Malaysia's iPhone 3G is here

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....

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Adobe Reader 9.1 fix critical vulnerability

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.

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Fast & Furious next month!

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

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine coming soon!

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)

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Trailer #1

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Are you ready for Salvation?

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 Read more »

Photoshop too expensive?

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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.

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Looks really close to Adobe Photoshop too.

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Earth Hour

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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 Read more »