Online storage service provider Box.net is giving away a whopping 50GB free online storage to all iOS (iPad, iPhone & iPod Touch) users if you log in to your account or register for a new account directly from their iOS app. This is Box.net latest promotion which starts from today and lasts for 50 days until 2^nd December, 2011.

It’s easy to get this free 50GB online storage, just follow these steps :-

• 1. Visit the app store, search for “box.net” and download/update the latest Box app for your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch.
• 2. Log in to your account or register for a new account directly from the app
• 3. Enjoy the free 50GB online storage on your device. :)

This special offer is valid for anyone using a Box.net Personal account on an iOS device. Your account will have an increased file size upload limit of 100MB instead of the usual 25MB too!

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Free Box.net 50GB Online Storage For iOS (iPad, iPhone & iPod) Users!

There’s a golden egg in Angry Birds Seasons to unlock a secret Samsung Galaxy S II level. This special level was dedicated to only Samsung Galaxy S II user but I think it’s now available to Galaxy S users too as I managed to unlocked it on my Galaxy S. You may want to check it on your mobile if you have Angry Birds Seasons installed.

Playing secret Samsung Galaxy S II level on my Samsung Galaxy S

This secret level has a totally different gravity pull than other Angry Birds level. It’s a different playing experience altogether. Below are the steps to unlocked this Golden Egg :-

• 1. Go into Summer Pignic episode in Angry Birds Seasons.
• 2. Play Level 3.
• 3. Shoot the white bird to the left, drop its explosive egg at the edge of the platform.
• 4. If the egg hits the edge of the platform, a golden egg is found.
• 5. Enjoy playing the secret Samsung Galaxy S II level. :)

Check my video tutorial to see how it is done.

This secret level was used in the recent Asian Angry Birds Challenge. Details of the competition will be coming up in the next post. :)

Two weeks ago I was in Helsinki, Finland, as one of the finalists for Asian Angry Birds Challenge organized by Finnish Airlines Finnair and Rovio’s Angry Birds. Asian Angry Birds Challenge is a campaign to promote Finnair’s new route to Singapore and in conjunction with Angry Birds’s business strategy to focus in Asian markets. Anyway, I’ll leave the details and what was happening during the contest in the upcoming post because this post is all about Angry Birds! :D

A day before the Asian Angry Birds Challenge contest, we were invited to have an exclusive tour to Angry Birds Headquarters located in Espoo during the 2-day stay in Helsinki.

In this Angry Birds Headquarters tour, I got to meet some developers behind the famous Angry Birds game, hear the latest Angry Birds news and get the some insider information of Angry Birds future plans.

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My Trip To Angry Birds Headquarters In Helsinki

Earlier today WordPress found some malicious codes in several popular plugins, namely AddThis, WPtouch, and W3 Total Cache. These malicious codes may run as cleverly disguised backdoors on your blog, which is dangerous!

Therefore, WordPress urged all WP blog users who have these plugins installed or upgraded recently to reset your password immediately. Do not use the same password as the new password!

To reset the user’s password in your blog is easy. There are 2 ways to reset the password :-

1. Reset in WP Admin Panel

• 1. In the Admin Panel menu, go to Users.
• 2. Click on your username in the list to edit.
• 3. Scroll to the bottom to the New Password section and type in a new password in the two boxes provided. The strength box will show how good (strong) your password is.
• 4. Click the Update Profile.

2. Reset without login to WP Admin Panel

• 1. Go to your WordPress Login page.
• 2. Click on lost password.
• 3. Enter your user name and the email address on file for that account.
• 4. The new password will be emailed to your email address.

Meanwhile, all password at wordpress.org were forced-reset so you’ll need to request for the new password to be sent to you in case if you need to login to wordpress.org.

Today I took another video comparing iPad 2 to iPad 1 in a web browser (Safari) memory test. This memory test shows the improvement in iPad 2 in term of web browsing experience.

iPad 1 has only 256MB RAM, on the other hand iPad 2 has double amount of RAM, which is 512MB. Therefore, clearly there’s one winner in this test.

Surfing the Internet on iPad 1’s Safari web browser often will run into a reloading problem when switching tabs. Most of the time, a previously visited webpage will need to be reloaded when we are switching tabs back and forth because iPad 1 has to refresh the content of the webpage when it runs out of memory.

This reloading issue won’t happen in iPad 2 whether we are switching tabs or switching between apps, thanks to the 512MB RAM.

Check out the video below to see the difference in performance :-

I just make a video comparing the differences in software, apps and game (processing speed) on both iPad 2 & iPad 1 side-by-side.

One of the main differences you can find in iPad 2 is of course the Smart Cover. It wakes up the OS when we flip open the Smart Cover and the OS goes into sleep mode when we close the cover. This is one of the cool factors of iPad 2 and I believe it successfully attracts more buyers too.

There are 3 extra apps pre-installed in iPad 2 because it has a front-facing and rear camera.

• FaceTime app – An app for video chat with iPhone and iPad 2 users
• Camera app – Obviously it’s for shooting photo and video, using either front or rear camera
• Photo Booth app – Add special effects to the photo taken

On top of that, we have more apps to install on iPad 2 because some apps are specifically developed for iPad 2 to utilize the camera feature.

iPad 2 is running on a dual-core A5 processor and better graphic card chip, which is up to 9x faster than the iPad 1 (running a single-core A4 processor). Therefore, I tested the processing speed in apps loading, web browsing and game playing. Check out the video to see the speed difference yourself. :)

Please feel free to suggest if you have any other ideas or methods or comparison to bring the best out of the iPad 2.