DaVinci Code.......... Not!

The next generation of DaVinci appeared in Sunway Pyramid, and he repaint the Mona Lisa's Smile. This time, he didn't hide any clue to the Holy Grail. (Note: The pain brush is just a virtual tool, not real)

Generate your own E-MAIL Signature

Oh no! 1000+ spam again?!

How they got my mail?
Actually, those spammer got my e-mail when I display my e-mail publicly on other website, like forum. An e-mail scanner will scan through the websites and send spam to me.

How to fight this problem?
One effective way to prevent other spammer to get your e-mail is to display your e-mail in image form, because the scanner can only read text form, for example:

How to generate this cool signature?
I always thought someone custom made it, but many website use the same signature style, then I start to realize that there must be a generator. Try this. This generator can generate e-mail for any other service provider, like MSN, Hotmail, etc.

Other way to bypass the e-mail scanner is to write your e-mail in this form:

v.handed[a]gmail[dot]com

try it.

Wonder where is Bill Gates stay?

Even wonder where is the billion dollar rich bastard stay? If you have Google Earth, enter this coordinate:

N47 37'40" W122 14'33"

For those who don't have Google Earth, can install it from here, you can also view it through Google Maps.

iPhone commercial

While iPhone is now struggling for legal problems, we just wait and see the result, now sit back and look at this iPhone commercial:

If iPhone can really has the function like a rat trap... you imagine.

The new iPhone from Apple.

Apple just announced their new product----Apple iPhone. I feel so excited to write this blog, I can't believe Apple's achievement, by year 2000, it almost fall, but iPod save it; then convert to Intel's Processor; now, it came out with a widescreen iPod, a phone, and a Internet communicator, but all these things are not 3 separate devices, it's is in ONE device, call iPhone.

Compare to other Smart phone
Ok, let say Blueberry: Blueberry has a complete QWERTY keyboard below the screen, and the body is quite wide and look fat, each keys will only have 1 function, and cannot change easily. Even you don't want to use the keys, the keys will still there. For other smart phone without QWERT keyboard, I will just skip it.

Now we say HP iPaq: HP iPaq has a touch screen that allow us to input data....... with a stylus(oh, come on!). In a hurry, it will read Apple as Apply, and not enough sensitive. Most of the time, iPaq user will end up using their fingers to input data rather than a stylus, because their troublesome styluses were lost, or too slow. 
I think the comparison is enough.

Specification
Screen size          :   3.5 inches
Screen resolution:   320x480 (160ppi)
Input method      :    Multi-touch, of course!
Operating System:    Mac OS X (OS X in a phone?!!)
Storage                :    4GB or 8GB (Standard iPod storage)
GSM                     :    Quad-band(850,900,1800,1900)
Wireless data       :    Wi-Fi (802.11b/g), EDGE, Bluetooth 2.0
Camera                :    2.0Megapixels
Battery                :    5 hours for talk/video/browsing
                                 16 hours for Audio playback
Dimension           :    4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches (Quite small)
Weight                :    135 grams (only)

Multi-touch
Look at the name, you can guess what it is. Yes, this is a technology invented by Apple, to replace the keyboard, and no stylus require, all by fingers. Apple promise that this touch screen will different from ordinary touch screen panel, as Multi-touch is more sensitive and more accurate than ordinary touch screen. Another most obvious different is Multi-touch can receive multiple touch on the screen at the same time. Ordinary touch panel can only receive 1 touch. You can't press 2 spots at the same time. Like a mouse pointer, all computers have only 1 mouse cursor, but in Multi-touch, Apple make it possible to have multiple cursor. (The mouse cursor that I mean is your fingers). This will definitely bring revolution to cell phone design.

Other extreme feature
iPhone has a motion sensor. Motion Sensor? Yes, the screen will automatic toggle into vertical view if you hold your iPhone straight, and it will change to widescreen view if you hold your iPhone horizontally. iPhone is fully multi-tasking, so you can read a web page while downloading your email in the background over Wi-Fi or EDGE. iPhone also come with build in Google Map!

My opinion on this New Gadget
After some comparison, I found that Apple iPhone just sell at a relatively low price, just from USD499 to USD599, depends on the storage size. It's RM1,754.06 and RM2,105.57, with 1 USD = 3.51515 MYR.  This phone sounds like a phone, and actually, it's a MAC. Why I said that? This phone has a OS X installed in it as OS, and it also has some MAC stuff, like Widgets and Safari(MAC Internet Browser). 1 thing that I feel disappoint for this phone is the lack of WCDMA, or we call it 3G.

Apple lawsuit over iPhone name
Networking giant, Cisco sued Apple to forbid Apple from using the name 'iPhone' a Cisco trademark since 2000, so it won't make any confusion to consumers who want to buy Cisco's iPhone. Who will win? Even now I search for iPhone, all the information are related only to Apple iPhone, Cisco iPhone seems like never visible.

