Shingo Tech updates

When you upload videos to your facebook profile, it becomes lost. You will realize that you cannot list the whole list of videos that you have previously uploaded by simply clicking on a link. Most probably, you will need to locate the user who you have uploaded that video and tagged it to him before you are able to trace that video.

If you are using mobile broadbands on dongles, you will discover that the IP is always changing. Uploading to sites or downloading from file storage sites is impossible. This is because the IP changes with each refresh and if the download is not completed within a fixed time frame, it gets cut off.

There are also times when users who are disturbed by the fact that some censored sites are not allowed by your ISP. You can change your IP address by using programs out there. I have tried a few like Tor: anonymity online, notmyip. But I have found one very good one called ultrasurf.




This program allows you to use 3 pre-defined IP addresses from the US. It is lightweight and no installation required. Simply execute it off and it will start your windows Internet Explorer browser. Those who are firefox fans will be slightly disappointed. But the Tor browser uses firefox. I do not like Tor browser is because it takes a long time to get connected. It also does not work if your time is set wrongly.

Antivirus see such programs as malware and the resident protection goes all out to stop it. So you may need to go into the settings of your antivirus to disable the resident feature before starting this application.

Getting extra power for a laptop is one big headache especially during travel. This mini portable charger is able to squeeze out 6 hours of additional power for your device. Amazingly lightweight and portable. Weighing less than 500 grams , you can save a lot of weight compared to the battery pack included with the laptop just by using this device. It comes with 20 interchangeable connectors to fit various different devices.

Ever thought of doing a camping trip in the field and enjoy a movie? You would instantly think that the idea would be to get everyone to cram around and squint their eyes at a small tiny screen of a portable disc player. Nah.. Bring out your projector. Yep, is there a crazy dumb ass who thinks that you would lug a big machine out to party. Whip out the pocket projector from your pockets and watch them drop their jaws with Awe. The latest pocket projector which is coming soon weighs only 180grams. And it has 1 Gig worth of built in memory for you to store presentations. It comes with a VGA port for you to plug into laptops. This baby can project videos at 640 X 480 pixels at a max of 50 inches. It even has built in speakers.


There's also other competitor brands out there like the 3M MPro 120. Similar with the above model, it can also scale videos up to 50 inch and has connectors for most video devices and even works with ipods ( with adapter ). It has a stand and speakers, claims to operate up to 2 to 4 hours.

Windows mobile operating system has been dominating smart phones for donkey years for now. Sadly, it has not really made much advancement in it's browser or user interface enhancement. If you compare the browsers between various smartphones, it is obvious that windows mobile's internet explorer really pales in being a good browser. Even alternative browsers like firefox's minimo, opera mobile or the old netfront browser is more impressive.

If you had used the iphone's safari browser, you would have called window's mobile's browser a piece of junk. With more competition heating up with alternative OS like android putting pressure on microsoft. A new name is due to be added to the pda family.

Moblin - mobile linux where the name came from, will be supporting a variety of devices , from netbooks to smart phones, to MIDs. This operating system stands out against others out there with the ability to switch between applications. It also claims to support flash and Microsoft's Silverlight 3 technology to run interactive Web-based apps. This is one great milestone in portable computing as web apps are always one issue with portable devices. As seen from the video, the browser being used is firefox's latest Fennac browser.

In case there are still people out there who do not know about the windows 7 free upgrade option. I hope you get to read this in time. Here's the time frame for you to get yourself a free windows 7

June 26 2009 to 31 Jan 2009

All you need to do is to buy one computer, be it a desktop or a notebook. So long it comes pre-installed with a vista. You are eligible to get a free windows 7 from microsoft. If you really need a new computer or laptop from now till Jan next year, now you need to do a few things.

1) Find out which model do you really want to buy and decide on it. There's a whole list of participating models for you to choose from 11 computer companies and 100s of computers to choose from. Actually, I believe, every single model that is still on sale should be eligible.

2) Once you have made your choice. Check if it is one of the listed models at microsoft upgrade site

Now you need to take note that you will need to change the location to your country before you jump to conclusions.

Once you have made the purchase, it is important you retain the receipt and submit your request in that site above. Now you just have to wait for the windows to be delivered.

