My picture my Google picture

My Google search page background. Nice isn't it? :p I use my own image for the Google search page. To do this you need a Google account (Gmail account can be use), click the bottom left button which say "Change Background Image", choose from your image in your computer, upload and walla!! Your own pictured Google search page. Hehehe.

p/s: I know this is kind of meaningless post, but this my therapy so a "meaningless post" like this mean something to me :p

Blackberry Torch on BlackBerry 6 OS

Naturally, I'm not a big fan of BlackBerry phone but finding out more about their phones make me want to try one. Furthermore I can see a lot people using BlackBerry phone are pretty much hooked up to it like those iPhone users. So I've made a odd assumption for myself that BlackBerry phone are also as good as iPhone and Android phone and if I had a chance I really want to try it. 

My suddenly-growing interest in BlackBerry phone is majorly because of the latest BlackBerry 6 OS. What can I say, I'm an avid fan of something that make a phone so enjoyable and cool. Like iPhone and Android, Blackberry also have their range of apps to add to the enjoyable feature to BlackBerry phone. And the fact that some of my friends seriously admit that their BlackBerry phone is so addictive, add a further temptations to my growing-interest in BlackBerry phone.

So, what a new OS if there's no new phone model to run it in right? BlackBerry introduced the BlackBerry Torch. As far as my shallow BlackBerry knowledge is concern, this is BlackBerry's first slide phone (correct me if I'm wrong). For a new-to-BlackBerry kind of person, this phone is so cool. I even forgot about my Android phone for a while when I browse about it. It has really make me want to have my hands on this phone. One thing for sure (and used to be my nature in choosing phone) I like a slide phone more than any other types. It offers me a couple of option for keypad depending on my situation and preferences. Plus with the cool interface, features and OS, this phone has really caught my intentions.

There are so many things to explore about this BlackBerry Torch, one thing I know, it makes me want to give it a try :p (oopps sorry for while there Android hehehe). Fortunately for my phone-cravings this phone is not in Malaysia yet, it will be available first with maxis soon. If not, surely I will gets my hands on it :p

For more info visit BlackBerry's website or click HERE

Visit Maxis.com

So yeah, I will give this phone a peek when it's available soon but I hope my mind won't go out of my control which can make me end up buying it (the dangerous is when the price will be very affordable, hopefully :p ) hehehe.

Well, to all BlackBerry lovers, this might be something to check on if any of you plan to switch your BlackBerry or adding your collections :p or for those who seek to upgrade to smart phone as well.

p/s: By the time I'm typing this line, the interest in that phone have became craving and now it's a drooling :p slrppppss ooppss ok that's not a food hehehe.

Google Tablet? In November?

Believe it or not, this is not impossible. Since Android 2.2 have a great success and beat even the iOS4 of Iphone, it's no surprise if Google have another machine inside their vault to top out the Apple Ipad. There's a rumors saying that Google tablet are in the making and will be powered with an OS called Chrome OS. So it might be called Chrome OS Tablet. downloadsquad.com said the device is being built by HTC (hope this is true :p ) but it will be first introduce by with Verizon. So even if this is true, it might take a while for it to be in Asia or Malaysia :( They also mention that it will be launched on 26 November this year and that's is a Black Friday in USA, the busiest shopping day of the year, quiet a good date for launching new products though.

But according to reuters.com it might not HTC to be first to introduce the Chrome OS tablet, they quote Digitimes saying that it will be Motorola, not HTC!! For the full article read it HERE.

Whether it will be HTC or Motorola, both will not be impossible. Both of them have their own line up of their Android phone but personally, it will be good if it's HTC :p

Anyway, there are few assumptions on what will the Chrome OS Tablet's hardware will be. Some different assumptions but one thing which I found to be mention by both of the assumptions is that, the tablet will be based on NVidia's Tegra 2 platform. I guess all we can do now is jut to wait and see :p

If this Chrome OS Tablet will be a reality, one thing that I really hope for, I hope it will not be very expensive, maybe around RM1500 to RM1999 would be good :p

Let's crossing our fingers and wait patiently though.

