Free avast! Internet Security 6.0 License File Valid Till April 2012

Do you use avast! antivirus? Now you can use avast! Internet security for free until April 2012. Go to the link below to find out how.

http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/2011/07/18/free-avast-internet-security-6-0-license-file-valid-till-april-2012/


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Kittens at turntable desk jamming their way

Boy, kittens nowadays also keep up with the technology, learning to jam on turntable desk. :P



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Bins - Taskbar Organizer for Windows

What do you think about this picture?

Noticed there are 2 groups of taskbar icons? Nice? I can group even more groups, just that I don't think I have too many taskbar now after moving all the browsers into one group.

This software is made by the people that made ObjectDock, DellDock, and Fences. Bins is the software.

Unfortunately, it works for Windows 7 only (all version). Sorry for Windows XP and Vista.

After you install it and proper setup done, just drag the taskbar to the another that you want to group them. If you wish to un-group one of them, just drag it out of the group. That's it, very simple!
And since it is beta, so do expect some bugs.

And now my taskbar is much more cleaner because I always open more than 20 applications at same time.

Where can you get it?
Bins
Get it now, because it is still in beta and it is free! So be fast.
I think they will start charging when it goes to official release.


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How do I speed up my blog loading time

If you have noticed, this blog has been loading very slow since few weeks ago. And some of the people come to this blog just leave because it is taking forever to load! (Actually it took more than 20 seconds for some text to appear, that is very very slow for time like this). However I have found the problematic code that causing the slowness. Now it should be loading fine. :)

Here is what happen:
1. Start notice loading of this blog become very slow on beginning of Jul 2011.
2. Suspect streamyx issue, check out on other networks, but still slow.
3. Tried IE (super slow as usual), Maxthon, Chrome, Firefox, RockMelt and Safari, this blog still loading slow on all  these browsers. So this is not browser problem.
4. Moved "Stop Child Abuse" and "STOP LYNAS!" to a page called Community service, still slow, but keeping these in one page is good, makes this blog looks cleaner.
5. Moved cbox, shoutbox, weibo to another page, but still slow.
6. Have a thought of might be the pages listed below the header, so moved them to end of posting, not helping, so move it back to under the header.
7. I google around and found Yahoo! YSlow add on for FireFox and Chrome, installed the add-on on Chrome, check out the this blog, found some possible problems, but couldn't do much because some of the widget on my blog is default from blogger.
8. Then I found Pingdom Tool, this website can show me the loading time of each java script, page, and image. And from this tool that I found where is the problem. It is actually some link website by yahoo previously and with the website down, all browser that trying to load my blog will wait for it until time out for about 20 to 30 seconds. After remove that code, my blog loading time go back to normal.

This is the pingdom result before I remove the problematic code:

 This is after, the loading time is reduced to less than 10 seconds.

This is the history of each test, there was a 3.66 seconds that before problematic code being remove, I think that is incorrect, probably the test did not finish. Anyway, you can see on 19 Jul, the loading time reduced to less than 10 seconds.

That is the best website tool I ever encounter, you can also use it to debug your blog/website. :)

Okay, so now you no longer have to wait for a long time for this blog to load. Enjoy!


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Away from this blog

I will be away from this blog from July 28 to Aug 3, taking some time off from work and blogging. Not really go for vacation (example Bali), but still will be out of town and with minimum connectivity to internet. If still connected all the time, then it is not really a vacation right? :)
But anyway, if I can get some free Wifi connection, probably will login to twitter and Facebook, but not blogger, coz blogger is not friendly to smartphone.

I will still have new posting everyday, because I have already wrote them, or to be exact, copy and paste from somewhere. :P Here is how to post blog post in later date and time:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/03/how-to-post-blog-post-in-later-date-and.html

Beside some posts that I copy and paste from somewhere, I will have a post tomorrow that explain how I speed up my blog loading time, also a useful software posting on Friday.


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Toyota's Window to the World

Toyota's "Window to the World" is a concept of interactive display on all your car windows. How nice...... Anyway, have a great week ahead!




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MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 Teardown

Ah...Monday, what shall we do? Teardown something? Yes, as soon as the people at iFixit! got their hand on MacBook Air 13", it is being tear apart. Ouch!

