Monday, October 20, 2008
Perodua Myvi SE
Article ~ Perodua Myvi SE
On the interior you get leather upholstery on the seats as well as the steering wheel. The head unit is no longer integrated but of a 2-DIN type and comes standard with CD, MP3 and WMA capability. It can also load your music files from a USB drive, and it has Bluetooth capabilities. The instrument panel follows the facelifted Myvi’s three-gauge design but instead of being blue and white, it lights up in amber.
Interestingly the cute yellow Myvi that we saw in the spyshots is missing from the line-up of both the standard facelifted Myvi and this new Myvi SE. You do get one new colour - Tangerine Orange. Other colour options for the SE include Ivory White, Ebony Black, Glittering Siver or Pearl White. Pearl White is designated a “special metallic” colour that costs more than your normal metalic.
Acer Ferrari 3000
What about it's bottom line? This is a fine notebook for those who want to turn heads in a wireless environment, but the strong multimedia hardware needs commensurate multimedia performance and software. And the hefty charger combined with short battery life limit this Ferrari to short road trips.
It's performance is adequate. We won't find many other notebooks with rewriteable multiformat DVD drives for $1,900 street and we won't find any others with that glorious Ferrari color and sound. Furthermore, it's battery life are up to the levels of systems built around Intel's best Pentium CPUs.
As the conclusion, the Acer Ferrari 3000 is very special and better than others. This is because it has many benefit and functions.
Article ~ Acer Ferrari 3000
The Ferrari 3000 pushes the boundaries of thin and light—it's 1.2 inches thick and, if you have to carry the transformer, 7.8 pounds. Leave the grounded 1.2-pound AC adapter at home, though, and your shoulder will regard the 6.6-pound PC as a relatively light burden. Still, at 13.0 by 10.7 inches (WD), this sportster is a little bulky, even for a system with a 15-inch screen.
The SXGA display and multiformat DVD-rewritable drive lay the groundwork for a fine multimedia notebook. The footwork, however, is up to you—the only significant piece of bundled software is an OEM edition of NTI CD & DVD Maker for ripping, adjusting, and burning CDs and DVDs. That leaves you with the task of downloading a free music player, like MusicMatch Jukebox, and installing your own imaging software. The minimalist bundle drops the system down in our multimedia ratings. The Ferrari 3000 is bursting with connectivity, though—Bluetooth, 802.11g, and 10/100 Ethernet.
The case provides some nice touches: four USB 2.0 ports, a single slot that can handle Memory Stick, Smart Media, and SD/MMC cards (you'll have to purchase an adapter, preferably a PC Card one, for Compact Flash), one Type II PC Card slot, and even an ID card holder on the bottom. The keyboard deck has Acer's signature happy-face look—QWERTY keys sculpted into a slight upward smile. To clean fingerprints off the case—and people will want to touch it—there's even a bright red microfiber polishing cloth.
The AMD mobile Athlon XP-M 2500 and 512MB of RAM provided quite good mainstream performance (as measured by Business Winstone 2004), especially for a system with SXGA graphics. (SXGA moves almost twice the number of pixels as XGA—1,470,000 versus 786,432, or 187 percent as many.) Multimedia performance was less stellar, however, and may have been adversely affected by the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics. Battery life was so-so, at 1 hour 36 minutes for a 65-watt-hour, 0.9 pound battery. Wi-Fi throughput was good, showing little falloff up to a distance of 120 feet.
The textured silver-gray keyboard deck and bottom, small optical mouse (in matching red), and startup sound—a Ferrari Formula One engine roaring across the speakers from right to left—certainly don't dampen this system's unique character. Nor does the clearcoat sealer that protects the brilliant red livery and gives it the same sense of depth you'd see in the paint job on a $200,000 Ferrari.
