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Monday, September 15, 2014

Explore the world in Death Star style maps

How is your city or town or neighborhood looks like in Death Star style maps? Here is one for Penang.


Here is the link to Penang in Death Star style maps, you can zoom-in/out like in google maps:
https://a.tiles.mapbox.com/v3/examples.3hqcl3di/page.html?secure=1#12/5.3588/100.3601


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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Live Traffic Update for Malaysia Google Maps in Penang

Google Malaysia has been doing good job by bring into Malaysia many features that we always see only in developed countries, for example Google Maps.

I remember it was not too long ago that live traffic available in Penang. After Google bought Waze, now Google Maps with Waze update also available for Penang!


Head to Google Maps now and turn on the Traffic by moving your mouse cursor to the search box and click on the "Live traffic". You can even check on the "Typical traffic" for any of the in a week and at specific time. I would say it is not so accurate for the "Typical traffic" but it is a very good reference to avoid traffic jam at specific hour at the places you want to explore.

Have fun!

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Monday, October 28, 2013

How safe is Malaysia Online Banking?

My friend posted an article regarding Maybank2u website safety. It was graded F (failed!). This is a big concern for Malaysian because Maybank2u is the most users online banking website in Malaysia.
Lowyat forum post

Therefore I do my own research by heading to the website ssllabs.com to do my data collection based on this list http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2013/01/list-of-mobile-apps-of-banks-in-malaysia.html

A = safe
Public Bank = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www2.pbebank.com

Citibank = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=citibank.com.my&s=172.226.54.26

Standard Charted = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ibank.standardchartered.com.my%2Fnfs%2Flogin.htm

Hong Leong = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=s.hongleongconnect.my%2Frib%2Flogin%2Flogin.do

OCBC = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=internet.ocbc.com.my%2Finternet-banking

Alliance Bank = A (testing taking too long)
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=allianceonline.com.my

HSBC = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.hsbc.com.my

UOB = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.uob.com.my

PayOnline (own by UOB, for paying bills) = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=payonline.uob.com.my

Bank Islam = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.bankislam.biz%2FEPOneIBWeb%2FEPOne_Login.jsp

B =less safe
Ambank = B
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ambank.amonline.com.my

Bank Rakyat = B
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.irakyat.com.my%2Fretail%2Fsecurity%2FcommonLogin.jsp

Agro Bank = B
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.agronet.com.my%2Frib%2Fcommon%2FLogin.do

CIMB has 2 result
CIMB = A
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=cimbclicks.com.my&s=113.23.146.24&ignoreMismatch=on
CIMB = F
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=cimbclicks.com.my&s=203.153.95.27&ignoreMismatch=on


F =FAILED!

Maybank = F
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=maybank2u.com.my&s=172.226.52.218&ignoreMismatch=on

Affin Bank = F
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=rib.affinonline.com&s=203.121.8.179&hideResults=on&ignoreMismatch=on
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=rib.affinonline.com&s=58.26.229.131&hideResults=on&ignoreMismatch=on

BSN = F
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.mybsn.com.my&s=202.187.110.20
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=www.mybsn.com.my&s=1.9.17.20

Bank Muamalat = F
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=i-muamalat.com.my


RHB = no result, testing taking too long
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=logon.rhb.com.my


p/s: I only tested personal banking login.


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Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Free 50GB from AT&T Locker

Looks like there are more and more companies jump on this online storage wagon even though it is a red ocean. US largest telco, AT&T is the new member of this online storage.

All free users of AT&T Locker should be getting 5GB only, but no file size limit. If register now, you can get free upgrade to 50GB permanently until AT&T change their mind. There is no limit to AT&T users only. I am not in US and not AT&T subscriber and I still getting the 50GB.

So how to get the free 50GB?

1. Register at AT&T Locker
https://locker.att.net/app/

2. Wait for the confirmation email to reach your inbox/gmail/etc. Click on the link in the email to activate your AT&T Locker account. Check the spam folder if you can't find it in the inbox after a while.

