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United Point Residence (Kepong/North Kiara/Segambut) Construction Progress Update - 20190519

noreply@blogger.com (KV) — Sun, 19 May 2019 04:30:00 +0000

Xcode DMG/XIP Download Links for Every Version

noreply@blogger.com (KV) — Sun, 19 May 2019 04:23:00 +0000

Xcode 10

10.2.1
10.1 (Last version supporting macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra)
10 (Subsequent versions were unsupported for iTunes Connect from March 2019)

Xcode 9

9.4.1
9.3.1
9.2 (Last version supporting macOS 10.12.6 Sierra)
9.1
9.0.1

Xcode 8

8.3.3
8.2.1 (Last version supporting OS X 10.11.5 El Capitan)
8.1
8.0

Xcode 7

7.3.1
7.2.1 (Last version supporting OS X 10.10 Yosemite)
7.1.1
7.0.1

Xcode 6

6.4
6.3.2
6.2 (Last version supporting OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks)
6.1.1
6.0.1

Even Older Versions (unsupported for iTunes Connect)

The Underrated (IMHO) Windows Phone!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:27:00 +0000

Well, my name is Ken. I don't blog often anymore, but finally decided to do so to voice my personal opinions of one of my biggest decision in my life: to switch from Windows Phone to iOS platform.

My experience of Windows Phone started ever since the debut of Windows Phone 7. I used a Nokia Lumia 800, cyan in color (that was the hot at that time!). Then, a black Lumia 920 on Windows Phone 8. Oh my, the transition from 7 to 8 was quite a difficult decision again when WP7 was announced to no longer in the line of support, and that means all new apps would be gradually going WP8's new code base.

Okay, I must admit here that WP7 was good in terms of UX and common tasks, but many platform limitation do exist. The ones I remember much were the lack of USSD support where users cannot enter, for instance *100# to access mobile carrier's menu; and another terrible frustration was the short of background data streaming; That said, messaging apps such as WhatsApp cannot receive any new incoming notification when the app is not running in the background stack. (WhatAapp uses the Audio streaming API to keep an active connection for notification, but that is not even a good approach, when play a song or video would use the Audio API, and there goes your WhatsApp notification).

Finally on WP8. It is faster, now supports USSD and opens up many many more APIs for developers. In short, WP8 to me was splendid, simple and efficient (even as of the time this is written).

Back to the topic. Yes, I am now using an iPhone 6, on iOS 8.1.2. Since WP was so dear to me, why do I switch if you may ask. There are a number of reasons to be honest. Firstly, environmental pressure; I am current an iOS app developer, and you would expect people around me are all using an iPhone. Secondly, let me be very honest again, the "resuming" issue all Windows Phone users (even the most high-end Lumia 930 and 1520) face is the terrible annoyance to me. For instance, many times when I was in a hurry to reply a WhatsApp message, I see "resuming" screen....waited for some seconds....and WhatsApp crashed! In fact, this is not the issue of WhatsApp, but all apps on WP. Microsoft really needs to figure out a solution in Windows 10.

Today being the end of my first month with iOS, I discovered that there is actually no much differences, except the presence of all official apps, apps start completely way faster than WP apps, TouchID is my favourite and...(let me add on when I discovered more later).

So, my point of writing this post is to detail the iOS biggest annoyances to me.

1. Physical button
On Lumia, home button is touch-based. The relatively loud clicking sound on iPhone is a total turn off to me. *tukk*

2. System settings
This point is highly debatable. I myself is a very common user. I use my phone to get job done. To me, I am the kind that prefers less options to choose from. Why must user take care of so many settings for such simple device? Windows Phone has much lesser settings, or only important settings I must say; iOS has more, and a clutter setting list. Can't settings of third party apps be placed in another screen, rather than altogether in Settings main list.

