The Neglected Blog, Poor Guy...

Gosh, I've neglected this blog for almost 2 months already! You must have waiting for some news about the new iPhone 4G from here, well, I'm not interested in Apple products though...

(an iPhone 4 picture from Apple's international website)

But I just wanna say that last updates about my new Nokia 5630 was canceled due to stock availability in my region. I'm forced by situation to buy a Nokia X3, a well made phone with plastic casing (sounds like a lowered quality, and it's not really lighter than my 5310, its heavier because it's a slide), it has the standard three special music buttons on the left side like my previous Nokia 5310, and surprisingly has the same type of battery with Nokia 5310. 

(My Nokia X3 screenshots)

I also got a number for it, it's ****-8310-8068, the first "8310" sounds like remembering the lost Nokia 5310, while the "8068" is what I like, it sounds like Intel 8086, which was the first processor to have x86 structure inside. My experience of using this phone? Well, it's a bit pricey to have than a Nokia 5630, but it's worth it because we got budded earphones (high-quality bass!), a newly designed S40 interface (almost like S60, but still felt S40 in some conditions) and a better processor than the 5310 ( H.264 video encoding just got better).

Well, I dunno when I'll update this blog again, I've my Facebook profile, playing My Empire, Restaurant City and Hotel City. I've also recently used Google Chrome to play Facebook (its games are a bit incompatible with Opera), I admit it's better now than the BETA version, it's fast (the gameplay or processing speed, not network speed!) because it's designed as a multi-threaded application (better execution for dual-core processors, still doesn't really effect for Intel Atoms...). I've to end this now, Bye!

Blog Admin, Writer, etc,

Jeffry J.

Microsoft Is Still Better Than Apple

Despite its outraging monopoly in the past (now it's started to be defeated by Mozilla, Google and Apple) Microsoft was still better in many ways. First, it has the best PC game compatibility as most people used Windows OS series, so game designers made them mostly for Windows OS. Second, it could change OS in a PC, whereas Apple PCs could only be installed with Apple Mac OS, except some porting and hacking processes. The third one was that Apple's products was always more expensive than PCs and competing products.

The video below describes how many people chooses Windows over Mac made by a guy named Leon Wang. In this video, it's illustrated by a Terminator which asks for a dollar not to buy a beverage, but to charge himself from a nearby charger vending machine. How's next? Just watch. (thanks Engadget for the news of the video and the guy making this video and so on)



UPDATE: Source Link: Engadget: Terminator 5: Revenge of the Microsoft Fanboy

HP Slate: Killed?

Last month iPad was finally released, it brings people advantages and disadvantages. iPad was one of Apple's gadgets that's made to either surf the web, E-Book Reader or a handheld game console like iPod Touch. Before the launch, rumor has it, that it might have a camera for video conference. Weirdly, it's not included like its smaller variant iPod Touch and iPhone. Critics also said it just looks like a flattened and widened iPhone and strips the camera.

  HP Slate from Engadget, resized by Wikipedia

Due to the tablets started to be introduced, HP started to create its own tablet, named the HP Slate. The ads was interesting, as it does Flash (which was rare for handheld devices at the time) and it could also do some functions that iPad could do. The most important thing was, it's Windows variant, a newly brewed Windows 7 by Microsoft that's already planned before to compensate the use of touchscreens with larger touchable buttons. HP Slate brings hope to Windows lovers and users of a good designed tablet.

Microsoft Courier, from Gizmodo

But, as Microsoft has just killed its tablet project called Courier (I didn't know anything about it, it's only a two sided touchscreen, like two iPads stick together side-to-side), rumor has it, that HP Slate was also going to be killed. It may be caused by the low interest of users using tablets as they're heavy to be carried on every time but also too portable to be sitting at home. The market of tablet was actually started 10 years ago, its disadvantages kills 'em time by time as popularity decreases. So, will the tablets again ended with disappointing result? Just wait...

UPDATE: Source Link: Engadget: HP Slate killed? Rumor mill says 'yes'

(>_<) No Phone Till Today !?!?!?!?!?!!!!!

P.S.: My God.... My phone was nowhere to found in Jakarta, all phone shops said 'kosong', means empty which actually means zero stock. There's one store which has it, but it's red colored, mine is silver. Causes, BlackBerry is one of the causes which Nokia started to withdrew from Indonesia's middle-class market. But, at least, it has to stock its phone as listed on the website. Even the Nokia center also said that there's no stock for that phone, with unknown reasons from the 'warehouse'. If it's unavailable, fine, I'll choose another phone. But please, don't hang it around in the website if it's unavailable!

Fight Against Obesity In The Future!

