Yearly Archives: 2012

22 posts

Game company pays players to watch commercials

Game companies usually face three difficulties: How to attract new players How to retain the current players How to generate enough revenue For game companies with free games, the third one is very challenging because the revenue is generated mainly from players’ in-game purchases, so developers must constantly develop new features and new gears hoping that players will purchase them. Recently, TinyCo, a mobile game company with several free games, started a new way hoping […]

Add winter touch to your web site

Since it is December and I am in the northern part, I figure it is time to add a little winter touch to my web site, so I added some snow flakes flying down on my web site. Have you noticed it (well, the snow only comes in December, and keep reading to find out why)? If you want to know how to do it on your web site, here is how. 1. Go to […]

HP is coming back to tablet market

One year after HP left the tablet market by discontinuing their first tablet product TouchPad, HP decided to come back to the competitive tablet market with their new product called HP ElitePad which will be available in January 2013. The new 10.1” ElitePad will be running the Dual core Intel Atom processor 1.8 GHz with Windows 8 Pro OS instead of HP’s own webOS which TouchPad was using. It weights under 1.5lbs and is as […]

SugarSync backs up your business

As a customer, have you had this experience before that when you communicate with a company you are asked to send some files with sensitive information in them? Or as a business, have you been asked by customer to send them some sensitive documents, such as the tax documents?  You cannot believe how many people THINK email is safe and secure for sending and receiving sensitive documents. One of my customers recently asked me for […]

Ubuntu 12.10 released, but what’s next?

Ubuntu 12.10 (QQ) is released today with a big eye catching picture on Ubuntu’s home page to encourage users to choose Ubuntu 12.10 instead of the incoming Windows 8: It has been 8 years since the first release of Ubuntu in October 2004, and Ubuntu has accomplished a lot and has become the most popular Linux distro in the Linux world. But does Ubuntu have a promising future? This is the question I asked in […]

Enjoy my rooted NOOK Tablet

Here is what it looks like after my NOOK Tablet was rooted: 1. Logon screen with PIN Enabled 2. Home screen after logon From the home screen you can see that I can still access my NOOK library by installing B&N Nook for Android app, and also I can install so many more free apps that NOOK app store does not have. For example, you want to check your email in your NOOK? Sorry, you […]

Google Drive, SkyDrive and SugarSync, which one to choose?

The simple answer is to get them all. Google Drive and SkyDrive are much similar. They are designed not only to provide on-line storage, file share and sync, but also designed to be integrated to other Google services and Microsoft services, respectively. If you have a Google Chromebook, you know it uses Google Drive to store your data and apps; if you have an Android mobile device, you can use Google Drive to backup and […]