IT/ Computing

Family Management Made Easy

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As of late, I stumbled upon a family management website. It’s a comprehensive, one stop family management website made easy. Take a look at the vid:

AboutOne is an online family management system with a touch of magic.  It is one place that is accessible anytime, anywhere from any device. In just seconds you can store, secure, and manage what matters most: precious memories and household information. If you’re familiar with the social networking platform like Facebook, you’d find this portal very easy to use.

By taking a few seconds to record events in AboutOne, from any location, any device (phone or scanner), and at any time – right when they happen or later when you have a free moment – you’ll have quick access to that information when you need it in the future.

Printables are the real magic of AboutOne. Your posts are automatically combined, saving you time on everyday chores like creating family newsletters, scrapbooks, beautiful hard-cover memory books or baby-books, and creating and mailing holiday cards; or completing school forms, college applications, caregiver instructions, and tax returns (for example capital gains on a sold property). With AboutOne Printables, we take what you are already doing, and give back even more to save you time, and help you be prepared for those inevitable life events.

The AboutOne Inbox makes it so simple to capture memories as they happen and add them to AboutOne. Simply snap a photo from your phone, type in the memory description, and some facts that you want to remember forever about that memory, and email it to inbox@aboutone.com. The next time you login to your AboutOne account you’ll see the new items in your inbox that can be assigned to a family member, relationship or home picture, or automatically included in your digital scrapbook and family newsletter as a memory. Plus any member of your family can send memories to the AboutOne Inbox—spouses out of town for business, kids away at college, just add their email address to their profile and they will have full usage of the inbox feature!

Each family member has their own page where you can enter the memories, photos, and activities they participate in. You can also upload important documents like birth certificates or passports so that you have them in case of an emergency. In addition you get fun facts about the year each member of your family was born including: birth stone, flower, who the president of the United States was and what the price of milk, bread, and gas was that year.

This portal is something like Facebook, only it’s more secure and family oriented. And if you’d like to manage your family data in a more systematic way, this is the place to go!

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Historical Attraction and Networking Support in Harrogate

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Remember my recent entry on the beautiful town of Harrogate, folks? Harrogate is not just famous for its spa, but it’s also famous for it’s historical attractions. Most prominent historical attraction in Harrogate is the Royal Pump Museum as well as the Fountain Abbey.

The well famed Fountains Abbey was founded by a small group of Cistercian monks in the year 1133, and it is a world heritage site. The Abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII in 1539. Yea… Henry VIII… the same King of England who had 6 wives, and was well noted not only for bringing literature and plays in his court, but also famous for chopping the heads of his two Queens down.

The Fountain Abbey is a well conserved ruins. And it is said to be the largest monastic ruins in England.

It’s set near River Skell valley, with the river running underneath the Abbey.The scenery  in the Abbey is really captivating, and if you happened to go exploring the many passages, staircases and towers, the place will easily transport you back to the medieval world of the monks.

While Harrogate is well noted for it’s bath houses as well as various historical attraction, Harrogate is not exactly trapped in the medieval era. Harrogate is well noted for keeping up the technology too.

If you happen to drop by in Harrogate, you’d be surprised that despite of the ancient look that the town adopted, there’s well set up network support for tourist who’re there to mix business with pleasure.

And if you’re worried about being disconnected from the IT world while you’re in Harrogate, well,fret not. There’s no reason you should be worried as the network support over there is superb, and there’s always IT Support Harrogate to seek advice from if you ever need IT Support advices and services.

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Bigger value with iTalk Whoa

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Whoa! Aidilfitri is maybe over for most of us in Malaysia, but not for the folks in iTalk Whoa. They’re still in their celebratory mood, and to spread the joy around, the nice folks in iTalk Whoa decided to share their good mood and good fortune with us all by giving us all 20% ADDITIONAL talktime automatically credited into your account if you activate/reload your iTalk card from 1st September 2010 until 31st October 2010.