Hi there! Long time no blogging for me, huh? Well, from the last post I already said, these days are bad days for me. Maybe it's because it's the Year of Tiger, so it threatens me as I'm a Pig in Chinese Zodiac (rumor has it, Tiger eats Pig, get it?).So, I've to be patient this year. Also, due to the lost of my lovely slim and fully featured handphone, the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic, I'm going to buy a new phone, seriously immediately. 'Cuz I'm stuck with a shitty phone (sorry for the word) as it's so bad that when you've just made a phone call, the batteries dropped 50%, forcing you not to make any phone call anymore. The speaker also low in volume and quality, forcing my ears to stick with the handset and came with a temporary ear deafness after the phone call. Forget about MP3 or video playbacks, it doesn't even have a headset jack!

Courtesy of Phone Arena

As from the last post, I've updated it and the new decided phone was Nokia 5630 XpressMusic (yet another XpressMusic!). It only lacks QWERTY Keyboard, but almost costs half than its QWERTY counterparts, the Nokia 5730 XpressMusic (sorry, I'll prefer to stick with Nokia XpressMusic Line). But, there are couples of phones, with the same features and it has touchscreen! (Yeah, Touchscreen, what so special?). IMHO (In My Humble Opinion), touchscreen needs to be perfected even more to reach the reliability and solidness of user interface, as some touchscreen always need calibration, will cracked easily if dropped several times (remember the 5310 nostalgia from the last post, the 'Torture part'?) and I still prefer styluses over dirty fingers for solid interface and maybe handwriting recognition in the future (it draws too!).

So, to match the title of the post, I've actually found a video and the post containing it (from Engadget, many thanks) about the new one-wheeled transporter Honda U3-X which uses gyros like Segway PTs to control the balance of its loads, which was currently human. But, the disadvantage was, if future was filled by these human transporters, then, why we need legs? To kick balls? To stump cockroaches? Hey, it's for walking, jogging, and running.

A Segway PT, from Wikipedia

Cars are meant to be built to transport humans for long distances, not for short distances like from your bedroom to the outside garden. But, even with cars aboard, people may become lazy to walk as cars have air conditioning and FM Radio if you like to. But thanks to traffic jams, people sees cars as convenient way of travel, if without the traffic jams, so some of them used bikes to commute. Again, but, if these transporters is made in the future, people around the world might have a gain in weight for a short time. Because they don't use legs anymore. They used it only for walking from door to bedroom. Bikes will disappear from countries, except India maybe... and displayed in museum with the word displayed "this bike was currently replaced by Segways and others for convenience to this world". Convenience is good, but it's no longer convenience if you keep gaining weight. So exercise from now on, ride bikes for exercises and move away from your computer (except you're using treadmill in front of it). It's for your better future.

If you're BlackBerry user and not an executive at the same time, keep using it as your friends told you to. As your friends told you to. As your friends told you to. As your friends told you to. You're told by your friends to use Blackberries? Stupid! Be free to choose your 'own' handphone choice, not being forced by friends only for using BlackBerry Messenger and costs $400 plus a gain of 100 gr from previous phone. Just see how would you use the phone. Just see how would you use the phone. Just see how would you use the phone, hahaha!!!

UPDATE: Now what! A rare availability of the both Nokia 5630 and Nokia 5730 at the same time in Jakarta? What do you want BlackBerry? Creating heavy useless bricks of phones for the future? It's you who made Nokia sales dropped a lot that availability was rare!!! F*ck you BlackBerry!!! (sorry for the word, cuz I really hate 'em!)

Horribilis Days! These Days Are Bad....

Rest In Nowhere
Nokia 5310 Xpressmusic
Mid 2009 - 16th April 2010
With Phone no. 081932325***

Oh.... My God..... So many trenches and rocks in my life nowadays, from 'something that's quite sad' that I can't tell you because it's personal, to the loss of my beloved and tortured workhorse handphone, Nokia 5310 Xpressmusic, a slim and light, specially designed for music, black colored phone. I loved this phone so much that I'm willing to reward the one who found my phone. I've also prayed to God to help me to find the phone these days, but resulted nothing till today although still hoping...

The phone has already tortured for about ~10 months. First, it had some water droplets on its body, test success from not being electrocuted. Then, falling from about 1,5 meters above ceramic tile and flown away from centrifugal forces, test succeeded, although when dropped for the 8th time, the left case cover was half-opened due to heavy forces. The phone is a daredevil for me, as surviving those events and also a daily workhorse (digital lifestyle? Music, Video, Phone, SMS, Photo, Games, Archiving, Notes, what else?), it's one of the best phones I've ever seen, due to its lightness, design and capabilities at low cost. A dream phone? I think so.

