Friday, December 17, 2010

GMKS #3 - Tough To Be A Guy

We're back again, and hopefully on track as we are trying to do 2 podcast in a week. This morning show we talk about how tough is it to be a guy. And also, we made a surprise call to someone. Tune in to find out what we did.

P.S Thank you all listeners who have been supporting us just by listening to us.  Highest ranking we ever got was it went up to 3785 before heading back down to 4k++ as of yesterday.  Dennis and I appreciate the time you take off just to listen to us.


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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Walking In Kuching

Due to the overwhelming response for this song, here is the song with lyrics finally up for you guys.  After a long day of work, finally managed to finish it.  Thanks again for your support!


Monday, December 13, 2010

Good Morning Kuching #02 - Tangkap Ular and many more

We received a lot of good response from our 1st podcast of the Good Morning Kuching Show.  Both Dennis and myself would like to thank you for taking time to listen to us.  Anyway, something to take away the Monday blues we are here once again to entertain you.  Leave a comment or recommend us to your friends on facebook or even twitter!  Thanks again for listening, and we're looking forward to hear from you soon.  If you have any questions you would like to ask, you can drop us an email at holantv [at] gmail [dot] com.


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Lyrics to Walking In Kuching
Drove to the petrol station, Just to purchase some fuel,
Didn't know that the price went up that day,
Plus I did not bring any cash too.

I paid using my credit card, unfortunately it didn't went through.
When I drove out from the station, Then my car just wouldn't move.

So I'm walking in Kuching,
I'm walking cuz I forgot to pay my bills,
Walking in Kuching,
Dude you know how hot it really feel?

Then I got quite hungry, Cuz I didn't had any food,
The only kopi tiam around that area, Is only open in the afternoon.

So I tried to look a bit further, With only 5 ringgit in my hand,
I got really, really desperate, Till I couldn't even stand,
I ended up eating sand.

So I'm walking in Kuching,
Looking for a bowl of kolo mee,
Walking in Kuching,
That's the only food I love to eat....

We have sio bee at open air, Belacan Bee Hoon at petanak,
My good friend that sell beef murtabak, Is only at Expert Food court,
That's too far for me to walk.

I'm heading now to Maybank, To withdraw from the ATM,
Then I forgot what was my Pin number, My card was eaten in the end.

I went to customer service, And gave them my IC,
She asked, "What do you want me to do with it?"
I said, "I really need some money".

I'm walking in Kuching,
With some money hoping to buy some fuel,
Walking in Kuching,
And maybe I should get some happy meal.

I'm now driving in Kuching,
Heading to Star Cineplex to park my car,
I'm driving in Kuching,
I almost hit that aluminum bar.

Now I'm walking in Kuching,
Walking to my shop at main bazaar,
Walking in Kuching,
Hope you like my story so far.

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Good Morning Kuching Show #01

Ok, Dennis and I came up with this show to basically be DJs wannabe, and of course there will be music from song writers that have not been signed yet.  So if you see them get famous, remember you heard them first on the Good Morning Kuching Show.  Without further adieu, let's go on with the show.

P.S We are still editing the picture for our show.


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Wednesday, December 08, 2010

Podcasting Equipment

Hardware

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Ok. Many of you may be wondering how I do my podcast or songs recording and how much it may have cost to do something like this. Well, if you really want cheap I suggest that go for the normal headsets like what I have put on from the picture above.  I started using that for the first few episode of my podcast, and it may not be something great but it does the work just fine.  And if you were to record guitars on it, it will sound just fine as well.




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Ok, I got this baby a few weeks after doing my initial podcast.  And the sound quality did improve A LOT.  This actually was a little unnecessary because back then I didn't really had much thought on what I plan to do with it.  After reading some reviews on it, plus doing some research I ended up getting this instead.  Not only did it helped out on the sound quality, it does eliminate a lot of "air" sounds compared to the previous headset microphone.  I had a hard time adjusting the setting at first, because it was super sensitive.  Plus it only records on Mono, Left Channel only.




