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Interesting Software

January 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

Boinx Mouseposé

An essential for everyone doing demos at tradeshows, presentations, trainings or those individuals with huge and high resolution displays. Mouseposé dims the screen and puts a spotlight on the area around the mouse pointer, easily guiding the audiences attention or to quickly locate the mouse pointer.

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Tags: Tools for Work

Apple Powerbooks

January 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

EOLed.
Looks like new Powerbooks are due shortly.

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Tags: Interests

Confusion About Rights

January 19th, 2005 · Comments Off

The cover story in today’s HKET ITTimes is Education via the Internet. There is an article on the RTHK eTVonline website, claiming 1.5M visits per day. However, I find some of their practices strange. I paraphrase Ms Chan, the Website Manager, from the article:-

All the programmes used to be available for download for free, but [...]

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Tags: Social Restructuring

Finally, ThinkPad X40

January 19th, 2005 · 2 Comments

I bought one yesterday. Very nice computer. Spent some time to install all the software I need to put it into a usable state.
Software installed: Firefox (w/ Littlefox theme and Web Developer extension), Thunderbird, putty, WinSCP, jEdit, Daemon Tools (so I can mount the Starcraft CD image and play some RTS game), Office 2003 Pro [...]

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Tags: Tools for Work