What is APNG?

Okay, don't ask the question first.

If you are on FireFox, open this page (right click on the link and "Copy Link Location"), and then open up IE or Chrome or Safari or RockMelt and paste the link to go to this page again.

If you are on IE or Chrome or Safari or RockMelt, right click this link and open up the same page on FireFox.



Oh, wait, let me put the picture here first:

See the different? It is the same file for your information. You can try to download the picture above and open it up from your browsers.

Here is print screen from my laptop:

How did it happen? It is because of APNG file. For detail, read at wiki.


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Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/eqskk/try_it/

Happy New Year 2011!

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.





Get it? :D

I was planning to post this at 12.01AM on Jan 1st, but I was away for too long, and who would read my blog on 12.01AM Jan 1st, 2011? If you are, let me know, I would buy you coffee or bear, but you have to come to Penang :P

What is your resolution for 2011? For me I hope this blog could reach 20k pageview soon! :D Thank you all again for the support! :)


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Source: BBC

Time off

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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Firefox and robot

What relationship FireFox have with robot? Do this to find out:



Open Firefox, type: "about:robots" in the URL bar, hit enter.

Or if you already in Firefox, click here.

So how? Initially I want to post the print screen here, but that just spoiler, so go ahead try it. :)


How do you find this kind of posting? Nice, if you guys and girls like it, I will do it more often here. Let me know in the comment. :)

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Merry Christmas

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.






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Top 100 videos of 2010 in 170 seconds

How to you summarize Top 100 videos of 2010 in 170 seconds? Some one at Gawker did it, watch the video after the jump:





If you want to watch full video of any (or all!?!?) of these video, go to gawker for the links:
Gawker


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Source: http://tv.gawker.com

25 laptops were harmed in the making of this video

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 :)






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Source: youtube

Windows Phone 7 Top 5 Tips

AT&T have made a video showing top 5 tips for Windows Phone 7, check it out:






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Source: http://www.facebook.com/ATT

Thank you again! (Dec18, 2010)

Just want to say thank you again to you all for the supports. :)
My pageview exceeded 15k today! :)

Thank you once again!

Have a nice weekend ahead :)

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Table Connect for iPhone - extended screen for iPhone?

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 wonder is the sensor from the table or you have to stick your iPhone to it so that it can detect your movement?

To know more go to their blog:
http://iphonetable.blogspot.com/

What do you think? What to get one?

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What is Maxthon?

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!

http://www.maxthon.com

This is Maxthon 2:

This is Maxthon 3:

What I like about Maxthon are:
1. Mouse gesture: it is build-in feature in Maxthon, therefore it works perfectly. FireFox have to install mouse gesture add-on and it is not always stable.

2. Boss key: you can set a combination of keyboard and hide it when ever you press the combination. Maxthon will disappear from taskbar and notification icon all together! It was not included on Maxthon 3 but the latest update has added it back.

3. Pop-up blocker: the best build-in pop up blocker. Especially if you go to China's websites a lot, these websites have too much pop up and since Maxthon is written by Chinese, they know how to deal with these pop-up!

4. Dual display engine (Ultra and Retro mode) (Only on Maxthon 3): Ultra mode supposedly speed up the web browsing experience but if some old sites not display properly on Maxthon3, you can switch back to retro mode.

p/s: spelling error of the update tool of Maxthon 3! Did you see that?

This is the last one of rare browser series from me for now (Maxthon is not rare,but very popular in China though). Let me think what I can write next......


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Source: http://www.maxthon.com

What is Orca Browser?

From the pageview that I showed, Orca is another type of web browser that visited this blog. So google it and found this:

http://www.orcabrowser.com/

From the website:
Orca Browser is an extremely fast and user friendly web browser, designed to add more functions on to the latest version of Firefox.

Orca also have portable version. Look for it in the download page.

Looks more like avant browser to me, too bad the it cannot perform auto proxy or use IE proxy, hence cannot browse to any webpage:

Verdict: I will skip


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Source: http://www.orcabrowser.com/

What is Flock?

From the pageview that I showed (link here), Flock is another web browser that visited this blog. So google it and found this:

http://flock.com/

Supposedly this is a social web browser that is build for Facebook and Twitter. If I remember correctly, this browser exist earlier than RockMelt (a few years maybe), but not as popular as RockMelt right now. Why? Because it is not approved by Zuckerberg! (Just joking :P).

