Month: January 2008

if you are hunting for a firewall software and you’ll like something that’s FREE (and good of coz), get ZoneAlarm Free.

Welcome to the intersection of ZoneAlarm® ingenuity and philosophy. Since day one we have been giving away our award shattering firewall for free. Why we do this is simple – we fundamentally believe everyone has the right to experience the Internet in safety. Please enjoy, with our compliments.

and btw if you are looking for FREE antivirus software (and good one of coz), get AVG Anti-virus Free Edition. i have been using it for 3 years and it has helped me grab many viruses on the run. especially useful when your friends plugged in their usb/thumb/flash drives into your pc/laptop. and the best thing is, AVG uses relatively less system resources compared to some other BIG names which you may be familiar with 😉

saw this article entitled “The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time” on pcworld off /. did not realise there’s so many interesting/confusing keyboards before the first ibm-pc keyboard that i have ever owned.
some of the comments on some of the keyboards:

• Some of the keys controlled as many as six different functions.
• had no Backspace key.
• too many symbols printed on each key.
• poor key placement … resulting in users’ making repeated accidental hits and sending the cursor back up to the top of the screen.
• have anyone seen the period key? Oh, it’s over there on the numeric keypad.
• no Left Shift key existed–instead, a Control key sat in its place
• most frustrating key combinations was Shift-Q, which would quit a program or reset the computer, much to the chagrin of users who lost a day’s work while erroneously trying to capitalize the letter Q.

how lucky i am 😛