Nexus 7 Teardown

Nexus 7 is the first table designed by Google. There are endless of video of Nexus 7 review on YouTube. I found this review video by iFixIt is one of the good one. So watch the video first and then read the teardown.



Teardown:


If you prefer to read it on iFixIt, go to this link:
Nexus 7 Teardown

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Rebranding Microsoft

I wonder how the face of people in branding or marketing department of Microsoft look like when they saw this.

Anyway, Internet is a wonderful place. You have do a lot of things with it, including offering (free?) rebranding service to a multinational company.

Personally I like this idea very much. Time to change Microsoft?

Some of the images:

pix credit: http://www.minimallyminimal.com

pix credit: http://www.minimallyminimal.com

For the full list, go to this link:
http://www.minimallyminimal.com/journal/2012/7/3/the-next-microsoft.html


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Evolution of Formula 1 Car

Formula 1, it was one of my favourite sport for a few years. Until I found out it is way too time consuming for me. I wonder how I wasted a few hours every few weeks starring at the TV screen, watching a bunch of cars driving down the circuit in one direction only, over and over again for at least 40 or 50 rounds. That did not improved my driving skill at all. It is better to watch WRC, it is more to daily driving, if you are always off-road kind of driver. :P

Anyway, someone created this video about evolution of Formula 1 Car. Starting from 1950 until 2012. The top left is how the steering wheel looks like, just beside to the steering wheel is the number of pistons (or the type of engine: V6, V8, V12, V whatever).



Finish watching? Get back to work now! Today is Friday and pretty sure you have some due dates to meet. :P
Have a nice weekend btw.


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Build Your Own Match Rocket

It is July 4th in US, meaning fireworks time! I remembered it was a fun experience to see so much of fireworks everywhere when I was at California for a few month during a work assignment few years back. Even though I am in Malaysia now, but I read news from US more than from Malaysia. Most of the reader of this blog are from US, follow by Malaysia. :)

This video show you how to build your own rocket with matches. It should cost less than a dolar. And hopefully it is not breaking any local law. Please google your local law before you proceed to buy the stuffs for building the rocket. I know it should be legal to own matches in Malaysia and US. :P


Please be extra careful when you want to try it. I am not responsible if you burn down a house/building/forest because of this video. Do it at your own risk.


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How to Get More Likes on Facebook Page

Yesterday my ex-cubemate suddenly ping me on WLM (Windows Live Messenger). So I start to reply her out of courtesy. After a few rounds of Q&A, she asked me to like her FB page. Actually I have already received email from Facebook that asked me to view or like the page. I know what path she is going through and I have been there. So I start to offer some methods however since she was on smartphone, not computer, so it was very inconvenient to switch between apps. Okay, on a side note, why not consider a better smartphone my friend? :)

I have been going through some difficult paths to get more likes on my Facebook page. I will list out all of them and the good and bad of each of them. Here we go:

1. The very first method that Facebook suggest us to get more likes on our Facebook page is send out notification to friends in our personal Facebook account. 
• $: free
  
• Good: Some of your friends would support you and liked the Facebook page for you
• Bad: Most of the your friends will ignore the notification
• My thought: this is the worst method! Unless you are the marketing director and you ask all of your 100 over people that work for you to like the Facebook page.
2. Email/Skype/MSN/WLM/YM/Whatsapp/etc (whatever communication method) your friends and family, and ask (beg) them to like your Facebook page.
• $: free
• Good: Some nice friends would like your Facebook page. Family members could or could not like your Facebook page.
• Bad: You have to beg and beg with each of them. Time Consuming.
• My thought: Asking favor from other, in return you have to spend more time to response to the favor asked by them.
3. Buy Facebook Page Likes
• Yes, if you google "buy Facebook likes", you will find more than hundreds of website/organization are offering this kind of service.
• $: expensive
• Good: Number of Facebook page Likes increase very fast!
• Bad: again, it is expensive to use this method
• Another Bad: is the Likes are by true users? Will the Like disappear over night after a while (assuming the Likes are from fake users).
• My thought: this is the most expensive method. Why not give out some freebies or organize a lucky draw for those that liked your Facebook page. Majority of the internet users always like some freebies. 
4. Reciprocity
• According to Wiki: Reciprocity in social psychology refers to responding to a positive action with another positive action, rewarding kind actions.
• According to me: I help you, you help me in return. :)
•  $: free
• Good: the Facebook page Likes that you get is real
• Bad: some Liked Facebook page to get points, they will unlike after a while. This method also very time consuming.
• My thought: some of the website that offering this system usually use point system. You pay out points for others to like your Facebook page or visit website or G+ or view YouTube video. You will earn points by liking others Facebook page, visit websites and etc. If you feel frustrated with slow pace, you can always buy points with money, which become similar to 3rd method.
5. Advertisement in Facebook
• Spend some money to expose your Facebook page to targeted audience.
• $: very low investment
• Good: Very easy to target your desired audience, and performance of each ads can be monitor.
• Bad: Need to learn how to write Facebook ads.
• My thought: Very cost effective and the controlability of the ads. We can manage the cost of it as well.

The most important thing with Facebook page is engagement with audience, as well as the content of the page. There will be little Likes if there is no content or no engagement with the Facebook users.

In summary, it is up to you to choose which method that suite you well. Below are some of the links for method no.4:
Add Me Fast http://addm.co/W2U86IM
You Like Hits http://youlikehits.com/?x=160287
Get By Hit http://www.getbyhit.com/ref-209.html

Good luck!

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Waste Time Tuesday: rock-paper-scissors overlord

Hey hey, looks like I have not posted any waste time post on Tuesday before. (If you found it, let me know please, because I have almost 700 posted since Jul 2009). Now here is one, heheh.

Let me introduce you to the overlord of rock-paper-scissors, the machine that will never lose on rock-paper-scissors. I could think of a few circumstances that it will lose:
1. Unplug it's power source :P
2. Block the camera which act as the input of this machine.
3. Play with it from the angle that the camera cannot see you clearly.
4. Show the rock-paper-scissors by very very small movement only.

Okay, enough bull****. The fact: Ishikawa Oku Laboratory of The University of Tokyo create this rock-paper-scissors overload, it uses it's camera to analyze human hand movement and reacts within 1 milisecond. I wonder if it can beat the champion of rock-paper-scissors world championship.

Anyway, here is the waste time video:




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More demo of Leap Motion

I have posted about Leap Motion on this post:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/05/non-touch-screen-technology.html

Recently someone interview the CTO of Leap Motion and Mr CTO show us even more demo of the Leap Motion. Very amazing, and I would think why not ultrabook and non-ipad tablet jump into this Leap Motion so that they can beat Apple. :)




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