It’s an addon/extension to Firefox, Safari and Chrome users and bookmarklet for IE.

For example, this java tutorial, cluttered with ads.

Clutter with ads

A simple click on the Readability button and TADAAA:

After Readability is turned on

You can also adjust the font size, width and color theme to your liking.

Readability's Settings

Give it a try, you will definitely like it.

I bought this Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X as well after seeing it on the shelf of Fuwell, love the look of the cooler at first glance after seeing it on some reviews. But my cousin was telling me that the egg cooler for my 5770 ( pic below ) looks better

Cost $50 more than the usual 5870 thou. Argh…

Here’s a pic to show the difference in length of 5770 and 5870.
Quite frustrated that I couldn’t overclock the 5770, the 2nd monitor will always flickers even with a bump of 5mhz to either core/memory.
*waves goodbye at the 2 months old Asus 5770*

Manage to OC my i7 920 to 3.78ghz with an idle temp of 38-39celcius, tortured overnight and peak at 72celcius with a voltage of 1.22V. I guess it could go lower than that, will try to lower the voltage more when I’m free

January 2010…suppose to be saving money period! aiks…

HAF 932 is a full ATX tower…it really lives up to its name – High Air Flow. Brandy the n00b dog likes new stuff…he sneaks into the room without us noticing and I chase him out after that, what if he swallows my processor…

HAF932 compared to my old rig…

This is the first time I assemble a PC on my own and I’ve to admit, it was damn fun!

Even with the help of Shuant, it took us hours haha

Will run PRIME95 later on and will try to OC the processor when I’ve the time, quite disappointed as initially I wanted to get a ATI5850, OCZ Ram and Samsung F3 spinpoint hdd but I couldn’t wait no more…so I just go for what is available on the shelf…bah…nonetheless, I’m quite satisfied with the system now </self-console>

I got too excited and didn’t really take photos of every parts and started to unbox them and started with the assembling asap.

Surprise?

In early stages of the poll, Time.com didn’t have any authentication or validation — the door was wide open to any client that wanted to stuff the ballot box.

Soon afterward, it was discovered that the Time.com Poll didn’t even range check its parameters to ensure that the ratings fell within the 1 to 100 range

What surprise me is that even big scale website like Time.com could make this kind of mistake, they didn’t have any authentication or validation AT ALL in the initial launch of the poll!

Actually the hackers are trying to convey a message. Interesting!

Inside the Precision Hack explains in details how the hackers manage to upvote and keep all the list in order. Interesting read I’d say

Jeff Atwood’s Design for Evil is a good read as well, always always always treat the input from your users as unsafe and evil.

I was wrong…actually there’s someone out there who’s interested in ‘How good are you in bed’! So, keep it up guys! Do more quizzes!

<3 GreaseMonkey for removing all the spam-quiz feed.

I’ve been doing ABAP for almost 3 years now. Despite the fact that focusing in SAP can yields a promising future in my career, I feel that ABAP alone is not enough to satisfy my daily programming job’s satisfaction. I started to explore PHP around 1 year+ ago, it’s frustrating…yet fun. Learning curve is steep and now I started to get the hang of it.

I am actually more interested in software development or web development, more often I’ve thought of quitting my job as an ABAPer and take up another job that I’m more interested in. Here I am, in a new company in Singapore, which requires me to do ABAP and .NET C#.

I’m quite happy that I can finally venture into web development. I started to read up a lot, following feeds from technical blogs, tech news. I read, read and read. The next thing I know, I am lost in the big pool of choices of programming languages and frameworks. I could not focus on a single programming language. I looked into and toyed with PERL, Phyton, C++, .NET, PHP and ABAP. I was busy reading documentations of frameworks like jQuery, mooTools, CakePHP, CodeIgniter, BluePrint, YUI. I started to demoralize myself, because the more I know, the lesser I understand.

Jack of all trades, master of nothing. I identified where went wrong, I know I should focus now.