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If you notice just next to the laptop on the right, and slightly above the headset you should see a device that actually has jack being input to it.  This is actually a USB Sound card that has a line in, and it has 7.1 channel.  I used this to record Skyp  conversation or anything that goes through the system.  The reason why I got this was because I didn't have any line in port on my laptop.  But after getting this device, there is actually a line in port on the laptop which uses the same jack as the microphone.  So I was a bit upset, as I thought I could have saved about USD8-9, when purchasing this sound card.  But never the less, I found another usage for it whereby I was able to output the sounds to 2-3 head sets if necessary.  Plus it comes in handy during the recording part which I will explain later.




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This few things I only got it recently.  Both the pop filter as well as the spider mount I got it less than USD40 from a seller on eBay.  Whereby combine shipping is crucial and a lot of negotiating was done before I paid for it.  And as for the mic stand, I got it at quite a bargain considering that this is 2nd hand.  Plus the condition really looks new, and it still does the job perfectly.  Total for this is probably less than RM180 all in all.  I had to buy them separately, so it was less painful to the wallet. Hehehe.

Software




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If you can't afford Adobe Audition like me, Audacity works great just as it is.  It has all the features that you need to do, to record your podcast or songs on to it.  It has a multi-track system whereby for instance you can play the piano, then after that you can record your guitar, and maybe finally your vocals.

The reason why I use this method is that, not only it helps add a lot of instruments to your songs but also saves time on errors.  You can actually edit certain parts if you made mistakes and it really saves up a lot of time.  You can also select the different inputs when recording, hence what I did for my skype recording.  I selected the USB sound card as input 1, and my samson USB mic as the 2nd input.  So basically that's how it works.


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Finally I use Skype for all the podcasting session whenever I have guest who are currently far away from me.  The reason why I use this is that, it supports group conferencing.  So I can have more than 2 guest to talk to, as how I did on my previous shows which you can listen to.  If your other guests has skype, then you can actually call them for free.  But if you don't, you can use their credit system like a prepaid card like that.  Quality wise you can check it out when I did the mooncake festival with 4 people.

So that's pretty much about it.  Probably my next target is getting a  USB Mixer.  So at least I can do a proper recording for my keyboard as well as guitar.  But I might or might not get it, depending how things goes in the future.  Lol.  So that's pretty much about it from a cheapskate podcaster/recording artist wanna be. Hahaha.

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

You're My All In All (Original Song)

Ok, this is another song that I composed back in 2002.  After the major heart ache that I got back then, I was pretty much in a wreck.  The song that I wrote in between of my song Why, to this song I've written quite a number of depressing songs. Lol.  But I thank God who took me out from my depression, and I didn't really write much after that.  I guess being too emotional you tend to think too much.  After that I pretty much moved on, which brings me to this year 2010 happily married to a wonderful wife, and having a beautiful daughter.  So God has His own plan for me.


This song has been very close to me, as I wrote it during the time when I had my quiet times back then. The funny thing was that, I actually heard this song being played in my mind and the melody was just like flowing out. So I quickly had to write it down, and do a simple recording just in case I might have forgotten about it. Hope this song will bless all of you, as much as it has blessed me. God Bless.




You're My All In All
Verse 1:
When I woke up this morning,
I'm on my knees and pray,
To thank the Lord in heaven,
For giving me this day.

You gave me air to breathe,
You shed Your blood so I may live,
Thank You lord for loving me.

Verse 2:
There were times when I feel lonely,
There were times when I feel sad,
But You showed Your grace and mercy,
Then things weren't so bad.

So many things I wanna thank You,
For all the things that You do,
Lord Jesus,
I wanna say I love You.

Chorus:
Thank You for setting me free,
You died on the cross,
Just for me.

You mend my broken heart,
You mend my broken soul,
Lord Jesus,
You're my all in all.

Sunday, December 05, 2010

Holankia Talkshow #10 - Larry & Luke and life




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OK I've been away for about a month for podcasting. And hopefully I'll be doing more of this in the near future. Hehehe. But never the less, life is good and fortunately for me I had the privilege of having both Larry and Luke on tonight show.

