I thought it would be helpful to share this piece of simple code

In VB.NET, it is pretty easy to convert a decimal number (say, 12345.6789) to currency format ($12,345.679)

Just convert the number using the lines of code as shown below:

Dim value_int As Integer = 12345.6789 ' original decimal number
Dim digit As Integer = 3 ' to format it to 3 decimal places
Dim value_str As String = value_int.ToString("C" & digit, Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("en-US"))

Also check out other cultures available here.

I was about to manually transfer my contact from my old Sony Ericsson W810i to iPhone when I came across this easy steps to sync all my contacts to iPhone, within a minute.

First of all, you will have to download Sony Ericsson Sync Plugin for iSync. Since my SE W810i has been phased out for long, I’m using the W910i download page instead. The plugin works the same by the way.

After you’ve downloaded it, install it and load up your iSync under: Applications > iSync

Connect your Sony Ericsson phone to your Mac, browse to Devices > Add Device to add your device, and you should see your phone as shown below:

Double click on your phone and you should see the details as shown below.

Click on Sync Device button and your contacts should be sync to your Mac now.

Next, connect your iPhone to you Mac, opens iTunes and select Info tab and check Sync Address Book Contacts checkbox. In my case, I checked the All contacts radio button to sync all my contacts over.

Hit on the familiar Sync button and all your contacts will be in your iPhone now.

Let me know if it works for your, or not.

One of the most important element in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is to have your site indexed properly (and regularly) by popular search engines.

As of today, Google has a significantly huge market share of 84.96% (resource) and is definitely hard for website owners to ignore.

I’m going to walk you through on how I generated XML Sitemaps for adorr.net (powered by WordPress) and submit the sitemap to Google for in-depth crawling.

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I was doing some SEO for my site the other day when I came across some inconsistencies in my website URL. Some appears to be adorr.net while the rest are www.adorr.net.

Do note that this only applies to Linux hosting accounts.

This can be annoying for search engines listings, and even cause mismatching paths when using Google Webmaster Tools to submit sitemap.

This issue however can be easily fixed by modifying .htaccess, and I decided to go with shorter version of adorr.net without www

Below is how the first part of my .htaccess

* Remember to replace adorr.net with your own domain!

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.adorr.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://adorr.net/$1 [L,R=301]

Do note that the code above is to rewrite all requests of www.adorr.net to adorr.net.

If you want it to be the other way round, use the following .htaccess instead

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^adorr.net$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.adorr.net/$1 [L,R=301]

Cheers!

After a month of waiting, iPhone 4 is finally coming to Singapore on 30 July 2010.

Just yesterday, Apple released prices for the iPhone 4 ahead of the launch. The contract-free 16GB and 32GB models will cost S$888 and S$1,048, respectively, from the Apple online store.

As many of you may already know, only the black iPhone 4 will be available.

And today, the three telcos have finally announced their iPhone price plans. I have compiled them below for easier glance and comparison.

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