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Technology: Is It Good or Harm?

Children these days, they can’t live without iPad. My children for example, they’re crying if told them not  to play iPad before go to sleep. While I try to limit down the usage of the gadgets, I find it hard to breathe when they turn the fury brows on me, and hold themselves while screaming in protest. Why? Because I refuse to allow them to play with iPad.

I submissively agree that children are mesmerized by touchscreens. Heck, they even touch our old TV, vigorously touching even harder when they realized it failed to respond. I always grab them before they could smash my hard-earned TV set (yes, I save RM100 a month, okay!), wondering if I could blame rapid advance in technologies for making my kids feeling unsatisfied.

But the interactive nature of touchscreens invites young children to think and respond. That affects developing brains in different ways than passive television viewing does, said Ari Brown, the doctor who is lead author of the guidelines on toddlers and television.

Content. Context. Child.  It becomes clearer now that II can apply The Three Cs, as what this article suggested, for helping my children benefits from apps. For now, the iPad is helping my son to learn alphabets, numbers, Arabic characters, and songs. But there’s always a time when they couldn’t resist on playing Plant vs Zombies or Where’s my water.

As for conclusion, I have to set parameters and schedules, allowing them to play with physical toys because balance, I believe, develops skills and knowledge.

[Source: Touchscreens and Toddlers: The research is mostly good news]

Keeping Your Kids Safe Online

Keeping Your Kids Safe Online

For the average parent, the Internet and digital age innovations are a great resource for their young child. However, there are many dangers lurking in the darker corners, and it’s important to keep your young child safe so that they don’t view adult content, download viruses or even worse become the victim of an online predator.

Since children have been growing up with the Internet as a normal form of communication and source of information, some of the filters and reservations that older generations may have about online etiquette and behavior aren’t naturally there. It’s the job of a parent to teach a child to have these filters, and grow up to be a responsible and smart Internet user.

Set Up Parental Controls On Their Own Account

Virtually every device these days has a parental controls feature, and this is a great first line of defense for you and your child. Depending on the number of young children you have, create a personal account for each of them on your computer. This will have a positive effect for you as well as the child. On the one hand, your child feels that they have their own personal space, and on the other, you can dictate the boundaries of that personal space. By creating separate accounts you can easily log in to their space, and monitor the websites and activities they have been taking part in.

Keep The Computer In Sight

One of the easiest ways to keep track of what you’re child is doing on the Internet, is by keeping the computer in sight. By having the computer in a centralized room, you can periodically check in and keep tabs on them. Be engaged as well, ask them what they’re looking at, talking about, or playing. Take a genuine interest in what they’re explaining or excited about. If a child thinks you’re interested in what they are doing, they’re more likely to keep you in the loop, and further disinclined to break the bond of trust that you two have established.

Schedule Internet Usage

Setting up a schedule for using the computer and Internet is also a good idea in order to establish a routine with your child. Go even further by selecting an amount of time where the Internet is for fun, and another period where it’s for work. Consider allowing your child an hour or two to unwind after school, and let them use the Internet for their own personal use. After that time, make it clear that the Internet is only to be used for help with homework, if needed.

Use Learning Tools

There are many games and tools on the Internet that can teach your child about staying safe online. One such program, called Safe Online Surfing, was developed by the FBI to teach online safety to children in grades three through eight. Each grade section has it’s own games, and levels of learning about how to stay safe on the Internet. Play the game with your child as well, pay attention to their thought processes through the different questions and games so you can also see for yourself the level of your child’s safety barometer.

It’s important to remember that keeping your child safe isn’t about restriction, but fostering trust and rules. Without proper communication and education of the boundaries and safeguards you’re putting in place, you may only push your child into rebelling and keeping their online activities a secret.

Angie Picardo is a writer at NerdWallet, a financial literacy website where you can find advice on college tuition planning for your children.

Small GPS to track your children

Small GPS to track your children

If you worried about child abduction, there’s a a technology called Amber Alert GPS that can track your children and give prompt alert whenever you notice that your children don’t show up when the school time is over and you’ve been waiting for more than one hour.

The tracking device is tiny enough to conceal in your kids’ bag or in the pocket. But it will burn your pocket as much as 218.99 dollar. That’s about RM 648.76 . I have a son and a daughter. So I have to save more than RM 1297.52 if I count with the shipping fee.