Here's what I suggest after you get the windows 7. I suspect it to be an upgrade and not the full version. Which means that you cannot just throw in the CD and expect it to boot off and do a total install. Which means your vista recovery parition or discs are very important.

1) Once you get your new computer, clone your recovery partition and drive using HDclone. Store these backups safely so that in the event of a future windows crash, you can simply take out these clone backups and clone back your system.

2) Or alternative solution is to download the windows 7 RC and keep it. So all you need to do in future when windows 7 runs into a problem. Simply use DBAN to clear the entire drive , then insert the Windows 7 RC to boot off the Disc drive. As windows 7 RC is a full version and it requires the user to key in the CD key of an original version. So you can key in the upgrade version's key to get it registered.

My idea , is to get the windows 7 to be installed on my desktop system and not the new computer that I just bought. As long as at any one time, windows 7 is only installed on one system, I am not breaking the rules. And I also don't have to mess with the pre-installed vista in the new computer as well.

One original windows is gonna cost between $499 to $699 depending on which version you intend to buy. So with my concept , you get one vista and one windows 7 with just one purchase of a new computer.

One more reminder is that the version that you will get is tied to the version of vista you have in the new system. So if you choose a vista basic, you will get a windows 7 basic and so on.

It is impossible to tell if a free antivirus software is legit and safe. With so many threats surfacing around the world, such as conflicker, it is sometimes hard to come to a decision if you want to install a software to get rid of it or even patch your computer.

Question is : Are you infected by it in the first place?

Falling prey to malicious warnings and software and end up being infected as a result happens to everyone. Take for instance, the latest conflicker, will display a windows security warning that looks as legit as a windows warning at the lower right hand corner, however, upon clicking on it, it installs a fake antivirus called "spyware protect 2009 " which ends up the malware that will attempt to steal all personal information from you.

What's even worse, it bugs the user to pay to fix some so called issues for a price and as a result, loosing your credit card number to the scammers.

Some tell tale signs of a fake program would be

* The program is downloaded from somewhere else and not microsoft auto updates
* The antivirus program starts a scan on its own, without even asking you for permission
* The antivirus program has a name that is not heard off
* This program bugs you for issues that other scanners did not detect.

The following software below is a fake scanner deployed by conflicker.

I wrote this article for the benefit of those who discovered issues after upgrading to version 3.0 ipod/iphone software. There's actually a whole list of bugs , however I only experience one which was bugging me terribly. The battery drained amazingly fast, within one day, and it drains, even when the ipod touch is totally switched off.

Trying to get back into 2.0 firmware is a long and lengthy process, but I will try to make it as simple as possible. You will need to download a few programs.

1) Download Itunes 8.10
2) Download WinPwn 2.5
3) Download QuickPwn 2.2.5-2
4) Download your device's firmware

[ Note that you will need to find the correct file for your device, if yours is a 1st Generation or 2nd Generation pod or phone.]

Before you proceed, you will loose all files and apps , thus you will need to perform all backup you want before proceeding with the downgrade.

1) First.

Uninstall your itunes software unless yours is itunes 8.10
* REBOOT * [ Must be done ]

Now you must delete a file called "itunes library.itl" which should be in your documents\mymusic\itunes

If you do not do so, the itunes will not start and will display an error message unable to open the library as it is created with a newer version of itunes. If you wish to retain that file, you can cut it to another location.

Now check that itunes 8.10 can be started. then close the program.

2) Second
Install and Run WinPwn.
Follow the instructions and create the custom 2.0 firmware restore file.
The created file will be placed inside the mydocuments folder.

3) Third
Follow the guide to hook up and set your ipod touch to recovery mode.
At this point, WinPwn will stop working. And your device will show a white screen.
Close WinPwn
[ If at any point, you fail to enter the correct mode and the device fails to wake up,]
[ Hook up to a power, and press the "ON"+" Start " button and hold it till it wakes up.]