For now, I will focus on ABAP ( trying to go the OO approach way[pdf] ) and .NET using C#.
It’s nice that Microsoft decided to ship jQuery in Visual Studio!  Finally…open source library in Microsoft product!

Its the first time MS is shipping an open source component they didn’t write with one of their products. This doesn’t seem like a big deal, but its almost nuclear in its implications.

Think about it… They are saying “we support this.” In an OSS product, MS has no control over the code. So, they are putting their livelihood (in some small way) into the hands of people who don’t work for MS.

I think jQuery’s popularity, the fact that it’s not mission critical code, and that the codebase is so small all came together to make for favorable circumstances for MS to dip their toe in the water.
Will @ Stackoverflow.com

P/S: Good read: Teach yourself programming in 10 years

Let’s go into SE16. Take Sales Order table VBAK for example.

Double click any line and goes into the details single record view, type /h and hit enter twice.

The variable CODE was originally having a value of ‘SHOW’. You can edit the value of the variable to ‘EDIT’, ‘INSR’, ‘DELE’ and ‘ANVO’. The name of the value is quite self explanatory, ANVO is for editing the record including the keys ( which I’ve never used ).

Hit F8 and there, you’re in the EDIT mode. Remember to hit the Save button when you’re done thou.

It’s useful to use this trick when you’re trying to maintain a table when you can’t use SM30 to do it. This is one of my favourite ABAP trick

Oh, today I just discovered that Google allows color search.
For example, you search for Fire. Your query looks like this
http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=fire

but but..I want much hotter fire I said, I want blue fire!
So you add a imgcolor=blue to the query.
http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=fire&imgcolor=blue

And there you got your blue fire.
You could also combine colors search with comma.
http://images.google.com.sg/images?q=fire&imgcolor=blue,pink

Alternatively, you can just query for blue fire
Anyway, my point is I discovered Google could do that today!

Ok, I find the fire option a bit lame. Let’s have another more pratical example. Say I wanted to search for a laptop with erm..pink color, rather than browsing through a whole 10 pages of search results, I specify pink color and I get what I want, I’m happy, Google is happy.

P/S: If you’re curious and interested in how Google’s image color recolonization algorithm work, visit this paper(pdf) published by Google engineers Henry Rowley, Shumeet Baluja, and Dr. Yushi Jing.

Doing a few search on Google reveals a lot of things that prove IE8 still has a long way to go. But anyhow, applauds to the team IE8 in Microsoft for heating things up in the browser war

IE8 passes the Acid2 test, which renders CSS2.1 correctly now! Lesser head ace for web developer yes!

IE8 failed the Acid3 test, which focus on the ECMAScript ( Javascript is a variation of ECMAscript) and DOM level 2.

Microsoft is making much of its security enhancements, which Ms Barzdukas said makes IE 8 “hands down the most secure browser on the market.”

In the recent annual Pwn2Own contest, all 3 major browsers have been exploited. Safari on MAC is one of the fastest to exploit, followed by IE8 and Firefox.

Miller also added that Firefox on Windows is easily the hardest of the three browsers to crack, despite Microsoft’s claims that IE8 is “hands down the most secure browser on the market.” – Infoworld.com

I was surprised. For IE 8, I’d give him a 9 out of 10. For Safari, maybe a 2. It’s just too easy to pop Safari. For Firefox on Windows, I give him a 10. That was the most impressive of the three. It’s really hard to exploit Firefox on Windows. – blog.zdnet.com

Anyway, click on the links above to read more in details.

I am really surprise that Google Chrome was the one target left standing. Way da go Google.

Firefox is famous of the massive list of extensions available, and for now I can’t live without them, and moreover I’ve had really bad experience styling webpages with CSS in IE…I have had nightmares, waking up during midnight dreaming about a misaligned navigation bar in IE6. One day(years later)…who knows, IE will dominate in the browser war again.