But people said you can get money back but you can’t never get back your precious ones once they lost. So, to me, money is not a problem.

I heard people said that — based on the statistics — crime has plunged when compared to last year, but the fear of crime has never got any lower from my view. Because I always sense danger when I left my children playing outside of our house unattended. The world has changed. My children will never get a childhood memory as monumental as mine, where I could — endlessly — play outside as far as 5km away from my house, from the sunrise to sunset.

Even with a tracking device like this that might relieve you in some ways, I still like to monitor them when they are playing outside. I only feel secured when they are lingering in my eyes.

It’s a lot money. I know. It’s like a year worth of saving. But security of our children must not be compromised. I don’t want to lose my children, and if I lost them, I lost the will to live.

[ Amber Alert GPS via Technology Can Help Keep Kids Safe from Abductors]

Should I be worried about the iPad addiction?

Should I be worried about the iPad addiction?

Widad laid on her back and relax like she got insurmountable amount of money from somewhere, the bottle glued in her mouth while watching an iPad in one beautiful evening — it’s a mesmerizing moment and I admired the coolness of this shot above.  But the news I’ve read startled me a little.  Because my youngest one can’t hold off the iPad, even when she’s taking a poop. Should I be worried?

Young technology addicts experienced the same withdrawal symptoms as alcoholics or heroin addicts, when the devices were taken away.

Is it really that bad? I mean, heroin addicts? Maybe the doctor was a little bit exaggerated or may be he’s on weed he couldn’t think straight.

Christopher Peruzzi says that this situation cycles from the sixties, back when we — human — had the new technology then. We called it TV. He said, “Really? When you overstimulate someone with a highly addictive activity it can be habit forming? I wonder if they thought the same thing during the sixties and beyond when they left kids in front of televisions as an electronic babysitter. Sure, now they care.”

But I know and it’s a principle of life: Letting yourself doing a little too much over something might harm you. Too much watching TV, too much exercising, or too much in everything, and you might vomit rainbow.

[ Toddlers becoming so addicted to iPads they require therapy | The Telegraph ]

Does Technology Hinder Or Help Toddlers’ Learning?

Does Technology Hinder Or Help Toddlers’ Learning?

As I’m watching my own daughter’s growth as she’s learning faster with an iPad at her hand, I would say technology help toddlers’ learning.

As good as technology helps disabled people do many things

As good as technology helps amputees father gets his new advanced iPhone-controlled hands.

As good as technology helps mankind to save the world 

But it is true, like the article claim, No such technologies that could make a child genius. It helps my kids, my little, witty daughter learns ABC faster by sing along ABC song from YouTube videos.

But sometimes I can’t help myself laughing out loud to see my children swiping intuitively every time they found screen — any legit screen — especially TV screen at an electronic shop like SenHeng or SenQ. They frowned a few second when they realized it’s not a touch-capable screen.

Does technology hinder or helps toddlers’ learning? BBC news might have the answer.

Internet Paling Laju Di Dunia Berada Di Jepun

Internet Paling Laju Di Dunia Berada Di Jepun

Alangkah bagus rakyat Jepun menikmati kelajuan ini. Kalaulah di Malaysia sebegini laju. Macam kita cuma bayangkan dalam pemikiran kita dan — woosh — sampai di laman web yang kita inginkan. Tidak perlu klik pada tetikus. Tapi yang itu laju sangat.

Berikut adalah maklumat-maklumat penting:

  1. Internet talian fiber optik ini dilancarkan oleh So-net, rakan niaga Sony.
  2. Muat turun sehinggga 2 Gbps (Downloads) – dua gigabit setiap saat.
  3. Muat naik 1 Gbps (Uploads) – satu gigabit setiap saat
  4. 2 tahun kontrak untuk 4,980 yen setiap bulan, lebih kurang USD 50 (RM 150/sebulan)
  5. Yuran Instalasi sebanyak 52,500 yen, lebih kurang USD 540 (RM 1800)

Membaca berita ini membuatkan aku marah. Aku bayar setiap bulan pada TM sebanyak RM150 dan hanya mempunyai kelebihan muat turun 5Mbps. (RM150/5Mbps) Sungguh rip-off. Sayang, jom packing, kita pindah Jepun!

