So why did Miley Cyrus quit Twitter?

No, no! Not because her friends or boy friend made her do so. Cyrus raps, but because she started “living for moments” and wanted to start “living for people” instead. Basically, she want fans to know that she’s ‘too busy’ for Twitter and also didn’t like the fact that her public updates were well, public, and that gossip sites used her tweets to publish headlines about her life.

It’s been great having to follow a Twitter like Miley Cyrus, reading and tweeting with her. Only if she wasn’t a celebrity, then perhaps life would be much easier on her side!

Until then, hope to see you somewhere around on Twitter again Miley Cyrus! Way to go girl!

This upcoming piece of “fine-art” by Nokia has already been shaking up the market before it was announced available for pre-order. The mobile market has already taken its flight to this new era of mobile computing.

Instead of the traditional “mobile phone”, the Nokia has addressed this fine piece of gadget as the “Nokia N900 Mobile Computer“. Like its name says, the Nokia N900 is powered with the Maemo technology and having its processor speed of 600 MHz and up to 1GB of application memory. This superscalar ARM processor enables you to run all your applications quickly, smoothly and simultaneously.

Like what Nokia promises, a “PC-like experience on a handset-sized device”, the Nokia N900 Panorama desktop allows you to flip through multiple desktops with a flick of your fingertip, browsing through your daily tasks like how you would multi-task on your computer. You can personalize the look and feel of your desktops like changing wallpapers, theme or even adding shortcuts to your favorite websites, contacts and applications.

With the rapid growing trend of Internet and Social networking usage, Nokia N900 web browser with Mozilla engine that gives you a high speed full access to rich interactive contents, just like your home computer. No more waiting up for minutes to get your contents loaded.

If the Nokia N97 was an iPhone killer, this Nokia N900 must be the mobile phone terminator! Here comes the end of “Mobile Phone” era, and the new beginning of “PC on a handset-sized device” or simply – a laptop in your pocket.

Nokia N900 Technical Details: See full specs on the N900 site

Display

• 3.5 inch touch-sensitive widescreen display
• 800 × 480 pixel resolution

Web browsing

• Maemo browser powered by Mozilla technology
• Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support
• Full screen browsing

Camera

• 5 megapixel camera (2584 × 1938 pixels)
• Image formats: JPEG
• CMOS sensor, Carl Zeiss optics, Tessar lens
• 3 × digital zoom
• Autofocus with assist light and two-stage capture key
• Dual LED flash
• Full-screen viewfinder
• Photo editor on device
• TV out (PAL/NTSC) with Nokia Video Connectivity Cable (CA-75U, included in box) or WLAN/UPnP
• Landscape (horizontal) orientation
• Capture modes: Automatic, portrait, video, macro, landscape, action

Video

• Wide aspect ratio 16:9 (WVGA)
• Video recording file format: .mp4; codec: MPEG-4
• Video recording at up to 848 × 480 pixels (WVGA) and up to 25fps
• Video playback file formats: .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263

Music and audio playback

• Maemo media player
• Music playback file formats: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
• Built-in FM transmitter
• Ring tones: .wav, .mp3, .AAC, .eAAC, .wma, .m4a
• FR, EFR, WCDMA, and GSM AMR
• DLNA

Updates:

1. The Nokia N900 release date is rumored to be in the October 2009
2. The Nokia N900 price rumored to be USD 800/MYR 2800 (pre tax and pre carrier subsidy)

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Females or even Males, You probably don’t wanna skip this post!

If you cannot understand what’s written in the Advertisement, here’s the translation from Google Translator on the Ad title itself.

魔童乖乖水 : Magic Tong obediently water

And what does it do? Here’s another translation from Google Translator

催情、催眠 、見人戀人 : Aphrodisiac, hypnotic, see one lover.

This advertisement is then directly linking to their “product” page where it explains brieftly what it does. Again, Google Translator.

Product Information

The syrup has Mihun, magic, aphrodisiac, hypnotic and so on. Once exposed to the skin of humans and animals, this medicine five seconds will immediately coma, confusion, listening to people order about. This product contains a highly volatile liquid, can produce intense hallucinations, inhibit the cerebral cortex, inhibit nerve center, loss of memory, loss of thinking, listening to people order about and asked what say to produce the illusion of a kind of ecstasy, fully human consciousness Ecstasy . After use each other’s mind and suddenly, and asked Han Yam, loss of sense, see people Lovers, see things fetish, and obey your command, no matter how you mercy, you call each other what the other side are doing, then wake up completely when I do not know.

Even though the translations sounded a bit retarded, but it has somehow made the point about how this products work. So don’t pick on Google or my english.

