Monday 28 April 2008

Mobile Phone Anti-theft Software

I came across some mobile phone anti-theft softwares and its quite amazing what can be done these days.



Virtual Mobile Security (VMS)

In a nutshell, it is a solution that protects all the information on the phone, including photos, videos, phonebook and SMS. It can retrieve all the numbers on your lost phone via an SMS and can track down the location of the lost phone & monitor the mobile phone call.

And to make things really uncomfortable for the mobile phone thief, here's the cool part of it, the VMS software also activates the loudspeaker when the phone ‘owner’ calls. Worse still, the owner of the phone can listen to all the calls made by him/her and have a record of all the calls made by the person.

All these come for a one-time fee, the article didn't say how much.

Lost Mobile Tracking Software (LMTS)

It notifies predefined numbers about the contact number and the GSM tower of the person holding your stolen phone as he/she changes the SIM card. The notification will be sent to a cellphone via a message and to 2 email addresses registered at the time of downloading this software. Pretty neat but again, this software comes for an annual fee.


The concept is just like the in-build mobile tracker in some of the Samsung mobile phones in the market, but only neater. It could only translate to some serious business potential there!


Saturday 26 April 2008

A Match That Lived Up To Its Billing

Not only it was a huge game for the Blues, and saw them draw level with Utd and behind only on goal difference, the game was filled with thrills throughout.

Unexpected Setting:
  1. Plenty of seats for choice in C.C.C., at the start of the match
  2. Caviar + Coffee + 46 inch LCD + Dad, not the best combination but, best I could get
Unexpected 1st half:
  1. After those two Champions League stalemates, I witnessed an aggressive Chelsea
  2. Ballack's plunging header, was dedicated to Lambard who's mourning his mother's dead (well done, German).
Unexpected 2nd half:
  1. Utd came back, but the equalizer was a gift sent from the usually faultless Carvalho!
  2. Drogba & Ballack argued over who should take a free-kick which drew attention to non-footballing matters more than anything
  3. Ferguson took a huge risk by not starting C.Ronaldo at Stamford Bridge
Utd can't afford to lose no more, not against Barcelona, West Ham and Wigan and I certainly look forward to seeing more matches that live up to its billing.


Monday 21 April 2008

Just For The Sound Of It


I went out to play my first round of the summer 9-hole yesterday (and really for only like the first time in about 2 years). I took a look at my aunt's driver and I'm like, holy shit, that thing makes Big Bertha look like Mini Bertha and my own set just looks so prehistoric!

So, my aunt allowed me to indulge and I gave it a few cracks. Not only is the driver gigantic, it's super-lite and incredibly balanced and forgiving at off-centre. I hit fairway on about 5 out of 8 drives and the "ting" sound from each of them was just too fantastic. Not only that, I'm pretty sure those were farther than I've ever hit a golf ball in my life and that felt soooooo good.

Man, how are these things legal, when sweet spot on mine is about the size of a dime! Don't you just love the technology and R&D in it?

Monday 14 April 2008

Man Utd 2-1 Arsenal

It was an important and nervous match for both clubs at Old Trafford yesterday, which incented me to watch it live with my dad, also a fun way to spend his birthday too, I thought why not? However, my dinner ended at 1030pm, and we ordered a heavy supper at 11pm wasn't the ideal, really.

Man Utd didn't play well despite, I would say they won marginally by sheer luck as Arsenal had solid defence and saw some aggressive attacks from time to time. None from United!

Midfielder Owen Hargreaves' superb free-kick did bring the team alive, I was so glad it was Hargreaves who did it and not Ronaldo. Giggs could have joined the match earlier to put some formatting into the team, but instead he came in at 89 minutes for a spin on the right wing and that was it.

After yesterday's match at Old Trafford, Arsenal is now trailing 9 points behind the red devils, Man Utd 6 points clear of Chelsea. If Utd now win their next Premier League game at Blackburn then it raises the possibility that Sir Alex Ferg's side can wrap up the title when they travel to Stamford Bridge to play Chelsea on 26 April. However, for Wenger (and Debbie my friend) there is only a profound sense of loss after what had looked such a promising season for his young team all but fizzled out completely, especially given his side had been knocked out of the Champions League by Liverpool in midweek.

Debbie my friend, I think I can declare totally victory now, and don't cry!

Monday 7 April 2008

Ask Me About London


People used to ask me where to dine, what to do, where to go in London as I was termed the "Brits Fanatic".

Well, not any more as I came to realise I have not visited the city for the last couple of years and things have changed.

Good to learn the change is for the better though.

My friend who just returned from the city last week, gave me these virtues:

"Wonderful weather throughout the week, my rain gear was quite an nuisance."

"The Underground and subways are so nice & clean, well maintained and no rats!"

"Far too many foreigners, I didn't come across no Queen's language at all."


I said, what?
Are you sure that's London you went?
Nonetheless, something has to remain intact.

"Nothing is non-expensive out there."

"English Food is crap apart from Fish & Chips, chocolate and Jacket potatoes."

"High Street shops still close by 5:30pm."


"It's the pubs, monuments, parks, museums, art galleries, musicals theatres and the historic remains which shape the attractions for London and make it unique."

Chop chop...let's go to London. Anyone wanna join me?




Thursday 3 April 2008

Felt

My first time to purchase a piece of cloth in my entire life and to be precise, it's a piece of felt.

Why would I want to do that? Definitely not for the obvious reason.

Here's a clue.

It's a green piece of felt - the 4th roll from the Left.

Tuesday 1 April 2008

Proximity Communication

Proximity Communication - a technology developed by Sun Microsystems' Laboratories, which involves placing silicon parts close to each other and communicating WIRELESSLY.


If several chips can be taken and make them behave like one large chip from an electrical and signal timing perspective, what will happen is a whole different ball game. Because in the span of processor development history, speeds have improved up to 4,000% yet I/O speeds have only managed to improve by a factor of just 10 to 15.

Proximity communication is thought to be the solution to catapult I/O speeds into the stratosphere and can greatly improve the speed of applications requiring high-performance compute power, such as weather modeling, car-crash simulations or medical simulations. Such technological innovation is so ingeniously displayed, reducing the need for big on-chip caches, freeing up huge real estate.

I wonder if proximity communication can be applied to humanity as
we mankind is not advancing in terms of face-to-face, day-to-day communications when you think about it.

Won't be long before human CPUs are captivated by computer processors. We gotta act fast before extinction.