What's Buzzing? - Saving Battery Life for Tablet PC

There does not seem to be a 100% solution to this problem as the battery life seems to have gone down again.The last 2 days, it has happened when Wifi is on. However it only takes an hour or so to recharge to full capacity again. When the battery life goes down, it usually goes down to around 40% which means there is still another 2 to 3  hours of usage in it.

What's Buzzing? - Saving Battery Life for Tablet PC

I had to reduce the brightness of my tablet pc in order to make the battery life last longer. This can be done by going into Settings and then Brightness. At first I thought that this would not look good but after reducing to 25% of its full brightness , it still looked pretty cool. Update: Seems like this may not be the real reason for the sudden drop in battery life though it does help to extend it a little. Still trying to find out the real cause of it.

Appears to be some applications running in the background that could be causing it. I have been using Android Assistant and Super Task Killer to minimise the problem.   So far has not happened in the last few hours. I used the Startup Manager in Android Assistant to stop many applications from running at startup.  As usual, I also turned off Wifi when not using it.

What's Buzzing?- Built two styluses for my tablet pc

I reshared my last post again as it did not come out right after sharing from this tablet - took me a week to find out!

I built two styluses for my tablet pc.  I tried quite a few materials - sponge, batteries, conducting foam etc.  and seems like the conducting foam which had been used for a cpu appear to work best. (Update: The plastic with aluminium foil which is used for packaging some  potato chips and coffee can also be used.  Probably a better alternative  as they are more easily available. Video is as shown below. Note that there are other ways of doing it but this one seems have the best precision so far.)


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What's Buzzing?: Bought a tablet pc for RM169

Finally, I bought a tablet pc at the Malaysia IT Fair in Ipoh. It cost me only RM169 - one of those China made ones  from a company called Hanrit. Has last me more than a week now. Have been doing quite a few things with it. Am typing this with the tablet pc. Have to attach a keyboard and mouse to its micro usb port to do so (connected a usb  hub to the port first). The touch keyboard is too small for serious typing. The tablet comes with a free cover which cost about RM20 and a small stylus that probably cost about RM4.

Overall I am quite pleased with  the product. It is quite good for reading and watching videos. I was a bit disappointed that Maxima, the mathematics software was not so user friendly but I guess that is to be expected for now as the Android version is still in its early stages.

Retirement Dream

So I had my first retirement dream a few weeks ago and told some people I had more or less retired.  Took a few weeks off from blogging as well. I would still be blogging and doing the usual stuff but maybe in a more relaxed manner. Who knows - I may come out of retirement soon but for now, I guess I am still  in retirement mode.

Shooting Of MyWatch Chairman

The chairman of the anti-crime watchdog, MyWatch, R. Sri Sanjeevan,was shot at close range at 4.30pm on Saturday in Negeri Sembilan. At the moment he is in critical but stable condition.

A special task force has been set up  to investigate the attempted murder but this has been met with some cynicism. This is probably because Sanjeevan had been  trying to expose police corruption and their links to the underworld. Sanjeevan had complained hours before he was gunned down that he received news that 'a cop had told some syndicate fellow that he would get them firearms' and planned shots to be fired at his house to scare him and his family.

What's Buzzing? Sago Gula Melaka With Fresh Coconut Milk

I  made sago gula melaka the other day and it tasted really nice. Recipe is quite straightforward. I boiled  150 gm of sago  in around 600 ml of water at first but I found it a bit too thick so I added  more water to it. I boiled at lower heat until the sago was transparent- took around 15 min. Many recipes in the internet suggest filtering it - I did  not do so but yet it still tasted nice with the gula melaka and fresh coconut milk.

The gula melaka was made in the ratio of 1:1 for gm and ml - in otherwords around 200 gm of gula melaka in 200 ml of water for example. I boiled   till all  the gula melaka had dissolved. Some people use less water so the syrup is very thick but it seems like what I have done so far is okay. If it gets too thick, it could stick to the pan making it difficult to wash.

All of the above  were left in the fridge for some time to cool. Then when ready to eat,  cold coconut milk was first added to the sago before  the gula melaka.  The fresh coconut milk can be  bought from the Kampung Simee market at RM3 for 500 gm.

I got a bit of diarrhea here though so I am not eating much of it today!