Yeah… We love free stuffs ~ free software, free games, free application, freeware… There was Microsoft Marketplace for you to download Windows Mobile software. However, you need to pay for most of them. You don’t need to pay with this OpnMarket. The concept is the same but OpnMarket consists only FREE applications.
OpnMarket
Have you download the latest AMD display driver ~ ATI Catalyst Software Suite Version 9.3? No for me. AMD comes out a new ATI Catalyst Software Suite every month. And the naming conversion is based on year and month. For example, the current version 9.3, 9 == year and 3 == month. Normally, new features or performance improvement will be added on each display driver release. For ATI Catalyst Software Suite Version 9.3, the major feature is Windows 7 support and is a unified driver with Windows Vista. Besides, it also improves on Folding@Home (which I did not try at all for the moment). Windows Vista HDMI audio driver support
integrated into all ATI Catalyst 9.3 packages and new AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK. Finally, Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products.
Based on these features, I will skip this release. Looking forward for the next release that has 64 bit hardware support on ATI AVIVO Video Converter. Right now, it is still using CPU processing instead of GPU power. Luckily, I have a very powerful CPU ~ Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processor QX9650. 
c# ~ How to read and write Windows System Registry Keys and Values?
05 Mar
Posted by Jayce as How to, Programming
How to read and write Windows System Registry Keys and Values? I need to create a value at Windows System Registry for my project lately. It is used for SCOM discovery. I need a Windows System Registry key to determine that the server is the server that SCOM going to monitor.
First thing to do in your C#. Add using Microsoft.Win32; RegistryKey and Registry requires Microsoft.Win32 as the assembly reference.
Here are the codes that write Windows System Registry Keys.
RegistryKey JayceOoiKey = Registry.LocalMachine.CreateSubKey(“SOFTWARE\\JayceOoi”);
This will create key JayceOoi under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\.
To read Test string value from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JayceOoi\
string Output = JayceOoiKey.GetValue(“Test”);
These are the methods that I use to read and write Windows System Registry Keys and Values. Hope it will help in your programming work. 
McAfee antivirus software makes my Windows Vista Ultimate crashes
04 Mar
Posted by Jayce as Software
McAfee antivirus software makes my Windows Vista Ultimate crashes. My Windows does not work properly lately. All of the applications that I use starting to crash after several minutes. It crashes when using Firefox, XunLei, or should I say most of the applications in my computer. The applications crashes first, then follow by Windows Vista Ultimate itself hang forever…
The first thing that I can think of… My computer was infected with virus. Why? The symptom above only happen when I am connected to Internet. No issue when I am in offline more. However, who can survive without Internet nowadays? Not for me. I need to get connected almost everyday. Unless I went to vacation. Okay, back to the story. McAfee antivirus software that I use is McAfee Homeware Program which was provided free from my company. It served me for 3 months without issues. However, it just not behaved very well these few days.
The crashing symptom disappeared after I uninstalled McAfee antivirus and installed AVG Free antivirus software. Hmm… Is McAfee antivirus software really causing the problem? I am not sure. But by looking on the data that I don’t have crashing issue now, it does look like McAfee antivirus software has something to do with it.
I will use AVG Free antivirus software from now on. Hopefully, it does not have issue like McAfee antivirus software.
What kind of antivirus software are you using?
Core Temp is another program to monitor CPU temperature like CPU-Z and SpeedFan. Core Temp is a simple software that tells your CPU information and temperature. You can use Core Temp to track Intel and AMD CPU temperature. Almost all the latest Intel and AMD CPU are supported like Intel Core i7 series, Core i5, Atom, Core 2 Duo series and AMD Phenom / Phenom II series, Athlon64 series, Athlon64 X2 series and a lot more…
Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processor QX9650 in action