Whoa, isn’t that great? Of course it’s great. This would definitely benefit those who are residing overseas and missing home terribly. With this promotion, those who are celebrating raya and whatnot in oversea could extend their festive moods and stay connected with their loved ones EVEN LONGER with MORE VALUE for their pocket.

If you’re wondering how much you’ll be getting when you reload or activate our cards on during promotional dates, just look at the table below… that’s what you will get when you activate or reload your iTalk card during the promotional dates.

Denomination Extra Talktime
RM50 RM10
RM30 RM6
RM20 RM4

And want to know a juicy secret? iTalk credits, can actually be used to purchase online contents on all TM sites listed below (you know, music, mp3, newspaper contents, wallpaper and whatots)

B-SmartXpress (www.bluehyppo.com)
MUTV online (www.hypp.tv/manutd)
The amount will be deducted from iTalk… yups… it’s that easy… so what are you folks waiting for… if you haven’t purchase your iTalk card yet, be sure to do it and activate it before 31st October 2010. 😀
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IT/ Computing, Product review

Auspicious number

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Did you know that the Chinese always considers 8 as a lucky number? They try to include the number 8 in everything in their lives, be it phone numbers,  car registration numbers, wedding dates, and many more. 8 is considered an auspicious number while 4 is associated with deaths. If you are a superstitious person and wanted to include an auspicious number for your phone, you can do so now by registering for 08 numbers.

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Interactive Voice Response

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Hate  missed calls and engaged lines? Say goodbye to missed calls and engaged lines with IVR. IVR is s a system used to partially or fully automate your incoming calls.

I’m sure most of you know that many call centres are using interactive voice response technology as an Auto Attendant to guide their callers through to the relevant department.

It reduces human recourse as it replaces the job of the receptionist and the caller can get straight through to their desired department quicker and more efficiently.

Need this for your company? Look up the link above. And you’ll be glad that you did.

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Push your email to mobile with iTalk Whoa

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Heyya folks, remember my iTalk Whoa blog post quite some time ago? I wonder how many of you have registered to use iTalk Whoa? If you haven’t, it’s high time you register for an iTalk Whoa account HERE.

For those who are already an iTalk Whoa user, please bear with me. Today I’d like to share with you one of my most favourite iTalk Whoa function. It’s email function. I’m guilty of having too many email accounts, and therefore, iTalk Whoa is perfect for people like me… a scatterbrain who often forgets which thing is which what thing is to be done on what day.

iTalk Whoa email function allows you to to get new email from other email account such as yahoo mail, gmail or hotmail and reunite all of those email accounts into one portal. yes, that’s right. in just one portal. You even can set your office email into iTalk Whoa account by configuring it into iTalk Whoa mail setting. Isn’t that great? This way, there’s not so much hassle when you’re dealing with your multiple email account.

Besides centralizing many email account into just one portal, iTalk Whoa also have a Pushmail feature.  Pushmail feature is a feature that enables emails to be pushed to mobile. And guess what’s the best part of it? This does not only work on Blackberry mobile, but any other smart mobile phone without the need of a local client.

In other word, by using iTalk Whoa, whenever you receive emails, your emails will be instantly be pushed to your mobile, and you can read it on your mobile anytime you wishes. great for busy people who always need to be in touch with their contacts. By using iTalk Whoa, you don’t need to be afraid to miss any datelines or any important emails, cuz it’ll be redirected to your phone instantly. The iTalk Whoa Pushmail supports a number of different mobile device and users can choose the mobile device that suits them best.

You know something? iTalk Whoa is not just  for tweeting, watching youtube, adding contacts and planning events on the calender but also for checking email while you are traveling.

In this hi-tech era, people make use of the mobile device for both business and personal reasons, setting up iTalk Whoa mail to forward email to a mobile device is an efficient way to keep track of office and personal activities or information.

Are you an iTalk user and don’t know how to set the Pushmail function? Here’s how you do it:

To create rules for receiving notification, log in to your iTalk Whoa account, then go to PushMail Settings > Create your preferred account (YAHOO, HOTMAIL, Gmail, Google apps, etc). It’s as easy as ABC and 123, and after configuring it, you’re all set to receive your email on your mobile. 😀 Convenient, isn’t it?

