I like to read comics (or manga), especially japanese comics chinese translation, such as One Piece, Bleach, Naruto, Ah! My Goddess, and other else.

What software are you using to read those comics? I suggest this one: ComicsViewer. I think it is the best one to read comics. However, one might feel hard to control the program, like the first time I used the program.

To read turn the page from page, you can just use both "" keys. If you like, you can just customise the keys.

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What functions you need? Play video, edit video, convert video?

To play the video, the best one I like is K-Lite Mega Codec. It can play rmvb, dvd, vcd, mkv, ogm, flv, and other common media files. Also play the audio files. I think, it is the best of the best. However, if you are using it to play QuickTime .mov file, there may got some problems. Because I tried using to play the .mov file which is recorded by the digicam, it had no sound.

Have you ever visited http://www.nirsoft.net/ ?

There are many powerful tools in it. I will list down several of my favourite utilities from NirSoft:
RegScanner - Search the registry key, provide very good interface. You can this instead of the “Regedit.exe” built-in search.
VideoCacheView - This one is really powerful, which is recently added. If you are watching online video, the .flv file, then after finish watching, the video is downloaded in your cache. And using this utility, you can save the cached video to your folder. I haven’t try it with youtube, but I tried it in other websites using IE, and it works.
CurrProcess - I use this in order to replace Windows task manager before. But, finally, I stick back to task manager. However, this utility really provides a lot of information of the current process. Really nice.
ServiWin - This utility will display the installed drivers and services, and you can disable them using this utility.

Recently read the news about Dalai Lama, then I searched something about reincarnation.

As a Catholic, I do not believe about “reincarnation”. However, we might hear people claim that they have the past memories from the previous life. Is this really heapen? If you are a Catholic, how do you explain this? The memories may be fake, but how if it is really correct?

So, this is only my own opinion. We know that, the material world is worked in cycle. A man died, then the body decomposed, and become part of the soil. Then the plants get the nutrients from the soil, and plants are eaten by herbivores. And the herbivores become part of the food chain. Human beings eat the food, and the nutrients become part of the human body. Then, human beings give birth for the new lives. In my opinion, this is the reincarnation of the body.

Because of the popularity of pendrive (or thumb drive, or handy drive), there are a lot of “portable software”. I also like portable software. Because, it makes my computer clean without installation and without affecting the windows registry.

When we install a program to our computer, most of the time the windows registry will be added some data. However, when we unstiall the program, the data remain in the registry.

As a Catholic, I heard the prayer “Our Father” frequently. However, there are many variations of the prayer Our Father. The most common one is the modern translation, “Our Father in Heaven, holy be Your name…”

Don’t know why, different area different style. I heard a weird version of “Our Father”, that is: “Our Father who art in Heaven, holy be Your name…”

Why I say it is weird? Have you read the words like: Thee, Thy, Thou, Thine and else? These are the archaic English, which means “You”.
thee = you
thou = you
thy = your
thine = yours
(Hope that I do not make it wrong…)
Check this: http://dan.tobias.name/frivolity/archaic-grammar.html

Recently, I play Final Fantasy VII (FF7). I follow the walkthrough to play so that I will not miss any important events. However, after I defeated the Ultimate Weapon, according to the walkthrough, I should be able to find Ruby Weapon in the desert of Gold Saucer.

But, I couldn’t meet it. Ruby Weapon is missing! And I tried to find the solutions from internet. Only few people had same problem as mine. Yes, I can meet Emerald Weapon in the sea, but not Ruby Weapon in the desert.

When I want to use FEBE to backup the Firefox extension, I got a message:
“You have 1 extension(s) pending installation that will not be included in the backup. …”

Then I searched for the solution. This happened because there existed “profile folder\extensions\staged-xpis”. And what I had done was just delete the “staged-xpis”, then the problem is solved. Because inside the “staged-xpis”, I found a “tmp.xpi”.

Recently, I read a news about that there is PDF flaw. I am not sure how is it happened. But you can read a news about this PDF and trojan problem:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2205400,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

Beware of the PDF file when you receive a spam mail. The PDF file will disable the Windows Firewall, and download the trojan file.

I also read an article talk about that some people like to run the Windows with reduced rights (non-administrator rights). Because this can disallow the modification of you Windows system, such as installing unwanted programs.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/how_to_easily_run_programs_with_reduced_rights.htm

I think most of the people switch IE to Firefox. However, I use Firefox as the complementary application for browsing. I use portable Firefox, extract once and use anywhere. However, it is slow to start the application.

But, Firefox is really nice.

The followings are some extensions/plugins/addons that I like:
Adblock Plus - Disable a lot of advertisement, so that, no need to download those unwanted advertisement.
All-in-One Gestures - Using mouse gesture to “Go back one page” and “Go forward one page”, how nice? Just by draging right-click from right to left or left to right.
All-in-One Sidebar - You can view all your addons at the sidebar, easy and clear.
Clear Cache Button - A button at the toolbar, click once clear your cache.
CookieSwap - Just, if you want to visit some page, but you need to clear the cookies, however, you want your cookies remain, then, you swap a new profile using empty cookie. After that, you can swap back your original profile, and your cookies are still there.
Download Statusbar - Overload the default download interface, very nice.
Download Helper - You can sniff the .flv file from the website such as YouTube. Very nice.
DownThemAll! - Download accelerator, so that you can download the file faster.
Fasterfox - Though I install it, I not sure whether it affects the browsing speed or not.
FAYT - Find as you type, very good, no need to press “F3” or “Ctrl+F”, just type and you start find the text in the page.
FEBE - Backup your Firefox extensions.
Firebug - Are you writing your own webpage? Are you going to use Javascript? If you are using Javascript, then this extension is very nice for you.
Flashblock - If you visit a webpage and there is a lot of Flash, then it will affect your download speed, because your connection is downloading those Flash. How about disable them, and if you want, just click on them?
FlashGot - Do you have any download manager such as Free Download Manager, Orbit and FlashGet? You might like the download manager integrates with your Firefox.
Greasemonkey - How to use this extension? You need to install the userscripts, then you can do many things. Eg: change the text and background colour, resize the textarea. Because it uses Javascript. If you good in programming, you can write your own script and modify the page you are browsing.
Image Toolbar - Move your mouse to the image, popup a toolbar, then you can save, copy and else, just like IE.
MediaPlayerConnectivity - Do you feel frustrated when you find a song in Chinese websites, but you cannot play those .wma file? By using this extension, you can connect the media file to your other media player you have installed. And it will not start the media file automatically unless you click them.
Mozilla Archive Format - Using IE, you can save the page as .mht, so that all the image files will be included inside one .mht file. How about Firefox?
NoScript - Script are dangerous? Using this extension, disable annoying script.
PDF Download - Annoyance when open a PDF file because it will embedded in the web browser, sometimes just makes your browser no response?
PopupMaster - Disable annoyance popup.
Quick Preference Button - Want to change your Firefox preference? Eg: you can disable image easily with this extension.
QuickRestart - Click and restart your Firefox. Because, after installing the plugins, you might not restart immediately.
Session Manager - Firefox suddenly terminated? How is your previous browsing pages? Where are they?
Show Picture - Visit a page, and the image is slow to show up, or just no response. Then, you can right-click and “show picture” just like IE.
Tab Mix Plus - Tab browsing, with more other functions.
Uppity - Just click the button, then you can go up one level of your url address.
User Agent Switcher - Change your browser’s user agent.
View Dependencies - View the information of the page, the dependencies.