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How secure is your password?

2010-10-21T01:01:00.000-07:00

Many of you don't know that it is not about guessin' your password, surely that's impossible, well sure a few guesses like 1234 and 'password' is worth a try but usually people won't think that they will use that sort of password but you would be surprise what password people use for their email or Facebook account. So if you're using 1234 or 'password', change it now!

People don't guess your password, instead they crack it using a computer, with that they can execute a brute force attack which enter thousands of words every second, depending on how fast the computers are, they usually enter words from the dictionary and names, so don't ever use words in the dictionary or names. It should be a combination or alpha numeric, better yet if you include symbols.

How Secure is my Password? is a site that estimate how long it will take for a normal desktop computer to crack your password, seems like it is possible to crack any password and with a super computer it's faster than the average computer, the question is how long it will take to crack your password, so head to the site now and discover for yourself. If it says it will take billions or nonillion years to crack, you are most definitely safe!

Iron Man 2 easter egg!

2010-05-17T00:25:00.000-07:00

Everyone remember the previous easter egg found on Iron Man? and don't forget the one found on The Incredible Hulk. Let's recap..

After the end credits for Iron Man, there's a short clip showing Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, confirming a possible Avengers movie. And after the end credits for The Incredible Hulk, we saw Tony Stark (Iron Man) appearing at a bar inquired something about a GREEN problem, another hint for the Avengers movie.

As always I didn't get to see the actual after credits at the cinema, it usually end after a few lines or the credits (sigh). That's why the internet is gooood~

As I suspected, there's another hint at the end of Iron Man 2, not gonna spoil it for you, just watch, just a hint for you. It shows another possible character from the Marvel universe, which the actual movie is at the works.

Tron Legacy somethin to look forward to?

2010-03-30T02:12:00.000-07:00

Does anyone know Tron? All i know it's a movie base on a video game, yea i know what you're thinkin', oh boy~. Starring Jeff Bridges more than 25 years ago, at that time it was one of the movies with breakthrough visual effects, combining video game world and reality, so if there's a sequel or reboot happenin' now, what would the technology do for the movie today? Here's a sneak peek for Tron Legacy coming end of the year.

Teaser

As far as the graphics are concern, expect to see stunning visuals, did I mention it will also be available in 3D? As a graphics intensive movie, I think it's just a norm nowadays, we're definitely spoiled by computer graphics, although I do feel how I felt when I first saw the Tron (1982)

Hee hee, look at this. The young Jeff Bridges in Tron (1982), wow how far we've come. He will be in the this latest flick too.

Predators with da S!

2010-03-24T01:56:00.000-07:00

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Finally it's here! I've been waiting for a good Predator movie for many years. After the first Predator movie starring the governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, it's really hard to surpass that, Predator 2 was not really that good, and the AVP franchise; don't let me get started on those. But the upcoming Predator movie appropriately named Predator(s) following footsteps from James Cameron's Alien(s) as the sequel to the first Alien movie. Here's a preview for Predators coming July 2010

It certainly looks promising IMO, produced by Robert Rodriguez of the Sin City franchise, starring Adrien Brody an Oscar winner famous for roles in movie such as King Kong and The Village, also Laurence Fishburne famous for bein Morpheus in The Matrix movies, finally another well known actor Topher Grace which is most known as Eric from the 70's Show and also Venom in Spiderman 3, hmm nothing could go wrong right?? We'll see..

Earth Hour 2010

2010-03-16T00:44:00.000-07:00

Is that time of year again where the world would go into darknesssssss, sounds like a horror flick but not at all, it's all for a good cause. I remember doin' it last year or so..not that big of a deal at my town, maybe things will change this year. Here's a video which explains must better for those of you who wanna know more..

Clash of the Titans 2010 next month.

2010-03-12T00:45:00.000-08:00

Nothing to look forward to this month on the big screen, but a different story for April 2010. Here's a remake of a 1981 movie with the same title. Also comes in 3D i believe, after Avatar in 3D, i'll just skip 2D and go for 3D :). Continue to watch the trailer

Here's somethin' to ROFL about

2010-01-05T21:36:00.000-08:00

What's that song?

2009-12-14T22:21:00.000-08:00

Have you ever heard of a song and you didn't know who sang it and what is the song title? But since you love it you may try to catch the lyrics and Google it, that's probably the easiest way you can do, but what if you don't know the lyrics but you do know the beat to it?

Either way lyrics or no lyrics, I found a site that will help you search a song. All you need is a mic for your computer and you're set. Sing parts of the song or even hum the music and it will try it's best to locate that song or somethin' similar.

I've actually tried it and of course it's not 100% accurate. But it's probably i'm a bad singer or "hummer" hah. Tryin to rap on it doesn't get any good results, my rap result are music from the orchestra, weird.. Beatboxin' doesn't help either, try doin Firestarter from Prodigy and songs from Church turn up, funny..

But some songs are accurate even with my "weed whacker" voice. Tried songs from Lifehouse, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, and a chinese song from Beyond and got accurate results, first on the list even. Even an old song like Earth Angel which I liked from the movie "Back to the future", a 50's song, just knew that the song was originally from Elvis Presley, not bad.

Although it didn't actually helped me find a song yet, I played with it all night, just as geeks do to see how well it works, go ahead and give it a try, have fun.

Midomi.com

Avatar not the airbender

2009-11-02T23:37:00.000-08:00

What movie are you lookin' for end of this year? I remember the time when i watch Lord of the Rings Trilogy every year end for 3 years, it's more like attendin' an event than watching a movie, which is fine with me. So let me share with you what i'm lookin' forward to end of the year, the trailer below might interest you as it did for me...

Well if you guessed it's the movie '2012' which will show this month, you're wrong, even though, that's one of the biggest movie comin' this year. That was the movie that was on top of my list of interest weeks ago until I learn about this movie call 'Avatar'. If you're thinking the Avatar which is an anime, I never watched that but I know the character,...you know...Trailer
Provided by Movie List

Here's another version of the trailer in high quality if you have Quicktime installed.

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PS3 Slim and PSP Go coming soon to Malaysia

2009-10-19T19:28:00.000-07:00

PS3 hasn't been selling well worldwide compare to the other consoles, probably the reason was Blu-ray that still doesn't sell well till this day compare to DVD, it's expensive to make etc. We're seein' Blu-ray players going down in price and it will go down more next year. As expected PS3 will follow it's predecessor in the Slim department, and so far PS3 Slim is sellin well, smaller and cheaper, even not for gamin' and as a Blu-ray player, it's very affordable, so when will it be available in Malaysia?

Slashgear said that it will arrive in Malaysia 31 October 2009, obviously, slower than any there country, as i've suspected, well it's not that bad, it's the game pricing that slows down PS3 sales anyway. Approximate price will be RM1,299 and it will come in the traditional black color.

With PS3 Slim accessories and other goodies, another new product launching with PS3 Slim in Malaysia will be the PSP Go, one of the coolest lookin' portable gamin' device i've seen, price will be around RM1,099.

If you're interested you can attend the launch event at Kuala Lumpur, 1 Utama Shopping Mall

Paranormal Activity

2009-10-07T23:48:00.000-07:00

Any of you that love horror and ghost movies, this may be one to check out. It's not a big Hollywood/internationally release movie it seems, and in order for it to launch worldwide, you will have to help them get 1 million votes, hmm interesting, a movie launch decide by you. If you are a horror fan, read on and watch the trailer.

This movie is not currently available where i'm from, which is sad. All I can do it demand it at their site, but not sure it will work or not, maybe with your help, it will. As a fan of these types of movie myself, i think it will be interesting to watch it in the cinema with horror fans.

Trailer

Provided by Movie List

After watching the trailer it kinda reminds me of the movie 'Blair Witch Project' long time ago, not all may like this type of genre, for me i think it's great, I think the idea that it was captured with a home video camera, makes you beliVery original style for some but i think i've seen the same style for a 70's movie 'Cannibal Holocaust' (don't ask). The same as, COPS and World's Greatest Home Videos.

So if you like such movies, please head over to their site Paranormal Activity to vote for it to launch nationwide if it's not available at your local cinema yet. You can also support this event by posting this at Facebook

2012: Get ready for eye candy

2009-10-05T21:47:00.000-07:00

Trailer

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District 9 anyone?

2009-07-27T21:00:00.000-07:00

One of the real world advertisement

This seems to be an interestin' movie to look forward to. Sort of like alien on earth kinda story with some Cloverfield flavor to it, Peter Jackson's involvement as the producer, as you all know he kinda produce, write and direct all 3 Lord Of The Rings movie.

