Are You Guilty Of Using Any Of These Passwords?

With all that Heartbleed Bug news, suddenly we’ve got thinking about the passwords we use. We’ve even had to go through the headache of thinking up new ones all over again (and if you haven’t, you definitely should – check here for which sites you should change now!).

It’s definitely interesting to see some of the ‘creative’ passwords users think of. Some are extraordinarily funny; some are just alright, while some are straight up common and could be guessed within a few seconds.

Some people use the events of their lives as their passwords (we’re serious!). For instance, we have a friend that uses the name of their ex followed by a horrid word to describe their nasty breakup. Perhaps it’s a way for these poor souls to vent their anger… somehow? We think it would only make us more frustrated, tapping out their name every day.

Then there’s always that fail safe… using the word “password” as their password. Believe it or not, this is actually one of the most common passwords used around the world. They actually believe that no would ever guess it, as it’s too obvious. It’s simply amazing how these people’s minds work, isn’t it?

15 Buku Untuk Cabar Pemikiran Anda

Seperti mana ada yang sukakan aktiviti cabaran fizikal seperti rock climbing, water rafting, para-gliding dan lain lain, pastinya ada diantara kita yang sukakan bacaan yang mencabar pemikiran, yang bertentangan dengan pendapat peribadi sendiri atau norma masyarakat. Terminologi thought provokingselalu digunakan untuk menggambarkan buku buku sebegini.

Selain daripada unsur unsur thought provoking, sesuatu bacaan yang mencabar ialah apabila ia sarat dengan kronologi peristiwa, fakta dan terma asing dalam subjek yang bukan bidang kepakaran kita.

Kesemua bahan bacaan yang mempunyai unsur dinyatakan di atas, jatuh dalam kategori mencabar pemikiran pembaca. Ianya baik untuk mencambahkan corak berfikir, memahami perkara atau konsep baru dan dapat berpartisipasi dalam proses berfikir yang digarap oleh penulis. Lazimnya pembaca tidak perlu setuju 100% dengan argumen yang dibawa oleh penulis. Ini kerana konten buku adalah untuk merancakkan percambahan idea tanpa obligasi untuk bersetuju sepenuhnya dengan penulis. Budaya ini adalah sangat baik untuk melatih pembaca meraikan pandangan dan sudut fikir orang lain.

Kami senaraikan 15 buah buku yang akan mencabar pemikiran anda dari segi, penerimaan & kefahaman fakta, kronologi, terma kewangan, sejarah, serta sudut pandang sosial yang berbeza atau kata lain, thought provoking.

Kids, do you know what this is?

Before Spotify, people used to drive around listening to music on this relic, the car stereo.

Collectors and music fans wearing the T-shirts of obscure rock bands brave the tropical heat outside a record store near Malaysia’s capital, Kuala Lumpur, waiting to get their hands on new cassette tapes.

No, this isn’t a flashback to the 1980s, but an event marking recent International Cassette Store Day, an annual celebration of a music format once thought headed for extinction but now enjoying a rebirth.

Vinyl’s renaissance is well-documented and now it seems cassettes are rising from the grave, with artists such as Kanye West and Justin Bieber releasing songs on tape.

In South-East Asia low production costs and a retro-cool image have made cassettes an underground-music fixture, especially for struggling bands getting their name out.

“Cassettes are our best sellers,” Mohammad Radzi Jasni, owner of the store, Teenage Head Records, said after shoving one by Singaporean surf-punk band Force Vomit into a bulky tape player.

“They are still the best way to discover new bands here. It’s very affordable for the guys releasing it and the fans buying them,” he added.

Manufacturing costs can be as low as RM4 per tape in Malaysia, compared to RM60 to RM80 for a vinyl record. Vinyl’s cost is a hurdle for young bands and DIY labels in Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines.

Will You Be Able To Keep Your Home If You Lose Your Job?

After saving for years to buy your home, it seems too careless to lose it because of disability, illness or retrenchment. If you don’t have a plan B for these instances, how will you be able to make your home loan repayments?

Disability and death are covered by Mortgage Level Term Asssurance (MLTA) or Mortgage Reducing Term Assurance (MRTA), but what about retrenchment?

If the word ‘retrenchment’ doesn’t send chills down your spine, the stats below would likely make you shudder.

