Papa John's Pizza

Not too long ago I had a farewell lunch at Papa John's Pizza (Tropicana City Mall). Basically celebrate two interns last working day from my company. All of us was there ordered quite a number of pizza and while waiting so I took the chance to snapshots nearly the whole menu (I practically playing around with my HTC Desire HD while waiting for food).

Papa John's Pizza Menu

According to Wikipedia, Papa John's is the third largest take-out and pizza delivery

John Schnatter the owner and his huge pizza on the menu

Get two in one with their Half & Half

Appetizers Menu

Appetizers/Snack Menu

Snack Menu

Baked Rice and Pasta Menu

Drinks Menu

Dippings - Garlic Butter Sauce, Tomata Pasta Sauce and Green Pepper

Dippings for the Garlic Butter is alright but having the Green Pepper and Tomata Pasta Sauce is just weird. The Tomato Pasta Sauce is the same sauce they use on the pasta and pizza...

Snack - Breadsticks (RM3.50)

The breadsticks was alright, quite dry and not much of flavor. Tried dipping into the Garlic Butter sauce seems to taste better a little.

Snack - Potato Wedges (RM3.90)

This is one of the smallest potato wedges I seen so far. It still look so small even after I zoom for a close up shot. The wedges is crunchy but I still find the KFC wedges taste better.

Snack - Sweet and Spicy Chicken Wings (RM8.00)

Menu wrote chicken wing yet gave us drumstick and again.. it's so damn small! Another record breaking tiny drumstick and chicken wing but I do admit that it does taste better than Pizza Hut's chicken wing. 

Chicken and Mushroom Pizza Pocket (RM8.90)

I surely don't want to put this in my pocket but overall this was the best food I tasted there which includes the pizza I tried.

Specialty Pizza - Chicken Super Papa's

Classic Pizza - Garden Special

Specialty Pizza - BBQ Chicken & Beef

Classic Pizza - Papa's Pizza

Chicken Alfredo Pasta

Baked Seafood Deluxe Pasta

This is the dude that was busy making our pizza

Overall the pizzas looks nice but taste quite dull as compare to Pizza Hut, Domino and Yellow Cab. Snack portion was the smallest I seen so far also I did waited for a long time before the first pizza reached my table. I enjoyed the Chicken and Mushroom Pizza Pocket but I don't have any reason to go back there again. 

Maybe the focus on Papa John's Pizza is the freshness of the ingredient used, yet again... When comes to franchising food here in Malaysia, it's normal for my perspective to think that quality and services is below average.

Check out the link below for Papa John's Menu:

Papa John's Appetizers

Papa John's Pasta and Rice

Papa John's Classic Pizzas

Papa John's Specialty Pizzas 

Buffalo MiniStation Lite USB3.0 (HD-PEU3 Series)

Just got myself a Buffalo MiniStation Lite USB3.0!

Check out the specification:

• Support for legacy USB 2.0 and SuperSpeed USB 3.0 
• Preformatted hard drive is ready for immediate use with Windows® and Mac®
• Connect to your computer for additional storage or backup of your music, photo, video and data files
• Perfect comopanion for your laptop or netbook - No external power supply needed
• Enhance the overall perfomance of your PC and increase file transfer rates up to 135% over USB 2.0 hard drives
• Eco minded power management tool regulates power usage, conserving energy and battery consumption 
• Buffalo's Backup Utility for automatic backup of your PCs, and Time Machine® support for continuous backup of your Mac computer

I got this at the Digital Mall Petaling Jaya with the price of RM219 and mainly I will be using this to store all the VPC or Virtual Hard Disk. The key point about this portable hard disk is the transfer rate by using USB 3.0 (Max 3 Gbps) and the utilities bundle together to make the transfer speed even more faster.

 The  USB SuperSpeed portable HDD + USB3.0 Mini Connector + Manuals

USB 3.0 A side Mini Connector and B side connector

The USB 3.0 is like an extension of micro USB B. It's easy to identified the USB 3.0/SuperSpeed cable since the inside plastic is blue and the indicator of 'SS' on the USB sign.

USB 3.0/SuperSpeed is backward compatible with USB 2.0/1.1

I have tried using my micro USB from my HTC Desire HD cable and it fits

LED light indicator

LED emits white light for the Buffalo logo and kinda like greenish/yellow light on the left side when loading data. There is a short blue light emitted when I plug in the cable to my laptop USB port.

Application and Utilities for the Buffalo MiniStation Lite USB3.0

 BuffaloTools - Utilities for better performance

I would mostly use the TurboPC and TurboCopy as it does improve the performance of file transfer. This is done by configuring and managing well on the data caching. At the moment I can't really test the performance as I don't have a USB3.0 port on both my laptop and desktop yet it's good to have it once USB 3.0 is more widely available in the market.

Buffalo TurboCopy

The installed utilities actually improve the User Interface and additional features shown when copy or move files. This actually apply to all file copy or move the the cached being use when transferring file.

I personally like the sleek and compact design of the portable HDD yet this is the MiniStation Lite which lacking Encryption Model available at the HD-PXTU2 Series. Still! The LED emitted light on the Buffalo logo is very solid and bright =P

USB 3.0 was release more than a year but the adaptation for this SuperSpeed for the mainstream consuption is so laggard due to the complication of Intel updating their chipset specification. Right now most USB 3.0 port available in the market is not direct support from the native chipset and Windows 7

Intel basically have their own plan on the development of Light Peak technology.i Rght now, Intel basically change their mind and finally adopt USB 3.0 in the Sandy Bridge chipset. I guess this is due to the overall demand from the mainstream consumer and pressure from AMD to adopt USB 3.0 to their Fuzion chipsets.

RockMelt - A Social Media Web Browser

I'm very sure that those who constantly and addicted to Facebook or Twitter will surely love this social media web browser - RockMelt.

Got to know about RockMelt few months back as that time I'm only allowed to sign up to receive invitation using my Facebook account. Till now I have not receive any invitation yet i revisit http://www.rockmelt.com

To my surprise, I was able to download it once I log in with my Facebook account.

After checking around, I found out that this social media web browser developed by Tim Howes (Co-inventor of Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and Eric Vishria (Co-founder and CEO of RockMelt)

RockMelt is based on Google's open-source project Chromium, current integration mainly on Facebook, Twitter and Feeds which uses Push Notification Service. 

At the moment you need to have a Facebook account to receive an invitation.

My Facebook and Twitter account on RockMelt Web Browser

YouTube video by TheRockMelt

It's fascinating to see how well the integration of Facebook and Twitter done on this web browser. I believe it can be improve further to support other social media but for now I will try it out and give more review.