Performance is adequate, but neither it nor battery life are up to the levels of systems built around Intel's best Pentium CPUs. At the same time, you won't find many other notebooks with rewriteable multiformat DVD drives for $1,900 street. And you won't find any others with that glorious Ferrari color and sound.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Friendship Forever

My Family is My Soul

Festivals and Celebrations in Malaysia

Article ~ Malaysia's Festival and Celebration
Hari Raya Puasa (Aidilfitri) is a joyous and important Muslim holiday that is celebrated throughout the Muslim world. It is the end of a month month of fasting and each day is started with children asking their parents forgiveness for anything they have done wrong, before they go to prayers. It is a time for special food, visiting friends and relatives and the children are given gifts of money.
Chinese New Year is a very festive time for Malay Chinese and is observed on the first day of the first moon on the Chinese calendar. The date of this celebration will vary from year to year depending on when this time falls on the lunar calendar and usually lasts for about 15 days. Sometimes this event is in January, other times in February, since it follows the lunar calendar, not the solar calendar. It is celebrated with a traditional dinner on New Year's Eve and subsequently continues with visits to family, friends and the honoring of the elderly. Packets of money called ang pow are given away at this time as well.
Wesak Day, in May, is Buddha's Birthday and is considered to be the most important day of the year for Buddhists. This day is celebrated with prayers and incense at the temples with the main celebration being a lantern procession at night.
The birthday of the Yang di-Pertuang Agong, Supreme Head of State, is celebrated on the first Saturday in June and is obeserved as a public holiday. On this day, awards and titles are given by His Majesty to those people who have set themselves apart from other Malays with their service to Malaysia.
Independence Day (now known as National Day) is August 31 and marks the time of Malaysia's independence. It is observed with parades, exhibitions, shows and free film admission for children. Those less fortunate in Malaysia (the poor) are presented gifts of money and food.
Deepavali is an important Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil, particularly that of Lord Kirshna over a demon king (mythological). It is observed with prayers in the morning, followed with visits to friends and relatives with delicacies served. In the evening, lanterns are lit.
Christmas is celebrated by the Christians in Malaysia usually with the attendance of a church service on Christmas Eve. There are also carolers who sing at various places (children's homes, retirement homes, hotels, etc) and bring Christmas joy. The exchange of gifts is practiced as well in celebration of Christ's birth.
To Be A Good Web Designer
To be a good web designer, we need to know how colours can affect people. People react to colours and we must associate them with differents feelings and emotions.
There are colours that affect people :
- Red - suitable with strength, fire, blood and lust
- Blue - can denote confidence, loyalty and royalty. It is often used on business website
- Blue's darker shades - mean strength whilst the lighter end can be used to express fantasy and dream
- Green - to represent feelings of durability, safety and harmony
- Yellow - to emphasise areas of a site. Although it is not as popular, it can be overpowering if it is used too much
- Brown - to express honesty and trust in a design. It can be linked to ageing, warmth and comfort
- Orange - associated with enthusiasm, creativity and stimulation. It is used in designing for web to portray friendliness.
- Purple's darker shades - can be truly deep and luscious. It is associated with royalty, spirituality, arrogance and luxury. It is also not used very often on sites
In conclusion, the role of colour in web design is not just to make the website look nice, it can provoke feelings and emotions in the web user. Choosing colours that agitate the site user can have detrimental effects on your web site, whereas cleverly picking the correct colours may mean that the web site lives up to the user's expectations. If our site meets these expectations, there is more chance that our user will return to our website again and again.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Articles ~ What Impact Can Colours Have On Your Site?
To make a good website, the web designer needs to know how colours affect people. Subconsciously, people react to colours and associate them with different feelings and emotions.
Colours do not only bring up emotions and feelings that could influence how a site is received but they can also be cleverly used to direct users to specific bits of your web site.
Each colour imaginable can be used on the web now, so picking the correct colours can be a huge task. Here’s a swift summary of how some colours can evoke certain reactions.
Red is associated with strength, fire, blood & lust. If it is used sparingly on a light background, it can be used to make the most of & highlight certain points.
Blue is the most frequently used colour for websites & it can denote confidence, loyalty & royalty. The darker shades of blue often mean strength whilst the lighter end can be used to express fantasy & dream. Blue is a very popular corporate colour, so it is often used on business websites.
