October 2011
4 posts
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My Wikidot 4th
It’s the 31st of October. So, on this day, 4 years ago - I made signed up at Wikidot as the 47,197th user - not knowing how much it will influence me as a person.
It’s hard imagining my life without Wikidot. It’s such an easy-to-use platform, yet sophisticated and complex at the same time. Ironic, isn’t it? I’m using Tumblr to post a this blog post about my 4th...
HTTPS x Google Chrome = Unblocked Sites!
Recently, I discovered that accessing HTTPS sites at school via Google Chrome essentially bypasses the school filter for websites. I have not figured out why this occurs yet - but it appears that this exploit is working for Google Chrome only. I’m guessing that Google has a unique way of processing HTTPS requests because when trying accessing certain HTTPS sites on Opera and Internet...
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Working with GML again...
For the past year or so, I have barely touched Game Maker - because of lack of cross-platform capabilities. Even with GM4Mac and GameMaker HTML5, I’m still not able to do most things because of lack of DLL support.
However, I was looking for a nice way to package my school timetable and present it in an informative, yet non-obstructive way. So back came Game Maker and GML.
GML was...
The Apple, The Mac, The Jealousy and The Death
R.I.P. Steve Jobs… you were an inspiration to the technological world. You made us PC users jealous of all Mac owners. But really, all those beautiful products you made us - the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad are uniquely Apple. Steve, RIP… see you in your own invention - iCloud (coming 12th October 2011).
August 2011
4 posts
Why do I use Virgin Mobile?
I use Virgin Mobile because:
Virgin-to-Virgin SMS is free
there is long expiry (cheapest for $15 / 180 days)
that means I can unlimited text anyone on Virgin for “$30 a year”
my entire family uses Virgin
my friends use Virgin
Farewell Ubuntu... but coming back soon!
After 50 solid days using Ubuntu, I finally found a reason to switch back to Windows… I needed MS Publisher and Adobe Premiere Pro really badly. I have an assignment that required me to use MS Publisher - pamphlet designing for science. Plus, I had eisteddfod videos to edit (which I had already done - painfully on another computer).
Basically, I attempted to do a dual-boot install. That...
Pidgin = Facebook Chat
Just realised that I can use Pidgin for Facebook Chat…
Firstly, download Pidgin: http://pidgin.im/
Add a new XMPP account.
Your username is your profile username at Facebook (you may need to set one).
Domain is chat.facebook.com
Password is your Facebook password
Ensure that you “Require encryption” in the Advanced tab.
Done.
Just Updated to Ubuntu 11.04
Last night, I took the 10.04 > 10.10 > 11.04 update path to the newest Ubuntu version. I had downloaded the ISO boot-up and wanted to do a clean install. That never worked…
Unity and it’s the poor fallback
Booting up the ISO caused a big issue on my system. My computer has on-board 865g Intel Graphics… which is really crap in today’s standard. But I never...