Pixelique

• efficiently move windows and maximize windows across the desktop
• manage more applications with the Smart Taskbar
• control application positioning with UltraMon Shortcuts
• multi-monitor support for desktop wallpapers and screen savers
• mirror your main monitor to secondary monitors for a presentation

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For you whoever curious about the teddy bears in princess hours drama. They come from this Teddy House from Thailand.

Teddy House Co. Ltd.
1189 Soi Darn-Samrong 22 Sukhumvit Rd.
North-Samrong Samutprakarn
10270 Thailand

E-mail: teddyhouse@teddyhouse.com

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Today I see many cities in Indonesia can be seen in Google Earth.
Most major cities from west to east are in higher resolution than before. (^o^)

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The province of Yogyakarta bore the brunt of a 6.3-magnitude earthquake on 27 May 2006 which killed 5,137 people and left some 1,700 persons injured. More than 13,000 houses are damaged. 200,000 are homeless. (source: http://iys.cidi.org/disaster/ins.06e27/)

The earthquake extensively damaged the local region of Bantul, and its surrounding hinterland. The most significant number of deaths occurred in this region. The Royal Graveyard of Imogiri had extensive damage, and has been closed.

The coincidence of the recent eruption of Gunung Merapi, and the earthquake would not be lost on the older and more superstitious Javanese - as such natural phenonomena are given considerable import within their understanding of the spiritual aspect of such events.

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Yesterday something weird happened to my computer. First I saw my Shut Down button in the Start Menu disappear suddenly, second thing is the Run command in the menu also disappear, I also cannot display the Context Menu by using right-click on the menu. Last thing is that when you right click on the task bar, the Task Manager is disabled.

For instant I thought these problems must be caused by one of two reasons:
1. My system administrator is doing something with the group policy in the domain server.
2. My PC must be infected by some virus or adware or malware or whatever things.

So while trying to figure these out. I am trying to do quick search see if there's any info about this weird things.
1. I found how to get back the Task Manager enabled again. It seems my registry for the Task Bar and Start Menu are changed or corrupted. So if you have same problem you run this registry file by right clicking - save as here, save to your desktop and later you run it from the desktop. After restart your Task Manager should be enabled.

2. I also found how to get back the Run icon command menu, run this registry file by right clicking - save as here, save it to your desktop and run it from your desktop. After restart you will see your run icon should be appear again.

3. How then to get back the Shut Down button just follow the same way with those first two. Right click here, save and run the registry file.

And if you feel you so curious want to know more, and become advance you can refer to this Microsoft Knowledge Base article about these Start Menu Tweaks.

Also you can find many WinXP tweaks here.

Happy Tweaking!

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Want to know what is mean with these tag symbols in your clothes?

Go here http://www.textileaffairs.com/c-common.htm

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For me there're two brands that already well known around photographers over the world: Lowepro and Domke.

Lowepro founder, Greg Lowe, creates the world's first internal-frame backpack in his garage on 1972. Most of the bags now made in China.

Lowepro have gone back to the drawing board with their renowned Trekker backpack range; they have been given new weather resistant YKK zips, lighter weight material, very strong and light hypalon (river rafts are made from this) attachment loops and a rubber carrying handle. Lowepro have also included the Trekker daypack previously available as an extra into the bargain. Other changes to theLowepro range include new materials and trim for the Nova and S&F ranges and a new smaller Dryzone backpack.

Since 1976 Jim Domke has been making some of the best and most practical and camera bags available.
They have been the bag of choice for professionals and active photographers alike, offering a combination of protection an access to the cameras inside, without being fussy or trendy. Domke bags are to be found in almost every corner of the world; they are equally at home on city streets, out in the field or at a society gathering. The bags mostly made in United States and the price about twice from Lowepro.

Other than these two brands, there're quite number of good bags also from Billingham, The company's transition from a manufacturer of fishing bags to one of camera bags came about in 1978 when Martin Billingham, a keen photographer himself, discovered that the fishing bags he made were being used by New York photographers. So popular were the first models that, within a year, almost all production had switched to camera bags.

Martin Billingham and Co have been making canvas camera bags for over 20 years, and they have become the standard for many users all over the world; they represent the best of British craftsmanship & design; the name that others aspire to. Billingham have had a review of their operations and have made changes to the range, the S3 and Photo Rucksack 25 have been discontinued.

