Super light browser: K-Meleon

I was looking for a very light browser on last weekend to run some experiments. Light meaning it will not hog the system memory, so FireFox (3.xx.xx and 4) and Chrome are out of the picture since they suck up system memory. I tried Safari, but it uses the system CPU power too much, and my system is not so updated [ring a bell? ;) ], after a while, the whole system slow down because of Safari. My rockmelt and other browsers just cannot meet the requirement and I hate IE......
So time for google......


K-Meleon show up in top 10 search from google. And since it got portable version (no installation!), I quickly download it and give it a try.

From the developer:
"K-Meleon is an extremely fast, customizable, lightweight web browser based on the Gecko layout engine developed by Mozilla which is also used by Firefox. K-Meleon is Free, Open Source software released under the GNU General Public License and is designed specifically for Microsoft Windows (Win32) operating systems. "

Okay, K-Meleon is like brother/sister of FireFox, but after some testings and serious reloading, the memory never go more than 300M. And my system did not slow down. NICE!

K-Meleon support tab browsing and also come with mouse gesture which we have to install addon for FireFox to enable that. It can also enable reloading on specific tab for a period of time [that is the main reason I was looking for this kind of browser]. To do that:
Open the webpage -> View -> Reloading -> Continuous Reload...
A windows will pop up asking for how long it wait to reload in seconds. Put 120 for 2 mins or 180 for 3 mins, do not put too short like 60 seconds.

The only drawback of K-Meleon is the update is very slow (3 update only on 2010), which can be an advantage because less update needed. :)
Another drawback (depends on individuals) is the interface looks very outdated, unlike FireFox 4, IE10, Safari, and Opera which have most updated looks.

Here is the link to K-Meleon:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/


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K-Meleon logo source: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net

The making of USB thumb drive and memory cards

Have you ever wonder how your USB thumb drive and memory cards are being made? Here a video for you after the jump:



Happy weekend :)

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iPad2 for RM1499 in Malaysia - confirmed!

I blog about this few days ago:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/04/ipad2-for-rm1499-in-malaysia.html

Now it is confirmed! But only black iPad 2 is available for now.

Check out: http://www.apple.com/asia/ipad/buy/#my

At same time, iPad2 available at these Asia country:
Australia
China
Hong Kong
Korea
Macau
New Zealand
Philipines
Singapore

Before you order your iPad2, here is a post that you should read first:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/03/what-is-still-missing-from-ipad2.html

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How to erase CDR effectively!

How do you get rid of CDR? Burning them will be very polluting, coz the plastic. Crush them? But how do you sure all the data has been erase? Here is a solution:





It uses high voltage arc to get rid of the metal layer that contains the date. Okay, not everyone have access to high voltage, this post just wasted your time and money. :P


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iPad2 for RM1499 in Malaysia

Fellow Malaysian, iPad2 for just RM1499?

Rumors or truth? Wait until tomorrow.
http://www.shoppingnsales.com/2011/04/27/29-april-2011-ipad2-available-in-malaysia-at-rm1499/

update (28/4/2011): apple Malaysia put the date is 29 Apr on their website, so watch out Malaysian!

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Source: www.shoppingnsales.com

Freeware PPC: Turbo Contact backup

I haven't being writing anything on PPC, coz that platform is going to disappear slowly because of ever growing market share by Android and iOS. But I am still using my HTC Touch Elfin, remember I am Outdated Penang Uncle? ;)
Anyway, I just found a freeware that can backup contact and SIM contact for you.


From the website:
Turbo Contact backup can:
* Save all your contacts to a XML
* Save all your SIM contacts to a XML
* Restore all your contacts from a XML
* Restore all your SIM contacts from a XML
* Delete all your contacts
* Delete all your SIM contacts


I just downloaded it, but haven't try it out yet.

To download, click here.

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Source: http://www.turboirc.com/ppc/

Aluminium powered RC car

No, it is not electric power or battery power. It is Aluminium. See the video after the jump:





With some sort of chemical reaction, aluminium (soda can) can produce the power to run the RC car for ~40mins, up to 20mph. But not sure there is any harmful chemical waste produced with this process or not.

