Monday, April 30, 2012

Love Quotes for Android for free

Long forgotten the romantic skill? Don't know what special quote to say with your love one? Don't worry, this Android apps should be able to help you.



You can even send the quotes directly from the apps to sms, tweet, email and facebook status. It can also remember where were you the last time you use it, so that you don't repeat the quote again.

I don't know how many lines of quotes it has, but it worth the try since it is free!

Go to Google Play to download it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.smartwebs.love_quotes


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source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1609307&goto=newpost
pic source: Google Play

Saturday, April 28, 2012

HP Z1 Teardown

Do people still buying desktop nowadays? They do right? Otherwise HP wouldn't make this model. iFixIt give this all-in-one workstation a 10/10 rating, meaning fixing this guy is as easy as preparing a peanut butter jelly sandwich.

So here is the HP Z1 teardown:

If you prefer to read it at iFixIt, follow the link below:
HP Z1 Teardown


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Friday, April 27, 2012

How Enzyme Works

This picture has been forwarded and shared world wide with almost 600k views (as of this post being written), a prof in uni/college showed this picture to a class.

Personally, that is the truth of how enzyme should works. :)

LOL. Have a nice Friday and weekend.

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Chevrolet Volt Electrical Teardown

Every now and then I will post teardown from other websites, mainly from iFixIt. And these teardown are mostly on smartphone, tablet and game console. Recently I stumble upon a different type of teardown, it is on a car, an electrical car to be exact. Even though this is a car teardown, it was focus on the electrical and electronics circuitry teardown, I found it is quite interesting. If you however don't find it interesting, you may leave a msg in comment and I will add "waste time" tag for this post. :P

Chevrolet Volt - credit http://www.chevrolet.com
Chevrolet Volt is the hybrid car from General Motor. ubm techinsights is the company in charge of this teardown. The teardown covers:
  • the electronics used to control the complex transmission system
  • the motors use to generate electricity, inverter system, how AC connect to the system
  • the home charger system
  • the lithium ion battery system (it provides 360V DC!)
Unfortunately I can't post the teardown directly in this blog, it require registration to get 3 powerpoint files that contains the teardown. Registration is however free! One thing to note is I can't register with free email (gmail/yahoo/hotmail/etc), the website require an company email account.
Register and get the teardown free at this link:
http://www.ubmtechinsights.com/teardown-chevy-volt-charging-battery/


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source: originally saw this at http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/energy/27785/?ref=rss
pic source:  http://www.chevrolet.com/assets/en/images/model/2012/volt/gallery/exterior/12_ch_volt_gal_ext_01.jpg

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Teaser: The Next Galaxy

 Samsung have posted the teaser video of the Next Galaxy. Be it Galaxy S3 or Galaxy something, the world is expecting the next gen of Galaxy from Samsung.

Watch the teaser video:


You can register at the link to get the latest updates:
http://www.thenextgalaxy.com/


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source: http://www.thenextgalaxy.com/

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

How to Root the HTC One X

Members of XDA always ahead others on unlocking Android and WP devices. This time is HTC One X. shenye (the famous XDA developer) show the step-by-step on how to root the HTC One X. This video also include the (dull) unboxing of the phone. Jump tp time 4:40 if you just to see the unlocking section.



Important Links:

HTC One X Development Forum
ClockworkMod Recovery
SuperSU Package

I have to tag this as waste time post since it is waste of time for those that don't own HTC One X phone. heheh.


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source: http://www.xda-developers.com/xda-tv-2/how-to-root-the-htc-one-x-xda-tv

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Google Plus with New Interface

Google+ have a new interface. I wonder it was the reason Chrome and Firefox keep on crashing on my computer. Anyway, everything back to normal the next day. I am login into Google+ again and found the new things in there.

The introduction video to new Google+:


I do noticed that posting links to it become faster, compare the old interface which sometimes it just hanging there without doing anything.

And the profile page is similar to Facebook Timeline, coincident or copy?

Anyway, click on the +1 button on the left column of this blog if you like this blog. :)

btw, today is Earth Day. Visit this link for more info:
www.earthday.org


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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Is this Samsung Galaxy S 3?

Tinhte.vn got their hand on test unit that they claimed is Samsung Galaxy S 3.

