How to securely erase your hard drive before disposing it
Visit any modern home, chances are there are at least several computers which are outdated and not used anymore, it’d be nice to donate...
Category: Info Taming
Demystifying The Chinese Economy
The thirst for knowledge is always my drive towards a more carefree living as I always feel the urge to know more and to demystify especially important things in life which affects mine significantly....
China Driving License, Online Check of Offence Record
If you want or hold a China Driving License, read on for the latest update and tools. Information below would be useful to those residing in Hong Kong in particular.
It’s World Password Day, — celebrate with a new password!
5 May 2016 is World Password Day 2016! So change your password(s) to a more secure one today and often – well, that’s the advice I get, and I suppose you too. Nowadays, with...
Your phone will self-destruct in 10 seconds
Should you decide to accept this as the best for your phone (and the data within), this may be you wish for. Imagine that it’s stolen or you accidentally left it...
Chromebooks take the lead over Apple iPad’s in US’s K-12 Market
I wrote a post about Google Chrome OS and Chrome computers (here) back in August 2015 in which I recommended it as a very effective...
4th Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Cloud Computing ….
The 2016 Davos World Economic Forum has the theme of “Mastering the 4th Industrial Revolution”. What is this and what are the impacts and implications (on individual level), what have...
How Best to Organize a Lifetime of Photos 5 – Sharing and Collaborating
I’ve blogged about organising your thousands of precious photos in previous posts (e.g. Part 4 which has links to the others). The next step would be to share your photos...
Fascinating visual history of human knowledge
Spend a few minutes to realise how visualisation of human knowledge has evolved from “trees” to “networks”. I think representing them on 2-dimensional diagrams/paper is getting too complicated, how...
How Best to Organize a Lifetime of Photos 4 – the cloud storage winner is?
I’ve blogged on this topic previously (here is Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) and this is Part 4 of the series,...