You can visit their site, which is kinda interestin' and watch the trailer after the jump

Visit the site

Trailer

Provided by D-9.com

Sam Raimi to direct Warcraft movie

2009-07-22T19:33:00.000-07:00

The years of rumors are true, but it's rather a question of when and not 'will?'.

The adaptation of the widely popular game Warcraft will be coming to the big screens in years to come and Sam Raimi, director the Spider man trilogies will helm the movie. I've always imagine that Peter Jackson may pick this up or maybe Blizzard may consider him since one of his movies are quite close to the Warcraft universe, i'm talkin about Lord of the Rings. With the technology today, it's safe to say that any game, comics, cartoon, etc. can be made into a movie. I guess Sam Raimi's visual is not bad, we'll have to wait and see..

At least 1 good news coming in relations to the Blizzards' bad decisions over no LAN capabilities for their upcoming sequel, Starcraft II and Diablo 3.

19 is the new record courtesy of Transformers 2

2009-07-01T01:22:00.000-07:00

Here it is, 19 tickets for the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, my current record to break if that's possible. Hmm what other movie can actually make this possible, it's rare, probably Transformers 3 if it happens.

Speakin' of Transformers 2, hmm I felt there's somethin' missin' in the finale, here's my take on it, those who haven't seen the movie, possible spoilers alert

The movie was good but it's not really greater than the first one by that much. It's really cool to see more well known Transformers in this movie but the story is just too much and unnecessary with the fallen and primes, probably too soon or just plain complicated even for a Transformers fan like me.

The first scene of the movie was spot on of what i'm expectin' to see, and that's just the introduction of what they were doin in those 2 years workin' with humans to fight Decepticons. With that first impression I can expect this movie to be a great popcorn movie. But it was weird that it wasn't like that in the end, the introduction is far more excitin to me than the endin'.

The fight between Optimus Prime and 3 Decepticons is good, and the fight between Bumble Bee and the red thingy is aight, the fight with the twins and Devastator not so very much. I mean that's just all of the excitement you can get which I can remember. Base on the introduction I actually expect the finale to be at least twice as exciting but it's not, and i'm eager to see how would the autobots defeat Devastator? They didn't, he was defeated with a single human shot from the ship, what a waste of what could be a great battle between Devastator and multiple Autobots.

And the appearance of Sideswipe is good, the introduction shows him to be a very worthy robot against the Decepticons, he just look mean, and you expect to see him in action in the end but no I didn't see him in action after that first scene, other than the few robot battles i've mentioned above, you don't see much of robots battle robots, I felt I see more of humans and tanks and planes against Decepticons more, and the Autobots didn't do much other than protecting humans and Sam with the Matrix, don't see much fightin with them.

When the Decepticons reach earth in groups, I'm stoked to see a war, but it's Decepticons attacking them and humans fight back, now that's a bit of disappointment, they can just switch the introductin scene with the end.

Good to see they include Soundwave in the movie which is one of the favorites, although he doesn't do much, i do like his Decepticon voice, hmm just somethin about it.. :) I think people actually wanted to see this for the eye candy effects more than a serious story, well this movie doesn't need to be that serious, just robots fightin each other, that's fine with me, they can just take out the fallen and primes story line, really it is not the most important thing in the Transformers' universe, that's why I sense the long scene with the primes explainin the history of the primes, the pace has been compromise, not as fast pace action movie as I thought, a lot of explosions though, mostly done by humans, oh well..

I agree that addin' some comedy sense to a movie is an option, an action movie like this won't be a bad movie if there's no comedy in it, we went to see action not comedy anyway, take out the comedy put in the action, that will work better. But it's ok, the only problem is the jokes are lame in most case, the twins are annoyin and juvenile, i'm fine with that, the robot humping Megan Fox's leg, what da hell was that, and showing devastator's balls? oh.. geez please get rid of those unnecessary jokes, you're just makin your movie a joke.

Maybe the good news is, the good stuff is saved for last, will there be a Transformers 3, I think it will happen, seems to me this movie is quiet successful.

So overall is a must see movie, why not if you love the first one, you would like this one too, maybe i'm just expecting too much of it that the movie pales in comparison hehehe. I had a good time watching with 18 others, one of the most grueling & interestin.... event to plan...

Starcraft II without LAN!

2009-06-29T18:56:00.000-07:00

I don't know if this is a bad news for the fans, but It certainly is a bad news for some, i'm probably one of them

Before online gaming exist, there was LAN (Local Area Network) gaming, where every computer that's on the same network can play the game with each other without the internet. Widely preferable in cyber cafe or at home with multi computer and laptops.

And then internet gaming appear, i agree that it's far more convenient because of the fact that you don't need to go to a cyber cafe or have mutiple computers at home to enjoy multiplayer games.

Seems like the next upcoming blockbuster game will NOT include LAN capabilities base on Blizzard's game-designer Rob Pardo. Yes Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty won't be able to do multiplayer with LAN, online online using Battle.net. According to him, LAN wasn't famous anymore in the 90's, huh? Starcraft in Korea was made famous with LAN! and LAN is certainly not dead yet. What's the big deal if you include a simple LAN capability for the product you sell? Is it hard? The word LAN Party are widely used I think he got it all wrong, it seems he only plays game alone at home through the internet all the time, don't compare internet multiplayer and LAN multiplayer, they are different, so now anyone who wanted to play the game also needs an internet connection eh? I'm sure everyone has internet now, but what's the big deal if you include LAN anyway, this is probably due to pirates. Look at Demigod, they can even sell the game with LAN capability. This is just wrong..

Now Blizzard has made a big mistake, what's next, all Starcraft II series will have no LAN and worse yet Diablo III with no LAN, great...just great..very nice, everyone on the same network still have to connect to the internet and servers to play, doin unnecessary bit transfers, server down, internet down? No game? I like to rely on my network and my PC for multiplayer fun, I have bad experience with online gaming anyway, everyone's been complaining how laggy the experience was, not everyone has good internet connection and with 1 bad apple in the group, everyone will not enjoy the experience, further more I like playin' with my peers than someone else.

I wonder how many will pirate this game.

If it helps, please sign the petition regarding this stupid move at:
http://www.PetitionOnline.com/LANSC2/

R.I.P The King of Pop..

2009-06-25T18:40:00.000-07:00

Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Michael Jackson one of musics' popular icon past away last night due to cardiac arrest, he was 50.

One of my childhood favorites, the king of pop is known throughout the world. Some may know him since the Jackson 5 days when he was still a kid, some may know him since Thriller, everyone knows him as an icon of many generations.

I still remember the first I bought his music in a form of a cassette at the local street market, I didn't know that Thriller was one of the best at that time but I did know I want that cassette because of his other single "Bad". I remember watchin the mini series about his life as a child with his brothers as Jackson 5, it was one of the greatest journey of a musician. I remember listening to "Liberian Girl" with my childhood neighbor. Doin' the moonwalk at school, spinning like him, imitating him..Billie Jean, the song he performed alone on stage live at Motown is one of the most memorable for me.

Thinkin back now, his great music, his one of a kind dance moves that everyone seems to try doin'. I'm gonna miss all that tremendously. I still till today imitate the legend from time to time, he will be remembered as one of my generations' king of music. A flashback of all his music started playin' in my head..

No doubt we lost one of the greatest superstars in music history..

Rest in Peace Michael..

Michael Jackson (1958-2009)

Windows 7 will dominate?

2009-06-22T00:38:00.000-07:00

So what's all this Windows 7 hype? Will the next OS be better than Windows Vista, I would agree Windows Vista did scare a few loyal Microsoft fans away to Apple, or just stick to Windows XP, so rumor has it that the life of Windows XP will end in the year 2011, so where will they go next? I'm sure Vista is not an option, maybe they will up using a Mac, I think the success of Windows 7 is very important to Microsoft. So what do they have up their sleeve?

I never get a chance to download and try it out when it was available for download, another great move for users to try it out and install on a wide variety of system, so when problem arise, Microsoft knows and will fix it, so far it's been all good.

Here's how the startup looks like in the Beta and RC version, look like Vista

One of the big difference is the quick launch, pointing at it will give you a preview.

