# Monday, December 31, 2007

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This is a Wacom Graphire 4 Digitizer Tablet, but of course you can't be blamed if you can't tell since it seems to be still wrapped in it's shipping packaging. It's hard enough to read the box to see what it is, and it's impossible to read the features list off the back of the box.

When I told the workers that I needed to take a look at the box and thus I needed to rip up the shipping packaging. He said "we can't open it unless you want to buy."

Wait... you mean it'll be like a lottery then? I buy something that I don't even know exactly what it is?

Ghheeeezzz....


Monday, December 31, 2007 11:28:02 PM (Malay Peninsula Standard Time, UTC+08:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
And here's the roundup for last year's gear. Maybe this will turn into an annual affair?

Monday, December 31, 2007 3:30:41 PM (Malay Peninsula Standard Time, UTC+08:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Thursday, December 27, 2007

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I bought Silverlit Palm-Z plane to show WZ how a plane flys around, instead I end up teaching him a valuable lesson about QA, after ripping it out of the box, waiting about 10mins for the plane to charge from the controller, I turned on the plane I slide the throttle forward and the propeller roars to life... for the whole of one second! Puzzled, I slid the throttle up and down but there was no response. Eventually after trying for a while the prop came to life for a few more seconds.. and has never ever spun since.

Bloody hell!!!! Maybe I should have just bought one of those cheap RC cars and have WZ chase it around instead?

Hope Jusco accepts my return or there's gonna be hell.


Gear | Gen 2
Thursday, December 27, 2007 11:26:09 PM (Malay Peninsula Standard Time, UTC+08:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 
# Tuesday, December 25, 2007
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This seems to be one of the more easily available portable 5V power supplies right now. They seem to be sold almost everywhere phones are sold, and come with a variety of power tips. And since we're talking about cheap China made knock offs of each other, some of them would come with only one tip, some of them would come with a few.

I managed to score one which came with a USB Mini A tip among a few others, I'll now see if I can find a Mini A to A female converter before I splice one of the cables with a socket.

The main difference between this and the other portable power sources which I have is that this thing uses AA batteries to provide the power instead of an internal rechargeable battery. This means that as long as you can find AA batteries you can keep recharging your phone, that's of course better than using the hand cranker in a pinch I guess. But is of course bad in the sense that you have to keep buying more batteries if you want to use this. The packaging states that an input voltage of 1.2V to 1.5V is supported, so you should be able to use rechargeable batteries in this.

Nice to have if you're the type of person that SOMETIMES run out of power for you phone when you're on the move, why sometimes? Cause if you were using the other rechargeable battery packs, they might have ran low on juice while in storage in your bag whereas since this uses batteries, at least in a pinch you can just slap in a AA to do the charging.

Got this for RM35 at Low Yat Plaza


Tuesday, December 25, 2007 6:13:02 PM (Malay Peninsula Standard Time, UTC+08:00)  #    Comments [0]  | 

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God damnit! How dare you make me wait 30 minutes and then still have to gall to say that you've FORGOTTEN TO TAKE THE ORDER and NOT suggest giving us a free meal as a form of apology!

Never ever coming back to this place again!

Edit : Interesting point to note is how fast it took from the incident to having this post up... almost instantaneous, so... remember not to upset customers that are accessing the internet with their computers, cause it's very likely anything bad immediately gets blogged.


Tuesday, December 25, 2007 3:24:41 PM (Malay Peninsula Standard Time, UTC+08:00)  #    Comments [0]  |