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Win the new ipad!!!

Here's the way!!
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amazing Tee folder

i found this on the net and found this is really useful~~~especially for lazy people like me...hahaha

it's now on groupon at RM29.90 each~

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"modern" mom

I saw this scene in the MCD near my house.....

a mom with her....should be about 4 years old son come to MCD, just sit in front of me.

Once they settle down, while waiting the food, the mom take out her iphone.

What shocked me was, the mom ask the kid to come to play the game of iphone!

and the kid was so familiar with the game...




in my point of view, this is really too early of exposure to "IT?"

kids in this age not suppose to expose of too much of gadget meanwhile more with nature.

for me, the mom did wrong, it's clearly showed that she "ask" the boy to play it.

isn't we should NOT be addicted too much on games, like my mom always said? or maybe just the moms of my generation.

MCD Value Dinner

MCD is now offering the value dinner setS which is exactly the same price as lunch sets.

my favourites are the fish and double cheese burger.

Most importantly, fries is always in my top favorite list. i just love the fries.......

Sadly, there's no mcd in ukm, kajang the nearest :(

What Are Netbooks?

What Are Netbooks?

Guide to Netbooks and How They Differ From Traditional Laptops


Netbooks are the hottest trend in personal computers today. Their extremely small size and very low price tag make them very attractive to people looking for a low cost yet portable laptop that they can bring just about anywhere. They have opened up computing to a whole new group of people who didn't feel they could afford a laptop previously. But is a netbook a good choice over a traditional laptop? This article looks into what exactly makes a netbook and how to decide if one is right for you.






The larger one was laptop, while the mini size was netbook





Speed Isn't Everything


Most netbooks are not what you would consider fast when it comes to computing. They are not designed for fast speeds but more for power efficiency. They need enough processor performance to handle basic computing tasks such as web browsing, email, word processing, spreadsheets and basic photo editing. This is where they tend to get the nicknames as internet devices or mobility platforms. Frankly, you don't need much computing power to do these tasks. The majority of netbooks on the market use the Intel Atom processors, while a few are available with processors from VIA.


Where's the CD?


Since their computing tasks are limited and costs are a key factor, the number of features in a netbook is less than you would find in a traditional laptop or even an ultraportable. Items such as CD/DVD drives are not required and only add to the cost and bulk of the system. By removing features like this, they can reduce the weight, size and power consumption. As a result, most people will not be able to use a netbook as a complete PC replacement without purchasing additional peripherals such as external drives.


Solid State or Hard Drive?


Speaking of drives, many of the least expensive netbooks use flash or solid state drives in lieu of a traditional hard drive. This one again reduces the overall size of the system and reduces power consumption. The problem is that the memory chips used for solid state drives are relatively expensive per gigabyte. This results in limited storage space (sometimes not even enough to hold Windows XP) or rapid increases in the cost of the system compared to a standard notebook. Because of this, most of the netbooks now use hard drives.


Display and Size


LCD displays are probably the biggest overall cost to manufacturers of laptop PCs. In order to reduce the overall costs of these systems, manufacturers developed systems using smaller screens. The first netbooks used relatively small 7-inch screens. Since then, the screens have been getting progressively larger with the most common size now being 10 inches. Newer systems are being made available with 11- and even 12-inch screens. Many companies are reluctant to go larger since it cuts into sales of larger traditional laptops.


With netbooks being smaller than ultraportables, they also tend to be much lighter. This makes them great for those who need to have network connectivity while they are traveling or basic productivity computing. The small size does have its drawbacks, though. Netbooks tend to be very narrow, forcing the keyboard to also be smaller than a traditional laptop design. These small keys can be very problematic for use over extended periods of time or for those with larger hands.


Software


Software is another big item when talking about netbooks. Windows Vista is generally too resource-intensive to support the hardware. Microsoft has made available Windows XP Home for netbooks as long as they don't exceed certain specifications. This will eventually be phased out for a lighter version of Windows 7 once it ships. Even then, Microsoft will place hardware restrictions in order for manufacturers to get the less expensive versions of the OS. The current Windows XP restrictions are:


· CPU: 1.66GHz Single Core and Lower


· Memory: 1GB Maximum


· Drive: 160GB Hard Drive or 16GB SSD


· Screen: 12.2-inches and Smaller


The rumored Windows 7 restrictions for netbook licensing are:


· CPU: 2GHz Single Core and Lower and 15W Thermal or Lower


· Memory: 1GB Maximum


· Drive: 250GB Hard Drive or 64GB SSD


· Screen: 10.2-inches and Smaller


Of course, manufacturers always have the option of selling specifications beyond the Microsoft imposed restrictions. To do so, they either must sell it with a full OS license that increases the cost or go with an alternative such as one of the various Linux operating systems.


Costs


The goal of netbooks was to be less expensive than a traditional laptop PC. This is true for some of these models, but many netbooks have expanded features or items that have driven their costs up. The original netbook goals were to cost around $100. They ended up costing between $200 and $300. Many of the latest models are now priced above $400 and even as high as $800 because of additional features. This puts many of these netbooks directly in competition price wise with full-featured budget laptops.


