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McDonald Malaysia held an event from 1 May to 31 May 2008 that is “Big Mac™ Chant!”. You just have to buy any Mcvalue Meal™ in any McDonald™ outlets and get an entry coupon to take part in this events. After that, present your entry coupon at any Big Mac™ Chant Challenge counter between 3pm to 8pm from the date mention above and say out the sentences below: “TWO ALL-BEEF PATTIES, SPECIAL SAUCE, LETTUCE, CHEESE, PICKLES, ONIONS ON A SESAME SEED BUN” in 4 seconds or below, you can get a Big Mac™ free.

Nuffnang, Asia First Blog Advertising Company and McDonald Malaysia also held another event of winning RM10,000 for posting a video of you doing the Big Mac™ Chant Challenge. All you have to do is upload the video of you doing Big Mac™ Chant to youtube.com and email the URL of your video to BigMacChant@nuffnang.com with the title of email Big Mac Chant!. You are on the way to win the RM10,000.

You guys will ask who will judge for the contest, Entries are judged based on Creativity, Relevance Of Content (No paraphrasing the chant!) and Effort (AKA how much you impress us). Popular votes make up 40% of the judging scale, and McDonald’s® own panel of judges make up the other 60%. At Last remember to check this out, Term and Condition Apply.

Asus come out a new products that is Asus Xonar DX PCI Express 7.1 Audio Card which selling at $89(RM285.00) . It supports X1, X4, X8, X16 PCI Express Rev.1.0a with max. full 2.5Gbps bandwidth per direction and optimized latency for high-definition audio processing. Its Output Signal-to-Noise Ratio (A-Weighted) 116 dB for Front-out and 112dB for other channels.

Asus 7.1 Audio Card support Dolby Digital Live encodes any audio signal on PC in real-time to Dolby Digital (AC3) 5.1 surround sounds to your home theater environment through one single S/PDIF connection. It also using Xonar DX provides VocalFX, the latest vocal effect technologies for gaming and VoIP, including: -VoiceEX: produces vivid environmental reverberation for your voice in EAX games -ChatEX: emulates different background environment effects when you chat online -Magic Voice: changes your voice pitch to different types (Monster/Cartoon…) for disguising your real voice or just for fun in online chatting.

Besides that, it is also suitable for 3D gaming with the DirectSound3D® GX 2.0 & 1.0, EAX®2.0&1.0, DirectSound® HW, DirectSound SW, A3D®1.0, OpenAL generic modes, 128 3D sounds processing capability.

The bundled Software for Asus Xonar DX PCI Express Card is:
Portable Music Processor Lite utility
Converts digital music content or CD audio into regular MP3/WMA files with Dolby Headphone, Dolby Virtual Speaker (w/ Pro-Logic II), and Smart Volume Normalization processing (Windows Media Player 10 or above is required)

MCE Software Kit
Software kit with 10-ft GUI for Windows Media Center Edition

RightMark Audio Analyzer 6.0.6
Easy but powerful software intended for testing the quality of audio equipments

Website: Asus Xonar DX PCI Express Audio Card

Last week Microsoft had to delay the rollout of Windows XP SP3, and halt automatic distribution of Windows Vista SP1, because of incompatibility issues with Microsoft Dynamic Retail Management System (RMS).  Tuesday Microsoft announced that both Service Packs were again available via Windows Update.

The software maker on Tuesday said it is releasing XP Service Pack 3 for Web downloads, and resuming automatic updates to Vista Service Pack 1, after developing a filter that will prevent machines running Dynamics RMS from getting either update.

“A fix for this issue is currently in testing at Microsoft and with customers, and we hope to make it publicly available this month,” the company said in a statement. “Until then, Microsoft is advising Microsoft Dynamics RMS customers to not install either service pack.”

Microsoft also said that those with Dynamics RMS who have already installed either Service Pack should call Tech Support immediately.