Cleffairy: Life’s like WHOA!

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Celcom Broadband Introduces New Entry Package

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Disclaimer: This is NOT a paid post. This is a news release posted for the benefit of Over A Cuppa Tea readers.

I’ve received an exclusive media invite from Celcom Axiata Berhad to attend their Press Conference at Celcom Tower at 10 am this morning where they introduced new entry package to encourage higher Broadband penetration rate.

Celcom Axiata Berhad [formerly known as Celcom (Malaysia) Berhad] is proud to announce its new Broadband packages that start from as low as RM48 per month, as compared with RM68 per month previously.

During the promotional period, starting now till end of August, all new sign-ups for Celcom Broadband packages will be offered a RM10 discount, bringing the price even lower to RM38, for the first three months.

Celcom’s mobile broadband offerings are divided into three packages, namely Entry, Basic and Advance with various speeds and Fair Usage Policy (FUP) limits.

Entry package costs RM48 per month with 1GB FUP limit. The Basic plan is priced at RM68 with 3GB FUP limit while the Advance package is available for RM98 a month with 5GB FUP limit.

Jefri Ahmad Tambi, Director of Broadband (middle); Rohaya Yusof, Vice President of Broadband Technology (right) and Harcharan Singh, Head of Broadband and Product Commercial (left) launching the new Celcom Broadband Entry Package at only RM48

This revamp is also in line with the Government’s call for more affordable packages to encourage higher broadband penetration, especially in rural areas. The Entry Package also comes with FREE USB modem.

Jefri Ahmad Tambi, Director of Broadband (seated) showing off Celcom Broadband’s USB modem while Rohaya Yusof, Vice President of Broadband Technology (standing, right) and Harcharan Singh, Head of Broadband and Product Commercial (standing, left) looked on

The introduction of these new packages is in conjunction with Celcom’s market leadership in mobile broadband since its inception three years ago and also in celebration of Celcom having been acknowledged as the “Wireless Data Service Provider of the Year” during the recent 2010 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards held in Singapore as well as garnering the “Broadband Service Provider of the Year” Award at the 2010 Frost & Sullivan Malaysia Telecoms Awards.

Jefri Ahmad Tambi, Director of Broadband giving a detailed presentation on Celcom’s Broadband and its new packages

Amongst the planned activities to improve Celcom’s network quality includes upgrading of existing sites and enhancing its network coverage. Coverage wise, Celcom is the only mobile broadband service provider that covers almost all districts nationwide. On top of that, 900 additional new sites nationwide will be installed by end of the year. Celcom will also introduce Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) 900 in rural areas to provide extended 3G service. At the end of the year, Celcom aims to cover at least 76% of the population.

Celcom has also planned to increase its capacity by four fold by end of the year via upgrading its existing sites to High Speed Packet Access Plus (HSPA+) or High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA), migrating its sites to Internet Protocol-enabled (IP-enabled) base stations and fiberising all key backhaul nodes. Celcom has also commissioned new IP transit in Kuching to cater for increasing broadband demand in Sabah and Sarawak.

For more information on their current promotion and offers, CLICK HERE


Cleffairy: Thinking of getting going mobile and staying connected all the time? Go for Celcom Broadband. They’re offering the lowest price of only RM38 for all new sign-ups during promotional period.

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All About Service Provider

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Sometimes, men are just like Internet service provider. They provide a roof over your head, decent food on the table, occasional sex when they feel like it and they get you somewhere by driving you out and accompany you when you need a chauffeur. They also serve as a good distraction when your mind is about to blow up as a result of being too much around a bunch of misbehaved children who can’t seems to just listen to you when you make effort to talk to them.

Like many many Internet service providers, no matter how good they are, men are not faultless. They are not perfect, though pretty much of them would love to believe otherwise. Some men could not accept truth. They wanted to be perfect, and therefore, an excuse for them to find solace outside of marriage.

