Archive for March, 2010
Stop Spams on your WordPress without Third Party Plugins
Having using WordPress for almost a year, I do find that lots of spams are coming every day. The good news is that there are lots of developers who contribute their knowledge and time in making some great plugins for WordPress, like Akismet and SI Captcha Anti-Spam. Normally if you use these two plugins, the [...]
100Th Post — Rockia.com’s Milestone
This is the 100th post of Rockia.com since this blog was established; I would like to thank all the readers following my blog as well as those visitors happened to see my blog. Rockia.com was first registered in 2003, but nothing much had really been done with it. With WordPress’ help, I once again bring [...]
Great Deal from DealExtreme for iPhone Power Adapter
I do lots of shopping on a daily basis especially online shopping because I could compare prices so much easier and some of the special items could only be purchased online. For this time, I really have to recommend this site to you all, www.dealextreme.com . I have an iPhone 3GS and it comes with [...]
MSN 8 for Mac — The Long Wait is Over
[Update 2]: With official release of Office 2011, the bugs SHOULD be pretty much fixed, go and grab your copy now! (By saying “should”, I ma not too sure since I don’t use MSN any more. [UPDATE]: Couple of the readers reported back to me that MSN 8.0 beta for Mac kept crashing on their [...]
How to: Create encrypted DMG image to protect your files
There are lots of third-party software that can help you lock your files on Mac with secure; but why do you want to do that if Mac has already prepare a native program on your Mac OS X? With a couple of steps, you can create your own password encrypted .dmg file. Usually speaking, the [...]
Why I chose Thompson ST516v6 over Siemens SE567 from Telus
Telus has been my ISP (Internet Service Provider) for a couple years and they are sending me a new modem pretty every time I renew my contract with them. Here are the modem models I have received so far: D-Link 300G (Modem only) 2Wire 2700 (Modem with Wireless G Router) Siemens Gigaset SE567 (Modem with [...]
Advanced Tips on Using Preview
Preview is a very tiny utility that comes with every Mac OS X; it comes with very handy features for you to handle pictures and PDFs. I have introduced how to “Crop your photo instantly with Preview” before, and today, I found some other nice features of Preview that I would like to share with [...]