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Sometimes it even prevents me from logging into the system.

At first, I thought it might be just a problem with this specific flavor of Linux. But the error just kept coming back even after changing to other Linux distributions.

After a bit of Google searching I located a blog article here, describing the same problem and it was caused by the Microsoft Wireless Keyboard I am using!

To solve this problem, two commands are needed to reset the extra keystrokes scancodes to blank:

setkeycodes e001 125
setkeycodes e059 126

With an USB bluetooth dongle, I managed to connect a T616 phone to my PC using FMA software. You should upload images or ringtones to the phone, and even games. Using this method, I have installed several JAVA games onto the T616, including a poker game

Anyway, another cool thing FMA can do is to use the joystick on your cell phone to control softwares running on your PC. Imagine your cell phone as a remote to pause a movie, or navigate through your PowerPoint presentations. It is way cool! Try it out. For me, the bluetooth wireless connection works quite well.

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If you just started to research the

MSN messenger has a good feature for its MSN Spaces, which put a star right in front of the name in the contact list, indicating that person has an updated blog entry. However, it only works for MSN Spaces users.

An alternate way I found is to use the RSS feed for the blog sites. If you are using Firefox(if not, try it and you’ll love it), you can install an extension called Sage: RSS Reader. Basically Sage can maintain a list of RSS feeds from your friends’ blogs, and check for updates with a single click. In order to find RSS feed on any site, you can simply use the “Discover Feed” button to search the current page.

The dafault CSS style sheet for Sage is not that great, but you can always design your own. I modified a copy of geckozone css stylesheet. You can download it here and change the option in Sage in order to use it.

Update on 9/13/2005:
Oh, forgot to say, Opera 8 has Newsfeed feature built-in, which works pretty much like the Safari browser in Mac OS X Tiger. When you visit a site with RSS feed links, a small RSS icon will show up in the address bar. By clicking that icon, you can subscribe to that feed. Or you can manually enter the feed link by managing the newsfeed. The update is by default set to be every 3 hours (but i like the DIY click and update feature in Sage for Firefox, though). The only problem with Opera newsfeed is that you cannot specify your own CSS stylesheet like Sage does.

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To make it easier to find these testing binaries, I made a list here:
http://kingler.is-a-geek.net/a-list-of-universal-binaries-for-mac-os-x-tiger/

Take a look at some online forums for more information:

• win2osx
• 360hacker.net
• osx86project

Updated on 09-01-2005

For those who haven’t heard about Konfabulator: it is a super cool desktop widget manager for Windows and Mac OS X. Yes, I said widget, like the ones in Apple’s Dashboard bundled in the Tiger.

The coolest thing about Konfabulator is that it supports the Windows XP as well as Mac OS X. All the widgets are written in Javascript and cross-platform! So you can get some of that Mac visual style on your dull Windows desktop. Does that sound exciting?

At least I am very excited about the news. With the release of Apple Tiger, I thought Konfabulator will lose quite a lot of users just due to the fact that it is not free and the Dashboard is bundled with the Tiger. Now, with Yahoo!‘s promise to keep the software free of charge, we can expect a much wider spread. I can’t wait to see more fancy widgets now!

• Weather Icon 2 from Jeremiah is a well-designed plugin for WordPress based on “My Weather” module for Mamboserver, which pulls updates from National Weather Service. It comes with an admin interface and multi-language support.
• Weather Report 2.2 is another plugin based on the National Weather Service data. It is highly customizable, since it will only output text. But we like icons, don’t we?
• Lastly but not least, GetWeather written by Jeff (the author of WP-ShortStat Plugin) is a simple plugin to get weather updates from weather.com. This plugin can actually show more information than the Weather Icon 2 plugin, like current time, daily high/low temperature. Addiontionally, you can download more weather iconsets from the web, just do a search for “weather iconsets” (try this).

I like the simple feature of GetWeather, and recommend it to blog pros, because it may need a bit of hacking into the PHP code to get the effects you want. But if you just want an easy way to set up a weather information on your blog site, use Weather Icon 2 instead. It is really easy to install and configure.
In order to set up the plugin to show your local weather, you’ll need a city code:

• For Weather Icon 2, visit the city list and do a search.
• For GetWeather, you can use zip code if you are in the U.S. , for other locations, go to weather.com and search for your city. On the URL, you can find the a code looks like this : CHXX0116 (Shanghai, China).

Last note:
Because the old-fashioned Microsoft IE has some issues handling the alpha transparancy in PNG images (here is a good discussion), you may want to use GIF files to support IE users. Weather Icon 2 comes with the option of using GIF iconsets instead of the default PNG images, so if you have issues with the transparancy in IE, try using the GIF iconsets. GetWeather uses PNG images, and tries to overcome the IE issue by adding a alphaTransparancy filter in the CSS style, but if it doesn’t work for you, you’ll need to spend a lot more time hacking around…