Computer Devices and other Techie Stuffs
I always have a fascination for computers and their computer devices ever since I got my first Apple II computer way back a long time ago. Back when the Apple computer language was programmed in Basics and Assembly Language and their 5-1/4" floppies was the main storage medium. DOS has to be booted up whenever you start up your computer and staring at the monitor too long will make you into a green eyed monster!
Those were the days. I had fun then and I still have fun now with the Intel, AMD, Windows, etc. I didn't master programming but had some idea about it. I leave programming to the experts as they can do a better job than I do. I just play with their stuffs. With Open Source, there is so many good software out there to do a job and for free too!
How the pace of computer technology advances!
Even in this little corner of the world, though we are trying to catch up with the rest of world doesn't mean we don't have those nifty little computer gadgets to play with. With Moore's Law in play, the costs of computer devices is ever cheaper but not necessarily better. Well, some are not as robust as yesteryears computer devices. In fact as soon as the warranty passes, the computer device breaks down! Tell me you didn't experience this? It is cheaper to buy a new computer device than to repair it. They are no longer made to last like before.
That's the world of computer devices nowadays.
Computer Devices Table of Contents
- Computer Devices updates
- Red Fox FT44 MP3 Wireless FM Modulator
- MP3 Players
- Western Digital MyBook
- Replacing the Palm T3 Battery
- Buying a Dell Computer
- Nokia E66 mobile phone
- Streamyx? Oh, no...
- Vista - Sleep vs Hibernate vs Shutdown
- Linux
Jan's personal blogs about ยป Computer Devices
Office Outlook Hang or slow startup problem 11 Mar 2010, 12:16 am
It happened to me once a long time ago, and my colleagues, and now my brother-in-law’s Microsoft Office Outlook also hang or having extremely slow startup. This is what happens when you don’t archive or backup your email correspondence and let your main outlook.pst file burgeon into one big fat file!
So now what? You can’t [...]
Palm mobile to Wordpress blog post using u*blog and Cellspin 19 Feb 2010, 10:38 am
All this while I have been using Six Apart Vox for mobile blogging from my Palm Centro. The interface is good but I would very much prefer to blog directly to my Wordpress blog from my Palm Centro.
The current method to post from Palm Centro to a Wordpress blog would be by email. This method [...]
cellspin test posting 18 Feb 2010, 5:17 am
Cellspin test posting. this palm app can do with some improvement. Wish it has a draft save as well a list of post that was done. Vox pretty in that however cellspin is used not only to post into its own site but to do crossposting to othersites as well.
My various test post:
U*blog test post
Another [...]
Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook Review 26 Jan 2010, 2:28 am
Recently I just got the Dell Inspiron Mini 10v and some of my friends asked how it was. I have been thinking about getting a netbook for awhile. Sure I got my laptop, the Dell Inspiron 1501 about 2-1/2 years ago. With its big 15.4″ screen it was quite a dead weight to carry around. [...]
Windows 7 vs Vista 29 Dec 2009, 7:28 pm
Windows 7 vs Vista, my evaluation so far
My Windows 7 evaluation so far, between Windows 7 vs Vista, well the interface looks a little sleeker. Changes were made of course to make the Windows 7 feels newer and different from Windows Vista. I’m still playing with it and trying to understand some of the differences. [...]
Finally upgrade to Windows 7 28 Dec 2009, 8:43 pm
Windows 7 is out in the market for some time now. And from what has been reviewed, it seems to be very popular and much more user friendly than Windows Vista. So without much ado, it was time for me to upgrade to Windows 7, well at least for my laptop and give it a [...]
How Can I Convert a CD to an MP3 6 Sep 2009, 12:10 pm
“How can I convert a CD to an MP3 format?”
Actually it is a very easy process. There are many ways to convert audio CD into MP3 and there isn’t any shortage of free software to do it. If you plan to use your Windows Media Player that came with Microsoft, then just too bad because [...]
Dual booting with Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista 3 Jul 2009, 4:09 am
My dell computer laptop is about two years old already and I’m running a little short on storage space. I have been dual booting the dell computer laptop with Ubuntu Linux and Windows Vista, however I didn’t think it out thoroughly on the partitioning and thus I have linux partition here and there in between [...]
Red Fox FT44 MP3 Wireless FM Modulator 22 Jun 2009, 8:53 am
The Red Fox FT44 MP3 Wireless FM Modulator is the latest model on sale for playing MP3 or WMA music in your car using radio transmission to your car radio. My older FM modulator was getting cranky and with the new model with new features on sale, I decided to get a new MP3 wireless [...]
Philips GoGear 2GB MP3/WMA Player 8 Apr 2009, 1:49 am
Now this was fast. I submitted my Citibank Rewards for a Philips GoGear 2GB MP3/WMA Player and I received it in just a week even though they mentioned it will take several weeks. I have amassed sufficient Citibank Reward Points and decided to redeem the Philips GoGear MP3/WMA Player. It needs 41,000points and I thought [...]
