ICA: Mashup

  Mashup is a combination of several web app feature and turning into a new one. A mashup or a mix of website. Frequently being closely related Web 2.0. for example, we can consider Facebook.com as a mashup as it is a status updater, a online profile, event manager, communication platform, photo sharing site, group collaboration site etc

ICA: NSFnet

  NSFNET is what came before the internet, one of the network such as ARPANET that shapes the internet we know today. According to Wikipedia what is NSFNET:


The National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) was a program of coordinated, evolving projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) beginning in 1985 to promote advanced research and education networking in the United States. NSFNET was also the name given to several nationwide backbone networks that were constructed to support NSF's networking initiatives from 1985-1995. Initially created to link researchers to the nation's NSF-funded supercomputing centers, through further public funding and private industry partnerships it developed into a major part of the internet backbone.

ICA: Silver Ant Trip

  It was a pretty amazing trip as I could get into the insight of the 3D animation industry. I didn't knew that a Malaysia company is involve in the in-game cinematic of several popular game such as Mario, Metroid Prime and Castlevania. I'm impressed and proud in the same time, a Malaysian company are capable of such feat. It totally catches my attention of such potential in m'sia local animation scene. Silver Ant first full length 3D animation SeeFood is pretty interesting and the award winning Saladin is pretty cool too.

ICA: Hibernate vs Sleep

  Hibernation takes a snapshot of everything you got on RAM which means that everything you're doing and save it into the HDD. It does not use any power as it is the same as powering down a computer, while saving the previous state while you are working. It is way faster compare to completely shutting down and re-powering up the computer.

  Standby resume faster than hibernation but it does consume a minimal amount of energy. As it basically shutdown the computer except the RAM as the session is stored in the RAM. It resumes way faster than hibernation and this is a brief explanation from Lifehacker 

Your machine recovers quickly as your data is stored in RAM. The slower part is waking up the peripherals. Although your machine is in "standby" the power has been cut to items such as your hard drive and monitor. You're running your machine in a very low power mode, but it is still on. This mode can be useful if you're on a notebook and need to conserve your battery while you step away.

  In conclusion standby is used if you're just leaving for a short moment for example for lunch, hibernation is used if you're leaving your computer for a few hour or more.

ICA: Ative Matrix vs Passive Matrix Display

  After reading the article on wikipedia regarding Active Matrix vs Passive Matrix display, what i get is, Passive Matrix display are used in early laptop and currently it is use on peripherals that need low power consumption and high readability under direct sunlight, where most active matrix display fail to achieve. Where as Active matrix display boost high resolution colour display, faster response time and refresh rate, which is suitable to be used in most consumer device such as Computer monitor, smartphone display etc. Active Matrix te4chnology such as IPS which boost a high viewing angle and colour saturation as used in Apple's product such as the iPhone and iPad which is comparable to a much superior technology such as AMOLED (Active Matrix OLED).
Note, Passive Matrix display comes with monochrome or coloured version, where by Active Matrix have only coloured version.

Apple IPS Diplay on the iPad