[sumber: engadget ]

Google Glass dibida setinggi RM 290,000 Di eBay Sebelum Ditarikbalik

Google Glass dibida setinggi RM 290,000 Di eBay Sebelum Ditarikbalik

Cermin mata berteknologi tinggi — mampu mengambil gambar, merekod video, konferensi video, GPS, dan membuat carian — Google Glass telah dibida setinggi $95,300 di eBay sebelum pemiliknya kemudian menarik balik gajet itu dari laman web tersebut.

Seorang pelajar yang ingin dikenali hanya sebagai Ed dari philadelphia (Ed From Philadelphia) antara salah satu dari pemenang-pemenang pertandingan Google Explorer. Hadiahnya adalah — berpeluang untuk menikmati teknologi cermin mata Google Glass yang sofistikated dengan harga lebih kurang RM 4500 ($1500). (Bersamaan dengan harga Macbook Retina Display)

Dengan semangat gajet membakar dirinya, dia membeli cermin tersebut dengan menggunakan pinjaman pengajiannya, lebih kurang macam PTPTN. Dan cuba untuk mengaut keuntungan dengan menjual semula gajet tersebut melalui laman web eBay. Margin tersebut membolehkan dia top up kembali baki pinjamannya.

Walau bagaimana tinggi keuntungan sekalipun, dia menyedari bahawa dia telah melanggar terma dan syarat yang telah termaktub:

If you resell, loan, transfer, or give your device to any other person without Google’s authorization, Google reserves the right to deactivate the Device, and neither you nor the unauthorized person using the Device will be entitled to any refund, product support, or product warranty.



Sekiranya anda menjual semula, memberi pinjam, menukar hal milik, atau memberi peranti kepada mana-mana individu tanpa kebenaran, Google berhak to untuk menyahaktifkan peranti tersebut, dan tidak kira sama ada anda atau individu lain yang tidak boleh menikmati sebarang pengembalian wang, bantuan produk, atau warantinya.

Menyedari Google Glass miliknya akan meletup dengan sendirinya sekiranya kantoi, dia membatalkan pembidaan yang sedang berlangsung selama 4 hari itu. Ada juga yang menghubungi Ed secara terus melalui mesej untuk membeli dengan harga $8000 sehingga $10,000 (bersamaan sebuah kereta Perodua Viva), dia tetap dengan pendiriannya untuk tidak menjual.

Google Glass merupakan sebuah produk inovasi dari Google yang dibangunkan sejak 2011 dan akan dijual secara komersil seawal suku kedua 2013. Berita ini dianggap fenomena kerana orang ramai sanggup membayar gajet tersebut dengan harga yang macam nak kena kaki dengan aku walaupun Google Glass tersebut akan menembusi pasaran tidak lama lagi.


Sumber | Forbes

Hopscotch: Mendidik Anak Anda Tentang Programming

Hopscotch: Mendidik Anak Anda Tentang Programming

Mahukah anda — sebagai seorang bapa — melihat anak anda menjadi the next Mark Zuckerberg atau Steve Wozniak, yang memillki ilmu pengetahuan ICT yang tinggi dan mampu mengubah dunia, sekaligus berjaya menaikkan nama Malaysia? Aa.. Dan kaya-raya? Hmm.. Mata duitan betul.

Cuba, try, test, tengok: Mendidik anak anda dengan Hopscoth. Sebuah aplikasi Aturcara Bahasa iPad or iPad Programming Languange yang membolehkan anak anda jatuh cinta dengan aturcara. “Learning Code Fun For Kids” merupakan moto utama 5 orang usahawan dalam pasukan Hopscotch ini.

Matlamat utama Hopscotch menurut pengasas aplikasi ini, Jocelyn Leavitt, adalah untuk membolehkan kanak-kanak seawal umur 10 tahun memahami teknologi di belakang tabir sistem iPad itu sendiri.

“Pada tahun 2018, 2.4 juta pekerjaan Sains Komputer dijangkakan di US,”

-Jocelyn Leavitt

Ok, 2.4 juta pekerjaan. Jumlah itu boleh menandingi hampir separuh penduduk Lembah Klang. Maka, dilihatkan di sini masa depan bidang ICT tersangat cerah. Aturcara atau programming mudah difahami sekiranya anda senang dengan konsep Logik Matematik.

