Reason why I use my real name as Facebook name.

I use my real name as Facebook name because the main reason to use Facebook is to contact with my teachers. I think it is better to use the real name to make my teachers able to identify me easier. It also looks more formal to use real name to contact with the teachers. Another reason to use real name on Facebook is to remind me to be careful when I post something on Facebook because my real name is showing. If I post bad comment, I have to respond to what I post. I think it is a good idea to campaigning people to use their real name on social networks because it makes people think more before share or post something on social network.

Review Siri with Thai language.

One of interesting feature on iOS 8.3 for Thai people is Siri with Thai language. Siri is the intelligent software assistant on iOS introduced first time on iOS 5.0. It can talk with user like a real person. People can ask it to search for information on the internet, call someone, open application, or event talk with the user!
For the new version of Siri, it support more language include Thai. I already tried Thai language on Siri it impressive ! It understand my words clearly I can ask her (Siri's sound is similar to woman sound.) to search for information on the internet by giving a keyword in Thai, call someone in my contract list, open or close WiFi, and etc. Siri talk with me like a real person, I am so amazed.

Pros
- Understand Thai word clearly.
- Very smart.
- Able to talk with her like a real person.

Cons
- Unfamiliar to talk with computer.

Some screenshots from my iPhone.

I can ask her to call my brother.

I can talk with Siri by typing also.

I ask Siri to search for information about Tom Yum Goong.

She talk like a real person!

 

Review Fuji Xerox DocuPrint CP205 laser printer

Last year my old ink jet printer was broken. So I decided to buy a new printer to use for long period, at that time I want to try laser printer because it can print faster than ink jet printer and has better quality of printing picture. I search for a laser printer which has price not more than 10,000 Baht and has not too big size. I found Fuji Xerox DocuPrint CP205 at the back of the shop it has cost 8,900 Baht and the size is same as my old printer, so I bough it. When I started to use it, it not make me disappointed. It can print vary fast and the quality is look like printings from magazine and the ink is not melt when touch water. The only one disadvantage that I found from this printer is its refill toners are expensive. It cost around 1900 Baht per color! but they use to print around 1,400 pages. So I not have to refill them often.  

Good quality of printing.

Water proof ink!

     

Most useful application in my tablet pc.

 

The most useful application on my tablet pc is Adobe Reader. Which is an application for read PDF files. It useful for carry files for reading without print to papers. I think it is very convenient to keep studying documents such as PowerPoint slides, research papers, or even the whole book which are in PDF format. I can also put some notes, highlight, or draw something on the file I read. I found that the application has a weak point. That is users cannot edit other file formats over PDF format.

Easy to choose file.

You can draw something to the PDF file.

You can highlight important words.

You can also put some short notes.

Review Bose Sounddock 10

Bose Sounddock 10 is a speaker docking station for iPhone and iPod. I bought it from Siam Paragon 3 years ago for using it as a music player in my room. Its price is very expensive, it cost me for 30,000 Baht ! But the first time I use it, I love it immediately because it give me very good quality of sound, I am able to hear sound of each musical instruments in the music clearly.
 Bose Sounddock 10 is very easy to use just dock your iPhone or iPod at the front and then open iPod application on the device, choose song and play. You also can control it by using the remote control.

Unfortunately Bose Sounddock 10 is not fully support other devices over iPod and iPhone but you can use AUX cable look like in the picture below connect at the back and push AUX button on the remote control then push "play music" on the device. 

  Advantages

• Very good quality of sound.
• Easy to use.

Disadvantage

• Expensive
• Not fully support other devices over iPhone and iPod

Example of Bose Sounddock 10 sound but the tablet microphone is not good. 

Review "3BB fttx" fiber optic cable Internet.

I started to use 3BB fttx for 6 months. I feel loved it because it has very good speed and very stable. So I can download big files such as computer games which I purchased from an online store with in 2 hours from 4-6 hours with normal internet. I also able to play online games on foreign servers without lagging. These are the good experiences from the 3BB fttx internet.

Good speed to the foreign server.

Very good speed to the server in Thailand.

The bad experiences from 3BB fttx internet are its setup process, monthly cost, and the modem router. To setup the fttx internet I have to wiring the fiber optic cable into my house the difficult thing is the cable cannot bent too much, so it cannot tight with the corner of the room. I have to drill the window to weave the cable into the room like in the picture.

For monthly cost because of fttx internet is just available to household users, the cost is expensive compare with normal internet. 

About the modem router. The bad point of modems for fttx internet is they are not available in Thai market. So users cannot find a new one to upgrade or replace when the old moden broken, the user can only call to the operator to change a new one. 