The last one is KATA, Nitzan Kimchi and Dror Tishler, founders and owners of KATA, became acquainted with sophisticated military equipment during their service in an elite combat unit of Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Subsequently, they developed and offered solutions for the special units of the IDF and Israel’s secret services for over a decade. In 1992, in response to an increased demand for their products, and following an extended process of product development, they decided to establish KATA.

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Just playing around with this article on how to have a clutter free desktop for Windows XP.

Now my desktop become 'very clean' only left one thing the "recycle bin". Hehehe...

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It's a Survival Kits for Living in Indonesia

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First there's an Intel-based Macs, now officially Apple put another flavours to its Macintosh.
Yes, now they can run both OS X or Windows XP (Service Pack 2) Home or Professional Edition.

What you will need:
Boot Camp requires an Intel-based Mac with a USB keyboard and mouse, or a built-in keyboard and TrackPad; Mac OS X version 10.4.6 or later; the latest firmware update; at least 10GB of free space on the startup disk; a blank recordable CD or DVD; and single-disc version of Windows XP Home Edition or Professional with Service Pack 2 or later.

Apple's comment:
“Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apple’s superior hardware now that we use Intel processors,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users considering making the switch.”

Pricing & Availability
The public beta of Boot Camp is available immediately as a download at www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp, and is preview software licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time. The final version of Boot Camp will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.5 “Leopard.” Apple does not provide support for installing or running Boot Camp and does not sell or support Microsoft Windows software. Apple welcomes user feedback on Boot Camp at bootcamp@apple.com.

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• He works on virtually paper free. Not much papers on his desk.
• He still got a whiteboard for brainstorming sessions.
• He got three flat screen monitors connected to one PC of course.
• Left screen is for his emails.
• Center screen mostly to open specific email where he's reading and replying it.
• And on the right screen is where he open the internet browser.
• A day he could receive about 100 already filtered emails by his secretary.
• The whiteboards in some Microsoft offices have the ability to capture an image and send it up to the computer, almost like a huge Tablet PC. He will got this digital whiteboard maybe next year.
• Oh yah at last he has a tablet pc.

What a great office

(image courtesy of CNN)

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Just playing with the Google Earth and what a surprise. I can see Jakarta in higher more detail resolution. It doesn't in high resolution like most of United States regions but it already better than before. So if you have Google Earth installed in your PC or Mac, give it a try and see by yourself.

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Free Fonts for your PC and MAC:

http://www.acidfonts.com/
http://www.dafont.com/
http://www.fontfreak.com/

http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/links/default.aspx
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/25-best-license-free-pixelfonts

There is even a Web Developer Guide as a bonus:
http://www.alvit.de/handbook

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Sometimes we need photos/images for our web/print things.
Whenever you want to create articles, newsletters, flyers, even a whole web project.

These are the popular places where you can get photos for free sometimes they're free also for commercial purposes:

• stock.xchng - http://www.sxc.hu/
• morguefile.com - http://www.morguefile.com/
• iStockphoto.com - http://www.istockphoto.com/index.php
• Image * After - http://www.imageafter.com/
• Free Images - http://www.freeimages.co.uk/
• FreeFoto.com - http://www.freefoto.com/
• Pixel Perfect Digital - http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/
• Photocase - http://www.photocase.com/
• Open Photo - http://www.openphoto.net/

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Among the list the top 10 are:

1. Holy Bible
2. US Census 2005
3. Mother Goose
4. Divine Comedy
5. Oddysey
6. Iliad
7. Huckleberry Finn
8. Lord of the Ring (trilogy)
9. Hamlet
10. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland

Source: http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/complete.htm

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• Color Cop
  A must have color picker and color converter.
  Alternatives: Colorpic, ColorPix
• Desktop Restore
  This tiny application records the layout and positions of icons and programs on the desktop, and permits restoration of the layout.
• WordWeb
  WordWeb includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs.
• Notepad2
  The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.
• IE Snapshot
  A tool to capture web pages as they appear on the user's monitor. This application can grab almost all webpages and save them in to PDF, JPG, GIF or BMP file format.
• Bulk Rename Utility
  Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extremely flexible criteria.
• Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
  The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages.
• Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
  PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. More useful to me are the ClearType Tuner, the Open Command Window Here and the Image Resizer but all of them are really cool.
• LockNote
  Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installation required.
• TreeSize Free
  TreeSize will add a new view to your file system. Working with many directories and files will be much easier.
• CCleaner
  A freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast.
• SmartFTP
  A free ftp client which features an Explorer-like, customizable interface and supports drag-and-drop functions.
• Cacheman
  The Cacheman utility is designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.

