Facebook Page for my blog

Posted by Mrs Imran on Aug 2, 2010
Filed Under Application Review, Oh So Random | 2 comments

Picture source : http://www.google.com (original source of this image is unknown, as I saw it appear on so many sites, so credit goes to google)

Hey! I got a Facebook page for my blog already =) Heeee poyo tak? I’ve been neglecting the idea of having a page for my blog because I don’t think it is necessary. Not until last night when I was chatting with Aini (my webblog developer), she brought up the topic.

She asked me whether not I have a page or group page or anything on Facebook so that she could create customize tab for my FB page. I didn’t know that we can actually create a customize tab other than the default tab such as wall, info, photos, notes, and etc. Thanks to Aini who highlighted it to me.

Mr & Mrs Imran | Promote Your Page Too

The customize tab is pretty cool as you can actually paste of put in everything you like in it. It can mirror your blog tab also. Albeit I’ve yet to decide what are the tabs that I wanna include in, but since Aini offer to do it for me for FREE as a token of appreciation since I’ve introduced her to few of my friends who were looking for web designer in the past, so I quickly create a page today. Benda free jangan dilepaskan. Hehe.

So, jadinya am proud to announce that I have a FB page for Mr & Mrs Imran blog already. However, I refuse to call it a fan page as I think that we are all equal. I prefer to have friends rather than fans. Bukan tk suka, cumanya blog I ni belum tahap nk kata femes la, just that I dh lama blogging. Kalau ada otai page I prefer create tu dari fan page kot. Hahaha.

Come join me and the others on Facebook. You can click on the badge above or click HERE to join. Baru 11 org jer member buat masa sekarang ni..ehe. Takper baby step =) Thanks for joining!

Tutorial ~ How to make your tweet as your email or forum signature

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jul 21, 2010
Filed Under Application Review, Tutorial | 2 comments

Ok here’s the trick..hehe (trick la sangat kan), but it’s pretty neat as you can attach your latest tweet in your email or forum (as signature) and also on your blog or website. This is not a paid ad. I just feel like sharing If you guys “like” this simple tutorial, kindly share on FB or retweet (use my new and sleek share & retweet button above this post) so that I know there’s a demand and from time to time I can make more simple tutorial similar to this.

I discovered Tweetbars when I was lurking for “tetsuhighrose” Daily L.I comic thread in lowyat, read my post about the comic here. Huhu. Worry not, this is really a child play as you just need to copy and paste the code into your signature box and your tweet will shown up almost immediately.

Here is how to go about;

1) Visit http://www.tweetbars.com
2) Insert in your twitter ID as below image and click “get one”

3) After that..taraaa codes are ready to be paste wherever you want. Looking good aight? Refer below image.

This is example of my signature in email I don’t fancy attaching signature at the end of my entry as I think it got no use and definitely will require extra times in loading my page which will only hurt my readers who’s struggling to get connected to internet. So, I attached it in email and……

as my forum signature too! (featuring @kujie in my tweetbars)

So, sapa-sapa yg suka letak signature berbagai rupa bentuk, try lah tweetbars. But, tweetbars is only for twitter user lah. The best part is, your tweet display in tweetbars will continously changing as you tweet more. Meaning kalau hari ni I email you, and my tweet is for example “abcdef”, then tomorrow if you open the same email again, the tweet will change to “xyz” (providing you ada tweet lagi lah selepas your latest tweet semalam). Hope you guys get it lah, haku ni kadang-kadang cakap berbelit. Hehe. So, eh TGIF eh?

p/s: I got my first order for the chocs! Yay! Will update soon

How can a flawed iPhone be the best yet?

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jul 16, 2010
Filed Under Gadgets | 9 comments

Well, I guess it is not a secret anymore that iPhone 4 having problem with its reception especially when the device being hold wrongly (according to Steve, “do not hold it that way” as if telling millions of people that they have been holding their phones “wrong” for years? ~ f.u.n.n.y). Apparently you can’t cup the device in your palm as the reception signal will drop tremendously due to metal band in which the antenna being placed covered by hand and fingers.

Apart from that, I could say that in my approximation (although I don’t own one yet), the iPhone 4 is still the best smartphone on the market right now. The combination of gorgeous new hardware, amazing display, upgraded cameras (main reason why am holding back from getting myself an iphone 3GS till now, the camera is no good, am looking for something that could replace my point and shoot camera in total, literally), solid and thinner body (in which make 3GS feels chubby in comparison) and major improvements to the operating system make this an extremely formidable package. Yes, there are still pain points that we want to see Apple to fix and hope that they could done it before iPhone 4 schedule to be arrived and sold in Malaysia.

Till now, am still not that sure whether not should I buy the phone once it is available, or should I continue to wait…again? oh no…

I’m so eager wanted to try the iPhone myself, but the flaws really bugging me…grrrrrr. Am so mad. So, how? Again, question is should I buy once it makes appearance in Malaysia  anytime soon? I’m pretty sure the problem with the connection got nothing to do with the software, it is the hardware! And it is beyond help, it can’t be fix unless Apple manufacture a new iPhone with a new hardware.

There’s another solution tho, it’s the bumpers (iPhone casing). The bumpers seem to be able to solve the problem but as usual similar to any other Apple products, it surely comes with a steep price tag. Huhu. But still…flaw is a flaw. It’s permanent! with or without bumpers..

Ok again, for the third time, should I buy it? Expecting our local line service provider (such as DIGI and Maxis) gonna open for the pre-order in August. It’s happening real soon and I still haven’t make up my mind yet. Whadda bummer. I hate when things like this happen. Potong stim!

All pictures taken from Apple official website.