Is this what the Chrome OS Tablet will be look like? If it's true, it's a beauty :p

*Image source: downloadsquad.com*

Moving In The Speed Of LIght *I Wish*

Have you ever wishing that you're able to move fast? Like Superman or having a car that can move in the speed of light? I know I do, especially when I have a lot of things to do, I always wish that I could do things faster :p but being a lazy bone as I am, everything always fast if it's done in the "last-minute". I bet many of us familiar with that term and that term has caused many of our lives to be very "miserable". And that's what currently happening to my life now!!! Anyway let's not start to talk about my life, it's not interesting at all, too boring!

Ok, I have an interesting fact to be shared here. Speaking of the speed of light, we can easily say it's almost impossible or human to go that fast. Even Einstein's theories says that if Human can reach that traveling speed they can end up at other dimension o.O (correct me if I'm wrong here :p ) But if you ask me what make me think that it is impossible for human to travel or move even with vehicle in reaching the speed of light, my answer is simple, because we human are so fragile! Even if we did invented a machine that can go in the speed of light, the force from that speed can tear our skin and make our bones break. 

Try to go on a roller coaster with your friend, when you go down the steepest slope of that roller coaster, take a look at your friend's face, what do you think you'll see? His/her face skin move or flatten or *I don't know how to describe it* or just like the picture below :p because the force of the high speed and wind adding more force to it. Try it then you'll know what I mean hehehe

Just for the interesting fact, the speed of light goes 500,000 times faster than Concorde, a speed goes almost equal to 299,792,458 meters per seconds and with that you can go around the world no more in 80 days but 7 times in just one seconds!!!!!

Speaking about speeding, this picture below is a funny speed control device myahahaha!!

What's this symbol?!!

What's this symbol? Without searching for it at any source, what do you understand about this symbol? and what do you think it represent? Here are some clues, this symbol can be found on some vehicles dashboards (but not in Malaysia la maybe), it's a warning sign, it's like fuel warning, if the something goes low it light up. Still have no idea? Take a wild guess before you proceed reading........

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Done guessing? Well, ok, it actually a warning symbol of warning symbol for TPMS. TPMS stand for, Tire Pressure Monitoring System. When one or more of your car's tires is 25% below the recommended pressure this symbol will light up. It has my attention as in over 10 years of my driving experiences, I always hope that this kind of thing exist as it is hard to know whether your car tire is low on pressure. Most of the time we only notice the tire pressure is low when it look really flat. The symbol has been made required on all vehicle starting from 2008 models but in Malaysia? Nahh.. Wait another few more years for that small, simple things to be available. We always wait until something almost obsolete or when others are 10 step further when we acquire it. Anyway, this symbol is actually kind of funny and if from a first look, I bet you won't think it's representing tire pressure no? :p

HTC Hero - Best Mobile Handset

This is not my self-proclaim, indeed it is HTC Hero won the Best Mobile Handset at the Global Mobile Awards 2010. Although I'm not a HTC Hero user but hearing this news make me wonder, where are the other overrated mobile phone brands? :p I guess Android and HTC Sense have really bring out the best from HTC phone, no doubt it is a very effective collaboration between Android and HTC though. HTC is among the first to introduce Android phone to the mass market in the early introduction of Android platform. I still remember that I've used one of it's low end Android 1.6 phone the HTC Tattoo for almost a year and as a whole I'm satisfied with it and now I continued to use HTC phone :p 

Although it is the HTC Hero that won the awards but it really does reflect the HTC and Android as a whole. I'm a bit "sucking up" here because I'm a proud HTC user hehehe

Trial Post From Blogger-droid

This is a trial post send from Blogger-droid apps for Android phone. Quiet a simple apps but got all the needed function to post out a short post. This apps is only for blogspot blog. It would be better if the interface improve. This apps is downloadable through Android Market.

Got function to add picture to the post but not positioned inside the post during post editting :(

Published with Blogger-droid v1.5

It goes on and on and on.......

It's been quiet sometimes I didn't write something of a personal thought of myself, I mean about me and  what I've gone through or about me and my life (sounds lame hehehe). But don't get me wrong this is  not merely to tell everyone of what I've been doing, where I've been and what I've acquired. Just some random thoughts about things happening around. A lot of things that keep my life preoccupied for the past month that I didn't even have the time to update my blog frequently. I always wanted to do like one post each day but have not achieve it yet (I'm a lazy-bone and excellent procrastinator that's why :p ).