Now, I've to search a future replacement of this phone at $200 price. It must have a camera, music buttons and FM Radio, a 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, screen about 2-inch, a keypad(no touchscreen!) and it must be Nokia (Sorry, but I prefer to stick with Nokia). If could, I wanted QWERTY Keyboard (again, no touchscreen!), internet over WLAN, a GPS, or etc. But I just couldn't found it in Nokia phone finder. What a sad day...

Well, I've just to wait for someone to find my phone in a location that I believed was said to be 'searched' before, but maybe they're just not careful enough. God bless me.

Anyway, sorry for the 'Long time no blogging' as these days are hard for me, I've also had multiple tests last week, so it's a busy day for me.

UPDATE:
Next Tortured Handphone: Nokia 5630 Xpressmusic
(Get ready for maximum features with $200 price...) 

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470 Get Benchmarked And Compared, Not So Good

For the long awaiting fans and supporters of NVIDIA GPUs, the long delayed GTX 480 and 470 was finally benchmarked by Tom's Hardware (again, copying!). We hoped some extra boost on power and efficiency (price? don't think about it, they're high-enders) from the delay that's almost one year. 

But, it comes out that it did beaten Radeon HD5870 and HD5850 in performance, but their brother, Radeon HD5970 seems to still taking the performance crown in the comparison. But, the Radeon HD5970 was lost in power consumption and heat output from GTX 470. Unfortunately, the Radeon HD58** brothers won the comparison by having the lowest power consumption and heat output. This clearly stated that GTX 480 and 470 was in the middle of the Radeon Family, rather than outperforming all of them in terms of power consumption and heat output or performance and efficiency. So, this is all we got from the delay we'd waiting for? Not so fast!

Although I'm one of Radeon fanboys, but I expected NVIDIA to be the best in performance, both in quality and speed, not only speed and fps, as they're quite useless for human eyes (30 fps is enough for me). But according to Tom's Hardware, NVIDIA was taking a long time in researching softwares, CUDA and GPGPU (CPU calculations using GPU). NVIDIA 'is' the best one for folding, they're good in calculations and all related things, so that's why they have high fps. But, it's already defined from the name, it's Graphic Card, not Physics Calculation Card. So, it must do best in what it functioned for, displaying graphics in games and all sorts of things that required graphics. So, which one is better, NVIDIA or ATi? Never ask that type of question or you'll start an internet war or Cyberwar, especially in computer enthusiasts forums.

Source: GeForce GTX 480 And 470: From Fermi And GF100 To Actual Cards! (Tom's Hardware)

(thanks for Tom's Hardware, good luck NVIDIA. Radeon, Donto Koi!)

Photoshop CS4 Rocks!

Hi there! It's been a little bit while when I posted the last news. Today, I found a news from Tom's Hardware, (why I always copy-paste their news nowadays? Needs some improvements...) about a video that was illustrated by Adobe Photoshop Product Manager, Bryan O'Neil, telling one of the new feature in Adobe Photoshop CS4 that's still unreleased. I often do some photoshoping with my Photoshop CS2 (a slightly more decent, unknown and older version of it) and one of my Photography Enthusiast friend said "It's rubbish". And it seems that it is rather a decent one, because when I saw the feature that's illustrated on this video, I'm shocked how a photoshoping software have done that. Just see the video!

Shocked, me too! (thanks for Tom's Hardware for the news and YouTube for displaying video)

Relieve Boredom With New Colorful Sony E Series

Although this life is so colorful (brown colored rivers and swamps, green colored mold, and grayish brown colored dust and air pollution), PC makers still offer their products in gray-scale based color. From the famous commonly adopted (and boring?) silver to the most common color black, there's a little chance that they'll put a red, green or blue color for it as customers and manufacturers thought "it's too colorful". But, a stylish (yet 'quite' pricey) electronic manufacturers, Sony, offered a series of VAIO laptop, named the E Series, with various colors. Although some of the color might hurt your eyes (and feelings about your next laptop), but you could choose many color from the common black & silver to the rarest and The Sims 3 color, green. Check out the website given below!

SONY VAIO E Series

Source: Sony busts out colorful VAIO E Series laptops

(thanks Engadget!)

Reasons Why We're Still Using Desktops And Laptops Instead of Tablets (iPad, HP Slate, etc)

And the reasons are quite shocking but true and sensible. They lacked almost 25% of normal desktops, laptops, or even netbooks would have. The UI (User Interface), especially Windows XP (don't even think about that even worse and slower Vista to fit in a tablet!), which has small buttons, was hard to be touched by fingers, especially for the capacitive-type touchscreen. Although Microsoft has made the tablet version of the XP, it just won't satisfy market and user demand. Just see the below link for more detail.

