Archive for August, 2009

August 23rd 2009

Cheap and the best web hosting service compared

If you are new and serious with making money from blogging or just wanted to setup a company or personal website, it’s best to have your own domain and hosted on a web hosting company. The reasons are pretty simple, you basically own that site and the revenue generated by the traffic overtime is owned by you, that’s not the case if your blog was under some third party blog services like blog.com and blogspot.com. Continue Reading »

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August 13th 2009

Talk to your Messenger

Instant Messenger Robot demoed at International Robot Show

Instant Messenger Robot demoed at International Robot Show in Taipei August 5, 2009

It is not something really new, as this fully utilized the speech recognition technology. However, this piece of Pokemon (well, it sure looks like one from that famous anime), able to detect speech pattern and send as a message in text format over the internet via the Microsoft Messenger software. One thing I do concern about was, how accurate is the speech recognition? The last I remember using the Vista speech software, it did give my mouth a full 2hours gym and finally give it up. I end up cursing more than speaking to the microphone.

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August 13th 2009

Another freebie from AMD under Sempron 140

The AMD Sempron 140

The AMD Sempron 140

Just when you thought Phenom II X3 (or some X2s) are the best bang for buck by having free cores (yeah, literally), hold on, as Sempron 140 will likely to be the next bang for buck by having a free “core” unlockable core by costing just half of Phenom II X3, well more than half actually. Continue Reading »

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August 11th 2009

A better budget PC with AMD 785G

The new AMD 785G chipset

The new AMD 785G chipset

The days are numbered when IGP (integrated graphic processor) offers miserable graphic performance. Thanks to AMD, we got a very solid IGP solutions with the 780G chipset released last year. A year later, which is today, AMD bumped up and inject the 780G with extra speed and some tweaks here and there. And voila, we got the 785G. Continue Reading »

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