Despicable Me Stickers in Facebook Messenger

Found this set of new stickers in the Facebook Messenger shop. Did you know you could get Despicable Me Minions stickers from FB Messenger? :)

Step 1

 At the chat screen, select the shopping basket (circled)

Step 2

Select the stickers you want, in this case, Despicable Me 2

Step 3

Once download is complete, you will see the screen above.

Step 4

Go back to your chat screen and you will see that you have a new icon for the stickers you have downloaded. In this case its the one highlighted in blue.

Select the sticker you want to use and enjoy the "cute-ness"!!!!!!

Color Contrast

I just love the color contrast of these leaves.

(photo taken with Samsung Galaxy S3, color saturation adjusted with PicsArt)

Many Many Years Ago

Found an old pic of mine. Mom said I should be about 2 to 3 years old in that photo. Hahahaa

Yep... since young I did not like to be in photographs. :P

More from the garden

More pics taken from the same day as the previous post.

All photos were taken with my Samsung Galaxy S3

From the garden

A good day to take some pics of thw blooming flowers in the garden

All photos were taken with my Samsung Galaxy S3

The railway tracks...

I have been literally living next to these tracks for the past 30 years. Can't believe today is the first time I bothered to take and edit some pics of the tracks.

All photos were taken with my Samsung Galaxy S3, edited with PicsArt

My Windows 7 Experience - Part 1

Guess I'll be posting quite a bit on Microsoft's latest OS for the PC market. Decided to switch to the new Windows 7 Ultimate from my Vista Ultimate over the weekend. Not that I have any complains on my Vista setup. Really.... On my system, Vista was smooth, almost crash proof and I had everything running just the way I wanted. I actually preferred it over XP. You can blame it on my curiosity but I just wanted to experience 1st hand what the buzz was all about, the improvements over Vista and XP, etc. So do bear in mind all the points here are based on my personal experience with the OS and I cannot guarantee the same result for other people. :)

My setup:

CPU: Intel C2D 8400 3ghz
MB: nVidia 630 / 7100
GPU: nVidia 9800GT 512mb
RAM: 3gb Kingston 667
HDD for OS : 100 / 320GB WD 7200
Other HDD : another 320GB WD 7200, Seagate 160GB 7200.10, Seagate 1TB 7200.11
Display: Primary - Acer AL1916W 1440 x 900 (DVI) , Secondary - Sony KLV-40V400A 1960 x 1080 (HDMI)
OS: Vista Ultimate x86

My 1st advise: Do a clean install. 2+ hrs into the upgrading process and I decided to abandon it for a clean install. Took me less than an hour for the Windows 7 to install and another later, I had most of my software like Office, PS, AI, DW, itunes, Firefox and Chrome all working.

Before I complain about the problems I had to go through during and after installation, I would like to answer the question of how fast is it, at least compared to Vista.

Not much difference in the start up times for me. (Don't ask what scientific proof I have, this is purely by "feeling" - to me, a difference of a few seconds does not make or break an OS). Shut down is relatively faster in Windows 7. Opening and running of programs like Office, PS, etc is also about the same as in Vista. This should be in line with the reviews I read on the web that Windows 7 makes more of a difference in speeds in lower end systems like ATOM or Celeron based CPUs. I do not have a ATOM to test the installation, suffice to say there's not much speed difference between Win 7 and Vista in my setup.

Now comes the 1st annoyance I found in Windows 7. When something crashes/hangs/not responding, the whole system becomes unresponsive!!! In Vista I could always (well... 95% of the time) bring up the Task Manager and kill off the offending application and/or process(es). Now in Win 7, a single non-responsive program means I have to hard reboot the PC. So far I have not encountered any applications that could hang and not force me do a hard reboot. The applications that hung on me in Win 7 included Windows Media Player 12, Region / Language Settings in Control Panel, Bitcomet, Explorer (in Music Library).

I guess I'll stop here for the moment. Will continue with another post soon!!! In the meantime I'll "mess" around more to see if I ultimately like this new Windows 7 better than its predecessor.

My New Jabra

Got this as my birthday present from my dearest. I have been looking around for a Bluetooth handsfree to go with my V9 for quite some time now. Actually we came across this Jabra BT3030 sometime ago in a newspaper ad I think. I did have a look at it during one of my trips to KL but did not commit to buy. I really liked the way it looked but it did not have the radio function like one of the Moto bluetooth set. For those using Moto phones, you would know that MOST, if not all Moto phones do not have the radio function built into the phone. :(

Now for the pics!

Its the “dog tag” style set. Has the dog tag look with V3 like buttons on it. I really like it. And since it has that V3 keypad look, it glows like it as well!! :)

The lights dim off when the buttons are not pressed and only the Jabra words blink to indicate it is connected to the phone. BTW the word Jabra blinks in different color according to the battery level. Blue when its above 70% full, orange in between and red when its less than 20%. And while charging the word blinks green and stays green once fully charged.

It comes with a chain as well as a clip (which I did not attach to yet) – so that you can clip it on your clothes instead of wearing it as a necklace. The thing is you can’t put the tag too far away from your face as the mic is on the tag and not on the earphones – unless you don’t mind taking out the tag and speaking into it every time a call comes in.

I did test the sound and mic quality while wearing the tag as a pendant. Apparently the mic quality is really good. No difference from speaking directly to the phone – according to the person on the other end of the line. And you can trust this person as she is the one whom I speak to most often over the phone – my dearest BB! :)

Listening to music from the phone is now so convenient as I just need to press play on the tag and my Moto starts playing from the last song I’ve listened to. Basic functions like FF, FW and volume works as it should.

If only Moto has its voice dial function better, this would have been a superb handsfree for me – calling from phonebook without the need to access the phone.