The colour green can be used to represent feelings of durability, safety & harmony. It is also a striking colour to use to emphasise calm & relaxation.
Standing for joy, happiness, warning and energy, yellow has a similar effect to red, although it's not as popular. It can be used to emphasise areas of a site. However, if it's used too much, it can be overpowering.
Brown can express honesty and trust in a design. It can be linked to ageing, warmth & comfort.
Orange is associated with enthusiasm, creativity & stimulation. It is used in designing for the web to portray friendliness.
Purple's darker shades can be truly deep & luscious. It is associated with royalty, spirituality, arrogance & luxury. The lighter end of the purple spectrum can stand for romance & delicacy. However, it's a colour that is not used very often on sites.
Pyramid Scheme
The features of this scheme :
- to set the number of sponsorship
- commission or bonus paid based on the sponsorship of fixed number of members, not based on the total sales made
- the promise of high income in the shortest time based on the number of sponsored members
- sponsored training or seminarswhich do not emphasise on the quality of products or how to market the product, but more on the way of recruitingnew members in this scheme
- the price of product or the service which is expensive and does not reflect the realvalue of the product or service mentioned
The government banned this scheme because it leans towards the get-rich quick scheme that offers returns only to the very few participants who belong to the top level, and not to the large number of participants who are still at the base level.
This pyramid scheme give negative aspects to the participants. There is only the first few participants or top level will get big commissions or great returns, and a large number of participants at the bottom level are made contributors so that the top level participants will enjoy the benefits.
What should we do if a scheme sponsor approaches us? First, we should check if the company they represent has a legal license that has been issued by any of the authorized government bodies. If the company turns out to be a direct selling company, please refer to the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Condumer Affairs to check if the company owns an authorized direct selling license. An authorized license number start with AJL 93xxxxx. Thorough checks can also be made through the government's homepage : http://www.kpdnhep.gov.my
Article ~ Get-Rich Quick Schemes
In many of these schemes, only a few people make money and everyone else loses their entire investment. Getting involved in these schemes is never a long-term plan for financial success online.
There is one simple rule to spotting get rich quick scams, no matter whether they are sales oriented, money investing, or other things. That is, the proposal seems too good to be real. Believe your instincts, because they are right.
Pyramid schemes first appeared in the latter half of the twentieth century, starting with chain letters. Basically, a pyramid scheme involves the selling of the possibility to earn money, and does not usually involve any tangible goods.
Probably the oldest, and most familiar pyramid scheme, is the chain mail. This is seldom seen today, mostly because there are cheaper ways to bilk people than using the U.S. mail, and it's also illegal.
The first schemes were pitched in terms of receiving an impossible sum of thousands of dollars, all from sending X dollars to the first person on the list included with the letter. You would then remove that person's name, add yours to the bottom, and send out ten (or more) copies to people who also wanted to become rich.
Naturally, not everyone who got one of these letters, participated. But the success rate was big enough to make it worth the effort, because the more letters sent out, the bigger the returns, even if your success rate was only 2-3%. Depending on how long the chain had been going, there could be several hundred or thousands of letters out there with the same list of people you got, and the first person on that list was going to make out like a bandit.
As a money making scheme, it's pretty much a dinosaur these days. Chain mails do still make the rounds occasionally, usually amongst friends, but for the purpose of sharing things like recipes, or gathering squares of material to make pillows.
Comparison of NOKIA N90 and NOKIA N93
Article ~ NOKIA N90 versus NOKIA N93

The N90 scores with its smaller size, the more flexible cover display, the more flexible camera module, greater free RAM and better third party application compatibility.
The N93 mainly scores with its VGA video recording facility and slightly superior optics, with higher resolution, better hardware camera controls and flexible, brighter display with UPnP or direct cable piping to a TV or similar if needed. Plus Wi-Fi, of course. There's far more of a focus on the camera with the N93 though - the high-spec video recording and its playback is the whole point of the device.
