Happy New Year 2011! and Yes, I am back. (no)Thanks to the ever crazy gov, I got extra holiday here today, so I can read and write something for year 2011. So here is a video to cheer you up for 2011.
Oppss..... Too many stuffs to be take care of and too little time......
Sorry, I have to time off from writing to this blog, so that I can take care my daughters.
I have posted a lot this year, hope to do the same next year with more quality posting, or laughter that I hope you all can enjoy. Check out my table of content, you can sort them by label or date or title: http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/p/toc.html
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year!
See you next year!
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Merry Christmas to all of you that celebrate it. Happy holiday to the rest. :)
Enjoy the Christmas video performed by North Point's iBand using iPad (mostly) and iPhone.
Google want to demonstrate how good is Google Chrome OS. So they made a video showing it why it is so good for you. 25 laptops were harmed in the making of this video. I like the angrybird style to break the laptop at near end of the video. Enjoy after the jump :)
Ah...... I am just too outdated, because this Table Connect for iPhone news is out on Oct, and now it is Dec, so you see I am pretty outdated. :P
Anyway, I went to their blog recently and look at their youtube video. It is basically an extended screen for iPhone(?), they even demo playing a game on it on send video.
I have been using Maxthon 2 for a few years already, but this is not my primary web browser. My primary web browser for now is FireFox and Safari. Maxthon has some nice features which attracted over 536 million downloads!
This freeware for PPC can help you to track of your body weight and BMI. Here is what the author said:
MyWeight is a mobile application for those of you who want to keep their daily weight records under control. Comparing them against Body Mass Index (BMI) you are immediately informed if you are doing good or bad with your mass.
Features:
- record your daily weight (and height if still growing up) with a short info when necessary
- present your records on a chart with a time range option
- manage several profiles for more people records
- multi-language support (currently English and Polish)
- support for imperial (lbs/in) and metric (kg/cm) units
- import and export functions to transfer data between the application and csv file format
Ah... Good people still writing good apps for WinMo. This time is Twitter client for Windows Mobile. They called it PocketTwit and yes it is 101% free. See some demo on YouTube:
OMG! I am out of idea of what to write! Also there is not much things happen on the web, well, PayPal is not friend with Wikileak anymore.
But the rest of news just way too boring. So I will be boring too this week.
Be boring with my series of freeware for WinMo for rest of the week.
Who still use WinMo phone these day?
Moi, because the money I made from nuffnang (my advertiser) is not enough to even buy a Nokia dump phone! :P
Also google rejected my adsense application again!
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Sources said that NVIDIA going to have quad-core Tegra processors for smartphone. Okay, the sources is NVIDIA itself this time. So what you want to do with quad-core?
YouTuber Yankeyan, hack the Kinect (Xbox motion control device) to translate his real-world movements into video game actions, allowing him to play Super Mario Bros! Nice, but it will be very tiring. :P
MorseUtil is an application to translate texts to Morse code. 99.99% people of the world don't know Morse code, because of Internet, but this is a very good secret language that you want to have with your friends.
Or simply an emergency code that you want to communicate with the world during emergency.
If you like pizza and like to make pizza on your own, then you can try this apps on your Windows Mobile phone. It has recipe of various pizza and support multiple language.
I was still having problem with Windows 7's bug that the icons on desktop will running around when I switch from single monitor to extended monitor and vice versa. After googling around, it is a known bug that Microsoft yet to fix it. Even tried out various method (like unchecked "align icons to grid") that people suggested, the icons still running around.
UNICEF has started a nationwide movement called "Get on Board" to provide the public with the information, insight and resources to stop child abuse. This knowledge will empower everyone to protect the children in our families and communities. Let us show our children that at least a 100,000 of us care. The more people who raise their hand to be counted, the stronger the campaign becomes to deter an abuser from hurting a child.
You can become a Campaigner for Children by hopping on our bus, and rallying others to join us on our journey to end child abuse in Malaysia. UNICEF has prepared materials for you to use to help spread the word and to get as many people as possible to sign up for children. Here are some of the things you can do to promote the campaign for children:
* Blog about the campaign.
* Donate your Facebook status message or change your profile picture to the picture of your designed hand.
* Email you friends. (We even pre-made an email template for your convenience)
* Create conversations on Twitter.
* Send a letter to the Editor of your daily newspaper.
* Organise a sign-up at your company, college, place of worship.
