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After received my Ipod Touch 16GB, I have tried to familiar with it’s features and also start to setup my own customized Ipod applications set. This is my first Apple high tech gadget, it is so luxury, slim, compact and solid in it’s design. I was so surprised with it’s features below:

1. Large and Sharp display screen

With it’s 3.5 inch wide gorgeous screen, I can browse my photos clearly and it does fit in sufficient applications to choose on the screen. The high resolution of 480×320 on this screen make our view clearer, even the smallest word when browsing internet.

2. Slim and Compact

It is so easy to carry and keep with it’s 8mm thickness. Although it is slim but it is very solid with it’s solid silver metal on the back. In overall, it is slim yet solid.

3. Fast transfer rate

Since my Ipod Touch got huge 16GB diskspace, I transfer all songs on my computer into it. It took just about 10 minutes to transfer 800+ songs (more than 3.6GB). Really excited with the transfer speed!

4. The Multi-Touch

With it’s new age multi-touch technology, I feel it so comfort to flick through photos, movies, and files through my finger. Further more, it only need 2 fingers to zoom in photo. I love the sensitive touch even the screen covered with protector.

5. Accelerometer

The accelerometer detects when you rotate iPod touch from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page, your music in Cover Flow, or a photo in its proper aspect ratio. Now we could turn around photo with more fun. (more…)

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Since I have updated my wordpress theme, I never shown up my rss feed status. I want to experiment whether my rss will increase faster without shown out my rss status. But as a result within these 2 weeks, my rss readers has been increase significantly up to almost 50% of the previous result.

But that is still not a good time for me to reveal my rss subscribers status. I will word hard on my experiment to get more readers first before let all know the result

What is rssHugger ?

While working hard on few techniques to increase my rss readers, I had discovered an free method to promote my blog feed for up to 10 years by using rssHugger! This is really interesting. Either you pay USD$20 for your blog feed listing or get it Free by using the method below.

How to promote Free in rssHugger ?

It’s nothing easier than this.

1. Register at rssHugger

2. Write a review about rssHugger on your blog.

3. Login to rssHugger, goto rss Panel and submit your review url.

4. rssHugger’s admin will need about 2 days to review your blog and your feed will be listed there once approved. (more…)

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Finally, after 3 weeks of hard waiting time since I won an Apple Ipod Touch, my Free Ipod Touch 16GB is on my hand! This is really a big present for me since I blog for 3 months here. But I would say, to receive a Ipod Touch is my bad and good experience.

Bad and Good experience

Actually I’ve received the shipment letter from POS KLIA since last week. The letter mentioned my Ipod Touch has been blocked at custom KLIA and need to assign someone to do the clearance, such as POS Malaysia with reasonable service fees of RM49.50. But do you know that our custom annouced Ipod as taxable item up to 35% of the device.

After my reply to POS Malaysia, they get back to me that I need to pay off RM540+ tax plus some hand carry fees to do the clearance from custom! Wow, that is ridiculous. How can I pay off RM540+ for a free prize? I negotiate with the incharge person and let her know my situation, because the tax price is not reasonable at all! I told her this is a my free prize, but seems like she not believe with my answer. Finally, she told me I need an invoice from the sender to prove that I got it free.

With help from MixedDrinkWorld, I manage to get an customized invoice and let my Ipod Touch get through custom. I really appreciate their help and fast respond After all, I went to redeem my free Ipod Touch at POS Malaysia nearest to my town. The young officer was so excited when I redeem my Ipod Touch. When I told him I got my Ipod Touch free, seems like he was curious and unbelievable on my answer.

My two cents

This is my first experience to receive my personal gadget directly from oversea. I was so happy when receive my first Apple’s high end gadget.

Throughout this experience, I learned the process of oversea shipment, the procedures to do custom clearance and redeem. It was value added knowledge in my life.

I also learned that Do Not direct order taxable gadgets from oversea unless you are rich! It was total up of USD$100 plus RM49.50 to ship an USD$399 Ipod Touch 16GB from US to me.

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What is Yahoo! Mini Pen?

Recently Yahoo has launched a free translation tool named Yahoo! Mini Pen (Yahoo! 奇摩迷你笔 ). Although it’s just a simple word translator, not yet ready for phrase or article translation, it’s still a useful and handy translator.

Why use Yahoo! Mini Pen?

You should use Yahoo! Mini Pen if English is not your native languange. With Yahoo! Mini Pen, you may translate English word to Chinese, German, Korean, Japanese and many more within seconds. Yahoo! MiniPen able to support IE, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and PDF. Further more, it does not take much space, also transparent by itself when inactive.

How to use Yahoo! MiniPen

Just a few steps to use this translator. Download Yahoo! MiniPen toolbar and install it. A tiny pink color pen will show up on screen.

Drag the tiny pen to the keyword, release your mouse click and it will pop up related keyword’s translation result. Not only meaning of the keyword, but also multi languange pronunciation for your reference. This is the advantage feature compare to other translator.

My two cents

I’ve installed Yahoo! MiniPen on my computer. It’s really a useful and handy translation tool. It search and display the translate results within seconds.

[More info at Yahoo! 奇摩迷你笔]

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