Here you go:


If you prefer the full version, click this link:
MacBook Air 13" Mid 2011 Teardown


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source: http://www.ifixit.com

Google+ Cheat Sheet

Google+, I get myself into it last week, but I am not sure how to start and I am too lazy to read the Google+ help pages which is like 987 billion words. :P
So I found a cheat sheet, put up by a guy called Simon Laustsen.

Here are the cheat sheet, click image for larger view:

If you wish to add me in Google+, look for ahsiang888 at gmail dot com. :)

Have a nice Sunday! :)


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Motorola Droid 3 teardown

Another smartphone become victim of ifixit! This time is Motorola Droid 3.



If you prefer, you can click on the link below:
Motorola Droid 3 Teardown


Btw, I am playing with the Location feature of blogger, I had set to Antarctica, which is entirely fake :P . Let me know where can you see it. Well, I don't see any anything in preview.

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Planet of the Apes Party Fun time!

It's Friday! Alright. Time for some funky video, today's theme is Planet of the Apes Party Fun time! :)



I have help you to wasted some bandwidth and waste time over 2 minutes. :)
If you are completely fine with, here is a list of my waste time posting :P
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/waste time


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iUser for iPad - multi users login - jailbreak require

Note this: jailbreak require to enable this apps or feature. If you don't want to do jailbreak, go buy another iPad. :P

Okay, back to this iUser.

Apple created iPad for individual only and not for family, so what if you want to share the iPad but don't want to have each user interfere others user setting such as safari bookmark, twitter account, facebook login, etc? The quick way is to buy another iPad, but this could break the bank account for some of the family. 90/10 rules says that 90% of the wealth in this world control/own by 10% of people in this world. You see what I mean? :)

With this iUser, you can have multi users login, just like Windows! Who said Windows sucks? :P



This apps is now available at Cydia [jailbreak source! :) ]


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Twitter - from 0 to 200 million Tweets

Do you twit? I do, but twitter not so common in this part of the world. I know US is "so twitter", even the president twit. :D
Facebook is more common in this part of the world, btw. Anyway, here is a infographic on twitter, happy 5th anniversary Twitter. :)

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source: http://visual.ly/following-twitter

Angry Birds with Super Mario

Found this in Facebook video yesterday. Angry Birds leverage on Super Mario Bro technique. :) Enjoy!




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Lazy monday

Monday again. Blue? Do you still using hotmail or Windows live account? Skydrive is online storage I am using now. Just to store all the cab files that I used install on my very outdated HTC Touch (this is windows mobile!). If you don't know what is Windows Mobile, there is nothing to miss, just forget it. :D

okay, skydrive, login to your hotmail or windows live account and look for skydrive on left top and start upload your files that you don't mind if people would steal it. This mean do not store your file that you put all your online account password. Just the files that you want to keep but don't want to waste your hard disk or external hard disk.


Have a nice week ahead!

update: btw, skydrive is 25G of disk space! Not a lot to some of us, but it is still a lot of files you can store there. :)

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Photography tutorial

Canon UK created a tutorial on photography especially on DSLR, go to the link below for the tutorial.

http://www.canon.co.uk/eflenses/index.aspx?WT.mc_id=147Lenses004Can_151110
This is a commercial website, so do expect Canon's product being introduce here. :)

Have a nice sunday!

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I am on Google Plus, finally

I was waiting for invitation to Google Plus, the supposedly rival of Facebook. I joined Facebook because some of my friends only share their photos in Facebook. Not sure how good is it in Google Plus. But anyway, here is my first post:

Thanks to Jayce Ooi for the google plus invitation. :)


Leave a comment if you want to be invited to Google Plus. :)

Some of the post the I wrote previously regarding Facebook:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/05/why-you-should-quit-facebook.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/05/see-video-why-you-should-quit-facebook.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-reason-why-you-should-quit.html


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Ashampoo Home Designer, Snap 3 And Anti-Malware for free!

Ashampoo is giving out Home Designer, Snap3 and Anti-Malware for free. Not sure how long this will last but I have already downloaded Home Designer and Snap3. I have my preferred Anti-Malware, so no need to download Ashampoo's Anti-Malware.

Personally I have tried Home Designer before. These are some skills to master, but after that you can do your own home design in 3D! And do it in 3D is totally different than do it in 2D/paper. You have different perspective view and you can really have a good feeling of the home design you always wanted.