Get on Board and help us spread the word to stop child abuse today! What will you do today that is more important?
This Chinese was playing a MMO game on Asia's largest LED screen (250m long/30m wide) which locate at Beijing, for 10 minutes. He paid $15,000 for that! OMG!
While auto correct on iPhone is a good feature to help users to correct typo, it is not perfect, go to this website to find out. Most of them are quite funny, some is are damn funny :D
Finish up your homework before you are allow to play your WII/XBox/PS(1/2/3)/PSP/blah blah blah! Sounds familiar? It is more for Asian, less for Western world, but playing too much video games can be exhausted, waste time and harmful to your social ability and now it is harmful physically, yes!
While some have abandoned Windows Mobile (skyfire for example), some good people at WinMo community (XDA for the best example) still developing useful apps for Windows Mobile platform. I have posted many freeware PPC in this blog, check they out here.
Okay, RockMelt finally working on my laptop. See what I complained about. Anyway, here is my print screen. The icons (apps) on both side are finally appear.It could be previously it cannot login. So your friends are on left hand side; facebook profile/twitter/RSS on right have side.
I can invite friends to RockMelt, but only gave me 3 invites? WHY WHY WHY?
Another problem is I cannot invite some people, most of my friends can be invited, but not all, not sure why yet.
My twitter also added here, so a single click can see my twits.
You can subscribe to RSS, I added this blog's RSS for testing:
Verdict, if you use Facebook 24/7, this could be your browser. Else look for FireFox or Safari (I use both of them).
What is Skyfire you might ask? Skyfire is powerful web browser for smartphone that support flash, mainly for WinMo and symbian. However recent Skyfire moved to apple apps store. Since then WinMo and Symbian users have problem accessing Skyfire. Web browsing using Skyfire was nice because the browser works with the company server to optimize the web content you surfing, but now not anymore for WinMo and Symbian.
Sorry, appls apps store is just way too good to earn money already. :P
Mouse (not the Mickey Mouse or the real mouse) is one great invention for PC/Mac, but will it still around when everything is touch screen? Anyway, some of the feature in Windows 7 can be access with a few key strokes compare to clicking with mouse (click and click and click and click and click and click!). Some the the keyboard shortcuts showed below already have exist on older Windows, but here you go, enjoy!
Missed the sticky notes in your study table or cubicle? Now you can have it on your Windows Mobile phone. Windows 7 also have this feature and since it is build in on Windows 7, so it is free. Now, back to Top Notes. This apps will put the sticky note on top of the "Today" screen.
Requirement: Windows mobile device with .NET CF 3.5
I have blogged about RockMelt few days ago. And on that very same day I have already got it installed. So here is some snapshot, and some rant on this beta.
Usually when we read news papers or magazine, the models/artists in the articles or ads are super beautiful, not a flaw! Many years back it was make up, so you still can see a little bit of flaw. But now with photoshop, there is no flow, except sometime the "photoshoper" that made some mistake. :P With photoshop,the guys can be macho!
This video showing how the people in video/movie can be taller or slimmer or more macho, any way you like it!
So people, what you see in the movie/photo/magazine/blog/web is not always the real one. Don't try to be exactly like in the movie/photo/magazine/blog/web. What most important is your heart. :)
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What do you do when you have a question and you want an answer right away? You google it right? Well, few years back, before google take over yahoo, we use "yahoo" it. :P
Anyway, sometimes I got google to show me some yahoo! answer or some other forums. But how reliable of these yahoo! answer and forums?
See example here, the questions was "Can i get help rebooting my computer?"
There are some buzz on the WWW on new browser these few days. A new type of browser called "RockMelt" has came out. It has the Google Chrome look, but with Facebook, and Twitter and some other social media "built" into the browser.
Couple of months ago, I still using some counter websites to track who/where/how my audience that come to this Outdated Penang Uncle blog. So I have to sign up for the service (yes, a lot of them are free), add the widget and after a while login to find out the statistic. For past few months, blogger added the page view tracking for all the blogspot, so even though I still have the counter at my blog, usually I just look at the "Stats" to find out my audience.
How to use:
1. You have to connect two devices via WiFi.
2. Run program on both devices. On first device fill "Recepient IP" (IP from "Your IP" on second device).
3. On second device set directory for files store.
4. On first device choose file and click "Send file".
Although people start to forgot what WinMo is like, but there are still a lot of good people there writing some amazing apps for WinMo, example WinStart. Written by a member of XDA, it is to replace Start Menu on all of WinMo6.* (6.0 ~ 6.5.3).