From January to September 2015 alone, more than 20,000 employees lost their jobs in Malaysia, and the retrenchment trend is expected to continue in 2017.  The truth is, job security is not what it used to be, and if you are unfortunate enough to be retrenched by your employer, getting another job immediately may not be as easy as well.

Hiring has also slowed significantly. Monster, a global online employment firm, said its year-over-year study of job postings on the Internet showed a 39% drop across all occupations and sectors in Malaysia.

Even jobs in the public sector were also harder to come by as the government froze hiring of civil servants except for critical positions last year.

Things Kids Of Today Won’t Understand

Today’s Kid Won’t Understand

Being a kid born prior to the millennium, I’ve had my fair share of VCR tapes, floppy disks and Beverly Hills 90210. Kids today are connected on their smartphones and tablets that they simply don’t understand the struggles of having to call on someone and see if they could come out and play after dinner.

While we were watching Saturday morning cartoons and gobbling down fruit loops, kids are now watching Keeping Up With The Kardasians while shopping online. While every generation has their perks, here are some things that children of today will never understand.

Dial-Up Internet

Waiting for someone to put down the phone so that you could finally dial-up to the Internet was such a home drama. Yelling and arguments broke out so often that mum and dad had to step in. The result: nobody could use the phone at all. The nerve…

Tumis Air Bayam Merah

Kita hari-hari memang kena masak dan makan sayur. Tak kiralah apa-apa sayur pun kerana ia sebenarnya baik untuk kesihatan. 

Dulu kami tak berapa suka makan sayur..

Kalau mak masak sayur , kami kerap juga merungut.. terutamanya bila mak masak bening.. atau tumis air. Pasti bosan rasanya.. "macam lauk orang sakit aje.. " rungut kami setiap kali pulang sekolah di sajikan dengan sayur air...

Agar-agar Rintik Santan Pandan

Hari ni kami sediakan agar-agar sebagai pencuci mulut. Dah lama kami nak buat agar-agar ni.. tapi selalu aje terlupa. Hari ini dapatlah kami sampaikan hajat nak membuatnya.

Resepi agar-agar ini di kongsikan oleh Izah dari blog Izah Muffin Lover . Menurut Izah beliau dapat resepi ini dari buku Aneka Puding. Asalnya Agar-agar rintik santan, tapi bila dah di olah ianya menjadi agar-agar rintik pandan pula. Itulah yang buatkan kami teruja nak cuba sebab gabungan warna hitam dari gula merah dan hijau tu seakan menaikkan seri agar-agar ini.

Agar-agar ni sedap, lembut aje.. dan amat sesuailah kalau nak buat untuk rumah terbuka nanti. Cara dan kaedah membuatnya pun mudah aje.. Cuma lain kali bila kami buat untuk lapisan gula merah tu ita kena kurangkan gula merah dan tambahkan gula pasir sedikit. Sebab gula merah ni rasanya lain sikit.. kalau gula Melaka bagi kami ok lagi... gula merah ni dia ada rasa kelat-kelat sikit... Tapi terpulang pada citarasa masing-masing..

Air Asam dan Ikan Caru Bakar

Kita mulakan menu hari ini dengan ikan caru bakar yang di cicah bersama air asam yang power...

Ikan bakar ni sesekali makan dengan kuah lemak pekena pula dengan nasi hangat memang terangkat habis...

Kami sukakan kuah asam yang pedas gilerrr... barulah berpeluh-peluh makan.. tu yang syok sangat tu..

What Does Best Effort Mean In Broadband Service?

Fast Speed Internet

It never seems to end. Complaints about our broadband speed seem to be stacking up in all social media waves. Sometimes we’re surfing at top speed and other times we feel like throttling somebody’s neck when our surfing connection speed is throttled down.

Why are we having this problem? We complain to our service providers but we are still experiencing this problem from time to time. What is really going on?

Ok, remember when signing up for the broadband plan? Remember reading or coming across the words “best effort delivery”? Exactly. That’s why we’re in this scenario.

Our service providers try their best to deliver top speed as per mentioned in the package that we’ve signed up for.

However, best effort delivery of broadband service depends on factors such as modem capability, location, coverage, distance from communication towers and number of simultaneous users.

Pencuk, Jelatah, Acar timun nenas atau Acar Cuka, semuanya adalah sama....

Pencuk, Jelatah, Acar timun nenas atau acar cuka adalah nama bagi makanan yang sama. Mungkin lain daerah lain gelarannya. 