Despite of the good service, there’s always noise (read: a communication term) as well as interference that’s caused by many factors. These service disruptions are often  caused by decrease of revenues, political issues, hardware malfunction, failing business strategies, and many more.

More often than not, unavoidable problems like these will caused you to be disconnected, and when you called up their toll free number to complain, which they always claim to be at your service all the time, regardless day or night, you will be put on hold for many countless minutes that can go up to hours.

Talking to these…’operators’ can really irk you. They never fail to annoy you and frustrate you. And instead of getting your problems solved, more problems will arise, because they don’t actually solve your problems. They delegate it elsewhere… either that, or your complaints will be disregard or served as another occupational hazards.

It is intolerable, but what choice do you actually have when you’re placed in such predicament?

Not many, isn’t it? Not when you’re binded by a legal contract that could not be broken unless you’re willing to compensate and bear the consequences by terminating the contract.

There’s always…. damages to your pocket, and your way of life when you decide to terminate a contract. This is pretty common when you’re dealing with Internet Service Providers.

And most would be unwilling to terminate the contract because they either not willing to deal with the loss or not willing to go through the hassle of starting over with a new service provider. I have to say, that sometimes, comfort zone could really cost a fortune. It stops us from venturing and trying new things and new products, and indirectly, it stops us from advancing as well.

Would it be sufficient to say that even though we’re unsatisfied with a certain service provider, we tend to stick to the one that is monopoly-ing the market because we’re wary of such nonsense, and refuse to deal with the problems all over again with a new service provider?

Cleffairy: When your ISP fails you, or annoy you, you actually have the option of not going online for a while. After all it is just fools who builds their social life by just online, and online alone. There’s much more to life than just Facebook, blogs and Twitters. Only the blind, the dumb, and the deaf would put such value to it.

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Make IDD Call with iTalk Whoa

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Remember my previous entry where I introduced iTalk Whoa not long ago? Kindly allow me to elaborated further.

iTalk Whoa is multi- function,  but one function that’s very useful for the users is that it enables the users to make IDD (Internet Direct Dialing)calls.

This is a very useful feature for me. As an author, I’ve always have the need to communicate with my publishers who are residing in the US and UK since I opt to not publish in Malaysia for the time being. International calls usually cost a bomb and more often than not, the calls burn a large hole in my pocket. I’m quite a Scrooge, and therefore, I loathe making International calls. There’s too much hassle.

iTalk Whoa IDD feature has an easy-to-use interface especially for us to make calls. By using this feature I can call not only my publishers, but my family who resides in the oversea as well and save myself the hassle of paying the bills.

Making IDD call is very easy with iTalk Whoa. Login into your account, hover to the ‘Mail’ section and click an icon that is a shortcut to the VOIP dialer that lurks in the ‘Mail’ tab.

Just type the number click “Dial” when the box that serves as a dialer appeared. Easy peasy. If you forgot the country code, fret not, as the country of your choice would appear in the dialing box. All you need to do, is just choose the country of your choice, and key in the number, and you’re good to go.

iTalk Whoa IDD call rates are cheap. They’re 10% lesser than the normal rates. Check out the rates HERE.

Sure, some of you will say, why not use Skype? But there is some problem when people use Skype, that is the clarity problem when you make those calls. I’ve encountered such problem countlessly, and it annoyed me as I couldn’t get my message across. There’s often miscommunication between me and the person on the line.

So far, iTalk Whoa does not have this problem. I could hear the person on the line much clearer than when using Skype.

I’ve had tested it and I’m very with the clarity when I made an IDD call to my publishers in UK and US. The call did not lag, and there’s no echo as well. 😀 Isn’t that great?

Start making calls with iTalk Whoa today, and if you haven’t had an account, be sure to register HERE and start saving your money when you make a long distance call.

Cleffairy: iTalk Whoa is a Windows based application. Kindly use IE6 to use it.