3. After the confirmation done, click on "Account Setting" on top right side [next to "Logout"].

4. Click on "My Plan" to expand the menu. Be patient, it might take a while to refresh. [Some might getting email address not being confirm yet, go back to Step 2].

5. You should see "Current Plan" is 5GB only. Click on the button "Upgrade Plan".

6. Click on the "50GB Limited Time Offer", click "Continue", wait for it [coz it is slow], and click "Confirm" or "Okay" or something like that [coz I forgot what was it :P]

7. Go back to "Account Setting" and click "My Plan" again, you should see 50GB now.

The AT&T Locker home page never mention how long this offer last, so act now to secure another free 50GB of online storage. :)

p/s: mobile apps available for iOS and Android. Search for AT&T Locker in apps store.

p/s 2: the service still new, so expect to have bugs from time to time.


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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Flickr is now 1TB

Yup, 1TB (terabytes), not GB. Unlike box.com or adrive.com which offers the best free 50GB free space, Flickr is now 1TB, that is 20 times of box.com or adrive.com free account. And it is free. Either old or new users, everyone now get 1TB.



I wonder if I can convert Flickr to store other types of file. You know what I mean.

Before Flickr revised the rules, free users can only upload 300MB per month, so it will take like like 278 years to fully use up the 1TB. Luckily now Flickr has unlimited upload of max picture size of 200MB and video up to 1GB.

For my 1M Streamyx broadband package, if I would fully use the line for upload photos only, it will take 180 days to used up the 1TB.
1TB = 1,000GB = 1,000,000MB = 1,000,000,000kB
Max upload speed = 64kB
1000000000kB/64kB = 15625000 seconds = 260,416 minutes = 4340 hours = 180 days


Meaning I will never used up the 1TB. But yahoo already win, because it will attract users back to Flickr.

If you already have yahoo account, just use yahoo account to login.

flickr.com

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Saturday, April 20, 2013

How Secure is Your Password?

What are the password that mostly people would use?
Here is a infographic to show you:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/10/infographic-password.html

Anyway, how do we check for the password that we use is safe enough?

I used this website:
http://howsecureismypassword.net/

In my opinion, as long as the password need 1 years plus to crack, it should be good enough. To be more safe, just make sure you always change the password every few months.

But since changing password every few months need a lot of effort especially everyone has more than 10 accounts like emails, banking, works, blogs, etc etc, I use keepass to keep all my password.

Keepass is available on Android, iOS, PC, Windows, Linux, and many more platform.


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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

XDA University

XDA forum has been my favourite forum since I start to use my HTC Touch Elfin. Recently I have changed to SGS2, however since there are too many stuffs in the HTC, I am still keeping both phone most of the time. There are too many customization on the HTC that I still can't find it on SGS2 yet. Therefore I am slowly moving stuffs from the HTC. Today I noticed that excel spreadsheet that I used on HTC are losing the formulas when I open them in SGS2 using Polaris Office and Smart Office. Why?!?!?!

 Anyway, XDA launched their university website. It is to to help people that just starting to use Android as well as for people who wish to do Android development, such as apps, ROMs, theme, and etc.

Here is the introduction video of XDA university:


The link:
http://xda-university.com/


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Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Best Samsung Galaxy S2 Online Deal

Since I am Outdated Penang Uncle, I don't buy latest smartphone, example Samsung Galaxy S3 or Samsung Galaxy Note2 or HTC One X+ or iPhone5. The reason is all new devices are way too expensive according to me. A lot of young people in Malaysia spend one month or maybe more of their salary to buy these new smartphone. Some signed up voice+data plan contract from telco and get the new smartphone for cheaper price, but it would cost much more after the contract end. Money does not come easy (for most people), okay?



Therefore I just bought myself a Samsung Galaxy S2. What? You might scream. Yes, it is Samsung Galaxy S2 (SGS2). The reason (as I learned from ToastMaster):

1. The price is quite cheap compare to the time before Samsung Galaxy S3 and Note2 being launched worldwide. Samsung Galaxy S2 was selling at RM1699 (~US$556) in first half of this year, now it is selling at RM1299 (~US$425).

