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Teen Dies After Refusing To Let Go of iPad

Teen Dies After Refusing To Let Go of iPad

“Never in my life would I imagine that buying my kid an iPad for his birthday would end up getting him run over,” the father said.

Now, I heard that iPad has become a yardstick for children to measure if “parents love them”. Wow was the expression astonishment that pop up in my mind when I heard this. The iPad is really get the influence in our kids world. In future, maybe there’s a kasta between kids who have iPad and kids who don’t. And it would be like earth-and-sky gap.

Things have been getting serious when the news broke, saying that a teenager was ran over by two criminals after he refused to let go of his iPad. Why the kid had chosen iPad over his life when something dangerous like this happened. Can I conclude that the iPad is more valuable than RM1499?

Kids. They don’t know they can die. They don’t know they’re vulnerable. They picture their life like Lego: Star Wars game (I mention this game because my kids love playing this on Wii). They thought themselves like Anakin Skywalker character, where you can jumps off the edge, facing death as they disappeared, off the screen and reappear again a few seconds later with a blinking form factor, full of health as he continued the journey.

Marcos Arenas’ death startled me with a serious thinking about educating my kids. This is how they must react when they are facing a dangerous moment: always choose life above all.

Friends, family remember teen killed over iPad via Fox5Vegas


Update: Two men have been arrested in the killing of a teenage boy over an iPad in Las Vegas

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

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

New Ideas For Telecommunications

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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

How I Choose A Smartphone

One day, my wife found hard to make decision between choosing item A and item B, then her friend suggested to try Grid Analysis and she said

“What? Do we really need that deep fried analysis to be adopted to our life? Formality is so boring!”

“Wait, there’s something good in it. Let’s try!” I reply in excitement.

So I tried.

I’ve read thoroughly the link, do the study, take 1 minute per word reading to improve my understanding towards the method.

What is Grid Analysis actually mean? When you have more than two choices that you can basically compare the criteria or the feature of the product itself.

The basic comparison. Using this tool, you can compare the two or more item that are in the same line of product.

I name three product can be compared, shoulder to shoulder:

  1. Cars: SUV, Sedan, 4×4 wheel
  2. Personal Computer: Desktop PC, Laptop, or Tablet.
  3. Smartphone: Brand comparison that available in the market.

The choice. For this post, I was searching for perfect smartphone, that I drive myself crazy with mumbling and gibberish swears for a long time and I came up with three choices:

  1. iPhone 4s [Review: link to engadget]
  2. Samsung Galaxy S2 [Review: link to engadget]
  3. Motorola Atrix / Atrix 2 [Review: link to engadget]

All reviews I had read was on Engadget. Hope you can broaden your knowledge about smartphones on multiple sources.

Before I continue with heavy explanation and analysis (this is heavy for me), I am the person who likes:

  1. Reading
  2. Writing
  3. Playing Games
  4. Watching Movies

REMINDER: Before you start doing analysis — well — analyze yourself first. See what you are and how a smartphone can fit with your personality.

Steps

Forgive me as I ripped off the text exactly from the article (I let the laziness came in):

1. List all the options as the row labels on the table, and list the factors that you need to consider as the column headings.

2. Next, work your way down the column of your table, scoring each option for each of the factors in your decision. Score each option from 0 (poor) to 5 (very good). Note that you do not have to have different score for each option – if none of them are good for a particular factor in your decision, then all option should score 0.

3. The next step is to work out the relative importance of the factors in your decision. Show these as numbers from, say, 0 to 5, where 0 means that the factor is absolutely unimportant in the final decision, and 5 means that it is very important. (it’s perfectly acceptable to have factors with the same importance)

4. Now multiply each of our scores from step 2 by the values for relative importance of the factor that you calculated in step 3. This will give you weighted score for each option/factor combination.

5. Finally, add up these weighted score for each of your options. The option that scores the highest winner.

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My analysis. Below are the criteria that I’m looking for to buy a smartphone:

Data and Wifi Connections. 

