Thursday, December 31, 2009

Smartphones

The Complete Guide to Setting Up Your New Smartphone
 
There are plenty of smartphone accessories that are worth considering, and a few that you actually need. Proceed with caution, but don't be afraid to treat your new smartphone, and yourself, to a few goodies. 

http://gizmodo.com/5433456/the-complete-guide-to-setting-up-your-new-xmas-smartphone

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Infinite Reboot Loop


Get Vista Out of the Infinite Reboot Loop "Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 0%" with Vista SP1



If you are stuck watching the "Configuring Updates Stage 3 of 3 0% complete Do not turn off Computer" and in the endless reboot loop, then stop the cycle and boot from the Vista media. You will need to "Repair your computer," so select your Vista installation and restore it to a point before the deployment of the updates. After gaining back access to your operating system, you will have to install the service stack update, namely Update for Windows Vista (KB937287). Deploy this update before any other on your Vista, and only then install the rest. At this point in time, you should experience no more problems.

"Update 937287 is a prerequisite package that contains updates to the Windows Vista installation software. The installation software is the component that handles the installation and the removal of software updates, language packs, optional Windows features, and service packs. Update 937287 is necessary to successfully install and to remove Windows Vista SP1 on all versions of Windows Vista," Microsoft revealed.

Revo Uninstaller


Revo Uninstaller helps you to uninstall software and remove unwanted programs installed on your computer even if you have problems uninstalling and cannot uninstall them from "Windows Add or Remove Programs" control panel applet.

Revo Uninstaller is a much faster and more powerful alternative to "Windows Add or Remove Programs" applet! It has very powerful features to uninstall and remove programs.

Scanning for leftovers after uninstall - With its advanced and fast algorithm, Revo Uninstaller analyzes an application's data before uninstall and scans after you uninstall a program. After the program's regular uninstaller runs, you can remove additional unnecessary files, folders and registry keys that are usually left over on your computer.

http://www.revouninstaller.com/

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Tungle

Tungle makes meetings happen!

23 December 2009

Welcome to Tungle!

Hi Faridah,

We would like to thank you for trying Tungle. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think. With Tungle, you can: Easily schedule meetings with anyone, Share calenders inside or outside your company, Allow other to schedule meetings with you. But be careful, we've been told that Tungle is addictive. Keep on Tunglin'. Marc Gingras, CEO & Founder, Tungle.

Personalize your Tungle page:
  • Adding a picture or a logo.
  • Displaying other contact details (e.g. phone).
  • Setting minimum and maximum meeting duration.
  • Limiting your availability (e.g. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm).
http://www.tungle.com/Home/help/TungleMe.htm

Evaluation of Tungle


    Weaknesses of Tungle:
    1. Can only schedule meetings
    2. Cannot double as a meeting and planner
    3. Pending Meetings list does not order meetings by date but as they are created on-the-fly
    4. Many link to tools are unfamiliar or not commonly used
    5. Too many steps to even document a meeting or post a meeting.
    6. E-mail + phone call is easier to fix a meeting than Tungle.
    7. Cannot edit in viewing or preview mode
    8. Display mode is static

    Overall:
    Pretty colours and display but not so useful functionally. Can be improved for increased functionality.

      Tuesday, December 22, 2009

      Datamatique

      ChemoInformatics

      ChemoInformatics was established in the year 2005 to provide enabling technology, data driven solutions, services and consultation to analytical, medical and life sciences customers at global level.

      Datamatique can be automatically populated with Excel sheets, Text (many formats including CSV), microscope images, graphs, etc. Datamatique empowers the end user to setup and modify his own database at his own leisure without any constraints.
      http://www.chemoinformatics.com/index.html

      Contact:
      Dr. D.T. Singh
      Chief Scientific Officer
      Chemoinformatics
      Ph: +65 91014018 (Singapore); +60176999739 (Malaysia); +6627175091 (Thailand)
      Fax: +65 65559004 (Singapore); +60378747958 (Malaysia);+6627137330 (Thailand)

      Monday, December 21, 2009

      Friday, December 18, 2009

      University IT systems

      IT Systems within universities

      IT systems are necessary to help universities manage student intake, course sign-up/drop, student record/transcript, student graduation and many more functions.

