The 8th Voyager

Diagnose the HTC hardware function with HTC Function Test (##3424##)

2013-05-19T17:39:00.000+08:00

The HTC Android smartphones including the new HTC Butterfly and the HTC One series come with a hidden diagnostic software that enables you to test on its parts and hardware. Just go to the phone dialer and dial this sequent: *#*#3424#*#* The HTC Function Test diagnostic software will be brought up. The tests available are: Audio test Backlight test Bluetooth test Button test Charger test

Are we heading towards a new secular bull market?

2013-05-19T10:40:00.000+08:00

The investment sentiment has been gaining momentum recently, especially after the general election. Some of my chartist friends who use technical analysis in their investment mentioned that the next secular bull market is now right in our doorstep. If you search the Internet now for the keyword "secular bull market", you will find a handful of articles supporting this bullish view in the

Check how strong is your password and how long to hack it

2013-05-16T00:47:00.000+08:00

Is your password easy or difficult to be hacked? Intel has created a webpage to check how strong is your password and theoretically how long to hack it. Check it out! Click here to go to the password checking webpage to grade your password. If you are staying in USA, you can also enter the Password Win sweepstake there between 6 May 2013 to 26 May 2013. Prizes consist of 3 grand prizes (

Live 13th Malaysian General Election (GE13) result reports

2013-05-05T20:19:00.001+08:00

Today (5 May 2013) is the 13th Malaysian General Election (GE13) day. The election poll has ended at 5pm, and the ballot counting is on-going now. Which website do you go and check for the updated GE13 result reports? I have chosen http://live.undi.info/ powered by Malaysiakini which page loading is fast, dashboard display is straightforward, and the reports are pretty in time. It is a clone

Semiconductor sector showing sign of turnaround. Which stock to pick?

2013-04-30T19:01:00.001+08:00

Year 2012 has been a challenging year for semiconductor industry, with Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI) Book-to-Bill ratio sunk below 1.00 and bottomed at the 3rd quarter. The SEMI Book-to-Bill Report provides a first look at the book-to-bill ratio for North American Headquartered Semiconductor Equipment Manufacturers. The 3-month average global bookings and

A visit to Farm In The City (FITC) @ Seri Kembangan

2013-04-20T19:00:00.000+08:00

Last weekend, my family visited a themed petting zoo called Farm In The City (FITC, 城の农场) located at Seri Kembangan. This petting zoo was just opened in 2012, and has been gaining publicity with its family-friendly attractions. I think one of its main objective is to let urban children in Klang Valley to have a place to experience kampong-style nature. You can find quite a lot of bloggers

Switched my Astro package to the new RM75 Wah Package (Value Pack 3)

2013-04-13T00:31:00.002+08:00

Astro has just launched 3 Value Pack packages, all with monthly subscription fee of RM75 (+6% service tax) respectively. Basically: Value Pack 1 (Nilai Pack) = Family + Mustika + Indo Pek + Tayangan Hebat + HD Service Value Pack 2 (Namma Pack) = Family + Maharaja + Chakravarthy + Thangathirai + HD Service Value Pack 3 (Wah Pack 哗!配套) = Family + New Emperor + HD Service The comparison of

Garmin releases MalFreeMaps 2013.10. Now able to show upcoming highway exit junctions info.

2013-04-11T22:13:00.001+08:00

Garmin has made available MalFreeMaps (MFM) NT 2013.10 map update now. You will be excited to find out that this version of MalFreeMaps NT 2013.10 is able to show the upcoming highway exit junctions info. The upcoming exit junctions info in Garmin's highway mode is a standard feature of the GPS, and you should have seen it in the NAVTEQ City Navigator map or MalSingMaps released by

How to choose a good USB data and charging cable for your mobile phone

2013-04-07T03:04:00.001+08:00

Most of us will have a few USB data and charging cables for our mobile phone, i.e. one at home, one in office, one carrying together with our laptop, etc. Do you encounter the problem of slow charging, or worst still, unable to charge with the additional USB cable that you bought? Perhaps you can find the solution after reading this. First of all, although most of the USB cables look alike from

Beware of dishonest cheap power bank claimed to have high mAh capacity

2013-03-29T00:11:00.002+08:00

One of the key issue of mobile phones, particularly smartphones, is that they are power hungry causing their battery doesn't last long. As a result, mobile power bank comes into the market as portable external power source to supplement the internal battery of the mobile phone or mobile device. While most of the modern mobile devices nowadays are using Li-Polymer battery (鋰聚合物電池) as their power

Malaysia Interbank GIRO money transfer cost to reduce to 10 sen, cheque will be charged processing fee on top of stamp duty

2013-03-20T23:26:00.004+08:00

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) plans to encourage paperless electronic money transfer by greatly reduce the charge of Interbank GIRO (IBG) money transfer with Internet banking or mobile banking, and at the same time greatly increase the cost of cheque transaction by charging processing fee on top of the existing stamp duty of each cheque issued out by the consumer. Effective 2 May 2013, bank charge

DAYANG (5141) share price hit new historical high again

2013-03-12T23:45:00.000+08:00

Dayang Enterprise Holdings Bhd (DAYANG, 5141), an oil & gas company specilized in offshore topside maintenance services (TMS), offshore hook-up and comissioning (HUC) services, etc. is considered to be one of the largest offshore platform services providers in Malaysia. Just like most other East Malaysia companies listed in KLSE, most of the time DAYANG remained undetected from the radar screen

Microsoft Office 2013 traditional suite (retail box) no longer allow installation in more than 1 PC

