Another bad day for me. My newly installed player dead, unable to enjoy my newly installed speakers, I lost my way when on the way home after meet up with my buddy just because I missed the exit to my home, all the way to Setia Alam, a place that I totally doesn't familiar with and didn't step in before. All the way are highway, no one I can ask for my way. Called my buddy to ask for the way but seems doesn't help, no choice, have to depends on Waze, luckily I still have GPS on hand, at the end, I reached home safely, thank god. Both happened on the same day.

Think from the bright side, I knew a new place that I doesn't step in before. What I can say is, GPS is helpful, it doesn't mean "Guna Pun Sesat" for me, not sure about you, haha..

Everything have been settled, it's time to send to my buddy's workshop (Motorshop Shop) for service. Have been 6 months but only run 5,000 mileages.

Have been drag for so long, finally changed my player and transform my car seat to leather, mom said easier to manage, have been officially approved by mom.

Welcome home, finally back! Once it out from "hospital", straight away sent to "shower", wax, 3 layers polish, interior grooming, vacuum, it's time to pamper "her".. Haha..

Finally sent the car to workshop after all the procedure settled.

Really a bad day for me, car got scratch at hospital, car bang at Federal Highway, involved 3 cars, I'm the first car. Went to police station to report the whole incident in order to claim car insurance. Really a sad day. 

Have been long time didn't update this blog, since I'm fully healed, it's time to back to blog and keep update more about myself although no one interested to know more about me.. Haha..

Geeky Bids

Come across Geeky Bids ad from a file hosting website, click on the ad by sheer curiosity. It's actually an auction website with every item bidding from RM0.00, every bidding session increase RM0.01 cent. You'll be given 10 free bids once you sign up an account. Here how it works.

• All auctions start at RM0.00.
• You then place a bid.
• Each bid you place will increase the current price by RM0.01.
• The countdown timer resets everytime a new bid is placed.
• If the countdown timer reaches 00:00:00 and no new bids are placed, then the last bidder wins the right to buy the product at the final auction price.
• Winner gets back 100% of his/her bids as well.

A short video for better understanding.

Do you guys think this website is genuine? Check it out yourself, never try, never know.

Truck Painters

Received an email from a buddy few days ago, it's about truck painters. It's so creative! Below are the contents in the email to share with you guys.

Below are 7 pictures of European trucks whose trailers are decorated to look like the sides are missing and the products they are hauling are painted on the sides and back.

The first one is of a bottle of beer and looks so real, like it is coming out the side of the trailer.

The second is of a canvas tote bag.

The third is of Pepsi cases and they are all stacked on the ceiling, and the bottom of the trailer is empty.

The fourth is of another truck with the windshield facing the back, a driver painted in the driver's seat looking back over his shoulder to appear like he is driving backwards. (Now this one is just plain scary, even when the German reads 'On the wrong way?').

The fifth one is of an aquarium with fish swimming in it.

The sixth one is of a bookshelf with books lined up in it and a post-it-note with an advertisement on it, probably for the company that sells the books.

The last one is for Pringles-Hot & Spicy. The 'inside' of the trailer has the appearance of having been through a fire.

Problem solved!

Met a client yesterday to deal on the Honda CR-V DVD player. After he got everything installed on his car, he called me said that having few problems on the player, I was worried how to solve the problem for him and decided to meet him today morning to check out the problems that he mentioned. Luckily the client is nice even the player has some problems.

Woke up early today to meet up with the client and check out the problems that he mentioned. He mentioned the GPS can't get signal, was keep on figure out for him and he drove me around to test but still unable to get the signal. I was suddenly think of will it because of wrong file selected, once selected the other file, it got the signal! We were so happy!

After the GPS signal problem solved, comes to steering control problem, he unable to get the steering control sync with the player because the player interface locked with a passcode. Was keep on calling supplier and manufacturer to get the passcode, at last got the passcord and set the steering control with him, finally done! We were so happy again!

So, it's just consider technical problem, not the problem cause by the player.

Through out the whole process, I gained much more experience about the problems that may face by client. It's really a good experience for me. God blessed!

