Category Archives: Technical

While typing some words, email addresses, my Microsoft Word 2007 somehow autocorrects the text into Greek letters. The input is also changed into Greek. I've searched online for help to no avail. I had to fool around with the settings … Continue reading →

A favorite GPS tracking service, for free! I installed on my iPhone and as long as he program is running, I can display my realtime location. http://www.instamapper.com/ext?key=11669709454135683443 http://mobile.instamapper.com/ext?key=11669709454135683443 (mobile version)  I shall put a link in the link section as … Continue reading →

I just realized that. Silly me. I had actually gone through the web high and low to look for such feature and ended up with some PinYin Free app. Very inconvenient. Now, with this original built-in Chinese input feature (I'm … Continue reading →

High dynamic range imaging Very impressive. Learned new term today via Facebook. This gives us a better photo by showing the differences in light intensity (combination of different EV-exposure value) in one photograph. Apparently iPhone4 has it. Speaking of which, … Continue reading →

A very resourceful site for identifying which internet port is for what purpose/program in general.

Apparently happening on some stations: VBA scripting or the environ("UserName") function causing some station's MS Access to popup a field called environ, and no matter what is entered, the resulting value will always be #error. On working stations, they do … Continue reading →

Readiris' OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is impressive. Of course, no OCR is 100% but this is incredible. I would say an 80-90% accuracy. And no unecessary spacings where the document has paragraphs and tables. It creates its own tables when … Continue reading →

I had always been troubled by this equation: Power equals Volt times Ampere. Because P also = I^2 X R. Given the analogy of water fall. Power is the effect/work (wheel rotate) of current "I" (stream) under the resistence "R" … Continue reading →

Just found out my iphone calendar not syncing with my google calendar anymore. Did a quick lookup on how to setup google calendar on iphone, "properly", I realized the old ways seemed to have been rejected. Instead of adding another … Continue reading →

Some files that are really really hidden. To see them, at cmd: attrib /s | findstr SHR Thanks to Tech-Recipes.