To find out more detail, go to here


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Source: http://dalh2orean.com

3D for iPad!

okay, this is not the convention 3D that we usually see by tricking our brain to believe that the picture is 3D. This might be the future for 3D, in this method, your device need to have camera. So that the apps will track your face and change the images based on your face location, so that you see some sort of 3D effect on the device. See the demo after the jump:




This is created by Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble, EHCI Research Group.

I have a question though, what will happen if more than 1 person is looking at the iPad? What if I got a group of 5 persons and they are moving at different direction?? :P


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Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBQQEcfkHoE&feature=player_embedded

Out of idea to tweet?

You see, sometime we have limitation, some of the day we are really out of idea on what to write on blog. I have a few of that moment. Here, and here. So what do you do if you out of idea of tweeting?

Fear not, if you really out of idea on what to tweet, use this page:
http://yes.thatcan.be/my/next/tweet/

You just need to put in your tweeter name and the page will read all your tweets and randomly mix around your previous tweet to create a new tweet. What I got most of the time is junk! hahah, but what would be enough for your next tweet!
Example I got:
1. Outdated Penang Uncle: take a rest Donkey parallel parking, ADV: WHATBerry! What is Maxthon?
2. Check out Windows 7? Outdated Penang Uncle: The real meaning Uncle: Angry Birds for iPhone - The art of.
3. Outdated Penang Uncle: More on scam Facebook wants to party? BOLEH: only in Windows 7 Keyboard shortcut!

You see what I mean? :)

Btw, we call it 'rojak' in Malaysia and Singapore for mixing up stuffs.


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Angry Birds with 'Easter Eggs'

Angry Birds will receive seasons update with a special Easter version, see the trailer video after the jump:



Looks nice right? Update is very easy for iOS, Android and other mobile platform, but not sure for Windows version though.

Do you have angry birds? On which platform you have it please?



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Game Boy Music - using real game boy

Erm... yes, the Mr Bender uses real game boy for making the music. Argh... Just see the video after the jump:




Make sense now? ;)


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Flock shutdown

Remember I blogged about Flock sometime back last year:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/12/what-is-flock.html
It is going to shutdown completely on April 26th, 2011.

 With RockMelt getting more popular, this flock have to go.

It recommend their users to switch to Chrome or FireFox. You can see my posting on browsers to choose your next favorite browsers:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/search/label/browser


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Google on Charlie Chaplin

I was going to google for something and saw this one google:

Clicking the play logo would run a youtube video on the same place. Go to google now, not sure how long it will be there. :)

p/s: btw, today is Charlie Chaplin's 122nd birthday.

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Running Meego on Laptop

More than a month ago, I was trying out Meego on my laptop and was too lazy to write down the steps in this blog :P ......

I did write a post saying coming soon, but time fly! Before I knew it, it already mid of Apr. Here is the post:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2011/03/coming-soonrunning-meego-on-laptop.html

I didn't get Meego for netbook to works, however I manage to get Meego for IVI (In-Vehicle Infotainment) to run on my laptop, well, on the VirtualBox to be exact. :)

Here are the steps:
1. Download Meego IVI live img from this website:
http://meego.com/downloads/releases/1.1/meego-v1.1-in-vehicle-infotainment-ivi

2. Convert the .img file to .iso using MagicISO:
   Get from here: http://www.magiciso.com/
     2.1. Run MagicISO
     2.2. "Tools" -> "Convert ..." to open converting window
     2.3. Enter IMG filename to source file editbox.
     2.4. Choose "Standard ISO Image file(.ISO)" as output format..
     2.5. Enter output ISO file name into output file editbox.
     2.6. Click "convert" to process

3. Setup a new Virtual Machine (get it from here if you haven't install it)
     3.1. Launch VirtualBox, "Machine" -> "New" to invoke New Virtual Machine Wizard -> Click "Next"
     3.2. Fill in the name of the Virtual Machine (VM) [Meego-IVI for my case] -> Choose "Linux" for "Operation System" -> Choose "Other Linux" for "Version" -> Click "Next"
     3.3. Choose the memory you wish to use by this Virtual Machine [at least 512M to get Meego-IVI to works properly, else crash!] -> Click "Next"
     3.4. Check "Book Hard Disk", and select "Create new Hard disk" -> Click "Next"
     3.5. click "Next at the "Create New Virtual Disk Wizard" welcome windows -> select "Dynamically expanding storage" [to keep disk usage to minimum] -> Click "Next"
     3.6. Put a name for the virtual hard disk [Meego-IVI in this case]and leave the path to default [......\.VirtualBox\HardDisks], select the size to be 512MB, that should be enough -> click "Next" -> click "Finish" at the Summary windows.
     3.7. Click "Finish" at the Summary windows for "Create New Virtual Machine" -> wait for a while for the virtual machine to appear on the VirtualBox main windows.