Apple Officially World's Largest Smartphone Maker — Guess by How Much

It wasn't enough to surpass the U.S. government with a whopping $76 billion in cash reserves, now Apple's been declared the world's largest smartphone manufacturer as well. It must have something to do with that mobile phone they make. What's it called again? The i-Something?

Yep, that. And according to Strategy Analytics, it pushed Apple past both Nokia and Samsung in the second quarter of 2011 to establish Cupertino as the world's topmost smartphone maker in volume shipments. And depending who we're comparing the company to, Apple's either ahead by a huge margin, or just barely.

Worldwide smartphone shipments grew across the board for the second quarter of 2011, up 76% to a record 110 million units total, according to Strategy Analytics senior analyst Alex Spektor. While Nokia dropped from 23.8% to 16.7% in shipments for the second quarter, year-on-year, Apple's leapt to 20.3% during the same period. Samsung clocked in second at 19.2%, a single slender percentage point behind Apple, and actually beat Cupertino for year-on-year shipment growth, rising 16.1% (from 3.1%) compared with Apple's 11.9% (from 8.4%) for the same period, year-on-year.

"Now, just four years after the release of the original iPhone, Apple has become the world's largest smartphone vendor by volume with 18 percent market share," said Spektor, adding "Apple's growth remained strong as it expanded distribution worldwide, particularly in China and Asia.”
Those ratios apply to global marketshare, too. While Nokia more than halved its second quarter position, dropping from 38.1% to third place with 15.2% of the market year-on-year, Samsung rose from 5% to second place with 17.5% and Apple jumped ahead from 13.5% to first place with 18.5% for the same period. Again, Samsung's marketshare growth performance actually beat Apple's.

Added Strategy Analytics director Neil Mawson, "Samsung overtook Nokia to become the world's second largest smartphone vendor in Q2 2011...[growing] a huge 520 percent annually." Mawson points to the success of Samsung's Galaxy lineup, "especially the high-tier S2 Android model."

And Tom Kang, another director at Strategy Analytics, explains Nokia's slump by pointing out that while the company was first to ship 100 million smartphones in a single year (in 2010), "the industry awaits Nokia's pending transition to Windows Phone 7."

Source: TechLand

Report: The iPhone 5 Might Actually Arrive in October

If you've been holding out on buying an iPhone in anticipation of the iPhone 5, be prepared to wait a bit longer.

All Things Digital reports that all previous rumors about a September iPhone 5 release are wrong, and that Apple's newfangled contraption will actually arrive in October. Where does this information come from? Why, more anonymous sources, of course!

The report specifically takes issue with a rumor that AT&T has blacked out employee vacations for the last two weeks of September, suggesting that the iPhone 5 will launch during that time. "I don't know why AT&T's calling for all hands on deck those weeks, but it's not for an iPhone launch," one unnamed source told All Things Digital. Other unnamed sources said the iPhone 5 will be released in late October, rather than the early half of the month.

In case you're (not) keeping score, we now have rumors of an iPhone 5 launch in August, September and October. It's tempting to think that November launch rumors could be next, although I doubt Apple would want to let the holiday shopping season begin without its latest iPhone in stores.

Besides, the October launch rumor isn't appearing from out of nowhere; the blog MacOtakara reported in March that Apple wouldn't begin production on the next iPhone until the end of its 2011 fiscal year (September), and AT&T has already confirmed that it'll start throttling unlimited data users, possibly in preparation for a wave of new iPhone 5 owners.

So what's the holdup? I'm guessing Apple's in no rush as it squeezes plenty of sales out of its current generation hardware. Although analysts had expected iPhone 4 sales to decline last quarter, sales were actually up 9% over the previous quarter, making Apple the world's biggest handset maker. You might be waiting for the iPhone 5 until October, but a healthy chunk of the market isn't so patient.

Source: TechLand

Skype for iPad Appears, Vanishes, Reappears

Skype for iPad briefly surfaced on Apple's App Store this morning, promising to unlock net-based voice and video calling for tablet aficionados, but the app mysteriously disappeared just as quickly. In its wake: a puzzling "temporarily removed" note.