Sumber: AllThingsD

Tangan Bionic Yang Mengubah Dunia Seorang Bapa

1. Nasib baik boleh lagi berfungsi sepuluh jariku, and masih lagi memegang rekod pekerja paling pantas menaip di office. Cerita pasal seorang bapa yang kehilangan kedua-dua belah tangannya membuatkan aku rasa bersyukur dengan apa yang ada. Tetapi, yang membuatkan dia famous adalah beliau dianugerahkan dengan tangan robotik, boleh dikawal oleh iPhone.

2. Tanggal 1hb Mac 2008, Jason Koger telah terkena kejutan letrik, menyalurkan 7,200 volt ke seluruh badannya. Kemalangan yang hampir meragut nyawanya berlaku apabila beliau terlanggar wayar letrik yang terputus ketika menaiki ATV (lebih kurang macam go-kart punya kenderaan). Jason Koger, bapa kepada dua anak perempuan, terpaksa menjalani pembedahan tangan untuk menyelamatkan nyawa. Sejak dari itu, beliau sedar keadaan ini akan mengubah arus hidupnya.

3. Berpengalaman selama 50 tahun dalam inovasi prostetik, Touch Bionics telah mencipta teknologi tangan prostetik yang mampu melakukan modifikasi dari iPhone atau telefon mudah alih pintar melalui hubungan bluetooth.

4. Antara kelebihan-kelebihan atau features daripada tangan bionic / robotic ini adalah:

    1. Patent-pending vari-grip mode: pengguna boleh mengubah variasi pergerakan tangan digit demi digit kekuatan cengkaman.
    2. Pilihan isyarat tangan yang meluas membolehkan pengguna mencipta pergerakan baru.
    3. Tiga cengkaman tripod yang baharu untuk meningkatkan fleksibilti pengguna.
    4. Genggaman yang teguh secara automatik to mengelakkan daripada objek daripada jatuh dengan tidak sengaja.
    5. Tangan secara semula jadi kembali ke posisi asal setelah tiada aktiviti dilakukan dalam jangka masa yang lama.

5. Jason Koger merupakan manusia yang pertama menggunakan tangan bionic untuk menggantikan kedua-dua belah tangannya. Jason Koger juga tinggal sedikit sahaja lagi untuk menandingi Luke Skywalker. Kekurangan dia hanya tiada kuasa Jedi Force. Menurut video ini, tangan bionic ini telah berada di pasaran. So, sesiapa kepada pengila-gila gajet di luar sana, jangan mengada-ngada potong tangan sendiri semata-mata untuk memiliki tangan bionic ini.

Forbidden teacher-student relationship, bricked by iPhone tracking app

Forbidden teacher-student relationship, bricked by iPhone tracking app

His dad is a tech savvy person. Well, the dad might have been sniffing something funny around his own son. He installed a tracking app on his son iPhone and found that his son was having an affair with the teacher. 

Dickson was arrested March 20 and is expected to be charged with an improper relationship between an educator and a student and online solicitation of a minor. He was free Monday after posting $15,000 bail. Dickson could not be reached for comment.

-Domingo Ramirez Junior, Star Telegram

According to the articles, they were having a meet up in a church when the police came up with the warrant.

Beware, geek dads like us will dominate your world. Code up, kids. you may get scripted!

[Link: Affidavits describe Colleyville teacher's relationship with student]

Track your kids activity like a stalker

Track your kids activity like a stalker

Kytetime is a easiest Parental Control app on an android phone. Say you have a kid who big enough to bring smartphone anywhere but you’re always curious about what are the things he does when you’re not around. Well, the internet is open to any possibilities. The danger of negative inputs are all of our concern as a dad.

I agree that tablets and its ecosystem, regardless of iOS or Android, have no control mechanism. Wait. iOS is a walled garden ecosystem, right? We have forgotten something there’s an app called web browser. Hmm, a small wonder about their porn-free campaign.

Kids can be watching porn, sexting, playing too much games for too long while there’s no dad. Or mom. We, dad of the tech era, should take this seriously and control.

Here are important points about this app:

  1. Rich selections from track-and-control phone calls to GPS-tracking feature.
  2. Shows statistics of time spent on the phone, apps, text and more.
  3. Frequency of visited websites,
  4. Can set amount of time or block entirely on a particular app.
  5. Can schedule routine like “school time” or “bed time”

It’s free with limited features. Money is no concern when it comes to children safety but this is just an additional info: 

The Kytetime app is completely free and will always work on your child’s phone without any restrictions.We charge a monthly subscription for your online parental dashboard, which allows you to view your child’s data in detail, see your child’s location in real time, instantly make any changes and receive periodic email reports.