In the last month when I think back the most talked-about topic (by me with others) is majorly on politics. I'm not trying to do a campaign here but, well, as I said before just to express my random thoughts. It is no surprise that topic become the highly discussed within last month and even the next few month as the state election will be take place at anytime soon. Everyone have their own opinion on every issues during this period of time. One things that I would like to highlight is this video:

What do you think? If any of you have read some article from some blog sites before then this will be somewhat a surprise (I know it is for me). When I was reading the article regarding to the same issue in this video I thought there were a lot of protesters but seems like from this video it's only a small group. What was I really surprise about were the answer to the questions that they were asked about. Some questions came across my mind: Why on earth they want to do this "small" protest when they doesn't even been to or meet the Penans? Why they even bother to voice out their protest on behalf of the Penans (from far away, although Sarawak's CM was there) when us here in Sarawak didn't even think about doing the same? What was they actually want? Just to protest? Does what they do bring good effects to the Penans already? 

The questions goes on and on and a lot more! What I want to stressed out here is that don't do that kind of thing when you didn't really know what was actually happening and what you're doing. You will make fool of yourself. If you insist on doing it make sure you've done some homework or fieldwork first, have your information right and then go and protest. What they do is good in the sense that they want to help to represent the Penans but they failed to be smart in doing it and now with this video they look like a bunch of fools. And I don't like when they use tribe, here in Sarawak it is more polite to use ETHNIC or e.g. Penan People or just as simple as the Penans, tribe is like we are still in cavemen era, not appropriate anymore. Back to this video, if they really serious in voicing out the Penans rights they better do it seriously and meet the Penans first, this is just not the way.

I think that's enough for commenting that video, what's done is done. We all (like me) didn't know what actually they have in mind and why they doing it. I actually pity those people, seriously I really do, now they've become a joke that the whole world can watch. Again I say what they do is good but not properly done. Personally  I feel like they've been a bunch of victims of something which they don't really know what. Who knows maybe they were force to do it or paid to do it or this is just another political drama. In easy saying, only God knows. Till next time..... Oh by the way if I were there I will ask one extra question: Where did you get your Sarawak-Borneo Land of the headhunters T-shirts? :p

Want a Blackberry phone?

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Android 2.2 Froyo, Wow!!!!

Seeing these videos on Android 2.2 Froyo give me a big goose-bums, seriously this Android 2.2 is so cool. I can't find any other word to described it, just Awesome!!

I like the portable Wi-Fi hotspot, from what I understand that I will be able to use my Android 2.2 (if I have one :p ) as a Wi-Fi modem without any complicated setup and cable. But it might not going to work well here in Malaysia I think considering the 3G broadband speed we currently have hmmm. Anyway Android 2.2 is one hell of a good phone OS, I can feel that Iphone really have a great competition from this Android 2.2 :p  

HTC Wildfire - My Experience

This will be a very short update on HTC Wildfire as I promised to give my view and share my experience with it like what I mention earlier in this post. Because I'm too busy this few weeks so I didn't had the chance to really update this. As mention in my previous post this HTC Wildfire is no doubt a beauty/handsome phone, the looks is an easy reason to fall in love with it. But this Wildfire is also no doubt a lower end HTC smart phone and compare to others in the line up like HTC Legend and Desire, some features has been not included in Wildfire. As I've used HTC Tattoo before this Wildfire can be said to be a replacement of Tattoo or an enhance and upgraded version of Tattoo. As most of the HTC user know Tattoo is one of those low end and among the cheapest when Android phone was first introduced by HTC in their line up.

 

Compared to its predecessors, the Tattoo, Wildfire look more advance and matured in term of design (like Tattoo have grown up hehehe). So here are some of the upgraded feature of this Wildfire:

1. Running on Android 2.1 (Tattoo on Android 1.6) but the processor is still the same as Tattoo

2. Bigger 3.2 inches screen compared to Tattoo's 2.8 inches screen but sadly the resolution is still the same old 240x320 QVGA.

3. No more four way navigation button, Wildfire equipped with HTC's latest Optical Trackball, a very nice new addition.

4. New 5 megapixel camera with auto focus and LED flash, Tattoo only have 3.2 megapixel camera without auto focus and flash so this is a very good upgrade.

5. Improved battery capacity from 1100 mAh in Tattoo to 1300 mAh in Wildfire.

For more technical features of Wildfire, check it HERE.