4. Mount the .iso file to the newly created Virtual Machine
     4.1. High light the new Virtual Machine [Meego-IVI] and click "Settings"
     4.2. Select "Storage" -> at "Storage Tree", select the "Empty" DVD icon -> at "Attributes", the Slot should be "IDE Secondary Master" -> click the icon for "Open Virtual Media Manager"
     4.3. Click "Add" and locate the .iso file that generate from step2 -> click "Open" to add it to the Virtual Media Manager.
     4.4. High light the .iso -> click "Select" to mount the iso.
     4.5. Click "OK" to close the Settings windows.

5. Fun time!
     5.1. High light the "Meego-IVI" and click "Start"
     5.2. Choose Boot Meego and press enter and wait for it to boot

     5.3. ta-da......

     5.4. Meego is linux, so you can find xterm on it :)

Okay, have fun try it out :)


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Windows Phone 7 mango update

Microsoft have start to giving WP7 update to WP7, this update is called mango. I wonder why they want to use fruit name. Android is using cookie names. Well, at least WP7 is more healthier. :P Anyway, here is a video from Engadget captured at the annual MIX developers' conference, after the jump.





It is a very long video (~21mins), but looks like this is very exciting to have the update and iPhone is pretty lame compare to WP7!

The demo of HTML5 inside this video triggered me to write blogpost regarding web browsers that supports/not-supports HTML5. I have done the testing and snapshot, just the matter of putting them into blogger, please stay tune. :)


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Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/this-is-windows-phone-next-developers-take-notes-video/

Plan your trip with Rome2Rio

An ex-Microsoft engineer make use of google map to create a brand new type of website for travel, called Rome2Rio. More detail after the jump:


Just enter your current location and your next destination, it can give you the choice of transportation
and the cost of flights/trains.

Here is what I tried, going from Penang to KL, the choice are by car or by flight.

Right now it beta, do expect some bugs. If you do encounter some funny bugs, do let others know by writing on the comment. :)
http://www.rome2rio.com/



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the "real" Nintendo 3DS Safety Manual

You might already read the news of people having headache or eye problem after playing games on Nintendo 3DS for some period of time. Don't fear, there is a "real" Nintendo 3DS Safety Manual :P

Just joking, don't take it too serious okay? Have a great week ahead! :)

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Source: http://www.thehighdefinite.com/2011/04/the-nintendo-3ds-safety-manual/

Don’t open Word attachments in Reading Layout

As my blog title already told you, Outdated Penang Uncle! So I only found out recently how to disable to view in Reading Layout when open Word attachments from emails.


I think most of the people hate Reading Layout of MS Word. Not sure why they would make it a default when open Word attachments from email such as Outlook. So I google it and found out this:

Btw, this is not Outlook fault! That is a Word option.

To change the default to always open the message in the Print Layout:

Word 2003
Open Word-> Tools-> Options-> General-> Un-check "Allow starting in Reading Layout"

Word 2007
Open Word-> Office Logo-> Word Options…-> Popular-> Un-check "Open e-mail attachments in Full Screen Reading view"



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iPhone5

There has been a lot of rumors about iPhone5, the features, etc etc. nowhereelse from France took extra effort to compile all the rumors and put it into a infographic. See the infographic after the jump.

How would you want your iPhone5 should looks like?

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Source: http://www.nowhereelse.fr/iphone-5-43523/

Infographic: Do You Need a Social Media Detox?

Are you addicted to Social Media? See the infograph to decide after the jump:

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Source: http://www.columnfivemedia.com/infographic-do-you-need-a-social-media-detox/

25 years of Pixar Animation

Pixar was created by Steve Jobs and they are still producing great animated movie every year! See the video compilation from the company after the jump, enjoy!


Note: over 5 mins of video, make sure your boss is not behind you! :P


I like all 3 of Toy Story.
Which one you like the most?

p/s: want to save this video on your computer? Check out this post
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2010/10/pc-freeware-youchoob-best-youtube-video.html


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