Friday, November 06, 2009

Mc Donald's in Malaysia

Article from BMI "McDonald's across the world"

Wanna to clarify that we have McDonald's in Sabah and Sarawak, they are part of Malaysia

Thursday, October 29, 2009

1975's Pet (Pet Rock)

13 years back, we have the "In-Thing" called Tamagotchi. I believe you have one



Do you know back to year 1975, before you were borned (if you are as young as me ^ . ^), there was a FAD called "Pet Rock"


"Pet Rocks were ordinary gray stones bought at a builder's supply store and marketed as if they were live pets. ", quoted in wikipedia.

It come with user manual, so that you know how to take good care of your "pet"



you can teach your "pet" how to attack

you also can learn how to differentiate different breed of "pet"



If you holding a rock now and called it as your pet, what would others think about you?
What if everyone doing the same thing, isn't it become so called "acceptable trend"?

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

How to manage RSS in iGoogle?

I believe many of you have know what is RSS(icon above)? It is like an notification info to let you know whether your favorite site has been updated or not? It could be a blog? news? product updates? Then you would need a software or a tool(RSS Feeder) to help you manage all the RSS update. 3 years back i did introduce Netvibes (Still my favorite) . Today i want to introduce iGoogle. You need a google account to proceed the rest.

1) Go to www.igoogle.com and login, then you will see the screen below. Click on the link "Add Stuff"
2) In the next page, click on "Add feed or gadget"

3) Get a rss url you want to add in. If you don't know where to get it, you can use Mozilla Firefox the top RSS icon there. Click on that icon

Then click on "Subscribe to 'blablabla - RSS'

It will navigate to the RSS url, then copy that url ( That's the rss's url which will give you the notification info).




There are many other ways to get the rss's url, You can always looks for the RSS icon in their website and get its url.
4) Paste that url into the box and click "Add"

Then go back to iGoogle homepage


5) Now you can see the new "box" is added into your iGoogle homepage


6) For ease the maintainability, i would prefer to arrange in different tab according to its type. Probably you can have one tab for "News", another tab for "Games", tab for "My favorite blogspot". To create new tab, click on the icon, and click on "Add a tab"


7) Unchecked the "I'm feeling lucky....", then click OK


8) Once the new tab has been created, you can actually Drag and Drop that box to another tab.


9) Now you can see that box has been moved to the tab i created just now.


10) Besides that, you can also add some gadget or tools into your homepage. Gadget can be like stick note, a small cloak, dictionary, mini game....etc etc...To add a new gadget, click on "Add Stuff"


11) Choose any gadget which you are interested, then click "Add this". As example, i add the "dictionary gadget"



12) Finally, you can get this tool into your page too!

Friday, August 21, 2009

Hoax call from 03-21788888? Ambank?

Today i received a call from 03-21788888, once you pick up, there is a poor quality of pre-recorded voice machine
"This is AmBank Credit Card centre. We have detected a pending transaction of RM3800 in your account. Please press 1 to confirm transaction. Press 2 to talk with our customer service or press 9 to repeat."

First of all, if you owned an Ambank credit card, you will start to panic and press "9" to talk to their representative.

But....if you are not Ambank card holder, you will start wondering what is this crap?

Look at the phone number, definitely you know it is not a standard phone number you can get with your house phone. I did checked in Ambank web site, one of their phone number is (603) 2178 8888, which is same as the "hoax number".

Try to search around in internet, there are quite many people experienced with this number.

Phoneowner.info
Danielctw.com

After all, i ignored the call...

Anyway, I know there is a "way" that people can actually pretend another phone number to call to your phone number...

Hopefully no one got cheated by this phone number...Best way is do not verify your identity about your bank info from any number. Unless you personally call to it.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

"BingWallpaper"-Bing's wallpaper auto downloader (aka Changer) tool v0.22

Bing.com just released less than a month, it gave us a brand new of "decision maker" engine. Briefly to say, it will assists you to make decision.

