Gmail Settings for Joomla 3.1.1
I installed Joomla 3.1.1 on a VPS. When I tried to use mass email, no matter what kind of mailer setting I put, I did not receive any email from it. At last I tried SMTP settings with Gmail account....
Author: David Yin
Upgrade Calibre to 0.9.31
I do like Calibre. It is must-have for any one who has a Kindle Touch. I use Calibre almost every week to sychonize my books between PC and Kindle Touch. It is great to convert the format of books and...
The Connoisseur’s Guide to Fish & Seafood
Yeah, I got another book at Sears.
Backupify -TweetBackup service retired
I am using Backupify to backup my tweets. Now it announced that this service is discontinued. Your TweetBackup account will continue to back up for the next 30 days, until June 13th. Access to the service, and your data, will...
Upgrade Calibre to 0.9.30
So fast,it is 0.9.30 New features of Calibre 0.9.30 Kobo driver: Add support for showing ‘Archived’ books on the device. Also up the supported firmware version to 2.5.3. Driver for Blackberry 9790 Add a tweak to turn off the highlighting...
The Connoisseur’s Guide to Meat
Last week, I bought a book at Sears store. The name as title is everything you want to know about meat. It covers Beef, Pork, and Lamb. More than 250 pages. In my family, we all love meat. I just...
Upgrade Calibre to 0.9.29 from 0.9.24
There are so many updates I missed. Now it is 0.9.29. My previous upgrade is to 0.9.24 New features of 0.9.29 Bulk metadata download: Allow reviewing of the downloaded metadata before it is applied FB2 Output: Write ISBN, pubdate, tags...
Three UnixBench testing results including Linode VPS
UnixBench is a testing tool. I run it on two Linode VPS. One is located at Newark, NJ, with new hardware, including CPU E5-2670. The testing results are shown as below:
Got a Greenlee GT-16 Adjustable Non-Contact Voltage Detector
I think every house need a Voltage Detector. Especially when house owner changes the light bulb. The day I send my car to Goodyear for service, is a good day. I have a walk and found a store. I went...
Electric Vehicle Charging device on Brentwood Mall
I saw the new device in the parking lot of Brentwood Mall. It looks like below. Electric Vehicle Charging Station. New type of energy. Clean energy. CO2 free energy. It is used to charge Electric Vehicle. If it is a...
Install htop on Linode VPS
htop is an interactive process viewer for Linux. It is a text-mode application (for console or X terminals) and requires ncurses. If you used top command before, I would like to tell you that htop is a replacement of top,...
How to choose the right router
To choose the router or upgrade your home network, first you should know what standard you need. There are three main standards on market now. Standard Max Speed 802.11g 54Mbps 802.11n 600Mbps 802.11ac 1.3Gbps 802.11g was introduced many years ago,...
How to change the title of frontpage at Joomla 3
Joomla 3 is new CMS system. Even I tried Joomla 1.5, or 2.0 during past years, I still got lost in Joomla 3. Here is a How-To to show you the way to change or remove the default title on...
Submit website to Directory
Here is a website directory service. It is a best time to submit your store, your blog, or any type of web site to G2links.com. It started in 2007. Just few weeks ago, it is re-launched and your site has...
Grace’s drawing in Burnaby Art Gallery
There is a art exhibition starting from April 19 to May19, 2013. Arts Alive 2013: Memories of Place The Burnaby Art Gallery is pleased to present the annual Arts Alive showcase at the historic Ceperley Mansion. “Memories of Place” marks...