July 29th 2009
Samsung Jet
There is a new Jet in town. Featuring a high power Jet engine @ processor at 800MHz, this Jet is a new touchscreen phone from Samsung. It was claimed to be smarter than a smartphone. While I do agree that it was smarter than LG Arena. But smarter than a smartphone? Well, lets take a ride on this Jet. Continue Reading »
July 26th 2009
The short review on this phone was just a short explanation on the features. This phone was nice, but it lacks polish on the firmware. This review is to discuss its detailed features. Rant among those who bought-and-later-regret LG Arena users will be discussed as well. Continue Reading »
July 21st 2009
Since broadband internet became a norm, high speed internet is no longer a dream. Having a high speed internet is even cheaper than your monthly phone bill(not in Malaysia of course). And you can literally throw away your 56Kbps modem. More web services are taking advantage of high speed internet. The creator of YouTube is smart enough to think of creating a web service where everyone can share and view their favourite videos. And it came in the right time in 2005 where broadband is started to mushrooming all around the world. There are tonnes of videos available on YouTube. People get addicted to YouTube as their favourite videos can be found there. You don’t have to waste your internet bandwidth by watching the video all over again on YouTube. You can actually download straight to your computer’s hard drive which is more convenient to have a repetitive viewing of the video. Continue Reading »
July 19th 2009
Computer hardware don’t like heat. You have seen server rooms being fitted with large air conditioner to cold the stack of computer servers at cold temperature. This is to ensure the hardware doesn’t overheat. And overheat will cause the hardware failed to run properly. I’ve seen many of my friend’s PC stop working because of overheat. Normally due to the incorrect way of applying thermal paste on the CPU. From what I have seen, most PC shop owners doesn’t know the correct way of applying thermal paste (at least in this country) which is a saddening fact.
Well, there is a utility which can monitor the temperature of your PC. It monitors the CPU, graphic card, hard drive and chipset temperature. You can help yourself by saving the trip and bucks to the computer shop, by identifying the failing hardware yourself. Continue Reading »
July 14th 2009
If your PC is getting slower, booting which took over 5minutes or more, opening applications become as sluggish as ever, this is a sign that your PC is not well maintained. Defrag your hard drive is a well known maintenance method to make your hard drive to access data faster. But one thing that many people overlooked is the Windows registry. Your Windows registry builds up lots of junk entries overtime. Things like uninstalling applications, registry hacks, incomplete installations, or even some incomplete downloads from the internet can cause the registry to piled up overtime. Fortunately, there are registry cleaner utilities which can help you to optimize and clean your registry with junk entries, but at a cost as it doesn’t comes free. Continue Reading »
July 12th 2009
USB thumdrive or pendrive some might call it, is a very innovative product in this decade. Its small size and high capacity means the demise of floppy drive. Having a thumbdrive is convenient for storing your pictures, documents, mp3, videos and you can bring it along to anywhere in your pocket. Thumbdrive can actually do more than just storing data, you can even install an OS (operating system) with it. Well, that’s an article for other time. I’m going to talk about creating a USB bootable thumbdrive in a simple way. Forget the countless steps you have to follow on other guides, creating a bootable USB drive is as simple as format the drive only, with a correct utility of course. Continue Reading »
July 10th 2009
N97 in potrait and landscape mode
Nokia did its first touch screen phone few months back with its 5800 XM. It’s a budget phone I would say. Packed with a bunch of features at a decent price tag, it was a hit among young people. Problems were reported many. A month or two later, many were selling this phone as second hand. The phone was ugly. The UI (user interface) and the phone itself is not very beautifully designed. I wouldn’t recommend this phone if you’re the flashy type. Nokia made a move to introduce the first N-series touch screen a month ago. It was called N97. Design wise, it was better than 5800 XM of course. Touted as a miniature PC on your palm. It claimed to feature computer-like features and very internet friendly too. Nice to hear from a marketing term, lets dig out more of this phone. Continue Reading »