HolanTV #02 - Canon Ixy 30s, Ixus 300 HS Review

OK, I'll be showing a video first for this. Having problems uploading photos. Could be due to the line or something. I'll update this page again before I do another post tomorrow.

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Ok after trying it out, I noticed the auto night shot wasn't as good as I thought it would turn out to be.  Either that, it could be the settings that I used as mostly were set in auto mode.  But all the pictures taken was hand held, so I'm not complaining.  Anyway I still think it's a good camera, and it helps a lot especially in indoor shootings.  So if you want to get a compact camera, this would be just nice.  And it does the jobs well.

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Canon Ixus 300 HS, Ixy 30s, Powershot SD4000

My friend Edward apparently got his article published on BaikBike.Com. You might want to look at it as, he went and design a parking lot for the bike to be placed in his campus. Apparently from what he told me, his campus is the first campus that has a proper parking place for cyclist. Check out his article : A Cool Bike Rack Design.

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As you all pretty much guessed it right now, yes I just purchased a Canon Ixy 30s.  I haven't really played with it much yet as after I took 3 shot I passed the camera to Deluxe to try.  I have been thinking of replacing my old Canon Powershot A70 for long time already.  This baby has served me well for over 7 years already, and it's still alive and kicking.

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The reason why I wanted to get another compact camera is because I find it difficult to carry a dslr around especially with Esther.  As Deluxe and myself have only 2 hands, and it's a bit troublesome to carry the camera as well as Esther at the same time.  Not to mention whenever we go out, plus not wanting to draw any attention to us.  And the worst case scenario if either one of us have to go to the toilet, and basically everything else stays behind with the person who's not going to the toilet.  Eventually I started using back the Canon A70, but as you all know Esther is a hyperactive girl so taking photos is not easy.

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So I thought it's about time that I got myself a present, hence I thought of getting the Ixus 300 HS.  At first I was looking at Canon Ixus 130 IS, then I saw an ad on TV which was promoting the 300 HS as well as 1000 HS.  So I did a little research with 2 cameras, and the major concern that Deluxe seems to have is taking pictures of Esther in low light condition.  So apparently the 300 HS was the clear winner.  As for zooming wasn't our priority, so I guess that's how I ended up getting the 300 HS instead.

Plus I got it from this seller miyamondo, and it was really a bargain. It came with a free case, 8GB SD Card and a screen protector. Apart from the screen protector being too small which I don't find it a problem. One more thing, because this camera is not from Malaysia, so the warranty you only have 1 year and you can just send it back to him to claim FOC. After 1 year you can send it to your local Canon Dealer.

Well, Deluxe is really happy with it so I guess it's a good sign.  Especially after taking the pictures it was so much easier compared to the A70 and her phone camera.  So you'll be sure to see more pictures of Esther really soon!  As I told her that, since she has the camera now she should use it more often to take more pictures of Esther activity.  Hahaha.  Plus right now at least we can bring it around whenever we go out with Esther.  But when she showed me the pictures that she took, I was really amazed with the quality.   Anyway, here's an unboxing video that I made for it.  Will do more tomorrow night.  You guys have a good weekend!

Why?

Feeling less inspirational now.  Don't know what to blog about.  Anyway, here's another song that I've composed years back.  Hopefully I can start get blogging by tomorrow. Hehehe.




Why?

Why does my heart keep on aching?
Why do I feel this pain?
Why does my tears keep on flowing?
It started when you left me that day.

Why do I feel lonely?
Why do I feel so cold?
Why do I feel so empty?
It started when you left me that day.

Was it something I said?
Was it something I did?
That made you leave me.
Is there something I could say?
Is there something I could do?
That would make you love me.

In my life I never felt so much like this before,
In my life there's only you by my side,
Now you're gone, I only wish that you come back to me,
But I know it's just too good to be true.

Bersatu (Original Song)

One of the 1st song that I've wrote back in 1998-99.  This song was performed by Alban, Ben and myself. Apparently our forth member Mars wasn't around that time, not sure where he was though. Probably in KL studying if I'm not mistaken.  Anyway, here is the song :-

Bersatu
Pada kali pertama kita bertemu,
Ku mendapati ku cintai mu,
Kau telah curi, Hatiku ini,
Kaulah gadis yang ku nanti.

