Follow-up Flag

In Lotus Notes, the mails can be marked with a follow-up flag and assigned a date and time to remind you about the message.

The messages marked for follow-up have a flag icon next to it which allows you to sort them, making them easier to find and work with. You can also set up an alarm for a specific date, time as well as having an e-mail notification. Flagging a message also places it in the Follow Up view which show only messages requiring follow-up. To flag a mail, just select the message that you want to follow up and then click "Follow Up" button. And, follow by the "Add or Edit Flag". It is a good feature that helps user to manage mails!

Windows Vista - Parental Controls (How To)

If you are concerned about what your children are surfing on the internet or want to restrict them on the time spent in browsing, you may use the built-in Parental Controls to do the restriction… if your computer is running on Windows Vista.

Windows Vista comes with Parental Controls (not for Windows XP). Even though it is not very powerful, it still serves the purpose.

Assuming you already have a user account created for the child, follow the steps below to block their usage:-

1. Start > Control Panel > User Accounts and Family Safety.
2. Click “Set up parental controls for any user” and select the user account that you want to control the access.
3. Click “Time limits” and then click on the blue box next to “Blocked”.
4. Use the grid to set blocks of time when your child can use the computer.

With this setup, your child will not be able to log on during blocked times. If the child has already logged on when time limits expire, he/she will be automatically logged off by the system.

For details, you may refer to:-
http://www.microsoft.com/protect/products/family/vista.mspx

As a parent, if you willing to spend money, then you can consider getting “Advanced Parental Control” for a better control (can also monitor the usage of your PC).

	Advanced Parental Control (BuyNow)

Thermal Cooker (焖烧锅)

Another money saving’s tip…

焖烧锅(Thermal Cooker)是近年来流行的一种新型节能锅。它分为内外两层，内层是金属锅，外层是保温材料，将内锅放在火上，里面的汤水烧开后拎到外锅里，盖好，过几个小时就可取出来吃了，汤、粥、饭，都可以用它来煮。

它利用保温材料或真空断热原理阻隔空气，内锅沸腾的热气不会流失，反而在锅内循环，自四面八方为食物加热，免电免煤气免照顾，时候一到自然就是一道热熟的美味佳肴。

它最大的优点就是放进去后就不用管它了，因为不需要火,不需要电，不会有任何安全隐患，你大可以放心去上班、逛街、睡觉，到时候取出来吃就行。

焖烧锅适用于炖、熬、焖等料理，依照食谱指示控制烹调过程,才能恰到好处。焖烧内锅借助其它炉具将食物加热至沸腾2~15分钟再移置焖烧外锅中盖紧。

根据研究，焖烧锅可节省约60%-80%的煮食时间。

总之它的好处可以: 省时！省能源！简便！炖汤，炖肉，排骨汤，熬粥,蒸蛋，新鲜可口的美味任你享受！还有一个关键,就是在焖煮过程中营养保持绝佳！

NoteTab Light -- HTML editing tool

If you are looking for HTML editing tool, NoteTab Light maybe is a good choice for you and it is... FREE.

I started to appreciate it because NoteTab can load very fast and is quite user’s friendly.

Next, it allows me to open and manipulate multiple documents, and then search & replace text and HTML tags within documents.

As the software is free, I had installed it onto the company’s pc so that I can do web pages editing in my office using this tool. Now, I don’t need to rely on Macromedia Dreamweaver or MS FrontPage anymore.

To download, get it from http://www.notetab.com/ntl.php

Below is another online html editor that I use it quite often because it is handy:-
http://www.redpeachdesigns.com/html-editor.htm

RepliGo - Viewing Blackberry’s attachment

In my previous post in last year September, I highlighted about the BeamView software (by Beamberry company) where it can use for attachment viewing on blackberry device... in a way that the document on the blackberry can be displayed in their original form as they would look on the computer.

In actual fact, there is another more established software called RepliGo (by Cerience Corporation) that can do the same task. I didn’t mention it because BeamView still offers for free during that time.

With RepliGo, users also have the ability to send original documents as attachments in an email, print to HP Bluetooth printers (beautiful, right?), store documents locally and on the server, and even fax original documents right from the BlackBerry.

For organizations having BlackBerry Enterprise Server, I would think that deploying RepliGo is the only best choice for attachment viewing (compare with Beamview) if they are concerned about security (without compromising content).

This is because Cerience has a cooperate solution called “RepliGo Server” where it can be installed on your own Windows server in your premise (either a separate Windows machine or directly onto the BlackBerry Enterprise Server machine). To understand how the communication flows between the server and device, you may refer to the diagram above.

As for Beamview solution, they don’t have a cooperate edition. All the documents are processed and stored on the provider’s BeamBerry servers.

I also notice that RepliGo is an Alliance member of Blackberry. So, I guess you can have another choice now.

如何开榴莲

朋友送我几只榴莲，很开心，有榴莲吃了，确实也有很久没有买榴莲了。可是当我们看到那几只榴莲时， 有点伤脑筋， 因为老公不会开榴莲，我也不会，这怎么办？ 老公说上网看看。 果然没找两下，就有答案了： 先要找一块没用的毛巾或布（用完了就可以丢）， 然后把榴莲放在一个大砧板上，一只手拿布按住榴莲，另一只手拿刀砍去榴莲的尾端（没有柄的一端），大概2cm左右，这时候就可以看到榴莲的一个切面图，上面有五条线，接着顺着这五条线用刀把榴莲扳开成五瓣，这样就大功告成了！

我们终于吃到了榴莲，又学会了开榴莲，互联网的作用可真不小。现在的科技好厉害，只要一上网， 什么问题都已经不是问题了。

Follow-up Flag

In Lotus Notes, the mails can be marked with a follow-up flag and assigned a date and time to remind you about the message.

The messages marked for follow-up have a flag icon next to it which allows you to sort them, making them easier to find and work with. You can also set up an alarm for a specific date, time as well as having an e-mail notification. Flagging a message also places it in the Follow Up view which show only messages requiring follow-up. To flag a mail, just select the message that you want to follow up and then click "Follow Up" button. And, follow by the "Add or Edit Flag". It is a good feature that helps user to manage mails!