A quick scan of the company website and official Twitter feed solves the mystery: removed by the hand that feeds, it seems.

"To ensure your best Skype experience, we've temporarily removed Skype for iPad which went live prematurely today," wrote the company on Twitter early this morning, adding: "We know you've been eagerly awaiting Skype for iPad and apologize for the inconvenience."

It's not clear at this point what prevented the version uploaded by the company from ensuring the "best Skype experience," or when it plans to roll the app back out. [UPDATE: And just like that, it's back—users are reporting Skype's re-upped the app, and that it's now working.]

User reaction to Skype's "here today, gone today" tablet app was palpable.

"Tried installing #skype for iPad and got error that app isn't available. Anyone else experience that?" tweeted one user.

"[Funny], #skype yanked the iPad app for "being released prematurely"...shouldn't that have been done with every iPhone version they made?" tweeted another.

[UPDATE: "[Sweet], #Skype for ipad has been re-released on the app store. [No] more using the mini sized iphone app!!" tweeted a third after the app was reportedly re-upped."]

Skype for iPad boasts two-way video calling for iPad 2 over Wi-Fi or 3G, though original iPad owners can only receive video, and to do video at all, you'll need iOS 4.0 or later.

Source: TechLand

Here's where Facebook beats Google

LOOK CLOSER: Web users who type in "faceboook.com" are greeted with a Facebook-like website that tries to scam them. - Relaxnews 2011

SAN FRANCISCO: "Facebook.com" is by far the most common URL that people type into the address bar of their web browser.

People are typing "facebook.com" almost three times more often than "google.com."

The URL statistics were published on July 25 by Christopher Finke, a software engineer and the creator of URL Fixer, a browser add-on that fixes human errors that are typed in the address bar on your browser.

Facebook.com is the most popular domain and accounts for 9% of all typed domains. Google.com is the second most typed address and accounts for 3.3% of all typed domains.

Youtube.com, gmail.com, twitter.com, mail.google.com, yahoo.com, hotmail.com, amazon.com and reddit.com also feature in the Top 10 most typed domains, said Finke.

According to website traffic monitoring company Alexa, the Top 10 sites on the Web by the amount of traffic they receive are, in order: Google, Facebook, Youtube, Yahoo!, Live, Baidu, Wikipedia, Blogger, MSN and Tencent.

Finke noted in the comments on his blog that while "All of Facebook's properties (*.facebook.com) combine [to make up] 9.4% [of all typed domains]; all of Google's (*.google.com, YouTube, Blogspot, etc.) combine for at least 9.7%."

"The only locales where neither Google nor Facebook control the most popular domain are ru-RU (Russia - vkontakte.ru), fi-FI (Finland - aapeli.com, a gaming website), ko-KR (South Korea - fomos.kr, an e-sports website), and zh-CN (China - baidu.com)," Finke said.

Not surprisingly, people often make mistakes when entering addresses into their URL bar and end up with all kinds of typos. Frequent variations on the top level domain ".com" include .com\, .ocm, .con, .cmo, .copm, .xom, ".com,", .vom, .comn, .com', ".co,", .comj, .coim, .cpm, .colm, .conm, and .coom.

"The website that appears to benefit the most from users mistyping a legitimate URL is faceboook.com (count the o's)," said Finke.

Scammers have taken advantage of the common typing error (which is typed once for every 7,930 times that facebook.com is correctly typed), setting up a website that makes visitors think they have been chosen as a "Facebook Winner." - Relaxnews 2011

Source: TechCentral

Google Can Detect if Your Computer Is Infected and Help You Fix It

Malware! Huah! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing—unless you're trying to profit by infecting people's computers with malware, in which case you're acting jerk-ily. Good news/bad news, though: Google can now detect certain types on malware on your computer and help you fix it.

It's good news for people who want to know when their computers have been infected, and bad news for people who think Google already knows too much about them. Whatever your disposition, here's how it works.

