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Copyright food? Looks like only the Westerns are capable of such things

Posted on September 23, 2009 by timlyg

Now they want to "attribute" their greed on Malaysians...or have they truly gone so oblivious about the fine line between the copyright patent and simply rightful claim that they have to LIE about it in their news? Laksa, Nasi Lemak, Chicken Rice are of Malaysian cuisine. As Christians, it it important to not fight like the West do with copyright/patent issues when one's ownership is jeopardized. What then if you prove your recognition by taking other's money? Is not standing to the truth enough?

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Interesting Long Lost Brother News

Posted on September 22, 2009 by timlyg

Long lost brothers found each other at work. Either it's an amazing coincidence or these people just don't go out much. And if latter, that would explain some discrimination factor against outsiders.

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Non-stick Pan

Posted on September 19, 2009 by timlyg

A good non-stick pan is rather important especially for frying. Gordon mentioned "heavy" too.

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Plastic Waste into Fuel

Posted on September 16, 2009 by timlyg

Living in the world's most populous city made me very aware of waste management. So articles such as this impress me.

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MP3 Player with Long Battery Life

Posted on September 16, 2009 by timlyg

I prefer external AA or AAA battery mp3 players with built-in mic recording.

Thus far, I only know iriver T10 (1gb, 45+ hours, AA battery) and SanDisk Sansa m250 (2gb, 19 hours, AAA battery).

iriver's T10 seems to be hard to find now, interesting rarity for such a useful and popular brand.

If there are others, I shall add them to this entry.

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Move/Copy Database of ACT! from One Computer to Another

Posted on September 15, 2009 by timlyg

Thanks to this article. I am able to transfer a copy of ACT! 2008 database to the new version 11 ACT! for a client (Hezi).

1. go to the Windows Start button and type in ActDiag and hit enter
2. When ActDiag appears, click the Databases task
3. When the Database List appears, highlight the row you want to move
4. right-click the row, then select the Detach Database task (you may want to scroll right to see WHERE the database files .ADF and .ALF reside first)
5. close ActDiag
6. copy the .ADF, .ALF and accompanying " - database files" folder to the new machine
7. Launch ACT! on that new machine, select Open Database
8. In the file type, select the .ADF option and browse to where you copied the .ADF/.ALF files (step 6 above)
9. ACT! will state that it needs to verify the database - let it.

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Taking Photos of Earth with a simple Camera

Posted on September 14, 2009 by timlyg

A Camera, Helium Baloon, 20+ miles into the stratosphere. MIT students did it just under $150, getting a good curvature of Earth.

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Hacking Experts-Exchange.Com

Posted on September 13, 2009 by timlyg

I believe it's been a nightmare for many google researchers when they stumble on Experts-exchange.com, a paysite forums for technical Q&A. Thanks to this article, which instructs in genenral: to remove "experts-exchange.com" from the cookies list (Mozilla-Tools-Options-Privacy) and add the same site as exception in BLOCK mode, we now can view the ANSWERS for free!

They who once manipulated the google system to trick users into their site with keywords to their questions, now face a tougher challenge than a "-" sign keyword on their domain name or the possibility of google blocking them.

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