Verdict: I don't even want to try it at all, because I have RockMelt already.


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Source: http://flock.com/

What is Pale Moon?

I found some pageviews are from Pale Moon, so I went to google it to find out what is that. And I found this:

http://www.palemoon.org/

So, Pale Moon is custom-built and optimized Firefox browsers for Windows Operating Systems. The people at Pale Moon claimed that it is 25% faster than the regular FireFox. Other features:
* Highly optimized for current processors
* 100% Firefox sourced: As safe as the browser that has seen years of development.
* Uses slightly less memory because of disabled redundant and optional code
* Significant speed increases for page drawing and script processing
* Support for SVG and Canvas, downloadable fonts, WOFF and some HTML5
* Support for Firefox extensions, themes and personas
* Support for OOPP (Out-of-process plugin execution)
* Able to use existing Firefox profiles, bookmarks and settings

I downloaded the portable version at here: http://www.palemoon.org/palemoon-portable.shtml. If you are using Athlon XP, please download this: http://www.palemoon.org/athlonxp.shtml

Here is the print screen on my laptop:

Remember to donate (thru the donate button at end of the main page of palemoon.org) if you like the software.

Verdict: I got a very slow broadband at home, so don't see the different between Palemoon and FireFox. Do you see any different?


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Source: http://www.palemoon.org

Pageviews by Browsers

I was checking the page view stats on blogger and found out pageviews by browsers this week is like this:

Oh, Chrome is now no. 1! Follow by FireFox and IE. Safari is a lot more than RockMelt, but RockMelt is climbing up (fast!). Opera is very far behind and some very rare browsers.

Follow me to discuss about browsers in these few days.

Click here if you want to know on how to access the blogger stats.


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Freeware PPC: Car Service Lite

This freeware helps us to keep track of the service schedule of cars. Here is from the author:

Car Service 1.0 is a simple program to keep track of vehicle maintenance. With this program you can easily schedule your car maintenance and be aware of the service tasks have to be done in time.
It is consists of three sections:

The “CHECK” section which is for shorting the maintenance tasks according to their time and km priority (remaining days/km for next scheduled task).
There is four customized levels of priority (red, orange, yellow, white). Red is the highest priority level.

The “TABLE” section which is used for data entry. The user inserts car info and associated service checks/procedures that they have performed.

In the “SHORTING” section the user creates and modifies a maintenance schedule table with 22 customized service tasks that they have to be done periodically or after running a specific number of km. This table is used in the first section to short the maintenance tasks.

Note: this lite version is freeware and have limitation, if you want full version, you have to pay for it :( here is what the author said:
Car Service Lite is a freeware lite version of Car Service with 3 cars limitation and 1 maintenance scheduled table. Car Service can use up to 100 cars and up to 10 maintenance scheduled tables.

Note: for 320x240 screen only, might see black edges other types of screen or not working at all, leave a comment if it works for you. :)

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Source: http://www.carservice.chril.gr
Picture source: www.freewarepocketpc.net

Freeware PPC: MyWeight

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

To download, click here:
http://www.genec.eu/download/MyWeight_1.1.cab
The website seems to be have bugs, I can't open www.genec.eu web pages directly.


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p/s: how to create animated GIF? refer to this tutorial:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2009/07/create-animated-gif.html

Source: www.genec.eu
Picture source: www.freewarepocketpc.net

Freeware PPC: PocketTwit

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:





Features (I copied and paste from their website :P ):

* A unique user interface
* Works on VGA, QVGA and SmartPhone (yes, non-touch screen devices!) devices
* Support for multiple twitter and identi.ca accounts
* User groups to help manage your friends updates
* "Conversation View" shows a what this status was in reply to.
* Uses standard notifications to alert you of new friends statuses or replies
* Keeps an addressbook to easily add usernames to posts.
* URL shortening with is.gd
* Integration with shorttext.com for tweets longer than 140 characters
* Take photos and send to TwitPic, mobypicture, pikchur, twitgoo, or yfrog
* Preview images from those services without a browser.
* Integrated search.twitter.com
* Quote (re-tweet) or email a status
* Clickable @names, URLs, and #Hashtags
* Option to check for new version on startup
* Themes
* Implemented OAuth for Twitter

To download, go to:
http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/


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Source: http://code.google.com/p/pocketwit/

OMG! No idea to write

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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Sony Ericsson PlayStation Phone

PSP lovers, prepare to merge your PSP with smartphone! See the video after the jump.




