My Life With IT

The PC Show is here again and I wasn’t really planning to attend it until someone pointed out that there is a free Lenovo S10 up for grabs when one subscribes to MaxOnline Express Plus. I only knew it on Thursday late afternoon and by then, 300 sets must have been given away. Thus, I decided to go on Friday.

A good move unless I wasn’t somewhere else in Tekong sending off the brother for his enlistment. It ended by noon but by the time I got to Suntec, the queue snaked out of hall 604. I circled the huge booth only to find out that it had spread out of the hall itself.

All for grabbing the Lenovo S10 only? Now I think Starhub should give out more netbooks since it’s an attractive offer. As a hubber, I only get a few perks but what if Starhub has a better way to retain my loyalty? Just give me a netbook just by being a hubber for more than 3 years, wouldn’t that be great?

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There are so many Facebook applications that I have that I only use Pareto’s Rule, 80-20 Rule. So true for my case. With more than 10 applications, I use only 20% of them 80% of the time. It used to be MouseHunt. Boy oh boy was this fun. Until I found another application that is interactive. I’m not saying that MouseHunt should change to be a more interactive game. It is perfectly fine the way it is now since the servers will be taking a heavy load if it has to be interactive.

Pet Society is one that I was having fun with until I discovered that coins are easier to earn if I have more than 100 friends playing it. That way, I don’t have enter the race in the stadium. So far, I have less than 50 friends playing Pet Society. I haven’t been actively adding friends just for this purpose. Although I did it for MouseHunt.

Eventually, I found another game, Be A Tycoon. It was fun until I realise that it’s tiresome when the charts are not that accurate in predicting the next change for positive or negative since humans are unpredictable. I soon neglected it in favour for Super Poke Pets. It is much more interactive than (fluff) Friends too.

I liked (fluff) Friends for a while since there were mini games to play until I got tired of clicking aimless hoping for rewards from playing the mini games. Meanwhile, I started playing with Geo Challenge, Word Challenge, Restaurant City and Bejewelled. Thus, in chronological order, the Facebook games that I started adding:

1. (fluff) Friends
2. Noggin
3. Scratch and Win
4. (Lil) Green Patch
5. MouseHunt
6. Pet Society
7. Word Challenge
8. Geo Challenge
9. Be A Tycoon
10. Bowling Buddies
11. Super Poke Pets
12. YoVille
13. Restaurant City
14. Bejeweled Blitz

Besides the games that I added, I have also added Groups and Pages. While I may not be actively involved, I don’t just join just because someone invited me to join. I join because there is something meaningful to me. I have left groups because I simply don’t even know the person that the group was created for.

It’s high time I start to housekeep the Facebook applications.

I must say, I am rather impressed with NetSupport. However, I still have no idea how to use it to block Internet access for other computers logged on. It took me a while to learn how to block and still leave out some unintentionally. Interestingly, not all schools are using it. I wonder why the inconsistencies.

It’s useful for file distribution, remote desktop support, desktop integration, deployment and all other features. Quite a powerhouse for this case. One feature I like is its ability to activate a programme that the students are supposed to be using instead of surfing the net. Blocking all Internet access with just one click is a useful tool since online games are too available.

Being someone who has been in the IT industry for some time, it is indeed useful to know the common websites that provide games so that it’s easily identified and make the students sit up and know that adults do know something about games besides work and scolding them.

I would admit that NetSupport will take some learning curve before the IT administrator can proceed to use it to its full capabilities. It is worth looking at since it has managed to make integration much easier than other platforms I have seen.

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