Friday, May 31, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Unboxed the XDA Way

I always like to watch Unbox video made by XDA. I have subscribed to the XDA TV channel on youtube, so that I don't missed out any of the video. However some of the video might super boring for most of the people. There is one person, which is Adam that I like in most particular. If he don't work as XDA developer, he could be stand-up comedian.

Anyway, here is the video of unboxing Samsung Galaxy S 4:


Don't forget to subscribe to XDA TV on youtube!

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Saturday, May 25, 2013

Star Wars Episode 7 Story Line

Looking forward to this kind of story line for Star Wars Episode 7! :P



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Friday, May 24, 2013

How to Store Other Stuffs on Flickr

As soon as Flickr announced the free space upgraded to 1TB,  people start to think what else we can store on Flick, in which I already mentioned that in my earlier post:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/05/flickr-is-now-1tb.html


Within 1 or 2 days, Reddit user rlaw68 posted the method that we can use on Windows, which is to hide any file behind a picture. Read about the detail at Reddit link below:
http://redd.it/1et454

That method is something similar that I used to transfer files across the pacific ocean. Since each sftp has it's cap speed, so I split a 1GB file into smaller chunks and transfer it with 10 xterms, there are a lot of manual works, but it is so much better to wait for an hour plus. With my method, I can transfers the 1GB from Penang to California within 10 to 15 minutes. Sometimes I have a dir with many more sub-dirs that is also more than 1GB, what I did was tar it, zip it and split it. After the files has been sftp to another side, just use cat to combine back the file, unzip and untar. Everything can be done within 20 minutes. Some other engineers didn't know this method, so they always ended up waiting one whole day just to transfer a 1GB tar file from Penang to California. If they have one week to complete the work, they used up 20% just to transfer file (1 week is 5 working days).

Back to this storing other files on Flickr, I tried it with hiding behind a gif file and also tried on jpg, both has been flag as error b Flickr. After a few times of trial and errors, I realized that maybe Windows is the problem. (Win7 64bit btw).

Since I have cygwin (a linux command prompt on Windows), so I switch to use cygwin, using the same method, but now is on cygwin, not Windows' command prompt. With just one attempt, it works! Flickr recognized it as the gif file and downloading it back prove that the file still can be use. There was another post on the wild wild web which was for MacOS. I would think MacOs would work, because MacOS is based on linux anyway.

So here is the method:

1. Install cygwin if you don't have it on your Windows. [It will be a long and painful process, download the setup file and run the setup file, wait for the setup file to download more file, but it was worth the waiting because I can run many file processing scripts on my Windows the way I wanted to on linux. ]
www.cygwin.com

2. Open cygwin, cd to the dir you want to hide the file behind the gif or jpg.

3. Do this command:
$ cat cover.gif Testing.zip > Testing.gif

4. Upload it to Flickr, and Flickr is happily show it as a picture file.

Done.

When you want to retrieve the file, click on the picture, choose to download original size of this photo. After the file is downloaded, open it with 7zip or WinRAR. WinZip will not works, which is why I have been using 7zip so many years that 7zip is the first software to install on every new Windows. To be exact, I don't install it, I just copied it from back up because it is portable!

Good luck!

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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Penang Uncle Giftaway Contest [update: ended!]

For the first time ever, PenangUncle is hosting a Giftaway contest!


The price is RM10 worth of Petronas Gift Card. This card is reloadable, meaning after you have used up the value in it, you can reload it at Petronas Stations and use it again. Not only can be use for petrol, but other product that purchased from Petronas Stations.

Note: This gift card is not sponsored by Petronas. Penang Uncle has no business or personal relationship with Petronas. I has been looking for a good method to reward my readers, this is one of the best option.

Just follow the instructions in the PunchTab:



Terms and conditions (of course la):
1. I am not responsible whatever happen to you after you win the contest and then I sent you the giftcard. :P
2. Only applicable to resident in Peninsula of Malaysia. I will not send the prize to places other than Peninsula of Malaysia.
3. Penang Uncle reserve the rights to alter the rules without informing participants.
4. Contest start from 9am May 15, 2013, end at 5pm 25 May, 2013 (APAC time).

Good luck!

T&C of the Petronas gift card:
http://www.mymesra.com.my/index.php?ch=mmc_pns_misc&pg=mmc_pns_misc_misc&ac=50&tpt=mmc


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Flickr is now 1TB

Yup, 1TB (terabytes), not GB. Unlike box.com or adrive.com which offers the best free 50GB free space, Flickr is now 1TB, that is 20 times of box.com or adrive.com free account. And it is free. Either old or new users, everyone now get 1TB.



I wonder if I can convert Flickr to store other types of file. You know what I mean.

Before Flickr revised the rules, free users can only upload 300MB per month, so it will take like like 278 years to fully use up the 1TB. Luckily now Flickr has unlimited upload of max picture size of 200MB and video up to 1GB.

For my 1M Streamyx broadband package, if I would fully use the line for upload photos only, it will take 180 days to used up the 1TB.
1TB = 1,000GB = 1,000,000MB = 1,000,000,000kB
Max upload speed = 64kB
1000000000kB/64kB = 15625000 seconds = 260,416 minutes = 4340 hours = 180 days


Meaning I will never used up the 1TB. But yahoo already win, because it will attract users back to Flickr.

If you already have yahoo account, just use yahoo account to login.

flickr.com

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Jolla Phone

Jolla Phone which is running on Sailfish OS that is based on Meego OS. Meego OS was abandoned by Nokia and Intel years ago, but the develop team didn't give up and continue the development, now it is time for Sailfish OS to take off.



Sailfish OS should be able to run Android apps, but does it support Google Play? I doubt so, so probably have to get the apk files from other sources.

There is another tease video, which hide about split screen:


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source: youtube

Monday, May 20, 2013

How To Navigate The Internet At Work

It's Monday again. Here is a infographic to remind you of what you can or cannot surf during work!





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source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-11/how-to-navigate-the-internet-at-work-nsfw-by-buzzfeeds-katie-notopoulos

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Plants vs Zombies 2

The sequel of Plants vs Zombies is like taking forever. I thought Pop-Cap is not going to make the sequel, however Pop-Cap recently teased about Plants vs Zombies 2. No detail about the game right now.





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Tuesday, May 7, 2013

[free game] FruitPunch

I can't really play RPG or strategic games because I will be hook on the games for endless night.
Therefore nowadays I choose casual games where I can finish the game within few minutes just to kick out some boredom.

FruitPunch is the latest game that I am playing now. It is something like tetris, bejewel and with gravity. See the demo video:



Get it from Play Store.

You can help the developer to improve the game at XDA forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245513

However there is a method to choose your game:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-pick-perfect-game.html

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Friday, May 3, 2013

How To Pick The Perfect Game

What kind of game suites you? Which one that you play the most? Here is a complicated infographic that supposedly tell you which game you should be playing based on the criteria that you enforced.

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