      Student Information Systems (SIS) - Datatel Colleague, SunGuard, Oracle Peoplesoft, Campus Management, Blackbaud

      Other systems:
      Learning Management System (LMS)
      Course Evaluation System
      Personal Productivity Systems - email, calendar, mobile communications, collaboration
      Campus Alert System

      Vendors - Oracle, TimeCruiser

      Saas - Software as a Service

      Wednesday, December 16, 2009

      Real player archive

      Real Legacy Software Archive
      http://proforma.real.com/real/player/blackjack.html

      Tuesday, December 15, 2009

      Citrix GoToMeeting

      Citrix GoToMeeting Viewer

      For watching webinar or online video demo direct, first download and install Citrix GoToMeeting (freeware):

      https://www1.gotomeeting.com/en_US/island/downloadManual.tmpl?StartMode=Join&TargetBuild=320&NoSL=true&MeetingID=MID391324841&cat=AppletPermissionDenied&detail=java.security.AccessControlException

      Raptivity

      Raptivity Video Demo

      Just completed a demo video on Raptivity with Mr Charith from India today, 15 Dec 2009, 3pm-4.20pm.

      Trial 2 weeks

      Feedback 29 Dec 2009, 3pm to Charith


      Charith Khandavalli.
      Assistant Manager-Sales
      Harbinger Knowledge Products Pvt. Ltd.
      www.harbingerknowledge.com
      Phone: +91-20-25284201/2/3 Ext: 170
      Fax: +91-20-25285411


      Raptivity - Create effective learning interactions quickly | www.raptivity.com

      Elicitus - Create more e-learning with less authoring | www.elicitus.com

      YawnBuster - Involve everyone in your presentation | www.yawnbuster.com

      Sunday, December 13, 2009

      FIXYA

      http://www.fixya.com/users/faridahar

      How to fix a 16GB pen drive

      1. If your PC does not recognise your pen drive, try stick it in on a Mac

      2. Restart your PC, stick in another pen drive which works

      3. Remove that pen drive safely and stick in your faulty pen drive

      4. It should work alright now

      DVD burners

      Nero
      http://www.nero.com/ena/index.html

      Need4 DVD Burner 6.2.0.1
      http://www.brothersoft.com/need4-dvd-burner-download-154391.html

      SONY
      http://videoediting.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=35486&afterinter=true

      Saturday, December 12, 2009

      CD-R and CD-RW

      CD-Rs (CD Recordable) are intended to only be written to once. Once written to, the data cannot be erased, and the disc behaves just like a normal CD-ROM. CD-Rs are more suitable for archiving / long-term storage than CD-RWs because the dye used is less volatile and less prone to deterioration from exposure to light. 


      Compact Disc ReWritable (CD-RW) is a rewritable optical disc format. CD-RWs (CD Rewritable) are intended to be used in situations where the data on the disc may need to be replaced. Thus they can be erased and new data added to them. 

      Sources: 

      http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_difference_between_a_CD-R_and_CD-RW
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-RW

      DVD-R and DVD+R


      Recordable DVD capacity comparison

      For comparison, the table below shows storage capacities of the four most common DVD recordable media, excluding DVD-RAM. (SL) stands for standard single-layer discs, while DL denotes the double-layer variants.
      DVD capacity
      Disk Type
      Data sectors
      (2,048 B each)
      Capacity
      bytes
      GB
      GiB
      DVD-R (SL)
      2,298,496
      4,707,319,808
      4.7
      4.384
      DVD+R (SL)
      2,295,104
      4,700,372,992
      4.7
      4.378
      DVD-R DL
      4,171,712
      8,543,666,176
      8.5
      7.957
      DVD+R DL
      4,173,824
      8,547,991,552
      8.5
      7.961
      SL / DL – Single/Dual layer

      Speed

      Drive speed
      Data rate
      Write time for Single Layer DVD+R
      1X
      1.32 MB/s
      60 minutes
      2X
      2.64 MB/s
      30 minutes
      4X
      5.28 MB/s
      15 minutes
      8X
      10.56 MB/s
      7.5 minutes
      16X
      21.12 MB/s
      3.75 minutes
      Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD%2BR

      How to rename folder in Documents and Settings

      http://windowsxp.mvps.org/userpath.htm

      Maxis

      Maxis Communication Berhad (Maxis) 

      Maxis Communication Berhad (Maxis) is the leading mobile communications service provider in Malaysia with a subscriber base of 10.1 million as of Quarter 1 2008.