There's a lot of new features which I didn't get in, but what is it so different from Vista? Back in the day of Windows 98 moving to Windows XP, a system upgrade is necessary, and from Windows Xp to Windows Vista another system upgrade is recommended, I would say a 2GB RAm would be ample to experience Windows Aero and such, so do you need an upgrade for Windows 7? That would suck now would it?

People were sayin that Windows 7 works very well on netbooks, a smaller version of a notebook, it probably won't mean much, it's a modern device anyway but not as powerful as a notebook, some people have been reviewing and testing Windows 7 to see how fast it works on some application and games, which all seems good so far with the next generation of DirectX; DirectX 11, of course you don't require to upgrade your graphics card, DirectX 9 and 10 and 10.1 will still work with it, thank god.

But I believe testing how slow it can go is also has a strong point, what I meant is can a slower system run Windows 7, since it can run on a netbook, I guess people is curious to find out. And it's true, some people get it to run on a Pentium II system with 96MB-128MB RAM, that's right.

Here's the screen for a user running it on his Pentium II 96MB system

Here's the screen for a user running it on his Pentium II 128MB system

So if you have Pentium II with 128MB RAM, you can't even run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista, but you can run Windows 7? now that's one strong point, Microsoft did a good job in this area. Now everyone can use Windows 7 without upgrading their system like Windows Vista required.

Movie timeline tells a story

2009-06-21T23:38:00.000-07:00

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There's a lot of futuristic movie out there and most of them mentions the year of the event, but it doesn't matter that much, what matters is it's in the future, that's all we know and important perhaps, but have you ever keep track of the year? How realistic you think it is? For instance the movie Back to the Future 2 is set at year 2015. You think we're 6 years behind hover boards and flying cars? Hmm guess not..

But here's an interestin' find, someone manage to create a list of futuristic movies and arrange them in order, for me, lookin at it I get a sense of how our future will go ahead ;) We are gonna be ruled by apes then our world will look like a scene from Dune with mutated giant earth worms, great....just...great

Linkin Park - New Divide [Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack]

2009-06-19T19:24:00.000-07:00

Here's a look at the latest single by Linkin Park, the song New Divide is for the upcoming blockbuster movie Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen, if you haven't seen it in a better quality (I recon), you may see some small unseen footage for the movie, or just wait till next week and watch the movie anyway :) here it is.

Linkin Park - New Divide

Will Microsoft BING Google?

2009-06-15T00:54:00.000-07:00

As you all should know by now, Google is the king when it comes to search, some may argue it's not useful and some worships her, but the fact is, it's the most widely used search service in the world.

A lot has tried to compete with it but deep down inside, they know it's not easy, people is so use to Google that anythin else will just slip their minds, sounds like Google has manage to embed da G in our thoughts, I think it's just a habit thing.

Compare to Yahoo, Microsoft atleast were tryin to do right with it's search engine, and tried they did, with names, from Live searches, to Kumo, all just doesn't seem to keep customers to stick with it. The latest of their efforts is call Bing, I believe it doesn't meant to mean anything, my guess it's the sound *bing*, you know....the sound when someone has an idea and a light bulb appears on top of their head..

Here we use Linkin Park as our search term, looks quite similar to Google. On the left column, there's some suggestions.

On the right side of all results there's a small orange circle which when you point at it, will give you a preview text of the site before you decide to go there.

One notable difference is the video results, if you click on the video results, a few suggested videos will appear, somethin' similar with Google, but this one actually plays if you point at it.

Bing has it's own page on Images, Videos, etc just like Google, here's the Image section, just like Google you can choose what results to show, over here we select wide version of any image.

And here we will get a poster like size if we select tall. Many of other things to try out like color and resolution too.

Again one of the unique features of Bing is the Video results, as seem here in the video section, all results can be previewed by pointing your mouse at it, it sounds like it's gonna be heaven for underage kids and porn, since you don't actually have to click to view anything, no trace can be found too I believe ;). Left side you see some options similar to Google, but I kinda like this better, it's cleaner.

It's actually not bad coming from Microsoft, there's not much comparison done by my, whichever is better is searches, Google will still be the first people go to, it's in our blood, Bing's front page is also more pleasant, with some pretty random picture everytime. And it looks like Microsoft is also planning to integrate all Windows Live account in it's searches, just like iGoogle, it's a start, but hard.

Another note is, each country has it's own preference set, I found that my country doesn't have some buttons which USA has, so it's better to set to USA to see full feature, hey if you wanna compete with Google, everyone should experience the full feature of the engine..

I just noticed if you switch to have US's main Bing page, the images might include some boxes around if you point around, and pointing at the small boxes will show information about it, hmm interesting indeed..go ahead and give *bing* a try.

On a final note, it's common people say they've googled somethin or someone, but to say you bing someone sounds like you did somethin naughty HAH, it's still on BETA btw...try it you may like it.

E3 wraps up

2009-06-04T01:10:00.001-07:00

E3 come to a close, here's a lowdown of what's coming in the game industry, of course the ones that i'm interested in. Here's some preview

Left 4 Dead 2 (PC)

God of War III (PS3)

Lost Planet 2 (PC?)

Final Fantasy XIII (Xbox360, PS3, PC?)

Final Fantasy XIV Online (PS3, PC)

Splinter Cell: Conviction (Xbox360, PC)

Metal Gear Solid: Rising (Xbox360)

Assassins Creed 2 (Xbox360, PS3, PC)

Modern Warfare 2

Crysis 2

Left 4 Dead 2 coming soon!

2009-06-01T23:33:00.000-07:00

Just as I thought, the sequel to the widely played game Left 4 Dead. Hmm let's see if my wish list is fulfill, base on the teaser that you're about to see, yea there's gonna be some new shit goin on, oh yea please include more characters, better yet, let us customize our own character, now thats' kick ass. Of course another is what everyone at least complained about before, WE NEED MORE WEAPONS!, seems like they are listenin', good job.

I had fun with the first one and i'm sure the sequel is gonna be the same, even better I hope. Lets just wait till we can actually get our hands on it NOVEMBER this year, check out the teaser

Here's the announcement

Left 4 Dead 2 is the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer smash from Valve, creators of the Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike game properties. Left 4 Dead 2 promises to become one of 2009's top-selling games and set a new benchmark for co-operative action games.

The title adds melee combat to the award-winning L4D style of play, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.

Introducing the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.

Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, maps for Survival mode at launch, and more.

Supported by a $10+ million marketing campaign, Left 4 Dead has sold over 2.5 million retail copies since it was released in November of 2008. Left 4 Dead 2 is targeted for release on Xbox 360 and the PC this November, and will be launched worldwide with a multi-million dollar marketing campaign across TV, Outdoor and Online.

Setting:
Left 4 Dead 2 is set at roughly the same time as the original – just after the outbreak that turned most of the population into various zombie mutants. Players assume the role of 4 new “Survivors,” each with their own personality and new dialog. The game leads these “Survivors” through the southeastern region of the US - from Savannah, Georgia thru the bayou country, and climaxing in New Orleans’ French Quarter.

Product Features:

* Next generation co-op action gaming from the makers of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike.
* AI Director 2.0: Advanced technology dubbed “The AI Director” drove L4D’s unique gameplay – customizing enemy population, effects, and music, based upon the players’ performance. L4D 2 features “The AI Director 2.0” which expands the Director’s ability to customize level layout, world objects, weather, and lighting to reflect different times of day.
* New melee weapons – axe, chainsaw, frying pan, baseball bat – allow you to get up close with the zombies
* Four different survivors. New Story. New dialogue.
* More game. On day one, L4D 2 features more co-operative campaigns, more campaigns and maps for the Versus game modes than L4D 1, plus support for Survival mode out of the box.
* Stats, rankings, and awards system drives collaborative play

Left 4 Dead 2 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PC on Novemeber 17, 2009.

They also release a possible campaign poster, looks like it's gonna be 4 new slayers, hmm I wonder if I would miss the previous 4, or maybe i'm sick of them already, like I said, we need option for cutomize characters and more characters hehehe, I don't care if the customized characters won't appear on the campaign poster, as long as people see me in the game, i'm cool.

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And here a preview of it in action, Click for larger version

Go to pee while watching a movie (possible spoiler)

2009-05-29T21:34:00.000-07:00

There's a lot of weird sites appearin' here and there nowadays, but this one really is one of the top weirdest sites I can remember, but it could be useful for some people. Basically it tells you when you can safely go to pee in the middle of a movie, yea you heard right

So what's the ritual you do when you go for a movie, but tickets, buy pop corn, the usual i guess, oh yes I always go pee before a movie, I wouldn't want to go in the middle of the movie, that's just wrong, but even if you gotha go, when is the right time? This is where RunPee.com comes in.

