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

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.

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

Non Official Local News :　http://page2rss.com/rss/18a1a4b08d3a5deac2c11c9edeb2d654

Non Official International News :　http://page2rss.com/rss/38d0a95a27fee790e5ce118a8a3a5992

Non Official Supplement Article : http://page2rss.com/rss/9411af1dc9b81f6866c040b5c7a424e2


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/?feed=rss2
 
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:
18-March-2009 : Add "Non-Official RSS Supplement Article" Requested by JChan 18-03-2009
18-March-2009: Add "Official RSS links from Sin Chew, removed unofficial Sin Chew rss's url, thanks to SinX information"
01-Nov-2011 : Removed the official sinchew rss url because SinChew no longer support it
25-October 2015: Updated Kwong Wah's rss link. I personally do not maintain this page anymore, any request you can post in the comment section, no guarantee will get the updated link.

What is the future of Microsoft vision towards techonlogy?

MS Office Labs 2019 Vision Montage





Few months back, i saw a video published by Microsoft..."Microsoft Surface"



Yeah, it is not as simple as what it shows on the video itself, multitouch and the screen and rotate it with hands is possible now, just that "capture the info by placing the physical object on the surface definitely not easy because it required a common communication layer, probably a chipset? or through some kind of handshake protocol such like bluetooth, wireless?" And what they currently got it in hand as below..."Bill Gates unveils the Microsoft SURFACE"





The future...I believe it is just the matter of time!

Can you predict stock market Bursa Malaysia? Chartnexus?

Recently, i received few mails from the Chartnexus (A company that created a tool "Chartnexus" which allowed you to analyse the stock market)". The email always claimed they able to analyse and predict which stock allowed you to gain good profits in the shortest time. It is a misleading message.


If you are the stock advisor, you should teach people to "investment" rather than "speculation". Most people feel, regardless it is a good stock or bad stock,as long as the stock can earn money, they will buy it. People don't look into the company background, who is their management level, how's their financial reports, what is their EPS, they don't do analyse at all. What they want is buy at "a low price" and sell at "high price" and gain the profit in the shortest time.

Investment in term of you buy that share and you become the company share holder, you will holding that stock for one year? or maybe ten years and wish the company gain profit every year so that you will gain the interest from the stock.

Speculation is just same like gambling which put a big bucks on the casino table and hope for a big win in the shortest time. Buy the stock today and sell it in next few days.

If you wanna to ask me, am i the winner in stock market?I can frankly answer your question, "no, because i was the same as others, buy stock just for the sake of gain profit in the shortest time, that's why i failed..."

STOP contributing and become junk mail donator, ok?

Subject: Fwd: Ericsson promotion

Dear all,

Ericsson is distributing free laptops for their brand promotion. They hope to increase their popularity and sale! By this campaign. All you need to do is send an email about this promotion to 8 people and you will receive an Ericsson T18 Laptop. However, if you send an email to 20 or more people, you will receive an Ericsson R320 Laptop.

Make sure you cc to Anna at Ericsson so that she will know you have sent the e-mail.

Cheers
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

WAKE UP, my friend(s).....there is no free lunch in this world...

Read into the email content, Ericsson T18, this is don’t know some ages handphone, some more now Ericsson LAPTOP? Are you sure?

In addition, no company will give away some "FREE GIFT" through spam mail. There is some forward mail I always got from my friends.
The email content can be divided into few categories:

1) Help the sick one - "please forward this email to 20 peoples to help this poor kid", or "someone need a big sum of money to do operation, AT&T promised to give out 20cents for every mail you forwarded",
2) Free gift – Just like the one mentioned on top
3) Lucky Winner - "Microsoft randomly selected you as one of their winner, please send your contact info to blablabla@blablabla.com"
4) Pfishing scam - “I am the bank manager from BLABLABLA bank, I willing to give out 3 millions USD to you, please send me your contact detail. The most funny part is some beginning with his family intro, “I am the father of 2 kids, works as banker in…”, end with “I am sincerely to write this email to you, looking forward and waiting for your reply, please give me a chance and trust me”
5) The cursed one - Forward this to 20 persons, else you will be very bad luck or someone close to you will have accident....(If you received this cursed, why should you curse another 20 of your friends????)
6) .....all the craps!

If some of you might wonder, what if it is real?
Forward mail is an action of sharing love? You will not lost anything while just give it a try? The real part is you are contributing more junk mail, do you realize how much time has been wasted just to delete these junk mails everyday in this world? While you are forwarding to other people, some “bad” one will just scan through the forward email’s content in order to retrieve the “valid emailssssssss”. I got so many junk mails everyday, partially is because you are also contributing on it.

Reply to the pfishing scam? While you thought you are the lucky one? What make you think so? Do you think you are the better person than else one and deserve that gift? And god selected you as the lucky one?
Enough mean enough….stop it!


If you thought of wanna help others, please go to do blood donation rather than spam donation....thank you.

Different between Maxis Value Plan 50 and Value Plan Plus 50? Or Value Plan Minus 50?

Today i received e-billing from maxis. The amount of the maxis bill is more than the package(Value 50 Plan) i took.

Just for wondering which call actually costs me the most, then go to maxis portal to check whether any new call package available or not...




Well....as usual, Value plan 50, value plan 80, value plan 150...it is like nothing change...If you thought like that, you are Wrong!