Happy Deepavali to all my friends who are celebration it! This is festive of light right? Happy holiday to Malaysian and Singaporean (India maybe? Not sure other country have holiday or not).
I will try to write something on this long weekend...... but usually not. :P Check back next week then.
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I have showed you how to download TED videos using FireFox add-on called "DownThemAll!", now there is another way to download TED videos that I am going to show you. Also this is good for people that don't like to use download manager or simply because your company IT blocked any download managers :)
You might have notice when dragging windows in Windows 7, you can see the windows suddenly 'snap' and maximized if you drag the windows close enough to the edge of the screen. Some find it useful, but not for me. So after some googling, here is what you can do to disable it.
If you have friends or co-workers that always ask questions that the answers always available on google, here is the thing to shut their mouth forever, HAHAHAHA.
DroidSans has posted some photos of new Acer Android smartphone. It looks like unusually widescreen! The second photos shows that 21:9 ratio of the widescreen, HD movie supported maybe? I doubt it, because 800MHz processor only! Should be runnng Froyo. I always have problem with Acer, any Acer product I bought would broken right after the warranty expire. :(
Today I got an email in my Gmail spam box with sender name "Maybank" (one of the online banking I use) and title "You have 1 new security alert". Sender with this email "jamfiddl@aol.com". I know what is a phishing email, but out of curiosity, I went to click on the link.
Nowadays everyone should already have at least an email account, facebook/twitter account, online banking account, blogger account, and many more online accounts. What happen if someone pass away suddenly without leaving the traces of login name and password for these account? It would take months or years to get the online companies to believe that you are the beneficial of the deceased. Some accounts you might want to notify the readers immediately, but how do you do it without the deceased's password? No one would like their family members to suffer even more when they found out they cannot do anything with the deceased online accounts!
From the creator:
"PDFTiger is a Word To PDF Converter and PDF To Word Doc Tool that quickly and accurately create PDF documents from Word, Excel, Powerpoint, txt or Images. PDFTiger can also convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files. "
For limited time (until Oct 21, 2010), you can register it for free! After that you have to pay US$39.95!
1. Download from here.
2. Install
3. Register with this registration code: R8Z8682LMDUAKHW
4. Start converting from or to PDF!
update:
when you start it for first time, it will bring up your default web browser and ask you to buy at US$39.95. Ignore it and continue fill in the registration code on the software, and you are owning another legitimate software! :)
update:
This expired already, if you didn't get it, try to watch out next time. Subscribe to my feed would help you to notice it. :)
GIMP is always my choice of software to edit photos or pictures, because it is free! Although not 100% comparable to Photoshop, it wins because it is free. Adobe Photoshop CS5 is now selling at US$699 at Adobe website. That is very ka-ching!!!
LG Optimus 7 is one of the first batch of WP7 that going to announce in these few days. Looks like C900, but with QWERTY keyboard and a panoramic camera model. Looks the pictures after the jump :)
Mark Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Facebook. He was worth $1.5 billion on year 2008 (#785 on Forbes list), and now he is now $6.5 billion, #35 on Forbes 400 list! Thanks to you all that plays Facebook games all day long, he is now one of the riches under 30 person in the world! Someone make a video to rap on/by him(?), hahah, Enjoy!
I am a huge fan of Spb Mobile Shell after tried several different UI on my HTC Touch Elfin. Spb Mobile Shell is the only UI that survived until today. I am no longer using HTC TouchFLO, ever!
I have been searching YouTube video downloader for a while, some live up to my expectation (if I lower the expectation a bit :P ). I have tried some websites that you provide the YouTube link and then they will show you the download link, but most of them are not working nowadays. :(
Samsung never fail to deliver its flagship smartphone that carry "Omnia" name. This video (after the jump) is super long ~13mins, with no sound. Nice! But......
People just like to play with numbers, especially involve with money. :)
Just in case you don't know what numbers you want to play, just install this PPC freeware on your pocketpc and it will generate random numbers for you to play. According to the author, this software can be use for these national lotteries:
TattsLotto - Australia
Lotto Österreich - Austria
Lotto 6/45 - Belgium
Mega Sena - Brazil
Irish Lotto - Ireland
Viking Lotto - Norway, Estonia, Iceland, Finland, Sweden
Onsdags Lotto - Denmark
New Lotto - Israel
NZ Lotto - New Zealand
Toto Lotto - Singapore
Swiss Lotto - Switzerland
Daily 6 Lotto and Pick 6 - USA
...and many others
You can also customize the range of 6 numbers it should generate. Meaning if the lottery is 1-42, after you set it on the software, it will generate random (or lucky!) numbers from 1 to 42 for you.
