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Essential Windows Software for your Brand New PC. A Check-list of software that will create your foundation base for your PC.

a software checklist

Welcome to my new ebook or checklist

This book shall contain great and useful software for your Windows 10 desktop/laptop.

A short and concise list.

Should be available for purchase within a few hours.  

Essential software for your PC

I was thinking of compiling the list, but then I saw this article in Lifehacker :

Lifehacker Pack for Windows: Our List of the Essential Windows Apps

The list is pretty comprehensive.... 

I like to add Spinrite to the list for hdd maintenance and recovery.

An archiver utility such as PowerArchiver or IZARC or Peazip

Maybe add in a screen capture utility like Techsmiths Snagit

K-Lite codec pack 

I do like the "Crashplan" software... nice.... one learning for me...

Cooking Recipe Books

Books for you to buy for your Kindle

More Facemasks

These are all reputable face masks from Korea and Japan.  Highly recommended

eCommerce in Singapore

eCommerce in Singapore

Good day everyone. Today I want to talk about the growing eCommerce in Singapore. As retail rental space continues to go up, retail shopping is impacted by high rental, and hence it's goods and services are equally highly priced.

More and more Singaporeans hit the online shopping hunting for good bargains.  eCommerce store-fronts such as Qoo10.sg offers 9% to 12% fees for selling products on it's site.  Lazada even handles delivery for the seller, by coming to the seller to pick up the packed package and delivering it to the buyers. 

I am currently contemplating on facemasks from A.C.H. (above image), and also JayJun Cosmetics (JC - shown below)

Will post the pros and cons of using each (Qoo10 vs Lazada) in the future.

DD-WRT : ASUS' mothership router

ASUS RT-AC5300 : The mothership of routers. Featuring 8 external antennas,

• Tri-band (dual 5 GHz, single 2.4 GHz) with the latest 802.11ac 4x4 technology for maximum throughput (5334 Mbps) and coverage (up to 5,000 sq. ft.)
• MU-MIMO technology enables multiple compatible clients to connect at each client's respective maximum speed
• Built-in access to WTFast Gamers Private Network (GPN) of route-optimized servers ensures low, stable ping times for gaming
• AiProtection Powered by Trend Micro provides multi-stage protection from vulnerability detection to protecting sensitive data
• ASUS Smart Connect delivers consistent bandwidth by dynamically switching devices between 2.4 and 5 GHz bands based on speed, load and signal strength

Highly recommended

Pokemon Go is all the Rage

Pokemon is taking the world by storm.  And may cause real life problems, accidents, robbery etc.

The game also requires you to relinquish your gmail acct to it.  It can access your GPS, your camera etc....

But do most teens care? ;)

The Free Office Suite everyone should be using

Microsoft Office is so expensive. Thank god there are free choices to rival Office

1. Apache OpenOffice
2. LibreOffice
3. KOffice

Personally, I like LibreOffice and is using it quite happily ! Kudos to the development team!

Kindle Self-Publishing - need to know

This post is for newbies who want to dabble into Amazon KDP to self-publish their own digital ebook.  Amazon KDP's have certain requirements when you create the ebook, I find that although Microsoft Word does an adequate job, over use of Word's features will create ALOT of problems.

The reason is because of many different kindle devices and kindle viewers working on other devices like android and iOS devices.  You no longer can dictate formatting and page numbers.  User selectable font sizes also causes further headaches.

In short, Use basic Table of Contents features. User Heading1 for all your chapters and Body Text for all you main text.  Avoid formatting words wtih font or font sizes. (bold and italics are fine)

If possible, fine re-usable templates and conversion tools. I found one called Alkinea which works using Openoffice or LibreOffice.  Basically, just the the template, then use the tool to convert to filename.mobi format and upload to Amazon KDP
 

Timbuk2 products promotion

Up to 50% off - act now.........................

Hacked Web cameras

It appears with the rising use of IoT (Internet of Things) and webcams, which all run on some form of scaled down Operating System (like Linux).  Security patches are hard to install, and most users do not bother with patches to devices.

As such, malicious attacks on these devices are rampant. Hackers can install malware onto these devices and use them to do various things like denial of service (DoS) attacks or increasing traffic to sites their control for profit.

Most users dont even know they are infected. No one have antivirus for devices or IoT yer. And as iot becomes popular, it will become hard to patch all things connected.

Note7

Leaked images of Samsung's Galaxy Note7.

I'm waiting for Samsung to come out with Universe One !