From those five major upgrades, although it is a low end smart phone, this Wildfire is still a sophisticated multi-function phone. It got the good looks and it featured with some good features. So enough for the technical specifications, now what I really like about this phone after a week playing with it? Here's what I like:

1. Optical trackball! Innovative addition by HTC, I like it because it is something different, not a typical kind of navigation button on a typical phone.

2. Android 2.1, what great OS on a rather cheap phone, even low budget person like me can have a taste of the great Android.

3. Super-sensitive capacitive screen, no need to press the screen too hard.

4. Five megapixel camera with auto focus and flash (which can be turned into a flashlight when needed)

5. All of the social networking apps were pre-installed, such as facebook, twitter and plurk.

6. Awesome social networking widget the "Friend-Stream" where all major social networking site account updates can be view on one widget.

7. New enhance caller-ID, integrate their facebook and birthday into their contacts detail and every-time they called the update will be shown.

8. The new "Leap View", like it because it is something new :p

9. Something HTC called "Polite Ringer" and it does really polite, when someone called, the phone ring, you pick up the phone and the ringer volume will automatically drop and when you're still sleeping and someone nagging you by calling in 4.30 a.m just to remind you to bring important files when you're already put it in your car the day before, you just have to turn your Wildfire over and the ringing will stop altogether :p

10. A lot of useful and awesome apps in the android market which can be useful in your everyday life with Wildfire :p

..... and many many more like-able things

Yes, that were the 10 things I like about this Wildfire, not only it's a pretty/handsome phone but it still a sophisticated phone. But like other things in this world, nothing is perfect and so does this Wildfire, it also has its own downsides. Furthermore, this Wildfire is not the high end smart phone, that's the thing that should be kept in mind. It shows how concern HTC are, they even come with a phone which a low budget person (like me) can buy and have a taste of the great Android 2.1 :p (I'll praise them more if they give me free HTC Evo or Nexus One myahaahaha).

Ok now the sad part of this phone:

1. Because the processor is still the same old processor, running too many apps at one time can make this phone lag.

2. The installation of any apps will be installed into the phone little memory and can't be installed into memory cards, so you might not be able to installed all the apps you want (this happen to be the downside of Android 2.1 and they'll fixed it in Android 2.2 I think)

3. Small phone memory (for apps installation)

4. Quiet a small QWERTY pad in vertical mode so for more comfort of typing use horizontal mode.

5. The touch screen panels at the bottom part of the screen is too sensitive and rather a troublesome although it is a good substitute to the button kind of thing. You can easily mistakenly accidentally pressing the search button when you operate it with you right hand and the even worst when using left hand you can accidentally pressing the Home button especially when typing in vertical mode.

So that's the 5 things I don't like about that phone but what I like about it were 10 things so the likeness still win hehehehe

Using phone with Android 2.1 one can never run away from the feel to really find a good apps to suits their preference. Android market have so many free apps which can be an additional awesomeness to your phone and in this case the Wildfire. So here are some recommended apps:

1. Dolphin Browser HD - Advance web browser with translation capabilities, sharing text and web url into the social network and with many extension and of course the best of it is, it's free! Click HERE for more info.

2. Taskiller - For killing apps running in the background to make the phone faster. Personally this is a must have apps

3. Document To Go - For viewing, creating and editing documents such as words, sheets and slideshow.

4. PicSay - For editing and getting creative with your photos

5. Yahoo! Mail - For those using yahoo mail service (Gmail user need not to worry, it's already in the phone.

6. Seesmic - For those who wants different Twitter client apart from the already-installed HTC Peep and Friend Stream apps.

7. Facebook - Official Facebook apps for Android

8. Bluetooth File Transfer - The name says it all :p

9. OI File Manager - Managing file inside your phone.

10. PhotoFunia - Having fun with your photo

That are 10 recommended apps for Wildfire, more than that do feel free to browse in the Android Market. As for games, I would not suggest any, simply because everyone have different preferences and again do browse the Android Market for any games you like :)

So that's all about Wildfire that I would like to share and any suggestion or comments are very much welcome (though I know I might be last to share about this phone :p ).

Conclusion: This phone is for those with low budget but want to have a taste of Android platform phone, with not much concern over using it to the extreme level, only do light web surfing, social networking (Facebook, Twitter etc..), not for hardcore mobile gamers, not much multi-task and those who seek something different or switching from older platform phone such as Symbian and ordinary phone. And for me, so far I'm satisfied with my Wildfire :p