Happy New Year 2010!

Techie Talkz wishes you have a happy new year and good luck for everything in the coming new year! In conjunction to the new year, I had made some simple wallpapers sized at 1920×1080, hopefully you will like them. Enjoy!

AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter [Free Giveaway until 1st March 2010]

If you are looking for a good pdf to word converter software, you are in the right time as AnyBizSoft is giving free keycode for their PDF to Word Converter 2.5.3. Of course it isn’t a latest version, but heck, it does what it supposed to at high quality. I have personally tried myself and find it quite impressive being a free giveaway. Below are some highlight for the software:

Support encrypted PDF files conversion

Support Microsoft Office 2010 and Windows 7

3 conversion modes—Batch, Partial, Right-click conversion modes

Preserve text, layouts, images and hyperlinks in an editable Word document

Don’t miss the chance! Even you are not looking for it right now, but you can just keep the software and the keycode for future use, who knows it might come in handy one day. Straight to AnyBizSoft PDF to Word Converter 2.5.3 Free Giveaway page and claim yourself a free keycode!

Note: Free offer expires on Mar. 1, 2010

Enable endless page for Google Search in Firefox! [How To]

Do you find that whenever you search for something in search engine such as Google, Bing, or Yahoo, it is always quite annoyed that you have to click for the next page after you looked into the previous page? What about an endless page in just one tab in Firefox and search them all? You got it!

Apple iPad will become a failure, sooner or later…

It surprises (positive and negative) a lot of people when Steve Jobs introduced the recently leaked and rumored iPad from Apple. While it seems cool to have the latest invention from Apple, but personally I do feel that iPad is somehow a failed product. Why? For me, it’s nothing more than an enlarged iphone (no Mac OSX on it…duh…), flash-unsupported browser (HTML5? Steve Jobs, it might be too early for that), and limited customization (apple always love to control people huh?). While the announced might not be the final product, but more or less it won’t be much different from what they have announced. And what? iPad is a registered name for Fujitsu?

How to read online article without annoying ads?

With the availability of tons of information on the world wide web, most of the internet users are using browsers to acquire information by reading online article (besides tons of downloading). However, nowadays, most of the website providing valuable information always look for some return, thus most of the time internet users will be bugged/annoyed by the animated flash advertisements or promotion texts (I hope you wouldn’t see that in my blog) which probably distract your concentration while reading the article.

How to run Android in HTC Touch Diamond?

If you are PDA-phone fan, most likely you know the Google’s open source mobile operating system – Android. With the recent released Google Nexus One, Android operating system has become more popular in smartphone and it is expected to be more devices supporting Android, although it going to take some time (but it won’t be too long since Android is open source and free) if Android wanted to take Windows Mobile down.

I have a HTC Touch Diamond which still running it’s stock rom at Windows Mobile 6.1 although the wide variety of WinMo 6.5 available in XDA-Developer forum. You might wonder why I did not update the phone; I simply disappointed with Windows Mobile. Many of my friends agreed with me that Windows Mobile device doesn’t deliver what it has promised. And time for customizing and fixing problem(s) probably more than the practical usage of the device. Did I mentioned that the manufacturer of the smartphone will abandon a 1 year-old phone without letting them upgrade to the latest Windows Mobile, even with a chargeable cost? (Like my HTC Touch Diamond) Of course you can use the device without installing anything and run it in default available settings, but soon you will find that there are a lot of inadequacy in Windows Mobile. Heck, who is going to have a Windows Mobile device without installing some cool apps and games?

Missed Windows 3.1? Run it in your browser now!

You might heard of Windows 3.1 if you looking for the history of Microsoft Operating System, but have you ever used it before? With the long period of domination of Windows 98 and Windows XP, I doubt that recent user will ever have chance to run Windows 3.1 on your computer. But if you interested to know how the Windows 3.1 looks like, now you can.

An online, browser-based Windows 3.1 is up and running at Michaelv.org. It isn’t a full Windows 3.1 of course, but it still resemble the whole Windows 3.1 UI and feeling (Minesweeper is there!). As quoted from his site:

The goal of this site is not to create an entirely complete mirror image of Windows 3.1, but rather keep the spirit and omit features when they are not justified by an effort to usability ratio. For example, Notepad lacks a find and replace feature because it is not worth the effort. Where features do exist, every effort is made to present them in exactly the manner that they existed in Windows 3.1.

If you are interested to try it, just run this browser-based Windows 3.1 in your browser. Firefox 2 and 3, as well as IE 6, 7, 8 are supported. 

 

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How to solve if Windows Sidebar Gadget that utilized flash player doesn’t work? (64-bit Windows)

If you downloaded some gadgets for Windows Sidebar that utilizing Flash Player and you are in a 64-bit Windows environment, chances are your gadgets won’t work properly for you. It is because flash player has never come out with a native 64-bit Flash Player that supported the Windows Sidebar.

So if you face this problem, it can be easily get solved by a few steps:

1) Close the sidebar.exe (By Task Manager or manually closing all gadgets)

2) Starts the sidebar.exe in Program Files (x86) folder instead of the one in Program Files.

3) Try to add the gadgets that didn’t work previously and enjoy it!

The idea of the trick is that you start up the 32-bit Windows Sidebar instead of the 64-bit one, so Flash Player can run in the gadgets that utilizing it. Hope it helps!

Aero Glass Galore – Some Glass Apps for your Windows

Aero Glass, one of the most successful eye candy that Microsoft has implemented in  Windows Vista and Windows 7, has been the favorite of most of the Windows users (me included). Since when I am using Windows 7 RC, I have been actively looking for all the software that utilize the Aero Glass which is already in the Windows, but sadly, there is still not much software developers take effort to make use of the Aero Glass, due to many different reasons.

Review on Nokia X6-00 Comes With Music Edition

On the Thursday evening, I was lucky enough to attend a Nokia Music Explorers event held in Royale Bintang Damansara (All thanks to Nokia and TXT100). Basically it is an event all about the yet-to-release Nokia music service, and of course, the yet-to-release Nokia X6-00 (00 means not yet finalised if not mistaken). 50 of the lucky music lovers (me included XD) have been given a brand new Nokia X6 device and one year subscription of Comes With Music service, which is a service that allows you to download unlimited (yes, you doesn’t read it wrong) songs off their Ovi Player LEGALLY, and before you ask, yes, the service does include latest songs and albums (still updating though).

The event went pretty smooth, despite of some ‘epic fail’ moments (not going to tell you what, but something to do with Lenovo). You can almost expect everyone is only waiting for the arrival of their Nokia X6; and I believe all will be agree with me that the most exciting part in the event certainly is the unboxing moment.

Become a Gmail Ninja Master with Gmail Tips!

If you are a Google Mail user and change the theme quite often, you might find the ninja is no stranger to you. Yes, it’s the same ninja appears in ninja theme of Gmail. So apparently Google now wants you to know more about what you can do with Gmail, and if you able to learn all the Gmail tips, you going to be awarded as a Gmail ninja master (no certificate or belt for you anyway).

Google have categorized all their tips in four levels, each level has different tips that you might not explore before.

Aren’t they cute? So how do you access them? If you used Gmail account frequently, you might find that there are a red texts New! Gmail Tips above your inbox, click on it and you will reach to the tips page. Else for whatever reason you doesn’t want to login to your Gmail and want to access it now, the tips page is here. You might prefer to have a printer friendly version so you can read it off the computer, you got it.

So enjoy your Gmail tips and make use of Gmail to be more productive and efficient!  

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