Okay, this is not a tutorial to teach you how to get twitter followers actually, my apology.
Although we read some where in blog/web/news papers that we can actually buy twitter followers using money. Some of you might already seen that, but some might not. So here is my story:
Someone that I added in twitter recently (because he/she followed me first, so I followed him/her back as a polite manner) is promoting a company that provide twitter followers with a price.
I have migrated to Windows 7 recently, and was a jump straight from Windows XP, not Vista. It is not really a struggling process for me because of a lot of different between Windows XP and Windows 7, because I am OutdatedPenangUncle!
Just joking. :)
Seriously, with the help of search engines,
I have been using this Task Manager on my HTC Touch for a while, and it perform up to my expectation compare to other Task Manager. Now with version 2.0 with more improvement, I am going to update this apps on my HTC Touch tonight! I have been using version 1.8.
For HTC or HTC Sense UI fans out there, now you can have it on your desktop/PC/laptop. You can run it on WinXP and Win7.
Here is the print screen of it.
Basically it has the time, date and weather only. The time and date are based on your PC/laptop, but the weather is from either Accuweather or MSN. So internet connection is needed to have the weather update. You can choose weather of which place you want it to show and how often to update it.
For Win7, you can right away use the 2.0. I tried the 2.0 version but it require .NET framework 4.0 on my WinXP. I tried to install .NET 4.0, but having problem to install it on my WinXP SP3. http://htchome.codeplex.com/releases/view/51464
What do you think about the video? NICE!
You can create on your own with this freeware: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mandelbulber/
Only 6.8M, very small setup file! Available for windows and linux.
You thought that all the inventors have to be old man and has hair style of Einstein? Look again, check out the list of innovations by young inventors under 35 years old!
I don't know that Sesame Street song can be sing like that way, nice! Usually I don't put something not related to this blog, but this bring back a lot of good old memories. If you are familiar with this, probably you are as old as this uncle. :P
For the record, Sesame Street is the longest running children show in US.
Today I came across 2 more video showing awful things that people can do to iPad. One to shoot it, yes shoot with a gun. Another one to blend it, excuse me? blend it? YES, see the second video.
MV by a French. I don't know what he sings, but you can see familiar stuffs like iPhone, PS, and Social networking, especially "add as friends", and "poke me".
BlackBerry 6 is out today! Major GUI improvement, and support multi-touch. Want to get one?
Great for business user, I think, but not my cup of tea. :)
It's real. I have tried it on my laptop using Sun VirtualBox. You can also burn the iso on CD or make a bootable USB drive. No installation needed, just run the live CD.
Brian is back. Now he has a new video. The video tells a story of a normal person fired by his company because of what he said in twitter. So people, please be careful when you twit or said something in facebook. See the video:
Who is Brian you might ask? He is the one that created the iPhone4 vs HTC Evo video that got himself into trouble because his company want to fire him. See the iPhone4 vs HTC Evo (mind the language, parent guide required! ;) )
Mobilism (ppcwarez.org) is back online. Right now only can access it using IP address (Thanks to FuFu for providing it). However it is slow and might not work sometime. Please be patient as the people at mobilism is working hard to bring it back.
Update (Dec 01, 2010): Mobilism is down again :(
I waited for more than 5 mins, but it took forever to load on my FireFox and RockMelt. And now it is showing "A communication error occurred: "Operation timed out" on my FireFox and RockMelt. :(
Update (Nov 19, 2010): I haven't login to Mobilism for quite a while, noticed that it was down last week because of hacker's attack. It is back online now, but I have problem to post reply on it, could be my FireFox, or something else. For you all, check it out your self.
Windows Phone 7 and XBox360 Live and Kinetic being demo during the keynote at WPC (Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, Jul11-15, 2010).
I would want both of them!
See the video in IE (I tried FireFox, but can't see the video). You may have to allow IE to install silverlight if you don't have it yet on your laptop/PC.
Go to 58th minutes for the Windows Phone 7 demo. Go to 75th minutes (1:25) for XBox360 demo.