5 Reasons Tablets Suck And You Won't Buy One

(thanks for Tom's Hardware for the truth and reasons we won't buy one)

Vote For A New Nokia Phone Design Now!

 

Nokia has just opened a new type of user survey for their new phone basic design and feature. From choosing the display size, to the type of keyboard, or just using touchscreen. Just feel free to vote and choose as long as the indicator on the right side indicates a 'perfect mix'.

See the below link to vote!
Design by Community - smartphone concept
(thanks for Engadget and Nokia and everybody else in the making of this user survey, hope there'll be 5-inch sized capacitive type 16:9 touchscreen phone...)

A Gaming Smartphone, Almost Everyone's Dream

Although gaming in mobile phones was quite a hard way of gaming (you're forced to press small buttons and see the game on a less than 4-inch display, plus 8-bit quality sound). But, how about gaming in a smartphone, a phone that could be equipped with 1000 MHz ARM processor plus 512 MB of RAM, and a dedicated graphic unit plus sound unit, a 4-inch wide touchscreen display and a touchscreen controlled game to satisfy your gaming experience? It does sounds fun and it did, but how fun? See the video below as it demonstrates the future fusion of multimedia, games, and internet with smartphones. The video below demonstrates future Windows Mobile 7 (Not even a strip down version of Windows 7) handled a game with above 20 fps (COOL!!!) and it's also amazingly 3D (not the stereoscopy one). Check It Out!
















(thanks for Engadget for the news and video and all people contributing for this video)

Introducing: The PlayStation Move, A New Motion Controller

There's a new a motion controller called PlayStation Move, developed by Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) (the maker of PlayStation) to compete with other motion controlled game console (Nintendo Wii and Microsoft's planned Project Natal). The motion was captured with a camera, called PlayStation Eye. It captures the colored and illuminated bulb as players hand coordination. There's also inertial sensors to detect the wand's motion. For more details watch the video below! Source: Engadget

(thanks for Engadget for the news and video and also Kevin Butler, the man inside the video, and all related to the video for the contribution)

NVIDIA GeForce 400 Series Is Just Coming Closer & Closer...

Good news for NVIDIA GPU lovers and fanboys, as the long ago delayed till now, the GeForce 400 series, was seen out in some places by sneaky spies and espionages. This time, someone caught a picture of NVIDIA GeForce 400 Series dies, placed neatly in a black colored tray. There's even a photo with a scale above the dies, measuring about more than 4 cm in width. Check for more photos on the below link!
Nvidia GeForce GTX 480 Die Shots Appear Online (Tom's Hardware)
(Thanks for Tom's Hardware and all tech espionage and spies from all around the world)

HAH!!! Take That BlackBerry! Now Your US Users Are Moving For Other Smartphone, Take That!!!

There's a survey that shows 40% of US BlackBerry users is willing to trade their BlackBerry for an iPhone (I told ya, BlackBerry=Business\Executive, iPhone=Personal\Teen\Family?) and even more, 32% of BlackBerry users also willing to move to Nexus One (a good choice!). But, is Nexus One and iPhone really good? Well, for me Nexus One is good, but for iPhone, it's Apple, it's pricey... How would you prove both of them is great? According to the same survey, 90% of both of the phone's users didn't want to move out. Here's the survey's facts=

• Total Test Users= 1000 people
• Regular Phone (not smartphone)= 44% (some of these people pushed their phone efficiencies to the max... Nice job!!)
• iPhone= 17%
• BlackBerry= 15% (it's OK if they're lawyers, Barack Obama, or executives, but not household mothers and teens!!!)
• Nokia= 10% (hoping some sales growth in 2010 with new Symbian platform) 
• WinMo= 4% (I thought many people used this...)
• Android= 3% (Nexus One, Motorola Droid, etc) (Relax, it's still growing)
• Palm= 2% (Almost the same as BlackBerry..., business phones)

So, how about Indonesia? Just wait... (Hahahahaha!!!!!)
Source: Tom's Guide
(Thanks Tom's Guide for such a wonderful news, and nice surveyors and also betraying Blackberry users)