2013-03-07T17:05:00.001+08:00

Microsoft has just launched their Office 2013 suite, which is generally available in 2 different formats: the cloud-based Office 365 chargeable in yearly subscription basis, one subscription entitled to installation in 5 devices regardless PC, laptop, tablet or Mac. the traditional Office 2013 as Full Packaged Product (FPP - retail box) or Electronic Software Delivery (ESD - Internet download),

Charging battery over the air - wireless charging (a.k.a. inductive charging)

2013-03-03T22:56:00.002+08:00

Remember that it was just a few years back when the industry players of devices carrying a rechargeable battery (e.g. mobile phone, bluetooth headset, GPS, digital camera, digital camcorder, digital voice recorder, ... etc.) unified their charging interface to use USB or mini-USB or micro-USB, so that we no longer need to carry charging adapter and charging cable for each and every of the devices

HTC One (M7) Android smartphone launched

2013-02-20T01:09:00.001+08:00

HTC just launched a new Android smartphone in London just now. It will be made available to the market from 15 March 2013 onwards. This widely anticipated HTC One (a.k.a. M7) features the following: All aluminium body frame, zero gap construction Platform: Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean) with HTC Sense 5 Size: 137.4 x 68.2 x 9.3mm Weight: 143 gram Display: 4.7 inch, Full HD 1080p (1920x1080), 468

CNY red packet (ang pow) money in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China

2013-02-18T23:28:00.002+08:00

TNS has conducted a study in January 2013, covering 5000 people over the age of 20 in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, about their Chinese New Year planning and spending to celebrate the festival. Among the questions asked in the study, there are 2 questions related to red packet (a.k.a. ang pow) money: Average amount of red packet you give out to each individual

EPF declared 6.15% dividend for 2012

2013-02-17T19:27:00.003+08:00

Few hours ago, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF, a.k.a. KWSP) has just declared the dividend rate for financial year 2012 to be 6.15%, which is 0.15% higher than the 6.00% dividend declared for 2012 (last year). This is the highest dividend rate declared by EPF over the past 10 years. If you have already registered as an EPF i-Akaun member to access your EPF account detail with their

Erroneous device driver update is harmful to your computer

2013-02-16T01:46:00.002+08:00

Today, I installed an optional Windows 7 update called "NextWindow - Input - NextWindow Voltron Touch Screen" found in the Windows Update listing. This update is related to my Dell SX2210T touch screen LCD monitor. After the update, I noticed there was unusual CPU activity causing its temperature shot up to over 70 degree Celcius. All the 4 CPU cores were in high usage. I checked it up

Moon+ Reader Pro for Android is giving 50% discount

2013-02-10T01:19:00.002+08:00

Moon+ Reader is a popular e-book reader app for Android which is feature-rich and supports a lot of e-book format including txt, html, epub, pdf, mobi, umd, fb2, chm, cbr, cbz, rar, zip and OPDS. Recently, a compliant from a Russian online library LitRes to Google had caused Moon+ Reader (both free and Pro version) being removed from Google Play Store, just because Moon+ Reader supports the

How to put tick and cross in MS Excel

2013-01-29T15:35:00.001+08:00

While working with MS Excel, sometimes you might want to mark a cell with a tick or cross. You can do that with either of these 2 fonts: Webdings and Wingdings 2. Set the font of the cell(s) to Webdings, you can put a tick by typing the character "a", and putting a cross by typing the character "r". Alternatively, set the font of the cell(s) to Wingdings 2, you put a tick by typing the

The innovative All-New Honda Civic web commercial

2013-01-28T01:40:00.000+08:00

In a recent newspaper advertisement of Honda Civic I found this interesting website: http://www.allnewcivic.com.my/ It seems that the website has been around for a few months. It hosts a web commercial short movie of the 9th generation of Honda Civic launched in year 2012. What caught my attention is that, before the movie is played, the website asked for a photo (either taken from webcam

HTC Butterfly Android phone going to launch in Malaysia

2013-01-13T10:15:00.000+08:00

HTC Malaysia unveiled in their Facebook fanpage that HTC Butterfly will be made available in Malaysia soon. However, there is no indication on the launching date and price yet. It is available now with an official selling price of RM2299. HTC Butterfly is the international version of HTC J Butterfly launched in Japan sometimes in October 2012. The model made available in Malaysia is X920D.

Auspicious dates for wedding/marriage in 2014

2013-01-09T01:17:00.002+08:00

Many couples plan for their wedding more than 1 year ahead in order to have sufficient preparation time. Here is the list of auspicious dates for wedding/marriage in year 2014 (year of Horse), which is produced based on the Chinese almanac Tong Shu. (Click the image to enlarge) Note that there are 2 ninth month (润九月) in the lunar year during 2014. You might aware that the Saint Valentine's

Sony ICD-UX523F digital voice recorder (MP3 supported)

2013-01-06T18:42:00.000+08:00

Digital voice recorder is an essential device for students to record lectures, seminars, group discussions, etc. It is also commonly used in business for recording meetings, presentations, dictations, notes taking, etc. Although your smartphone (iPhone, Android phone, ...) or tablet (iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, ...) is most probably having the feature and app for digital voice recording as well,

The list of most searched keywords in Google in 2012 unveiled

2012-12-21T08:20:00.000+08:00

Google Zeitgeist 2012 published that in 2012, there were 1.2 trillion Google searches made in 146 languages across the world. And the world's top 10 Google trending keywords in 2012 are: Whitney Houston Gangnam Style Hurricane Sandy iPad 3 Diablo 3 Kate Middleton Olympics 2012 Amanda Todd Michael Clarke Duncan BBB12 Click here to download all the top 10 lists unveiled by Google Zeitgeist 2012