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Friday, May 24, 2013

Star Wars Episode 7 Story Line

Looking forward to this kind of story line for Star Wars Episode 7! :P



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Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Penang Uncle Giftaway Contest [update: closing soon!]

For the first time ever, PenangUncle is hosting a Giftaway contest!


The price is RM10 worth of Petronas Gift Card. This card is reloadable, meaning after you have used up the value in it, you can reload it at Petronas Stations and use it again. Not only can be use for petrol, but other product that purchased from Petronas Stations.

Note: This gift card is not sponsored by Petronas. Penang Uncle has no business or personal relationship with Petronas. I has been looking for a good method to reward my readers, this is one of the best option.

Just follow the instructions in the PunchTab:



Terms and conditions (of course la):
1. I am not responsible whatever happen to you after you win the contest and then I sent you the giftcard. :P
2. Only applicable to resident in Peninsula of Malaysia. I will not send the prize to places other than Peninsula of Malaysia.
3. Penang Uncle reserve the rights to alter the rules without informing participants.
4. Contest start from 9am May 15, 2013, end at 5pm 25 May, 2013 (APAC time).

Good luck!

T&C of the Petronas gift card:
http://www.mymesra.com.my/index.php?ch=mmc_pns_misc&pg=mmc_pns_misc_misc&ac=50&tpt=mmc


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Flickr is now 1TB

Yup, 1TB (terabytes), not GB. Unlike box.com or adrive.com which offers the best free 50GB free space, Flickr is now 1TB, that is 20 times of box.com or adrive.com free account. And it is free. Either old or new users, everyone now get 1TB.



I wonder if I can convert Flickr to store other types of file. You know what I mean.

Before Flickr revised the rules, free users can only upload 300MB per month, so it will take like like 278 years to fully use up the 1TB. Luckily now Flickr has unlimited upload of max picture size of 200MB and video up to 1GB.

For my 1M Streamyx broadband package, if I would fully use the line for upload photos only, it will take 180 days to used up the 1TB.
1TB = 1,000GB = 1,000,000MB = 1,000,000,000kB
Max upload speed = 64kB
1000000000kB/64kB = 15625000 seconds = 260,416 minutes = 4340 hours = 180 days


Meaning I will never used up the 1TB. But yahoo already win, because it will attract users back to Flickr.

If you already have yahoo account, just use yahoo account to login.

flickr.com

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source: saw it while on wild wild web

Monday, May 20, 2013

Jolla Phone

Jolla Phone which is running on Sailfish OS that is based on Meego OS. Meego OS was abandoned by Nokia and Intel years ago, but the develop team didn't give up and continue the development, now it is time for Sailfish OS to take off.



Sailfish OS should be able to run Android apps, but does it support Google Play? I doubt so, so probably have to get the apk files from other sources.

There is another tease video, which hide about split screen:


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source: youtube

Sunday, May 19, 2013

How To Navigate The Internet At Work

It's Monday again. Here is a infographic to remind you of what you can or cannot surf during work!





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source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-11/how-to-navigate-the-internet-at-work-nsfw-by-buzzfeeds-katie-notopoulos

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Plants vs Zombies 2

The sequel of Plants vs Zombies is like taking forever. I thought Pop-Cap is not going to make the sequel, however Pop-Cap recently teased about Plants vs Zombies 2. No detail about the game right now.





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source: youtube!

Monday, May 6, 2013

[free game] FruitPunch

I can't really play RPG or strategic games because I will be hook on the games for endless night.
Therefore nowadays I choose casual games where I can finish the game within few minutes just to kick out some boredom.

FruitPunch is the latest game that I am playing now. It is something like tetris, bejewel and with gravity. See the demo video:



Get it from Play Store.

You can help the developer to improve the game at XDA forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2245513

However there is a method to choose your game:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/05/how-to-pick-perfect-game.html

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Thursday, May 2, 2013

How To Pick The Perfect Game

What kind of game suites you? Which one that you play the most? Here is a complicated infographic that supposedly tell you which game you should be playing based on the criteria that you enforced.

[click on image to see full size]


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Monday, April 29, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Teardown

Samsung Galaxy S4 teardwon was being posted last month based on a teardown done by a Chinese website:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/03/samsung-galaxy-s-4-teardown.html
This teardown is not as complete as by iFixIt. So here goes the Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown by iFixIt:

Samsung Galaxy S4 has scored 8/10 by iFixIt because it has removable battery and easy to open. Even though there are reviews or comparison reviews between S4 and HTC One, and mostly praised the HTC One of the build quality, but I hate it when a product being designed such that it cannot be repair at all. So if you ask me which one to choose, I still pick S4 even though of the plastic body. Metal or plastic body, eventually most users will put on another protective plastic or silicon cover, so such a waste with un-repairable design of HTC One.

