Yearly Archives: 2011

29 posts

What is content farm web site?

Started last week, I noticed that the traffic to my site suddenly increased,  and at the same time, the number of spam comments increased as well. At first, I didn’t pay much attention to this increase and thought it may just be a intermittent thing, until when I came across to some articles(this one and this one) from www.digitaltrends.com and realized that Google just updated their search algorithm to weed out those content farm web […]

Windows Live Mesh connects 5 million devices, but still missing a “old” feature

Last August, Microsoft combined Windows Live Sync and Live Mesh beta into one with the official name “Windows Live Mesh”, and also make it as part of Windows Live Essentials. This new service uses 5 GB of SkyDrive’s 25 GB storage as the online synchronization storage (it is called SkyDrive Synced Storage), the storage is very generous, I have to say, comparing to other major cloud storage service providers who usually provide 2 GB of […]

WordPress 3.1 available now

WordPress.org released the long-awaited WordPress 3.1 with a lot of new features. Anyone using WordPress for their blog should upgrade their system to this new release. Here is the news: http://wordpress.org/news/2011/02/threeone/

Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate available now

Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate was rolled out on Valentine’s day, a gift of love to IE fans, or just a coincidence? Anyway, if you have been testing IE 9 beta, you should be notified to upgrade to RC through Windows Update according to IE Team blog. If you are not a beta user and you are interested in trying IE 9 RC, you can download it from Microsoft’s web site. Eventually, IE 9 will […]

Fed up with Godaddy and switching to HostGator.com

I have been using Godaddy for my domain registration for almost 7 years, but now I am getting fed up with their crappy commercials especially the .CO Girl commercial and the 2010 Super Bowl commercial, why does the domain registration have ANYTHING to do with the female figure and lust? So, I am in the process of transferring my domains to HostGator.com, a web hosting company and also a new domain registration company. They launched […]

How to use ReportViewer to create addressing label

This step by step tutorial will show you how to use .NET ReportViewer to create addressing labels, such as Avery addressing labels. I hope this tutorial will help someone who has the same problem as me. Prerequisite: You have the correct data retrieved from database. I will not spend time on how to get your data from your database. This tutorial uses addressing label with size of 1” X 2-5/8”, three columns, 30 labels per […]

Facebook’s Sponsored Stories is a bad idea

Facebook’s new so-called feature “Sponsored Stories” is a very bad idea, it enables Facebook to turn your clicks into some companies’ ads with your name and profile photo in the ads, and the worst part is you don’t have the option to stop it, like it or not. This bad feature makes me wonder if Facebook is facing some serious finance problems making them so desperate that they start taking more advantage of Facebook users […]

Cannot access TightVNC web site from Windows 7

I am having a very weird situation now and I hope someone can shed some light. I cannot access the TightVNC.com web site from my Windows 7 PC. First, I thought there is something wrong with my own PC, so I asked my co-worker to give it try, but he could not access the web site either from his Windows 7 PC. Then, I thought maybe my company blocks this web site because TightVNC is […]