Earth Hour 28 March 2009 (Saturday)

Create your own earth in your hand
- you need a printer
- you need a webcam
Checkout what is the steps, click here

Earth Hour website
visit http://www.earthhour.org/home/

Fight Global Warming
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com

Turn off your lights tonight, Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm,
to vote for your self that you care about our earth issue including global warming issue.

Besides, might let the world know that we as Malaysian are unite and care about Earth issue ?

If just a vote and without action still won't help.
Until then, here are other things you can do to help fight global warming:

Tell friends about the fight global warming ad campaign:
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/email.cfm?contentID=5107&source=taf_fgw_ads&tagID=229

Save energy at home:
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=267

Use less gas with your car:
http://www.fightglobalwarming.com/page.cfm?tagID=268

Global warming threat Maluku Islands
http://www.planetmole.org/indonesian-news/global-warming-threat-maluku-islands.html

In conjunction with this, IKEA Malaysia have some candle and solar device promotions : )
http://www.ikea.com.my/ads/latest_ads.asp

Tata Nano Cheapest car in the world, will it be in Malaysia?

Looks great! I think target market will be motorcyclist, at least won't get wet during raining season.

Heard that news paper reported there are lot people booking and aiming for this car.

Some information which you might like to know:
Nano car Feature:

Fuel-efficient engine
- The Nano has a rear-wheel drive, all-aluminium, two-cylinder, 623 cc, 33 PS, multi point fuel injection petrol engine. This is the first time that a two-cylinder gasoline engine is being used in a car with single balancer shaft.
- The lean design strategy has helped minimise weight, which helps maximise performance per unit of energy consumed and delivers high fuel efficiency.
- Performance is controlled by a specially designed electronic engine management system.

Meets all safety requirements
- The Nano's safety performance exceeds current regulatory requirements. With an all sheet-metal body, it has a strong passenger compartment, with safety features such as crumple zones, intrusion-resistant doors, seat belts, strong seats and anchorages, and the rear tailgate glass bonded to the body.
- Tubeless tyres further enhance safety.

Environment-friendly
- The Nano's tailpipe emission performance exceeds regulatory requirements. In terms of overall pollutants, it has a lower pollution level than two-wheelers being manufactured in India today.
- The high fuel efficiency also ensures that the car has low carbon dioxide emissions, thereby providing the twin benefits of an affordable transportation solution with a low carbon footprint.

Some notes get from forum
- Single wiper
- No air cond ( RM 1200 to fix air cond )
- No power window
- Manual Transmission only

Price US$2,500 (RM8,600)
(source from http://paultan.org/archives/2007/09/27/tata-set-to-launch-us2500-car-in-mid-2008/)


Several comment from MotoTrader forum
http://www.motortrader.com.my/asp/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24793

Picture from Tata Motor

AnkhSVN for Visual Studio 2008

Waited for almost two years, finally got almost perfect Visual Studio 2008 plug in for FREE!

I tried out AnkhSVN at year 2007 that time still not user friendly enough, thus I use back TortoiseSVN UI.

Now I prefer use AnkhSVN because it is more convenient to make a svn commit
and almost everything inside Visual Studio.

Download AnkhSVN from here
http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=3794


combined AnkhSVN plug in inside VS ( click the image to view in full size )


svn commit dialog within VS ( click the image to view full size )

ScreenToaster - Web base screen recorder

You can now capture your screen into video witouth installing software into your machine.

Try ScreenToaster, you can save your video into .mov or .swf (experimental).

The video converted will be store in server, thus loading the video back will take some buffering time.

You have to register as new member to save the recorded video.





Yet, just found that, I have only 15 days left to activate my account :S

http://www.screentoaster.com/record

YouTube for Windows Mobile

Finally! Great official software to watch YouTube is here!

You can download from your mobile device at http://m.youtube.com !

or from freewarepocketpc.net ( my favorite )
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-youtube.html

Download YouTube

I tested on my HP RW 6828 ( Flash to Windows Mobile 6.1 ), works fine! LOL

iPhone OS 3.0

After reading LiewCF.com blog, found some great first impression of iPhone OS 3.0.

And just to be careful the version you purchased, don't get the old version ok.
Old version really lack of a lot features, not event copy and paste or forward sms!

Yet, I might not consider it yet due to the offered by Maxis might not good for me ( tie down to two years contract ) .

I love to develop my own software, might take time to see how they program for iPhone.
Just read an article showing programmers creating facebook UI (via facebook API ) within 10 mins. LOL.

Temporary, I still stick with Windows Mobile programming which I more familiar with it.

Take a look , iPhone OS 3.0.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/03/17/iphone_os_3_0_first_impressions_and_photos.html

Download IE8

http://ie8.msn.com/microsoft/internet-explorer-8/en-US/ie8.aspx?ocid=B093OFF03A1103A