Smartphone is synonymous with constant internet connection. Without it would benothing. Most of people put it as number one priority. Speed and sustainability are everything especially for businessmen, email dependent, facebook and twitter junkies, state-of-always-connected to the internet people.

But not for me.

I’m more to reading stuff: off line articles and novels,writing on the go, watching videos, and playing games. So I concluded that I don’t need such constant internet connection. It dries up my productive anyway.

Performance & Productivity

Smartphone is also synonymous with performance. Smartphone with lack of performance is no smartphone at all.

While I’m looking for the performance at best, I consider the smartphone that can brings, at least, modest productivity.

I’m also not looking for a very high performance that can play Ninja Gaiden or latest Modern Warfare on my palm.

Enough that I can release my anger playing with a simple survival game. What I’m looking for is the one that can deliver easy reading and writing.

Usability, UI friendly,and Design.

User interface must be cool, the gadget must be friendly user, and I guess, you must be wanted to show off of your smartphone to your friend — how much sexy she can hold, for example. I dont want to bleed my eyes everytime I glimpse at own smartphone. Even a milisecond.

So I should stay away from those bulky, horrible smartphones – like Sony Ericsson.

Apps Ecosystem.

There are only two apps ecosystems available in the market.

Apple and Android.

And Symbian. And Window Phone7. And Blackberry OS. And PalmOS .And Meego. And Bada. And what?

That’s more than two. But Apple and Android are the ones that seem available to me. The rest are not because their ecosystems are not strong enough to make my heart skipped a beat.

Settings and Tweaks

This feature is provided by OS developer to give you control on your control, in term of setting and tweaking your phone, to satisfy with your personal taste.

This is one of the vital factors to have in a smartphone to be in my pocket.

Tell me, who don’t want to your own smartphone to follow your own personal taste? It’s like creating your own little world inside that small rectangle box.

Battery, Hardware, and all.

Hear me this: I want to play games all day long, I want to watch movies in marathon mode, and I want to free writing until my hands burn out. And I want to do it on my smartphone. The battery and the hardware should hold up to my needs

Affordability

Of course. Since I have two children that always maintain my upkeep high, I have to looking for cheapest one yet can still deliver performance.

Extra Features

If a smartphones can bring extra feature that will be good. But not essential as the points above.

 Table of decision

Factors before putting appropriate weights

Factors
Data & Wifi Connection
Performance & Productivity
Usablility
Apps Ecosystem
Settings And Tweaks
Battery and Hardware and All
Affordable
Extra features
Weights








iPhone 4s
5
5
5
5
2
3
2
5
Samsung S2
4
4
4
3
5
5
3
3
Atrix
4
4
4
3
3
5
3
4

Factors after putting appropriate weights

Factors
Data & Wifi Connection
Performance & Productivity
Usablility & Extra Features
Apps Ecosystem
Settings And Tweaks
Battery and Hardware and All
Affordable
Extra Features
Total
Weights
3
4
4
5
5
5
5
2

iPhone 4s
15
20
20
25
10
15
10
10
125
Samsung S2
12
16
16
15
25
25
15
6
130
Atrix
12
16
16
15
15
25
15
8
122

Score:

  1. iPhone 4s: 117
  2. Samsung Galaxy S2 : 130
  3. Motorola Atrix : 122

From the grid analysis, the winner is Samsung Galaxy S2.

Again. Find your interest first, then find your smartphone. I bet most of the reader will be choosing iPhone 4s

More Analysis

Grid analysis can be used on day-to-day operation in being-a-father job. The decisions that I can think right now are:

  1. Choosing the right nursery.
  2. Choosing the right, affordable car for your family yet can deliver arousing jealousy among your neighbors, friends, and family.
  3. Choosing the right internet service provider that benefits to all your family members as well as your needs.

Conclusion. Base on my result, it was difficult to do and I felt it’s a little bit overrated from doing that analysis. But I realized, it is the right tool for me to make a decision and I feel less r

At least, I was using a tool before making a decision.

So daddy and mommy, what is your solution when having difficulties choosing item A and item B in your daily life?

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