The 1st '.com' URL Went 25 Years Old On March 15

My God, you guys were Facebooking and Twitting all the time and didn't know that there's a legendary Top Level Domain out there, which was '.com', that just celebrates its 25th birthday on March 15th. Almost all company which has website was once depended on this domain. But now, it varies from .org to .net or anything you like. Then, what's the matter with Facebook and Twitter? Well, the domain '.com' starts the cultural style of the internet as nowadays all things that ended with '.com' was known as URL Links. So, if there's no '.com' there's no Facebook.com and changed into Facebook instead, without anything in its behind and not telling you that it's the website called Facebook. So, if you keep Twitting and Facebooking, ignoring facts that's happening around you, including your dying PC and neglected Friendster profile, you're a irresponsible 'thing'. Especially the one who bought Blackberry 'only' for Blackberry Messenger for a whopping $500 bucks. With $500, I could buy a PC or a Multimedia HP Netbook (for games before 2006...), rather than an expensive unfit for personal use business smartphone.
Source: Tom's Guide
(thanks for Tom's Guide (I just found out it's not Tom's Hardware) and Wikipedia for such a wonderful educating content for newbies)

What A Great Technology Era We're Living In...

Technology changed from time to time, there's no limitation for technology to change and evolve, only economy and market condition which affects the growth of it. From the vintage 1950s Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TVs to a whopping 42" 21st century LED LCD TV. From the earliest gaming video card from the (now defunct) 3dfx VooDoo to the most powerful (only now, will be beaten by Nvidia GeForce 400 Series soon...) ATI Radeon HD 5970. What a wonderful technology, isn't it? So wonderful that a museum in Jakarta, which was Jakarta History Museum (Fatahillah Museum/Batavia Museum), was being used for an art creation using video projectors to project images to the front of the museum. There's a video...

Wonderful? No? Is it because it's too long and the camera was quite shaky? It's not my fault anyway...
(thanks for Yahoo! Indonesia this time for featuring the news at the front page and the guy who's shooting this film)

The Calendar That Could Tear Itself

This calendar, made by STIHL, is a new household innovation. It's nice that finally 'something' helps you to tear the paper off the calendar automatically as the day has changed. But, it seems that it's recommended that a trash bin should be positioned below it as the paper would just thrown away to the floor when torn apart. Check the video!



(thanks for Engadget for the news and images, videos and so on...)

ARRGGHH!!! WHAT A WASTE!!!

The video below shows a guy, which was from the website DigitalRev (never heard of it), tried to beat a useless, non-sense challenge of repainting the nicely-designed and made in black colour, Nikon D90 DSLR, into pink. The challenge was a ruined one as the D90 seemed to ended up becoming a magenta colored DSLR brick. Then they contacted Nikon Support Center, telling some lies to cover up the problem. This was truly a waste as the Nikon D90 was a gooood DSLR, only a bit old. Just watch the video! (I'm really feeling bad with this, especially the D90)

Seen the video? Is there's a lot mistakes in the repainting job. Well, I found some, and here's ways to avoid it:

1. Never wear thick gloves or anything in your hand when handling or repairing fragile things.
2. Never do something that needs concentration on desk which has things on top of it (That Apple desktop in the video including the keyboard was in a high risk of damage, it's Apple man!)
3. Never 'force' open things without knowledge or experience of repairing current device.
4. Never break any useful things, except there are two of it (almost all things are useful for the future (becoming antique and vintage things))
5. Never do custom painting on devices except all fragile electronic parts are being dissected.
6. Drawing sketch of the device first for the screw seems to be a waste of time as all screws looked the same kind (but beware if the screw was different, even a millimeter in length, could cause some fatal cracks on screw-holes if forced to screw in)
7. Never use "fancy" tapes as they tend to have bad quality adhesive material (it sticks, but it doesn't completely removed if the plastic was removed)
8. Never repair or force open things when you've no responsibility for it.
9. Never repair yourself or force open things if the current device was expensive for yourself
10. If you find it, comment below!

Well, it's almost ten faults done by this UK English-speaking asian guy while repainting this wasted D90. So, NEVER TRY THIS AT ANY DEVICES!!! (except for some reasons)

Alienware M11x Total Strip Down!!!

Well, the gaming netbook (as it lacks optical drive) that's priced over $799 and only has 11.6-inch display, was stripped down by a chinese website, showing images of its internal component that's seen relatively simple. Want to see the specs, see it's website. Want to see the strip down process see the below link:

解剖外星人Alienware M11x国内独家拆解

VIA: Tom's Hardware

(Again thanks for Tom's Hardware for the nice article)

Samsung's Super AMOLED Compared (Video)

What's AMOLED? What's TFT LCD? What's Super AMOLED? Well, I've already given the links if you need the informations. This video doesn't have sound on it (boring...). But it clearly explains you what's the advantages of Samsung's Super AMOLED. Check this out!

(Thanks for Tom's Hardware for the video and Samsung for the explanation)