4) Four
Start Itunes 8.10
It will detect your device as DFU mode and you can click on the recovery button.
Press and hold on to shift and click on the recovery button,
It will ask you to choose the firmware.
Select the Custom-iPod1,1_2.0.2_5C1_Restore.ipsw in mydocuments folder

And it will proceed to prepare for recovery. Don't freak out, It takes a hell of a long time to just prepare the file. The actual restore is faster.

And bingo, your ipod touch is restored to the 2.0 version with cydia installed.

5) Five
If you are using an iphone, Run the QuickPwn 2.2.5-2 . and follow instructions to unlock your phone.

There is a new plugin out there called Hidetab.

This add on allows you to quickly, hide those tabs of those windows that you do not want others to see. If you do not want to get fired by surfing on facebook or playing online games and caught when your boss walks behind you, this plugin allows you to make the unwanted tabs disappear with just a shortcut key.

ALT + CTRL + Q to restore
ALT + Q to hide all tabs

However, it will still be running in the background, so even if it is hidden, sound will still be audible, if you're watching a video or listening to music it's going to keep playing. Hopefully a future version will provide the option to mute the audio from any tabs that are hidden.

All your hidden tabs will be showed at the lower right hand side of your browser for you to sort them out.

Microsoft will launch a public beta of its anti-malware service, Microsoft Security Essentials, on Tuesday as it phases out its Live OneCare suite in favor of a simpler free consumer security offering.

The service is just like any antivirus which monitors programs on a PC. When something changes on the computer, such as files being downloaded or copied or software trying to modify files, the system checks against a set of malware signatures in the client program to see if the code matches the signature for known malware. If so, it blocks it from getting downloaded.

The service also includes new technologies that help protect against rootkits, programs that are designed to hide the fact that a PC has been compromised, and is also designed to run efficiently by scanning when the PC is idle and conserving on memory usage.

Microsoft Security Essentials will be available for download from Microsoft's Web site [ Coming soon ... On tuesday ]

If you are someone who does not bother to install and update your own antivirus definitions, this is for you.

This is a pair of spectacles that allow you to watch videos by simply wearing it. Something real Cool when you don it. Especially, if you are a travel freak and love to watch movies on a hand held device.

It basically works with any device with a RCA composite output. It is not as amazing as you would probably imagine it to be. What you see when you put on this would be as if you are in a cinema, however with a square screen and you are seated all the way to the end. It would not be better than watching movies off a normal TV but it is a lot better then trying to hold a portable device in one hand and squinting at a small screen with your hand shaking if you are commuting. What's impressive about this goggles is that the corners actually allow you to see the outside world, thus not cutting you off from the real world. So if you still can be aware of what's happening around you.

It comes with earphones that block out the sound which are of decent quality, however, I believe you should enjoy using your own favorite earphones. One of the problems of using the earphones from the device is that while taking off the goggles, you will tend to jack off the earphones that are still stuck on to your ear.

Now for a few cons about this device.

1) The cable clutter is quite a handful, If you go with composite connections. It would get quite cumbersome and packing it up takes some effort. Unless you are using a ipod or small device that can be hooked up using a single connection.

2) Users wearing specs will have problems as despite viewing it in such a close range, the image is still blurry and depends on how bad your eye sight is. However, if you do not wish to purchase the special spectacle bridge from the developers, one simple way out is to tie 2 cable ties on the viewer frame just in front of the ear plugs. Do not fully tighten the cable tie, just enough to hold your specs. Slide the legs of your specs into the cable tie and push the cable tie upwards to lock it in place, as the viewer's legs are thicker as it is nearer to the lens. Then wear the viewer with your specs as the main frame, You will be able to watch it this way. But I suggest you don't do this outside as it does look real stupid . :P


However, you can always purchase Myvu lens Clip on to enhance viewing pleasure. The lenses come in a 3 piece pack that consists of degrees with one with around 200 degrees range and one with 400 degrees range. The 3rd one is a zero template which you can bring to a spectacle shop for a custom made lens that you can clip on to the viewer.

How to clip this myvu lens? I had some time figuring out this too. First, you will need to put the frame of the lens at the mid section of the viewer right at the nose support area, which can be swapped out with the other sizes included in the package.

Once you put the frame of the lens in the gap at the mid section of the nose section, push the 2 ends of the lens legs which is in the shape of a hook to the bottom part of the viewer. Now the lens is secure.