Learn HTML language by yourself on website at codecademy

   

       Today I have an interesting website to share to you. The name of this website is "codecademy" it is a website that teach you about HTML language. HTML language is a computer language used for create websites. I know this website from arjarn Dr. Vasa. He use this website to teach me in his web design class. Codecademy teach you to understand HTML language by explain about each element and then let you try to type. You can learn step by step from basic to advance level.

Example about how to study with Codecademy.

First, they explain about element that they try to teach you.

Then it is your turn to try, you can see the result below the blackboard. After finish click on the green arrow icon to continue the next lesson.

Have fun with coding.

My E-commerce experience

 

              My experience on E-commerce is mainly on online shopping. I try online shopping since I got my first credit card from my father. The first website which I do online shopping was ebay. I am very excited on my first online shopping because I heard many bad news from many people about online shopping someone got cheated from online merchants someone had problems with products but could not do anything because the seller is live overseas. The treat that I afraid most is my credit card information might be steal by someone. But in reality I mostly got good experience from online shopping.
               First time I entered ebay, I dumbfounded because I found that almost everything in the world are selling on this website by merchants around the world. I enjoyed watching items selling on ebay, I found many things that I cannot found in Thailand, rare old toys in never opened package, even cars can also found on this website. I chose a Japanese music CD for my first time purchasing. I searched for information about purchasing products online from many many websites. I found that I must have PayPal account which is the best method for online payment. When I finished purchase and pay for the music CD I am so excited. I always check the status of the product. I waited for a week then the package arrived. I checked the condition and no any problem. I felt very happy and enjoy online shopping. After the first purchase, I always buying things that I cannot find in Thailand.
                 I also have bad experience from online shopping. At that time I had purchased a gaming laptop from a merchant on ebay. It is the most expensive item that I purchased from ebay. I very excited because it is a big item and hopefully that everything will be okay. When the item arrived I checked the new laptop unfortunately I found big groups of black spot on the screen! I sent email to the seller immediately but they replied like they do not need to respond to this problem and I also cannot do anything because I live far away from the seller. So I have to find the way to repair it by myself fortunately I found a replacement part. From this event I learned that I should not buy expensive things from online shopping because when something wrong happen, it is very difficult to get responsibility from the overseas merchants and it also costly to send the item back or repair it.
                 Online shopping is still a good choice for me to buy something that very difficult to find or cannot find in my hometown. From my experience I learned that I must check information of the item that I want to buy first if it available in the country it is the best choice to buy in the country because it easier to get good service when there are some problems and it also cheaper than purchasing from other countries because shipping cost between country is expensive.

Free no WiFi zone !?

Nowadays people are able to connect to the internet all the time. When we look around we will always see people doing like in the picture. This will make people forget to pay attention to someone around them. I am sure that you might saw some group or couple sit together in a restaurant but each one always do something on their phone.

Today I see an interesting campaign and want to share to you. This campaign is present by Kit Kat joined with JWT Amsterdam, it called "HAVE A BREAK, HAVE NO WIFI". They provided a small area with a small WiFi jammer, it made that area unable to connect to the internet. It is a lovely thinking because they want people to break from using internet and do simple thing such as talk face to face with friends, read newspaper or etc. except using internet (also mobile phone). I think it is a creative idea to tell people that "You should try to pay attention to someone near you."

  

Become famous by playing game !!

           Once Youtube appear in the world many people upload their video on this website. Youtube also create new type of job such as online musician, online tutor, and game caster.

           Today I will talk about game caster. Game casters are people who play games and talking during playing the game and record video clip and upload to website such as Youtube. Game casters are able entertain people a lot if they have funny script. To be famous game caster you do not need good skill to playing game but you have to make people fun with your game casting video if you can people might like you and follow your channel. One of the famous game caster is PewDiePie.

            PewDiePie's real name is Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, he is Swedish. He is a famous game caster because he can narrate like he play with fun and very natural. Nowadays he has more than 30 million subscribers! That make he become the most famous game caster on Youtube.

      

This is an example of PewDiePie clip.

Variety of audio format

When you want to listen music you will listen from CD or audio file right? In our generation listen music from audio file is a very good idea because of convenience. You can carry more than 100 songs in a small device such as mp3 players or mobile phone. There are many different audio format to choose, I will assort them into two group there are lossy and lossless formats.

 Lossy Formats
For regular listening, it's more likely that you'll be using a lossy format. They save a ton of space, leaving you with more room for songs on your portable player.

MP3: MPEG Audio Layer III, or MP3 for short, is the most common lossy format around. So much so that it's become synonymous with downloaded music. MP3 isn't the most efficient format of them all, but its definitely the most well-supported, making it our #1 choice for lossy audio. You really can't go wrong with MP3.

