Drooling over that Windows VPS plan
I sure am drooling over this Windows VPS plan from Greencloud VPS:
This is already on their Windows VPS Sale page, but I still wonder what Greencloud VPS has yet to offer come Black Friday?
Intel NUC Laptop
The primary reason I got my Intel NUC 11 Performance Kit was for its upgradability, specifically for RAM and storage. So, if you offer me an Intel NUC laptop with a soldered RAM, I’d say pass.
Beelink S1 and Mi Notebook Pro Windows 10 Drivers
The Beelink S1 and Mi Notebook Pro (15″ 8th Gen Intel Core i5-8250U with 8GB RAM) are two of the computers I own. Finding Windows drivers for these devices are hard to find, especially after reinstalling the OS. That’s why I’m sharing the drivers I got saved here, hope you’ll find them helpful:
The Beelink S1 drivers are also applicable to Beelink models AP34, AP34 Pro, M1, and AP42.
Notion Windows App is a Memory (RAM) Hog
Evernote has brought me so much disappointments that I wanted to ditch it as my primary note-taking app in favor of Notion.
Recently, I got a new computer (an i7 Intel NUC 11), and I opted to have 32GB of RAM installed. Now, coming from an 8GB-RAM laptop, I didn’t expect this new Windows machine to hit its memory limit anytime soon with my normal usage. Until I installed the Notion desktop app.
A few moments after installing Notion, …
How to truly change the default email client in Windows 10
Have you encountered installing Microsoft Outlook in your fresh Windows 10 install, only to find it too resource hog for your use case, and thus installing Thunderbird, Mailbird, or any other email client that’s a lot less load to your computer’s meager resources?
Of course, you changed your system settings so that the default email app will be your new email client, just as below:
Apparently, this settings only affects clicks on MAILTO links. …
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Hiarcs Chess Explorer for Mac — First Impressions
So I finally took the plunge and purchased my own copy of Hiarcs Chess Explorer for Mac, because no one wants to sponsor one for me.
And here are my first impressions: …
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The Chess Explorer by Hiarcs
The Hiarcs page right now goes:
HIARCS Chess Explorer is an exciting new chess product which is under development and we hope will be available in the autumn 2011. More details on the new chess explorer application will be posted here when they are ready. We hope chess players of all chess abilities who really wish to explore and improve their chess will like the new HIARCS chess explorer software.
For me, this leaves more questions than answers:
- Is this a GUI alternative to Chessbase’ Fritz 12?
- Is this thing available for Windows and Mac?
- Is this Hiarcs answer due to Sigma Chess not available to support OS X Lion?
- Can I install other competing engines?
- Will it have intuitive interface for game analysis?
- Will I become a better player with this software?
- Will this be free or shall be sold for a hefty amount?
- Do you think it can beat Houdini?
I can go on and on, even with stupid questions, but really, that page is not helping a lot. Hope Hiarcs can come up with a concrete answer and hopefully fill that bridge for a good native chess program for the Mac.
Your New Windows 8
Microsoft today demoed the UI of their next-generation operating system, Windows 8.
Personally, the UI is great. It’s so full of eye-candy. But if I’m after the eye-candy, I’d rather go with the Mac. …
Measure Your Computer’s Power with Fritz Chess Benchmark
With great power comes great… a strong chess machine.
This is especially true with computers. With greater computer processing power, the deeper the analysis it can afford given a certain position, and the faster it gets to come up with the better play. Thus, the computer becomes a stronger chess player.
But how do you measure your computer’s power especially when compared to another computer of different specs and processor?
Chessbase has come up with the Fritz Chess Benchmark program that comes packaged with every Fritz chess program it ships.
Using the Fritz Chess Benchmark utility, here’s my result with the current machine I’m using:
The result shows it’s got 4 processors (CPU’s), 7.87 times faster than a lowly Pentium 3 1.0GHZ machine, and computing at 3,777 Kilo Nodes per second. …
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Toodledo for Windows Desktop
I’m thinking about shifting from RememberTheMilk (RTM) to Toodledo. That’s because I’m trying to lean towards using a GTD solution to my everyday tasks, may they be personal or business.
I find Toodledo to be close to perfect, if not perfect, for GTD. If RTM only has tags to categorize your tasks, Toodledo has tags, context and projects/folders. Of course both have priorities.
But I’m starting to like Toodledo more because of its great iPad app and its integration with Nuevasync (to synchronize my tasks with my Windows Mobile phone).
Unfortunately, Toodledo has no native Desktop PC application. I’m not a programmer, much less a software developer, but now I’m wondering, if the developers could afford a great iPad app, why not develop one for Windows PC? If it’s Flash-based or will be running on Adobe Air, I wouldn’t mind. The most important thing here is it can be accessed offline and seamless synchronization with the web service once you get online.
I know there’s Task Angel, but that you have to pay quite a hefty amount in order to use it. And it’s not native. It was not built to integrate with Toodledo alone. And it lacks Notebook support too. I’m really talking about an iPad-like application.
Hope the developers consider my request in the future.
Luminotes is Closing; Download the Windows Stand-Alone Application
It’s a sad moment for the techie world and wiki fans. The hosted service of Luminotes is closing, and you can access, export, and backup your notes from their servers until March 1, 2010 only.
According to their blog:
Luminotes.com will shut down on March 1, 2010. At that time, you will no longer be able to view or edit any notes hosted at Luminotes.com, and no further releases nor support for any Luminotes products will be available.
But of course their Windows Stand-Alone Applications — Luminotes Desktop — is out in the wild. In case the website totally shuts down after the time (March 1) and you missed to save yourself a copy of the exe file, I have a backup copy: Luminotes.exe (download). Readme file is available upon install.
Create A Custom Font Style Based on Your Own Handwriting
If you are like me who’s proud of your own handwriting, no matter how bad it is, or if you’re a person who wants to experiment with the different font faces for letters and numbers, the you may want to create your own font style based on your unique handwriting.
Here’s a screenshot of my handwriting typed in MS Word using the custom font style I named “deuts-print“.
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