      Maxis 3GMaxis was granted communications licences to operate a nationwide GSM900 mobile network, a domestic fixed network and an international gateway in 1993, and commenced mobile telecommunications operations in August 1995, and fixed line and international operations in early 1996. Maxis’ mobile service is offered under the Maxis brand for postpaid and Hotlink for prepaid. Maxis launched its 3G service Maxis3G in July 2005, and in September 2006 became among the world’s first to use HSDPA, a high-speed upgrade of the 3G network, for a large scale rollout of residential broadband services.

      Maxis has significant investments in India and Indonesia, two of the most populous countries and fast-growing telecommunications markets in the world, via Aircel Limited (Aircel) and PT Natrindo Telepon Seluler (NTS) respectively.

      Maxis is a wholly owned subsidiary of Binariang, an investment holding company whose shareholders comprise Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd, Bumiputera foundations, Saudi Telecom Company (STC) and other companies affiliated to Usaha Tegas Sdn Bhd. In addition to its indirect interest in Maxis, STC also has a 51 percent interest in NTS.

      Text taken from LinkedIn:

      P1

      Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd (P1)


      Packet One Networks (M) Sdn Bhd (P1) is Malaysia's first and leading WiMAX telecommunications company with the country's widest WiMAX network.

      P1 WiMAX represents the first large-scale commercial deployment of mobile WiMAX in Southeast Asia, and the first large-scale deployment of an 802.16e 2.3GHz WiMAX network outside Korea.

      P1's goal is to bridge the digital divide by making access to the internet universal, ubiquitous and affordable for every Malaysian. P1 hopes to play a major part in realizing the nation's goal – to have 50% broadband penetration by 2010.

      P1 is the winner of the Red Herring Asia's Most Innovative Private Technology Company in 2008 and is listed in the Malaysia Book of Records as Malaysia's first WiMAX telco (August 2008).

      Text taken from LinkedIn
      http://www.linkedin.com/companies/packet-one-networks-p1-sdn-bhd

      List of telcos in Malaysia (from LinkedIn)
      http://www.linkedin.com/companyDir?results=&sik=1260620240492

      Potong advertisement
      http://www.p1.com.my/highlights/Highlights_Promos_M2Waive.aspx

      Friday, December 11, 2009

      Picnik

      Photo Editor


      http://www.picnik.com
      Can also Add Picnik in Facebook and use it inside Facebook.

      IADIS 2010

      IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010
      March 18-21, 2010 – Porto, Portugal

      Keynote Speaker:
      Christina Preston, MirandaNet Founder, UK

      Sunday, November 29, 2009

      Kelantan, Malaysia

      Kelantan
      Download 2.54 Mbps
      Upload 0.65 Mbps

      Malaysia
      Download 2.00 Mbps
      Upload 0.58 Mbps

      Kelantan has faster download & upload speeds.

      SpeedTest.Net

      The Global Broadband Speed Test
      http://www.speedtest.net/

      Data for 29 November 2009





      SpeedTest.Net

      Broadband

      Data for 11 Sept 2009
      Upload speed
      MP3 file (5MB): 33 sec
      Video clip (35MB): 4 min
      Movie (800 MB): 86 min

      Download speed: 1.23 Mbps
      Upload speed: 0.39 Mbps
      PING: 31 ms

      ISP: Telekom Malaysia Berhad
      Server: Kuala Lumpur (distance: 100 miles)

      Friday, November 27, 2009

      Expensive but slow broadband in Malaysia

      Investors put off by Malaysia's high-cost, low-speed broadband
      - from themalaysianinsider.com, 26 Nov 2009

      Why do investors refuse or run away from investing in Malaysia?
      1. Internet is expensive @RM79/mo for TM Streamyx
      2. Internet is slow @4Mbps (Wireless Network Connection 54Mbps, Download ___, Upload ___)
      3. Impossible to send large files fast enough