2. I don't like to pay the premium just to get the latest gadget. If you want to play with these latest gadget, just go to shopping mall on the weekend and play with the demo units at the Samsung store or Apple store or Sony store, and whatever store. Think of the extra money you spent just to get a "wow" from friends. But then the "wow" does not pay you the money right?

3. My HTC Touch (Elfin) is getting too old. What? You might scream again. Yes, I am still using my HTC Touch Elfin until yesterday. It is running on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional. Some people might don't even know the existence of WinMo (short-form of Windows Mobile). I bought the phone with more money than this SGS2. Sigh! Recently this HTC is always shutdown itself on every morning (even with full charge), and sometime it can happen at anytime.

Okay, so I have to buy a new smartphone. I just can't go back to use dump phone, which Nokia good at making them. But then I don't need to get "wow" from others. So SGS2 is the most value that I can think of. I don't want to buy second hand, or AP (AP means not being sell by Samsung Malaysia, therefore warranty is not by Samsung Malaysia). So I got this deal which is the best deal from Samsung Malaysia Authorized dealer.

I got it from PBB-Emall. It is a online shopping website own by Public Bank Malaysia. The SGS2 is sell by KTS, which is one of Samsung Malaysia Authorized dealers. The reason:

1. It is RM1299 (~US$425). Most of the shops in Penang selling at RM1399 with free screen protector and casing. Some offered RM1350, without any free gift. KTS in this case also offered free gift, 16GB microSD and Samsung Bluetooth headset.

2. The payment can use credit card. In most of the shops, including KL, they will charge you additional 3% because they want to you pay for the fee that bank charged them. No additional charges if you pay cash. Think about bring whole stack of money and walking around shopping mall.

3. You can even choose to pay by installment and there is no interest charged. But only Public Bank issued credit cards are allow at the moment.

Too bad that now they don't sell SGS2 any more, but SGS3 still selling at RM1799.

To find more good deal, head to PBB Emall.
http://www.pbbemall.com

p/s: I don't get any commission or money from PBB Emall or KTS or Samsung for writing this. I write this just to share the good deal.


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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Detect Fake Twitter Followers

The best thing about social media is you can show off how popular you are. On Facebook, the number of Likes is the popular counter. While on Twitter, the number of followers is the evident of popularity.

There still no way to detect if the likes on Facebook is genuine or fake, but for Twitter, now there is a website for us to check the percentage of fake and genuine followers for most of the Twitter account, except for Twitter users that lock out their Twitter account from publicly visible.

This service is provided by statuspeople.com. You will need to give permission to statuspeople.com so that can use it. The first result you will get is your own fake Twitter followers.

This is my Twitter Fake report, as you can see there is too much of fake followers. This is because I am testing out an online Twitter followers exchange program, evidently the Twitter followers at the website are mostly fake.

Lets look at some famous people/website on the internet:
Modaco is a famous website regarding mobile phones and smartphones, most of the followers are real one, with 31% inactive. modaco has over 15k followers.

London2012 is the official Twitter account of London Olympic, but 30% of Twitter followers are fake! London2012 has 1.59 million followers.

Now, lets look at Twitter account of leaders nearby Penang.

First one is the current Chief Minister of Penang, Mr Lim Guan Eng. With over 40k of followers, less than 20% is fake, more than 40% followers is active.

How about this one? With over 858k followers, only 19% is active and  44% is fake!

How about ajib's counterpart at Singapore? Only 10% fake and 67% active. The guy above looks really bad.

Current USA President also have 30% of fake followers out of 19 million followers, but still ajib has the highest percentage of fake follower.

Okay, how about famous artist around the world?
Here is ladygaga, 30% fake follower out of 29 million followers.

Justin Bieber is better compare to ladygaga, 3% less fake followers out of 27 million followers.

Will Smith has 11% fake followers, and this is based on @willsmith, there are too many will smith on twitter with will smith pictures everywhere!

Samuel L Jackson appears in most of all the super hero movie, but so do his fake followers, 23%.

