Introducing Spin The Wheel

Play Rock Paper Scissors! Choose a fast food combo! Ask a Yes/No question! Spin the Wheel.

Check out my new app that features several wheels for you to spin with swipe gestures.




Get your free Android app Here

Introducing Reminder Lists

I just published another app in the Android Market. This is a very useful app to keep track of days since and until events. I wrote a similar app in C# several years ago as a WinForms application. I have ported it to Java and the Android platform.



Get the Free app Here.

Be sure to get the version 1.1 dated March 5, 2012.

Butane Gas Poem

邊爐火鍋石油氣
一隊四名裝甲兵
常與沙茶醬為友
大火熊熊煮美味
海鮮西洋菜魚旦
毋需煮飯造晚餐
人人愛吃打邊爐

一罐火力實有限
一罐難烹一大餐
火力未完被棄之
氣罐老二當趕上
命運大都是一樣
打邊爐如大公司
用完老大用老二

Bye IE9

I installed IE9 in June of 2011, because I had to. I needed it to test web apps. I've had nothing but grief with IE9. Web apps don't work in IE9, because when web apps were born, the world was in IE6. IE6 have nothing but contempt for Internet standards, yet had the most users. So the world produced web apps that still need IE6. IE is holding the world back. I'm glad I don't have to test web apps anymore. (Note: Google Web Toolkit do not work well with IE, says it does but it certainly does not.)

IE9 came with F12 emulation modes that do not work. Now who thinks it's a good idea to hide that behind F12?

Firefox was great for several years, many people had enough IE fail-ness and went to Firefox, until they got jealous of new comer Chrome and decide to go nuts with version numbers. It provoked me enough with endless annoying updates that I fired Firefox. I don't use it unless I have to.

I uninstalled IE9 today because IE9's emulators just do not work. It is possible to uninstall, join me and uninstall IE9. You don't need it.
F12 to set non-working emulators? Where are my menus?

IE9 does not make the web more beautiful. It is not any better than IE8, and many web apps do not work with IE9.

Also, I have hotmail, yahoo and gmail. Hotmail is consistently the worst - sluggish and awkward. I had a preview of Windows 8 and the tiles are just awful. I am worried about Microsoft.

The world is really starting to go with Apple.

Introducing Chinese Numerals

I just published my new app for Chinese Numerals. There are at least 4 ways to represent a number in Chinese. Most kids can't write the Financial variations.
Get this app for free for your Android. Here

Introducing Simple Converter

I just published my app in the Android Market.

This is a unique unit converter with 2 field inputs and Chinese units.
You will find a neat slider for temperature conversions too.



Download it for your Android.

Things Wrong with my Windows 7/Dell

I have a Dell Windows 7 Laptop and I don't like it. Sluggish cheap plastic that wouldn't just go, like an Apple would.

• Ignore my Control Panel setting to never ever lower the lights.
  
• Spin endlessly on boot
  
• Spin endlessly on Resuming Windows
  
• Almost constantly doing Windows update, beg for reboot and then "configure"
  
• Lameo touch pad - once you have used an Apple touch pad, you know how the touch pad can be done way better.
  
• Harddrive cylinder light go cranking all the time
  
• No integrated camera
  
• Cheap plastic.
  
• Can't be relied to burn DVD for data backup
  
• SD card reader make no attempt to read my card sometimes - works instantly on my Mac.
  
• No built in SSH client for 'telnet' like terminal - make people go download putty, psftp
  
• No built in SSH client for file transfer - make people go download WinSCP and Filezilla
  

Windows 7 is still a miserable failure. Dell hardware no where nears the quality of HP hardware. Doubtful Windows 8 would be any better.