      What can we do to overcome these weaknesses?
      1. Reduce Internet rental rate to less than RM10/mo for TM Streamyx
      2. Deploy optical fibre instead of the telephone line (copper wire). TM is providing optical fibre to Klang Valley residents
      3. Use bigger bandwidth so that large files and multimedia files can be sent as fast as possible, browsing is faster

      Is ICT monopoly good or bad?
      1. TM has monopoly over telecommunication lines (bad)
      2. Telecommunication monopoly means TM can set any price for telecommunication services, including Internet monthly rental rate, and this is usually expensive (bad)
      3. Monopoly means other Internet providers must offer Internet access monthly rental rate higher in order to profit (bad)

      Can ICT monopoly be broken/stopped/ended/liberated?
      1. Yes, we can ask TM to liberate its monopoly on ICT, especially Internet access
      2. There is no need to liberate all 100% of TM Internet access
      3. A 70:30 equity in favour of TM should be ok for a start?

      What is optical fibre? Is optical fibre better than Streamyx?
      1. Optical fibre is capable of carrying more & faster information per unit time, with speeds of up to 100Mbps
      2. Optical fibre is being rolled out even though it is initially targeted to certain areas, over time, all cities should have optical fibre
      3. Optical fibre is preferred as it is the fastest means of Internet access

      Who should use optical fibre for Internet access?
      1. School children, schools and hostels
      2. University students, hostels & campuses
      3. Homes
      4. Internet cafes
      5. Workplaces
      6. Hotels
      7. Hospitals
      8. PDRM
      9. Bomba
      10. Fast food chains
      11. Restaurants
      12. Airports
      13. Supermarkets

      What is the cost for high-speed Internet access?
      1. Optical fibre is better than today's Streamyx, therefore, rental rate is expected to be higher for optical fibre
      2. Singapore users are paying US$85/mo for Internet
      3. Malaysian users are expected to pay US$298/mo-US$300/mo or even more for Internet

      Are we prepared to pay >RM300/mo for Internet @ 100Mbps (high-speed broadband)?

      Takes so long

      Takes ages to access the Internet and yet the papers today said we are rolling out 10-40Mbps fiber optic connection. I am shattered!

      Writing from MAS Golden Lounge, 11 Nov 2009

      Friday, November 13, 2009

      How personalized should medicine be?

      IT and Medicine/Medical IT

      If you have a complete health record and access to your own medical records, you can put together your own health & medical record for your doctors to see each time you go to see one for some ailment.

      Whether doctors should know a patient's health & medical history before they treat a patient is entirely up to them. They can choose to ignore whatever knowledge and evidence you bring to them. They are under no obligation to accept what you wish them to know about you before they treat your present ailment unless they choose to. Since there is no compulsion to know everything about a patient, you stand to lose.

      Should doctors take note of what patients are about to inform them about their own ailments? Are doctors prepared to handle what their patients are willing to tell them or share anything about their ailments? Are patients more informed about their ailments compared to the 80s?

      Patients today are more drawn into gathering information about their health and ailments in order to understand what they are suffering from and the various forms of treatment available. Patients are coming to doctors when they are fully informed. Are doctors prepared to give patients personalized medicine, fully knowing that it is what patients want and why they are seeing doctors in the first place?

      Read about why Ester Dyson chose to have her health data online:

      Do doctors have access to tools that can help them understand how to go about prescribing fast and safe personalized medicine?

      Keywords:
      telehealth, telemedicine, bioinformatics, medical informatics, health informatics, genomics, proteomics, genotype, phenotype, karyotype, polymorphism, multi-factorial

      Disease Information:
      Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)

      CDC data and survey systems:

      Gene & protein databases:
      OMIM = Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man

      Medical citation templates:
      OMIM - Wikipedia

      Bioinformatics software

      Medical external link templates:

      Journal databases:
      PubMed
      OVID
      Cochrane Library

      WEAT: Web Enabled Analysis Tool
      The BRFSS, the world’s largest telephone survey, tracks health risks in the United States. Information from the survey is used to improve the health of the American people.

