is shorter than what one of my friends sent me... hmm... I'm going to be safe and stick with the official list, though I want to choose WWF more...)
Saturday, March 03, 2007
NOD 32
My antivirus software that came with my computer expired last month. I've been downloading trials of different softwares since then. I like this one a lot, so I went to buy it since Commercial Press is doing a spring sale.
Initially I planned to buy the one year version ~HK$280, then I saw the 3 year version (though I know it'll probably get updated versions in the future...), only~ HK$ 420 (the one year update costs ~150), I hesitated...
decided to buy the 3 year version finally! because there are two gifts, 1GB USB Flash Drive and 1 $50 Park'n Supermarket coupon... I think it's a great bargain!
Worth to consider if anyone of you need to new antivirus!
I also got 1 piggy bank... and 4 Commercial Press 10% off coupons... (expiring on 30/4/07) anyone wants the coupon? pls tell me!
Initially I planned to buy the one year version ~HK$280, then I saw the 3 year version (though I know it'll probably get updated versions in the future...), only~ HK$ 420 (the one year update costs ~150), I hesitated...
decided to buy the 3 year version finally! because there are two gifts, 1GB USB Flash Drive and 1 $50 Park'n Supermarket coupon... I think it's a great bargain!
Worth to consider if anyone of you need to new antivirus!
I also got 1 piggy bank... and 4 Commercial Press 10% off coupons... (expiring on 30/4/07) anyone wants the coupon? pls tell me!
Friday, August 18, 2006
Beware Of 'Infomania'
I read an article on this in the Forbes' website...
as for the extract, pls read here, maybe I should use less MSN/ICQ... email has become and essential part of my life...
"The Institute of Psychiatry at the University of London conducted clinical trials with volunteer office workers to measure how a constant flow of messages and information affects a person's ability to focus on problem-solving tasks.
Instead of boosting productivity, the constant data stream seriously reduced the volunteers' ability to focus. The study reported that an average worker's functioning IQ falls 10 points when distracted by ringing telephones and incoming e-mails, more than twice the four-point drop seen following a 2002 Carleton University study on the impact of smoking marijuana.
The study showed that 62% of adults are literally addicted to checking e-mail and text messages during meetings, in the evening and on weekends.
Half of workers respond to e-mails immediately or within 60 minutes, and one in five people are happy to interrupt a business or social meeting to respond to an e-mail or telephone message within 60 minutes.
The study warns of the abuse of always-on technology and calls this endemic condition infomania."
10 points of IQ, that's like 10% of my IQ!!! I'm going to shut my computer down NOW!
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