ASCII Football match

"Oh no! Overtime again! My favorite country is in play! Look like I gonna miss it again..."
~overtimed worker

Last year, FIFA World Cup 2006 was held at Germany, and that game nearly burn the entire planet. I quite agree with the Coca-Cola Advertisement that has a theme "Bring people together". But in reality, this always blocked by your big bosses and assignments. Luckily, during the World Cup Season, we still can watch it  LIVE through ASCII WorldCup Match! Here is the way:

1. Open up your command prompt by pressing 'Windows+R', type cmd, and press 'Enter'.
2. Type in 'telnet ascii-wm.net 2006', and press 'Enter'.
3. Enjoy your live broadcast!

For a better image, use PUTTY:

1. From the protocols, choose Telnet.
2. Change the port into 2006.
3. Type 'ascii-wn.net' in the Host Name.
4. Click 'Open' and enjoy.

 

The Real and Ascii

It's black and white, I know, but rather than nothing, isn't it? The bandwidth is not much as the real and full color one, so it won't cause serious traffic to your company's network.

Now the football match was over, but you still can try this ridiculous way to watch random match. Hope next FIFA World Cup, you office worker still can watch it in ASCII, but carefully, don't let your boss know about it. 

 

Tips: To get a clearer view of the whole match, sit far from the monitor.

Without RSS, you're outdated!!!

"What is the orange icon?"
"It's cool, but I don't know about it."
"Maybe is a link for slow Internet connection."
...........

Look like many people still don't know the function of RSS. RSS stand for Really Simple Syndication, the user need a Feed Reader, or we call it aggregator, to read RSS Feeds. It helps to save time to load webpages, and you will only be notified when the site that you subscribed updated. For a serious blog reader and time-not-enough-men, this will greatly save up a lot of time.

To simplify it, it works like subscribe to newspaper. When you click on the Orange Button, you are subscribing newsletter from my site, and when my site was updated, I will send my post to your feed reader, and you don't need to visit my site every time to see whether I updated or not.

Why it's not that popular?
I know it is good, and I am using it, but when I ask other people, they will just simply say: "I don't know", "Is it same like CSS?(they know CSS from Friendster)". A survey to the people in China, only 2% use RSS Feeds. What a small percentage for a largest population in the world. The small orange icon appear in every blogs and news, but not much people put attention to it, the reason is maybe no clear instruction to teach people how to use it. When they click on the subscription button, it link them to a page without colorful background, nice background music and fancy font or title. Most people will related that RSS is for low speed connection that don't need much download.

How to use RSS?
Actually the simple way to use RSS is just to copy the URL or address of the 'boring page', and paste it to your reader to subscribe it. IE7 has a build in Feed Reader (see the orange icon), while Firefox 2.0.0.1 come with Live Bookmark.

IE7
In IE7, just click on the Orange icon, then click on the 'Subscribe to this feed' link in the yellow box at the top of the page, next time, just click Favorite button in IE7, and click Feeds tab to choose the feeds that you want to read.

Mozilla Firefox
In Firefox, click on the Orange icon, too, then click the 'Subscribe Now' button in the yellow box at the top of the page, and choose where to save the feeds. To read the feeds, click on bookmark and then the Feeds that you subscribed. Easy?

Other Feed Reader
There are so many Feed readers in the market, all the readers have the ability to read both XML and Atom Feed. (RSS is a type of XML format, while Atom feed is another feed format). In standard Feed Reader, just copy the link of the feed, and paste it into the readers. A freeware feed application, Feedreader, is a good application to read your feed.

This small Orange Icon rocks.

Visit Malaysia Year 2007, I think this time it'll success

Almost every year, Malaysia Government will launch Visit Malaysia Year(VMY), and in previous year, this seems not successful enough. Yesterday, I watch the launch of VMY 2007 live through TV1, and the open ceremony really shocked me. 1 coolest sentence by Pak Lah(Malaysia's Prime Minister):

"You don't need to go China to learn Chinese's culture; you don't need to do India to learn Indian's Culture, come to 1 place, pay for 1 price, and you will learn all 3 cultures, Visit Malaysia!"

The open ceremony was held at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa, Kuala Lumpur. That night, the whole sky was projected with green laser beam and spot light, colorful fireworks brighten the sky of the dark night. Anita Sarawak and Michael Wong were invited to heat up the night, Although the initial part of the open ceremony was raining, but the 30,000 people crowd never decrease, all were attracted by these 2 celebrities' strong vocal.

The stage during the open ceremony.

 

Wow, is this London?

 

No no no, you are not in London, this is Malaysia New Ferris Wheel, named Eye On Malaysia, measuring nearly 60 meters high at the center of Lake Titiwangsa. This ride offer a chance to catch a panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur, and all 42 gondolas are FULLY air conditioned. The entrance fee is just RM15 for adult, and RM8 for children and old folks. The fee included a ferry-fetch from a mini-port at the Lake Titiwangsa to the small island where this Ferris Wheel located. similar to the `London Eye`, ' Eye On Malaysia' will be one of the major attractions to lure tourists here for Visit Malaysia Year 2007. If can go with girlfriend, I can imagine how romantic is the environment. (just imagine only, I am still single...haiz)

 

Fantastic Firework!!

In that night, I guess the firework already cost more than 1 million Ringgit.

Hope this time the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 will much more better than previous year.