The video is in Vietnamese but these is English subtitle:


Samsung official are not commenting on this and we have to wait until May 3 of the official date of Samsung Galaxy S 3 (or some other name?). Hopefully Samsung Galaxy S 2 price will drop soon, so that I can buy it. (•‿•)


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source: http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_test_unit_shown_on_video_specs_and_all-news-4126.php

Friday, April 20, 2012

new iPad (2012) is selling in Malaysia now

Okay, new iPad is selling like hot cake in US for a while already. However today is the first day new iPad (or I called it iPad 2012) selling in Malaysia. And the price is the same like iPad2 before price reduce.

So to complete this post, here is the price list:
  • WiFi only:
    • 16GB: RM1499
    • 32GB: RM1799
    • 64GB: RM2099
  • WiFi + 4G:
    • 16GB: RM1899
    • 32GB: RM2199
    • 64GB: RM2499
Got rumors said that the 4G on iPad 2012 is not being supported in Malaysia telco because of different operating frequency of LTE of Malaysia compare to US. This was enforced by the government, so nothing we can do about it if this rumors is true. For additional RM400, you get a piece of junk that operate just like the WiFi version only. Will Apple fix this? or Already fixed? We have to wait and see.

I have posted the cost of making a new iPad:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-much-is-your-new-ipad.html

Anyway, I don't care is it selling like curry fish head or hot cake because I am not buying it now. Check out why I am still not buying new iPad:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-i-still-not-buying-new-ipad.html


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iPad 2012 pricing source: store.apple.com la

BleachBit: the real HDD cleaning agent

I am happy with the lightning speed of SSD however suffer at the same time with the tiny space on SSD. SSD is still super expensive compare to the conventional (magnetic) harddisk. I have the quick check on Amazon just now and found out Cricial 128GB SSD (US$146.34) is much more expensive than Seagate 750GB (US$105.65), with both are 2.5 inch.

Due to the tiny diskspace on SSD, I have always watch out the stuffs I store on this SSD, and disk cleaning is become household chores (hate it but have to do it!). However "Disk Cleanup" which come with all Windows is one heck of useless software. It can clean up some of the junk, but most of the junk still remain as it is, hiding somewhere in the harddisk.

Today I bump into BleachBit, this guy really do what it is called, bleach!

BleachBit on Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

Not only Windows OS's junks, it can also clean up junks from:
  • Adobe Reader
  • FireFox
  • Google Chrome
  • IE
  • Java
  • MS Office
  • Paint
  • Silverlight
  • VLC media player
  • Windows explorer
  • Winzip
  • Wordpad
  • etc, whichever it can find in your HD. (The author claimed that the list is 780+ apps for Windows)
It can also shred files, directory and free space. Shred free space is a really important things to do before sending your computer to repair shop. Because delete file and flush it in recycle bins does not really get rid of it. I have posted methods to retrieved deleted files:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/04/pclaptop-life-saver-series-file.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/04/pclaptop-life-saver-series-file_05.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/04/pclaptop-life-saver-series-file_06.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/01/recuva-another-file-recovery-freeware.html

BleachBit is available for Linux and Windows.And it is portable, in 56 languages.
Best of all, it is free!


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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Penang Uncle is back!

Hi everyone, Penang Uncle is back from vacation! I have a problem with Google Chrome 18 today, it keep on crashing event thought with just less than 10 tabs, so I switch back to FireFox 11 now. It is better than wait slowly with FireFox than restarting Chrome everything it crash. Sigh.

Stay tune for new post, because I have very fresh mind now after vacation. :D

update: I found out it is Google+ that crashing both FireFox and Chrome. Have to leave Google+ alone for now.

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Monday, April 16, 2012

Penang Uncle Free Cloud Storage Posts Roundups

This should be the last roundups for this time, some free cloud storage for you to try out:

http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/02/another-cloud-storage.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/02/infinite-storage-on-your-hard-drive.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-50g-for-life.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/03/free-500gb-of-storage.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/03/another-free-500gb-of-storage.html


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source: why did they call it cloud?

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Penang Uncle Website Failed Posts Roundups

The compilation or roundups of website failed. I am not sure why they have all these problem, they should have hire IT and external IT solution, so whatwhy it still fail? Never mind, just see what happen.

Earth Hour Promotions That Is Not Earth Friendly
OCBC Online Banking Failed
Something Wrong with Facebook?
Another Fake Website
Another cloud storage?
2012 CNY Waste Time post
Fake likes in YouTube?
Target website
Motorola Careers website
Can we meet at Gspot?
The right way to use iPhone?