Anyway, I don't want to go deep to explain what is BING.
BING has one special feature, which is "daily wallpaper". The search engine wallpaper changed everyday, and different region will have different wallpapers. What i seeing might different than what you are seeing.

I used the Codeplex as my reference and VB.NET to create this small application "BingWallpaper". "BingWallpaper" will help you to update or change your window wallpaper during window startup everyday. In addition, it will also download that image and save into the "Images" folder.



Features
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Today Theme - Display the title for that image of the day.

Set to Wallpaper - Meaning set to desktop wallpaper

Update Wallpaper during window start - Auto launch and change the wallpaper during the next window start


This application will try to connect to internet while windows start, it will tried 3 times with interval 60 seconds to check whether internet connection is available or not, if yes, it will auto update the desktop wallpaper then terminate (save memory). Else it will auto terminated and retry again in the next window restart.


If you facing the error

"The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to termniate the application."

meaning you need to install Microsoft .NET Framework Version in order to execute it

This tool is free to distribute, it should work on your pc bcoz it working fine in my pc.

FREE DISTRIBUTION doesnt mean FREE BUGS...anyway, if there is a case it doesnt work on your pc, dont blame me...Just leave a comment below.

If you like this tool, feel free to give comment too, thank you.


Note: There would be a case if "BING.COM" changed their website layout and this application might not work anymore (Not within my control to ask them "DONT CHANGE IT, U WILL SKREW MY APP!)


How to install it
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Create a folder, and extract that zip file, dump into that folder and execute it.


Updated to v0.22 (13-Sep-2009)
Download Link
- Fixed the invalid hostname (due to Bing changed the path)
- Enhancement - append the title into the filename for jpg file.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

How to download youtube HD (High Defination) video to your pc?

HD stand for "High Definition" video...

Sometime, we might want to keep the youtube video into our PSP, mobile phone or PC, we will use the free online video downloader for youtube video such as youtubemp4 or VIXY

Today, I wanna to introduce a free tool which allowed you to download High Defination Video "Youtube downloader HD".



I tested and it running well. You can download from here

I personally preferred to download the "Youtube Downloader HD - Portable Version" because it doesn't required any installation...clean!


Note: Not every video in youtube has "HD" quality. I not sure how long this tool will works, it depends on whether youtube will block it or....

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Beef in the chicken?

Yeah, beef in the chicken known as "beefychicken". Come across from an advertisement from El Pollo Loco who the competitor for the KFC Grilled Chicken. They found out the KFC for using "beef powder" and "rendered beef fat" in their new grilled chicken.

Sounds funny to me.....probably you eating a chicken but tasted like the beef...lol

Below is the ad


In addition, they setup a domain called "www.beefyChicken.com" just to promote this ad.


To find out the truth, i went to www.kfc.com and look at their ingredients...,
it seem...yeah! Beef is in!




I did a small search in youtube, EL POLO LOCO actually created a channel to publish their ad, this is the interesting one "KFC Prank Call to El Polo Loco"



Impressive! I just wondering they really did "search" for every single phone number they got from their caller id?

The last slogan they mentioned in that video is quite funny "Guess if they had better "grilled chicken, they wouldn't be so chicken", hahaha!

Don't get me wrong, i am not sent by "El Polo Loco", i only tasted KFC but not El Polo Loco...(so many o)

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Why should you get iphone 3G from Maxis while it is leftover stock?

I said so because Apple going to release the new iphone 3G(s) on 19 June 2009. The price of iphone 3G 8gb is now changed price from USD199 to USD99, i am wondering what is the person thinking if they just bought it yesterday...While maxis still hot selling it in the shopping mall and my friend who went to their exhibition, they sales person told her if they buy it now, Maxis would do the free upgrade to them?
Ya, right! Free upgrade from the firmware 2.2.1 to 3.0, but not the HARDWARE!
Meaning the Iphone 3G you just bought from maxis is still Iphone 3G, and I don't believe Maxis willing to spend money and do the free upgrade for you.


