Neatbook

You could have it in any colour as long as it 's black. That wasn't Henry Ford, but the sales person at Staples - when I went to pick up an Asus EeePC 1005 HA.

Been using it for the last 30 odd days.

The device comes with a copy of Windows XP and had sticky keys turned on by default.
Another annoyance is the screen resolution jumping back to a lame 800X600 . Updating the intel drivers has not completely fixed this issue.

As an overall package I'll sum up my experience with the 1005 HA simply as -"wow" !

Fashionable Earth Hour

The www is awash with articles and statistics about an event that becomes fashionable once a year.

In the part of the world where I come from, millions including myself -spend several hundreds of hours every year without electricity. Here it is known by a less fashionable name – power cut.

Thanks, I am NOT turning my lights off !

Best of software on a stick (so far)

Sofware that you can carry on your thumb drive or mp3 player. A list of the best available:

1. Compression- 7-Zip
2. Checksum -WinMD5Sum
3. WinMerge http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/winmerge_portable
4. Text editor- Notepad++
5. Image manipuation- GIMP
6. Browser- Firefox
7. Audio editing- Audacity
8. Player - VLC
9. Productivity suite – OOO

Read more about how you can use these.

Erasing offline gmail data

Are you using the experimental offline gmail feature? My experience is that disabling it does not delete stored files . You might want to check the location where offline content is stored for your browser & operating system and delete it manually.

Those curious can view content ( SQLite 3 database files named yourid@gmail.com-GoogleMail#database[<some number>] or yourid@gmail.com-GoogleMail#database ) in sqlite analyzer safely.

Offline Gmail

Murphey’s law

A firmware upgrade that can go wrong, will go wrong! That’s exactly what happened on my mobile phone today. In one of those “have to do that right now” moments, i started the update and 15 minutes later – bam ! Back to the POTS age now :(