Online tools

• Gmail
  Far my favorite email client. Fast search, great spam filtering and increasing storage.
• Del.icio.us
  Social bookmarking... the page with the popular is one of the most sticky pages ever.
• Pageflakes
  For me the best personalized startpage out there.
• Color tools: Color Palette Generator, Color Blender, ColorBlender, Color Schemer

taken from http://www.thinkofdesign.com/tabid/65/ctl/ArticleView/mid/369/articleId/8/Free-tools-and-utilities-I-use-every-day.aspx

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You must ever hear about Vertu or the stylish Nokia 8800, but have you ever saw the same class from Sony Ericsson? Below is the new design by a Singapore Designer, Jaren Goh, He named it "Black Diamond". Looks very nice and the LCD is using new technology OLED same as in the new Sony Walkman.

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Emi Fujita

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Rumour has said the new apple's iPod (could be generation 5 or 6, I couldn't remember) is still coming.
When? At the end of this month or first week of April 2006.

They said also instead of 3.5" display, this will have 4" display - meaning we will have wider screen... wow...

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Google announced on Thursday the beta launch of its new Web publishing feature, dubbed Page Creator. A select group of Gmail account holders can now access the tool, to create and publish their own Web pages.
Geared toward the consumer who is slightly less technically-inclined, the Page Creator interface doesn't require software downloads or knowledge of HTML or other programming languages to publish a page.

"It's simply a browser-based tool that makes creating Web pages as easy as creating a document in a word processor," a Google spokesperson told PCMag.

The new feature, which is available at pages.google.com, requires an activated Gmail account as well as Web access via IE 6.0 or Firefox 1.0. Testers can create multiple pages – including related and attached files – which Google says it will store on its own servers.

"There is currently in this beta rollout a limit of one-hundred pages to prevent abuse and spamming," said a Google spokesperson.

Continue reading "Google Page Creator" »

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Your personalized startpage to the Web!
Read blogs and news, check your email, start Web searches, store notes, access your Del.icio.us bookmarks and much, much more. Everything is conveniently accessible from any computer and from one page!

Add what you like, remove what you don't like.

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Think Secret can confirm recent rumblings that Apple is nearing completion of a completely revamped video iPod that will shed the ubiquitous mechanical click wheel for a touch screen and will sport a 3.5-inch diagonal display.

This video iPod, which has been in development and on the table since before Apple released the 5G iPod last year with video playback, will feature a display that will occupy the entire front face of the device. Sources who have seen the device report that it features a digital click wheel, one that overlays the touch-sensitive display and appears when a finger touches it and disappears when the finger is removed.

Apple has been working with at least two other companies to perfect the digital click wheel display technology. While not all the engineering was completed in-house by Apple, sources have said Apple could hold an exclusive license on the technologies it borrowed from other developers for a period of time, limiting the ability of competitors to copy Apple's design.

Additional details concerning the new iPod have yet to be confirmed, including capacity and a release date, although all indications point to the Spring, possibly as early as late March or early April. During the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, Apple CEO Steve Jobs alluded to a major announcement on or around April 1, Apple's 30th anniversary as a company.

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We think that be useful to remember about right now, because the consumer confusion the Windows Vista team is about to cause by offering up 8 different platters might be a little much. Here are the product editions Microsoft plans to ship for Windows Vista:

Windows Starter 2007 (Previously Windows Vista Starter Edition). This version does not use the Vista branding because it will not include the Aero graphics display found in the Vista line of products, and will only ship in a 32-bit version.

Windows Vista Home Basic (and Home Basic N). A simple version of Windows Vista that is aimed at single PC homes. Windows Vista Home Basic is the baseline version of Windows Vista, and the version that all other product editions will build from. Home Basic N is aimed at the EU and will lack Windows Media Player.