Host : Holankia
Guest : Larry & Luke Nyanti
Quote for the day : "So they don't actually play a guessing game, by stab here and stab there" - Luke Nyanti



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Thursday, December 02, 2010

Preparing For Tomorrow


For those of you who are currently using Ubuntu, and uses the IM pidgin.  You would notice that there is always a notification for those who comes online or goes offline, or even receiving new messages.  You can check out the post here on Disable Online User Notification in Pidgin, which really helps a lot.  So you won't be disturbed all the time unnecessary.

And as you know, each time whenever Ubuntu upgrades itself it will add a new boot menu item in your boot menu.  Especially for those who are running dual boot, it's really a pain by selecting the item you wish to boot into.  You can go to this post "Clean Up the New Ubuntu Grub2 Boot Menu" to pretty much clean up your boot menu.


So today is 1st December 2010.  And it has reach the final month of 2010.  How times flies, especially when you're busy or don't really take time to stop and smell the roses.  And as you all notice, after I changed the template for this website 3 weeks ago.  I have been trying very hard to be consistent in doing a post everyday, and so far I have yet to miss one apart from Sunday.  It helped especially when someone who have been supporting me all these years, kept on encouraging me to write and be consistent.   So at least, whenever I start to do anything in the future, I will keep on doing it and don't fall back halfway like I always used to.




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If you noticed on my side bar, I have already put a list for my 2011 resolutions on what I want to achieve next year.  I didn't do one this year, because I don't know what I wanted unlike my previous years.  I'm still thinking on what I plan to put on that list, as I still have another 31 more days to finalise it and start working on it to achieve my target.  Another thing I'm working on is also pretty much plan out on how am I going to achieve my goals, especially goal #1.  It may not seem much, but I shall try to give it a shot.

I was a bit emo today as how Dennis would put it as, I feel that this year went by so quickly compared to previous years.  I don't know why, but somehow I felt that I didn't achieve anything much.  Whereby I still saw myself last year sitting at the same position and pretty much living the years as it is.  One good reason for that was that, I didn't set myself a target on what I wanted to do or needed to do.  Maybe that's why nothing happened, and I was so excited when 2010 came.  But I didn't do anything, when it came.



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But looking on the bright side of 2010, I feel that God has been preparing me in a lot of ways.  And at times, I really feel that being hopeless He is always there to watch over me.  And no doubt, that life goes on He remains the same.  And not to forget that The Holankia Talkshow has been started, where I actually had big plans for it.  But apparently died slowly due to lack of ideas on what I want to talk about.  But it was fun while it lasted, and it sort of gave me the courage to pretty much do a video log after that.  So I think it's a good start, and will try to plan to talk about something as well starting next year.

Plus since I'm planning to head back into song writings again, hopefully I would have enough time to do something about it.  As I've put that talent away for a very long time already, and it's kinda hard to get inspired to write something.  But never the less, I know it will come back if I keep on working on it.  Maybe that's why I started the podcasting series, which actually got me to figure out on how to record stuff onto my laptop. So hopefully by end of next year I might have something to show already.  Hehehe.




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So since Christmas is around the corner, I may as well start doing something about it as well.  So this the time to be busy, and I have been seriously slacking off.  But will go back to top gear starting tomorrow, as I need to sort out a few more things again.  Hopefully by then, things will pick up before the year ends.  And it's kinda exciting when you draw out your plans and being able to work on it.




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But one thing I learn this year is that, above all things I need to do everyday.  I have to make sure family is always first.  Been pretty much neglecting in a way, whereby been so busy with activities but don't really spend time with the family.  Things really brighten up, when I decided to stop from other things to spend time with the two important people in my life.  And positive things do came out from all that, so I guess it's a good sign.  Anyway, going to close up now.  You guys have a good one.

Monday, November 29, 2010

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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Sunday, November 28, 2010

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!



Thursday, November 25, 2010

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.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

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.

Saturday, November 20, 2010

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.



Friday, November 19, 2010

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!

Stungun Torchlight

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".

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Installing Android Froyo 2.2 onto HTC TYTN II Kaiser

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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.

Monday, November 08, 2010

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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IFAP Website : - http://www.ifap.asn.au/


Friday, October 22, 2010

Mohawk Madness #02 - Farting

Apology to all of our listeners out there for the disappearance on our show, as we were all brain dead on what to talk about.  Anyway, tonight's topic we pretty much gave away from the title is about farting.  Ever wondered why and how we do it?  We have an unexpected guest who joined us at the very last minute, so we were fortunate to have him with us.  Sit back and enjoy the rest of the show.