If on putting the myvu on, your eyes actually can touch the lens, you will need to swap the nose support with another smaller size included in the myvu package. There's 3 sizes to swap with.


3) You cannot charge and watch at the same time, unless you are providing only the low charge current, which means connecting the viewer to a extension like a usb hub which does not provide enough power to being a charge, However , it is able to maintain the viewer to watch an entire movie. [ ODD :S ]

4) The device itself comes without any battery indicator, You have no idea how much battery is left. And charging is a huge mystery to how much is being charged. The user manual does not even have this stated.

Here's the details.
Blue blinking light - Power on but no source is detected [ Will switch off in a while ]
Magenta Blinking - No video source and the battery is very low
Blue stable light - Power on and video is being transmitted
Orange blinking - Low charge/Low battery life/ or charging in progress
Blue light - Battery is fully charge.

How long does it take to charge?
2 hours if you charge using a wall usb socket.
3 hours if you charge off a usb using a computer.

Note that if you pull out the usb while it is charging, it will recharge for another few hours even though it is full.
The odd part about this package is that is does not come with a wall adapter for usb charging, but just a usb cable. I guess you have to buy a usb charger from a handphone that uses a usb socket, like HTC phones.

As this device uses a rechargable battery concept, I suggest uses, discharge it off, if you intent to store it to prevent damage to the battery, It would be terrible, if the battery becomes weak due to memory effect and how are you going to watch a movie if it does not even last 1 hour?.

Simply , hook up to a simple output device, ( portable DVD players, or even.. your TV set ).

Most TV's now, have a video output at the rear. Simply, hook up the yellow jack to the rear output of your TV and leave it along side your TV set just for your MyVU glasses, Then hook it up as you would do to any portable device, and turn it on to drain itself while you carry on watching your TV. If you want, you can even watch your TV through the MyVu glasses. Then take it off anytime and leave it to drain off itself.

If you feel that there's interference, in the image of your glasses, turn and twist the composite cables to get a clearer image, or change a new set of cables.

The new iphone 3G s sounds like a super upgrade from the old iphone 3G, and yes it is indeed. It is certainly worth the buck for those who had not bought an iphone before. The most obvious upgrade that the new iphone 3G S would be a 600Mhz processor and a Power VR SGX graphic chip. It has also doubled its ram to 256 megs.




Don't be too happy with the new chip as it does not really mean that you can run the most demanding games out there for mobile phones. Sadly, games are developed as respect to the graphic level that is out there. So it goes to say, this phone cannot run old games or may end up rendering it poorly. But the good news is that your phone is all ready to play all the newest OpenGL ES 2.0 games for mobile phones.


Specs wise, every thing has been scaled up for a lot more , faster HSPDA, more battery life, and a better camera. It also has a whole lot more souped up applications like the new Find my phone service that can allow you to locate your phone using any browser and remotely executes data deletion or showing of messages.

Opera mobile 9.5 has been a very good windows mobile browser and my all time favourite. It is still my best browser for my PDA phone. Here comes 9.7beta. It improves on a new feature called Turbo and widgets. What is turbo? For those who have used opera mini before, you will know how fast it's loading of pages would be. Using Blazing fast is not exaggerating. It simply sends the data to a dedicated server before crunching it to a smaller bits and loading it super fast in your phone. Now, this feature comes to opera 9.7.

As for Widgets? Need I explain more? Words say a thousand words. Take a look and I think you will love it. Ain't it cute?

But before you jump into it, it is best to know the problems with this beta.

• Opera Turbo in Opera Mobile is still a preview-feature;
  • Downloads don't work while Opera Turbo is enabled.
  • Some settings (such as toggle on/off images) do not apply when Opera Turbo is enabled.
• On older WM 5.0 Devices with 480x800 resolution, switching between portrait and landscape may cause display errors. This is due to lack of support for this resolution in early versions of Microsoft's driver.
• Some input method editors are known not to work well with Opera because they do not comply with Microsoft's SIP and/or IME standard. When such an editor is detected by Opera, Opera will use a known (default) input method instead. An exception is EzInput v1.5, where the phone keypad and compact QUERTY, ABC mode doesn't work, but the rest of the modes work fine. We recommend upgrading to EzInput v2.0 to avoid this.
• Only support for FlashLite 3.x. No Flash plugin included.

