Tuesday 23 June 2020

QR-Code is the Old-New Digital Business Card.

 QR-Code is the Old-New Digital Business Card.


Everyone knows that! What an old news! Now more than ever! Its more useful than the conventional physical Business cards that we hand out. Especially now, with the world wide pandemic crisis on our world map at hand. We now use the internet more as it is so important to our daily life. Work or leisure. We communicate with our smartphones, pay bills and transactions by scanning the payment QR-code instead of money notes from our wallet. You get the picture, I don't need to explain in detail.

Though we use QR-code for payment, little did we use it as our business card. With old conventional business cards, if we changed position, change address, or phone number or new information needed to be added, we have to publish new sets of name cards. And there goes the little plant of trees for a set of 100 name cards.

Now with some new regulations of social distancing, washing hands regularly, and not allowed to be in a crowded places, our name cards also needs to change. What better way is to use QR-Codes as our business card info. You can create one with a QR-code generator. You can search online. Well, I have a link that helps to generate for free and its for commercial use as well. https://www.qrcode-monkey.com/

Monday 8 June 2020

:: NOTICE: Recovery Movement Control Order as of 10 June to 31 August 2020

Malaysia’s Movement Control Order (MCO) has been extended until 31st August 2020 and it is now entering the recovery phase which is now called the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO). Beginning 10th June, the government is lifting several restrictions as the country moves into a recovery phase, as part of its exit strategy for the MCO. This includes lifting restrictions on interstate travel and more economic sectors will be allowed to resume operations.

At this time, JEZ Consult can resume business such as onsite visit but again with conditions as well. The onsite place needs to have a temperature reading and the people in the office are required to wear facial mask. Social distancing is the new normal. So, please apologize if when we visit, we do not extend our hands to shake if you gestured so. Certain place also are still restricted depended on the Health Ministry chart zones. Currently any area that are placed as Extended Movement Control Order or EMCO and is deemed as Orange or Red zones, we do not provide onsite services. These restrictions is also on JEZ Consult not taking any Desktop or Laptop back to check for errors and repairs.

For those Desktops and Laptops that needs fixing, we will try to fix it on the spot as we currently still have the restrictions to bring back to office to check and repair. However, dependent on the complexity of the problem, we will consider to take back the unit for repair as well (For areas not under the Red zones). We will provide with the best solution possible and time taken to repair depending on the problem. 

For customers' which computers problems are non-related to connectivity of on-site network connection issues, are advised to send back to their respective Head office. This is because, we had previous issue of calling the engineer to onsite places which are still not mapped on Google Maps (especially construction sites still under development) with a permanent address location. Additional charges will be added if needed us to deliver their computers back to their head office. 

Monday 1 June 2020

Microphone not working on Laptops


Microphone not working on Laptops

With most of the people nowadays working from home during this Conditional Movement Control Order, the need to communicate with customers and co-workers is important. recently have a customer encounter problems getting the microphone on the their laptops to work.

Particularly on Microsoft Teams for this case. I'm not sure if other apps and software has this similar issue. But after searching for solutions on Google search, and also updating to the latest drivers, still could not get it to work. So, testing and troubleshooting it, I noticed that most of the laptop microphone and speaker shares the same functions. And sometimes the laptops have additional audio enhancement installed as well. Just need to disable the sound feature that is currently sharing with the microphone.

To perform this task, go to the Windows 10 Settings, System, Sound and Manage Sound Devices.


In this Manage Sound Devices, you will be able to see Output Devices and Input Devices. Output Devices will have speakers while Input Devices have the microphone and stereo mix.

Disable the stereo mix and the microphone should be working fine now.

Of course, if you are a music lover, don't forget to enable back the Stereo Mix for better sound quality when listening to your favorite radio station online or from your laptop playlist. However, when you need to use the microphone to communicate with work, then you need to disable the Stereo Mix.

That's it.