This is the long waited Sony Ericsson Z1 PlayStation Phone, looks like is running Android Gingerbread, the video however didn't demo any PSP games. Also it is looks bulky! Anyway it is still better than carrying a phone and a PSP.

What do you think? Want one?


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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6cxaVRs60w

Quad-core for your phone?

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?

Even on dekstop (read pc), most of the software can't even make use of quad-core or dual-core. So what do you need quad-core on your smartphone? I can think of a few now:
1. convert AVI to RMVB :P
2. render 3D movie :P
3. do items 1 and 2 at same time
...... =_=

Come on people, why don't you make a smartphone that do all the stuffs (phone call, text, surf net, fb, twit, etc etc) all day long but need only need a charge once a week?

What do you think? Anything else you want to do with your smartphone if it has quad-core?

p/s: quad-core here mean 4 processors, all current smartphone has only 1 processor.


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What's wrong with this guy?

See the pics first:









Actually he is not douchebag, or Anwar Ibrahim, or Holy Cow or Psycho. Jimmy Wales is the Wiki founder and recently he put some note on Wiki pages. But he should put his picture on the right hand side, not left hand side where he always appear on top of whatever words your search in Wiki.

Check out yourself:
wikipedia.org

Have good week ahead! :)

update (Dec 08, 2010): ahh.... they really moved his picture to the right hand side, so no more making fun of him anymore. :)

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Why Can't We Walk Straight?

There is no way human can walk straight, I mean without any reference point or just blind fold. The video explain why:




What do you think? Can you walk straight with blindfold?


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source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/11/03/131050832/a-mystery-why-can-t-we-walk-straight

Google beatbox

Google going into music business? HAHA. Actually it is someone found it out on Google Translate.
The tricks?


1. Go to Google Translate
2. Set the translator to translate from German to German
3. Copy + paste the following into the translate box: pv zk pv pv zk pv zk kz zk pv pv pv zk pv zk zk pzk pzk pvzkpkzvpvzk kkkkkk bsch
4. Click “listen” (Fire up your speaker/earphone before that).
5. Amazing!

You can even make your own beats, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1952356
zk = suspended cymbal
bschk = snare
pv = brush
bk = bass
tk = flam1
vk = roll tap
kt = flam2
kttp = flam tap
krp = hi hat tap
pv = short roll
th = better hi hat
thp, ds = instant rimshot.

So far only works for German to German translation only. :) Let me know if you find out others.


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source: http://www.reddit.com/user/harrichr

Google Chrome 8 is out!

hey people, Google Chrome now is 8!

If you already have Chrome, but not 8 yet, here what you can do:
1. Fire up Chrome
2. Click on the tool button before the close windows button
3. Click "About Google Chrome"
4. It will try to download the update and install the latest version (will take a while, depend on your network/broadband speed)
5. Once it is done, it will ask you to okay or not to restart Chrome.
6. After restart, check again with step 2 and 3, you should able to see something like this:

If you haven't install Chrome, go download, install and try it. Chrome is still not my primary web browser yet, I am still on FireFox most of the time. :)

Or you might want to try RockMelt, the Facebook web browser. See my review:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/11/more-on-rockmelt.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/11/rockmelt-that-not-quite-there-yet.html
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/11/rockmelt-facebook-browser.html

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one thousand dolar apps

Hi iPhone/iPad/iPod users, Do you want to buy an one thousand dolar (that is US dolar) apps?!?!

Yes, you read it right, $1000 dolar! Actually it cost $999.99 because App Store don't allow apps cost more than that. So you will see it labeled $999.99 in App Store. Go check it out at App Store if you don't believe it.

Are you crazy you might ask? But there are more than 200 people actually bought it already. This apps is actually to help want-to-be lawyer to pass the bar exam. After they pass the bar exam, they will earn many times of $1000, so it is still worth it, right?

Apple actually very happy with this apps, because every single one it sold at app store, apple earn $300! 200x$300 = $60,000

Also it will be available on iPad soon.

So how? Want to write apps for iPhone? ka-ching!


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Play Super Mario Bros on Kinect

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






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Warning: playing kinect can be harmful!

source: http://technabob.com/blog/2010/11/26/kinect-nintendo-controller-hack