      Asthma data

      Cholesterol data

      Cancer Informatics

      BRCA1; Breast cancer 1, early onset

      Location: 17q21

      Overview: BRCA1 is a breast cancer susceptibility gene that was first identified in 1994. People carrying a mutation (abnormality) in this gene are at an increased risk of breast or ovarian cancer. The normal gene plays a role in repairing breaks in DNA. However, when the gene is mutated it is thought that this repair function may become disabled thus leading to more DNA replication errors and cancerous growth

      OMIM
      GeneCard (Weizmann Institute)
      Human Gene Mutation Database (Cardiff, UK)
      Tumor Gene Database
      Swiss-Prot
      Locus Link
      UniGene
      GenAtlas
      GDB
      Nomenclature (search for BRCA1)

      Breast Cancer and the BRCA1 Gene (NCI, NIH)
      BRCA1 and BRCA2 Hereditary Breast Cancer (University of Washington) part of the NCI funded Geneclinics.org site. Details of BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer, risk assessment, diagnosis, management, molecular biology, genetic counseling, resources, references etc
      BRCA1 / BRCA2 in Breast and Ovarian Cancer (National Center for Biotechnology Information) an overview of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes with links to other gene databases.
      CancerGene - computer program (University of Texas / Duke University) for health professionals: a computer program for estimating the likelihood that a family carries a mutation in one of the cancer predisposition genes BRCA1, BRCA2, MSH2 or MLH1
      Breast Cancer Resources
      Ovarian Cancer Resources
      BRCA2 gene (13q12.3)

    • Medline Search: BRCA1 (PubMed) Limit search to: [Last Year] Limit search to: [Last 2 Years] Limit search to: [Reviews]
      Search Medline for related articles (PubMed)
    • Medline Search: cancer AND gene AND BRCA1[TI] (PubMed) Limit search to: [Last Year] Limit search to: [Last 2 Years] Limit search to: [Reviews]
    • Wednesday, November 11, 2009

      High-Speed Broadband (HSBB) Access

      Wednesday, 11 November 2009

      Headlines on HSBB - NST and Utusan Malaysia.

      NST - Mega-speed Internet to benefit 1.2m. Downloading a film to take less than 2 minutes. More at www.nst.com.my.

      Utusan Malaysia - Mengukuhkan Internet berkelajuan tinggi; Membina pusat perisian mirip Infosys. Dua langkak lonjak IT.

      NST details:
      1. Telekom Malaysia (TM) will lay optical fiber for Malaysia, 50% complete by 2010, target fully OF by 2020.
      2. To deplo cutting-edge ICT, HSBB network, with speeds between 10Mbps-1Gbps.
      3. Provision is for public (not specified further), business and govt agencies (not specified whether IPT or IPTAs included).
      4. HSBB will enable us to watch high-definition TV (HDTV) online, engage in live video chat (synchronous communication) and subscribe to e-health services (telehealth & telemedicine not specified).
      5. Downloading a full movie from Internet to PC with HSBB will take <2minutes.

      6. HSBB is seen as a platform to further develop ICT needs of tomorrow (an appropriate slogan is: live today tomorrow or live tomorrow today).
      7. PM Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced this at the 12th MSC IAP meeting held on 10 Nov 2009. MSC = Multimedia Super Corridor; IAP = International Advisory Panel.
      8. The world's wealthiest nations are IT-advanced countries - US, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Canada and Australia. Not checked order or sequence of wealth. IT = wealth? Wealth created by IT?
      9. MSC Malaysia to become multimedia hotspot, >200 companies producing digital content. This sector generates RM76million (US$200million) in revenue. Looks like each company makes ~US$1million?
      10. Among the digital content created locally are: MyKasih (eKasih?). Check out the 1Malaysia website (supposed to be highly interactive). How do you benchmark web interactivity?

      Utusan details:
      1. Kukuhkan infrastruktur komunikasi negara.
      2. Menghubungkan 1.2juta isi rumah dan premis perniagaan (omitted govt & IPTA).
      3. Menggunakan gentian optik (optical fibre).
      4. Jaringan jalur lebar berkelajuan tinggi = HSBB. HSBB membolehkan rumah disambungkan ke Internet (this is Internet to door). Last-mile connection is not mentioned.
      5. Internet berkelajuan tinggi 1-Mbps-1Gbps. What is the Malay term for Mbps & Gbps?
      6. Govt is planning an ICT centre for practical training of graduates (what sort? Specifics?)
      7. ICT centre to be modeled after Infosys Technology Ltd, Bangalore, India.

