The question I am always being asked is, "What is the best printer to buy for using cheap printer cartridges?". The answer to this important question can be complex and can depend on the users requirements. For instance if a customer wanted to use the printer in a small office then I would recommend a Brother all-in-one machine. The replacement Brother cartridges are cheap and do not contain microchips, so no nasty error messages. Buying a Brother printer is usually slightly more expensive than say a similar specification Epson, however the build quality seems to be better and they seem less prone to blocked print heads; at least in the first year of operation. On the negative side, if a user was looking to print photographs, particularly on slightly thicker paper, then I would sway towards a Canon printer instead. Brother printers feed the paper from a bottom tray which means the media has to bend around so that it comes back out of the front. The resistance of the paper or card can slow down the movement causing either a jam or a vertical misalignment. Canon printers often have a rear paper feed and a bottom paper feed meaning that you can use thicker photo paper within too many problems. The rear paper feed sends the paper in more of a straight direction which means less resistance. Canon printers also tend to have print heads with a higher dpi (dots per inch). For example the Canon Pixma ip4950 photo printer has a maximum print resolution of 9600 x 2400dpi, making it possible to achieve impressive photographic results. However the dots per inch is not the only factor in a printers ability to produce fine prints. The type of ink (dye or pigment) that it uses and the included driver and utility software can make a significant difference. Canon include an Easy Print Utility with this model that improves colour rendition as opposed to printing directly from Windows. The Pixma ip 4950 uses five ink cartridges, a Large Black PG-525BK (Pigment) which is used for text printing, and four other Dye based inks that produce images. While a set of original OEM cartridges costs around £50, compatible PG-525BK/526 BK/C/M/Y cartridges cost around £15 per set. The ink capacity compared to the equivalent Brother ones is less and they are £5 more expensive. So in this brief conclusion if you are looking for an economical small office printer then I would recommend a Brother ink jet. If you require a cheap to run photo printer, then certain Canon models are more appropriate. But be careful which model you choose! We will talk more about this in future blogs.
Better is a malicious adware application installed on internet browsers (Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox) as extension or browser helper object. It is usually comes as a complimentary to a free application software. Some software may provide the options to exclude it during installation process but others are directly forced to installed without warning. The common installation directory located at the C:Program FilesBetter-Surf or C:Program FilesBetterSurf where it folders for each of the browser with acronym (ch = google chrome, ff = firefox, ie = internet explorer). The primary file responsible for executing the ads is the Bettersurf.dll
The Bettersurf behavior
When user visiting any website the ads such as banners, text-link ads, and pops up automatically executed on the site. It adds the load of the browser and making it slower as a result more CPU usage incurred. This can be viewed on the Windows System Performance Monitor whenever bettersurf is running on the website you are visiting. In Google Chrome it installed one extension whereas Firefox and Internet Explorer at least two or three of them.
One of the popup ads shows as below with Affilliate ID 195299 which clearly intended to promote affiliate programs.
On windows startup any antivirus (i.e. Avira) programs will detect the Bettersurf extension running on Mozilla firefox.
Windows Defender will detect it running on Internet Explorer
High usage of CPU when visiting websites and it slows down the browser when Bettersurf is running on the foreground.
How to remove BetterSurf from each browsers:
Google Chrome: Click Customize and Control icon>>Tools>>Extensions>>search Better Surf Plus 1.1 and click on the recycle bin icon to uninstall
Mozilla Firefox: Click on Tools>>Add-ons and Uninstall the Better Surf
Internet Explorer: In Windows 7 click Start>>Control Panel>>Programs (Uninstall Programs)>>Better Surf then right click mouse and uninstall.
After uninstalled for each of the browsers the extensions could still be there especially Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. To remove it completely you will need to clean up the registry manually by doing the following
In Windows 7 – Click Start and Type “regedit” and press ENTER on the keyboard. The registry edit screen will popup
Click on the Edit tab and Find or press CTRL + F on the keyboard. Search “Bettersurf” keyword and delete each of the registry. Once deleted keep searching by pressing F3 on the keyboard and delete until it is no longer be found.
By deleting the registry the extension should be completely eliminated from Internet Explorer and Firefox
Observations: What a Difference Seven Years Makes! Facebook Acquires Instagram – a $1 Billion Imaging-Related Transaction
[April 20, 2012] Imagine if you will, going back seven years and trying to look to the future of the printing and imaging business. Then picture (pardon the pun) a headline –with company identities obscured—that involves an imaging-related acquisition that will take place in April 2012. A top-tier technology company has boldly announced its $1 billion buy-out of a photo capture-and-exchange company, and you must come up with the names of the two players involved.
Those of us who have been around the printing and imaging industry for awhile might have assumed that back in 2005, we would have been able to guess the identity of the companies involved in this seven-years-out, billion-dollar deal. We might have looked at the recent (March 2005) acquisition of Snapfish by HP and figured a deal might include one of the many Snapfish competitors as the acquisition target. The acquiring company would have to be a going concern and no doubt already in the imaging space but looking to bolster its arsenal in the fast-moving online world.
