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Over the past 2 years, Lexar has emerged as a brand known to produce good performance and yet very cost-effective solid-state drives (SSD).Lexar started as a manufacturer producing SD cards, CompactFlash cards and thumb drives, spun off from Cirrus Logic in the mid-1990s.Later, it was acquired by Micron in the mid-2000s. In mid-2010s, it was again acquired by China Shenzhen based company Longsys

Different regions of the world could be using different measurement units to express how big/small is a property or land area.When you book a 12 tsubos hotel suite, are you able to imagine how roughly big is it?When you rent a 6 tatamis unit for short stay, do you have any idea how big is the unit?When you buy a 1,200 square feet apartment unit, do you know how many square meters is that?Their

A few months back, when I upgraded my CyberPower UT800EG UPS with APC BV1000I-MSX 1kVA/600W Easy UPS for power protection to my desktop PC and network equipment, I've relocated the old CyberPower UT800EG UPS to my living room to provide power protection for my TV, IPTV box and cordless phone.Later, I decided to retire the old UPS and to protect my TV, IPTV box and cordless phone with a more

Electric vehicle (EV) has been steadily trending in the automotive talk-about nowadays.The key selling points of EV cars being:Environmental friendlyFuel cost savingNo need to periodically change engine oilWhile the "environmental friendly" argument is widely debatable, as the generation of electricity at power plant, and the production as well as the disposal of rechargeable batteries, might not

Today, my laptop suddenly experienced the Windows Explorer not responding issue.The symptoms were like this:When you double-click on a document, for example a PDF file or an Excel file, by right, the file should be opened by its associated application. Now, it hangs when the application trying to load up. The rest of the Windows and running applications will still function well, only the portion

After a long waiting, the Malaysia National Higher Education Fund (Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional, PTPTN) has finally announced the dividend for year 2022 for the education savings schemes SSPN (Skim Simpanan Pendidikan Nasional, consists of Simpan SSPN Prime which formerly known as SSPN-i, and Simpan SSPN Plus which formerly known as SSPN-i Plus) on 5 April 2023.The 2022 SSPN

My CyberPower UT800EG 800VA/400W UPS has been serving me well for more than 3 years, and it is still functioning well.It has never failed to protect my Dell XPS 8930 desktop, my Asus RT-AX86U router and Unifi BTU from sudden blackouts and also voltage spikes during thunderstorms.Anyhow, I anticipate its internal battery, which is not user serviceable, has already reached more than half its

During the recent Chinese New Year online promotion period, I discovered that the Honor MagicBook 16 laptop has its selling price dropped to RM29xx. (This promotion is still available in some of the online shops, including the Honor official website, now at a slightly higher price of RM2999 and lesser free gift, until the end of February 2023)I remember when it first launched last year, its

Most Google users (including all Android phone users) started up with the free Google personal account.The free Google personal account comes with 15GB of cloud storage shared among various Google services including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, Android backup, etc. Certain 3rd party applications such as WhatsApp also make use of Google cloud storage to host your account backup data with

I have just retired all the old Panasonic non-inverter air-cons in my house, which had served my family for more than 16 years, to the current generation of Panasonic inverter R32 aircons powered by nanoe X technology.Now, I can feel the advantages of using inverter aircon compared with the traditional non-inverter type, which are comfort and cost saving.The inverter type of aircon can precisely

It always has been a frequently asked question for most of us to find out the optimal temperature to set for our air-conditioner, particularly the inverter type which is good in maintaining the room temperature at the degree we want, to strike a balance between cost & energy saving and our comfort level.According to Panasonic, the industry leader in aircond manufacturing, the best aircond

Earlier on, all Malaysian citizens who are eligible to vote in the General Election (all citizens of age 18 years old and above should be automatically registered in the current system) can check for their election voter registration status online in MySPRSemark which is available in the form of:WebsiteAndroid appApple iOS appNow, additional information is already available in the same MySPRSemak

If you want to have a common charger for multiple devices that charge using USB cable, and better still, to be able to charge multiple devices at the same time, then you can look for a multiport charger such as this UGREEN CD226.The UGREEN CD226 is a 4-ports charger that supports fast charging (or quick charging / super charging) of various protocols including PD3.0, PD2.0, PPS, QC4+, QC3.0,

If you need to generate a QR code, for whatever reason, what tools do you normally use?I have been using QRCode Monkey for quite some times, and I find this free online QR-code generating website is still among the best, as it is free of charge and feature-rich.It allows you to generate QR codes of your own style and design. Your design can be colourful too.Your QR code can be of high resolution

Typically, there are 2 types of loans. One is fixed interest rate type, and another is variable interest rate type.Some examples of fixed interest rate loan are: car loan, personal loan, credit card loan, study loan, business loan, etc.Since the interest rate is fixed throughout the loan tenure, you can calculate its total interest using the simple interest formula of P x R% x T. The total loan

Kenanga Digital Investing (KDI) has been around for a few months since early 2022, and I have just joint on the bandwagon last week.KDI is a robo-advisory investment platform under Kenanga Investment Bank. It can be accessed either using web browser to its website, or via its mobile app available for Android and iOS.FYI, this is the same Kenanga Investment Bank which has another popular

FYI, there is an online e-learning portal called e-LATiH by HRD Corp (formerly known as HRDF, under MOHR), which you can freely register for an account to enroll for a selection of 1000++ free online courses.The URL of e-LATiH is: https://elatih.hrdcorp.gov.my/This online e-learning portal is open to Malaysian and also non-Malaysian. Basically, everyone are free to use it without much

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