Immediate Answers for everything

1-Click Answers, a free online encyclopedia client with a browser-like interface, only it gives you the answers in much fewer clicks -- much quicker than using your browsers. And it's free!

Konfabulator goes free!

What a good news for Mac OS X 10.3 users -- Yahoo! acquired Konfabulator and make it free! Now 10.3 users can enjoy widgets too!

Just 2 complaints:
1. It does slow down my PowerBook when it's running...
2. Why can't the Konfabulator widgets and Apple's Dashboard widgets be compatible?

My First Book in 1991

This is the first book I co-wrote back in 1991. You can say it was the first book in Macintosh computing written in Chinese in HK. The whole book was written and produced electronically on Apple Macs (SE, SE/30, IIcx, and IIci) running OS ChineseTalk 6.0.6, System 6.0.7 and 7 (which is just released). Other applications used for the production were Chinese Aldus PageMaker 3.0TA (right, Aldus was not acquired by Adobe yet), Chinese Aldus FreeHand 2.0A (right, Aldus had not sold the product to Macromedia yet), English FreeHand 3, Photoshop 2 (!)...

An alternative to MS Office

NeoOffice/J 1.1 saved my day today! -- When I tried to open with my MS PowerPoint 2004 a file received from a Windows user, all I get is black rectangle. NeoOffice/J, an OS X native port of the OpenOffice.org office suite, opened the file without any problem, with everything in the layout intact!

Pros: Free! Available in many languages including traditional and simplified Chinese, complete with help files.
Cons: the interface is still very PC-like.

My favorite browser

Which software update will make you feel excited or keep you impatient? Firefox is one. Today I updated mine from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5 -- even such a minor upgrade will make me excited -- and it's significantly faster!

Read this from WIRED:
“Over 10 days in October [2004], more than 10,000 donors visited the Spread Firefox site and kicked in an average of $25 apiece, enough to pay for a two-page spread. The Firefox ad ran in the Times on December 16, featuring the name of every donor in barely readable, 4.5-point type, prompting another deluge of downloads."