Monday, December 31, 2007

Happy New Year


The new year 2008 is coming. I wish you a happy new year. Thanks for your visiting.

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Switch to Yahoo mail from hotmail easily

I have hotmail accounts, but I never use it. The huge ugly ad always takes too much space. Now, Yahoo 7 (http://au.yahoo.com/) provides a switch service. The Switch service copies emails and contacts and won't do anything with the old account. Yahoo 7 claimes there is zero risk. Currently, this service supports switching from Hotmail and Google Mail, as well as OptusNet's webmail service.

There are two advantages of this service. First it supports twos domains ( @yahoo.com and @yahoo.com.au). In other words, even your account is with @yahoo.com, you still can transfer the data.

The second one is supporting Optus webmail. I strongly suggest any users DO NOT use the email service provided the ISP. That is, DO NOT use the email whose addresses end with @optus.com.au, @bigpond.com.au or @any ISP domain. Once you want to swith to another ISP, it will be a big problem to notify all the contacts. Because, obvisouly, the ISP will cancel your email account when you are not with them anymore.

If you want to use the Yahoo 7 email with unlimited storage now, it is the time. Simple go to http://au.docs.yahoo.com/mail/trueswitch.html and follow the steps.

Friday, December 28, 2007

Free software 23: AVG 7.5 Professional




As a free anti-virus software, AVG free edition has lots of users. Now for a limited time (till 17 January, 2008), you can download and use AVG 7.5 Professional version for free.

The download address is MegaUpload: http://www.megaupload.com/cn/?d=ZZFOZBS7, or go to http://www.computeractive.co.uk/avg/index to download the file.

The software provided is a full security utility, the commercial version of AVG Anti-Virus 7.5 Professional.

Friday, December 07, 2007

Rename bibliography title in Latex

Sometimes we need to rename the bibliography's title in Latex, for example, we want the title to be 'References'.

In the preamble, add "\renewcommand\refname{New Title}" for article type documents and "\renewcommand\bibname{New Title}" for book and report type documents.