Look at the charge stated, Maxis to maxis (Peak or non-peak) - 12cents per minute, charging 30seconds per block. I look into my bill, i realize....how come they charge me 15cents per minute whereas 0.08 for first 30seconds? Which is 25% extra more!!!
RM 50 call charges now will become RM62!




Called the number "123" to talk to their customer service, i been told the package i took is "Value Plan 50", not "Value Plan Plus 50"! "Value Plan Plus 50" is the plan they just released last year october, unless I decided to upgrade it....WTH......




Ya, now u can look at the picture above. It stated "Value 50"! Why the "plus" is not there???? Is it meaning I am "Value minus 50" plan?

I have been Maxis loyal customer few years back, while they thinking of attract new customer, why don't they consider of make sure their loyalty customer wont switch to Digi?It is not like the old plan(Value Plan 50) have better offer than newer plan(Value Plan Plus 50)! Then why should the customer wanted to stick to the old plan while new plan can provide them the same service but in cheaper price?

Do they know how much customer will pissed off if they accidentally found out they been cheated to be Maxis loyalty customer?


If you are the one of the "dumm" but "loyal" Maxis's customer like me, I advise you to take a look into your billing statement....

In the end, i decided to change the plan, because it is cheaper than the old plan 25%. There will be no charge to upgrade that plan, but they do pro-rated your previous plan charge, please understand about it.

Something change your mindset before you decided to buy something???

Did anyone of you experienced of this scenario?

When you walk into the shopping mall to check out a LCD price, you found out another LCD beside it has a higher resolution than another, but you can't tell the difference in term of the quality. The higher quality costs an extra RM50, and it doesn't come in the color you want. Still, most people will go for the second one.

Due to the product specification, it can always change your mind. More people trust into the number rather their's own experiences. Most of the time, these extra features come which extra cost, while we don't use it, in the end we still choose the one with extra features because we thought we might need it "sometime"? or just having the thought of the one we bought has better resolution, higher megapixel...

Just as an example, last week i bought a GPS device "Nuvi 205". The seller try to convince me to get the "special edition Nuvi 205" which come the same features with the original one, the different is just the casing color & another extra power adapter by paying another 10% extra. Or else i only able charge the Nuvi device in the car with car adapter but not in the house.

I was tempted to get that "special edition Nuvi"...In the end, i decided to buy that original Nuvi 205 but not the special edition. Reason why? My thought telling me, I will only use that device most of the time inside the car, but not inside the house, then why should i pay extra 10% just to get something which is not really necessary to me?

When I reach home and play around with that toy, i realized i could charge it with USB cable too! (Obviously you need to have that USB cable, it doesn't come with that package)...So my decision was right! :P

Programmer's Life?

Below the movie is reflecting what is actually facing by most of the programmer.....






Many of us, when saw someone holding an iphone on left hand, right hand holding the laptop.....does he looks cool? I doubted...

When new technology or programming language introduced, you have to spend lot of time to learn it when your boss asked you to do so..."he is the one pay you money"


Before you able to picked out the existing programming languages, here come another new version which totally different from existing version. "You might have to work double jobs"


When someone leave and you need to picked out to maintain the code he leftover, here come the disaster when you have no idea what's it about..."poor documentation"

When boss given you a mission impossible submission date, you need to work Over Time, else you are not committed yourself to the company..."most IT　company dont pay you OT"


Even though you able to complete that development within the given timeframe, it might very buggy and end up your output have no quality..."given time too short, only enough for development but not testing"

Then, you need to spend more time on fixing it..."boss will ask: what took you so long to fix it? Did you done any testing before deliver that program?"

If the program is buggy, your customer won't happy..."customer complaining to boss"

When boss not happy, we also won’t happy..."because boss will scold us"

Effort from Tmnet to prevent PHISHING???

Back to my post of Mayback2u PHISHING post on 27 Oct, this morning i received another email


Dear Valued Maybank Customer,

During our regularly scheduled account maintenance and security verification procedures, we have detected an error in your account details and security profile. This might be due to either of the following reasons:

A recent change in your personal information.
Submitting invalid information during the initial security update process.

Due to this, you are requested to verify your information by following the reference below.

http://www.2database-servers.com/Maybank-Online.htm

Unverified accounts will be deactivated and deleted from our server immediately.

Sincerely,

Maybank Berhad

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The content is almost identical with the previous mail, if u try to access, you will see "The page cannot be displayed"

Indeed, if you use the Proxy server to surf, that PHISHING page is still there,

this FAKE maybank have exactly LOOK & FEEL of the real Maybank site...

BEWARE..BEWARE...


Anyway, now come the question, why we cant access to that URL?
I guessed TMNET done a good job this time by blocking our internet to accessing to it...
How do i know TMNET done a good job? Let us do a simple ping command to www.2database-servers.comResult returned: Request timed out.

In order to know where the packet lost, we need to use tracert command

Like you see, the packets lost in ip 210.187.141.30, just do a query search,
is easy to know it is belonged to TMNET IP Adminstration



Meaning Malaysian who using Tmnet wont be able to access? while others ISP might still allowed? who knows....
If you are using other ISP other than Tmnet, you can try to access www.2database-servers.com,
or following the steps above, maybe you might get a different result and feel free to drop me a comment...