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)