Peter Kao
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Protect your business and personal data with a VPN
If you’re like me, you hop from public WIFI to WIFI. It’s the only way to establish a fast, stable internet connection while working on the road. Plus, you don’t have to pay for it. Free WIFI is pretty sweet but your sensitive data is left bare naked to prying eyes. Those that are connected [...]
Auti: A toy designed to help autistic children
What a great product! Auti is a toy for autistic children that uses behavioural science to promote good behaviour and discourage bad ones. It works by sending positive feedback by way of cuddly actions to the child when it is handled gently (ie. whispers, petting) and becoming unresponsive when it is mis-treated, such as when [...]
CS-Cart vs Drupal (or Dedicated shopping cart vs CMS + shopping cart module)
There are loads of shopping cart solutions out there for your online store. The biggest players being Magento, Prestashop, Shopify, Drupal + Ubercart, Joomla + Virtuemart, and CS-Cart. I’ve been doing a lot of research on each ecommerce solution and there seems to be plenty of comparisons between each cart. These comparisons tend to focus [...]
HOWTO: Download and Install Paid Apps on Canadian Android Market
Unfortunately, Canadians carrying Android phones don’t have access to paid apps on the Android Market as it is currently open for only the US and UK. This was a huge problem for me since I’m absolutely terrible with directions – I needed a GPS-software on my HTC Hero! The current “best” GPS-app is the Copilot [...]
Notes from The 2009 Canadian Telecom Summit
I was extremely excited when Sean Van Koughnett, director of Velocity, selected me as one of the 7 Velocity residents (and past residents) to attend the 3-day Canadian Telecom Summit. The conference has a whopping $2,250 ticket price, so I was extremely pleased that we only had to pay $100 dollars + hotel fees. Thank [...]
Google Android Will Help Popularize Linux to the Masses
UPDATE: Mozilla will be launching it’s popular open-source browser, Firefox for mobiles! See http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20681/ There’s no doubt about it: Linux is still not mainstream, despite the many improvements by thousands of open-source contributors across the world. Luckily for us Linux users, this is all going to change with the launch of Google Android! Here’s the top 5 [...]
Google Chrome Has Troubles With Other Google Products
Just found out that you can’t create a Google Group Page with Chrome! How funny… Peter Kao
Google Proves Its “Do No Evil” Mantra With Google Chrome’s EULA Change
There are few companies out there that has the guts or care to keep a corporate philosophy that focuses on its consumers. Recently, Google proved that it really cared for its users. Let me start off with an introduction to Google’s newest product, Google Chrome (get it here). It’s a web browser that has Google [...]
HOWTO: Configure Microsoft Exchange and Outlook Web Access for Thunderbird
PLEASE READ: If you have a problem with the add-on, please contact the guys over at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension They will be able to help you more than I can. They’re the developers of this add-on. Microsoft has an amazing way of wasting my time. See Microsoft Atlas Cheats on Online Reach Prediction Research Paper and Wow, My Windows [...]
ADD – Do we all have it?
I came across an article from Wired magazine today that explains how ADD is becoming the”official brain syndrome of the information age.” Ironically, while reading the article I had about a dozen distractions and a burning desire to stop reading and send off an email or two. Could we all have ADD? Yes. It’s entirely [...]
Endless Google Search Results
I was browsing through a fellow UW undergrad’s blog when I stumbled upon his “Endless Google Search”. The first thing that went through my mind as I was using it was, “Holy shit. This is awesome.” This just comes to prove that opening up API’s is a really good thing for the world. It allows [...]
Operating System Woes (Vista vs Ubuntu)
Just an update on my operating system problem, I had installed Ubuntu over Vista since I was fed up with it self-destructing (who knows when it will do it again). Ubuntu is currently the most popular Linux distribution out there and I had always loved it. After spending countless hours (2 days straight FYI) configuring [...]