AAC: Advanced Audio Coding, also known as AAC, is similar to MP3, although it's a bit more efficient. That means that you can have files that take up less space, but with the same sound quality as MP3. And, with Apple's iTunes making AAC so popular, it's almost as widely compatible with MP3. I've only ever had one device that couldn't play AACs properly, and that was a few years ago, so it's pretty hard to go wrong with AAC either.

Ogg Vorbis: The Vorbis format, often known as Ogg Vorbis due to its use of the Ogg container, is a free and open source alternative to MP3 and AAC. Its main draw is that it isn't restricted by patents, but that doesn't affect you as a user—in fact, despite its open nature and similar quality, it's much less popular than MP3 and AAC, meaning fewer players are going to support it. As such, we don't really recommend it unless you feel very strongly about open source.


WMA: Windows Media Audio is Microsoft's own proprietary format, similar to MP3 or AAC. It doesn't really offer any advantages over the other formats, and it's also not as well supported. There's very little reason to rip your CDs into this format.

Lossless Formats
Lossless music keeps all the audio quality of the original source—in most cases, CD—intact, while lossy music compresses the files for space savings.

WAV and AIFF: Both WAV and AIFF are uncompressed formats, which means they are exact copies of the original source audio. The two formats are essentially the same quality; they just store the data a bit differently. AIFF is made by Apple, so you may see it a bit more often in Apple products, but WAV is pretty much universal. However, since they're uncompressed, they take up a lot of unnecessary space. Unless you're editing the audio, you don't need to store the audio in these formats.

FLAC: The Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) is the most popular lossless format, making it a good choice if you want to store your music in lossless. Unlike WAV and AIFF, it's been compressed, so it takes up a lot less space. However, it's still a lossless format, which means the audio quality is still the same as the original source, so it's much better for listening than WAV and AIFF. It's also free and open source, which is handy if you're into that sort of thing. 
p.s.This format is not fully supported by Apple devices.

Apple Lossless: Also known as ALAC, Apple Lossless is similar to FLAC. It's a compressed lossless file, although it's made by Apple. Its compression isn't quite as efficient as FLAC, so your files may be a bit bigger, but it's fully supported by iTunes and iOS (while FLAC is not). Thus, you'd want to use this if you use iTunes and iOS as your primary music listening software.

APE: APE is a very highly compressed lossless file, meaning you'll get the most space savings. Its audio quality is the same as FLAC, ALAC, and other lossless files, but it isn't compatible with nearly as many players. They also work your processor harder to decode, since they're so highly compressed. Generally, I wouldn't recommend using this unless you're very starved for space and have a player that supports it.
p.s.This format is not fully supported by Apple devices.

Which should you use?

I recommend you to use lossless formats when you want sound quality same as the original CD or when you listen from good quality speakers or earphones. It also a good idea to choose lossless formats when you rip musics from CD. If you want to carry a lot of songs in a device and not worry about sound quality, lossy formats are your choice.      

TrueMoney Machine

Normally when we want to pay monthly telephone bill, we have to go to facilitator shop such as True shop, AIS shop, DTAC shop then receive queue card and wait, sometime it takes long time until your queue. Last week I went to True shop to pay the telephone bill I thought that I have to wait for long time but when I arrived the shop I saw machines like in the picture. This is True Money payment machine.

This machine is convenient because I could pay my bill with this machine, no need to wait for long queue. I saw many functions on this machine like in the picture. But I have not try them yet. I use only billing payment function. I think other function are useful for people who have True Money account.

For billing payment these are steps to use.

First, choose the billing payment function.

Second, enter your phone number. then the system shows total amount you have to pay

Third, choose method to pay. It has cash, credit card and, touch sim (I choose credit card).

Fourth, insert cash, slide your credit card or touch your phone to the machine (according to payment method you have chose.) 

Fifth, confirm your payment and receive the receipt.

For me this machine is safe and convenient because you do the payment by yourself no need to afraid of the officer might do bad things with your credit card. I think it is a good idea to has this machine in many place such as in 7-11 shop.

Toyota Mirai for Future

On November 18th 2014 Toyota company launch a new car named "Mirai" with new technology at Nagoya Japan. Mirai is come with new engine technology call "Hydrogen Fuel Cell". This engine is use hydrogen instead of fossil fuels combine with hybrid technology.

Mirai can run for 650 kilometer per 1 fuel tank with speed 175 kilometer per hour. The engine is release any exhaust it release only water that remain from procedure that change hydrogen to energy for the engine.

In my opinion Mirai is the prototype for vehicle in the nearly future because its performance is not different from fossil fuels engine and it also not release exhaust that harm the environment. Hydrogen is also easy to find because we can distill from water.