-Kytephone via GooglePlay

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Is there an app to make my notty daughter listen to my self-proclaimed dictatorship?

Tech Link of The Week #12

Tech Link of The Week #12

Here are a few links that caught my attention his week:

1. Galaxy S III, iPhone Users Not So Different After All by AllThingsD

One thing people aren’t doing much of on either device is making phone calls.Both Galaxy and iPhone owners use their phones more to access the Web and send text messages than they do for phone calls. Phone use outpaced email, but only slightly.That said, devotees of Apple or Samsung are likely to argue their device does those same tasks oh-so-much-better.And, of course, when one looks a little deeper, there are demographic and other differences.

 2. Charge Your Phone Faster by Switching to Airplane Mode Before Plugging In by Lifehacker

Putting your phone into airplane mode turns off all of the wireless radios inside, so while you won’t be able to receive calls, use data, or use GPS, you also won’t be fighting background processes that use those radios for power while your phone is plugged in. The end result is your phone will charge a little faster, and you’ll walk away with a bit more power in your battery than you would otherwise.

3. Tech Offers in Malaysia:

Buy GALAXY smartphone and get free bluetooth via Samsung Facebook Pages

the Xperia™ Z is here! Order it ONLINE for your convenience :) *Only in BLACK

Exceed your quota and top up for more! Buy 2GB and get free 1GB! by P1Wimax

Remember to reload online as much as u can to win this week’s Samsung GALAXY S III mini! Ends this Sunday via Digi Facebook Pages

Astro Circle and Disney are rewarding Astro customers with a chance to attend an exclusive Iron Man 3 movie by Astro Online

4. Look What Happens When You Give a Teenager a Tablet via AllThingsD

And kids these days! Deloitte says that a fifth of “trailing millennials” — 14-to-23-year-olds — say they’re watching TV shows on their tablets. That’s up from just 2 percent a year ago. But tablets still aren’t ubiqitous among that set — they’re more likely to watch their shows via smartphones, game consoles, computers or plain old TV sets.

5. Why I Hacked Donkey Kong for My Daughter via Wired.com

Finally, one day after work, she asked to play Donkey Kong, only this time she raised a pretty innocent and simple question: “How can I play as the girl? I want to save Mario!” It made sense. We had just played Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES a few days before, and she became obsessed with playing as Princess Toadstool. So to go back to Donkey Kong, I can see how natural it seemed to ask the question

Life Insurance for my kids? Let’s gadgetize things up

Gadgetize Insurance

My concern about money grows when I read How Much Life Insurance Do You Need?. I was a selfish guy who thought about himself a lot and I hadn’t been seeing other person’s problem as an issue. Even at some point I had thought when I got married and had kids, I would never care about them anymore after I was dead — it’s their problem for having money or not, I’m dead already.

6 years of being dad, and they have been wonderful years – moments of tears, moments of joy, moments of adventurous and rebellious.Then  I started to have tears, thinking about what would they eats,  a place to stay, and how can they survive in a world of ever-changing faces of technological expansions. Hmm, I do care about people.

Also, consider how long your partner will have to support your children after you are gone. You can get coverage that will allow your youngest child to reach age 18. So, if your youngest is a baby, you might decide to get a 20-year term life policy (a little extra wiggle room). Then, you can add up what you hope to pay off with a life insurance policy. Your list might look something like this:

* $185,000 mortgage
* $7,000 car loan
* $20,000 student loans
* $6,000 credit cards
* 18 years x $45,000 = $810,000
* $5,000 funeral cost

-Miranda Marquit

I have been thinking that all kids’ knowledge and education will be much more advanced. So, if  I were gone gone before they go to university, I want my kids live up to that currents. I add up one item for spending gadget because I believe in technology that will set them apart from others — in terms of creativity and productivity. So I setup my list that might look something like this:

  • RM130,000 Mortagage
  • RM 35,000 car loan
  • RM 7,000 PTPTN loan (student loans)
  • RM 5,000 credit cards
  • RM 2,000 funeral cost
  • 18 years x RM36000 = RM 648,000
  • Spending solely on gadget like Laptop, iPad, Tablet, Desktop PC for educational purpose, RM 2000 x 18 years = RM 36,000

Total sum is RM 863,000 worth of life insurance that I have to subscribe.