Kaedah membuat Acar cuka sangat mudah kerana ianya tidak perlu di masak. Acar cuka ni tak tahan lama, ia cepat rosak kerana timun dan nenas tu mudah berair dan membuatkan ia tidak tahan lama . Jika di buat untuk sekali makan sahaja dan bukan untuk di simpan berhari-hari di dalam peti ais.

Selain timun, nenas dan lobak, ada juga meletakkan kobos yang di hiris nipis. Tak kiralah kobis putih, atau kobis unggu.

Ada sesetengah orang menaburkan sedikit bijan yang telah di sangai atau kacang tanah yang telah di goreng dan di tumbuk.

Pencuk atau acar timun ini biasanya enak di makan bersama nasi minyak, nasi tomato, nasi bukhari, nasi beriani atau nasi-nasi yang sewaktu dengannya. lauk yang serasi bersamanya kebiasannya lauk ayam masak merah, memang sesuai sangan lah gandingan pasangan berdua ini.

7 Signs You Are Heading For Bankruptcy

Identifying the warning signs of an impending personal financial crisis is extremely important. Sometimes these signs may be the only thing keeping you from bankruptcy.

You may be headed into a serious debt problem if you’re seeing one or more of these signs:

1. Maxing out on your credit cards or charging more than you can pay off each month

The Malaysian Department of Insolvency stated that credit card debt made up 5% of all bankruptcy cases in Malaysia between 2005 and 2012. You can see other causes here.

It is important to ensure that you use credit cards prudently. The general rule of thumb is to use no more than 30% to 40% of your credit limit at any one time. This gives you flexibility in case of job loss, illness, divorce, or other threats to your income.

11 Biasiswa Pengajian Luar Negara Yang Pelajar Malaysia Perlu Tahu

Rebut peluang untuk memohon 11 biasiswa pengajian luar negara bagi pengajian ijazah dan lepasan ijazah!

1. Biasiswa JPA Di bawah Program Kejuruteraan

Biasiswa JPA ini ditawarkan oleh Jabatan Perkhidmatan Awam Malaysia (JPA). Calon-calon hanya dibenarkan untuk memilih salah satu daripada empat negara yang layak (Jerman, Perancis, Jepun dan Korea) bergantung kepada minat dan potensi.

Kursus

Kejuruteraan

6 Fakta Untuk Dapatkan Biasiswa

Perlu ke lulus dan dapat straight A?

Biasiswa dianugerahkan kepada pelajar berdasarkan merit, pencapaian akademik, bakat khas, hobi, atau kriteria-kriteria yang ditetapkan oleh organisasi yang memberi sumbangan tersebut. Ada juga biasiswa yang diberikan berdasarkan keperluan pelajar tertentu.

Biasiswa bukan sahaja membantu pelajar dari segi kewangan, tetapi juga seperti ada kebanggan tertentu sebagai penerima, apalagi jika biasiswa yang diterima terkenal susah untuk didapatkan.

Sebelum mohon biasiswa, cari tahu dulu 6 perkara berkaitan soalan dan fakta di bawah:

Smoking vs Vaping : How Much Is It Really Costing You

The recent price hike for cigarettes have caused an uproar among the smokers in Malaysia with some brands going up as high as RM18 per box. On the other hand, a recent crackdown on vape juices (e-liquids) with nicotine by the Health Ministry has also caused outrage amongst vape store owners who have had their stocks confiscated by Health Ministry officers.

It was reported that in Selangor alone, over 300 vape stores were raided in the beginning of November. Under the Poisons Act 1952, the sale of nicotine can only be undertaken by licensed pharmacists and registered medical practitioners, and is prohibited by other parties. Similarly, under the existing legislation, the sale of e-liquids with nicotine can also only be supplied by registered medical practitioners and licensed pharmacists. However, pharmacists are saying they are not keen on selling vape juices. There have also been calls for vape to be regulated as well as for it to be taxed. The government has announced that it will set up a special committee to look into vaping. It is also interesting to note that the vape industry in Malaysia is worth half a billion ringgit and is the second largest in the world after the American market.

Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions You Waste Money On

2016 is off to a great start and many resolutions have been made. Making a change in your life by setting goals is all fine and dandy; but beware the resolutions that you make – they just might wreak havoc on your personal finances.

Here’s a list of the top 10 New Year’s resolutions that can turn out to be a real waste of money – unless you do them right.