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source: these website have been failing since dunno when!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Penang Uncle Waste Time Posts Roundups

I have posted more than 20 posts that could waste your and mine time. Click the links below to see how you can waste some more time today. Heheh.

In order of most popular waste time post:
Waste time post that I posted during Chinese New Year this year, it is no.1 popular waste post on PenangUncle.com:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-cny-waste-time-post.html

Some new usage of PVC, it can really waste time at no.2:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-usage-of-pvc-waste-time-post-p.html

Waste some time on the iPhone 4S vs Nokia Lumia 800, I forgot why it is waste time, oh, watching youtube video is really waste time, most of the time! :P No.3
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/01/iphone-4s-vs-nokia-lumia-800.html

Waste even more time with this No.4, watch Star Wars Episode V in icon-o-scope.
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/02/star-wars-episode-v-in-iconoscope.html

And at No.5 is a waste time post about people wasting time on video games and get hurt!
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/11/video-games-are-harmful-really.html

That's all, top 5 most popular waste time post on OutdatedPenangUncle.blogspot.com !


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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How to Download Docs from Scribd for Free!

Too many roundups could be boring, so I delayed this post for Apr11.
Some of the time we found a PDF or document that we want to print on Scribd, Scribd however now is only allow viewing online only. If you want to download, you have to pay. Sigh. I just can't simply print screen for 90 over pages right?

Okay I found a website that allow us to download Scribd documents for free.

Scribd Document Downloader

Just paste the address of the Scribd and click download.

The only drawback is the document will be call document.pdf, document.xxx. Just rename, and that's it. The PDF/doc is your to print.

DO take note that this action might be illegal at some country. Don't say I didn't warn you. :P


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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Penang Uncle Tutorial Posts Roundups

Year-to-date, I posted 10 tutorial posts, not bad huh. Here goes the list:

Chinese Input made by Google, which it is the primary input method that I use to type in Chinese characters into my PC:
Google Chinese Input - offline English to Chinese

I faced the problem I cannot install any apps on Chrome and after I found the solution, I wrote it in this post:
How to Fix Cannot Install Apps on Chrome Problem

Then later I use JDownloader to download YouTube video, was a bit of hassle compare to plugins on Chrome or Firefox, but it worth the try:
Download YouTube Video with JDownloader

Next I moved to consumer electronics where I have my method of choosing the right LED TV or LCD TV:
How to Choose LED TV or LCD TV - extreme method

I wrote this post for my wife, she was struggle with web-based hotmail/Windows Live Mail, so I showed her how to use Outlook to manage it:
Manage Hotmail or Windows Live Mail with Outlook

For geek to measure disk drive read/write speed:
How to Measure Disk Drive Speed

Infographic to teach you how to google more effective:
How to Google with More Effective

My method of recover or repair Windows 7 Aero Feature, just reboot! :P
How to Recover or Repair Windows 7 Aero Feature

A rare post that wrote about step-by-step to renew Malaysian Passport Online:
How to Renew Malaysian Passport Online

And just recently, I use this method to print a super large Tokyo railway and subway maps:
How to Print PDF to Multiple page in Windows


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source: I wrote all these, okay?

Friday, April 6, 2012

Penang Uncle WTF Posts Roundups

Okay, I am on vacation right now, but I have line up roundups from this blog. Today the roundups is about WTF posts that I posted. So here goes nothing:

The world shortest train:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/09/worlds-shortest-train.html

Earth Hour Promotions That Is Not Earth Friendly
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/03/earth-hour-promotions-that-is-not-earth.html


WTF, just 2? No, make it 3 for this WTF roundups. :P


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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Penang Uncle Most Popular Posts Roundups

I will be away for more than a week for vacation, but I will line up roundups (compilations) of my previous posts so that keep you entertained at same time keep the traffic coming in. Hopefully these roundsups bring back some good old memories. Cheers!

What are the most popular post in this blog? When I started to blog on blogger.com (7/7/2009), I manage to pull 3k+ pageview on that month, but later on went down to 1k+. Last month, this blog managed to pull 9.6k pageview, thanks to the fake OutdatedPenangUncle blog. :P

Here are the top 8 most popular posts of all time:
1. ppcwarez.org changed to mobilism.org
    PPCWarez.org originally created for pocketPC, which eventually evolved to become forum for posting warez for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS. Even the WinMo forums still active.