Is our current social issues not messed up enough? Do we really need existence of these products to enhance the crimes? Are these products even legal? Be it to be sold to 18 above or below!

The question is:

1. “Why and How did Facebook approve an advertisement like this on their site?” Didn’t Facebook have an Ad-review team that filters out all inappropriate advertisements before they go live?
2. Where’s the Facebook report ad link that we used to have? Is this what Facebook claimed appropriate since it’s approved?
3. “Who’s to responsible for any serious crimes caused by these products?” Facebook for aiding the advertisement? Or the company that produces/sell this product?
4. “Who’s responsibility for these products to be manufactured?” How were they approved or allowed to produce these nonsense and even trying to sell it globally?
5. “Do we need these to enhance the crime rates in our society?” Why isn’t it stopped? Was it because it’s bracket-ed “(Not for crime)” to deem legal?

With such “eye-catching” title on the Facebook advertisements, god knows how many of those criminals has already ordered/bought/used these products.

This drug can basically put you, your mom, your sister or even your brother into sleep, coma or confusion within seconds when you’ve been “sprayed”. Then you’ll either obey whatever you’re asked to do or you won’t even know what are they doing to you. I bet you probably don’t wanna just faint on the street and got raped by someone who sprayed some “holy water” onto you. Just try imagining with your “creativity” on what would happen if these products are not being terminated/destroyed/prohibited/jailed!

Here’s another simpler description of what Date Rape Drugs meant:

Date rape drugs can render a person incapable of thinking clearly or of making appropriate decision. This makes for a very passive victim, one who is still able to play a role in what is happening but who will have no clear memory of what happened after-the-fact.

If you’re a caring person that worries of your families and your love ones, you’d probably want to educate them so they’re aware of this. Remind them to watch out when they were out alone or with new friends/strangers.

As for those who read this post and felt like a good opportunity to you, go shove a bottle of this up your back ok? Try to think of it the other way round if I were to use this on your mom ok? “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.”

If you raises enough voice, I’m sure someone could do something to stop these. Or at the least you can do now, is to NOT buy them. If nobody’s gonna buy, there’s no reason for them to make this.

Share this post, help the society that IS ALREADY falling apart!

To be honest, I find it nothing special either. But I’ve been getting quite some greetings on my Messenger so I thought I should just note this down in my blog since it doesn’t happen as often as everyday.

They said “It’s a good day to make money and have good health!” What do you say? :p

Happy 12:34:56 07/08/09 !

I’ve been blogging for like almost 8 months now, seen many bloggers sharing Nuffnang cheques on their blogs. Just thought that I shouldn’t miss my first cheque too.

Being a “not-so-new-blood” in the blogsphere, I’ve ran through many different advertising networks. I ended up with Nuffnang because I was impressed with the excitements and fun they bring to their 80,000 bloggers each and every week. They’re so happening that I wanna be a part of their community!

I have written over hundreds of posts in the past 8 months. From a very newbie blogger, to a…err newbie blogger. I’ve learnt so much from the Nuffnang community on ways to express myself through blogging.

And the best of all, I get to make some extra beer money by having people to read my thoughts. Even though the first Nuffnang cheque I get isn’t some big money that can buy me a Nokia N97, but I’m thankful that I get to have some good meals and possibly good beers with that money.

Apart from making money, I’ve also gained a lot of knowledge and experience. Before I had myself stepped into the blogsphere, I was pretty much an ordinary web designer who wasn’t aware of the Media Advertising Power. There were no live example for me to actually realize how important and effective they can be in today’s business world.

Fortunately, I have the opportunity to go through this with Nuffnang in the past months. Now I finally have the clear picture of how these networks plays their roles between the Business, the Media and the Consumers. Nuffnang have shown me how campaigns were run and made success with many events/businesses they’ve organized. Not only they have proven that blog advertising works, they also built communications between the advertisers and their consumers(eg, the bloggers)

Thank you Nuffnang, for the cheque and the knowledge I’ve gain from the blogsphere!

P/S: Ops, just thought of sharing the cheque… not details on the cheque. So don’t ask me how much… and pardon me for the photos

Couple weeks back, my very-old-hag desktop computer has decided to die on me without a proper farewell. Leaving me with no choice but to make a tough decision between the ‘Monster‘ and the ‘Beast‘.

Being a hardcore multi-task user, I have strong believes in Dell’s product quality and performance. Since my dream machine is way far from my budget. At this very urgent timing, I had to once awhile choose Dell.

In order to make sure things work well this time, I’ve decided that I should get a Workstation instead of normal desktops.

