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Tune Money’s Tune Card is a relatively new prepaid card in the market, and I have applied one for myself to withdraw from Paypal, and so that I can withdraw my cash from the Tune Card.

As the first step, you need to log in to Tune Money website and register yourself for the card. However, the process of application was quite tedious. I had 3 times time-out during the payment process and finally got through again at the 4^th attempt. Yes, it was very frustrating.

After registering myself, I waited religiously 7 working days for the collection of my card at the local post-office. Yes, it was exactly 7 working days, I was quite surprised at the efficiency. However, the disappointment with their service started not long after that.

Locked account

After activating my card, I somehow got my account locked, and had to wait for new password from them before I could log in again. Unfortunately, it took quite some days to solve my tiny problem. And waiting their customer support reply is the most frustrating thing in the world. They claim to reply you within 2 working days. Sadly, it always takes more than 2 days to reply my mail.

Are they really that busy?

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Facebook learned a lesson. Finally, Facebook added an “ignore all” link to Facebook requests page for any number of requests.

Previously, we can do that using the “Ignore All” bookmarklet. It will automatically ignore all Facebook requests, except the friend requests.

Later, Facebook “copied” the idea and released the “Clear All” option to clear Facebook requests. However, it requires you to have at least 25 requests to use the option. Stupid.

Now, Facebook integrated the “Ignore All” function and add the small text link at the top of the right sidebar. It allows you to ignore any number of Facebook request. Clicking on the link will popup a dialog ask you which types of requests do you want to ignore.

Tick the type of requests you want to ignore and click “Ignore these requests”. Zap! All Facebook requests are gone!

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Hello, guys! It has been a very looong time since my last blog post “Gifts of Hope“. Erm.. that’s exactly 3 weeks! Wow~ A full-time blogger did not update his blog for 21 days! What happened?!

Don’t worry, I am fine. I still online everyday, just that I did not update the blog. Many friends ask me if I am busy or doing new projects? The answer is “No”. I am very free and no new projects coming on (although many projects in my ToDo list).

I just didn’t feel like blogging, even though I have many things to share with you all. Well, let’s treat as a long break of mine. And, now is the new start!

Chinese New Year 2008

As usual, we had hot pot as new year eve dinner. The food was delicious with Taiwan’s Satay Sauce（沙茶酱）. We also ate a lot of abalone… and drank a bottle of red wine…

It was “ang pao” (red packet) time at the end of the meal. According to our family tradition, every child has to tell his/her plan for the following year. One-by-one, from the youngest to the eldest (I am second). Then, the parents will give their speeches.

Here I share the summary of my parents speech with you all:

Mom: Believe on what you believe. Do not give up easily. Be consistent and patient. Don’t be afraid of failures. As long as you keep going on, you will succeed one day (my dad is best example). Time management is important, especially if you are self-employed. Set a time table and follow it.

Dad: Socialize more. It is not avoidable. Even you are a blank paper, you have to absorb the colors and mix with the people. They can help you in your career. You can’t do things alone.

Do you agree with my parents?

Usually, my dad speaks more but not this year. I think he is little drunk after drinking the red wine. On the other hand, mom speaks more than usual this year. Also, I guess it is red wine’s effect again.

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I’m a 7 month old Mac user but the satisfaction it gives me makes me hate being Windows user for more than 1 decade. I personally think it’s pretty fair why Mac machines or Apple product are slight more expensive than the rest. For long run sake and user experience, they are really worth it. I personally own iPod touches, iPhone, Macbook and several Apple accessories I have to say they pretty much communicates (sync and connects) with each other very well and let’s not forget the nice and sleek designs.

As a blogger, Mac has efficiently help me in may ways. I’ll sum them up in 10 reasons why you should be blogging with Mac. Full list after jump.

Terminal

Terminals are great tool and they comes with Mac OS. This light SSH application helps you easily connect to your blog web account, doing tasks like backups, reboot server, edit files. It even does FTP so you don’t need an extra FTP application.

Group and view by application type

In Windows you can group applications of the same kind together in toobar but it just gives you a list view when you click over it. In Mac, you don’t have to group them manually. On any active application window, just hit "F10" and it will show you all application-of-the-same-kind. For example if you have 3 images opened in Photoshop, just go to one and hit F10, you’ll see the all 3 as overall. Simple click on any and that will make it the current-active. Pretty convenient if you swap from files to files.

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While you are celebrating for the Chinese New Year 2008, have you thought of the unfortunate people in the world? If you think you are happy, please share some of your happiness with them. I recommend World Vision’s Gift of Hope, a program to help children and families who are in desperate need.

How it works?

The villagers in Sabah, India, and Vietnam made a list of things that they really need, and then World Vision compiles the list into a gift catalogue. You select gifts for yourself or loved one and receive a gift card telling him/her about the gift that you’ve given in his/her honour. The ordered gifts are purchased and delivered to the villagers.

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