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As a partly-designer myself, I worked with tons and tons of Photoshop files, often making various revisions of the same file just in case that the design direction is to change later on. Sometimes we’re looking for a particular item in the files that we want to re-use, but thanks to our ingenious naming of [...]

When we talk about pigs, there’s generally three responses (if you’re from Malaysia) – 1) It’s Haram, 2) It’s tasty and 3) It’s cuuuuuute *wiggle*
But today, I want to talk about one pig that will help you save hours of time. Which pig I’m talking about? This one:

Cute? yeah. Well it’s not exactly a pig, [...]

In the project I’m currently on, I work with one web designer and four ruby on rails developers. Among the four developers, three of them are running on a MacBook.
Every time we had a discussion, I will secretly envy the look on their screen, all laden with textmate. As for myself and the other guy, [...]

I have been trying to jailbreak my iPhone 3G (currently at firmware 3.1.2) for a few days, causing a lot of frustration, reboots and yet, my iPhone is still not jailbroken. So after a few rounds of trial-and-error, I manage to figure out the easiest way to do this.

For Windows users (pre-Vista), IE6 (Microsoft Internet Explorer) is nothing but an imbecile. A browser that seems to crash on any website that demands a little bit more than normal surfing, GMail doesn’t even work fully in IE6, facebook makes it hang, and virus loves to attach itself to it.
For web developers, IE6 is a [...]

Note: Videos now updated! They are now in HD!
Windows 7 beta have been released to the public for a few weeks now (officially that is). Today I would like to share some of the cute (I call it cute because I find it entertaining) and potentially useful tricks that you can do with Windows 7. [...]

Often, I find myself making new contacts, and throughout the discussion, we might be deciding to exchange music, attempting to listen to new genre of tunes and potentially discover something that I like. However it gets quite troublesome when the other party goes like “Hey tell me what you have in your music folder?” and [...]

Some of us might be turning off the system sounds in Windows XP/Vista purely due to annoyance. Some change it to a different one. Most don’t bother about it.
But there are some creative individuals who used these system sounds and make some songs out of it. Check it out:
Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP [...]