The Evernote Service Has Been Compromised

EVernote

I woke early about 4.30 a.m, being forced by my son, whining to have a bottle of milk with his eyes shut. Suddenly, out of still-sleeping brain, I had an awesome quote that I remembered and I would like to note in.

Opened my Evernote, heavy pressing on keyboard, sync!!

Sync failed. I was startled. The sync failure transmitted an alarm to my brains.

I clicked again. Failed. I was shaking and I thought someone, who have a hacking skill, change my password. I made an impulsive move to log in via evernote.com website and it brought me immediately to change password page.

I change the password and re-login. Success.

I tried to sync again via Evernote app. Success. Sleep.

At 10.00 am, I opened Gmail and read an email from Evernote team:

Dear Evernote user,

Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.

No. My lovely Evernote has been compromised. Ah, I always treated you like my girlfriend I dreamed about. Why someone tried to rob you. Someone wanted to open your brain and took informations about us and all our secrets. Thank god your preventive system were able to wall this intrusion.

In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts, and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)

Give a two big thumbs up to security team. If you are an alien, give them ten. I don’t about this, but lately a lot of companies that holds our sensitive information is being compromised. But as an average people, these incidents don’t really gives us real deal individually. As far as I’m concern, I had never heard someone, in my social circle, had been ruined by stolen data thing. I hope it never will.

Lastly, the team advice us to do something important, you have to do it to websites you regularly sign in.

There are also several important steps that you can take to ensure that your data on any site, including Evernote, is secure:
Avoid using simple passwords based on dictionary words
Never use the same password on multiple sites or services
Never click on ‘reset password’ requests in emails – instead go directly to the service

New Ideas For Telecommunications

telecommunication

 

This is my entry for a chance to winning an iPad Mini contest. Hope you guys can put your opinion on the comments below:

Telecommunication defined as the transmission of information by means of electromagnetic signals: over copper wires, coaxial cable, fiber-optic strands, or the airwaves.

In perspective of Malaysia, I classify three areas of telecommunication; content provider, mobile technology, broadband provider.

 

New ideas for Telecommunications:
  1. A lot of freebies - After following obsessively technology business model like Dropbox, iCloud, Evernote and even Facebook, they give to their customers a glimpse of their services. They give experience to customer. The reason behind this because they can cultivate and familiarize with the technology, eventually they’re willing to pay the service in a long run.
  2. Refurbished Items - A lot of customers pursue a new and advanced technology especially in mobile industry. But, there’s an untapped, potential market in refurbished items.
  3. Target Niche Market – We can offer specific packages for photographers, tourists, students, music and movie lovers. Different people need different telecommunications such as one day package for tourists, excessive rebate of data for photographers, and 10 classic P-Ramlee movies on mobility.
  4. Bundled packages – If Telcos and ISPs can collaborate to blacklist customers who have overdue bills, there are no reasons to cross-collaborate in offering bundled package for various consumers’ need.
  5. Proper Content Management – Most of consumers are technology illiterate. They want movies, music, dramas, tele-movies, TV shows, and local live events at the touch of their fingertips. Combine with illogically low price, they create impulse buying, therefore customers purchases are not on money-wise, but on product-wise.

 

In conclusion, making great products is more important than winning business. Steve Jobs once said, “People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on market research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page”.

 

Oh God, Please, God. Help me win iPad Mini. I’m so ashamed of having the ugly iPad original

So I Stopped Writing For A Year

stop writing

I stopped writing for a year right now. Something happened: I lost my interest in writing, out of the blue. It’s like a draining water or a car of empty fuel. I did writing an article or two but it’s not like I was before. I used to write at least three long article in a week.

Please, don’t do dirty dancing in front of me, honey. I’m trying to battle with my own enemy; myself. Sadly, I blame it on the universe. As accusatively as bewitched blamed it on the weatherman.

And good felt good about blaming it on someone else.

I think I’m going to stop writing this year too. Somehow I lost interest in it. But I cried my heart out to force my writing spirit to come back.

Why? Because only writing can make feel great. Even if I write 2000 words long, CTRL+A, and push DELETE, I still feel good about it. It’s a wonder that how my fingers are wildly roaming on the land of cluttered alphabets and numbers can give me a breath of peace.

