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This blog will still be here as an archive and backup but there will no longer be new posts. Thanks everyone for all the support and encouragement. Hopefully I’ll now be even more committed to post new stuff on the blog 🙂
After much persuasion I’ve finally got my very own .com Please do update your bookmarks to my new blog
http://www.yogaretnam.com
Have never heard of The Whitest Boy Alive ? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. I had many friends who were asking who was this whitest boy alive and is he anything like that white boy in Powder; which is a 90’s movie for those of you who don’t know. Once I mentioned that it’s one half of Kings of Convenience; who brought the house down during their very first Kuala Lumpur show last year, only then did some of them go “Ahhhhhhh”.
The Whitest Boy Alive
The Whitest Boy Alive (TWBA) is three-fourths German and one-fourth Norwegian. Erlend Øye, the Norse quarter this musical pie, is better known as half of indie band duo Kings of Convenience (KOC). This time he sings again, yielding electric guitars and dancier tunes thanks to his mates from Deutschland: Marcin Öz on bass, Sebastian Maschat on drums and Daniel Nentwig on keyboards. What started off as a side project during a Berlin stint back in 2003 has evolved, now they tour the world showcasing their unique music style. TWBA is a little bit pop, a little bit rock, a little bit disco, but completely bound to get you feeling good and busting out those moves on the floor.
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Beliebe it or not, Justin Bieber is coming to town !! Yes, if you’ve not heard it by now you’ve probably either been living in a cave or trying very hard to not take notice 😉 Well for all you Beliebers out there, here’s a chance for you to score some free tickets to his concert as well as the upcoming movie ‘Never Say Never’. C’mon you know you’ve caught yourself humming or whistling to his tune once in a while, I know I have. If you don’t want to pay for tickets here’s the perfect chance, plus I’m sure you’ll have many girls dying to go with you. See win/win situation. Ladies, join the contest and bug your man to join as well so you’ll have double your chance to win tickets !!
The best part of this contest is you don’t need to be a blogger to win !! Yes that’s right, all you have to do is take a picture of yourself and and overlay a TuneTalk Twibbon (picture overlay) on your Facebook or Twitter profile and get all your friends to ‘LIKE’ the photo. If you are more adventurers or want to get better tickets to watch the Bieber closer you can do your best dance or singing impersonation and get your friends to ‘LIKE’ it. The top 5 ‘LIKED’ will get  a pair of tickets !! It’s that simple, no fancy words involved.
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The Google Nexus S was recently launched in Malaysia last weekend. I had a chance to play around with it and here’s some interesting observation on Google’s latest Nexus.
Contour display
The “Countour display”, Google and Samsung claims that the Nexus S is the first device to offer such a display, looking at all the other flat touchscreen displays out there currently this really made the Nexus S special. Holding  against your cheeks feel really natural as the curvature of the glass hugs the curvature of the cheeks. With a contoured screen, coupled with a ridge on the back of the phone makes it easy and comfortable to type with. I was intrigued with this little technological marvel and decided to dig deeper.
Nexus S teardown
Samsung certainly has been busy with the production of the Galaxy Tab. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 was only recently announced and today the 22nd of March they might be unveiling their latest Galaxy Tab; the 8.9″ variant.
If you head over to Samsung’s Facebook page you’ll see an image with the Galaxy Tab followed by the numbers “78910”. The numbers might seem cryptic at first but there’s a high possibility that it denotes the different display sizes of the Galaxy Tab; 7″,8.9″ and 10.1″.
New Galaxy Tab
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Bubble Tea, an addiction to most people and with an array of bubble tea shops strewn around town, it’s often difficult to know which ones are really good and worthy of a revisit. Personally, I love having a cup of bubble tea and am constantly on the lookout for a shop in the mall. The variety of flavours and colours keeps me constantly coming back for more as I challenge my taste buds with flavours like peach,lychee, passion fruit,mint, chocolate, grape fruit, mango, yakult; the variety is just practically endless. Of course there’s also the traditional milk tea, which is an all time favourite. Bitting into the ‘bubbles/pearls’ is what the fun is all about in bubble tea.
Chatime Pavillion
It was awesome having the ability of sending links and info to Google Chrome via Chrome to Phone but I often wondered if the reverse was possible. After much searching I found this app called send2cloud. There are times I was using the phone to browse a website and when I sit in front of the computer I wish there was a way to see it in a full browser; emailing it and then copying/pasting the link was one way or just use send2cloud to instantly open the link in Chrome.
With Send2Cloud all you have to do is go to Menu -> Share page -> send2cloud and it opens up the app.
 send2cloud |
 send2cloud |
Clicking on send will immediately send the url to your Google Chrome. Don’t worry your computer doesn’t have to be turned on for it to work. Utilising Google doc’s, the application will share the url and the Chrome extension will automatically show an alert when you launch the browser.
send2cloud chrome extension
The extension can be found here. The application is listed in the Android marketplace as “send2cloud”. Firefox users can download the extension here.
Newszapped recently announced the availability of their flagship beta product, a unique and intuitive web application that combines a powerful news aggregation with social networking features.
“Newszapped is developed with the idea of simplicity – an all in one user-friendly interface to read news from leading news portals, top blogs and magazines from all over the world,” said David yong, CEO of NewsZapped Media.
(L-R) Edison Wong, Mazwan Rozali, David Yong
If you’ve ever used Digg dan Reddit before navigating through Newszapped will be a cinch. With news being aggregated from ove r 100 countries you can be sure that you’re never left in the dark when it comes to the latest happenings around the world.
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Nexus S Launch
Today was the official launch of the much anticipated Google Nexus S by Maxis. This the first Android device to feature the latest OS 2.3, also known as Gingerbread. Jean-Pascal Van Overbeke, CEO of Maxis Berhad said “Maxis is focused on delighting our customers and enriching their lives with the latest, innovative devices to keep up with their ever-changing lifestyle needs and demands.” Mr. Yu Jai Sul, Managing Director of Samsung Malaysia was also present and he said, “Samsung adn Google are working hand-in-hand with Maxis to make the best Android smartphone experience available to the Malaysian market. The Nexus S will give you both functionality and stunning user-experience as it integrates Samsungs’s world-class hardware and award-wining technology with exciting new features.”
If you’ve been surfing Digi’s website lately you would have realised that they have announced that the HTC Incredible is coming soon. The soon is now here, HTC Incredible has been officially launched today and Digi will be offering the device with the DG Smart Plan. The phone retails for RM 1999 at th end of april, a subsidy of RM 550 for a 1 year contract and RM 800 for 2 years, making the device priced at only RM 1449 and RM 1199. The downside though is if you’re an existing DG Smart Plan customer, there’s no upgrade or contract extension.
HTC Malaysia has also mentioned that the Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) will be coming in June for the Incredible S.
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