      Infosys Technology Ltd
      Location: Bagalore, India
      Nickname: Silicon Valley, India
      Founder: NR Narayana Murthy
      Started: 1981
      Capital: US$250 (RM865)
      Profit: 2007 - US$3.1billion (RM10.72billion)
      Status: largest IT company in India
      # of employees:

      Signing off from MAS Golden Lounge, KLIA
      Connecting flight KLIA-KB MH1396 1505 Gate B09

      Fiber Optic for Us Malaysians?

      I am struggling with streamyx zone at MAS Golden Lounge at Penang Airport, my second home.

      I'm here alone in the lounge with just the lounge staff. I'm flying first class alone from PEN to KLIA. There's just me in that class (seat 2F); when full, this first class carries 16 passengers but it's empty today.

      I had nasi lemak with kuah sotong (very nice too). No time to try the other dishes. They are nice dishes (from the ex-Shangri-la, Penang - according to the check-in counter staff).

      I was trying to access Internet earlier which took me so long. I keep getting the Equatorial Hotel broadband sign-up window (the brown window) when I had checked-out at 7.30am. It was annoying when that window appeared permanent, never wanting to disappear. I hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete simultaneously which opened the Task Manager, I clicked End process for 2 running applications of Equatorial Hotel, Penang and that got rid of the brown windows.

      The MAS Golden Lounge streamyx zone access was exceptionally slow this morning (I thought it was a virus coming in again for the November holidays), but gave it a try, did Diagnose & repair, and it worked.

      I'm writing from the MAS Golden Lounge at Penang International Airport. It is 10.06am on my Sony Vaio laptop, I fly at 10.45am local time.

      Got to go fly now, some 28,000-29,000 feet above ground, above the clouds where there is another kind of life, another zone, wonder if that zone is actually good for the physical brain and soulful mind. Really got to go now.

      Signing off from MAS Golden Lounge, Penang Int'l Airport


      Monday, November 9, 2009

      Blocked Programs in Vista

      How to solve blocked programs

      If you have installed more than 1 antivirus programs, you will get this error msg, if not now, then later.

      The error msg reads:
      Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the .....

      This is how to overcome that problem.

      First open the Windows Security Control program. This will show what antivirus and malware protection programs you have installed. Eg: Avira and Windows Defender. You may have more. Only you know what programs you have installed or check your diary re what you had installed (keep a diary or write in Notepad everytime you install an antivirus/malware/spyware protection program (these give you more headache than the hardware).

      You will also recall a few things were starting to go wrong long before this msg eventually shows up.... a few msg windows tellling you such and such a program cannot be lauched, etc... and also service pack 3 of 3 won't work, etc. However, the untrained eye and novice will not pay any attention and just continue to work (like me and you) until no further god work can be done, then you realized something is definitely wrong.

      In the Windows Security Control window, you can try turn ON everything that can be turned ON. Take note of those programs which CANNOT be turned ON (these are the ones you will need to solve).

      You will notice that if you have 2 antivirus programs installed (eg Avira and Armor), Avira will be stalled (no update is possible) but Armor is still running. This means Armor could have captured and removed some of the Windows OS files and also some of the Avira files. These are the reasons for that msg showing up everytime you try to run an EXE file or a RAR file.

      Go to Control Panel. Click on Program Files - this will list all the programs that you have on your laptop. Remove Armor if you can (you can't anyway). This means Armor is controlling your laptop, including Registry, backup, restore points, etc, etc, etc.

      Click on Administrator - this will list 4 files. Each file will tell you what it does. Click through each file and browse & understand what each says.

      Go to Internet Zone, click on Security tab to set new security levels for Internet browsing/surfing (the main problem why the antivirus & other programs cannot update). Reset security for each (public, private, etc, etc).

      RESTART your laptop to see the effects of the changes you made. You will get a lot of msg telling you about error in your laptop. Use MWSnap or any screencapture program to cvapture some of the annoying msg. You cna also type some of the errors in Notepad and save them on your desktop for easy reference.

      You will also get Armor msg window that reads...BLOCKED PROGRAMS (here is a screenshot on my laptop desktop).



      Click each program, click TRUST, click ALLOW. Do for each program that was blocked. Whe you are done, close Armor msg window. RESTART your laptop.

