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Just got some height/width/depth specifications of a new mobile phone and are unable to compare it visually yourself? sizeasy does an excellent job at this and only requires you to enter the dimensions.

3D view comparison between an iPod nano and a pack of playing cards:

Didn’t grab the screenshots for the other views, so if you want to check out the other views, just try it out yourself. ;)

      

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It’s been a while since my last post, unfortunately have been extremely busy with all kinds of things lately. :( Had some time this weekend, so WordPress 2.1 has been deployed to all hosted sites. Unfortunately, there are some plugins which still have not been fixed to work with 2.1 (e.g. video embedding).

      

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Have just upgraded all WordPress installs across spherebox sites with the latest version. :)

Get the latest zip or tar.gz from here, or if you want just the changes files and/or diff, have a look here.

      

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Some links I’ve come across on BT:

BitTorrent Tutorial Roundup - Loads of tutorials.

hypoh.com - Site with information and torrent links of the latest *ahem* movies. Pretty useful with all the fake stuff floating around.

Unblocking BitTorrent - Pretty technical though..

BitTorrent predictions - Shouldn’t be taken too seriously I guess..

      

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If you’re on the move a lot but still want to be updated of Malaysian news, check out this site. Sent to be by Alan, it contains the latest news from sites such as The Star, Bernama, NST, The Edge and some other well known sites with everything stripped out to leave just the article header title and body text which makes it easily accessible (and readable) by WAP enabled mobile devices.

      

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You probably would’ve noticed the dotted underlined red lines under misspelt words which are typed into text boxes/forms/fields. To me, it’s a rather welcomed feature since I use web applications and services quite a fair bit (I don’t misspell a lot, but automated checking is a bonus I guess ;)), but by default, the bundled dictionary is for the US locale which would complain when you spell ‘favour‘ instead of ‘favor‘.

Fortunately, it’s a rather easy to get around this, which is just to select and install the appropriate dictionary from here. Once that’s done, just right-click on any text box/field/form and you should be able to select the dictionary you want to use (screenshot below):

Once that’s done, you’re all set! :)

      

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Miranda IM is a very lightweight IM client supporting multiple networks and is heavily based on the original ICQ client (which nobody uses anymore :(). I must say it brought back some memories of the days when I just got introduced to the world of IM. :D I decided to try it out as GAIM crashed on me the moment I tried connecting and I didn’t want to have multiple IMs installed on the work laptop which had limited amount of RAM.

First issue I had was the inability to connect to Google Talk, which HMMaster solved it for me by sending me this link. Next issue I had with it is the groupings I had with my contacts in MSN are not available in Miranda. According to HMMaster, he said there might be a plugin available for that as Miranda as heaps of plugins available, but I have not checked on that as yet.

Apart from those issues, it’s a rather good alternative to other multi-network IM clients such as GAIM and Trillian. :)

      

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digg (original page):

ShoutHub:

SpyMy:

One would expect with a company like Catcha backing ShoutHub, at least some effort could’ve been spent in developing a slightly different stylesheet for something they modelled after. I guess an exception can be made for SpyMy as they did a good job at differentiating it by making it uglier.

Nothing out of the ordinary I guess.

      

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If you’re in work environment which utilises Microsoft Word a lot for work, you could try workFRIENDLY. It basically allows you to surf most sites in a Word-like interface.

I’m not going to go into the ethical issues of such an application, neither am I supportive of that behaviour and I do wish to be held responsible if your superior finds out. :P

      

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Apparently it’s now officially called Firefox 2 and not two-point-o (2.0), so I’ve dropped the .0 from the title. :P

I usually use the shortcut keys ALT+I, ALT+B rather frequently at a forum I visit to get highlighted text in the post box to be italicised or bolded, but in Firefox 2, this shortcut keys no longer work by default. You now have to add the SHIFT key into the mix, so it goes ALT+SHIFT+I instead. If you don’t want to use the SHIFT key, you can edit two values in about:config (like for the close tab button previously):

Change:
ui.key.chromeAccess to 5
ui.key.contentAccess to 4

Taken from MozillaZine forum.

As for other about:config tweaks, head over to this page and for other Firefox tweaks, check this guide out. ;)

      

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