How about some of the richest people of the world?
Founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates has 37% fake followers out of 8 million followers. He is the highest among the 3 riches people I checked.

The richest of the richest is Mr Carlos Slim, he has only 8% of fake followers out of 200k followers.

Warren Buffet also has 8% of fake followers out of 108k followers. Btw, there are so many Warren Buffet twitter account, I picked the one that says official twit. You can try to search for him on twitter.

How about a famous artist in Asia?
Andy Lau has 23% fake followers out of 5k followers. This account that I checked might not be the real one, because 5k followers of too little for this super star.

Back to Malaysia, let's check for local famous artists.
Carmen Soo is one of the sexiest female artist, with only 14% fake followers, but inactive is 61%, that is very high.


Another sexy artist, Juliana Evans, 31% fake followers but more good followers compare to Carmen Soo.

This is the only twitter that I checked has 100% genuine followers. She is my wife, heheh.




How about you? Check your fake followers and comment on this post!
http://fakers.statuspeople.com/Fakers


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Saturday, September 1, 2012

Fake Name Generator

You found a strange website, it looks legit but somehow deep down inside you know something is not right. However you already spent hours looking for something similar, you don't want to waste the time. One more thing is you need to register in order to get the info. So what would you do? Proceed with your info and credit card information?



Fake Name Generator is a website that generate fake identify that can be use to register on the mentioned suspicious website. Beside fake name, this website also include stuffs like this [my comment in square bracket]:
  • Phone number [not useful if the suspicious website need to send a code through sms to the phone]
  • Website [okay, this looks like selling link]
  • Email address [Fake Name Generator claimed that the email is a real email address, you just need to activate it, this is useful because most website need you to validate the email via clicking a link that the website send to the email you use to register]
  • User name and password [useful]
  • Mother's maiden name [useful, maybe?]
  • Birthday [useful]
  • VISA/MasterCard, expire date and CVV2 [not sure how legit is this, I didn't validate it]
  • Occupation, company, vehicle, blood type [huh?]
  • Weight and height [errr.......]
  • Geo (GPS) coordinate [who would need this for registration???!!!]
You also can control the gender, race, and country of the fake name you want to generate.
For race, there are a few that are very interesting such as hobbit and ninja. As for country, it is limited to America, Europe, and Australia and NZ.

In advanced setting, there are option to choose the % of gender of male vs female. Example, you can choose a fake ID with 20% male and 80% female. Another advanced option is to choose the age group of the fake ID.

If you want to save the fake ID, you need sign in using google account.

Please note that this should be not use for any illegal activities. I will not responsible if you break any laws or regulation because of this post. :P

The Fake Name Generator website:
http://www.fakenamegenerator.com



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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Travel with Offline Map Apps

How many time you left your smartphone at home when go for travel? Never!

Only just a few years ago, when smartphone is not as good as computer replacement, some people would bring along their laptop when going for travel. But as you know "how light" is the weight of laptop at the time, even with the lightest one. Nowadays the smartphone as good as a computer, except the screen still smaller, but surfing internet, facebook, tweet, watch movie, everything that you need on a computer. In fact, iPhone and Android have more interesting apps than PC and Mac. Of course PC and Mac have more useful software, but for interesting apps, iPhone and Android still the best.

Stay.com is website the provide travel guide for free. Now they even offer their apps what works offline for free! When I went to Tokyo on April this year, I was using TripAdvisor which also offer tips and advise that works offline as well. We need to know that data roaming is very expensive for most of the country. The cheapest data roaming being offered in Malaysia is RM30++ (~US$10) per day!

Right now stay.com covered 117 cities, including cities in Asia such as Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Istanbul. That is much better than TripAdvisor which offers not more than 20 cities if not mistaken. I wish stay.com will cover Osaka, and the cities at central to south of Japan, because that is my next destination. :)

See the video of what stay.com can help to plan your next trip.


