Electric Unicycle - A New Lifestyle Gadget for Us

Lazy to ride a bicycle? If you thought that unicycles were restricted to clowns and jugglers then think again! The Airwheel X3 is a futuristic transportation device that is available to buy today. Using clever self-balancing technology the Airwheel makes popping down to the shops, your commute to work, or going just about anywhere, effortless!

Don’t worry if you are not the most naturally balanced rider in the word as the X3 comes with stabilising wheels and a safety belt whilst you get the hang of things. To move forwards and backwards you simply lean in the direction you want to go. The same goes for turning. Whilst in motion the built in gyro keeps you up right and the X3 is capable of speeds of up to 11mph.

Charging takes between 45-90mins and once juiced up the X3 will travel up to 6 miles. This amazing wheel takes up about the same space as a brief case and weighs about 22lbs meaning it’s great for combining with other forms of transport (buses, trains, on the tube, in the boot of a car etc).

Just like an electric bike the Airwheel X3 is perfect at replacing a car for short distances, making it environmentally friendly. Because the X3 is hands free you can carry anything you need, from a cup of coffee to pulling a rolling suitcase, or even simply opening doors or just keeping your hands warm in your pockets.

PRODUCT FEATURES

• Electronic unicycle
• Auto-stabilisation thanks to the built in gyro
• Speeds up to 11 mph
• Environmentally friendly
• Stabilisers and safety belt can be attached whilst learning
• Easily carried on to public transport
• Weighs 9.8Kg
• Maximum load of 120Kg
• Travel up to 6 miles on one charge
• Battery indicator lights let you know how much charge is left
• Waterproof
• Charge time 45-90mins
• Battery: LiPO4 (lithium iron phosphate)
• Measures approx. 39.5 x 35.5 x 20cm

Hope Malaysia Office HAVE this!-smart office 365

Cyber Bullying is Not OK

Now no body is watching

Bullying has always been a problem for young children. Every parent can look back on their childhood and think of times when they themselves were bullied but how has technology changed bullying?

What is Cyber Bullying?

Cyber Bullying is any form of harassment done through a technological devices. And with technology comes many new ways to bully, including:

1.Gossip: posting or sending false/ true information that would ruin a person’s reputation

2.Exclusion: simply excluding someone from an online group

3.Impersonation: going on somebody’s online accounts (such as email or facebook) and sending messages that would cause embarrassment to the individual.

4.Harassment: posting or sending rude messages repeatedly to someone.

5.Cyberstalking: sending intimidating messages, including threats.

6.Flaming: online fights where offensive messages are posted on a public internet site.

7.Outing and Trickery: causing someone to reveal secrets or embarrassing information and then is posted online

8.Cyberthreats: messages on the internet implying violent behavior

Why Cyber Bullying?

The internet gives people false power, also known as the Online Disinhibition Effect. While on the internet people will say and do things that they normally would not do in the presence of people. Cyber Bullies take advantage of this false power and use it to their advantage. The internet not only shelters the bully from seeing the true effects of the harassment it also in some cases shelters the bully from even being known.

The Effects.

Bullying leads to first and for most isolation, which can then progress to depression and decrease in performance in pleasurable activities and school. 

My Thoughts.

With new technology comes new challenges and barriers to overcome. Like mentioned before bullying has been around forever but not to the extent it is today. In today’s society children have no escape from bullying, due to electronics they can now be bullied in their own homes. Parents need to talk to their children about the importance of standing up to bullies and reporting them. When youth stand up against bullying they are successful in stopping  57% of the bullying behavior in less than 10 seconds!

Anti-bullying campaigns continue to be integrated into the school curriculum but maybe we need to address the problem before the bullying begins. I think a program that helps troubled kids at school would be truly beneficial, especially since it is a well known fact that kids that have been bullied whether at home or at school usually progress to become the bully later on. There has to be a way to unite children as a whole and to allow society to finally get over the “bullying stage” that every child has to over come.

KEEP CALM AND STOP CYBER BULLYING.

If you need tips on how to stand up to bullying check out: Stand up 2 Bullying at

http://www.redcross.ca/article.asp?id=24700&tid=108

Believe or Not. Without mobile data people still can travel.

Guys!!! Who loves to travel? Do raise your hand please..

Peeps! you don't have to worried anymore if your android phones or smartphones are not using a data connection to have a data roaming when you are outside of your country. This because your android phone can help you to give a travel guide without using a data connection. Interesting right! It may save your pocket money during travel from waste your money with data roaming.  