I discovered there were many obtacles. When I was full of heart in writing a thousand words, facebook took that awesomeness away, pinterest blowed my mind, and Instapaper begged me to read the unread articles. At this vey minute, I heard my dear daughter were coughing endlessly through the night.

I cried. Take a full deep breath, try to regain my mood again.

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eliasMatch Good for Preschooler. Amirul Loves it!!

It true that Ipad really good education tool for Amirul. Everyday from Monday to Friday, we would have 1hour of  homeschooling session. Between 9 -10pm, we will spend time with Amirul and doing activities together. (Widad sudah tido time tue) Since both of us are working parent, we really need to fully utilized the 1 hour session with activities but at the same time strengthen our bonding with kids. Not limited to reading and coloring activities, there are plenty of preschooler activities that we do it together like;  marble painting, clay arts,  play dough, plays puppets . Besides Amirul’s speech therapy activities, we also let him play Ipad educational apps. Amongst his fave are eliasMatch, Coloring, funny stickers,dino puzzle HD, etc

Below is the video Amirul learn and play eliasMatch

 

Why eliasMatch is good for preschooler.??

  • Teaches preschooler first words (ABC’s & 123′s)
  • Can improves memory and thinking. They need to memorize the the location of object and find another same object to match
  • Attractive with sound, animations and colourful illustrations

Cyber Addiction

Many people, including me, would be easily fall into the cyber addiction because the internet is so awesome.

The most awesome benefit is that the internet is about connecting you with people around the globe. Then, there are unlimited source of information; appropriate and inappropriate ones. And then came along — internet gaming and social networking, making the real world dull and gray.

And that things become an addiction when you overuse it with excessive amount of time. You feel like connecting with virtual cloud of PCs is much more appealling than connecting with real people

“Cyber addicts will start withdrawing emotionally from their families. Their minds are on their online relationships instead,” Malaysian Psychiatric Association president Dr Abdul Kadir Abu Bakar.

“Simple things like shopping together, a walk in the park and daily family time at night plays a big role in bonding family relationships,” he said, adding that this issue affected children, too.

Ok. I admit it. I guess like I’m about one step closer to the cyber addiction, because I can sit and sink into my chair and surfing the internet 8 hours long.

When my internet was disconnected for two weeks, I hardly breathe and only my wife knows how panic I was, like in the middle of a war.

May be going to zoo this weekend would be a good start to exit the addiction.

[Strong ties curb cyber addiction via TheStar]

Planning What To Do When You Are Online

Photo: Federico Morando

In the era of internet age and the beauty of informations, I could sit in front my laptop all day until midnight, just doing blank surfing that contributes nothing to productivity. I see myself turned into information junkie that I can swallow any informations — most of them are unnecessary — clouded on the internet.

The information on the internet is so beauty, I could lost touch with reality. If my mind isn’t sanity enough, I would let myself careless about being a good father, and lover; and sit down in front of PC, and ignore all my responsibilities for the day, because I need to quench my thirst of information addiction.

Celestine Chua Wrote:
Without setting this intention clear, you can be easily distracted by the barrage of things online once you log on. Write a list of things you want to do that can only be done online. For example, say you’re writing a report and you need to research on the topic. You also want to check your mail for updates from clients. Then, follow this list and strike each item off once it’s completed. If you come across something online that’s not in your list, that’s a distraction and you should ignore it.
Yes, I agree with that. When doing things on the internet,we needs to have goals, like financial goals for 2011. Planning when you are online or else, by the end of the day, I realized that I was not doing anything good to myself or to my family. I lost my focus and concerned about things weren’t important. If you a need help, try read this book: Focus. And it’s free.
After you read, you will feel a lot better and you can control yourself when you need to focus.

Angry Bird is for Me

Angry Bird is an addictive, clever, and challenging puzzler – Chris Holt of Macworld

Angry Birds as the fourth best iPhone game of all time – Imagine Games Network

Angry Bird developed by Finland-based Rovio Mobile where the player use the slingshot to launch birds at pigs stationed on or within various structures, with the intent of destroying all the pigs on the playfield – Wikipedia

Mr Hubby done with this game, now Amirul is playing.Why suddenly I’m writing about this game??? I played this game but not addicted to it, but i love the bird sound.. huhuhuh. Its all because Mr Hubby just gave me Angry Bird Flush toy.

Mr Hubby surprised me with Angry Bird flush toy. Buy this cute birdie at Angrybirds.com

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