3. Keyboard
In WP8, we have Word Flow keyboard. Yes, I do aware that Android and iOS have had SwiftKey, Swype and more other alternatives way before WP's. However, believe me again that NONE can ever defeat WP's Word Flow. It is so accurate that it's like your personal assistant that could read your mind of what exact word you wanted to type. No precise key location to swipe to, but you will get your word. Using Swype on my iPhone now is a difficult time when comes to accuracy.

4. Siri, Cortana
I use them both for calling somebody. Cortana recognizes each of my word, but Siri replied my with "Call who?" almost every single time. For example, I said "Call dad"; and Siri recognized as "Call that". Though, the result from turning off Siri and uses the default voice recognition service for calling is surprising, where it calls the right person.

5. User experience (UX)
I may be new to iOS and adore WP's modern design deep down my heart, but apps on iOS are cluttered. There is simply no uniform place to place the setting button. One app could place it on top of screen, another is down under the tab bar. What I mean is that all users have to look for one exact action button, which is a different location in all apps. On WP, you could easily guess that it would be placed on the three dots down below, across all apps; no mess, no finding. (this is especially important to the less knowledgeable users)

So here there are. Please note that I ain't complaining or whatsoever, but I do really wish that improvements are to be done to make iOS a better experience. Isn't that all we always wanted?

AutoHotKey: Adds Media Keys To My Keyboard!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Dec 2013 23:44:00 +0000

I have been using the small 14 inch ultra-book or laptop for all these whiles for all work and play. Until recently I have an idea to connect it to an external monitor, I finally realised how SMALL 14 is! I then also bought an external keyboard to make my laptop to 'look and feel' like a desktop system; it was an easy task to choose one keyboard for me........until I got home and asked myself: "where are those media keys for volume and playlist controls?!".
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How To Change Windows Photo Viewer Background Color! [Part 2]

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 09 May 2013 04:30:00 +0000

It is very glad to see many are happy with my previous post on How To Change Windows Photo Viewer Background Color. While it worked for most, some had issue where the registry key did not exist on his system. So, let's do the tweak the easy way with Photo Viewer Background Changer.

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How To Remove BitTorrent/uTorrent Advertisement!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:02:00 +0000

Nobody loves advertisement especially the intrusive ones, but advertisement keeps a website running, or at least keeps author motivated in writing post. The new versions of BitTorrent and uTorrent now has unfortunately turned on sponsored advertisement automatically just right below its toolbar. I hate it.

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How To Fix Windows Aero Transparency In VirtualBox!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:06:00 +0000

"VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2."
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How To Run VirtualBox Guest In Full Screen!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:51:00 +0000

Put.io: Downloads Torrent Via HTTP!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 13:54:00 +0000

Bittorrent is one great way to exchange files easily between peers/computers. However, many internet service providers either throttle bittorrent connection or impose fair usage policy that causes a slow download. Now with Put.io online service, anyone can download bittorrent files via normal HTTP connection.
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GeekUninstaller: Removes The Toughest Programs!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:12:00 +0000

These days, most people have numerous applications installed in their system, no matter useful or not. This results in performance degradation as most programs include itself in startup item or additional services in the background. To maintain a good computer performance over time, unnecessary programs and applications should be removed, along with their registry items plus created files folders.
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How To Change DNS Server In Windows 7 and Vista!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:07:00 +0000

What is a DNS service? "DNS" or domain name server acts like a storage and verification center which stores details of websites. When a user enters an URL on browser, it is then sent to the DNS to be checked for avaibility; if it is, the website is then fetched back to the browser.

