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Friday, December 10, 2010

Register to vote. Do it Now!

I refer to the blogpost on Niamah blog.

If the 13th General Elections are going to be called for March 2011
then the last day to register as a voter is
December 15, 2010

There isn't much time. Register to vote now!

You can register to vote at any Malaysian

post-office. Nation-wide.

Do it soon. Before December 15, 2010.

If you’re unhappy with the current situation, use your ballot as the bullet to “shoot” down the incompetence people representatives.

Remember, every little help, everyone plays a role here. We have to be proactive, initiative, responsive &creative on nation issues, instead sitting there waiting for solution.

Once again, I would like to urge you:

Do it now! Register to Vote! Action is Power!

Saturday, December 4, 2010

I got kindle in Sept 2010. It’s a good reading device, and I would rate it 8/10. More info about the product can visit the following page: http://amzn.to/cHj9x8

I like the e-ink technology offered by this device, it makes no difference as in reading paper document. With 4 gb storage, we can carry many documents in this handy device. Apart from carrying whole stack of documents, we are reducing papers use as well by promoting e-book reading.

Unlike LED device, we able to read in bright sunlight with no glare, and with paper-like screen Kindle also offers better contrast.

As claimed by Amazon, it has a long battery life (a single charge lasts up to one month with wireless off). I have charges three times from September until now, occasionally with wifi on.

However, I have few comments on this device, as follows:-

Personalised screen saver-Kindle comes with pre-set screen saver, but it would be great if we can set the jpeg image as screen saver.

Note pad- Although there’s a note taking feature on book you read, but it would be useful if a stand alone (just like dictionary) notepad is available. (just in case we can write down something when paper is not available)

Support for power point

Multiple documents delete-Right now It’s inconvenient when we want to delete few documents at a time. Instead, we have to delete one by one.

Poor document conversion, i.e. html to kindle format (occasionally)- as display in the picture below, poor text display i.e. “productivit y” instead of “productivity”

Dynamic 5-way controller. As in the picture below, (with Kindle’s top to down menu clicking) I have to press “down” key 6 times to “delete this document”

Why don’t Kindle allows us to press “up” key one time, and it will scroll to “delete this document”. (** less no. of clicks = save more time Smile

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Kindle didn’t display the Chinese character of file name properly

Better PDF viewing capabilities- we can’t view the document properly, i.e. zoom in 200% (as in the picture below, red circle part), if zoom out, to 150%, we can’t view the document clearly, the text is too small for me (I tried with landscape mode as well). If there is flexible zoom in/out scale, then we can view PDF in comfortable way.