Hari demi hari, lambat berlalu,
Fikiran ku mula bercelaru,
Ku rasa sunyi, tanpa kau disini,
Mengapa kau harus pergi?

Chorus:
Janganlah bimbang, Ku akan menunggu,
Ku berjanji pada suatu hari,
Kita kan bersatu.

Ku takkan lupa peristiwa yang lalu,
Ada yang sedih, Ada yang lucu,
Hatiku gembira, mengimbas kembali,
Sebab ku jumpa cinta sejati.

Ada yang menyatakan cinta sementara,
Ada yang menyatakan kita tak sehala,
Ku tak kisah, Apa yang dikata,
Asal kita gembira.

Bridge:
Dari hari ini, Ku berjanji,
Seluruh dunia sebagai saksi,
Ku tetap cintamu, Dari hati yang rindu,
Ku takkan menghampa mu.

HolanTV #01 – Introduction to Holan TV

This is my very first Vlog, which I've been thinking of doing for a very long time.  Since I didn't have a co-host for my podcasting series, I thought of doing a Vlog instead.  Anyway, thought it was weird looking myself into the camera and talking.  Anyway, it's all good but I think I might need to find other software to edit the video as Windows Movie Maker wasn't really helpful especially with some of the effects that I wanted to do.  So I'll just upload it raw.

In this episode, I pretty much just did nothing much but rather a few stupid I suppose. Oh well, I guess it's all good.  So sit back and enjoy the show. Hehehe.

Beware of Torchlight Stungun

Ok. Not too sure how true this is.  But never the less we should always be careful.  Was supposed to do a Podcast tonight, but won't be doing it as I'm not  really feeling too well.  Anyway, read on.

You can buy this at Lorong Kulit!  Less than RM100!

Please be aware, especially the ladies, and be extra careful as with the slowdown in the economy you can expect some people to resort to crime to make ends meet.

Must Read!: Torchlights (Stungun) Beware (to all drivers)

Hi There,

FOR YOUR INFORMATION, latest weapon used by robbers.

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. NO MATTER HOW BUSY YOU ARE, YOU MUST GIVE YOURSELF AT LEAST 3 MINUTES TO READ THIS!

I just thought to let know what my doctor told me recently. I don't think she was lying and neither am I, so please pass this on to your friends. Her clinic is in SS2 and you know how congested that place is.

One morning a few months ago in broad daylight, a girl was getting into her car when a few men approached her with what looked like a  torchlight. Quite harmless looking. They pressed the "torchlight" into her back and immediately she went limp and very pale. So she wouldn't be able to fight back, they slashed her thigh with a parang and sped away in her car.

There were many people around and they quickly took her to the  nearest clinic which was my doctor's clinic. There were two doctors at that time and they managed to stitch up her wound but the girl remained pulse-less and still pale as paper. No pulse, no BP (blood pressure). Just like dead.

My doctors were confused as to how one wound on the thigh made the girl almost like dead? They managed to revive her and save her life.

After some checking around, the doctors found  out what actually happened was that the girl was made unconscious not by a torchlight but actually a high voltage weapon. I forgot how many watts she mentioned. 1000? Anyway, it was high enough to kill a person by electrocution.

It seems this weapon is from China. It's not rampant in Malaysia...yet; but with this thing, a person can rob, rape, kill, kidnap, and practically do anything to you. My doctor said that if the girl weren't taken to the clinic immediately she would have died because there was no pulse on her.

So please just beware of your surroundings, if anybody is lurking around with a torchlight-thingy and approaches you, just scream or run away. Better to be embarrassed than ZAPPED and fried, right? Take care.

This item is called "stungun".

Installing Android Froyo 2.2 onto HTC TYTN II Kaiser

Ok.  This may seem an long overdue post as I didn't really had time to actually write a guide about it. The method I'm listing down here is installing Froyo onto your SD card, so that you won't need to worry about flashing your phone for this to work.  Ok on with the show.

Things You Need

1. Minimum of 1GB SD Card
2. HTC Kaiser TYTN II Phone (Best if your using WM6.1)
3. Andboot
4. Incubus26Jc's Super FroYo 2.2 - Current version RLS15 (02-09-10)

Preparation

You can use partition for the SD card if not just make sure your SD card is formatted to FAT32.  Read here on how to Partition your SD Card.  You need to create 4 partition if you are using this method.