Anyway, what is the main different between iphone 3G and iphone 3Gs or 3G(s)
Both of them looks the same, feel the same...features not same!




























Apperance

iPhone 3gs

iPhone 3gs


The fastest, most powerful iPhone yet. Now with built-in video camera, Voice Control, longer battery life, and more.



iPhone 3gs

iPhone 3g


iPhone 3G has lots of new features. It even has a new price.



Price
USD 199 (16GB)

USD 299 (32GB)

USD 99 (8GB)

Camera

3 megapixels
Autofocus
Video recording

2 megapixels
Features

- Improved Performance x 2


- Built-in video camera with editing


- Compass


- Cut, Copy & Paste


- Messages


- Spotlight Search


- Landscape keyboard


- Voice Memos



- Messages


- Spotlight Search


- Landscape keyboard


- Voice Memos


Others

Talk time:


Up to 5 hours on 3G;


up to 12 hours on 2G




Standby time:


Up to 300 hours




Internet use:

Up to 5 hours on 3G;


up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi




Audio playback:


Up to 30 hours




Video playback:


Up to 10 hours



Talk time:


Up to 5 hours on 3G;


up to 12 hours on 2G




Standby time:


Up to 300 hours




Internet use:

Up to 5 hours on 3G;


up to 9 hours on Wi-Fi




Audio playback:


Up to 24 hours




Video playback:


Up to 7 hours




Info retrieved from Apple


Based on the different...i feel it is not really attract people to upgrade their iphone 3G to iphone 3G(s), the main different between it:


1) Iphone3G(s) come with build in compass (unless you always go for jungle trakking, or you like chinese "Feng Shui", then this would be useful for you)


2) Build-In Camera from 2megapixels to 3megapixels plus autofocus....well....frankly to say the quality of the iphone still sucks especially lack of flash-light. The upgrade might be quite useless while the picture is larger but blurry....Autofocus...still not sure how it works, due to the size of the len, you can make the assumption of what would be its best quality.



3) Improved Performance (this could be the only main key point to consider, while they changed the processor, few seconds lack is not an issue for me....).



4) The hard disk size (Unless you going to install a lot of craps into it, or put many video......). Never forget that there is a limit number of application you can install into your iphone, for the existing firmware 2.2.1, the number of app is 144. The latest firmware 3.0 will be able to support up to 176.


5) Video recording (For those who did the jailbreak, video recording was available last year through third party video recording app, if this come from official apple firmware, the video quality might be better?)


Lastly, i not sure whether they will included the "BLUETOOTH" feature since they didn't mention about it...If you, it can overcome by install the "iBluetooth"(jailbreak only)

Monday, May 25, 2009

Life is a short journey

Recently i found this short video clip, one minutes and 37 seconds clip...
It looks like very ordinary stage that most people will go through it, from birth to death

Last Day Dream






This is another ad from XBOX when they just introduced the new XBOX 360 (not now, few years back...)




If you have gone through the whole stage, you are the lucky one.

Always appreciate whatever you having now, always remember whoever still there for you.

If you have forgotten :
- when was the last time you having gathering with your friends
- when was the last time you having dinner with your parents
- special day of your loved one and etc....
get yourself a free time to build your relationship-bound at this point.

Life is just a short journey.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

RSS feed for Malaysia's newspapers (Sin Chew Jit Poh, China Press, Oriented Daily, Guang Hua, The Star)

2 years back, i have posted a post about How to make use of RSS Feed.

