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Reserved by Windows

mgthantzin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:04:51 +0000

You can’t create a folder with following names on Windows.

PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9

Source: What is a Software Easter Egg?

Nokia’s Path

mgthantzin — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:41:54 +0000

Nokia must make a careful decision of what they are going to do next. Whatever decision they make will have impact on the mobile industry (as well as mobile apps industry).

Nokia/Microsoft Partnership

PNGGauntlet : PNG Optimization Tool

mgthantzin — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:34:09 +0000

Recently, I need to take screenshots of several parts of PDF as images to be used on the Internet. I had to take it at 600dpi for some reason and the file size of each image was quite big. Those images merely contain an image and a couple of small paragraphs. Nothing much. I found this tool called PNGGauntlet – a PNG optimization tool. I’ve seen the reduction of file size by 90%. But, main point here is such size reduction is done but not at the expense of image quality. The images still look good at the same dimension.

PNGGauntlet

No Title

mgthantzin — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:58:40 +0000

It really is difficult to write regularly for me, I admit. But, I will always try whenever I get a chance. I will not totally give up.

Again, Hello World!

Peace:
Thant Zin Oo

Ajax Tab Panel Disappearing in Chrome

mgthantzin — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 02:03:58 +0000

After postback, entire Ajax Tab Panel becomes invisible in Chrome. Fix is:

debug=”false” strict=”false” explicit=”true”>

Credit goes to XJ.

OhLife: My New Diary

mgthantzin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:16:48 +0000

I always wanted to write diary daily. And, I always failed to. Whenever it comes to December, I buy a new diary book with the hope that I could make it a habit in coming year. But, I didn’t manage to. Recently, I found this service at FeedMyApp. It sent you an email at 8pm everyday. (They asked you your timezone, no worry!) You just reply to that email to write about everything happened on that day. It’s just as easy as replying an email.

As I don’t find their default font much appealing, I contacted them. They were very nice people and responded me very personally. Cool! I managed to pass what I like about OhLife and I also suggest things which could be improved.

Reviews about OhLife on DownloadSquad and Lifehacker.com.

Thant Zin Oo

Unknown File Type

mgthantzin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 06:48:22 +0000

I’ve received a safe file of unknown file type. The only way I could determine its file type is to read file content. I’ve found this tool called TrIDNet. It’s a portable application which relies on file definitions (something like virus definition for anti-virus software) in XML format. A handful of those XML files are also available for download at the same site.

Quite a handy tool for some occasion.

Facebook Friend Request

mgthantzin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:00:58 +0000

I made a friend request to a friend. And, I saw this message.

Sorry, this user already has too many friend requests.

Well, I have about 100 friend requests that I need to accept. Main reason for not accepting those requests is ‘I do not know them’. But, I am reluctant to ignore the requests because there is a chance that somewhere, somehow we knew each other, but i forgot.

Now, I’m worried that if a friend of mine made a friend request to me, will they also see above message? Hmm… I need to start ignoring those requests.

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Data Source Windows Problem

mgthantzin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:43:27 +0000

I haven’t used data source that much as I have been working on web projects for quite some time. Today, I gotta take a look at our previous Windows program and realized that nothing happened when I clicked ‘Show Data Sources’ or ‘Add New Data Source…’ from Data menu. I had to run this once to get it solved.

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup

Globalisation

mgthantzin — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:09:44 +0000

Globalisation is a self-directed movement guided by principles of democracy, technology and free-market capitalism.

- e-Business: Strategic Thinking and Practice, Brahm Canzer (2006)