A look at some of the details of the HP/Snapfish deal might help in this little puzzle. In that case, HP was estimated to have forked out $300 million for the five-year-old Snapfish, so with $1 billion at play, we would have to guess that the mystery acquiree would have (even adjusted for moderate inflation over seven years) roughly three times some of the metrics that are compiled when assessing the value of a deal.
Hmm…Snapfish had 90 employees at the time, undisclosed but material revenues, and 13 million subscribers for the firm’s “online photo service,” which according to CNET’s coverage at the time, included 40 percent who print some photos at home, with centralized printing by Snapfish (coming from an assumed nearly 100% of the 13 million) as the primary basis of those undisclosed revenues. This point about home printing was due to the fact that the deal was seen by some as an HP “pivot” in terms of where photos would and should be printed–after long advocating “print your pictures at home with HP printers, HP paper, and HP ink,” the Snapfish deal allowed an opportunity for somewhat of a repositioning. CNET quoted HP vice president Larry Lesley speaking to the convenience factor, saying, “Some of those customers want someone else to do the printing for them,” and with respect to the relative economics, Lesley noted, “There will always be a premium for the convenience of printing in the home.”
But with no more clues to the future and a few dead-ends (for example, who would have guessed then that a firm like Kodak that was aggressively expanding with a war chest for acquisitions in 2005, would be in bankruptcy seven years later?), we throw all the cards over and ask for help. And the company names (drumroll please): Facebook and Instagram.
Remember that, we were assuming that the top technology company making the billion-dollar acquisition would be someone with which we are familiar seven years before—an industry incumbent in the imaging space, still powerful but feeling slightly left behind, and needing an infusion of technologies and customers from a younger, fast-growing tech firm, and with the cash and stock to carry out a deal.
Facebook and Instagram actually live up to those descriptions. Facebook became the world’s largest online repository of photos some time ago, and despite some efforts to capture prints of those images, for the most part they are happily shared among Facebook’s hundreds of millions of users via online (i.e. non-hard-copy) sharing. When preparing for an impending IPO and with an estimated valuation of up to $100 billion (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/facebook/last-facebook-pre-ipo-valuation-is-highest-yet-1028-billion/11229) (for reminders, market caps of our example market leaders, HP and Xerox, currently hover at $50 billion and $11 billion, respectively), many speculated that now was a convenient time (pre-IPO) to snap up the ever-more-popular photo-sharing company Instagram.
Instagram, founded only in 2010, and the firm’s 13 employees make the historical Snapfish number of 90 at buy-out seem huge. Instagram’s user base, however, has ballooned to 40 million users in the days following the Facebook announcement, a number also buoyed by the addition of Android app to the firm’s until-now-iOS-only offering. So maybe there’s our 3x comparison – $300 million for Snapfish’s 13 million users and $1 billion for Instagram’s 40 million?
As far as revenues? Instagram has not a whit, which helped generate a chorus of “what the?” comments from the financial community over Facebook’s 10-figure offer. And as for printing? Well, there have been flurries of interest in printing Instagram prints, by third parties (see Lyra Insider blog, “Instaprint – Hot Combination Includes Print”, , for example), but so far that capability generally remains an untapped opportunity.
Even some of the bank officers dont know what is swift codes or BIC codes or MEPS bank routing codes of the bank they work in. I have contacted Maybank customer service once before and they gave me some strange number that is not even swift codes. So below is some list of Swift codes for a list of Bank companies in Malaysia. This list is 100% legitimate because it is collection from Paypal account.
Bank Name
MEPS Bank Routing Code / BIC Codes / Swift Codes
AFFIN BANK BERHAD
PHBMMYKL
ALLIANCE BANK MALAYSIA BERHAD
MFBBMYKL
AMBANK BERHAD
ARBKMYKL
BANK ISLAM MALAYSIA BERHAD
BIMBMYKL
BANK KERJASAMA RAKYAT BERHAD
BKRMMYK1
BANK MUAMALAT BERHAD
BMMBMYKL
BANK OF AMERICA
BOFAMY2X
BANK SIMPANAN NASIONAL
BSNAMYK1
CIMB BANK BERHAD
CIBBMYKL
CITIBANK BERHAD
CITIMYKL
DEUSTCHE BANK
DEUTMYKL
EON BANK BERHAD
EOBBMYKL
HONG LEONG BANK BERHAD
HLBBMYKL
HSBC BANK MALAYSIA BERHAD
HBMBMYKL
MALAYAN BANKING BERHAD
MBBEMYKL
OCBC BANK (M) BERHAD
OCBCMYKL
PUBLIC BANK BERHAD
PBBEMYKL
RHB BANK BERHAD
RHBBMYKL
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK MSIA BHD
SCBLMYKX
THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND BERHAD (RBS)
ABNAMYKL
UNITED OVERSEAS BANK
UOVBMYKL
Bank swift codes are required when making transaction either receiving bank transfer money from foreign countries to Malaysian local banks. Without the codes the transaction will not go through successfully.
Swift codes also known as: BIC Code (Bank Identifier Code) or MEPS routing codes (Malaysian electronic payment system routing codes)
