Computing

One year has passed since the successful event of SITEX 2007, and in a few weeks' time SITEX 2008 will soon arrive. Over the years, SITEX has been one of the leading exhibitions of all time in Singapore, and can be considered as the launch pad for Singapore's best infocomm and consumer electronic products.

This is a majestic event which links the industries' consumer goods with the end-users - an event where innovative technologies in computer hardware and software, digital products, wireless applications and computering solutions from world renowned brands come together. In addition, this event gives consumers the opportunity to find bargainable goods at low prices. Furthermore, there are lots of goodies and discounted items to be offered on sale.

If you have been to last year's SITEX 2007, you would expect something similar, if not even more daunting this year! Expect more than 800,000 visitors to crawl across 200,000 square feet of exhibition hall this time. There will be more than 500 brands of products at your dispense.

(find out more about SITEX 2008...)

The recent economy crisis has plunged several countries into worldwide global recession. Those that are yet to be in the state of recession will find themselves to be into one soon. Hence, how does this affect the businesses and enterprises over the world?

Collapse of the 150-year-old Lehman Brothers is an example illustrating that there is no such thing as job stability, business security, etc. In this millennium, it is truly the survival of the fittest - the company that is capable of  the highest turnover in the shortest period of time will ride the tide. This does not necessarily appeal to the large enterprise (LE) market segment, but also to Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) businesses. As a C-level personnel, particularly a CIO, CTO or Vice-President of IT, what should be your next step to uphold the stability of the company.

(click here to find out some tips to ride the tide of the economy downturn...)

There are several top WordPress plugins for different purposes, such as WordPress Plugins for Search Engine Optimisation (SEO). However, there is very little documentation written for Drupal, a powerful yet popular Content Management System (CMS). In this article, we recommend some of the "must-have" modules (or rather, plugins) in your personal Drupal website.

In this post, we introduce top 5 modules that is essential for your Drupal website. However, do note that, the article is written in relevant to Drupal version 6.x version, hence any prior version to this may not have the recommended module available.

(Click here to check out the Top 5 Drupal Modules...)

You may purchased a new hard disk drive and replace your current hard disk drive on your machine. Now, with a USB connector cable, you tried to access your previous hard disk drive, like an external drive, to find that there are some folders with security settings preventing you from accessing them! What should you do?

Fear not, as there is a way via the command line using Windows Command Prompt (CMD) to access these secured folders.

(Learn how you can access secured files and folders via command prompt...)

With the recent introduction of Google Chrome, it has, once again, sparked a strong browser war competition against all the browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera and some others, such as Netscape.

However, today we are not going to join in the crowd and compare the speeds between all the browsers, rather we are going to provide a simple and quick tip to optimise and speed up Mozilla Firefox.

(Learn more about speeding up Firefox here...)

How often do you experience bot detector being scanned on you? I have my share of experience here, being sniffed out by Google, as though I am a bot (click on screen-shot above).

My initial reaction was, where does this page comes about? What I did was to type "http://www.google.com" on to the address bar in Google Chrome and this page pops-up.

This is the first time I have seen such a thing, ever since using Google search engine for so many years, since it was publicly-launched 10 years ago.

Just about two weeks ago, we have upgraded our site to the latest Drupal engine. After doing so, we acknowledged that there will be a lot of spam issues, as that have been encountered when the site was running on version 4.7.x version. During then, there was a particular contributed Drupal module, "spam", which worked miraculously in identifying spam comments. Unfortunately, this module is not supported in version 6.x, which prompted us to lookout for an alternative solution.

There was none that suits our needs from the Drupal module repository until we saw this - Mollom.

(read more about Mollom progress on our site...)

After Dell announced their Latitude series of E6400 notebook that is capable of running on a battery for 19 hours, HP made a claim that they have something that can superbly overhaul that achievement! The new EliteBook 6930p is said to be capable of delivering up to 24 hours of battery runtime, with the support of an optional ultra-capacity battery.

Ted Clark, Senior Vice President and Geeneral Manager of Notebook Global Business Unit, HP said,

"...All-day computing has been the holy grail of notebook computing. With the HP EliteBook 6930p, customers no longer have to worry about their notebook battery running out before their work day is over..."

What made this notebook run so long is very due to its specification, such as the Intel 80GB Solid-State Drive (SSD) and the 14.1-inch mercury-free Illumi-Lite Light-Emitting Diode (LED) display. Both hardware components have significantly reduces the overall energy consumption on the battery lifespan. Believe it or not, the system is powered by an Intel Core 2 Duo processor, something that you might not be expected for a long battery lifespan laptop.