Gmail: Behind the Scenes Video (Final Cut)

September 5, 2007 – 4:56 pm

Now I understand that gmail is working very hard but happily everyday delivering emails to us. It’s all showed in this final video. Below is one of the 4 entries from Malaysia that has been featured.

Creative ideas from peoples around the world.

Nokia ranked top brand in Malaysia

September 5, 2007 – 12:32 pm

Short news from the star online:

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians have voted Nokia the best brand in the market, according to market research firm Synovate.The latest annual Asia’s Top 1,000 Brands survey ranked Colgate and Sony in second and third places respectively in Malaysia.Nokia is also the ‘best’ brand in Asia as a whole, but Sony and Colgate switch rankings in the region-wide tally.

Synovate said in a statement that the poll was conducted for Asian Integrated Media Ltd in association with Media magazine.It covered nine markets: China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, India and Indonesia.The sample size per market was 500 except for China and India, where 750 people in top-tier cities were interviewed.

The interviewees were asked: “When you think of (product/service category), which is the best brand that comes to your mind? By ‘best’, we mean the one that you trust the most or the one that has the best reputation in the (product/service category).” Read full story»

By the way, I use a Sagem X6-2,brush my teeth everyday with Darlie, eat Maggi at the end of every month(poor me) and using an IBM ThinkPad to write this post.

AdMob’s AdMonitor watch where mobile ads is displayed in realtime

September 3, 2007 – 5:04 pm

Does anyone know about AdMob?

AdMob has released a tool called ‘AdMonitor’ that display the type of mobile device and it’s location on earth using Google Maps in realtime. Below is the snapshot:

AdMonitor

How to create a favicon (Favourite Icon)?

August 29, 2007 – 2:19 am

A favicon is a small icon that appear next to a website url in the browser. The size is just 16×16 pixel. Very small. I was wondering how to create that. Then I start searching and found a few tutorials on how to create a favicon. You can use Adobe Photoshop with plugin from Telegraphics installed. I used this one to create mine.

There are many websites that offer the service to create this favicon from image file, and the one that I like is dynamic drive favicon generator. Search engine is great.

Yahoo's Favicon

Superman teaches a computer engineer how to fly

August 27, 2007 – 3:15 pm

Photoshop Contest Image
Image from: http://photoshopcontest.com

Casio EXILIM® Digital Cameras with YouTube™ Capture™ Mode

August 25, 2007 – 12:52 am


They call this ‘The Next Generation-Generation’ digital cameras. Now you can take optimised, high-quality movies easily upload them directly to YouTube. This is a part from the press release:

 
DOVER, NJ, JULY 10, 2007 – Casio, Inc. and its parent company, Casio Computer Co., Ltd., announced today the release of two new digital cameras with the cutting-edge EXILIM Engine 2.0 image processing module. In conjunction with the release of these cameras, Casio, Inc. announced today their agreement with YouTube to include a unique YouTube Capture mode and bundle software to provide ideal settings for recording, storing and uploading video on the company’s newest EXILIM digital cameras – EX-S880 and EX-Z77. This agreement represents an effort by Casio, Inc. to directly engage the YouTube community by simplifying the process of creating and sharing videos.

  The increased popularity of video sharing Web sites such as YouTube offers a great opportunity for innovation, said John Homlish, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Casio, Inc. We recognized that there was a demand for an easier way to upload high-quality video and are thrilled to be the first digital camera company to be able to offer a solution for consumers.

3 Innovative Features:

  • H.264 High Quality Movies - 1.5 hours of recorded movies with 1GB SD Card
  • Movie Compression Technology - Upload directly to youtube in 2 steps, connect to a PC and upload.
  • Face Detection - Capture the face you focus on!

Casio also produces great cameras.

How to search mp3 files effectively

August 23, 2007 – 4:01 pm

mp3

Google (and many other search engines) has the ability not only to search on keywords, but also using a more advance query language to really narrow down your search results.

If we know the technic, we can search faster. For example, you are a fan of Shakira and want to find one of her songs, let say Hips Dont Lie. Try enter this query to google search box:

intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”shakira” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”

or

intitle:index.of “mp3″ +”hips dont lie” -htm -html -php -asp “Last Modified”

If you’re lucky, from the google’s first few results you can download your MP3.Just change the format from mp3 to ram,ra or whatever , even video format such as avi,mp4 etc.

I’ve created a tool to skip those unfriendly query. For sure there’re a lot of similar tool out there, but using tool that I created myself just feel nothing but good.

Try the MP3 Search Tool.

Is Money More Important Than Knowledge?

August 6, 2007 – 1:46 pm

gwen stefanie sweet escape
While listening to the song of Gwen Stefani Sweet Escape at youtube, I found an interesting theory:

Salary Theorem
The less you know, the more you make.
Proof:
Postulate 1: Knowledge is Power.
Postulate 2: Time is Money.

As every engineer knows: Power = Work / Time
And since Knowledge = Power and Time = Money
It is therefore true that Knowledge = Work / Money .
Solving for Money, we get:
Money = Work / Knowledge
Thus, as Knowledge approaches zero, Money approaches infinity, regardless of the amount of Work done

Nice.

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