[Via News.com]

OCZ Technology Group, Inc., a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra-high performance and high reliability memory, today premiered the world’s first PC3-16000 4GB (2×2048MB) DDR3 kits to provide even greater performance and productivity on the latest DDR3 platforms. Designed to offer the earliest adopting enthusiasts the advantages of high-density memory coupled with the highest speeds available, the OCZ PC3-16000 4GB kits make use of the unbeatable overclocking capabilities of the latest platforms and takes DDR3 to unimaginable performance levels.
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Super Talent Technology, a leading manufacturer of Flash storage solutions and DRAM memory modules, today launched a new line of MasterDrive solid state drives (SSDs) that are 100% interchangeable with hard disk drives (HDDs), but are faster, lighter, use less power and are far more rugged and reliable.
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Smooth Creations was founded by Jim “Smooth” saling in 1999. Smooth is a graphic designer. He creates custom paint jobs for high-end sports cars (Lamborghini, Diablo, Dodge Viper and many muscle cars. After that Smooth enter a computer industry and get a hand designed, custom painted “Smooth Creation” to match all the games and users interests, hobbies and even mood.

The Tru Flame from Smooth Creation using Cooler Master Stacker 830 which provides a great canvas for graphics and artwork for your system as well as providing plenty of room on the interior to support the fastest hardware available. This Cooler Master Stacker 830 come with a Realistic Flame theme which visually stunning from inside and outside.

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Besides fax machine to help us on fax documents from a company to another company, Drop.io is another Web services that help us fax documents from internet to fax machines.

Drop.io before that is a file sharing service. The service provides you with a unique URL that you can share with friends and colleagues so that anyone can upload and share documents. Drop.io recently added the ability to send uploaded documents via fax. You can send Word, Excel, and PDF files to any fax number. The only limitation is that files cannot be more than 20 pages long, which is a vast improvement over other free online fax services like FaxZero, which will charge $1.99 per page for any document longer than three pages.

Besides that, you no need to signup for an account but just enter a folder name you want with password(Optional). After that upload your files and send to fax machines by entering the fax numbers, drop.io do not attach a cover sheet while if you want it, you have to put it inside your documents.

Nowadays IT initiatives generally fail for business, organizational or cultural reasons. Technology screw-ups occur all the time but that’s one of the realities to be managed. Success or failure ultimately depends on how project leadership manages the full range of technical and non-technical issues.

Blogger and Enterprise Architect, Mike Kavis, who worked on many large enterprise initiatives over the years and understand what should or should not the next enterprise initiative can avoid failure. He created ten guidelines describing critical areas of weakness in many projects:
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StarBurn is a powerful tool for grabbing, bunning and mastering CD, DVD, HD-DVD media or even Blu-Ray. StarBurn supports all types of optical storage including CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE, HD-DVD-R/RW and DVD-RAM as well as a wide variety of burning software.

Starburn not even bundled with burning function also build in with virtual drive mounting application. That means you can use StarBurn to create a disc image or ISO file, and then mount that file as a virtual disc so you can see how it performs without actually burning the file to a disc and sticking it in a drive. This can come in handy if you want to see check an image before burning it, or if you want to mount an image you’ve created or downloaded on a system that doesn’t have a working optical drive.

StarBurn can store audio tracks as WAV (uncompressed) and WMA (compressed Windows Media Audio) files. You can create extra copies of your audio CD collection and listen directly from your PC hard disk. Or you can load compressed audio into portable player or car audio. StarBurn also is capable of burning WAV and WMA files back to create re-mastered audio CDs. So if you have an old CD-player or car audio that can’t play MP3/WMA compressed data you can create an ordinary audio CD from files stored on your hard disk. StarBurn is capable of processing or compressed audio streams on-the-fly. This means it can burn an audio CD from MP3/WMA files without de-compressing them and storing an intermediate copy on your hard disk.

Supported: 32bit or 64bit Windows XP/20003 and Vista/Longhorn
Website: Starburn Website
Download: Starburn Setup

[Via DownloadSquad]