Discovering the Best-Hidden Secrets of Penang, and it’s not about Technology

Today it’s time to take a break from Gadgets and Techno stuff. Instead we have decided to look at Penang, widely acknowledged to be the I.T. capital of Malaysia.

Mention the word Penang… your imagination (and mine) would automatically venture to the beautiful stretch of beaches along Batu Ferringhi.

But once you have driven past the Batu Ferringhi stretch and resisted the temptation of stopping by one of the gorgeous beaches, you would reach the end of it and find yourself at the Penang National Park. This would prove to be the start of a hiking venture that few know about and have experienced, though those who have would most definitely recommend this adventure to others!

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How To Make Gmail Your Default Email Client

Gmail Notifier

Sometimes, you really need to keep things simple. You don’t really want the full power of a Microsoft Outlook, Windows Mail, Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird to handle the simple job of shooting an email as these programs tend to be overloaded.

This is when promoting Gmail to the lofty position of default email client seems to be an attractive alternative as it opens up pretty fast for a web application. Unless, you really have a slow connection, or heaven forbid, a dial up connection – which is a relic of the last millenium in this time and age.

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Converting books to ePub format for your iPhone, Android and Smartphones

Welcome to the world of smartphones. These devices are ubiquitous and have started to infiltrate even the older generation who often find technology to be rather daunting. The iPhone and Blackberry revolution has even this bunch converted to Facebooking and Twittering. However, the reason why I bought a smartphone is because the large screen allows me to read ebooks easily and on the go.

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Assassin’s Creed II, Splinter Cell Conviction DRM cracked in 1 month

A few months ago, Ubisoft, embarked on a quest to develop a new proprietary digital rights management system designed to protect their intellectual property from the rampant piracy activities that traditionally plague the PC gaming market. The new system will be unlike anything ever tested before and they claim it will bring about a new era in DRM.

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Urban Legends – How To Tell Whether An Email Is A Hoax?

It so happens that I just got one of those emails. The title of the email says “Are Leftover Onions Poisonous?” Now what do I do? Do I forward it to my friends and ask for their opinions? And appear stupid if it turned out to be a hoax?

Truth or lie?



Nah, I’ll just ask Big G – which you all know as Google – and search using these parameters:
“urban legend Leftover Onions Poisonous” (keyed in the search box without the apostrophes) OR
“urban myth Leftover Onions Poisonous”

*If you keyed in the above without “urban legend/myth”, you will find many who received the same email and who are now wise (or so they think!) are warning their dear friends/readers of their doom bringing habit. Continue reading “Urban Legends – How To Tell Whether An Email Is A Hoax?”

Google Android a Fragmented Platform – Solution Soon?

Google Android has been gaining massive traction in the open source handset world and has literally taken to smartphones like a storm. This year alone, HTC plans to release at least a dozen new Android devices, whereas the company was previously better known with their expensive Windows Mobile devices. HTC has probably become Google’s #1 fan when they released the world’s first Android powered phone and they are also behind the world’s first Google-branded phone, the Nexus One.

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AMD Phenom II X6 Hexacore – Quad core? How about six.

The next big thing from microprocessor manufacturer AMD (and also Intel) will be the logical progression from quad-core processors to six-core. Undoubtedly these will sell for an arm and a leg. The launch dates for these brand new spanking processors is reported to be around the June-July timeframe, with the Intel solution costing upwards of $US 1,000 a pop. On the AMD side, the Phenom II X6 performance numbers have been revealed and the results were rather disappointing.

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Why I uninstalled AVG Anti-Virus Free and moved back to Avira AntiVir

I must admit that I am a cheapo. I almost always use open source or freeware, and rarely go for shareware or payware. And when it comes to freeware anti-virus, I usually choose among AVG Anti-Virus Free, Avira AntiVir or Avast. Usually, I have both AVG and Avira between Windows OSes (in different partitions) and across different computers. I use both on one computer because if one antivirus miss out a certain virus, there is at least a chance that the other won’t. I rarely use Avast as its gui is heavier and it’s more resource hungry than the other two.

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Apple iPhone OS4: Apple fans go wild, elsewhere muted.

Just recently, Apple finally peeled away the curtains hiding the next big update to their iPhone OS. The fourth iteration of the feisty platform based on their OSX operating system promises to bring a host of new features for the iPhone and iPod Touch, both of which run the iPhone OS.

iPad also runs on the iPhone OS, however the release of the iPad version of iPhone OS will be delayed, possibly due to the small differences in hardware and screen size especially. So what can we expect from Apple in the fourth coming? Continue reading “Apple iPhone OS4: Apple fans go wild, elsewhere muted.”