Wish you have nice trip. :)

Stay.com link:
http://www.stay.com/

Direct link to stay.com apps on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stay

Direct link to stay.com apps on Apple Apps Store:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/stay.com/id438740289


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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Rebranding Microsoft

I wonder how the face of people in branding or marketing department of Microsoft look like when they saw this.

Anyway, Internet is a wonderful place. You have do a lot of things with it, including offering (free?) rebranding service to a multinational company.

Personally I like this idea very much. Time to change Microsoft?

Some of the images:
pix credit: http://www.minimallyminimal.com

pix credit: http://www.minimallyminimal.com

For the full list, go to this link:
http://www.minimallyminimal.com/journal/2012/7/3/the-next-microsoft.html


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Sunday, July 1, 2012

Personality Test: Keirsey Temperament Sorter

I were asked to try out Kingdomality personality test few days ago. However I would think the result is not too convincing because the questions was too few and the result can be too generic. Then I remembered I did another type of personality test, it is called Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-II.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter®-II is the most widely used personality test. It has 70 questions and yes it will take a while to complete them, but I think it gives a more accurate answer. Of course this test was being created to help the sales of a few books. Nevertheless the result can be a good source of reference when we want to understand our characteristic.

pix source: http://www.keirsey.com/

To take the test, go to this link:
http://www.keirsey.com/sorter/instruments2.aspx



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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Kingdomality: who are you in Medival Kingdom

My friend forwarded me a link to a personality test. She did the questions on the website and have to do a report based on the result. So I just give it a try as well. 

Kingdomality was created based on a book called "Kingdomality: An Ingenious New Way to Triumph in Management". Meaning the purpose of the test is to encourage the sales of the book. The result of the test is show who are you in the time of Medieval.

pix source: kingdomality.com

My result is Dreamer-Minstrel. The result will also show the good and bad of each type of the character. You are not necessary to agree to what it is written on your character, but some of them will be true.

pix source: kingdomality.com

Anyway, this is just for your reference only. It would be an interesting topic to talk about for a few days within your office.

Go to this link to take your test:
http://www.kingdomality.com/


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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

How To Check Air Pollutant Index for Malaysia

This post is applicable for Malaysia only.

The haze is back. No thanks to open burning at Sumatra island of Indonesia, every year Malaysia and Singapore (and part of Thailand?) will suffer from haze for few months, at some years, it was a few times in a year.

Department of Environment did a good job to put up a webpage so that public can easily look for the Air Pollutant Index. The webpage is called Air Pollutant Index Management System (APIMS).

pix credit: Department of Environment of Malaysia

The system will be update the index at 7am, 11am and 5pm everyday. At the Google Maps, you can zoom-in to the area that you want to look for. However the reading is not at every location, the readings are being pin at the station that collecting the Air Pollutant reading.

Air Pollutant Index on Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

So what is API mean? It can be a reference for us to decide should we do outdoor activities or not. For more than 100 API, it is consider unhealthy, and we should stay indoor. For moderate level, the API is between 51 and 100, personally I would consider it is not good to stay outdoor as well.The picture above showing Seberang Jaya, Perai at 101 API, which is at unhealthy level.

API Status
0-50 Good
51-100 Moderate
101-200 Unhealthy
201-300 Very Unhealthy
>301 Hazardous

The link to check Air Pollutant Index Management System (APIMS):
http://www.doe.gov.my/apims/

You can also check the past API record by going to this link:
http://www.doe.gov.my/apims/calender.php

Update: (2013 Jun 24) looks the website links has been updated on DoE website.
Pls go to the main page to get the daily detail report:
http://www.doe.gov.my/webportal/en
It is very slow on all the pages related to Air Pollutant Index.
The best advice is to stay indoor as much as you can, avoid outdoor activities. If you can smell the burning haze smell, meaning it is relatively harmful to human.
The air filter sellers should be laughing right now.
I have tried this link again, it is working now:
http://www.doe.gov.my/apims/


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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Facebook Timeline Remover

Facebook Timeline, like it or hate it, it is here no matter what you think. While most of the Facebook users has been forced to change to Timeline, some still at older Facebook interface. I am lucky that my personal Facebook page still using old Facebook interface, while this blog's Facebook Page has been forced to change to Timeline not too soon after it was being setup.