Let's dig in to some details here, if you haven't watch

For the second section, we have a little summary on what you'll be missing if you go to pee, this is only visible spoiler you might face, I think it's kinda mild.

Here's a more important and funny part, they are smart enough to scramble the words here because it contains a more descriptive information that you will be missing, it's also useful to read if you actually go to pee at this moment, you can come home and read what did you missed. Even when you pee, there's a time limit for you to pee, I guess this should be ample otherwise they won't have suggested this time to safely go release, here it shows you got 3 minutes to do your business so forget about makin' chocolate cakes at this moment in time.

In closing, it seems that anyone who is a member of the site can actually post this information up, and maybe the moderator will approve it or reject it, but usually the owner has the same suggestion as one of the users. So keep those clock in check.

Visit the site at www.runpee.com

Pitbull punch dude on stage

2009-05-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

Pitbull a rapper from Miami with some hits like The Anthem (featuring Lil Jon). While performin for a crowd, some dude "Make it rain", in laymen's term; throwing money in the air. Reports stated that it happens a few times and Pitbull just ignores him and scoot the money off the stage to the crowd. The last time he did that, Pitbull pulls him up and again he throw money at Pitbull's face, and 'BOOM goes the dynamite!' and bein' a professional rapper, he continues rappin' without losin' a beat.

It's disrespectful to make it rain or throw money at someones face, all gestures suggest to the victim that Pitbull is some sort of biaaatch, like what a stripper face all the time. See the clip for yourself

A full version, enjoy the music while you're at it

Here's a different angle, you can see the punch land in this one

Mah Rig!

2009-05-27T22:04:00.000-07:00

Finally, some mod has been done to my rig; after so many years of planning and talkin', i'm happy there's at least some difference to how my rig looks.

Just a simple mod, I might try to do more here and there, maybe experimentaing on different types of accessories, so far my main focus was UV, I might go for some neon tube that won't render my UV useless, a bit of a risky move.

Here's some pictures of mah rig

Modern Warfare 2 looks excitin'

2009-05-26T22:37:00.000-07:00

I've never actually finished Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but going through it for a few hours I can say that it is a well made game. The game actually felt like a big movie production and you're part of the movie.

And as always if there's a sequel to somethin', it usually means the first one is good, so as news started to appear about the next installment of this franchise, fans are very enthusiastic about it, after viewing the trailer, there's no question about it.

Now doesn't the opening score sounds familiar?

The Sims 3 is out?

2009-05-26T00:54:00.000-07:00

June 2nd is the release date for the next installment of the Sims universe; The Sims 3. A full playable copy are rumored to be leaked weeks ago, and there's no surprise someone's gonna get fired, not much info about the leak though, probably an inside job or as previously noted; some games were leaked by the carrier guys. Any game that were leaked weeks before it's actual release date is a bad news for them, but well they will survive I recon, The Sims 2 was one of the most pirated games ever and yet they still sell millions of copy.

So what will we expect from this latest release, obviously some fresh new stuff and ofcourse it looks...slighty better It seems, but can my GPU handle it?

Of course one notable change is the ability to roam and interact outside.

Sims creator another step up from its predecessor, it promises more manipulation and also personality that shows. hmm sexy pose

Surely i'm gonna test this out, but i know it's just not fun to play on a lower end card, I wanna play games in maximum possible graphics and with a huge screen of mine, a power hungry card is needed, will evaluate probably when I experienced it. Also I hope there's more customization allowed, like adding famous characters and stuff easily, personal music etc. I remember The Sims & The Sims 2 when I was able to put a lot weird and famous characters, The Sims was painful to do, it got easier with The Sims 2, I just hope The Sims 3 will be much easier. Like the clip below, which shows Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent that I mentioned before, and she's seen talkin' to someone on the phone which looks very familiar :)

Susan Boyle in Sims 3

Provided by Neoseeker

Few Transformers 2 TV Spot

2009-05-22T00:13:00.000-07:00

Here we get more more more out of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 3 TV Spot has been spotted at Michael Bay's website.

3 of those clips are no longer than 40 seconds I recon, I kinda like the first one as it shows more unseen stuff, one notable one is a glimpse of Devestator's transformation, second has a little new stuff too, and also a note that Linkin Park is producing the music for the movie, the last one doesn't show any new stuff.

Now lets just view the damn thing ;)

TV Spot 1

Provided by MichaelBay.com

TV Spot 2

Provided by MichaelBay.com

TV Spot 3

Provided by MichaelBay.com

The Longest Way - 1 year old facial hair

2009-05-13T21:33:00.000-07:00

It's another one of those dudes that travel around the world taking videos and pictures, well atleast he didn't dance around the world like Matt of the famous "Where the hell is Matt?" videos, this one is simply themed "A guy traveling the world in search of a place called home", visit his website; The Longest Way.

On foot he travel across China and after a year and 4646km later, what happen if you didn't cut your hair and shave?

While in search for a home around the world, why not have fun doin it? You can watched the HD version also.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen full trailer!

2009-05-01T21:21:00.000-07:00

A full blown trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been released, I know what you're thinkin', "what else haven't you seen yet after so many teasers and previews"?

I can say that 95% of this trailer is new and unseen so far, you'll get to see Devastator clearly now in this official trailer, oh yes and not to mention the rise of Megatron, check it out

Trailer

Provided by Transformers

Beam me up Scotty!

2009-04-27T00:17:00.000-07:00

It's been a while since i've watched any Star Trek related shows, the last movie I remember watchin' was Cloverfield and TV series '

Base on the picture below, people has discovered that one of the high rise building shown in the Star Trek trailer contains the company name 'Tagruato' which is the Japanese company for the movie Cloverfield, what does this mean, who knows, maybe he's bein cheap and reused props from Cloverfield for Star Trek, but I think that's just J.J. Abrams.

In the end, I look forward to watch this movie, I think it's a fresh new beginning for the franchise and for someone who doesn't know a lot about Star Trek, it's good to see the beginnin' of it all.

Trailer 3

Provided by Quicktime

REVIEW: The movie was overall good, good story for those who wanted to know the beginin' of it all, the new beginin of a huge Star Trek universe, i'm not a Trekkie but as a movie buff, I find it quite entertainin', good actors; right on with the characters i'll say, some comedy, lots of action and effects, bring in the sequels.
Rating 4½/5

Is Domino's Pizza in trouble?

2009-04-25T23:53:00.000-07:00

UPDATE [25-04-09]: My colleague has informed me that the disgusting video has been removed from YouTube, by herself? hmmmm, I guess she made some sort of deal with YouTube, I tried to look for other users who have uploaded the video but no luck, however there's some footage of it on some news. If you've missed the original clip, click here to view another version

Mostly anyone probably have tried Domino's Pizza before, but there's a clip i'm about to show here that might change your mind about eating out again. Of course this is not directly blamed on Domino's; it's a reminder of eatin' out in general.

After the video circulated in the internet mainly in YouTube, Domino's USA was warn about the issue and action has been taken. Both employee Kristy Hammonds and Michael Setzer has been fired and arrested by the police and could face 4 months to 1 year in prison for their deeds.

The restaurant closed for 1 day to sanitize, throwing all the food and paper wrappings that were not sealed by the manufacturer, then business as usual the next day.

Below is a clip of the president of Domino's USA Patrick Doyle responding to the disgusting incident.

It's really a mystery why they do it and how it was leaked into the internet, most probably did it as a joke and posted it themselves online, now that's whack.

News about the case after original video removed

Britains Got Talent - Susan Boyle

2009-04-23T22:15:00.000-07:00

LOL! There's a lot of funny things you can see in the television and in internet nowadays, most talent shows do anyway, like the Idol series worldwide, but it sure is entertainin', and I guess contestant knows that and will go participate even when they don't have the singin ability at all, family and friends who encourage them to go because they think they are good are obviously hatin' them LOL. Susan Boyle is one example..

And one recent show call 'Britains Got Talent' which is the same as the American version of the show, I agree that this shows main focus is talents overall and not only their singin' abilities which can also be a talent, and most talents are really special, but if you come to this show and sing, make sure you are really really good, maybe havin' somewhat unique and special voice; a talent.

So here's one of the contestant for Britains Got Talent; Susan Boyle is 47 and her talent is singin', LOL, judges includes that British guy from 'Americans Got Talent' and of course the British dude from 'American Idol' Simon Cowell, check it out.