5 Best VPNs for WiFi Hotspots

Over the years, there has been an explosion in the number of public WiFi hotspots. From coffee houses, restaurants, cafes, hospitals, libraries, book stores, hotels, airports, and any other retail outlet, you will find access to free internet via public WiFi hotspots.

According to ABI Research, the number of WiFi hotspots all over the world was 4.3 million in 2013 and this number was expected to reach 7.1 million by the end of 2015. Since these free access points are available openly everywhere, you should know that there are various dangers attached in using public WiFi hotspots.

These WiFi hotspots don’t encrypt your internet traffic, which makes them highly unsafe to use. So how to do you stay safe over WiFi hotspots? The answer – use a VPN for WiFi hotpots.

Best VPNs for WiFi Hotspots

There are various VPN services that you can use to stay protected over open WiFi hotspots. To help you select, we have gathered some of the best WiFi VPNs you can use. They will help to encrypt all your internet traffic and keep you anonymous as you use open WiFi networks.

Price Hikes We Dread In 2016

The year 2015 was certainly not an easy one for Malaysians, from having to adjust to fuel subsidy removals starting December 2014, to having to cope with price hikes that came with the implementation of the 6% Goods and Services Tax (GST) in April, to having to weather the weakening Ringgit, which hit a 17-year-low against the US dollar (at 4.40) in September due to falling crude oil prices.

To top it up, tolls at highways operated by 11 concessionaires were also raised by between 20 sen and RM3 in October.

Will the upcoming year spell better news for our wallets? We are not counting on it. In fact, there will be further all-round price increments that we are totally not looking forward to. What are they? Read on to find out.

Rock Ooo - Rimba Bara Kembali

Rock Ooo ialah sebuah filem komedi muzikal yang diarahkan oleh Mamat Khalid dan dibintangi oleh Que Haidar, Khir Rahman, Soffi Jikan dan Pekin Ibrahim. Filem ini ditayangkan pada 28 Februari 2013.... Filem ini merupakan sekuel kepada filem Rock [ 2005 ].

Plot cerita ini berdasarkan kehidupan kugiran Rimba Bara setelah pemergian Zack dari kugiran tersebut. Cerita bermula dengan kisah bagaimana Amy Mat Piah melalui hari-harinya selepas dibuang dari kumpulan Rimba Bara. Hari-hari beliau sering dihantui dengan kisah Rimba Bara, walaupun beliau telah meneruskan pekerjaan beliau sebagai pembuat air batu campur.

Top 10 Richest Men In Malaysia 2015 [Infographic]

Forbes recently released its 2015’s edition of Malaysia’s 50 richest men. This year the list saw some new additions and some changes in net worth.

“Sugar King” Robert Kuok, safeguarded his number one position in the list, saw his net worth slipped by US$200 million (RM722 million) last year due to the plunge in commodity prices to US$11.3 billion.

Likewise, Ananda Krishna, maintained his second position but saw a drop in wealth from US11.3 billion to US$9.7 billion.

There have been some changes in net worth and placements in the list, with two new faces in the top 10 list: Goh Peng Ooi, the first technopreneur to hit the top 10 with US$1.6 billion (an increase of US$0.5 billion from last year) and Lee Oi Hian & Lee Hau Hian, who saw their net worth spike from US$1 billion to US$1.5 billion.

This year, four new contenders joined the top 50 list: real estate tycoon Khoo Cheng Hai, packaging specialist Lim Teck Meng of Scientex Bhd, oil-ship fabricator tycoon Ng Chin Heng of Coastal Contracts Bhd, and co-founder of United Overseas Australia Ltd, Kong Chong Soon.

The Inside Story Of Surface Book, Microsoft's Next Big Thing

One night about two years ago, Panos Panay couldn’t sleep. This happens a lot, waking up in the middle of the night with loud thoughts rattling around in his head. Panay popped off the pillow, reached for his new Surface Pen and his old Surface Mini, and wrote himself an email. (He loves the Mini, a small tablet his team built but never shipped. “It was like a Moleskine,” he says. “It was awesome.”)

These delirious bursts of late-night energy tend to be when Panay’s most creative, and this particular witching hour, he had portable computers on the brain. The day before, he had led a review for a top-secret, still nascent project within Microsoft—to create “the ultimate laptop.” The team responsible for the product, which was called Surface Book, showed up and said, okay, we’ve done it. It’s going to be thin, light, cool, and fast. It’s going to be an awesome laptop.