The last feature is quite bad.. As current flash for opera is until flash 7. So it is still your final decision to use it or not. You can download it here

With Microsoft showing off its Project Natal, Sony simply refuses to be outdone.

Sony demonstrated its own next-generation motion controller for the PlayStation 3. Sony's controller is a wireless, microphone-shaped device with several buttons and a glowing sphere on the top. The motion controller's sphere is tracked by the PS3's PlayStation Eye camera, and, based on Sony's demo, the controller looks like it can be used in almost any gaming genre.

Sony representatives said at E3 the company believes "some experiences still need buttons," and so it developed a controller that looks more advanced than Nintendo Wii's motion controllers, but stopped short of going completely device-free like Microsoft. Sony also used live demos for a variety of gaming scenarios, while Microsoft's live presentation included more basic gaming situations.

Project Natal, as you probably know by now, was Microsoft's big announcement at its E3 press briefing here. It has gotten a lot of attention because of its promise to make it possible to incorporate all kinds of hands-free control into a wide variety of games: Racing games, painting games, shooting games, sports games and so on.

All the gaming would be done without the need to use any controllers. The game console itself would detect your movement using a sensor and execute it in the game itself. This is Microsoft's challenge against Nintendos Wii.

Project Natal (see video below) is designed to be a one-to-one avatar control system, Tsunoda said. Wherever you move your hands, your body or your legs, the system captures it and mirrors it on the screen and in whatever game you're playing. "No (other) controller in the world allows you to control your whole body," he said. "Every part of the body is in play."

For those who use touch screen phones would know, the frustration of mastering the "Wushi finger" one peck skill at the letters when trying to SMS. Even if you have a built in keyboard, the keys are usually too small to allow the user to do a speedy text comfortably.

HTC users might be familiar with the transcriber technique which allows the user to scribble on the whole screen and the machine will guess the word you are trying to write. But you still need to pull out the stylus, which makes it quite difficult if you are commuting on a train or bus. There's a risk of dropping the stylus.

A new name is coming soon. Swype

Instead of having to find and press on-screen keys one by one, Swype simply has users slide (or swipe) their fingers across the screen. Its algorithm does its best to figure out what you were trying to write, then fills it in for you. With a growing number of handsets shipping without a physical keyboard, this software could boost typing productivity and data usage by mobile phone users. Best of all, it doesn't have to replace the existing keyboard paradigm, meaning users can still peck if they like.

You can go and ask for a trial now by clicking on the link here.

Farkie, ~ Wait.. I am not scolding anyone. This is the newest way to download audio streams off youtube. Perhaps, the record companies like the way it sounds as they too hated youtube for it's convenience in allowing users to watch latest music videos. Now you can copy audio off youtube without going through any recording program.

And the best is yet to come, It allows you to select what format you want as an output , WAV, AVI, and MP3, as well as save entire videos as QuickTime (MOV), Windows Media (WMV), or Flash Video (FLV) files. Did I hear someone shout " Wayyy to go Man "!

You do the watching, they do the hard work. Alright, now where's my mp3 player....

How to use Farkie?

1. Copy the full web address of the site you wish to download.
2. Paste the web address into the box at the top of this page.
3. Click "Download" and wait until it has fully loaded.
4. Choose a format and it will then download and convert the video.
5. Be patient, it can take up to 5 minutes depending on the size.
6. You're done! Enjoy your newly converted YouTube video!

Pirated copies labeled as the Technical Preview of Microsoft's Office 2010 have leaked to the Internet, according to searches on popular file-sharing sites.

Office 2010 joined the also-still-unfinished Windows 7 on BitTorrent Saturday. Searches on the Mininova.org as well as the Pirate Bay tracking site revealed leaked copies of both the 32- and 64-bit editions of the application suite. Commenters on the sites confirmed that the posted versions are tagged Technical Preview, claimed that they worked, but noted that they are unstable.