Leave the paper maps, outdated travel guides, and thick dictionaries at home when you go traveling — all you need is an Android smartphone. You can do everything offline with features built into Android and free apps.

Take advantage of these tricks and you can travel without using your data connection, possibly saving thousands of dollars on exorbitantly expensive roaming data fees without giving up the convenience of your smartphone.

Offline Maps

Google Maps on Android has offline support. This feature was previously considered experimental, but it’s now stable. You can download map areas to your phone to view offline. When you’re in the area, you can open Google Maps and use your smartphone’s GPS as well as the saved maps to view where you are. You don’t need to stumble around with a traditional paper map.

Google Maps doesn’t provide offline navigation, which means you can’t ask it for directions — but you can see where you are on the map. If you ask Google Maps for directions when you’re on a Wi-Fi connection and then go offline, you can continue to follow the directions and view your location on the map completely offline. Only searching for directions requires a Wi-Fi connection.

To download maps for use offline, open Google Maps, tap the Menu button, and select Make Available Offline. Select a map region and tap Done — your phone will download it for use offline.

You can manage your offline maps from under My Places. Offline maps areas are listed under the Offline category.

Offline Translation, Voice Recognition, and Speech

Google Translate now has support for offline translation. You can download dictionaries and use the Google Translate app to translate words and phrases between languages, just as you would in a web browser.

Better still, Android 4.2 includes offline speech-to-text and text-to-speech features. If you have a smartphone running Android 4.2, you can also download the appropriate language support for use offline. This will allow you to speak words into your phone and have them translated in Google Translate. You can also use Google Translate to have your smartphone speak a foreign-language word back to you — all offline.

To get started, download the official Google Translate app for Android. Open it, tap the menu button, and select Offline Languages. Download the languages you want to use offline. The Google Translate app will now work normally for these languages, even when you’re offline.

On Android 4.2, you can install offline voice support by opening your phone’s Settings screen, tapping Language & input, and tapping the Settings button to the right of Google voice typing.

Tap Download offline speech recognition and download the languages you want to use offline. You can then speak these languages into your phone or have them spoken back to you in all apps, including the Google Translation app.

Travel Guides

In the age before the Internet, people purchased travel guides made of paper. These travel guides contained maps, lists of attractions, information about the local customs, and other such information that would be useful to a traveler in the area. We don’t need such travel guides anymore with the Internet — but what about when you’re offline?

Several different organizations produce free travel guide apps for Android, but we foundTripAdvisor’s apps were the best. TripAdvisor offers city-specific travel guide apps for locations like New York, Paris, Rome, London, and more. Install one of the apps and you’ll have a variety of useful offline features, such as the ability to find restaurants and attractions nearby, view offline reviews, and get pointed there using your device’s GPS. You can also locate nearby transit stations, view nearby ATMs, and even use an offline map — just in case Google Maps doesn’t work right.

To use one of TripAdvisor’s travel guides, first download it from Google Play. You must launch the app and download its content before it will work offline.

Finding Wi-Fi Hotspots

Offline apps are great, but you’ll probably want to get online occasionally. To do this, you’ll need to find a Wi-Fi hotspot. Wi-Fi hotspots aren’t available everywhere, however — finding them can sometimes be a challenge. JiWire’s WiFi Finder is a free app that can download a database of Wi-Fi hotspots to your phone. You can then open the app, view how far away you are from these known Wi-Fi hotspots, and make your way towards them.

After you’ve installed the app, open it, tap the Menu button, and tap Download Database to download its database of Wi-Fi hotspots to your device.

p/s: So guys!! Don't you afraid anymore to travel if you don't have a mobile data to guide your vacation. Let's travel! 

For more details you also may enter the following links:

sources: www.travelguides.com

Technology Makes Women More Easier at Kitchen

What can make women easy do their job when at the kitchen?

of course technology! yeah.

Technology brings the cooks and food faster to deliver and for sure fast to eat. :)

Sometimes I am wonder what people from generations before ours would think if they could see how technology today has infiltrated our lives.  It’s all around us, and even the kitchen is no exception! I’m constantly on the lookout for things that make my life easier, more productive, and well- just more enjoyable, too!  

Enter the Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Are you guys all familiar with the Microsoft Surface?  I also not familiar with this before this. But, after I discover this when I read article from www.ourbestbites.com , I do believe it was interesting for us to easier the job. It's very interesting if we can measure the excitement. In all fairness, it is a tablet, but the most amazing thing about it, to me, is that it has the power of a laptop.  It acts just like a computer that we can bring anywhere. It can do all the stuff that computer does, just in a sleeker, lighter, more portable outfit.