2. How to install apk into BlueStacks
    Step-by-Step on how to install apk into BlueStacks, the easy to use Android emulator on Windows.

3. How to enable Android Market for BlueStacks
    Step-by-Step on how to enable Android Market on BlueStacks.

4. How To Put Picture Side by Side in Blogspot or Blogger?
    Steps to put picture side-by-side on blogspot or blogger. Was the most popular post before BlueStacks posts, and not include mobilism posts.

5. Mobilism (ppcwarez.org) is back online
    The second most visited post when mobilism was down.

6. Samsung Galaxy S 2 screen problem?
    Talk about possible screen problem on Samsung Galaxy S 2 and how to check.

7. Samsung Galaxy S 2 - everything you need to know
    Unboxing and reviews by Mr Miniman from Pocketnow.com.

8. How to change boring Office Communicator to not so boring
    A project by Jax.cx that modify MS Office Communicator's status into something different from the MS default and boring status.

That's all for this roundups, more roundups coming for new few days. While writing these roundups, I was surprised that how I wrote those stuffs. Interesting. :D


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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Which Android Antivirus Should You Use?

Even though Google now is reviewing every single apps that going to be available on Market or Google Play, there are still huge amount of malware apk that being distributed outside of Market/Google Play. The best practice is to install apk from reliable source(s) only, another method is to install antivirus, but which one to use?

According to AV-Test.org, an independent IT-Security institute from German, there are only 3 out of 41 antivirus apps that are really doing the job:
F-Secure Mobile Security [€29.95]
Kaspersky Mobile Security (Lite) [free]
McAfee Mobile Security [7 days trial, US$29.99]

Android Antivirus comparison on Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

Looks like Kaspersky Mobile Security (Lite) is best choice from the list. However it is still depend on your own preference. This is just a suggestion only.

To read the full report, click this link:
http://www.av-test.org/fileadmin/pdf/avtest_2012-02_android_anti-malware_report_english.pdf


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source: World Wild Web
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Why Playing Games is Good for You

Remember the time when our parent always banned us from playing video games? We should getting this infograph at that time, now we can play games and tell them to join us for the benefit of playing games. :-)

Gaming is good for you
Source: Frugal Dad

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source: frugaldad.com lo

Monday, April 2, 2012

How to Print PDF to Multiple page in Windows

This is the combination of previous post to complete this post.

Sometime some companies/banks/gov offices/etc etc would publish some info into PDF. These kind of PDF have too much of information that printing it out would just waste of paper, since everything is too small to see if we print it into single piece of paper.

Thanks to Tokyo Subway and Railway Maps PDF, I have found the method to print huge or large PDF into multiple pages, so that it is clearer to see on papers.

There are about 103,000,000 results if we search for "how to print pdf to multiple pages" on google. I looked at a few of them, but some of them did help to provide idea to me. So there is how I did it:

1. Install PDF-XChange Viewer or download portable version and unzip it:
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
Free version can do this job. :-)


2. Open the PDF file using PDF-XChange Viewer.

3. Click "File" -> "Export" -> "Export to Image".

4. Pick your options:
4.a: Page Range: All, or current page, or selected pages.
4.b: Save As: export file format [I picked BMP or TIFF], destination path, and export mode [use default]
4.c: Graphic: page zoom [100%], page background [just pick white], resolution [a bit tricky here, you have to play with it until satisfy, but 300dpi would do the job for me]

5. Click export.

6. Print the image file into multiple pages using this method:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/09/print-large-image-to-multiple-pages-in.html

I told you that this is a combination of previous post with this port.
Now go print your humongous PDF.


Note: Adobe PDF Reader will never have this export to image feature, stingy Adobe.


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Sunday, April 1, 2012

Fake OutdatedPenangUncle blog?

sigh, I wish this could be April fool joke. But it is not. Someone is copying this blog exactly, even the nuffnang ads code as well. Most probably using machine or software to copy, but then they don't know that the nuffnang code depends on the address of the blog/website, so you could see error msg on the blog.

At the side bar:
Fake website faking Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

Bottom of every post:
Fake website faking Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

Floating unit:
Fake website faking Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

From error message, I think you should notice the link to that fake blog.

Anyway, thanks to that blog, I am getting more traffic to this blog because many link links on that blog are still point back to this blog. So should I thanks to them?


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