Free Calls Oversea! (from internet)

No additional download required. But you will need a speaker and a mic for it to work.

• http://www.evaphone.com/locale/en

Note that there is a time limit to each of the country and 2 free calls per day. Some duration to the destination below (check the website for updates):

• Australia - 0:30
• Canada - 2:00
• China - 0.41
• China Mobile - 0.37
• Hong Kong - 0:38
• Hong Kong Mobile - 1:34 
• India - 0:23
• India Mobile -  0:25
• Malaysia - 1:10
• Malaysia Mobile - 0:12 (say hello, then bye bye only)  
• Singapore - 1:01
• Singapore Mobile - 0:43
• Taiwan - 0:59
• Thailand - 0:59
• Thailand Mobile - 0:15 (say hello, then bye bye only)  
• USA - 1:13 

You can test by calling yourself to test out! :)

Let me know of the quality of call. :)

Kid's Online Safety Control - Norton Online Family

Kids nowadays start to get online at a very young age and this FREE parental control from Norton may be a very good way to keep them safe when they online.

• Norton Online Family  - https://onlinefamily.norton.com/familysafety/loginStart.fs

Features available:

• Web Monitoring & Blocking - Tracks what web sites your kids visit
  An easy-to-read activity report shows you at a glance ALL the web sites your kids visit, or attempt to visit. You can visit the sites your kids have been to and block specific sites or types of sites.
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  Time Limits - Makes managing your kids’ computer time a breeze
  You can set limits on your kids’ computer time to help ensure they aren’t spending too much time online and to teach them good computer time management habits. You can even limit computer use to the specific hours or days of the week. 
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  Social Network Monitoring - Keeps an eye on your kids’ social network activity
  You can see what social networking sites your kids belong to and how your kids represent themselves online (name, age, profile picture). You’ll gain insight into what your kids are doing so you can provide guidance and help them make smarter choices. 
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  Chat Monitoring - Monitors your kid’s instant messages and chats
  ** IM monitoring not available in all regions and for Mac OS.
  Monitors many major chat services and tells you who your kids chat with and what they say, so you can make sure the people your kids chat with - and what they chat about - are appropriate. You’ll also know if your kids are being cyber-bullied or if they’re cyber-bullying others via chat.
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  Search Monitoring - Tells you what your kids search for
  Tracks the words, terms, and phrases your kids search for online. You’ll learn more about your kids’ online interests and you’ll know if they’re intentionally seeking out blocked or inappropriate content. 
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  Extended Activity History - Notify you when kids do something they shouldn’t like visit blocked sites
  Lets you keep an eye on your kids even when you’re not at home. Norton Online Family automatically sends you email alerts about specific online activities such as when your kid ignores a warning or visits a blocked Web site. 

You will also be able to check the kid online status, change certain settings from your Android or iPhone apps.

(Review seems good, but I have yet tried it myself as I don't need this yet. There are other free parental control software out there as well, do try them out and let me know which is the best!)

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Multiboot USB Creator - Boot/Recover/Troubleshoot your system from a USB Drive

Most of the recovery tools or linux do provide a "live cd" that enables you to boot up the system from the cd. However, especially for linux distros, loading from a CD will be tremendously slow and what if your laptop or netbook do not have a CD/DVD drive...

Check this out! The Multiboot USB Creator.

• YUMI (Your Universal Multiboot Installer)
  - http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ 

Very interesting piece of software that runs under window which allows you to put in different distro of linux OS and recovery tools (Hiren's Boot CD, Ultimate Boot CD, Clonezilla,etc) into ONE USB STICK. If there is a updated version of linux available, you can remove it and put in the new version. The link, as well as within the USB creator, provides the list of OSes and Tools sites which you can download and 'dump' into your USB Stick. Below is the list I captured on 22 Aug 2011.