One of my favorite things about the basic construction of this device is the built in kickstand.  No special case or stand needed, the back panel of the incredibly thin, and light device, pivots out to place it at the perfect angle.

It works in both horizontal and vertical orientations, and makes typing, reading, and general use incredibly feasible.

The large screen (it’s 12-inches, that’s really good sized) has a brilliant display and makes it easy to follow along with the favorite recipes.   

The Surface Pro 3 has an awesome Food & Drink Section built right in, and I've been impressed with how user-focused it is, making it easy to get organized and feel productive.  

With Surface Pro 3 too, you can search for recipes, including featured daily eats,

or browse through an impressive collection to find new things to try.

There are plenty of apps to download from the Microsoft Store

If you want, you can even browse by chef to find your inner culinary genius.

And when you do find it, add your waves of brilliance to your customized meal plan.  Keep notes, link recipes, or enter your own and have a great overview of your week.

In this grocery list, what we can do is, we can divide it into the different stores that we need to stop by, and with one simple click we can print it out to pop in our purse and take along with us. Wow interesting right!

And while we’re on the topic of lists and notes and trying to appear organized, I am in LOVE with OneNote. 

It’s an amazing organizational notebook tool but in the kitchen specifically, it may helps use it a lot for our recipe development. One click of that pen and it opens right up.

This awesome pen feels just like a normal pen, only smoother.  And since the tablet itself is the size of a normal sheet of paper, it’s so easy and comfortable to write on as can take notes just like we would on paper, with arrows, color coding, notes, scribbles and everything. You can even click in a colorful keyboard to really turn this tablet into a portable laptop.

It’s thin and light, but the weighted keys make typing feel like a normal computer, if tablet-typing isn’t your thing.  Plus they come in tons of fun colors!  You can easily get to work (or play) on the go, and all of the programs you’re used to from the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) are right there.

How many of you out there already own a Microsoft Surface?  What’s your favorite feature?  If you don’t already have one- what do you love the most from what you see??

For more details, can go through:

www.micrsurfacepro.com

www.ourbestbites.com 

IS TECHNOLOGY MAKING US UNHEALTHY?

Hello guys? 

What do you feels today? Laziness? 

A..aa... you SHOULD NOT to have this feeling. Because it can make you more unhealthy and maybe some day you can be like this. BEWARE!

Of course we know that with the current upgrade in technology people can do less work for more but what effects is this having on our health?

Physically

When we think of the physical effects of technology we probably first think OBESITY. We now know that technology promotes a sedentary lifestyle that has been proven to link technology with obesity. As the picture below depicts it is not only the choice of technology over physical activity that is causing obesity it is the activities that we do while we are using technology that effect our health as well. We associate movies and video games with potato chips and popcorn. These two unhealthy choices combined have tripled child obesity in the last 25 years.

Another physical effect that is less known is “text thumb” and “text neck.” These are aches and pains that develop due to over usage of phones. Now- a- days people are using their phones for an average of 2 hours per day using this time to text, play games, and search the web. Researchers believe that due to the tiny buttons on phones and the posture of the users these aches and pains are the most common.

Psychologically

A researcher named Richard Louv discovered the nature- deficit disorder. He describes it “not as a medical diagnosis, but as a way to describe the price we pay for alienation from the natural world.” He believes that the lack of nature that is accompanied with greater use in technology causes decrease in intelligence and creativity.

My Thoughts and Suggestions

The newer generations will grow up in a world full of technology; creating negative and positive effects. Although many of us rely on technology in our everyday lives we must learn to appreciate nature. There has to be a balance.I did not write this blog in hopes of people to become tree hugging hippies with no sense of the “real world.” I wrote this blog to show that there truly are positives and negatives of everything we do in life. Technology has done wonders for our world and I could not go a day without it but I find the days I enjoy the most is when I can escape from all that and go and enjoy nature.

Hope you guys enjoy the entry! and after this no more laziness life ok! 

Keep Calm and Stay Healthy. :)

IT? What's that.

This page is to fulfill my MBA course for MIS750 subject at UiTM Shah Alam. 

What is Information Technology (IT) guys? 

Does IT means I Teach?..I Touch?.. I Tension? haha

How to define?hmmmmmm...hmm...hm...

Ahha...let's ask Mr.Google! 

So, according to Mr.Google, IT Information Technology, which is also known as IT, is a term that usually refers to the use of all types of technology to store, protect content, processing and transmitting of important information as well as to create information. 

Ohh... Now I do understand you.Thank you Mr.Google for sharing your info with me. :)