      If you still get Armor msg window with BLOCKED PROGRAMS, do as described above to unblock. RESTART.

      You should no longer get any Armor msg or any error msg. This means you have cured your laptop. Just to check that everything is OK, do another RESTART.

      If everything seems fine, try open your browser or any program that was blocked previously. They should all run as normal.

      Good Luck!

      Saturday, August 29, 2009

      Remote health monitoring

      Do You Think Remote Health Monitoring Will Revolutionize the Healthcare Industry?

      Information technology plays an important role in many aspects of our society and is an emerging force in the healthcare industry. One area of health IT that shows great promise is remote health monitoring, which during the past 10 years has risen from humble beginnings to become a significant player in healthcare.

      One benefit of remote health monitoring technology touted by supporters is its ability to increase access to care for geographically underserved areas. Because patients in rural areas often have a much harder time than their urban and suburban counterparts when it comes to accessing medical care, a study is being conducted at the University of Colorado Hospital, under the direction of Dr. Vandivier, to measure the effectiveness of remote health monitoring in patients with COPD who live in urban and rural regions of Colorado. “Urban medicine is kind of different than rural medicine, so we’ve partnered with Kaiser Permanente, and we’re enrolling patients from both of our sites,” Dr. Vandivier told OncNG. “We’re also doing rural medicine, which we’re maybe even more excited about because a lot of patients out in these counties in Colorado that are rural or even frontier— which have even fewer people—have a lot harder time getting their medical care.”

      Source: http://www.hcplive.com/mdnglive/articles/Onc_Long_Distance_Dedication

      Trauma registry

      Trauma registry by CASS-OpenSource

      Trauma registry suite; Data collection application and server scripts to build trauma data warehouse and perform web-based analysis reporting. Cross-platform compatible for Windows, Apple, Unix, or Linux.

      Sources:
      http://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=198312&ssid=64177

      http://sourceforge.net/projects/trauma-registry/

      Future smartphones

      Smartphones will have some incredible capabilities in 5 years

      In essence, future smartphones will have the capabilities of current laptops (not the fastest laptop, but an "average" laptop). They won't have spinning hard drives, but they will be much more capable of multimedia and high-speed data connections. Just follow the history of the Apple iPod to see changes in Flash storage space, processor speed, battery life, and more. I believe Apple will continue to set the trend that others will follow. Samsung, HTC, RIM, Sony, Motorola, Palm, Nokia, and all the others will follow Apple's lead.

      Source: http://www.medicalsmartphones.com/2009/08/smartphone-capabilities-in-5-years.html

      Saturday, June 13, 2009

      Useful programs and webpages

      Author Stream, Geni, Facebook, My Space, Wizehive, Playlist, Scribd, Skype, NHINWatch, Enveluv, Medicalppt, Dia, Blogger, Huddle, Gigya, Weebly, Adrive, LinkedIn, Twitter, FreeMedicalPodcasts, Stumble Upon, Typenow, Trainingmalaysia, Studymalaysia, Evernote, YouSendIt, Fliiby, Virtuallythere, Koyote, Research Gate, medGadget, www.medic.usm.my, ernd.usm.my, HUSM PACS IW, HUSM MyRIS, MyPACS, Patientslikeme

      Sunday, May 31, 2009

      Video Download Managers

      31 May 2009, 11.24pm - Youtube flv downloader (54.38K), 1-Click YouTube Downloader (3.25MB), Internet Download Manager, YouTube Downloader, Easiestutils Youtube Downloader 2.3.9 (1.85MB).

      Microsoft Bing

      31 May 2009, 11.18pm - Microsoft Bing decision tool. Watch demo video.

      Google Wave

      31 May 2009, 11.15pm - Google Wave Developer Preview at Google I/O 2009. Watch YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ

      Saturday, May 30, 2009

      iPhone, Blackberry, Nokia

      30 May 2009, 12.03 pm - Searched, viewed and read iPhone, Blackberry and Nokia. There's no iPhone dealer in KB. Nearest is in Terengganu. There are 7 Nokia outlets in KB - 1 in Jalan Pintu Pong, 2 in Jalan Sultanah Zainab, 1 in Jalan Tengku Petra Semerak, 2 in Billion Shopping Centre (2nd & 3rd floor), and 1 in Tanah Merah.