YUMI can create a UFD containing one or all of the following:

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  NEW CentOS
• NEW Rescatux
• DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux)
• SalineOS
• Porteus
• Sn0wL1nuX
• Pinguy OS
• Fedora 15
• G DATA Antivirus
• OpenSUSE
• KON-BOOT (Login as admin without using a password)
• Acronis Rescue CD
• Try an Unlisted ISO (uses GRUB)
• Backtrack 5
• Ultimate Boot CD
• KNOPPIX
• T(A)ILS
• PING
• Panda Antivirus
• PCLinuxOS
• Sugar on a Stick
• Debian Live
• Trinity Rescue Kit
• System Rescue CD
• Puppy Linux
• TinyCore
• EasyPeasy
• SLAX 6.1.2
• Kaspersky Rescue Disk 10
• Peppemint Linux OS
• Linux Mint 10/11
• Ubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04
• Xubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04
• Kubuntu 11.04/10.10/10.04
• Lubuntu 11.04/10.10
• Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Remix
• Damn Small Linux
• SliTaz Linux 3.0
• Ophcrack XP
• YlmF OS
• xPUD (Simple Netbook Distro)
• FreeDOS
• Partition Wizard 5
• Memtest86+ (Memory Diagnostics)
• RIP Linux (Recovery Is Possible)
• Redo Backup and Recovery 0.9.5
• Parted Magic
• Offline NT Password + Reg Editor
• GParted
• Clonezilla Maverick
• BKO boot.kernel.org-gpxe
• AVG Rescue CD (Antivirus Scanner)
• Avira Antivir Rescue CD (Antivirus Scanner)
• BitDefender Rescue CD (Antivirus Scanner)
• Jolicloud | Download
• EASUS Disk Copy | Download
• Hiren's Boot CD
• Edubuntu
• HDT (Hardware Detection Tool)
• Windows Vista/7 Install Disk | Create an ISO from your DVD 

Download the software win run it will actually shows you a more recent supported versions. Try run Linux  on your system with the USB Stick, enjoy! :)

Search For or Learn From Presentation Slides

Check out this website if you need to learn something... They are mainly presentations done up by somebody and since it is a presentation, reading it should be simpler than reading a book. :)

• http://www.slideshare.net/- "SlideShare is the world's largest community for sharing presentations. Upload and share on blogs, Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn. 50 million people use SlideShare every month for research, sharing ideas, connecting with others, and generating business leads. SlideShare also supports documents, PDFs, and videos." 

Ready to use Microsoft Office Templates

These can really save your time since you do not need to start something from scratch!

• http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/ 
• http://www.vertex42.com/ 

 Orginal Source in detail: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/microsoft-word-excel-templates/

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Get FULL RSS Feed from partial RSS Feed Address

I love RSS feed, especially when I can read the feed news while traveling via downloading it offline to a RSS reader. Although mobile broadband connection is very common nowadays, download it offline can help save plenty of battery power!

However, some of these feeds which you are really interested in only shows 1st few lines of the content...

Solution is here... Thanks to http://www.wizardrss.com/. Just simply enter your rss address and it will translate and fetch you the FULL rss content, then just copy the newly created rss link into your rss reader or online rss reader. :)

Note: Not all RSS sites can be magically transformed to FULL RSS feed, but many can, just try. :)

Updated: 8 March 2014
This seems to be a better site for converting partial content RSS to full content RSS:
http://fulltextrssfeed.com

Learn about Basics of Photography

Since most people have a digital camera or a camera phone, but many do not really know how the basics in shooting a reasonably good photo. Study the manual, if any, before heading out to take any shots. :)

The very 1st tip and simple tip is I would like to share is:

Scenario:
For camera with auto-focus mode, many will just aim and shoot by pressing the shutter (shoot) button all the way down before the camera can do its auto-focusing. By doing so, the image taken may be blur at times.

Solution:
Always aim at your subject and half press your shutter (shoot) button, get the camera focus on the subject (there should be an indicator or a beep sound), before doing a full press down. :)

I find the below site provide very useful and interactive tutorials, though it is for DSLR, many tips can be applied to other cameras as well.

• DSLR Tutorial Gateway

To learn more

• BetterPhoto.com (very good name for the site!)

Combine Photos for Printing

Try this software http://photoscape-portable.en.softonic.com/

Very easy to use especially when you want to print multiple images, say 4R photo.

To prepare the combination of 4R photos, once you are in the software:

1) Click on "Page" at the top

2) On the right panel, on the "Size" there is an icon by the right side. When mouse over it shows "Assign the size", click it and choose "Assign paper Size".

3) Key in Width = 2730, Height = 1820 for 4R, then OK.

4) Zoom out using the zoom bar at the bottom. Select your suitable layout from the right panel and start dragging the photos from left panel to the respective frames. :)

Bonus: To add Text, after finishing your layout, use the "Edit" button on the right panel. Click Object from the bottom panel and add your text.

Play around with the features. Personally I think it is very easy to use and very helpful. :)