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Twitter Down: Over Capacity, Ellie Potvin’s Death

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As of June 24, approximately about 12:20 am GMT+8, Twitter was down. (AGAIN). Reason: Over capacity, and I was cursing like mad. I was terribly upset. Upset to my very core. Why?

It’s not because I am a Twitter addict that I get extremely upset with the crashing downtime. It was because I was observing something very important to me as a mum, and yet, Twitter crashed, all because of you nincompoops out there who are terribly inconsiderate that you used twitter for shitty, bitchy conversations instead of using it as a microblogging platform to spread news and important matters,  causing the Twitter’s server to crash terribly. This pissed me off, as I was in the middle of something important, much more important than your freaking bitchy messages.

Don’t you creeps dare to tell me that twitter is for that sort of use, because in truth, it is not! Fucking fools! Do you seriously think people are interested in your shitting conversation with each other like ” Oh, I need to bathe”, ” My pussy had STD… yeast infection, bla bla bla!” or “Oh, I need to wash my smelly pussy” or even  “I like to fuck with some horny married men, they’re nice to fool around with and it’s nice to see their wife get pissed!”.

Good Lord, there are things known as Internet messengers for such bitchy, slutty conversations, you know? Why can’t you creeps be more considerate to those who are not interested in your public fucking, literally? You no good shits are just cluttering and polluting Twitter.

Do I need to tell you useless nincompoops that there is a function in Twitter known as ‘DM’ that allows you to directly reach the intended recipient instead of letting everyone who is following you know what the fuck you want to convey to your intended ones?

If you motherfuckers and bitches doesn’t know how to use such platform and is IT illiterate, kindly stay away from such thing. You folks are an abomination. Twitter is not for abominations such as yourself who knows nothing about decency.

Your inconsiderate actions are absolutely revolting, and I cannot tolerate such nonsense any longer, not when I know that using Twitter for useless, idle private conversations could actually bring it down.

A few messages is fine, but a few full hours of public conversations? THAT IS INTOLERABLE. Foolish creeps. Don’t you folks actually have a life, conversing on Twitter all the time? I guess you folks don’t. Perhaps born with a silver spoon in your blow-job expert of a mouth!

FUCK YOU! Or you’d prefer to be gang banged? Since you folks are so shameless?

I had enough, and I am going to clear you shits from my Twitter and just leave those who are important to me. No offense, but let’s just say I am not interested in reading your freaking conversations where one thing lead to another.

To me, Twitter is not to be used to converse. It ought to be used as an effective announcement system. You have MSN, Yahoo and God knows what else messenger for your personal conversation. The rest of the world does not need to endure your shitty poops as well as your STD infected dick or pussies!

Call me negative and old fashion. While you shits were busy Tweeting about your freaking daily life or tweeting about how your shits looks like in the toilet bowl before you flush it down, I ought to let you know that while you folks were busy tweeting and conversing with one another and eating up Twitter’s server bandwidth, an 8 year old child had passed on because of cancer.

While you folks were busy telling the entire world how sleepy you are or moody you are and wanting to go back to sleep and whatnot, the parents of the child who passed away were using Twitter to convey messages around about their dying daughter DURING HER FINAL HOUR.

Thanks to you nincompoops, people all around the world could not join in and offer prayers and words of comfort. Geez, thank you very much, bitches and bastards. You folks really made my day.

And in honour of Ellie Shoal Potvin, an 8 years old child who finally passed away after years of suffering Rhabdomyosarcomas on 23rd June 2010, I’m going to clean up my Twitter from you shitty bitches and bastards for good!

RIP, Ellie Shoal Potvin, 31st October 2001- 23rd June 2010

Cleffairy: This is a special message to those who claimed to have illness and whatnot and always complaining endlessly on Twitter: If you people are really suffering from serious illness, Twitter is not the place for you. Go to CARING BRIDGE instead. Caring Bridge helps you stay connected with loved ones during a serious health event, and even help you raise funds for your illness as well. And no, this is not a freaking sponsored post or review. This is plain Cleffairy speaking! GRRR!

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