Blackberry Z3 Review

Update :- 19th November 2014 

My blackberry Z3 died on me after using it for 3.5 months. Currently trying to resolve warranty issues with them. You can check ou the post here :- http://alexjong.com/blog/2014/11/19/blackberry-z3-jakarta-dead-after-using-for-3-5-months/

The all new budgeted Blackberry Z3

OK.  It's been close to 3 weeks that I'm on the blackberry Z3 and have gotten used to it so much so that when I tried switching back to my Note 3, I began swiping up, down, left, right just to get around the apps.  So I guess I'll start going into details now.

New Hobby....

So after years of procrastinating, and weeks of being brain washed by friends. I've finally went and did it.  I went and got myself a road bike where I had no idea on how it will actually turn out to be.  Never the less, after gaining weight for the past few months due to unforeseen circumstances this is probably the best way to go.  Never the less wish me luck, as I intend to ride this every day early in the morning.  Hopefully I won't fall off that easily lol.

Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Home 1TB Not able to detect

  Ok. So earlier this year, as I was trying to back up my hard disk to my NAS which is of course the Seagate Goflex Home.  And while halfway trying to access the NAS, my file explorer refused to respond and the next thing I knew. Everything was gone.  Tried accessing from the website stated there was no device being connected.  And you could imagine the horror I've gone through where I almost fell into absolute shock because all the pictures and videos of my baby girl gone just like that!  I did what everyone would have done, reboot the device hope that all will be well. That didn't worked.  Turn off maybe a few days for the hard disk to rest and hopefully when it's back on it will magically appear once again.  But that didn't work too.  

  So I decided not to do anything about it. 7 months after the incident had happened and I totally forgotten about it (probably trying to deny the fact that I didn't want to tell Deluxe that Esther's photos were gone).  After installing Ubuntu 14.04 onto my old desktop, I decided to try accessing the hard disk once more.  Lo and behold, I was finally able to see that it's actually connected in a sense where there is the 4 folders which by default it has.  One for backup, external storage, personal folder and public folder.  I got so excited that I tried to access it but still failed. Whereby suddenly I had the inspiration in doing this.

Flipping the hard disk this way instead of standing vertical

  Instead of letting it stand vertically, I made it lie flat on like the picture above.  Initially when I flipped the wrong side, the hard disk wouldn't run.  But after flipping this side round.  Once I turn on the NAS sweet sound of hard disk spinning and everything was back to normal.  I tried accessing it one more time, finally after 7 long months all my files are still intact!  So I quickly transferred all the videos and photos out from the NAS onto my desktop. So now, I'll most likely get a replacement hard disk for this NAS.  And probably pop the current hard disk into my desktop and see how it goes.  Never the less I'm glad that I can get back the files and once I replaced the hard disk I'll probably go and format my laptop to run Ubuntu instead :)

Been a long time since I last blogged

With so many things to do and so little time to do it. I seriously need to start writing again to pretty much get things off my chest.  Never the less.  This is going to be a short post.  Going to sort out a few more things within the next few days, and hopefully by then.  Everything will be back to normal. So stay tuned!

After Using Hotlink For 3 Months

Ok. 3 months ago I went and MNP over from Digi to Maxis due to the fact they were providing free basic internet.  And I was wondering how much I actually saved on my phone bill eventually.  Within the past 3 months I have managed to reload 3 times and used up max RM40 for these past 3 months.  Never the less, after hearing that LTE has finally arrived here in Kuching.  Only few days ago I went and subscribe for RM30 where they gave me 1.5GB quota.  And boy am I spoiled by the speed.  Of course I had to change my sim card as well in order for me to enjoy the max speed which gave me about 10mbps upload and download.
  But that is totally beside the point on how much I actually saved using Hotlink prepaid.  Well for starters, after 3 months using Hotlink.  Total cost I used was RM70 (RM40 for calls and SMS, while another RM30 was for the 4G Subscription).  Where I actually managed to slash my phone bills in half in a sense because previously I would be paying RM60++/month on contract.  While outside contract would had cost me close to RM90.
  One main reason why I managed to save a lot which I believe is due to the Data subscription.  Because most of the time I'm always situated where I have wifi connection, and of course the Basic Free Internet that Hotlink offer is just good enough for receiving Text from Whatsapp, Viber, BBM, Telegram and etc.  Plus I don't really need the speed whenever I'm out because I will be out for at most 1-2 hours, but still be able to receive messages through those social networking apps.
  Never the less, will definitely MNP Deluxe number once she uses up her credits to Maxis, because Maxis also now gives you Activ10, where their call rates would be at 0.06/30 secs and 0.01/sms (which I hardly use).  And you pretty much can save more from there.
  Anyway, only problem I had previously was when I went down to Plaza Merdeka Lower Ground, I was not able to receive any signals.  But after upgrading my sim card to 4G, seems like it managed to resolve that issue.  Not too sure yet, but will try it out again within these few days.
  So, being a cheapskate that I am.  I think RM30/month for phone bills is not that bad.  And another thing is taht I hardly call or sms people because most of the time you either skype on wifi or message through whatsapp.  No doubt that I won't be able to surf outside wifi vicinity, but hey at least it gives me chance to actually talk to people who are in front of me instead of looking at my phone the whole time.  It's all good.

Ichoose.my Review

So I went and purchased a domain name thisahpek.my from Ichoose.my before the 31st December 2013, and apparently I got their promotion for RM50 for 2 years which I thought was a steal.  As the normal price would be RM120/year.  They also provide domain mapping service for free.  What actually happen is that they just mask your whatever domain name you have, to the one you registered.  For my case is thisahpek.my, will pretty bring you thisahpek.blogspot.com.  So if you don't really need anything apart from forwarding your domain to your long blog url, you can use this service for free.  Apparently they can map anything from anything.blogspot.com, anything.wordpress.com or a .com domain.

Anyway, if you don't want your account to be mapped using their services, you need to change your mynic technical contact to your own first in order for you to change nameserver.  I've managed to change it already, now currently just wait for it to regenerate the dns first before I can actually map my domain name to the new blog.  Never the less, will wait and see how it goes within the next few hours.  Hopefully by then, I will be able to use the domain name later.  Will keep you guys posted on this.