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[WTB] Customized Cushion

alhs76 — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 00:35:15 +0800

Does anyone know any reliable and reasonably priced customized cushion maker?

Some of my furniture cushions are worn out and i wish to have them replaced.

Please share if you do.

Thank you!

Kenanga Wholesale

alhs76 — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:09:45 +0800

Dear forumers,

I am doing some research on the retail space in this property in terms viability of return. I saw an ad on star this morning that 500 sq ft ++ space for sale at RM2.55 million with tenant. i did some checks on some property sites and found the rent per sq ft ranging from rm15 per sq ft to rm25 per sq ft. I wondering if this place is really booming to justify this rental coz I passed by there a couple of times and found it still doing up its finishing touches. Have anyone any idea on this?

Thanks in advance!

Studio unit

alhs76 — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 16:37:44 +0800

dear forumers,

your opinions much appreciated on the following:

1) would you consider to buy a studio unit which is about 400 sq ft, in a more than 20 years old building, good location (in KL), mthly service charge RM123, semi furnished rental @ RM1100 - 1200 mthly, quite easy to rent out, price is rm128,000?

over the last 10-15 years .. capital appreciation for this place has climbed from rm85,000 to rm128,000. And this current price is the highest asked and as recent as last october (2010), i actually missed another deal in the same building that went for RM98,000, and with a long term tenant, rent @ RM900 (during that time)

would this change your perception in anyway considering that this building might continue to be a laggard (to the overall market) in terms of capital appreciation?

2) if yes, would you buy cash or take out a loan to do it (on assumption that both is not an issue)?

thanks and cheers!

SIDC FUTURES & OPTIONS

alhs76 — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:48:57 +0800

Hi,

Just wanted to find out if anyone did these papers (Module 14 & 16) by SIDC for those who wish to be a broker?

I would like to find out the degree of difficulty.

Thanks ahead!

iPAD is actually a large iPOD Touch

alhs76 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:54:18 +0800

Teardown of the Apple iPad reveals a similar pattern for Apple – leveraging tried and true technology

Only one to two times per year does a device so much capture the minds of the market that it warrants braving planes, trains, automobiles, sleet, snow, and dead of night to get our hands on it. While Apple fans can't wait to use the latest device, we can't wait to . . . well . . . destroy it. We braved the lines at a "local" mall, got there early enough to be 20th in the pre-order line, only to bring the device home to our teardown lab. Notably, we have been collaborating with our good friends over at iFixit who have published a detailed iPad teardown in a step-by-step format.

Chipworks' unique angle in tearing down the iPad is to provide images down to the bare die. We confirm the source of some of the key silicon by publishing die markings and die photos. In addition, you can order very high magnification die photos of some of these key devices.

While tablet computing has been around for a while, outside of devices purpose built for artists, there has been no killer application to drive really mainstream adoption. We mean the kind of adoption that goes well beyond technology fans, to the kind that can result in the replication of Apple's massive dominance in portable music players. Adoption that makes a mass market out of a relatively small, fragmented one.

But if the market isn't currently dominated by anyone, then what exactly is the Apple iPad, and how does it fit our current understanding of our needs?

Put glibly, is this a touchscreen Mac or is it a really big iPod Touch?

The iPad is a really big iPod Touch

Not that there is anything wrong with that as countless reviews have already written

Apple has relied on tried and true technology for the first generation of this device. In some cases, technically speaking, Apple has even gone backwards from what we saw in the latest generation iPhone that we have torn down.

Case in point, Apple is not using the do-all touchscreen controller from Texas Instruments that it used in the iPhone 3G, but has instead gone back to the three chip solution seen in the iPhone 2G. Of course, the same space limitations aren't there in a large device, and so we would speculate that the three chip solution had a lower overall cost. You can see from the image that, relatively speaking, the iPad is basically a giant battery with a tiny board attached to it (outlined in red), with some space left over for a future 3G mobile communications board.

The printed circuit board is a straightforward board with no big surprises. At the thumbnail resolution to the left, you can see the Apple A4 processor (more on this later).

You can also see the two Samsung K9LCG08U1M 8 GB MLC NAND flash memory chips. At Chipworks, we keep part number decoders on the major manufacturers, and the part number for these memory chips suggests that this is a first generation device, and not the latest advanced process technology from Samsung.

We note that the FCC teardown shows Toshiba memory. This package has Samsung package and die markings. It is reasonable to assume that Apple has sourced memory from more than one manufacturer.

The backside image doesn't reveal as many of the obviously newsworthy chips, but does appear to have the iPad's inertial sensor.

The accelerometer design win was by STMicroelectronics, continuing its success with Apple devices. The die markings can be found on the second page of this article.

The Apple A4 processor is packaged just like the Apple iPhone processors using package-on-package technology. One for the microprocessor and one for the two DRAM die.

For full article, visit the below link:
Apple Teardown

Hardware Comparison between Nexus One and iPhone

alhs76 — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:15:36 +0800

For those who are interested in the continuous comparison between iPhone and Nexus One.

Nexus One - Task Killer and other apps

alhs76 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:41:00 +0800

Just wanted to share that a task killer is not necessary on the N1 (courtesy of an advice from a friend who uses N1 too ~ .
found that as my apps pile up on the phone ... performance of the phone seemed to drop until i deleted the task killer ... and allowed the platform to handle the multitasking itself ...