Certain strains of malware hijack your internet connection and re-route your destination to sites trying to sell you stuff or further infect your computer. If you've ever opened your web browser and been taken to a page other than the page you've designated as your home page, that's malware, baby.

The thing is, Google can actually detect certain types of malware based on the traffic that's being sent through its servers. Google recently discovered a particular strain of malware and, in a company blog post, said:

"This particular malware causes infected computers to send traffic to Google through a small number of intermediary servers called 'proxies.' We hope that by taking steps to notify users whose traffic is coming through these proxies, we can help them update their antivirus software and remove the infections."

So if you're surfing the web on your computer and your traffic is being re-routed through one of these proxy servers, Google will be able to alert you once you eventually make your way to one of Google's sites. Once you find yourself at one of Google's sites, you'll see this notification:

The downside here is that the notification looks kind of like a fake notification meant to trick you into clicking on a link in the first place, so people who have learned to ignore "Your computer appears to be infected" messages may dismiss it altogether. Also, malware developers could theoretically make it so that every time you try to go to a Google site, you're rerouted elsewhere. But then you'd really know something was up, huh?

Source: TechLand

'Anti-Jailbreak' iOS 4.3.4 Already Jailbroken?

The whole point of Apple's iOS 4.3.4 update was to put the kibosh on a serious iOS security defect that allowed hackers to jailbreak iPhones, iPads and iPod touches (as well as surreptitiously remote control them), but it seems the fix may have already yielded to hackers.

Hack group 'iPhone Dev Team' (not to be confused with Apple's actual iPhone development team) claims it already has a jailbreak for iPhones and iPod touches running iOS 4.3.4.

"For the convenience of kernel hackers…we have a new redsn0w 0.9.8b3 that supports a TETHERED jailbreak for iOS 4.3.4 on all devices that have 4.3.4 except the iPad2," wrote the team in an update to an iOS5 beta jailbreak post. The group added that most people would want to stick with iOS 4.3.3, claiming "there are no new features in 4.3.4 — only fixes for jailbreak exploits."

Don't get too excited, iOS hack fans. A tethered jailbreak requires you leave your iOS device physically connected to your computer each time the iOS device is rebooted to maintain the hack. If your iPhone hangs in the field, as it's arguably more inclined to running hacked software, you're out of luck until you re-sync with your computer using a physical cable.

Apple did the right thing, of course, getting an update out to patch the iOS security flaw (and reportedly break other jailbreak holes), but it's pushing a boulder uphill in terms of securing long term hardware lockdowns. The company lost a crucial legal battle over jailbreaking last summer, after it attempted to spin jailbreaking as illegal. A court ruled it wasn't, and essentially established jailbreaking as an exception to the controversial Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Apple's response to the ruling? That jailbreaking "can violate the warranty and can cause the iPhone to become unstable and not work reliably."

Will iPhone Dev Team bother with a cordless iOS 4.3.4 jailbreak? Who knows, but if all Apple really did was fiddle a few jailbreak holes, perhaps the hack team's keeping its powder dry for iOS 4.3.5.

Source: TechLand

Stadt German Cuisine & Bistro @ Bandar Puteri Puchong

Stadt German Cuisine & Bistro - The authentic original recipe of German grilled steak, seafood, sausage, and the captivating taste of crispy pork knuckle immediately come to mind. There have dim environment and with music. This restaurant definitely non-halal.

Butter Sauce Cod Fish

Combo Mix Sausage

German Salad

German Pork Knuckle

Fish & Chips

Seafood Pasta

Unable to try out all the cuisines there, you may pay a visit to try out yourself.

Stadt German Cuisine & Bistro
No. 50 & 50-1, Jalan Puteri 1/4,
Bandar Puteri, 47100 Puchong,
Selangor Darul Ehsan.
Coordinates : 3.0274,101.617119
Tel: 03-8063 5380 Fax: 03-8063 5390
Email: enquiry@stadt.com.my, feedback@stadt.com.my

Website: www.stadt.com.my

DinTaiFung 鼎泰豐 @ Empire Subang

DinTaiFung - A restaurant originally from Taiwan but currently it expanded to 10 countries included Malaysia. Currently only have two branches in Malaysia which are Empire Shopping Gallery and Pavilion Kuala Lumpur.

