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In case you were wondering, I was on vacation in the past few days. I went to Langkawi with friends, 12 of us. It was fun to travel with friends.
We booked the travel package during MATTA Fair. We took AirAsia flight to Pulau Langkawi. The package included car rental of 4 Proton Iswara. I must say the cars are old and broke, fortunately we were safe during the 3 days 2 nights. We stayed in lousy chalets with minimum facilities.

In the Langkawi Island, we had island hopping tour(pregnant maiden lake, eagle feeding, wet rice island), took Langkawi cablecar, cross through the scary bridge between hills (name?).

We had a seafood dinner at Coconut Beach Restaurant but my friends were disappointed by their services, food and the expensive bill. The last night in Langkawi, we had another seafood dinner in Kuah but that time was much more satisfied and surprisingly cheap bill.

Langkawi is duty free island. We had a great shopping time. 12 of us spend few thousands bucks on chocolate, wine and perfume just in an hour’s time!

I saw a lot of spa resports in Langkawi. One of my friend went to the spa and was offered an “extra service” by the Thailand massage girl, but he didn’t try the “service”.

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Have you noticed something different on Google homepage and search result pages?

Google homepage has links to other Google services on the top left corner. On search result pages, a navigation bar with dynamic links added below the top search form.

For some search terms (e.g. steve jobs, you might also get image results at the top, related search terms and news archive results at the bottom.

These are some of the changes of Google Universal Search.

“Our focus has always been making our users’ search experience as simple and straightforward as possible,” said Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google. “The ultimate goal of universal search is to break down the silos of information that exist on the web and provide the very best answer every time a user enters a query. While we still have a long way to go, today’s announcements are a big step in that direction.”

Google Press Center: Press Release

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Developers and designers often need to pick up a color on their screen, that is where AdesClrPicker becomes useful.

AdesClrPicker is a small, easy to use, yet powerful color picker. It is system wide color picker, which means you can pick up any color that you see on the screen. It can output the colors in HTML, RGB, C++, VB and Delphi color codes.

After activate AdesClrPicker (support keyboard shortcut), the mouse cursor will become a color picker with a floating color box following it closely. The color box will zoom the current are of the color picker and shows the current color code and last captured color.

Admit it, color codes are hard to be memorized. So, AdesClrPicker will remember the last 10 colors picked by you. It is a simple but handy feature so that you do not need to pick several different colors over and over again.

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Apple announced the updates on MacBook. All MacBook models are now using Intel Core 2 Duo processor from 2.0GHz to 2.16GHz. The system memory also upgraded to 1GB by default. Also, larger hard drives in every model. All MacBooks are now equipped with built-in 802.11n wireless networking. Best of all, the price remain the same!

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