Click to view the clip!

I wonder how you felt after seein' that and what you think of my earlier comments about this. It was just to make this clip shine, from what i've seen most already spoil the nature of this clip by enterin' title that symbolize great singing and great talent, I guess people rather see some funny stuff than a talent IMO haha. So I hope my methods surprised you, I mean..look at the faces of the audience and the judges, they all judge her by her looks and expect to laugh whatever she's plannin' to do, and when she started to sing, look at their faces after that, the cheer and applause, I gotha be serious, my tears flow, what a tear jerker, don't judge people by it's cover.

Vijay Singh's hole in one!

2009-04-22T00:48:00.000-07:00

I'm not a golf person, although I did watch a lengthy golf tournament in Hatyai (long story) when Tiger Woods was playin', everyone knows I believe that, you win by puttin' the ball into the hole, that's it.

And if they plan to do a movie about Golf (maybe not such a good idea), they would script some crazy things like hittin' the ball that skips through water and drop in the hole, on top of that, a hole in one (a first hit that enters the hole), but this is no movie magic, Vijay Singh pulled that off, for real!

Transformers footage & montage!

2009-04-19T22:52:00.000-07:00

These teases are killin' me, can't get enough of the upcoming movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Recently Michael Bay, the director for the movie received an 2009 Vanguard Award at ShoWest, and I guess he was pleased with that; that he debuted a clip from the movie and a quick montage of robots that will appear in the movie, a few of the robots that you knew appearing and a lot more with them in different shots, most notably a glimpse of Devastator (Picture shown above)

I tend to wait put high quality things up when they're become available, and well there's suppose to be a higher quality version of it, but this can't wait. Paramount; the movie label asked Michael Bay to remove his post and clip, so it's not available there anymore but he was kind enough to have put it out and it was briefly in YouTube. But it's still out there, so here's where I come in. Not to surprise you with what you may call "spoilers" depending on who you are, here's a short description, first 1:35 min of the 2:31 min clip is where you'll see Shia talkin' with Bumble Bee with Megan with them, if you don't wanna know what they talked about, don't view this clip, after that it's just a quick montage of some robots.

Footage & Montage

Provided by Joblo and MichaelBay.com

Google Earth easter egg

2009-04-17T00:45:00.000-07:00

Google not only a search engine although it started that way, has provided a lot of cool stuff. One of the earliest known application is Google Earth. Latest version is version 5.

But I believe most of you already knew about this interestin' application, unless there's a place you're curious to see from space, it's just to big to browse around, it seems like a huge work to bring us this application, and still they have the time to have fun with it.

They've included the planet Mars for you to view as well, so why would you visit Mars anyway, there's nothing there to see, other than the ice cap on the north pole and the famous human face like formation on the ground. But I wanted to introduce you to someone there, yes...a Martian livin there!

So here's how, first of course you need Google Earth. Then on top there's a planetary button, click and choose Mars.

Once there, you can see a few color dots on Mars, some places named by scientist and also you can find famous landscapes. In the search bar marked in the red box; search for Meliza, yes a female Martian.

Now you see MELIZA, the female (I think) Martian, appropriately placed near the famous landmark call Cydonia (the face on Mars)

And my chat with her, hahaha

Here's my other conversation with Meliza:

Meliza:Greetings, Earthling! Tell me about yourself.

Earthling:hi Martian

Meliza:Are you sure? Maybe hi earthling

Earthling:but you are not an Earthling

Meliza:What makes you think I am not an earthling ?

Earthling:because you are not on Earth

Meliza:My friend Marvin has been meaning to use his Eludium Pu-36 on the Earth. He's always annoyed with how Earth obstructs his view of Venus.

Earthling:go ahead

Multiple Core Tips

2009-04-14T22:47:00.000-07:00

Nowadays seems like everyone at least has a dual core processor by now, well....not all but most of you do. Dual Core processors such as the AMD Athlon X2 and Intel's Core 2 Duo are the mainstream choice now and most applications and games are developed to take full advantage of dual processing power, it's a huge advantage over a single core, there's nothing you need to do to use your dual core on those stuff, is either you have it or you don't, but there's some other small things you can tweak to take advantage of your dual core, you have it why not use it, here's a simple one you can do to speed up boot up time.

I heard people complainin' why would their dual core processor boot up speed is the same as a single core computer, well most of you don't know that Windows didn't actually use 2 cores to boot up windows, I guess there's an unnecessary thought to it, like i said before, if you have dual core, USE IT! Fortunately window OS allow such option. I'll use Windows XP as an example, note for Vista users at the end.

1. On Windows XP, hold Windows Key + R, or click Start, then Run, to bring up the following:

2. type msconfig then Enter.

3. You'll see somethin' similar to this:

4. Click on BOOT.INI found on top of the available tabs. Then click Advanced Options.. shown below.

5. Here you'll see a few options, the one we'll using is /NUMPROC, so select it and you will have the option to choose how many processors to use, choose 2 if you have dual core of course hehe. 3 or 4 cores will be available if you have more than 2 cores.

6. Click OK twice then choose whether you want to Restart now or later.

For Windows Vista users, the process is similar through steps 1-4, after that steps, you'll see somethin like this, obviously that's just an example for people are using Quad Cores (4 cores) like AMD Athlon X4 and Intel Core 2 Quad, I believe it will work with tri core processor like AMD Phenom II X3 as well, just select the appropriate number of cores for your processor.

NOTE: Once restarted you may be notified of some changes which was made in msconfig, tick the check box on the lower left corner and then OK, so it won't appear everytime you boot Windows

Whether you'll see any improvement or not is up to you to decide whether to use this tip or not, i'll just leave it like that even if there's no improvement, no harm done :)

Robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

2009-04-13T19:08:00.000-07:00

Some CGI image of Transformers appeared online that will be appearing on the sequel coming June this year, you'll atleast can put your finger on it and say, "That robot is gonna be in the movie or not". But of course these are just CGI design of the robots, it may or may not appear in the final movie, who knows. But nevertheless here's the CGI images

We'll start of with the main character, The Fallen!

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Starscream of course

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Here's a first look at 2 new Autobots (the good guys), Skids and Mudflaps. I don't really recall who they are in the cartoon universe, but here's some info, Skids (the green one) transform into Chevrolet Beat, maybe a concept car. And Mudflap (the red one) transforms into Chevrolet Trax.

Skids and Mudflap (New robots! oo wee)

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Megatron and the Tank I mentioned earlier

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Ratchet is back

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Now here's another from the Decepticons, this looks like a real sick machine IMO, this Decepticons is called Sideswipe which transform into Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, probably another concept car.

Sideswipe ooooo~

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Ironhide, a worthy ally

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Ravage, if I remember correctly, this Jaguar like robot use to be a cassette tape that ejects from Soundwave in the cartoon universe, but of course from generation to generation it evolves into somethin' bigger and bigger, if it were a cassette still it won't fit into Soundwave no more hah.

Ravage, non cassette version

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Save the best for last, here's one of the biggest transformers you'll see in the movie, I guess... This is Devastator, you remember him? You know....the 6 green contruction vehicle called the Contructicons that form Devastator? I wonder if its that huge tricycle thingy found in the teaser.

Devastator

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Search color with Google

2009-04-12T18:32:00.000-07:00

A new feature from Google Labs has been released. Apparently you can Google search image easily now with a few options to sort out what image you actually want, for example, color, sketch, drawing, etc.

If you didn't know, you can actually do that before this new feature is out. So for example, if you're lookin' for a Ferrari in yellow, all you do is type 'ferrari +yellow', and you'll get yellow ferrari, so now you don't have to actually type yellow, instead just choose yellow from the available color choice.

And apparently there's a pink version of Ferrari too hah.

Some other useful options other than colors are, New Content, Faces, Clip Art, Line drawings and Photo content. And of course the color of your choice may not be available for you, you can still continue searching with the 'item +color' method. So give this new function a try, another great feature from Google, type less and click more, that's the future.

Diablo 3 User Interface

2009-03-31T01:58:00.000-07:00

Another anticipatin' game comin' from Blizzard in edition to Starcraft II is Diablo 3. Again the last game; Diablo 2 was a well known game many years ago, probably 8-10 years ago, a game playable on a system with 800Mhz CPU speed, that's the system i'm using that time.

With new technology available today who wouldn't wanna play the next Diablo with better graphics and effects? I've seen the demo which is great even in an early stange of development.