The typical buyer of the N93 won't be that interested in running games or web browsing or listening to music. He or she will buy it to split duties between phone, camera and camcorder, and I'd expect them to use a 2GB card for maximum recording time, with no other files on the card. The N90 buyer, on the other hand, wants a good camera, it's true, but knows there's more to a smartphone than being a makeshift digital camera, and will be using office and PIM applications, games, music players and so on. It's a very different scenario for a very different device.
More thoughts on the N93 in full review, coming shortly.
Monday, October 6, 2008
What is anemia?

The symptoms if we had anemia are extreme weakness and tiredness, confusion or loss of concentration, rapid pulse, headache, lack of attention and so on.
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Article ~ Anemia
The three main classes of anemia include excessive blood loss (acutely such as a hemorrhage or chronically through low-volume loss), excessive blood cell destruction (hemolysis) or deficient red blood cell production (ineffective hematopoiesis).
Anemia is the most common disorder of the blood. There are several kinds of anemia, produced by a variety of underlying causes. Anemia can be classified in a variety of ways, based on the morphology of RBCs, underlying etiologic mechanisms, and discernible clinical spectra, to mention a few.
There are two major approaches of classifying anemias, the "kinetic" approach which involves evaluating production, destruction and loss, and the "morphologic" approach which groups anemia by red blood cell size. The morphologic approach uses a quickly available and cheap lab test as its starting point (the MCV). On the other hand, focusing early on the question of production may allow the clinician more rapidly to expose cases where multiple causes of anemia coexist.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Air Pollution
Article ~ Air Pollution

The atmosphere is a complex, dynamic natural gaseous system that is essential to support life on planet Earth. Stratospheric ozone depletion due to air pollution has long been recognized as a threat to human health as well as to the Earth's ecosystems.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Aspirin
Article ~ Aspirin protects men's hearts and women's brains
In women, aspirin reduces strokes, and in men it cuts down on heart attacks. But there are no statistically significant benefits the other way round, according to the analysis.
“It appears that women respond differently to a given dose of aspirin than men,’ says David Brown, a cardiologist at the Stony Brook School of Medicine in New York, US, and one of the authors. “Everything about the study is telling us that there’s a gender difference and we don´t understand it.’
In people who already have cardiovascular disease, the benefits of low-dose aspirin are well-established — in both sexes. Aspirin’s cardiovascular effects are exerted by blocking the synthesis of thromboxane A2, a substance that causes the blood to clot. Even a single 100 milligram dose can be effective.
But in people with moderate risk, the picture is less clear. Studies seem to indicate a reduction in coronary events, but most studies included few, if any, women. Brown and colleagues were interested in knowing if moderate-risk women would benefit to the same degree as men.
Biological difference
Their analysis of six prospective, randomised, controlled studies, with a total of 95,456 subjects - 51,342 being women - showed that aspirin therapy reduced cardiovascular events in both men and women.
But there was an odd discrepancy. Among men, the risk of heart attack was down by 32% in aspirin-takers, but in women, aspirin had no effect on heart attacks at all. Rather, it worked primarily by cutting their risk of stroke by 17%. But aspirin did nothing to reduce stroke in men.
The researchers point out that, whereas men tend to have more heart attacks than strokes, women have slightly more strokes than heart attacks. But there is likely to be a biological difference as well, they say, speculating that women may metabolise aspirin differently than men. Brown says the findings underscore how important it is to include a large cross-section of populations in clinical drug trials.
Currently, the American Heart Association recommends that both men and women at moderate risk of cardiovascular problems take low-dose aspirin on a daily basis, but Brown says the European Society of Cardiology only recommends aspirin to the men of the moderate risk group.
“The AHA guidelines were written without data,’ Brown claims, and adds that his study now supports that idea that both sexes can benefit from aspirin therapy — though not in the way that was presumed.
He cautions that individuals start aspirin therapy only after consulting a doctor — in asymptomatic people the benefits only slightly outweigh the dangers of excessive bleeding.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Entry 1