I need something that will give high performance, doesn’t shut down my Photoshop in the middle of drawing and doesn’t melt the graphic card’s fan(my Radeon 9800XT has both its fans melted). On top of that, I’d love to have a bigger, wider workspace. You can imagine how annoying and time consuming to switch between browsers to compare the output results and the compatibility in one not-so-wide screen.

Eye-ing around the workstations list on Dell’s website, I’ve decided to give Dell Precision T3400 a go. Being the middle range priced workstation in the list, Dell Precision T3400 has the attractive basic specs before customization.

1. Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad Q9550 (2.83G/1333FSB/12MB)
2. Genuine Windows Vista^® Business & Windows XP^® Professional (both 64bits edition)
3. 8GB (2×4GB ) DDR-2 800MHz ECC Dual-Channel DDR2 Fully Buffered DIMM
4. 1TB SATA HDD (7.2k RPM)
5. 48X/32X/48X/16X CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
6. 256MB PCIe x16 NVIDIA Quadro NVS 290, Dual DVI, Dual VGA and DVI+VGA
7. Broadcom 5721 Gigabit Network Card

Just look at the basic ‘Monster’ specs! All I need to do are just some minor customizations and everything’s good to go!

I waited 6 days(included weekends) for the 39 lb(that’s roughly 18kg) ”Monster’s Arrival”, then plunged in the latest Adobe CS4 Master Collection CD and have everything installed. Fired up multiple browsers, doing some hardcore drawings with my tablet using Photoshop CS4 on the new screen while having Illustrator on the other screen(Dual-screen first timer).

Everything’s working so smooth on this baby and there’s not even a tiny lag. A friend of mine even said that he’d get an orgasm by just sitting on this monster.

If you ask me, I’d tell you this machine is awesome! I have no regret of getting this even though I preferred the ‘Beast’ (Apple Mac Pro). It was definitely a tough decision to make, Monster or Beast? Price wise, I’d go for the Monster.

Until I can manage to get my hands on a Beast, the Dell Precision T3400 will definitely be the top machine for me now!

Tee hee! Gigi turned 3 on the 16th of June 2009! Her papa & mama decided to celebrate her birthday during the night time. They went to grab some lots of treats for Gigi as birthday present on that day.

Can’t believe time passed this fast, Gigi has stepped into our life for three years now. From the cute little puppy to an all grown up 21 years old woman(3 doggie years equals to 21 years human life). She’s now at the legal age for drinking and clubbing!

I’ve been wondering, if Gigi actually knows that’s her birthday? She seem to feel very excited about the food instead. She’s also a fan of hard boiled egg. So on this special occasion, sis prepared a hard boiled egg for her pleasure.

So she can have extra Ceasar and a hard boiled egg on her birthday night. See how excited she is?

Then we have the couple and their daughter taking family photos together, how sweet.

Hmm hmm, check out how many birthday present this little princess get for her 21 years old birthday! I can gurantee that our little princess is going to shake her butt off everytime we walk near the treats!

It’s a special day of the princess, so making this post is a MUST! Another important part of the memory! *Lick lick Gigi*

And YES! I just wanna share with everyone that our Princess Gigi has turned 3! Happy Birthday sweetie!

Staying connected and getting updated from my clients, friends and family is an important routine on my daily life. There are times when I needed to send an e-mail to my client on the work progress or simply updating my friends on weekend meetings.

These simple tasks are no longer simple if you’re not able to reach a computer. With Digi unlimited data plan and a fully geared Nokia 5800 in hand, I no longer have to worry about not being able to stay connected with my clients or my friends.

Here’s the homescreen of my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. I’m using HandyShell to customize my homescreen if you wondered how I did that. HandyShell allow me to customize/add more shortcut buttons on my homescreen. I have added shortcuts for applications that I often use for quick access. Just one touch on the homescreen, and I get what I wanted to get updated with. Just as handy as its name says it!

The mobile Google page allows me to get my Gmail and Google Map installed easily. Just go through some simple installation process, I’m now able to read my emails anywhere at anytime. Visit m.google.com on your mobile phone to get the applications installed ok!

Google Map on my Nokia 5800 works pretty well with the built-in GPS system. I’m able to search for a street name or even a business name to reach the location I might not been to! The Google Maps on my Nokia 5800 simply show me the routes to reach my destination.

Now I have no worries of getting lost in the Penang Island when I can look for my ways through Google Map or send an email to ask for help through the Gmail Application!

Of course I’m not done with getting the most out from my Nokia 5800. I have this habit of updating my status from time to time on my Twitter if I find them interesting.

So I downloaded and installed Stew from the Symbian-Guru site. Then quickly, I setup my Twitter account login information and tweeted right away! Stew allows me to stay updated with people I follow and update my followers on my where abouts. My friends are now able to get updated on my status in both Twitter and Facebook since I have them linked together.