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How To Change DNS Server In Windows XP!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 12:14:00 +0000

How To Fix Windows Media Player Missing Subtitles!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:20:00 +0000

Why Windows Media Player does not load subtitles when playing a mp4 movie? Even if you have installed additional codec pack like K-Lite Codec Pack to extend player's capability, the subtitles just won't show up! Before switching to another player, consider the following two common solutions that should help.
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Complete Internet Repair: Fixes All Internet Connection Issues!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:29:00 +0000

How often do you encounter network issue on your computer? Fortunately mine has been working great, but not my sister's. One day her computer can run just fine, but losing connection or got unidentified network the next day. Restarting adapter did not solve the issue, neither does Windows built-in troubleshooter.
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Infographic: Malwarelympics 2012 By Emsisoft!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:06:00 +0000

The 2012 Olympic has kick-started with a blade, and ended with a bang. With numerous medals given away for numerous respected athletes, same goes to computer malware and virus with Malwarelympics 2012. This infographic is poduced by Emsisoft security vendor describing the spreading of infections around the world.
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Avira: The Free Antivirus You Can Trust!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 10:44:00 +0000

By now, we should all know that antivirus is indispensable for all computer especially Windows. In the field of security product, there is a clear-cut between free and paid version; but in fact many free ones in this list of alternatives actually perform better than paid, hands down. Frankly, companies nowadays doesn't focus only on detection rate, but also user interface where many has stripped off the traditional look, and now resemble a fancy gaming mode.
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Session Manager: Saves Sessions Of Opened Tabs!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:24:00 +0000

Imagine you have opened 30 tabs on your browser for assignment and research, then you get a call and need to go out immediately. Instead of bookmarking all tabs which some of them might not be useful, you can actually save the session of your browser and re-open at any time.

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Norman Malware Cleaner: A Portable Virus Cleaning Utility!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:59:00 +0000

If you have read my post on free alternatives to paid antivirus/antimalware, you should by now realise that preventing and cleaning infections is totally different module. Even there are quite many reliable cleaning solutions, only a few like Emsisoft Emergency Kit that is packed in portable to bring in pocket.

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Torch: Chromium-based Browser With Torrent Downloader!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:24:00 +0000

As Chromium, the core of Google Chrome which is an open-source project is becoming more prominent, there are more parties trying to get theirs hand on a new product using the same source code. Few successful examples are SRWare Iron, Comodo Dragon and Maxthon. All these browsers either add in more features, or implement a better privacy and security environment.
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How To Automatically Update / Scan With Malwarebytes Free!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 06:40:00 +0000

If you have not known, Malwarebytes is probably the best malware or virus cleaning program dealing with an infected computer. Though, the free version comes in short of automatic update as well as automatic scanning. Thanks to Windows task scheduler, we can now easily tackle Malwarebytes' shortcoming.

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Spotflux: Not Just An Ordinary Virtual Private Network!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 12:49:00 +0000

No matter if you to stay annonymouse on Internet, or need a secure connection in a hotspot, proxy or virtual private network is your best bet. Though, most VPN services are not free or with certain limitations like SecurityKiss with 300MB data per day, or some with speed capping.

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Allmyapps: Downloads, Updates And Synchronizes Programs!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:27:00 +0000

Keeping track of available updates or patches for all installed software in a system is not an easy job. Even most programs have automatic checking of updates, downloading each is cumbersome. A good option to get everything done at one time is achievable via my previously posted FileREX Update Checker or Ninite.

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AppAdmin: Blocks Programs From Being Accessed!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:02:00 +0000

Protecting a file from unauthorized user especially on a shared computer is fairly easy with either encryption or with different user account. But how do you block access to a specific program? If you have kids, I believe you would love to temporarily lockdown Messenger to stop them from chatting the whole day, or torrenting without your permission.
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Eraser: Shreds and Destroys Data Permanently!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 May 2012 13:34:00 +0000

Want to permanently get rid of a sensitive file or data? You move it into recycle bin, empty it and sit back, thinking no one else can reach it anymore. Think again, files removed from recycle bin don't actually get vanished forever, but rather are their index got removed. Simply get a copy of recovery software like Recuva and see it for yourself.
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TwitLonger: Extends Twitter Post Character Limits!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 May 2012 11:33:00 +0000

No matter on which "planet" or location you are, Twitter is used and mentioned for instant communication. Howbeit due to the maximum characters of 140 in each tweet, many show their frustration and could only tweet with multiple posts.

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