And today we got some screen shots that shows the UI (User Interface)

Lookin' good

Very colorful design

Colorful which reminds some of you with World Of Warcraft

Some of the hardcore Diablo fans don't like the fact that it's design with a wide variety of colors and they made it even brighter than the previous Diablo series, well of course that time World of Warcraft doesn't exist yet, after WoW the design evolve, which I don't really care, as long as the game is great to play.

Some talented fans even go to the extent of modifying the color tone that shows what fans think Diablo 3 should look like. Here's some example (Click for larger version)

I agree that the fan modified version looks more like the previous Diablo, the dark/black theme that makes the game special, with the new colorful design, they are complanin that it looks like WoW more, the developers have seen the picture above and did commented on them, saying that it looks great but with those colors it's hard for them to incorporate into it's engine, don't know what that means. Release date has not been set yet, so we'll have to wait and see after it does.

For those that haven't seen the trailer yet or maybe don't know what's Diablo all about, here's a trailer for you.

Trailer

Provided by Blizzard

Penang free WiFi in effect?

2009-03-29T19:45:00.000-07:00

As you all heard about the free Wifi implementation across Penang. I don't really know what's the status at this point and who will be providing this service for us. Information started to show up about this free service and here's some info (not tested myself) about how to use this service.

Before we go any further there's of course such question as where? You guessed right as this service is not available everywhere in Penang yet. Since mentioned about less than a year ago by Penang's Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng about Wireless in Penang, earlier this year we see wireless service started to take off with WIMAX; a wireless broadband internet service, which was tested and shown that it was fast, but you pay a premium for it, not that much compare to Streamyx, I bet not everyone mind to switch over to somethin' new and stable .. for now.

Pretty scarce at the moment

With WIMAX soon to cover everywhere in Penang, that's just the beginnin'. As far as I know to use this service you need a special modem from them and the plan & packages doesn't look that tempting yet, now lets get back to our main topic, Penang Free WiFi.

Considered the first wave of many free wireless internet broadband to come, REDtone-HotGate seems to be the first. And again it's scarce; Komtar, Penang Road, Chulia Street, Bukit Jambul as rumored. Once you're there at the designated hotspot, with your wireless adapter, search for available wireless network and you'll find one called "Penang Free WiFi"; once connected to it, open your browser and you'll start connection to the Penang Free WiFi Registration page where you login (if you're already registered) or signup for a new account to use this service, is that simple. That's all I know for now, and there's another project called MyBroadband Penang WiFi, which I don't know about yet.

So that's just the beginnin' we'll see how it played out once more hotspot are available throughout Penang. More info can be found @ limguaneng.com

Vote Earth tomorrow!

2009-03-26T22:10:00.000-07:00

I mentioned before on my earlier post about this event and this is it, tomorrow is the day earth wins the vote against global warming, remember to take part in this event tomorrow (Saturday March 28, 2009) by switching of your lights at 8:30pm (GMT +8:00) for 1 hour

I will try to capture the sight at my area and see who is Earth's public enemy number 1 HAH :X Anyway I hope most of you who read this will take part, 1 hour for a year is nothing much to ask for, and not only does Earth wins, your wallet wins too,....well...just a lit'l :X

VOTE VOTE VOTE!

Ninja Cat

2009-03-26T01:44:00.000-07:00

Have you heard about the Ninja Cat? If you haven't I thought of sharing this clip I found some time ago. Havin' a cat myself I find this video very funny and cute!

For some of you that may have a fear for pets, this video might prove to be a nightmare for you, maybe it's just the music used in this video perhaps.

Starcraft II User Interface

2009-03-23T21:44:00.000-07:00

As some of us eagerly awaiting the release date of one of the most anticipating game this year (hopefully), Starcraft II; the sequel to the famous Starcraft 10 years ago which still played even now, mainly in Korea, which still into this game in big big game competitions, very very interesting, which proves games isn't all about looks and eye candy, it's about gameplay mainly.

It's unknown when will it be officially released but they do keep us update with some screen shots of the progress.

Looks like they retain the green color for units selection. Click for larger image

The same goes for the function area and enemy info, green... Click for larger image

That's all for now, for those of you that's into games or not, this game or others, here's a introduction clip about Starcraft II, maybe with that small tease, you might be interested in it.

Introduction

Provided by Starcraft II

Malaysia's iPhone 3G is here

2009-03-12T23:04:00.000-07:00

So the iPhone will official be available in Malaysia on 20th March 2009, those who waited for this phone will finally get their hands on one, and legally. The launch will happen at KL Convention Centre, I wonder if Penang will do the same..

And it seems like Apple in Malaysia will follow the footsteps of all Apple around the world by adapting the "only one network" phone, well...they are all Apple anyway.

12 Month Plan

It all started in the US where AT&T is the only network you can use when purchasin' an iPhone, of course if you ask me, this is one stupid method to sell a phone, there's no freedom of choosin' what network you wanna use or have. Canada and the UK follow this idea and now Maxis from Malaysia has this privilege, hmm makes me proud havin' a Maxis number, but again I feel this is a bad idea, with all the jailbreaking happening all around the world, don't they learn anythin from that?

24 Month Plan

In case you're wonderin' what Jailbreak (no, it's not like Prison Break), it's cracking/hackin' the phone so that it can be used on different network other than the one they provided. But i heard that Jailbreaking will void your warranty with them, so it's one risky proposition.

6 Month Plan

But then again, you still have to subscribe to Maxis to get this phone I believe, so far from what i've seen, minimum is 6 months contract, and i'm not really sure but just by a glance; it seems that the higher the monthly fee you are payin them, the cheaper the phone. There's one i noticed; for the 2 year contract, the iphone 8GB version will be free, but you'll have to stick with them for 2 years paying RM375 per month, that's like RM9k for 2 years, basically the price of the phone varies depending on what plan you subscribe to. This is insane, i'm a prepaid user i guess this type of plans make me cringe, probably alright with postpaid clan.

Hmm I wonder Jailbreaking it will allow me to use it with prepaid....

For more information visit Maxis iPhone 3G

Adobe Reader 9.1 fix critical vulnerability

2009-03-11T23:09:00.000-07:00

For those of you who still uses Adobe Reader to view all your PDF format files, just so you'll know, there's a new version out now; version 9.1. I recommend you update your Reader or if you have the full Adobe Acrobat version; update that too, this effects both the free Adobe Reader and full Adobe Acrobat versions, what do I mean by effect?

There seems to be a vulnerability found on those Adobe products below version 9.1 i assume; which allow hackers to exploit, I guess we heard this all the time, but this bug has already been around for 2 months without any fix, so hackers might already been exploitin' it, which in turn classify this update as a 0-day patch; I believe that means, there's no time to waste, update it NOW! hmm

I've personally stop using Adobe Reader for a long time, ever since I found Foxit Reader, another free PDF reader which I found much snappier and smaller compare to the original Adobe Reader, for a high end computer maybe that's not a problem but for the moderate and below, I recommend Foxit Reader.

I've been using it for years and found no serious problems with it, if all you do it to open PDF files, you should use it; and maybe do a little gettin' use to if you're with Adobe for a long time; overall it's just similar, for me what else I need to know other than zoom-in, zoom-out, scroll up and down, next page, previous page :) So why the need for the bigger resources hogging Adobe Reader when you can get somethin' smaller and simple, but that's just me, try it, you might like it.

Fast & Furious next month!

2009-03-11T21:34:00.000-07:00

Before lookin farther to the next upcoming movie, looks like i've overlooked the next big movie which is due April this year, looks like we're gonna get another Fast And Furious movie, hmm base on my knowledge, this is the 4th of the franchise.

Looks like all 4 of the original cast members of the first movie is back, if you watch the 3rd one a.k.a Tokyo Drift, you knew that there's gonna be a 4th one, Vin Diesel's character appear at the end of the movie is that indication. So what will this movie plot be.. we'll see. So for now, let your eyes feast on the trailer.

Trailer

Provided by Fast And Furious

X-Men Origins: Wolverine coming soon!

2009-03-11T21:05:00.000-07:00

UPDATED: 11 March 2009

Fix the earlier useless link to the trailer, to view; click here

UPDATED: 06 March 2009

A new and seemingly the final trailer before showtime has appeared online! Trailer available here

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Another anticipatin' movie is coming our way next month. If you didn't know after the 3 X-Men movies, there's a spin-off in the works, mainly to focus on Wolverine's character called X-Men Origins: Wolverine, starrin' of course Hugh Jackman.