As of 7 a.m. ET Monday, the most popular torrent on Mininova -- a 1.3GB file of the suite's 32-bit version, showed more than 1,100 total "seeders" -- the term for a computer that has a complete copy of the torrent file -- and about 16,000 "leechers," or computers that have downloaded only part of the complete torrent. More than 5,800 copies of the file had been downloaded over the weekend.

If you want to join the trial , you can go to the microsoft site

Clickjacking is the hijacking of your click, unbeknownst to you. A victim may not even know that the click has been redirected, which means there could be clickjacking attacks going on that no one knows about yet.

The technique was used in a series of prank attacks launched on Twitter. In that case, users clicked on links next to tweets that said "Don't Click" and then clicked on a button that said "Don't Click" on a separate Web page. That second click distributed the original tweet to all of the Twitter user's followers, thus propagating itself rather quickly.

Clickjacking attacks are accomplished by creating something called an iFrame that allows a browser window to be split into segments so that different items can be shown on each. This code is inserted into the target Web page and is invisible to the end user. When the end user's cursor clicks on the section of the page where the malicious iFrame is hiding, the attack is launched to do whatever the attacker desires.

An attacker could hide an iFrame under any innocent link on any Web page--a headline on The New York Times or a "digg this" button on Digg, for instance--and when the victim clicks on the link, the cursor is actually clicking on the hidden iFrame.

Mozilla's mobile version of its firefox browser has been in first alpha, as with Fennec beta 1 for the Alpha 1 for Windows Mobile 6 (download the CAB file) has been tailor-made for the HTC Touch Pro, with an intention to expand to more handsets in future releases. The flashiest feature to expect is support for add-ons. In addition to a list of recommended add-ons is a tab to start searching for more extensions.

As compared to opera mobile 9.5. It is more of a challenge now, as compared to the previous minimo, which was a little lame as compared to opera. The user interface has the Awesome Bar search field front and center, which serves up suggested search terms in addition to showing off your search history. Flick the screen to the left to see bookmarking tools and the add-ons manager in a gutter on the right. Flick to the right to expose the icons that comprise your "tabbed" browsing experience. The rest of the screen is devoted to your Web page.

You can view the tutorial video here

What you see there is quite deceiving as I tested it on a HTC TYTN II which perhaps, has a slower processor as compared to what was on the video. The response time for each action was around 4 to 5 secs, which is quite slow. Not for the impatient sort. The lauching of the program itself took a hell of a time as compared to opera that could start in 1o secs. But one encouraging note about this browser is that it is able to load the whole page layout a lot faster as compared to opera, which is a good start for a beta. I can't wait for it to be finalized.

It is difficult trying to locate a car charger for HTC TYTN II. Maybe it is not difficult to find one for HTC touch, but oddly enough, it don't seem easy to locate. Finally I stumbled on one car charger that really works. I have tried other usb charges before, but they are unable to hold up the device. The rate of discharging is faster than charging.

If you look at this package, it contains the plugs for all the phones including even the strange nokia 3 series usb slot. Even LG plugs are included. I had a problematic time trying to get it to charge. If you look at the user manual, it says that you need to hook up the correct plug to the end of the switchable contact, However, it does not work if you follow the instructions. The TYTN II phone will behave strangely even though the yellow charging light came on. Pressing the on button at the side of the phone once to off the display cannot be activated, as the phone simply refuses. Totally turning it off, will give you a red charging light plus a buzzing sound coming from the Razor charger device. After charging for a few minutes, the phone becomes super hot to the touch, and nothing is charged. What a disappointment. Perhaps the battery is going to be damaged if you keep on doing it.




However, here's the solution. Amazingly, simply turn the cable around and hook the switchable contact end to the charger device and the original end to your phone. Volia.. it charges well, and the battery is increasing even when you surf on HSPDA running full load. I fully recommend this charger as it is quite afforable, $38 for an entire set of phone plugs for nokia, motorola, sony ericsson, LG, Samsung, Iphone, PDA, Digital cameras, HTC and even gameboy, psp and nintendo DS.

Simply go to any singtel hello stores that are located anywhere in town or markets near MRT stations. You don't need to get any other car charger anymore.