The interior at Empire Subang I feel very narrow. Personally I feel that their food not really delicious, it just normal, I think it already commercialize, the price doesn't cheap as well. Anyway, you may pay a visit to try out yourself.

Empire Subang branch
G-15, Ground Floor, Empire Shopping Gallery,
Jalan SS16/1, 47500 Subang Jaya, Selangor.
Tel: +603.5022.2522

Pavilion Kuala Lumpur branch
Lot 06.01.05, Level 6 Pavilion Kuala Lumpur168,
Jalan Bukit Bintang, 55100,
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
Tel: +603.2148.8292

Website: www.dintaifung.com.tw

Cabinet rejects Astro’s rate hike pending MCMC consent

KUALA LUMPUR: The Cabinet has decided against allowing Astro to raise its rates until the company gets clearance from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said.

The Information, Communication and Culture Minister said the matter was discussed at yesterday’s Cabinet meeting and members felt it was not appropriate for Astro to raise its rates at this time.

“I agreed that Astro’s rates could only be hiked with MCMC’s approval and that any increase must be reasonable and conform to the law,” he said after chairing his ministry’s post-Cabinet meeting at Angkasapuri here yesterday.

He said Astro had violated MCMC’s regulations by issuing notices on its rate hike to customers without the commission’s clearance.

“As such, I have asked MCMC to take appropriate action and instruct Astro to not continue with the rate hike until a time deemed more suitable.”

Explaining what he meant by “appropriate action”, Dr Rais said this was up to MCMC to determine and that Astro could be fined as allowed under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998.

Astro recently announced it would be streamlining the packages it was offering, which would take effect on July 11.

According to Astro, following the streamlining exercise, customers could save between RM4 and RM14.95 or pay nominal increases of between RM1 and RM15, depending on the packages chosen.

An Astro spokesman said it viewed the minister’s statement with concern as the price revision was conducted in consultation with MCMC and in accordance with the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 and licence conditions. — Bernama

Source: The Star Online

Sony Ericsson goes Android with new phones

NEW ANDROIDS: Models showcasing the newly-launched Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray phone in Singapore. Sony Ericsson has unveiled two new Android models in a bid to grab more of the burgeoning smartphone market. - AP

SINGAPORE: Mobile-phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled two new Android models in a bid to grab more of the burgeoning smartphone market.

The company, a joint venture between L.M. Ericsson and Sony Corp, plans to launch the Xperia ray and Xperia active models during the third quarter, its chief marketing officer Steve Walker announced.

The new models should help the company expand its 11% market share of the Android segment, Walker said.

"Android smartphones is a rapidly growing part of the market, and we see our share within that market growing," Walker told The Associated Press.

London-based Sony Ericsson, which saw its phone unit sales drop 23% in the first quarter from a year earlier, is moving away from cheaper phone models and seeking to take on Apple Inc's iPhone, Research in Motion's Blackberry and Nokia Corp's N9 in the higher-priced smartphone segment.

By 2015, about 60% of mobile phones sold in the Asia-Pacific region will likely be smartphones, up from 20% in 2010, Walker said.

"We made quite a fundamental shift in strategy and decided to focus a large part of our effort into smartphones, to focus on the mid- and high-end part of the business," he said. "In many markets, we see a dramatic shift from feature phones to smartphones."

The company said in April that smartphones accounted for more than 60% of its sales during the first quarter.

Sony Ericsson's latest models that run on Goggle Inc's Android platform, the Xperia ray and active, will likely be priced below the high-end Xperia arc, Walker said.

Xperia active is water resistant and works if fingers are wet or sweaty, while the Xperia ray seeks to combine a sleek design with a device that is 9.4mm thick.

Sony Ericsson also plans to introduce a less expensive model that highlights the texting service and is aimed at teenagers, Walker said. - AP

Source: TechCentral