Of course what excite fans the most is the characters that are gonna be present in this movie, one of which i'm sure is the character called Gambit, fans were hopin' that Gambit will appear on at least one of the first 3 movies, but hopes were shot down.

I have to agree is one of the main big characters in the X-Men world, i've seen him all the time in X-Men cartoons... :x You can find more details about him at Wikipedia. All I know about him is that he is a card wielding man that shouts 'Trick cards' & 'Genetic cards' in the Marvel arcade games :x And yes the good news has finally arrive, Gambit is indeed in this movie!

LATEST TRAILER #2 (06 March 2009)

Provided by X-Men Origin

Trailer #1

Provided by Quicktime

Are you ready for Salvation?

2009-03-05T20:01:00.000-08:00

Arnold Schwarzenegger is all that comes into my mind when the word Terminator is mentioned. When a Terminator robot was sent back in time to kill the mother of the future leader for mankind; John Connor, the human resistance from the future also sent back Kyle Reese back to protect her, and weirdly he was the father of John Connor...John will not exist if he didn't send his father to protect his mother in the past, if he doesn't exist how could he send his father hmmm mind bogglin'; hmm one of those "What comes first, Chicken or Egg" moments, but it was a great film! :)

Here's some posters and banners

Then Terminator 2: Judgment Day comes in, one of the best action movies i've ever seen, you have the same Terminator a.k.a Hasta La Vista Arnold now sent back to protect John Connor who is around 12 years old. And another Terminator to kill John Connor, now that one is a bad ass called T-1000; liquid metal baby!

Trailer 3

And Terminator 3 was just mediocre, a female terminator is send back to kill him this time, so all this time it was a story about protecting the leader of the human resistance and preventin' judgment day in the future, but in the end it's clear that judgment day was inevitable.

Trailer 2

So now we have Terminator Salvation a.k.a Terminator 4, after all those movies, how could I not watch this, it stars one of the hot risin stars of today Christian Bale as the adult John Connor in the future (the dude that sends his friend back to protect his mom and ends up bein his father); still mind bogglin..enjoy the teaser and trailer for the upcoming blockbuster showin' on May 21

Photoshop too expensive?

2009-03-02T21:31:00.000-08:00

Click to go there now.

Photoshop has been around for many years and it's one of the top picture editing tool to date. It's so famous that any picture that looks fake it's always blamed on Adobe Photoshop. The downside is that it's too expensive, i guess that's what you get bein' too famous. People also settled for Window's Paint Brush, for simple editing, i guess there's no problem but who uses that.

As there is some evident that OS and programs are moving to the web cloud, everythin you do will be done online, nothin' is installed on your PC, sounds like there's gonna be pros and cons to this IMO. So for a useful program to be on a web, free to use without using expensive photo editing tool, Pixlr is great.

There's even an Add-On for Firefox for Pixlr. Base on the description and preview images, after the add-on is installed on your Firefox, you can easily edit an image you found on the web simply by right clicking on the image and select Edit with Pixlr, which adds more goodness to this great web app.

Click to go there now.

Looks really close to Adobe Photoshop too.

I haven't actually played with it, so go ahead and try it out, it's free!

Earth Hour

2009-03-02T00:38:00.000-08:00

Source Making Memories

Earth Hour, an annual event participated by 77 countries and 680 cities worldwide to raise awareness of global warming and climate change. Vote against global warming and vote mother earth.

Find out more about Earth Hour

And here's a video about it.

Wouldn't it be cool if everyone just turn off the lights at the same time? Reminds me of the blackout we experienced before. Sometimes it's good to just get away from all those electrical stuff and just stand out in the darkness lookin' up the stars reflect on life since we are usually too busy to do so, you can bring sticks and rub it against eash other to build fire too, that's just the way it is when we were cavemen :D

Flash player critical vulnerabilities

2009-02-27T00:15:00.000-08:00

Flash player is a very famous and commonly use player in the internet today, i've seen it been a very unimportant use years back after YouTube started to serve videos in flash, everyone took this up and incorporated into their site and blogs to display videos and music, just like here; i've use mostly flash videos, long time ago it use to be Quicktime players and WMP players, with the customizable skins and player feel, it's just a recommended this to do these days, of course it doesn't support all file formats, depending on what file formats they are, which player has to be use, but why use others when Flash is recommended :)

It's probably due to it's security that people start to like it but then bad news happened yesterday where a few vulnerabilities were found on Flash player version 10.0.12.36 and before, it's critical base on the company's statement, so peeps, please do update to the latest version 10.0.22.87.

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Coldplay steal someone's song?

2009-02-25T01:11:00.000-08:00

After watchin the 51st Grammy Awards, Coldplay seems to do well in winnin some awards for their latest album which includes the famous song Viva La Vida, then I recall a time where Joe Satriani accuse Coldplay of stealing his song "If I Could Fly".

Diggin' into YouTube I found a few clips to prove that, below is the video comparing those two songs, is it similar? you be the judge.

People sometimes can create music consciously or subconsciously similar so another artist, it's really hard to know they did it on purpose or not, only god knows, you can be sure that Coldplay fans will defend them by pointin' out that music around the world are copied and manipulated all the time, there's gonna be a point where a music inspires you, you love makin' music because you love music, nuff said. And yet with this controversy still in a limbo, did Coldplay steal Joe Satriani's song? They have a better question, did Joe Satriani steal Enanitos Verdes's song then?

You be the judge..

Streamyx problems again.

2009-02-25T00:27:00.000-08:00

Having slow connections to the internet? Posted yesterday

"Dear Valued Customers,

Telekom Malaysia Berhad (TM) wishes to announce that there is a disruption of its Internet services since 18 February 2009 due to circuit fault on the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) between Kuantan - Katong in Singapore and Shantou - Tanshui in Taiwan linking Malaysia to the United States (US).

Due to this, customers using Internet services may now experience slow browsing while accessing content hosted in the U.S. In addition, customers using other IP services such as Virtual Private Network (VPN) and other critical business applications linked to the US may also experience some service degradation.

To alleviate the problem, some of the links have been rerouted to alternate routes to ease the congestion.

During the restoration process, traffic to Northern America may experience minor degradation while traffic to other countries is not affected. TM expects the complete recovery of its services by 5 March 2009. TM will make further announcements on the progress of the restoration works.

TM wishes to assure its customers that it is undertaking all necessary measures to restore communications services for its customers as soon as possible.

Customers can call TM at 100 and select “Internet Services” or e-mail us at help@tm.com.my for any Internet related problems.

Thank you"

Oh well...here we go again, lets hope it's not gonna be worse after 5th March, when are those other ISP gonna go mainstream? Competition is customers' best friend y'all.

Transparent Head! (Video included)

2009-02-24T19:37:00.000-08:00

The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. The fish's tubular eyes are capped by bright green lenses. The eyes point upward (as shown here) when the fish is looking for food overhead. They point forward when the fish is feeding. The two spots above the fish's mouth are olfactory organs called nares, which are analogous to human nostrils. Image: © 2004 MBARI

Stumble upon this in the news, it's a fish with a transparent head, you can actually see how it's eyes move inside, the eyes can move upwards and front, though the vision seems to only be a tunnel like vision.

It's called The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma), living in the depths of the sea where the sun don't shine, it's wondrous how pitch black environment can do to living things.

In this image, you can see that, although the barreleye is facing downward, its eyes are still looking straight up. This close-up "frame grab" from video shows a barreleye that is about 140 mm (six inches) long. Image: © 2004 MBARI

I have lots of interest in strange and mysterious things like space, and when it seems space is a fasinatin' place to explore, there's still a lot we haven't seen on earth, there's probably still depths in the sea that's impossible for us to go, everythin' down that deep will be alien in my eyes, if people tell me this fish was found on another planet, I would reacted the same way now, amazed.

Provided by MBARI

I wonder if there's any civilization down there like that movie The Abyss ;x

Animoto professionalize your work

2009-02-22T23:24:00.000-08:00

If you haven't heard about Animoto, you should check it out. It's a great way to create a video with your pictures and your music, Animoto then will automatically, create the slides of your picture base on the beat and tempo of your music, the result is a video picture slide that looks professional.

Last i've used it, it allows you to create a 30 second clip only, there's a pay service also. Maybe you'll find it useful.