Windows Vista Home Premium. Whole home entertainment and personal productivity throughout the home and on the go. As a true superset of Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium Edition will include everything from Home Basic, as well as Media Center and Media Center Extender functionality (including Cable Card support).

Windows Vista Business (and Business N) (Previously Windows Vista Professional Edition). Windows Vista Business is roughly analogous to XP Pro today. This version is aimed at business decision makers and IT managers and generalists. Business N is aimed at the EU and will lack Windows Media Player.

Windows Vista Enterprise. Optimized for the enterprise, this version will be a true superset of Windows Vista Pro Edition. It will also include unique features such as Virtual PC, the multi-language user interface (MUI), and the Secure Startup/full volume encryption security technologies ("Cornerstone"). There is no analogous XP version for this product.

Windows Vista Ultimate. The best operating system ever offered for a personal PC, optimized for the individual. Windows Vista Ultimate Edition is a superset of both Vista Home Premium and Vista Business, so it includes all of the features of both of those product versions, plus other features.

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FolderShare allows you to create a private peer-to-peer network that will help you to synchronize files across multiple devices and access or share files with colleagues and friends. You no longer need to send large files via email, burn them to CDs/DVDs and mail them, or upload them to a website. FolderShare allows you to share and sync important information instantly with anyone you invite, making it the perfect solution for personal or small business use.

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After the site has gone for almost two weeks. We are struggling with the new host that cheaper but doesn't cover all the features we need. We are now come back again with 24/7 live time - and together with that we want to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all... All the best for the next year for all of us... God Bless You.

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How do our visitors referred by different sources (such as search engine, newsletter, or referral site) compare with respect to number of visits, conversion rate, and the average value of each visit? See the table below:

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Currently we are living at 24th floor and I am working at 25th floor...
* Sorry for being late to update you with photos because last week our PC has been 'surrender' to us after 3+ years of service.

Below are the photos as promised:

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-Sophisticated, yet easy to use.
We believe that web analytics should be simple and sophisticated at the same time. We've designed Google Analytics to have enterprise level capabilities and yet still be accessible to anyone who wants to improve their marketing and site design. Google Analytics delivers all the features you'd expect from a high-end web analytics offering, and provides timesaving AdWords integration features.

-Integrated with AdWords.
If you have an AdWords account, you can use Google Analytics directly from the AdWords interface. Google Analytics is the only product that can automatically provide AdWords ROI metrics, without you having to import cost data or add tracking information to keywords. Of course, Google Analytics tracks all of your non-AdWords initiatives as well.

-Free.
Google Analytics gives us an opportunity to invest in our advertisers and everyone else who wants to create quality content on the web. Instead of spending money on web analytics, you can focus on creating targeted, ROI-driven marketing campaigns, and on improving your site design and content.

The URL: http://www.google.com/analytics/index.html

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Today my mother give us this verse to remind us:

YEREMIA 29:11 Sebab Aku ini mengetahui rancangan-rancangan apa yang ada pada-Ku mengenai kamu, demikianlah firman TUHAN, yaitu rancangan damai sejahtera dan bukan rancangan kecelakaan, untuk memberikan kepadamu hari depan yang penuh harapan.

English version:

JEREMIAH 29:11 I alone know the plans I have for you, plans to bring you prosperity and not disaster, plans to bring about the future you hope for

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On November 7th, 2005, .NET 2.0 (including ASP.NET 2.0), Visual Studio 2005, and SQL Server 2005 were released to the world, escaping the Beta cocoon they have resided in over the past year and change. Microsoft is rolling out their new platform and software through a Launch Event in several cities around the world. The bits have been downloadable for MSDN Subsribers for over a week now, but are now officially being rolled out and sold to customers.

For those interested in learning more about the new platform and tools without having to drop the money for Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, and so on, Microsoft is releasing an "Express" product line that has simplified versions of Visual Studio and SQL Server targetted at C#, Visual Basic, or Web Developers. These "Express" versions are free for a year with registration and, while lacking the enterprise-level tools, they do have the basic essentials: IntelliSense and Debugging support.

Continue reading "Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Launch!" »

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