Conclusions


Netbooks offer up some great values in the computing world as well as extremely mobile computing platforms. The problem is that they fail in most aspects of having all the standard features of a traditional laptop. This makes them a good choice for supplementing a desktop PC for those that don't want to buy a full laptop when traveling away from the office or home. They are very good as network appliances for web browsing or accessing email. If you are thinking about getting a netbook, be sure to ask yourself two questions:


1. Does it meet my computing needs?


2. Am I willing to sacrifice features for portability over a larger and slightly more expensive budget laptop?

If the answer to these two questions is yes, then a netbook might be a computing item to consider.

3/11 Japan Earthquake Anniversary

NIHONMATSU, Japan — Nobody knows whether Hiroshi Yokoyama’s elderly parents tried to outrun the tsunami that engulfed their home in Namie on the Fukushima coast a year ago.

But Mr. Yokoyama does know that he would have looked for them high and low, if not for a second disaster that unfolded at the nuclear power plant just a few miles away, forcing him to abandon his search.

As grieving families across the nation gathered Sunday to mark the anniversary of Japan’s 3/11 disasters — an earthquake and tsunami that ravaged the northeastern coast, killed almost 20,000 people and caused a huge nuclear radiation leak — some communities are still coming to terms with the calamity’s scale, complexity and lasting effects, and painful new revelations have shed light on how some of the victims died.

Last week, the police in the Futaba-gun region of Fukushima, which includes the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station and the town of Namie, confirmed that a handful of tsunami survivors who were trapped in the rubble probably starved to death as rescuers fled the scene for fear of radiation. A month passed before rescuers were able to venture back into the exclusion zone set up in a 12-mile radius around the nuclear plant; the bodies of Mr. Yokoyama’s parents were not discovered until the summer.

“If only there was no nuclear power station, lives could have been saved,” Mr. Yokoyama said. He thinks, and hopes, that his parents were quickly overpowered by the waves and avoided the drawn-out deaths that some around them may have suffered.

A year later, Mr. Yokoyama and his wife and two young children are still unable to return to their home on the shore. They observed the anniversary in Nihonmatsu, a city about 35 miles away, where a group of Namie townspeople now live.

“If only there was no nuclear power station, we could all go home,” Mr. Yokoyama said.

Across the country, there were hundreds of memorial services on Sunday like the one in Nihonmatsu. Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, in a nationally televised address, pledged to work for a faster recovery. “We shall not let our memory of the disasters fade, and must pay attention to disaster prevention and continue our effort to make this land an even safer place to live,” he said.

Japan’s reconstruction has accomplished much in the past year. Virtually all of the tsunami zone’s roads have been fixed, and many landscapes once strewn with debris are now lined with tidy plots and a growing number of restored buildings. Severed manufacturing supply chains have been re-established, and some of the region’s devastated fishing ports are back in service.

But the still-evolving story of the towns like Namie is a painful reminder that the three-pronged onslaught of earth, sea and radiation that hammered the country a year ago was no ordinary disaster. The waves that crashed into Namie not long after the magnitude 9.0 offshore earthquake at 2:46 p.m. that day swept entire houses out to sea, witnesses said.

By nightfall, rescuers reached some of the worst damage in the town’s Ukedo district. In the pitch blackness — the town’s power supply had been knocked out — they heard taps and voices, possibly survivors under the mangled debris.

But as darkness enveloped them, the rescuers decided to suspend their search until dawn. “We told them we would be back,” said Kimihisa Takano, a neighborhood volunteer firefighter. “But we never did.”

Mr. Takano instead found himself helping evacuate the town after reports of a radiation leak from the nearby Daiichi nuclear plant. The town owned only a handful of microbuses and other vehicles to get residents out, and as news spread of the unfolding nuclear crisis, commercial bus companies refused to travel to Namie, slowing the evacuation.

With no guidance from Tokyo Electric Power Company, the nuclear plant’s owner, or the central government, town officials led evacuees north, believing winds were blowing the radiation south. They would later learn that the wind had swung north and that they had fled right into the path of the radiation plume, despite the existence of government simulations that could have pointed them to safety instead.

Makiko Inoue contributed reporting from Tokyo

From:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/world/asia/a-year-later-effects-of-japans-disaster-are-still-unfolding.html 

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Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows

Windows system key combinations

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
• Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

• SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
• SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
• ALT+double click: Displays properties
• SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window's System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window's System menu (from the MDI child window's System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the NotepadFind dialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+V: Paste
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

• Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

• Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

• F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
• CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
• SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control

• Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
• Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
• Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
• RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
• LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

Properties control

• CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

Accessibility shortcuts

• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

• Windows Logo: Start menu
• Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
• Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
• SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
• Windows Logo+F1: Help
• Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
• Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
• Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
• CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
• Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
• Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
• Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

• Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
• Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
• Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
• Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
• Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
• Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
• Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item