My Water Moments

Posted by Mrs Imran on Jun 30, 2010
Filed Under Contest, Gadgets | 9 comments

Sometimes I wonder why am such a sucker for gadgets? If I were to be given a choice, I would definitely choose gadgets over handbags. I love handbags too, but I love gadget more. Surely, it could be lot easier if I can have everything I want in this world, but for now I think handbags can wait. [but hope not too long lah...]

I have been shouting and showing tantrum [ok I exaggerate] ever since I got back from my latest vacation trip, Tioman Island. I want an underwater camera, that is! Everybody knows why I want that camera I guess. If you don’t seem to understand why, here are some of the reasons….

This photo could have been better if I had a water-proof camera like the Sony TX5 because…
EASY TO FOCUS

We [my husband and I] were using a lousy camera to snap this photo. No offence to lomo lovers ok. I do love lomo ..a lotttt, but when it comes to underwater photography, I think it is much easier to use digital camera rather than “ancient” camera that uses film.

I found it sooo difficult to focus with the super small view finder! Since, I am so used with digital camera big screen for image display, using view finder underwater really testing my patience . With snorkeling equipment covering 85% of our face, we can’t even bring our eyes close the view finder, let alone to focus! So, we just simply press the button to snap. Look at that picture it’s  an ultimate mess with the subject is errr…everywhere?  I really want to say BIG thanks to the camera since more than half of the film wasted simply because of we couldn’t focus. Thank you soo much.

Well, underwater creatures such as fish, starfish or shark [if you are lucky] are not things that you can see everyday [except if you are an "orang pulau"]. It’s rare. Hence, when you got those tiny chances to capture moments of you swimming with fish [or shark again if you are lucky], you surely want to capture everything and every seconds without silly gadget mishandle [we missed lots of precious moment, including  a chance to snap a photo of shark [no joke], because we were too busy counting how many times we have rolled the film, how many film has left, did the flash has already being turned on or not and ya da ya da. Bummer!

This photo could have been better if I had a water-proof camera like the Sony TX5 because IT CAN BE ORIGINALLY BEAUTIFUL WITHOUT THE AID OF PHOTOSHOP

Thanks to Photoshop for such a nice software, without photoshop I don’t think these photo can turned out to be this good. Here I show you the photo before and after being edited by photoshop. Can you see now the ugly truth? [oklah not dat ugly] Haha, but yeah, the colours of the original photos were somewhat dull and gloomy. Obviously, it lacks of the vibrant hue and somehow fail to capture the real excitement that we were having underwater. So, I think the latest digital underwater camera should be able to capture the excitement and pretty colours beautifully, no?

It will be great also if I had a water-proof camera like the Sony TX5 because MY CURRENT CAMERA CAN’T STAND THE SHOCK/VIBRATION {sorry no picture to show, since all shaky photos has been erased from my camera}

I got shocked of my life when my cute pink Sony camera suddenly behaving strangely. At first I felt as if the internal mechanical parts are moving and shocking rapidly. I didn’t suspect anything and just thought could be because I’ve been on the boat for too long and it made me feel everything rocking and shocking. But oh boy, I was so wrong! The boat was fine, myself also fine, but the camera wasn’t. Of course I was very quick to blame the camera at first [haha] but little did I know that, the camera is innocent. It didn’t being designed to stand the vibration and shock. Silly me!

I’ve been observing friends’ verdict in regards of the underwater camera. The most talk about underwater cameras are Lumix, Panasonic and Olympus OT-800. Below are tweets from Jua about her new underwater camera Olympus OT-800. In her tweet she did also mention Sony but hmm I never heard that Sony carry an underwater camera too. It always either Lumix or Olympus, I don’t know any other brand that has a good underwater camera other than these 2 [previously]

God knows that I was hell curious about Sony underwater camera, so suddenly the answer being sent to me at one night without a need to GOOGLE for it. [Haha]. Thanks to Nuffnang.

Quote from Nuffnang… “Presenting the…..new Sony TX5! Proudly bearing the title of the ‘World’s Slimmest Water-proof Camera’, the TX5 is – get this – not only water-proof, but shock-proof, temperature-proof and dust-proof too. And it doesn’t only look pretty; it comes with some awesome functions like Sweep Panorama, Handheld Twilight and anti-motion blur. Yes, the TX5 is not only the ultimate package of beauty and brains, it’s darn near indestructible as well” …Unquote

Here are the specs, but you can also visit SONY website for more details descriptions;

10.2 Mega Pixel T Series 4x Optical Zoom Cyber-shot (Silver)
The compact Cyber-shot TX5 is built to be water-, shock-, dust- and temperature-proof! With features like Intelligent Sweep Panorama, Handheld Twilight and Anti-motion blur, TX5 give you the photographic power to shoot in style whenever, wherever.
• Water-proof (up to 3 meters)
• Handheld Twilight
• Intelligent Sweep Panorama
• “Exmor R” CMOS Sensor
• BIONZ Image Processor
• 25mm wide angle Carl Zeiss® Vario-Tessar lens [Carl Zeiss always my fav since it is the same lens like my Nokia N95 and N97, great picture it takes]
Standard Retail Price:  RM 1,499.00 *

Here are few sample of photos showcasing what this little monster is capable of.

Anti-Motion & Handheld Twilight : Clear and sharp images in low-light environment. No more shaky photos when shooting with high ISO setting and without tripod. You can now take sharper and clearer indoor photo (especially under dim light or dark area). This is truly brilliant. I can take picture in dark better than you, envy? Oh please do…

Sweep Panaroma! : Good news, all can be include in 1 photo! Awesome..simply awesome A picture of ocean anyone?

10 photos per second! : You can now jump and select the best photo of you jumping in the air! Or even create an animation with it. Coolness.

Definitely a must have gadget for capturing a perfect photo of you having fun underwater.

So irresistable. Period.