Monthly Archive for April, 2011

Top operating systems in China, Windows XP

Published on April 20, 2011 in Tech News. 0 Comments

Top 5 operating systems in China:

Windows XP, 82.2%
Windows 7, 13.8%
Windows Vista, 2.7%
Mac OS X, 0.5%
Windows 2003, 0.3%

We should point out that these numbers (from Statcounter) are based on Web usage, so they represent computers connected to the Internet, surfing the Web. Very relevant for this survey, in other words.

It’s quite a surprise that 4 out of 5 computers in China are still using Windows XP. While in the United States, Windows 7 already overcome the Windows XP throne recently as the top operating system being used.

For full review and charts, here.

Hey, all Malaysian will get official email account from the goverment

Published on April 19, 2011 in Tech News. 0 Comments

Initiative is to allow direct and secure communication between the public and the Government

PUTRAJAYA: All Malaysians who are 18 years old and above will be assigned an email account each in order to receive statements, bills and notices from the Government.

The initiative would allow direct and secure communication between the public and the Government, said Tricubes Bhd chief executive officer Khairun Zainal Mokhtar.

Tricubes Bhd is the company developing the 1Malaysia Email project in collaboration with Microsoft.

Khairun said Tricubes Bhd would also spearhead the development of a web portal which would include social networking services, online bill checking and payments.

“Currently, the company is still running stress test for the portal.

“Hopefully, we can get it ready by July this year,” he told a press conference at the fifth progress update of the Economic Transformation Programme in here, Tuesday.

Via

What do you think? Hope this won’t be another white elephant projects by the government. You guys know lah government and their portals. It’s either lack of professional touch or it’s not functional at all (j/k). But what’s up with the site counter on most of the gov portal? Man, that is so 90s.

Anyway its a relief to know that this project is using Microsoft mail. Probably they will be using live.mail.com. Towards modernize Malaysia!

and someone always quoted that “Malaysia ke arah kuasa besar dunia”, and I strongly felt there is something wrong with that

Bathroom graffiti

Published on April 13, 2011 in Jokesville. 0 Comments

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We lived in such a cruel, cruel world

Opera 11.10 Final, Opera Turbo now with 4x faster

Published on April 12, 2011 in Opera. 1 Comment

I’ve been abandoned Opera mobile for a while now. Now it seems there is a reason to switch back to Opera. Opera development team has released a new major version, Opera 11.10. In this new update the team has claimed that their new Opera turbo engine is 4 times faster than before. For those who didn’t familiar with Opera turbo, it is useful when you are in slower connection, for example a dial up connection or when you are using a pay per use connection that will charge you by the bytes.

So every bytes of usage is essential when you are with Opera turbo. It will trim down the traffic by caching on Opera server. Personally I’m in loved with this features since the first day they launched it. But after I’ve taken the ride the experience were not so smooth at all. All the images appeared when using Opera turbo seems a bit jagged. That’s a bit turn off. Well what you expect, you lose the file size and you definitely gonna lose some of the image quality right.

After that my normal surfing habit continues using Firefox with Google DNS. It is much better for me. At least for my crappy connection. Thanks to Digi broadband for that.

Ok back on Opera 11.10;

Here’s some comparison of the new technology that built in with Opera 11.10. It’s a new image format called WebP.

Image has been taken from, labnol.

The outcome seems pretty good. With so much file trims and yet the quality of the image still there. I’m gonna run a few test of this new browser tonight. Hope it’s gonna be good from last time.

and some teaser video,