July 2010

The Archives

• Air Asia Convenience Fee

  07.28.10 | Permalink |Travel| Comments Off on Air Asia Convenience Fee

  I am sure for those who book Air Asia flights and pay by credit card, you are charged RM5 per one way ticket per person. Return trip will be RM10. If you have n number of people flying, it will be n*RM10.

  Today I booked AA flights and realized they don’t charge if I pay by debit from my CIMB account. It also applies to Maybank, Public Bank, Ambank and Bank Rakyat. Just click Debit on the payment page.

  
  
  

  Don’t let them charged you the costly convenience fee unless you don’t know where to use your money. Be Smart!

• iPhone Is Sick

  07.16.10 | Permalink |Uncategorized| Comments Off on iPhone Is Sick

  
  
  

  Last few days my iPhone was really sick, not literally. It couldn’t detect any WiFi anywhere. I wasn’t sure what I did. I didn’t install any new apps or change any configuration.

  I search the internet for answers or fixes. You know what? I have found so many people having the same problem that their iPhone cannot detect WiFi. However there was no absolute fix, just some trial and error suggestions which many people feedback, it didn’t work for them.

  I decided to backup my iPhone and apply the firmware again. It worked for a while and it was back to square 1. I did that for a few times and I also managed to crash iTunes too in the midst of doing that. Everything was not working. Sigh.

  I started from ground 0 again. I applied the original firmware so that everything will be wiped out. Secondly, I jailbreak the iPhone with redsn0w. The WiFi was working. I restored my backup. WiFi was working. So far so good. I installed some apps from Cydia. WiFi broke down.

  Ahhh…I realized that It was one of the apps from Cydia. Guess which one. It was MxTube version 1.5c. That was preventing my WiFi from working. I removed that, WiFi is back on! Hooray!!

  I used to have MxTube on 3.0 firmware but looks like it is not going well with 3.1.3. Believed me, it ran for a whole month without any issues and suddenly it didn’t want to work anymore.
  Moral of the story, if your WiFi is not working, it could be some apps you installed. Try removing one by one to see which one is causing the problem.

  I have downgrade from 3.1.3 to 3.1.2. Now it is really working fine!!

• WordPress 2.9

  07.02.10 | Permalink |Technology| Comments Off on WordPress 2.9

  I upgraded my WP 2.1 to 2.9 months ago. I found that after the upgrade, I get a lot of SPAM comments. Believed me when I was on WP2.1, I hardly get any SPAM because I used my own filtering.

  Today I get SPAM every day. I would have thought that the new upgrade would tighten security but it does not. Now I have to scratch my head to think of a good way to fight against SPAM.

  I was forced to upgrade because the PHP upgrade will no longer support old version of WP 2.1.

  Now WP3.0 is available, should I go for it?