TimeLineRemove is something you can try if you want to get rid of the TimeLine for now. What actually happen in background is timeline still being loaded, but TimeLineRemove change the look of the TimeLine to become old and good Facebook interface. So you can look at your friend's Facebook profile on old Facebook interface.

TimeLineRemove is available for FireFox, Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer. All you need to do is go to it's website and install the add-on or extension (allow permission if needed), reload the Facebook and then you are on old and good Facebook interface.

picture source: http://www.timelineremove.com/

To disable Facebook TimeLine, visit this link and download the add-on/extension:
http://www.timelineremove.com/


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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Finding Free WiFi in Penang

Even though quite a lot of people subscribe to data plan or 3G/4G plan with their telco, there are even more people trying to stay out of it to reduce the phone bill cost. One of them is me, Penang Uncle. In my opinion, there is no need to always 'online' with data plan or 3G/4G plan, unless I am a VVIP and I need to check facebook/twitter/viper/whatsapp every minute. If I need to be on internet, I can easily find free wifi hotspot in many places.

Penang Government did a good job in recent years to work with private companies to enable as many as wifi hotspot all over Penang. But where are these wifi hotspots?

Check out this webpage to find the free wifi hotspots in Penang:
http://www.redtone.com/services/penang_wifi.php

You might need to register before use the free wifi service with a valid email account. And speed is not guarantee. Even the free wifi I use at Japan (I went to Japan on Apr 2012) also don't have guarantee speed.

Enjoy your free wifi in Penang!


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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

See the other side of the world: Antipodes Map

Popeye the Sailorman always have this seen scene, either Popeye or the bad guys being beaten up and the whacking causing Popeye or bad guys ended up at the other side of the world, usually at China (Popeye cartoon is based on US). However this is not true if the travel path is going through the center of the planet Earth. Why? Antipodes will show you why.

This is what the other side of the world if I start from Penang island. It end up at a place in Peru.
Antipodes on Outdated Penang Uncle blogspot dot com

Go to this link to find out what is the actual other side of the world of you current location:
http://www.antipodemap.com/

I found out start from any place in US continent, you will end up somewhere at Indian Ocean. If start from Hawaii, you will end up at some place at Africa (Botswana?).


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Monday, May 14, 2012

Free Online Courses from MIT and Harvard

Few years back, MIT already offered free online courses through MIT OpenCourseWare. The material that being published in OpenCourseWare is same as the one being used in MIT campus. Now MIT and Harvard joint partnership to further enhance the online learning experience, EdX.

EdX not only offers courses from MIT, but from Harvard as well. With this, for those who looking for other scope that MIT didn't covers, they can find Harvard's courses in EdX, and it is free!



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I did registered for OpenCourseWare few years ago and benefit from it. I will register for EdX to interesting topics from Harvard as well. :)


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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Travel for Free (maybe)

Like to travel? Want to travel for free? Well, you can do that, only if you are beautiful. Read this, beautiful. Sorry guys, only for girls. There is no free lunch in this world however. There is a price you have to pay (not money in this case), but rather something else...... Sounds scary?

MissTravel.com is an online dating website. There are 2 groups of members, the first one is the "attractive" travelers which get the free travel. The second group is the "generous" travelers which will cover the travel cost of the "attractive" members, plus any others stuffs and also there is a need to pay a fee to the MissTravel.com if you decided to communicate with any "attractive" travelers.

Here is a video made by the website to explain it in simple language:


Basically this is an online dating website. But the ultimate goal is to let "generous" travelers to have a company when travel, while "attractive" travelers get to full fill their wish of travel for free.

I get nothing by introducing this website. And I would advice to be extra care when using online dating services. The website put up some safety tips, therefore I would think they will not responsible to you when you use their service, since they already put it in terms and conditions:
http://www.misstravel.com/Travel_Safety_Tips

For those dare to try, you can give it a try:
http://www.misstravel.com


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