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Sunday, 30 June
6:08 pm30 Jun 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog30 Jun 2013
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My Contribution To The 2013 MY Garden Birdwatch Survey

Here is my contribution to the 2013 MYGB bird count (MY Garden Birdwatch) - an annual survey of garden birds in Malaysia, initiated by the birdwatching chapter of the Malaysian Nature Society. I did my bird counting of my front garden up on the first floor from my bedroom window on 15th June 2013, between...

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Monday, 24 June
6:17 pm24 Jun 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog24 Jun 2013
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Revoking Picasa Access Rights From Scribefire

I do not use Scribefire, a free Mozilla Firefox add-on offline blog editor, for uploading my blog pictures to Picasa Web Albums anymore. Instead, I am now using Picasa3 Desktop. Uploading pictures via Scribefire is a little rigid and the pictures' file names do not get set upon a successfully upload. In...

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Wednesday, 12 June
5:49 pm12 Jun 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog12 Jun 2013
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Faster Page Loading With Google+ Mobile On The Desktop

Mobile sites are websites that are designed to be viewed from a mobile device, like on a mobile phone for example. They are simpler in design and more focused. I love using mobile sites, quite simply because I can get faster page loading time on a desktop browser even though I am still using a slow 50kbps...

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Friday, 31 May
5:52 pm31 May 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog31 May 2013
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Daily Programme Summary For TV Alhijrah

I have finally found it. I have been looking for this for quite some time now. There are actually some decent shows and documentaries on TV Alhijrah. And the list of TV programmes for the day for TV Alhijrah can actually be found at their Facebook page.Now, if only the other Malaysian TV stations would...

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Wednesday, 22 May
7:03 pm22 May 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog22 May 2013
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Google+ On Opera Mini

I am now accessing Google+ on Opera Mini via the URL http://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream. This is the only URL that I know of that will give me a decent looking Google+ Stream on Opera Mini. I have tested it on a mobile phone and also on a J2ME (Java Micro Edition) emulator running under Windows XP (I...

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Saturday, 18 May
6:08 pm18 May 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog18 May 2013
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Turmeric Flowers

Before I started planting them, I did not know that turmeric flowers.I have been fortunate to have some flowering turmeric during the last couple of weeks. It is not often that I get a bloom. Sometimes, I do not get any even though the plant has matured and the root due to be dug up. One has to be patient...

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Friday, 3 May
6:49 pm3 May 2013
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Dwindling Number Of Garden Snails

Back in February and March 2013, there were a few blog postings at Ipoh Happenings talking about some extreme levels of solar UV radiation that was bombarding Ipoh back then. The weather in Ipoh has definitely been quite extreme in recent months. I can feel in it my skin while doing my gardening. The day...

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Wednesday, 24 April
7:04 pm24 Apr 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog24 Apr 2013
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Building Up My Flock Of Seramas Again

I have to build up my flock of Seramas (or "ayam cantik") again after losing 5 of them to a python last month. I have always hatched my chicks naturally. Serama hens always go broody after laying around 9 or 10 eggs. However, this time I have to let a first time hen sit on the eggs. My reliable hens died...

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Wednesday, 10 April
7:11 pm10 Apr 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog10 Apr 2013
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Spicing Up My Garden With Ginger

Over the years, my success with growing ginger has been mixed. At times the yield was good. At times, all I get were just skinny ginger roots. And at other times, there was nothing at all - the ginger that I planted just rotted away instead of sprouting.I have had my suspicion with the pot placement  - I...

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Sunday, 31 March
8:52 pm31 Mar 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog31 Mar 2013
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Some Restriction With FlashGet At Oracle

I tried downloading the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from the Oracle website using FlashGet but failed. It seems that Oracle has placed some restriction in using a download manager utility software (FlashGet in my case) in performing downloads. I wonder why? I never had this problem 5 or 6 years ago when...

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Friday, 22 March
5:45 pm22 Mar 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog22 Mar 2013
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Scribefire Can Only Retrieve The Last 25 Posts

It seems that there is a limit to the number of posts that ScribeFire (an offline blog editor) can retrieve from my blog. All that I can see is just the last 25 posts when ScribeFire connects to my blog. For the moment, I will have to use the online blog editor at Blogger for any updates to my older blog...

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Wednesday, 13 March
12:13 pm13 Mar 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog13 Mar 2013
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One Snake Too Many

I do wonder why there has been an increase in the number of snake encounters around my house in recent months. Between 1998 and 2011, we have had only 3. But during the last 12 months, my wife and I have had 5. The latest being on the morning of 3rd March 2013 when I found a python in one of my Ayam...

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Thursday, 28 February
Wednesday, 20 February
7:13 pm20 Feb 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog20 Feb 2013
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Converting YouTube's .FLV files to .MKV format

This is what I did to convert YouTube's .FLV files to the .MKV format with Avidemux. Video and audio in the .FLV files are encoded in the H264 and AAC codec, respectively.The most obvious and easiest thing to do is to just use the COPY mode for video and audio in Avidemux without doing any reencoding - but...

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Saturday, 9 February
4:52 pm9 Feb 2013
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FM Radio Stations In Ipoh

Here is a list of FM radio stations that I can tune in to in Ipoh. There is a total of 21 radio stations in all. I do not think I have missed any out. I wish I could tune in to more FM radio stations like what they have in the Klang Valley, especially the news and talk radio stations (e.g. BFM - The...

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Thursday, 31 January
Friday, 25 January
4:29 pm25 Jan 2013
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog25 Jan 2013
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Where Are The Free FM Radio Tuners For Windows?

I find it odd that there are not many free FM Radio tuner software for the Windows platform. FM Tuners for Linux, yes - and with source code too. But for Windows there is none. The best that I could find is just a plug-in for Winamp called Winamp TV version 1.9Beta8 - the page on this link says version...

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Tuesday, 8 January
6:07 pm8 Jan 2013
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Defective Card Reader From DSTT

I just found out that the card reader that came along with the DSTT For NDS cartridge is defective (see http://www.dgemu.com/forums/index.php/topic/400563-flashcart-dsttttds). During the last 3 years or so, I have always been curious as to why IPodDS will misbehave, or why MoonShell or any other .NDS...

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Tuesday, 1 January
5:48 pm1 Jan 2013
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Cranky Power Button On My Nintendo DS Lite

I thought I have found an alternative way to power on my Nintendo DS Lite by simultaneously pressing the L, R and X button without using the side Power Button slide switch. After doing some thorough investigation, it turns out that I am wrong.The Power Button has been cranky for about 4 months now. There...

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Wednesday, 26 December
4:33 pm26 Dec 2012
ChuahTC via A Tinkerer's Blog26 Dec 2012
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Speeding Up My Ghost Backup

Files on my C: drive are fairly static, consisting mainly of just the Windows system files, page file and other programs that I may install or upgrade from time to time. All my work files and TV captures go into different partitions - backups consist of just a simple "copy" to a flash drive for these...

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