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My old mp3 player is broken. I just bought last year July in Hong Kong. I won't complain much because that is very cheap only HKD$250 and has 4GB storage. So, I decided to buy one with a proper brand. I chose Samsung U4. Fristly, that is stylish. But after around 3 days, you can see in my photo that is full of my finger print. Secondly, it has a reasonable price, I brought it in JB Hi-Fi for AUD$89 for 4GB. Thirdly, it has a high sensor button. No phyical button pressing, that is cool. But it is quite hard to use. That is so easy to push the next button. I think the greatest feature is the menu structure, I quite like that. It has multi-languages menu and it can listed the songs by the entry date.

I believe a number of people will say Resharper is a good reflectoring tool. But that cost money! I found an alternative product, CodeRush.The express version is free of charge. But the functions are very limited, such as renaming and promote a local variable to a class variable. Yes, there are no free lunch.

I have downloaded and installed Skype 4.0. That is a completely brand new interface. A ton of improvements are added. In the keypad page, a SMS button is added. So you can type in the number to send sms. In the older version, only those in your contact list can be sent SMS. Moreover, if you click your contact, the call history of that contact will be loaded. That is like a CRM. I love that!

For sound quality, that is a great improvement too!

To Download at http://www.skype.com

I am looking for the tools to do a Multilingual Joomla. I found Joom!fish. It works prefectly fine, if your website has a same structure across different language version. But in my case, that is hard. Because each version has a unique menu structure. All of them are very similar, but not exactly same. So, Joom!fish is not a solution in this case.

I have just checked Dell Australia Homepage. Latitude XT2 price is released. It costs $4114.

Google has extended their Adsense service. You can park your domain to Google. Then the parking domain landing will have an Adsense Domain parking page.

For more information:

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html

I have been seen an 403 error from Google when I tried to do a Google search yesterday. I have been hear the same situation from my friends. Did you seen that as well? Is it a worldwide problem?

I love software prototype. Firstly, it can verify whether requirements can be implemented. Moreover, it can identify the most risky part of the systems and the programmers can acquire the skills raidly. For my personal projects, I was not sure whether .Net can searialize a List which contains a number of serialiable objects. So, I wrote a prototype which serialized a List which contains three serialiable objects into a 'test.dat'. Then that works. After that, I can write my little diary application.

I went to Harvey Norman last Friday. I saw a touch screen PC in EEE series. That is running a XP. It looks very very cool. But it costs a bit over $1000(the number in my memory). For more info,http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?l1=24&l2=169

WordPress 2.7.1 is released. That is the first maintenance release for WordPres 2.7.
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/wordpress-271/

Dell has released a multitouches tablet PC, Latitube XT2. It got multitouches zoom in and out functions which looks similar with iPhone. But it costs a lot of money. In Australia website, the price has not released yet. But in US, that is starting from USD$2399(around $3672 Aussie dollars). That is too much for myself.

I created an application by using C# Serialization/Deserialization. This application can allow you to enter your diary everyday. This is tiny and easy to use.

Note that, that is only a toy to practice C# for myself. We are not responsible for any kinds of damage.

http://www.michaelleung.info/download-area?task=view.download&cid=3

I built a Joomla for my Church and gave Chinese Version Admin interface for that instance. I found the problem on translation. Because that is built by some Taiwan Opensource Developers. That is not suit for Hong Kong People. Even Taiwan and Hong Kong both are using Chinese. My users gave me the feedback they can't understand some wording in Admin interface. Thus, I suggest please do a focus group review before you give them a final solution!

That is very easy and fast for WordPress 2.7 upgarde. Just upload the latest code, then done. Moreover, that has not the Chinese Characters encoding problems in 2.6.X.

That is a common mistake for myself. I like to create some sub-windows which are acting a dialog. I am so easy to forget set ShowInTaskbar = false.

I am writing a simple diary application. I am using a monthcalendar control to select the date to load the diary. I need the control to display the date in bolded if that date on the calendar has the data. That is easy and simple. Just using BoldedDates.

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That is very easy by using Reflection.

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