Have you recently used Google Maps? Maybe you already noticed its new feature from the maps, yes, it is called Street View. What can it do? well, when you browser the maps (of course, on the website of http://maps.google.com) and click the Street View button on the map. You will see a little man icon on the map, and some street view photos will appear when you drag “you” (the little man) on some blue line highlighted roads. These photos just like what you can see when you walk or drive on the road of the Google maps.
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Just wanted to explore some add-ons after I installed the final version of Firefox 3.0 today. I found this add-on named TwitterFox in Get Add-ons Tab after I clicked Tools –> Add-Ons option. Excitedly installed it since I am using Twitter accounts now. But after the TwitterFox installation, my firefox 3.0 acted very wired. I could not bring the Firefox screen focused. It always hid in the taskbar, and the left/right click of my mouse did not even work at all on FireFox in the taskbar.
I need to pull over a file from our FTP server every minute to the database server. I do not want to install any FTP schedule utilities on the database server. So I decided to use the FTP.exe comes with the Windows server OS. I brought up a DOS prompt, type FTP and hit Enter. I got some prompt screens, what I needed to do is to provide the remote server IP (host name) and user credential information. After I logged on, I then can use some UNIX like commands as LS and GET to download files. Great, it approved that we really do not need a fancy FTP client program.
When I was approached by a co-worker to come up a quick solution to design a training registration application. The requirement is to display all upcoming training events in calendar view and allow users to register to each training. And upon the registration is submitted, the training department and the user’s supervisor should receive notifications immediately (although not required now, but might need the approval from the supervisor in later development). The deadline is very…, how to say it, … how about this afternoon. Well, while the co-worker asked how to design the database tables and asp.net coding, I suggested why not giving the SharePoint a shot. Since I am the one proposed, then I had to create it for her.
Challenge: Today when I tried to browser a website on my BlackBerry 8703e, it all of the sudden frozen up and then showed a white screen with "JVM Error 523" in the middle after a self-reboot.
Today I tried to copy and paste an email in Outlook 2003 but found out the SELECT ALL function of my mouse did not work. I could not highlight any texts in the mail body, and I could not even see the copy & paste options and the whole context menu by right clicking my mouse. 
Who loves listening to Internet Radio while you are working or coding? Yes, it is me. I like Internet Radios, and that is why I think the Internet is so great. Since I like music, especially listening Chinese songs while I am coding to stop the outside world from interrupting me at that moment, I sometimes use online stream radio to enjoy the no-stop new/old music playing because the traditional radio wave can not cross the ocean for me.
On the web, there are a lot of new ideas coming up everyday. Yesterday, I heard about that there is a web to pay people for their interviews. According to
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