As usual, if you like to view it on iFixIt website, here is the link:
Samsung Galaxy S4 Teardown


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source: iFixIt

Friday, April 19, 2013

How Secure is Your Password?

What are the password that mostly people would use?
Here is a infographic to show you:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/10/infographic-password.html

Anyway, how do we check for the password that we use is safe enough?

I used this website:
http://howsecureismypassword.net/

In my opinion, as long as the password need 1 years plus to crack, it should be good enough. To be more safe, just make sure you always change the password every few months.

But since changing password every few months need a lot of effort especially everyone has more than 10 accounts like emails, banking, works, blogs, etc etc, I use keepass to keep all my password.

Keepass is available on Android, iOS, PC, Windows, Linux, and many more platform.


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source: wild wild web

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

[Free Game] Opposite Sheep Checkers

There are too many free games in Google Play nowadays. Some are good, I mean really good and addictive. But most of the time many are not as good as I expected. Therefore, I have developed a method determine if I wanted to install an apps from Google Play or not. Check it out:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-determine-quality-of-android-apps.html

For this games that I wanted to share today, I am convinced that I will play this game for a very long time. Watch this video:


Convinced now? Get it from Google Play now:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sbit.osheep

If you have feedback about this game, be sure to drop by XDA forum to give a good/bad feedback:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2206408



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source: recommended on XDA

Saturday, April 13, 2013

How to determine Quality of Android Apps

For those that would prefer not to be too risky with Android Apps, this post is for you.

Even though I subscribed to news from XDA, there are a lot more apps that being posted at many more forum. I would like to try them out, but would not like to mess up with my SGS2.

Usually I would like to try new apps on my SGS2, however I have a set of rules to determine should I try the apps or not.

1. If you are getting an apps from other forums, check on Google Play first if there is free version available. Google Play is the trusted source of apps or apk. There are trusted forums, but we cannot confirm all the posted apk are safe.

2. Second point for consideration is to look at "Average rating". Unless I am very interested with the apps, I will just skip anything that is less than 4.0 rating.

3. The third one to look at is "User Reviews". There are reasons why user would give a 1 star or 2 star.

4. The forth one that always make or break is how many percent of users gave 1 star out of total users that gave review. Example for this apps, there is about 19.9% users gave 1 star! This is one of the apps we should avoid!


I have listed out the steps for searching quality Android apps, hope that you can have a reference to find your favourite apps. :-)


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Saturday, April 6, 2013

HTC One Teardown

HTC always make good smartphones, however some blamed the marketing department for not doing the job. I am agree to certain extent. For example, HTC launched HTC One X, One X+, One VX, One S, One V way way before this "HTC One". When I saw the news of the launch, I am sure I have this pass through my mind for 0.0001 second, which is "WTF?".
Apple have iPhone, iPhone 2, iPhone 3, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5.
Samsung have Samsung Galaxy S, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy S3, Samsung Galaxy S4.
You see what I mean? The brand name of HTC One is like a step back which is a sad thing, because it supposedly do or die for HTC.

Anyway, enough for blah blah blah. iFixIt has given 1/10 for HTC One, that is the first time iFixIt gave 1/10 for smartphone, which mean you can never repair a HTC One.



As usual, if you prefer to read it on iFixIt, here is the link:
HTC One Teardown



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source: iFixIt

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Are you getting Google Keep?

Are you getting Google Keep? I know I did it first time I saw it on Google Play. Why I choose Google Keep when most EverNote users said they will not use Google Keep? Because I don't need to maintain another account. Everything from email, blog, cloud storage and now Keep, keeping my note!



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source: youtube!

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Computerized Psychology

Creepy or what? Using computer and camera to capture the subject's facial expression and a 3D computer character to ask specific question, and SimSesei & MultiSence can tell you are you depress or not. Interesting......





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source: youtube!

Monday, March 25, 2013

BlackBerry Z10 Teardown

BlackBerry Z10 is the flagship device that BlackBerry hope to get gain back some SmartPhone market which it is losing quickly to Samsung and Apple. Will it able to do it? Time will tell. Before this, lets look at what is inside of BlackBerry Z10. iFixIt gave 8/10 for Z10 of repairability, which is quite good, meaning it is easy to be fix.

Here we go:


As usual the link to iFixIt website as below:
BlackBerry Z10 Teardown


Actually I was convinced that this Z10 could be my next device after seeing this video:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/01/blackberry-z10-hands-on.html
Too bad, it is still very expensive (to me). BlackBerry need to improve on the apps as well.


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source: iFixIt!

Friday, March 22, 2013

[Free Game] Cyber Bee

Warning: this game is very addictive!

To cut it short: tell the bee to do things. finish.