Sometime, I find it difficult to get the RSS link for the newspaper in their official site,
therefore I decided to create a summarize for some of the rss feed i have created and also collected:

星洲日报 Sin Chew Jit Poh

Official News : http://www.sinchew.com.my/rss.xml

Official Local News : http://www.sinchew.com.my/taxonomy/term/1/0/feed

Official International News : http://www.sinchew.com.my/taxonomy/term/2/0/feed

Official Supplement Article : http://www.sinchew.com.my/taxonomy/term/3/0/feed


Non-Official Local News : http://www.feed43.com/8844777728155173.xml (Customized XML by me, update interval time: Every 6 hours)

Non-Official International News : http://www.feed43.com/2623451676283872.xml (Customized XML by me, update interval time: Every 6 hours)

Non-Official Supplement Article : http://www.feed43.com/3071515527754202.xml (Customized XML by me, update interval time: Every 6 hours)

Note: Updated with official rss url


中国报 China Press
Non-Official RSS : http://www.feed43.com/7424178541750261.xml (Customized XML by me, update interval time: Every 6 hours)
For some reason, i not able to split it into international news and local news..


东方日报 Oriental Daily 

Non-Official RSS : http://www.feed43.com/7311055030262324.xml (Customized XML by me, update interval time: Every 6 hours)

独立新闻在线 Merdeka Review
Official RSS : http://www.merdekareview.com/rss.php

光华日报 Kwong Wah
Official RSS :http://www.kwongwah.com.my/rss/news/3.xml



The Star (Most comprehensive RSS supported )

Nation: http://thestar.com.my/rss/nation.xml
Business : http://thestar.com.my/rss/business.xml
Sports : http://thestar.com.my/rss/sports.xml
Technology : href="http://thestar.com.my/rss/technology.xml
World Updates : href="http://thestar.com.my/rss/worldupdates.xml
Columnists : http://thestar.com.my/rss/columnists.xml
Opinion : http://thestar.com.my/rss/opinion.xml

Lifestyle - Bookshelf : http://thestar.com.my/rss/lifebookshelf.xml
Lifestyle - Parenting : http://thestar.com.my/rss/lifeparenting.xml
Lifestyle - Living : http://thestar.com.my/rss/lifeliving.xml
Lifestyle - Focus : http://thestar.com.my/rss/lifefocus.xml
Lifestyle - Health : http://thestar.com.my/rss/health.xml
Lifestyle - Arts and Fashion : http://thestar.com.my/rss/lifearts.xml
Lifestyle - Travel and Adventure : http://thestar.com.my/rss/lifetravel.xml

Entertainment - Video : http://thestar.com.my/rss/video.xml
Entertainment - Sound and Stage : http://thestar.com.my/rss/soundnstage.xml
Entertainment - Music : http://thestar.com.my/rss/music.xml
Entertainment - Movies : http://thestar.com.my/rss/movies.xml

Entertainment - TV and Radio : http://thestar.com.my/rss/tvnradio.xml
Metro - Central : http://thestar.com.my/rss/central.xml
Metro - North : http://thestar.com.my/rss/north.xml
Metro - South and East : http://thestar.com.my/rss/southneast.xml
Most Viewed - Nation : http://thestar.com.my/rss/mostview/nation.xml
Most Viewed - Business : http://thestar.com.my/rss/mostview/business.xml
Most Viewed - Sports : http://thestar.com.my/rss/mostview/sports.xml
Most Viewed - Entertainment : http://thestar.com.my/rss/mostview/entertainment.xml
440Hz : http://thestar.com.my/rss/440hznews.xml
440Hz - Reviews : http://thestar.com.my/rss/440hzreviews.xml
440Hz - Features : http://thestar.com.my/rss/af440hz_features.asp
AudioFile : http://thestar.com.my/rss/afnews.xml
AudioFile - Reviews : http://thestar.com.my/rss/afreviews.xml
AudioFile - Features : http://thestar.com.my/rss/affeature.xml


Note: If the rss feed that customized by me is not working anymore, feel free to leave your comment here and i will try to fix it. This might happen if the design of the webpage has changed from time to time.

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Updated:
Add "Non-Official RSS Supplement Article" Requested by JChan 18-03-2009
Add "Official RSS links from Sin Chew, removed unofficial Sin Chew rss's url, thanks to SinX information" 18-03-2009