Check & Re-check!

Sounds like one of the infotainments which are now spreading like mushroom in the rainy season ? No no.. this one is not about celebrities’ gossip, divorce, marriage or whatsoever. Check and Re-check, area that I’d like to highlight is the quality of the news, articles or writings published for public consumptions. Sometimes I wonder if there’re some sanity checks performed for the writings before they are being published. Well, I expect so, especially if they are coming from reputable organizations. If the writings are published in personal blog (which is understandable that there’s no stringent checking), it’s considered okay in my opinion.

Today I receive an email from Mandala Air about year-end airfare promo ( I subscribe for the marketing offer news since I love to hunt for cheap ticket ). This is the screen-shot of homepage :

Note the “not that serious” but amusing error in above information ? Hahaha.. If you can’t figure out then perhaps you can ask a primary school student to tell you about it. Notice now ? Well well.. How many days are there in September ? 30 right ? Then how come the offer is up till 31 September!

This one is not so serious. I ever encountered much more serious and horrendous errors, also from reputable organizations and in other formats as well, such as newspaper article (including top national newspaper publisher).

Despite all the checking and editing process, sometimes errors are still there. I think that’s why organizations are setting up quality checking and assurance function in daily operations. Imagine if this function is not there ? One consequence for sure that we will surely see more errors! 🙂

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Singing When You’re Listening!

Are you a music listener and a bathroom singer as well ? Haha..
Sometimes when you’re listening to your favourite tunes, do you happen wanting to sing it along but somehow don’t know the lyrics ? What do you do then ? Try googling, with keywords : “Song Title Lyrics”?
Well. that’s what I did. Very cumbersome and troublesome. But that’s not the case anymore after I found this powerful winamp plug-in called MiniLyrics!

I accidentally knew about this plug in from my pal Johnson when paying a visit to his place. Amazed by the discovery, tried to search in the internet and tada.. got it!

MiniLyrics is a winamp plug-in that shows the lyrics of the song being played in winamp by connecting to the internet. How does it works ? Well, it uses the ID3 tag in the MP3 file you have and connects to the internet to look for lyrics database. One special thing to mention about MiniLyrics is that the lyric shown is not static. It scrolls down automatically following the part of song being played. It really pampers those who like to listen and sing. Amazing, isn’t it ?

Here’s the screen shot of the plug in..

Curious about its capabilities, I try another song.. Indonesian Song from Letto.
It turns out to be : No Problem!

French song ? Ce n’est pas problematique.. (seems like out of French grammar.. hehe..)

Now.. asian song.. How do you reckon? It works as well. Try Jay Chow – Cai Hong (Rainbow) and Jang Na Ra (Sweet Dream).. It shows the roman pin yin lyrics! Yiha… Powerful isn’t it ?

Interested with this plug-in? Get it here and start “Singing When You’re Listening!”

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