Walker News » Freeware http://www.walkernews.net A capsule of walker's experience in life... Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:29:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Chinese Calendar For Windows 7 and Windows 8 http://www.walkernews.net/2012/01/27/chinese-calendar-for-windows-7-and-windows-8/ http://www.walkernews.net/2012/01/27/chinese-calendar-for-windows-7-and-windows-8/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:11:11 +0000 Walker http://www.walkernews.net/?p=8381 Microsoft Chinese Date & Time, a good old freeware made for Windows XP but also works perfectly on Windows 7 and even the latest Windows 8 (tested on Developer Preview edition).

Besides displaying Chinese lunisolar calendar system (农历; pinyin: nónglì) alongside the Gregorian date, this freeware also features four configurable clocks for displaying current time in other time zones with reference to system time. If the two additional clocks of Windows Vista/7/8 is not sufficient, you could top up another 4 clocks from this freeware!

Microsoft Chinese calendar freeware for Windows.

The screenshot shows today is the fifth day of Chinese New Year 2012, the year of Dragon. You can certainly find out the Gregorian date of Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Winter Solstice Festival, Solar term (节气; pinyin: jiéqì), etc.
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Like most other similar services, the file to be sent is not attached to the email as usual. Rather, it is a hyperlink of the file to allow recipients download it from Internet.

SecurelySend is a free web tool for sending big attachment of any file type via email.Therefore, the result is lower chance of bounce message (NDN or non-delivery notification), since there is no real attachment to trigger email server rule that block high risk attachment file type, and it won’t breach recipients mailbox size for sure.

Features of Securely Send:
  • Using HTTPS connection to send large files up to 200MB for 3 times per month (free) or 2GB for 20 times per month at $5.
     
  • Log in to track attachment availability (free download link active for 10 days after sent) and received status (notification after recipient download the attachment).

To use the service is even simple – click here and follow the clear instruction. When it is done, the recipient will see the message with file attachment download link similar to the one printed in screenshot (above).
]]> http://www.walkernews.net/2011/03/14/how-to-send-big-attachment-file-in-email-using-securelysend/feed/ 0 How To Get Free Earthquake Alert In Email Or SMS? http://www.walkernews.net/2011/03/12/how-to-get-free-earthquake-alert-in-email-or-sms/ http://www.walkernews.net/2011/03/12/how-to-get-free-earthquake-alert-in-email-or-sms/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:06:00 +0000 Walker http://www.walkernews.net/?p=7238 The USGS provides free earthquake notification service (ENS) to general public who seek to receive earthquake info in email or SMS.

The ENS is NOT an alert of next earthquake – there is no proved method that can predict earthquake precisely, at least for now!

ENS is just a free service that sends automated notification emails when the incident happens in user-define region. Check out ENS help for more information.

For those who is interested, just register ENS and activate the subscription from confirmation link sent to your registered email.

Subscribe free earthquake notification service provided by USGS.

The profile is useful for subscriber to define tracking region and the minimum magnitude to trigger notification. If your telco supports email to SMS service, then it possible to receive SMS notification too.
]]> http://www.walkernews.net/2011/03/12/how-to-get-free-earthquake-alert-in-email-or-sms/feed/ 0 Download Adobe Air Version Of Free Pacman Game http://www.walkernews.net/2011/02/20/download-adobe-air-version-of-free-pacman-game/ http://www.walkernews.net/2011/02/20/download-adobe-air-version-of-free-pacman-game/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:26:45 +0000 Walker http://www.walkernews.net/?p=6995 For those who have Adobe Air runtime installed and also like to play Pacman game, you might be interested to have this free Pacman game in collection.

It doesn’t require Internet connection, i.e. you can play Pacman offline in office (during lunch hour) without worry of Internet usage tracking :)

Free Pacman game from Adobe Air marketplace.

Click here to download free Pacman game from Adobe Air Marketplace. It will prompt you to download and install Adobe Air if the runtime is not installed.

Should you need to check Adobe Air version installed on your Windows computer, I have this freeware called wChkAirVers.
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Instead of develop Adobe AIR apps to check the Adobe AIR runtime version, I used AutoIt v3 scripting language to develop wChkAirVers in 3 minutes!
AutoIt v3 is a BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI. Best of all, the AutoIt script can be compiled into a stand-alone executable Windows program file (i.e. run without AutoIt v3 installed).

wChkAirVers is portable freeware works on both 32-bit and 64-bit of Windows 7 and Windows Vista, and should be working fine on Windows XP and newer version too:

wChkAirVers - a Windows freeware developed to check or determine Adobe AIR runtime version.

If you like it, just download wChkAirVers and run it right away (without installation). To confirm the file integrity, please verify checksum of the downloaded file (using freeware such as HashCheck Shell Extension or digestIT 2004):

wChkAirVers.zip (MD5: c71b3d3f21ea06e41e3cb502546c6b03)
wChkAirVers.exe (MD5: a1b13dd59ab45e03c7bb79d8a6447f3a)
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Having said that, you can also use PC to download Swype for Nokia N8 and then convert the DM file to SISX format before transferring it to N8 for installation
The tricks used to download Ovi Store apps to PC and convert DM/JAD file are pretty useful for those who have hard reset N8 and still cannot reinstall Ovi Store on the device.

If you’ve installed the Swype for C7 on N8, you should uninstall it first before installing the official version for sake of stability.

Download Swype for Symbian 3 from Ovi Store

Change Swype input method from Yes to No and power off N8Unlike the unofficial version, the true Swype for N8 version disables the intuitive touchscreen input method at wish after I deactivate Swype input method in Settings and reboot the device :-)
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Best of all, AlternateReader is an open source PDF reader freeware developed for Symbian OS 9.1 S60 3rd Edition, 9.2 S60 3rd Edition FP1, 9.3 S60 3rd Edition FP2, and 9.4 S60 5th Edition or Symbian^1.

PDF Reader freeware for Nokia N8 or mobile phones running Symbian^3 platform.
Though AlternateReader project page on SourceForge.net doesn’t state supports for installing and running on Symbian^3 devices (e.g. Nokia N8), I have tested and thus confirm that AlternateReader is compatible with Symbian^3 platform.

However, the “little glitch” is that you have to open a small PDF file (the one with few pages only) right after installing on N8, then only open a big PDF file (but be patient as it takes some times to load, especially page with images.

Attractive features of AlternateReader :
  1. Remember last viewed page and reading layout setting. Imagine how useful it is when you are reading a big PDF file with few tens pages – I don’t have to remember the last page I quit as AlternateReader does a flavor by opening that page automatically and render it with the last used zoom level! It is cool, isn’t it?
     
  2. Able to view PDF in full screen mode persistently (doesn’t fall back to normal view mode as easy as Adobe Reader LE).
     
  3. Easily page up and down – tap once at bottom of screen to page down; if bottom of page is rendered on screen, double tap at the bottom of screen is to display next page. Similar fashion is used to move page up (tap at top of screen) and move back to previous page (double tap at top of screen when top of the page is rendered on screen).
     
  4. Capable to open big PDF file with hundreds of pages containing heavy graphics – the one I tested has 140 pages measured at about 42MB.
     
  5. It is an open source freeware for reading PDF and DJVU files on mobile phones running Symbian OS 9.x, including the latest Symbian^3!

If you’re interested, try download and install AlternateReader S9.4 1.08(4) Release.sisx on Nokia N8 (1.6MB; the version for S60 5th Edition).

Hopefully there will be a new release of AlternateReader that make use of Symbian^3 features, such as multi-touch on N8 capacitive touchscreen or pinch-to-zoom gesture :-)
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