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Today’s big news is the Google’s USD$2.7billion IPO(initial public offering).

• Google sets $2.7 billion IPO | CNN
• Google Files For $2.7B Public Offering | InternetNews
• At Last, Google Files IPO Plans | Wired
• More Reasons to Love Google | Wired

Thought:
If you get Google’s share, 101% you will earn big money from it!
I wonder can we buy its share from Malaysia? How?!

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Wanna make money?
Read this. Plain text, no graphic but _very_ informative.
Oh! Did I mention it was written in 1880, by P. T. Barnum?

Download plain text version for offline reading.

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Quoted from author:
MWSnap is a small yet powerful Windows program for snapping (capturing) images from selected parts of the screen.

Current version is capable of capturing the whole desktop, a highlighted window, an active menu, a control, or a fixed or free rectangular part of the screen. MWSnap handles 5 most popular graphics formats and contains several graphical tools: a zoom, a ruler, a color picker and a window spy. It can be also used as a fast picture viewer or converter.

MWSnap does not require installation and does not need any special dlls, drivers or system files which can mess up your system.

MWSnap is freeware, but your donations are gladly accepted.

Website: http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/mwsnap.html

Being a blogger, I always need to steal take screenshot of website. There are many powerful screen capture software like Hypersnap-Dx, but they are not free.

As one of the freeware got the highest award in both NoNags.com and SnapFiles.com, MWSnap just serves its purpose very well in its small size(643KB download size)! Using it is brainless. Select capture method, click capture button and start capture, done! (It support hotkey as well)

Try MWSnap if you need a free screen capture tool!

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Quoted from PPS Wiki:
Project Petaling Street (henceforth known as PPS) is a “blogtal”: a blog portal. In itself, it isn’t a blog, but it acts as a portal that aggregates (i.e. mengumpulkan or brings together) the freshest and latest content from a cross-section of Malaysian made, Malaysian maintained blogs.

After pinging PPS for almost one year since its official launched, my blog has been highlighted in the PPS main page! It is my honor!

“Technology Malaysian-Style”, the block title for my blog at PPS site. Technology is the main focus of my blog, while I also blog on others like my daily life and funny pics. I will improve this blog to give you better contents. Any comment to help to improve LcF Weblog is welcome!

Thank you, PPS members!

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PalmOne just released new Zire series - Palm Zire 31 and Palm Zire 72. Here is CNET’s review for both handheld.

In order to have clearer image on the different between Zire 71 and Zire 72, and compare Zire 72 with the almost same price Sony CLIE PEG-TJ37, here is small comparison table I made:

Model	Palm Zire 71	Palm Zire 72	Sony CLIE PEG-TJ37
Price	RM948	RM1136.20 ($299*3.8)	RM1140 ($299.99*3.8)
OS	Palm OS® 5.2.1	Palm OS® 5.2.8	Palm OS® 5.2.?
CPU	144MHz ARM	312 MHz Intel® PXA270 processor	200 MHz i.MXL Appication Processor
Memory	4MB ROM; 16MB(13MB avail) RAM	8MB ROM; 32MB(24MB avail) RAM	16MB ROM; 32MB(23MB avail) RAM
Interface	USB Infrared supports MMC, SD and SDIO cards	Bluetooth USB Infrared support MMC, SD, and SDIO cards	Wireless LAN USB Infrared Memory stick slot
Display	16bit, 320×320	16bit color, 320×320	16bit color, 320×320
Multimedia	MP3, Video	MP3, Video	MP3, Video
Battery	Rechargeable Lithium Polymer 900mAh battery	Rechargeable Lithium 950mAh battery	Rechargeable Lithium Polymer
Size(H x W x D)	11.4(opened: 13.5)cm x 7.4cm x 1.7cm	11.68cm x 7.40cm x 1.7cm	11.43cm x 7.62cm x 1.35cm
Weight	150 g	136 g	141g
Digital Camera	0.3M pixel	photo: 1.2M pixel, 2x zoom. video: 320 x 240	0.31M pixel
CNET’s review	visit	visit	visit

Note: red color is better/notable.

Thought:
When Sony CLIE PEG-TJ37 released, it beats Zire 71. But with the newly released Zire 72, seems Palm has make Zire competable with PEG-TJ37. If you want WiFi, PEG-TJ37 is for you, else Zire 72 is a good choice. It has fast CPU(read: speeeed!), shot bigger resolution photo and even video. Plus, MMC is always cheaper than memory stick at same storage capacity.

Hmm… wonder when I will have my first handheld…

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