Partition 1 = ext3 at 260mb, Partition 2 = ext3 at 260mb, Partition 3 = Swap at 80mb and the remaining balance is for Partition 4 formatted at Fat32.  If you don't want to partition it's fine as well.  Just make sure your card is formatted to Fat32 and you're good to go.

Let's Go

1. Unzip the file ANDBOOT.
2. Copy the whole folder on to the SD card
3. Unzip the file Incubus26Jc's Super FroYo 2.2, and you should get a file andriodinstall.tgz
4. Copy the andriodinstall.tgz into the Andboot folder that you have placed inside the SD Card.
5. Once copied reset your phone.
6. Run File Explorer on your phone, go to Storage Card --> andboot --> run the program haret.

The next step here is very important and you might need to be aware of.  Once you run the program haret, you should see the linux penguin on the top left and it will have a lot of words running down.  But it will stop for about 2-3 seconds when you see something like this.

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7. When you see that message, quickly hold the center of the D-Pad Button then it should bring you to an installer as shown as below.

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8. If don't partition your card it will look like the one on the left.  If you did, it will look like the one on the right.
9. Press Install System
10. Select Yes to wipe system. And Yes again to wipe data.
11. Just let it run until you reach back to the Main Menu.  Once you reach there, select EXIT.

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Once you exit it should run a few more command lines before you should see the welcome screen like the above.  And a few seconds after that you should see a green ball eye kinda thingy.  And it will take quite a while before it loads up Froyo.

12.  Once you've got Froyo running inside your phone, don't set the time, data or sync with your google account.  Just skip any process you see until the main page on your phone.  Next step is very important.

13. Don't touch the phone, and leave it for 30 minutes.   From what I understand is that, Froyo is in the midst of copying files and building some data or some sort.
I know you've all been dying to play with it, but best leave it for at least 30 minutes.  I left mine for at least an hour, and not only it improves on performance but also prevent a lot of errors compared when I straight away played with it once it finishes installing.  So be patient!

14. After your 30 mins long wait is over, hold the power button and select reset the phone.
15. Run File Explorer --> Storage Card --> Andboot --> Run Haret.
16. This time just by pass the dpad instruction and let it run through till you reach the Andriod Main System.

Now you are ready to go and play with your newly installed Froyo on your HTC TYTN II.  It's way much cooler compared to Windows Mobile that's for sure.  Anyway, there are still limitations on this system whereby I think they still have a bit problems with the bluetooth audio, and of course the front camera is not working.  But I seldom use those features so I think it's ok.

If you have problems whereby instead of getting the welcome screen, but rather those funny color lines flying here and there.  What you need to do is :-
1. Go to Andboot folder in your sd card
2. Edit the file startup.txt
3. Change the panel_type =3 to either 1 or 2 to see which one works.

If you would like to sync your outlook contacts with your freshly installed android phone.  I would suggest CompanionLink.  It's free for 14 days, just enough time for you to sync all of your contacts.  You need to go to the market place for android and install a client for it to link later.

Small issues that I face when running this OS is that, it consumes a lot of battery usage.  One way of conserving the batteries, was disabling all the extra animation features, switching to 2G only, and turning off the data usage.  And make sure you always turn off the wifi before your phone goes to sleep as wifi will still be on even in sleep mode.  But apart from that everything else seems fine.

In conclusion, it's really fun being able to run android on my HTC.  Somehow it sort of prolonged the life span of my phone in terms of usability.  As you all know that most of the software being developed currently are for blackberry, iphone and android phones.  So, at least I'm still able to play with my phone till I decide to replace it with another one.

Good luck and have fun!

Credits goes to :-
1. The developing teams of Incubus26Jc's Super FroYo 2.2 for making all this possible.
2. ghghgh14702 for preparing a flawless kernal and image files. (Believe me after 1 year of searching for the kernels and image files separately, his one was the best matched with no problems)
3. j101399j for preparing easy to use image instructions, you can actually get them here.

Mohawk Madness #03 - HUET Training

We're back again, and sorry for the delay due to podomatic have been down, so was not able to update last week.  We pretty much talked about Kevin experience when he went for his HUET Training.  Listen on if you want to find out more about it.

Host : Alex & Kevin
Quote For The Day : It's Every Man For Themselves





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