Archive for the 'Tech' Category

Nissan, are you kidding?

Friday, August 15th, 2008

This is ridiculous, all I need is 4 liter of fuel consumption to go back Ipoh (my hometown) from Kuala Lumpur (where I’m staying now). Minds you, the distance is 183km and our local fuel price now is RM2.72/liter, add up all together, I only need to spend RM10.88 per trip ?? Too gooood to [...]

‘Ahem’ your meter to save money, if you dare to…

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

What a wonderful trick, too bad I’m staying at apartment and those meter(s) are being monitored, that can’t be ‘ahem’ so easily. So anyone who are able to access their meter, could you be kind enough to verify this for me/us:

Electric Meter Hack! How To Cut Your Electricity Bill In Half!

PS: Don’t do it if [...]

Less than 2/3 of users have fully patched browsers

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

According to the recent report, only 59 percent of people use fully patched web browsers, putting the remainder at risk from growing threats from hackers, according to a study by Swiss researchers.

The study is one of the most comprehensive analyses of what versions of web browsers people are using on the Internet. The study was [...]

Speed up Vista booting time, will ya!!

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Messing with MSCONFIG recently (for more previous “kicks”) and found this little gem. Well I do notice that there are some significant improvements in loading Vista (timed it, it was about 5 secound faster :>)….thought I’d share it here.

When you have a computer with a recent model CPU, chances are it’s a dual-core CPU right? [...]

iPhone 3G: Grab at ~$600, head to Europe

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

After jailbreaking iPhone 2.0, now according to Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster) estimates the non-subsidized iPhone would likely cost around $600. That is “Wow”!!

The report from Gartner and Piper Jaffray have estimated confidently that the iPhone will be controlling 17 percent of the worldwide smartphone market by the end of 2009. In North America, they [...]