World of Goo: A Special Yet Simple Physics Game

I wanted to introduce about the game which was quite fun to be played rather than standard, already bored, 3D online/offline games. It's called 'World of Goo', a nicely designed 2D game that uses 'goos' to complete levels.

Most of the game's goal was to deliver special goos or unused goos to the pipe at the other end. The game is based on a story which the goos were escaped in Level 1 and starting to explore the world around them. It's also designed in some kind of a gothic style, but yet funny and sometime 'cute'. The graphic is still nice and good without the 3D. It's also seems to be relying on physics freshly computed from the computer, making it more like a real-life game. Maybe beating the challenges in levels are hard, but the little goos and the curiosity of an interesting story waiting ahead makes you wanted to proceed however hard it is. This game sometime forces you to think more to compete with the real-life physics to complete the level, which makes it challenging. It's a truly simple yet outstanding game...

Blog writer,

Jeffry J. (the 'only' blog writer here)

Have You Heard of : Ericofon?

Well, now Happy New Year is over and let's start continuing our daily life. But there's an interesting thing that might caught your interest. If you liked retro-styled things from cars to clock, then you might liked this.

It's an old but yet still interesting and unique phone called Ericofon. Designed by Ericsson's design team in 1940s and built by Ericsson in 1954 (North Electric for USA market in 1961). This phone was unique as it combined both rotary dial and handset into single unit. The phone will only work if the switch hook isn't pressed. It also made in 18 different colors (later 8 for USA) that looks nice and suitable for every room. It changed the world perception of how phones could be designed, creating innovations that todays cellphone still implement the basics of it. 

It also has a unique tone called Ericotone (only USA version). It's a chirping sound, created from transistor oscillator that controls it. This was also an innovation in phone design as it was the first phone to implement transistor on it. It's later discontinued in 1972 with the last implemented design called Touch Tone. But this version was rare as it's hook switch was poorly designed and broke easily when the phone was dropped on a hard surface.

Later Ericsson designed a new type of Ericofon to celebrate company's 100th anniversary. It's later called Ericofon 700. It did sold out but never went into American market. Today the Ericofon is weird-looking, old phone compared nowadays phone. But, think again, nowadays desk phone's handset still needed to be picked up and dial it on the telephone set. While Ericofon, just pick it up and dial everywhere you like from the handset as long as the telephone cable still attached. What an 'classic' innovation...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR EVERYONE. Having so much fun in Taipei, as celebrating the final countdown in Taipei 101 (not inside) together counting it until the fireworks burst out from Taipei 101! Here's the video...

Merry X' Mas: HoHoHo...{;-)}}}

Merry Christmas for all Christians and Catholics around the world.

Hope the best for this eventful day.

P.S: I'm going to Taiwan this day, so wish me luck there...;-)

Buying Guide for: Netbooks

I'm gonna tell you some guides for buying netbooks. But before I tell you, I've to introduce about "what's netbook?"

Netbook is a personal portable computer with smaller dimension and weight compared to laptop. Its main function was to browse the internet and word/excel processing. Sometime, it could even used for entertainments, like watching movies and play games. But, due to its design only to surf the internet and word processing, it lacks of optical drive, has smaller screen, which sometime makes it hard to see small words in it and lack some mainstream graphic processing unit, which makes it better when watching HD movies or while using graphic intensive programs/games. Keyboard design also shrank smaller then laptops, resulting in harder typing but higher portability. Due to its size and portability, peoples are more and more taking it into the outside world, rather than like some laptops which sits at home as it's too large to be taken anywhere.

Today netbooks are designed better then their predecessors. Some changes include larger screen, more efficient battery perhaps, or even better graphic processing unit. But, if you look at their specs, they're remarkably same from every manufacturers, especially their processors. This makes people hard and sometime confused of choosing better netbooks. So, that's why I'm making this guide for you to read and understand to buy which netbook according to your purpose. 

• If your purpose was only to surf the web, any netbook suit your need and just see their prices to suit your budget. 
• If the purpose was portable multimedia player or gaming (gaming not recommended), then choose some netbook which has larger screen size and resolution and avoid any 'Intel Graphics Media Accelerator' word on their spec and find another one which includes the word 'ATI(' or 'NVIDIA', but definitely not 'VIA'.
• If your purpose was portability, then choose the one with the smallest dimension and weight, if you didn't think about screen and keyboard size. 
• It's better to have longer battery live (6-cell was better), because you don't want to be interrupted in the middle of blogging, right?

So, it's better to choose depend on your purpose. If netbooks doesn't suit your needs, it's recommended to choose laptop, as netbooks seems to have problem installing from CDs.

Blog writer,

Jeffry J. (admin)