Tip #37: Quickly find your apps and programs in Windows 8

The Start button is back!

Windows 8.1 has just been released a few days ago. If you have upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, you would have noticed that the Start button is now back in the taskbar. Yay!

But when you click on it, you still don't get the good ol' Start menu. D'oh!

What you may not know... is that you don't really need the Start menu. Instead of scanning thru the All Programs list of folders of programs, you can actually search for what you want by typing the name of the app or program on your keyboard. Here's how:

Review: Optus Prepaid Turbo Cap Plus

Prepaid mobile plans in Australia are pretty up-to-date as most of them have data allowances and other useful things included. This however, might make these plans seem a bit more complicated to understand (at least, for someone with a Malaysian background).

Unlike in Malaysia where prepaid is almost always offered under the "pay as you use" model, prepaid in Australia operates more like conventional postpaid plans or "caps" ("cap" is the marketing term used by nearly all Australian mobile operators, which means "plan" or "package"), whereby a single recharge gives you a number of inclusions to use before the expiry date. This series of posts will review some prepaid plans in Australia to help you choose the best plan for you.

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Let's take a look at the Turbo Cap Plus plan from Optus (link):

How to sing Bad Romance like Lady Gaga

1. Warm up your jaw muscles. Open your mouth by letting your jaws down a few times.
2. Play the song on your computer, phone, iPod, whatever.
3. Begin with "rahh, rahh, rah-ah-ahhhh". When singing, keep your mouth open as tall as you can.
4. Refer to lyrics below to finish.

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Tip #36: [Word, Excel, Powerpoint] Resize pictures while maintaining proportion

        what do these icons mean?

You draw a square in Word, and you resize it by dragging the dots in the corners, but alas, it becomes a rectangle! What do you do?

Day 2 of 30 days with Ubuntu

I have created (yet) another blog, 30 days with Ubuntu. Two days ago, I reformatted my laptop (and lost all my photos which I cleverly forgot to backup) and installed the newest version of Ubuntu, version 10.04 which was released just a week ago. I will be using Ubuntu for 30 days, and as I go, every day I will may write my experience with Ubuntu, on things such as how usable it actually is, whether it can really eliminate my dependency on Windows, etc.

Do take a look at 30 days with Ubuntu if you are interested or considering to try a Linux operating system.

If you don't know what Ubuntu is...