As for Snap3, I just gonna try it out to see any special. This is because I already have freeware to do video capture on my PC. Why not just try out because it is free! :)

The normal price for these software is $39 (US dolar) each!, so why not save yourself some money and download them from the link below. :)
http://www.ashampoo.com/en/usd/lpa/softpedia


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Voice-dubbed Matrix and Star Wars

PC nowadays are pretty amazing, we can do a lot of stuffs that we cannot imagine we can do 20 years ago, at home, on our PC/laptop. Furthermore, we don't need to pay a lot of money to buy software, we can use freeware.
I am not sure how Matt Mulholland did it, but a lot of you guys should be able to do the same thing Matt doing here just using freeware.

Now the video, turn on your speaker or wear that earphone now. :)

'The Matrix' Lobby Scene


'Star Wars: Episode I' - Obi-wan & Qui-Gon vs Darth Maul

Samsung Galaxy S 2 teardown

Sorry that I have been missing for few days, it was long weekend with holiday on Monday, this uncle have to take care his children, therefore no updating this blog.
Fear not, there is something for you to look at today. iFixit is tearing down Samsung Galaxy S 2, one of the snapshot I borrow from iFixit as below:

And according to iFixit, the Samsung Galaxy S 2 is still working after reassemble back. Now here is the link to the teardown.
http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-S-2-Teardown/5861/1


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Life size Bumblebee

Life size Bumblebee. See the video. If this a real Autobots, it would be pretty much death and destroy by Decepticons during the time of tranforms :P



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Zuckerberg is top Google+ user

Zuckerberg is not only famous for Facebook, now he is top Google+ user. Shame on Google CEO (Larry Page), he is no.2 only and he has no friend! :D

Google Plus is supposedly to replace Facebook as next big hit of social network and right now still based on invitation. Could you please invite me if you have Google Plus account? :) Leave a comment ya.


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Angry Birds Summer Pignic for Samsung Galaxy S 2

Yes, you read it right. It is "PIGNIC". And I heard it is not only for Samsung Galaxy S2 but for a lot of Galaxy variant, unless the resolution/hardware don't support Angry Birds. See the special level video after the jump.... nice, I should go get Samsung Galaxy S 2 now. :)

Bluetooth is outdated technology

Is Bluetooth going to be an outdated technology? Yes, why you need bluetooth when you can do this, see picture below. :D

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Audials Radiotracker 8 Standard free for another 12 hours - expired

Give Away of The Day dot com is giving out Audials Radiotracker 8 standard for free for another 12 hours this post being posted. So be fast, head to this link below, download, install and activate it before it expire! Remember you have to install and activate it before the expire time! Else just pay for it ($39.90). :P

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/audials-radiotracker-8-standard/

Here is what is told by the company that made "Audials Radiotracker":
Audials Radiotracker’s groundbreaking technology automatically downloads your songs in less than a minute, making it the most popular, the most decorated and the absolute best-selling web radio software in online and retail outlets in the process. No subscription, no hidden fees, just music edited perfectly in music shop quality and, due to free and legal real-time recordings of Internet radio stations, there’s no copy protection!
The Audials Radiotracker player allows you to listen to web radio stations, play music, burn CDs/DVDs or transfer files to an MP3 player. Audials Radiotracker also finds ID3 tags, CD artwork and lyrics and allows you to easily organize and manage your collection. The generator for cell phone ringtones lets you create ringtones for your cell phone from downloaded music for free.

Note: internet connection required for activation.

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Boosting (or blasting) Monday?

Monday again... Here is a video to give you a boost... er... blast :P
It is July 4th holiday at US, should be a lot of fire works at most places, here is another blast for you guys at US. :)

Hope you have a blast. :)

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Meme of modern days

Internet is an amazing place. If you surf youtube or some popular sites, I am sure you will stumble upon some of the familiar meme. So what is meme anyway? Click read more for more info......

New way of shopping online

Why wait until weekend then only go out to shopping? And are you convinced by the photos showed at online shopping website? Here is a new way of shopping happen at Korea, initiate by Tesco. See the video after the jump......

The right way to use iPhone?

I saw this on a telco website.

WT* is the right way? The link actually go back to Apple's iPhone manual website.