Watch the demo video, I am too lazy to explain. :P


Download from Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=maze.cyberbee



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source: XDA

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Pills to reduce IQ

Lower IQ people are basically more happy than high IQ people. So here is the solution to be happier:



Are you willing to give up your IQ?

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source: youtube!

Friday, March 15, 2013

Samsung Galaxy S 4 Teardown

Even though Samsung have just announced Samsung Galaxy S 4 couple hours ago, a Chinese website managed to get hold of SGS4 (should be sample or engineering unit) and give it a teardown. The info they have on each IC is not as good as iFixIt, but still good to look inside of this SGS4 right?


Ready or not, here we go:
[in square bracket is confirmed data or something that I wanted to say]


1. Teardown of SGS4 [ta~da~!]

2. Some crack on the plastic back on this engineering unit of SGS4.

3. Dual SIM, and microSD slot. This unit is a 16GB version.

To prevent this post hogging the main page, click "read more" to check the rest of the teardown.


4. Battery is made by Samsung's SDI company. 3.8V/9.88Wh. Speculated 2600mAh. [Confirmed]

5. Same like previous generations of Galaxy, no tricky parts, uses normal screws. [nice!]

6. Zoom in to the screws of SGS4. (say cheese guys :P)

7. SGS4's bottom module. Including vibrator and speakers.

8. SGS4's vibrator.

9. SGS4's interior design. [huh?]

10. MicroUSB connector. Supports OTG, reinforced with alloy, can be use as heat sink for the connector.

11. SGS4's main IC's are on top half of main board. This main board is screwed on the front casing.

12. Inside of SGS4.

13. SGS4's ear phone socket zoom in. [say cheese!]

14. Front facing camera with GT-i9500 code (small pix). Front camera, light detector, proxi sensor, and speaker.

15. Main board, connected with bendable PCB to the front board.

16. Heat sink (small pix) which designed to cool down the CPU.

17. Now let's look at the ICs. First up, Synaptics touch controller, hidden on the front board.

18. The 13MegaPixel of SGS4. Added a shield that makes it look huge.

19. Independent image processors to process the images from the 13MegaPixel camera.

20. Similar to dual SIM version of Note2, SIM slot hook up through soft PCB.

21. Under the shield, the real look of SGS4 main board.

22. TriQuint chips, quad-band signal amplifier.

23. SPY NA794 is being used with the TriQuint on picture no.22.

24. Intel PMB5745 is baseband chip.

25. SKY77615-11 is power amplifier.

26. Unknown. [duh]

27. Sammi's own pmic driver chip.

28. Back of SGS4 main board.

29. Samsung Exynos 5410 8core CPU. Packed with 2GB RAM.

30. Samsung's 16GB on-board memory.

31. Another Intel Chip? [The chinese website said it is iintel chip, but everyone can recognize the intel logo, duh]

32. ATMEL chip.

33. Qualcomm GSM baseband chip.

34. winbond cache memory chip.

35. Boardcom GPS chip.

36. That's all!





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source: http://mobile.it168.com/tu/1462254.shtml

Saturday, March 9, 2013

They Know What You Watching

We might have watched some crappy youtube video which was recommended by a friend, or a youtube link on Facebook, or recommended by youtube, or just a random video showed by youtube. We might have thought that no body would know about it.

WRONG!

As long as you are login to google account on any of the browser and whatever youtube video that you watched is being recorded in the history of your youtube account.

What's wrong with it? No body going to check the history, you might thought.

WRONG!

What if you borrow your computer or laptop to your family or friends or your children?
What if your friend need to use your Android or iPhone or WP or BB or whatever to check their emails or twitter or something else.
By chance they might have open up an youtube video that their friends shared with them and then they click on your youtube history.

Anyway, I might have sound too paranoid, most of the people watched what most of the people watch on youtube. So life goes on. Or is it?

Your choice after all.

Last week one of my external harddisk crashed, all the youtube video that I downloaded for my kids are gone. I have tried recuva and testdisk, I even run testdisk on Linux (boot from USB), too bad unable to fix it. I managed to recover some of them using photorec, but problem with photorec is it does not copy the files into the same file name, they are just some numbers, which was very frustrated.

So I go back to youtube history, look for the videos that I watched, and download again the videos that my kids like to watch, include PSY Oppa Gangnam Style. They still like it, what can you do?

To check your youtube history:
  1. Open the youtube if you haven't open it
  2. Click on your username, on top right side. A list of boxes show up, such as favorites, Watch Later, Likes, History, and your channels.
  3. Click on History and you can find all videos that you watched and you might find some of them that you think you never watch, but you did. HAHAHA.
  4. There is an option to delete all of the history or pick some of them and remove them.

Summary, it is very easy to find out what you have watched on youtube. Unless you always use Incognito on Chrome or InPrivate on IE8, or some other private mode on other browsers which is very unlikely.


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