Host : Alex & Kevin
Guest : Elmund
Quote for the day : We should fart proudly from today onwards.






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Saturday, October 02, 2010

DiGi iPhone 4 Real

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Seriously, someone might need to check Digi's marketing plan or someone who came up with this plan.  It's really freaking awesome, because it has a very low monthly commitment which is something I really love when I plan to subscribe to a plan.  For the RM58 monthly charges comes with 200 mins of talk time, 200 sms, 20 mms to all networks.  If you think about it, Digi has this 1 Malaysia spirit written in them.  They even show it on their plans itself, check out the free calls, SMS, & MMS to local networks.  Now how can you not love that.  Since many of my friends are in different network, I'm still able to call them using the 200 mins talk time.

And the best part is that, you won't get any extra charges when you use their internet.  Even if you exceed your monthly quota they'll just lower down your bandwidth which I feel is fair.  I remembered an incident where a friend of mine who is on a different network was given free internet for a certain amount monthly.  At first he thought it would be sufficient, and there was one time he pretty much forgotten about his monthly quota and was shocked with his bills when it came.  He went and called their customer service line, and was told that he must have mistaken their plans for a different carrier.  But fortunately for him, it was capped at RM250 so he pretty much learned his lesson and decided to jump ship.

If you would like to find out more about Digi's iPhone 4 plans you can check it out here.  They even have packages for those who use a lot of talk time.  It's really worth checking it out.  Anyway, I love Digi Iphone 4 plans so much that I even came up with a song for it.  So here it is.  Enjoy!




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Everything has gone up lately,
I really don't know why,
The only thing that's going down is,
Digi Iphone 4 plans.

If you subscribe to autobilling,
Another RM5 down,
This is just because it's Digi Iphone 4 Great Plans.

I love Digi Iphone 4 plans,
Because it saves me dough,
I know I won't get extra charges, Cause Digi told me so.
I love Digi I phone 4 plans,
Because it loves me too,
If you're a cheapskate just like me,
Switch to the digi Iphone 4 plans too.

Sending SMS is just a breeze,
You can send it to all your friends.
Because this is Digi Iphone 4 plans,
You won't have to worry if they're not in the Digi clan.

If you subscribe to autobilling,
Another RM5 down,
This is just because it's Digi Iphone 4 Great Plans.

I love Digi Iphone 4 plans,
Because it saves me dough,
I know I won't get extra charges, Cause Digi told me so.
I love Digi I phone 4 plans,
Because it loves me too,
If you're a cheapskate just like me,
Switch to the Digi Iphone 4 plans too.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Holankia Talkshow #9 - Iphone4 Digi Vs Maxis

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Ok, tonight show is basically me going solo due to the fact that Kevin wasn't able to join me due to the fact that he was sick.  So I've decided to go ahead, even though I wasn't feeling too good as well.  So tonight's topic is deciding factor on which telco provider is cheaper for Iphone 4.  Earlier on when I did a rough calculation I thought the difference would only be 1-200.  But when I used Excel to calculate, it seems that Maxis will only be cheaper provided if you tend to make more phone calls.

So in conclusion, I think it goes down on which type of users will you be at the end of the day.  If you tend to talk more(over 200 mins), I suggest you use Maxis.  But in terms of SMS and Data plan, Digi will be a better choice as the free SMS offered by Maxis is only applicable to Maxis users only.  And their data plan is charged at RM0.10/10kb and will be capped at RM250.  Anyway, you can download the excel file which I've created for your reference only.  And the calculation was based on calls, as I didn't do in terms of SMS or Data plan.  So you decide on which provider you would like to use.

Anyway, in this show I managed to call Richard and check up on him to see how's he doing.  And at the end, I did a cover of Runaway Train by Soul Asylum.  Sit back and enjoy.

Host : Alex

Guest : Richard Ling - http://www.richardling.net

Reference Link :-

Comparison Excel Rate - http://bit.ly/ddPTBx