Besides all these above, I’ve also installed Slick for Mobile Devices. Slick is an application that allows me to stay connected with my clients and friends on GoogleTalk and MSN. Of course it also support other communication protocols such as ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, AIM or Jabber.

Follow some simple installation process, then simply key in your login info at the settings and you’re ready to stay connected with more of your friends on MSN or GoogleTalk like I did.

One feature I love the most about Slick is the ability to snap a photo on the spot and send it to your friends on MSN Chat instantly. See? Now you can update your girlfriend of your current location so she no longer have to worry that you might be with someone else!

You can also choose to have your Nokia 5800 to play a sound when someone sends you a message on MSN or vibrations, or both.

Now, I’m able to connect to everyone around me just by having a fully geared Nokia 5800 in my palm. I can stay connected to my clients via Gmail wherever I go, I can update my friends on my current status with Stew and I can start discussion to plan my weekends with my friend’s on MSN using Slick.

See why I’m telling you my Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is powerful? What about yours? Share it with me here so we can all get the most out of it!

P/S: This is definitely not a paid review and I’m in no way affiliated with any of the mentioned applications above.

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So what has happened to FlikTeoh in the past 6 months?

• This is the 100th post on this blog!
• Obtained a Google PageRank of 1/10.
• Got my Alexa rank below the 500k node.
• Broke the 50k total pageviews line and now heading to 20k unique visitors!
• Now working for MC, done my first assignment and got my second job assignment.
• Managed to bring in one month’s overall traffics in just two days on June!
• Finally decided to cash out my Nuffnang and Google Ads earnings.
  (It’s not enough for a Nokia N97, but it’s surely buying me some good dinner!)
• Started removing the advertisements on my front page and selling Adspace on the sidebar instead.
• Completed 56 projects on web design works and didn’t get to put any backlinks for this blog.
  (I know how it sounds)
• Now planning to give away half a year of advertising on my 125×125 adslots if you purchase for 6months.
  (In other words, you only pay half price for a year of advertising on FlikTeoh.com!)
• Revamped my WordPress themes and scored a 91 grade on Website SEO Tool.
• Passed my exams on Elance and now I’m a top 5% in WordPress development skills and top 30% in SEO.
• Made and gave away two WordPress themes to the contest winners at Online Money blog.
  (Both their site scored an 89 and 99 grade on Website SEO Tool)

What’s next?

1. Start building my portfolio on this blog.
2. Getting all the adslots sold on my sidebar for one full year at half the price.
3. Planning on releasing free WordPress themes that are highly optimized for SEO and Adsense.
4. Sharing more tips and knowledge on SEO and WordPress customization on this blog.
5. Preparing to sit for the Google Adwords Qualified Individuals exam.
6. Target for 80,000 Unique Visitors by the end of year 2009.

What can you advertise on this site?

1. You can have your 125 x 125 pixels ads displayed on my site for one whole year while paying only for 6 months.
2. This blog has high quality of unique visitors who looks for specific products/services like:
   • Lifestyle
   • Entertainment
   • Travel
   • Gadgets & Mobile Phones
   • Web Design

   So it’s definitely advised to advertise with us only if your product/services are in these range or you just wanted to get some traffics from my site.

3. You’ll also pick up a lot of updates on gadgets and web related info in this blog, from time to time. So I hope you can find what you’re looking for in here!
4. You can have me writing a free review on your products to get more exposure. Of course unless I’ve already bought it myself or I’ll have to get it from you.
5. You can of course, always comment on my posts if you think that I’ve written some wrong info and I’ll definitely appreciate that!

This is probably too long to get to the main point. Yes, where’s the free US$ 1440 Advertising Space?

Head over this page, read the details, ask me if you have a question and if you’re interested in getting more exposure, just fill up the form and send it ok?

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Apple Inc. has announced their iPhone 3G to be priced at US$99(instead of $199) for the 8gb version while their 16gb new version iPhone 3GS will cost US$199 and US$299 for the 32gb.

Philip Schiller, an Apple Senior Vice President for Worldwide Product Marketing said that the new iPhone 3GS would also support Multimedia Messages like sending photos and videos just like how we send a text message. (There were still no news on their Bluetooth accesiblity though)

The new iPhone 3GS has also been upgraded to 3megapixels camera with auto focus features.

Apple Inc. also announced a few price cuts on other product lines like their MacBook Pro and MacBook Air which results in $100-$300 lower than current pricing while having longer battery life and faster processors.

P/S: Sad news for those who paid $499-599 for iPhone 3G eh?

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Source: The Star