Happy New Year 2013

Happy New Year everyone!
Have a great 2013 ahead!

XDA's Top Apps of 2012

Find out what are the apps being sorted by XDA community as Top Apps of 2012.



You can also vote for them at this page:
http://www.xda-developers.com/holiday-guide-2012/


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False Advertizing on free Samsung Galaxy Y

I like to surf the wild wild web, because it always have something that is very interesting. While I was surfing last night, there is a ads that appear for a few times (in my memory) in last few days. It says free Samsung Galaxy Y (SGY). I just got my Samsung Galaxy S 2 (SGS2) recently, therefore I am not interested to use SGY, but the ads got my attention (you win). So I click on it. And it show like this:

If you are in Malaysia, I am sure you will know which brand is this. Anyway, point number 1 is to bring any of you phone and changer (that in working condition) to participating outlets to get the free SGY, 300MB data and RM2 airtime per month for 12 months. Not bad huh? Wait. What is number 2?

No.2, Reload RM360 and...... WTF? This is not free any more. SGY can be buy directly from shops for RM300 to RM500 depend on condition or new.

No.3, Reload a minimum of RM10 every month to continue enjoy the free data and airtime? You are paying for that, what is with the FREE word in there?

Therefore, ladies and gentleman, please be careful with all these confusing advertizing and packages that telco offering nowadays. I am still not subscribe to any data plan with my telco until now because I don't believe them. Yes, my SGS2 is not connected to internet all the time, but smartphone is depend on the user, not the phone itself. hehehe.


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Best of Hacks 2012

XDA TV present, Best of Hacks 2012. See if you would want to try out another of the hacks on your Android smartphone/tablet/phablet.

Warning: you might void the warranty of your Android by doing any hack. I am not responsible of any of the problem if you want to try any of these hacks.





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WPS Office - Another MS Office Alternative

MS Office is always the main office software being use by main stream business and most of the industry. However if you are just starting a new business or a SOHO or a freelancer, buying a MS Office software can be very costly. Nowadays PC maker tried very hard to save cost, therefore some of the time the PC/laptop you bought is installed with evaluation version of MS Office or some just don't have MS Office at all.

MS Office Home and Student edition cost USD $150. MS Office Home and Business edition cost USD $280. Plus you need to pay additional USD $25 per language pack that you want to include. That's is very expensive.

Luckily there is always a lot of nice people on the world wild web (world wide web) to write free software. There are a lot of alternative to MS Office, among the famous one such as OpenOffice and LibreOffice. WPS Office is a made in China (what is not made in China nowadays? ;) ) alternative to MS Office.

Recently WPS Office has been upgraded to SP2. What so special of WPS Office?

1. It is very small, setup file 41.6MB only.
2. It opens documents on cloud storage.
3. Auto recovery.
4. WPS Excel supports long numbers (Unlike MS Excel changed everything to xx.xxE+xx).
5. Free template from WPS forum.
6. Directly post to WeiBo (China's twitter).

The only drawback is WPS website is completely written in Chinese. No problem for people that is Chinese educated, but what about other people? I am downloading it right now to see if WPS Office can support English or other language only Windows.

If you are adventurous, go to this link to download it now:
http://www.wps.cn/product/wps2012/sp2/

Update: Confirmed that WPS Office is only in Chinese. Another thing is it will not ask your permission before it take over all the office files to be open by WPS. What a shame, sounds like another non-sense software (Remember Real Player?). I am uninstall it now.


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iTunes 12 Days of Gifts

If you are using iTunes or iPhone or iPad or iPod, you probably already know this. For the rest, iTunes is giving out 12 Days of free gifts starting today (Dec 26).

You don't need to have an i-product to eligible for the free gift. What you need is iTunes. I already downloaded the first day of free gift, which is Maroon 5's songs.

Go to apple.com to download iTunes today.


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XDA University

XDA forum has been my favourite forum since I start to use my HTC Touch Elfin. Recently I have changed to SGS2, however since there are too many stuffs in the HTC, I am still keeping both phone most of the time. There are too many customization on the HTC that I still can't find it on SGS2 yet. Therefore I am slowly moving stuffs from the HTC. Today I noticed that excel spreadsheet that I used on HTC are losing the formulas when I open them in SGS2 using Polaris Office and Smart Office. Why?!?!?!

 Anyway, XDA launched their university website. It is to to help people that just starting to use Android as well as for people who wish to do Android development, such as apps, ROMs, theme, and etc.

Here is the introduction video of XDA university:


The link:
http://xda-university.com/


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