Here's one of the many samples you can find at their site, this is what a snowboarder might do, lookin at it you might think some work needs to be done, well yes...but Animoto does it for you!

Provided by Animoto

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen full teaser !

2009-02-16T21:00:00.000-08:00

Yoohoo! The full teaser trailer is here!, Hmm a teaser which is full? It's not the full trailer yet of course, earlier on my post, it was the TV Spot and this I can categorize it as a teaser, any clip for me is a tease anyway ;)

I can't wait to see this teaser/trailer in the big screen, I just felt i need more tease before the release hah. Some countries, main of course the US have already seen this on the big screen, it was the teaser for the movie Friday the 13th, which is actually the day before Valentine's Day, over here; the movie doesn't show here until April -_-, that's why internet is gooood~. The teaser seems to be in good quality stereo sound, please do enjoy it in full blast!

Hmm did I see Insecticons in this teaser somewhere? ;)

Provided by http://www.transformersmovie.com/

Do you remember G.I. Joe?

2009-02-15T19:08:00.000-08:00

Not particularly interested in the title in question but it brings up some interest since I've remembered the name during my childhood, the cartoon series and the toy line, I believe there's small trading cards representin' them as well.

If you didn't know yet, there's a movie made for the franchise, I don't even remember the characters other than there's a lot of characters in the cartoon series, but lookin' at the TV Spot happen at the super bowl, i'm not thinkin' twice about watchin' this movie.

Latest Trailer

Provided by G.I. Joe Official Site

Rihanna's concert in Malaysia cancelled?

2009-02-11T22:43:00.000-08:00

There's a big problem problem roblem blem blem for Rihanna's concert in Malaysia a few days from now are rumored to have been canceled after she was allegedly assaulted by her boyfriend, Chris Brown. It happened while they were heading to the Grammy's with Brown's rented $2000 per day Lambo for their performance there.

Brown physically hit her due to unconfirmed reasons, after some arguments erupted in the car, it was rumored that Rihanna chuck the Lambo's key out of the car and Chris was upset that he couldn't find it and was heard sayin' "I'm gonna kill you" to Rihanna, another rumor was about a text message that Chris received that upsets her.

Police arrive at the scene after someone heard her screamin' and started to dial 911. Police took down the reports and some pictures or the abuse and base on the cops' statement, it was "Horrific", bruised face, splitting lips etc.

Knowing this, i'm sure the concert will be canceled, but it was rumored to have been postpone ahead a few weeks when the dust clears...hopefully. In related stories, the well known big brother to Rihanna; Jay-Z seem to be upset about Chris and was caught sayin' "...he mess with the wrong crew"...*gulp*

Anyway IMO, what's good of a concert if the outfit selection was strict in Malaysia, Malaysia sure gettin' a lot of attention and sendin' bad reputation to the world, that's what caused Beyonce to not perform in Malaysia after the exact problem, Malaysia Boleh!

All the best to Rihanna and hope you'll come visit us soon, watch your back Chris..

Revenge is comin'

2009-02-03T18:38:00.000-08:00

Gong Xi Fa Cai first of all to all my chinese friends, surely it's a busy day for all of us. Like the title says, when combine the word revenge and gong xi fa cai, one would think I'm tryin to avenge my gambling lost during CNY, but that's not the case.

As some of you might know, super bowl has started in the US, it's huge there, i'm only interested in the TV spot at the super bowl, usually showcasing what movie, tv shows to come, & some advertisement, I heard if you want to have a 30 second clip at the super bowl, you must pay millions, there's many TV Spots available but one that interested me the most is the TV Spot for Transformers: The Revenge of The Fallen!

I must say, i'v been waiting for this for a long time, to have a glimpse of what to expect on this most inticipating movie this year (at least to me). The ooooh ahhhh factor in this TV Spot is you'll see a transformer with his head the size of..........Optimus Prime! Enjoy!

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

2009-01-21T20:36:00.000-08:00

Here's the trailer for what's coming this month, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, base on the look of it, i'll say it should be better than the first movie, but it's unfair i guess to compare these movies due to time difference, but story line is another question, will it be good enough for the general public. Movie to look for this month?

Click to view trailer

Justin Timberlake in Single Ladies

2009-01-18T21:57:00.000-08:00

Old news here, but I just have to share it for those who never seen it before. I've never actually seen the this full music video by Beyonce call Single Ladies, but I do have a glimpse that it's done in black and white, and somethin' like 2 backup dancers with Beyonce in the video.

And then I found this funny parody for this music video which of course includes Beyonce and believe it or not; Justin Timberlake, yes you read it right.

Saturday Night Live is best known for it's parody on all of the famous celebrities like Obama, Sarah Palin and many guest celebrities appear in the show, this one is one of the funniest i've seen. I believe it was available in YouTube, but NBC has asked them to remove it, I hope i don't get sued for this.

Anyway here it is, anyone needs a good laugh. Justin is kinda funny here, should try him out in a comedy.

Starcraft II developers ask the fans!

2009-01-15T00:21:00.000-08:00

What better way to make a game that satisfy and meet fan's expectations than to ask the fans themselves about what is better for the game, that's what Blizzard recently did.

There's 2 choices for the protoss unit dark templar, the The Lenassa or The Zer'atai; even better, you can vote for both, so it will appear randomly when you create this unit.

I haven't actually voted yet, I do like the profile look of the second one, but don't really like his weapon, however i do like the weapon of the first choice, but either way i guess i'll vote for both to appear in the game.

Starcraft II will be split into 3 games, with the first focussin on the Terran call Wings of Liberty, coming...soon...

If you're interested visit the site (you need to be registered though):

If you're just a fan just wanted to see how the game has progress, below are a preview of the 2 Dark Templar you can vote for.


Lenassa

Zer'atai

A New Year tease

2009-01-09T18:41:00.000-08:00

I think anyone would agree this is the year's most anticipated movie, i just can't wait, here are some pictures to satisfy your curiosity, the last one is the recent one and i think it's one that says it all.

Boom Boom Boom Michael Bay style

I heard that hand injury is real

Imagine some machine as big as the pyramids. Pss Devastator

Ooo sweet battle wounds

Now the final one, looks like what you would expect from this movie, this is obviously not Autobots, but what if i tell you that this is not even Decepticons? ;) jeng jeng jeng

SO there you have it, some preview picture of the upcoming movie Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen, btw, only a true fan knows who is the Fallen, which gives you the idea about this poster. It's gonna be huge~

notoblogz

How secure is your password?

Iron Man 2 easter egg!

Tron Legacy somethin to look forward to?

Predators with da S!

Earth Hour 2010

Clash of the Titans 2010 next month.

Here's somethin' to ROFL about

What's that song?

Avatar not the airbender

PS3 Slim and PSP Go coming soon to Malaysia

Paranormal Activity

2012: Get ready for eye candy

District 9 anyone?

Sam Raimi to direct Warcraft movie

19 is the new record courtesy of Transformers 2

Starcraft II without LAN!

R.I.P The King of Pop..

Windows 7 will dominate?

Movie timeline tells a story

Linkin Park - New Divide [Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack]

Will Microsoft *BING* Google?

E3 wraps up

Left 4 Dead 2 coming soon!

Go to pee while watching a movie (possible spoiler)

Pitbull punch dude on stage

Mah Rig!

Modern Warfare 2 looks excitin'

The Sims 3 is out?

Few Transformers 2 TV Spot

The Longest Way - 1 year old facial hair

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen full trailer!

Beam me up Scotty!

Is Domino's Pizza in trouble?

Britains Got Talent - Susan Boyle

Vijay Singh's hole in one!

Transformers footage & montage!

Google Earth easter egg

Multiple Core Tips

Robots in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Search color with Google

Diablo 3 User Interface

Penang free WiFi in effect?

Vote Earth tomorrow!

Ninja Cat

Starcraft II User Interface

Malaysia's iPhone 3G is here

Adobe Reader 9.1 fix critical vulnerability

Fast & Furious next month!

X-Men Origins: Wolverine coming soon!

Are you ready for Salvation?

Photoshop too expensive?

Earth Hour

Flash player critical vulnerabilities

Coldplay steal someone's song?

Streamyx problems again.

Transparent Head! (Video included)

Animoto professionalize your work

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen full teaser !

Do you remember G.I. Joe?

Rihanna's concert in Malaysia cancelled?

Revenge is comin'

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Justin Timberlake in Single Ladies

Starcraft II developers ask the fans!

A New Year tease

Will Microsoft BING Google?