Transcend StoreJet 25F Portable Hard Drive 1 Apr 2009, 9:22 am
I’ve been mulling around for a portable hard drive, wondering which brand and model to use for my storage needs. Finally I decided to go for Transcend StoreJet 25F after briefly checking out the good points about each available models in the market.
It would have been a fairly simple to just grab any portable [...]
Palm Pre โ having a pre-look at it 31 Mar 2009, 8:18 pm
I heard from Fresh Gear shop that Palm was launching a new mobile phone called the Palm Pre using a new platform called Web OS. It still hasn’t reached the shores of Malaysia so I’m still waiting for the shop to have stock before having a good look at it. Perhaps as a long time [...]
The problem with hardware warranty claims 31 Mar 2009, 3:37 am
Now that my Gigabyte motherboard CMOS/BIOS is half-dead and no longer functioning, I find it a tad irritating to have to update / adjust the Vista time in order for it to its automated functions like Windows update, Kapersky anti-virus update, and all the other essential automatic updates. Since they all rely on the system [...]
Archive backup files using compressed zip files 23 Mar 2009, 9:38 pm
It is very important to keep backup of files that you use regularly whether it is for work or personal files. You never know the files may get corrupted. Files in your PC are easier to backup while those in your web site of course it becomes more complicated. However many people do not seem [...]
There goes my Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H BIOS 23 Mar 2009, 9:20 am
The computer time was not up to date for the pass one week or so, and I wondered what was wrong with my PC. Usually if the time was not keeping, it meant that the CR2032 flat button battery in the Gigabyte GA-MA69G-S3H motherboard was either weak or dead. So I went out to get [...]
Sony Ericson T700 mobile phone 18 Mar 2009, 10:04 am
Recently Lena signed up a new package with Maxis. As a bonus for signing up the 150 package was a free Sony Ericson T700 mobile phone. This hand phone probably retails for below RM1000 so I guess it was a good deal. There were other free phones like Nokia and LG, but the T700 looked [...]
USB Fan 17 Mar 2009, 1:57 am
Lena said that her office always shuts off the air-con after office hours and the environment gets a little warm afterwards. Perhaps this little nifty little gadget might help some. It is a USB powered fan. Really cheapo! Going for RM8.80 as sold in All IT computer store.
It sounded like a good idea at [...]
End of the road for this old faithful iWill BD100+ computer 4 Feb 2009, 9:19 am
I guess eventually it will come to this. I actually wanted to pass this old PC of mine to somebody who could make use of it. My IWILL BD100 plus motherboard running on Pentium 3 CPU with four pieces of assorted SD-RAM totalling about 288MB, a 20GB hard disk and a 32MB NVIDIA graphic card [...]
Dell Inspiron 530s Slim Tower 2 Feb 2009, 6:33 am
One of our office PCs was already more than 5 years old and I had to replace it with a Dell Inspiron 530s. Aged PC tends to slowdown in its speed even after say a clean format and a complete reinstall. Anyway I loathed doing a reinstallation as it is a very tedious task. Better [...]
Nokia E66 mobile phone 30 Jan 2009, 8:22 pm
Lena’s Nokia 6500 mobile phone was giving her trouble since day one when she bought it. It would hang while being used and the ringing tone would automatically revert back to the default Nokia tone. She finally call it quits and decided to change her phone. Going to her favourite mobile phone shop in SS2 [...]
Home improvement is making the house messier! 18 Dec 2008, 8:35 pm
Home improvement is getting more tedious. This was supposed to be a simple job. Plaster ceiling to cover the cable that runs from fuse box in the living room go pass my PC room then end up in the kitchen. But lo, no! My wife wants to paint the PC room saying the wall is [...]
The state of Streamyx is slowness aka Why is Streamyx so bl*** slow!!! 16 Dec 2008, 3:35 am
So Malaysia wants to join the rank of a develop country with everything at the tap of the keyboard and do everything online? Dream on man. With the current slow motion of Streamyx, I shouldn’t even call it broadband; it is more like a dial up pretending to be broadband. I’m sure many of my [...]
Windows Dynamic Disk Volume 28 Nov 2008, 9:33 am
Windows dynamic disk volume can be useful, but it has its pitfalls too. However I believed the disadvantage far outweigh the advantage, of course it all depends on your needs. However my recent experience with dynamic disk volume has not been good.
The windows dynamic disk volume is used for spanning or joining up two [...]
Western Digital My Book External Hard Drive 14 Nov 2008, 4:01 am
Having switched over to using digital SLR photography, the amount of storage space required for storing and backing up RAW files jumped up tremendously! I had considered various options for data backup, but in the end settled on using the bulkier Western Digital My Book external hard drive instead.
You may ask why I don’t [...]
Microsoft Word 2007 crashes once again, considering to use Open Office 3.0 15 Oct 2008, 1:54 am
I just about had it with Microsoft Word 2007. Even after using the regedit fix by deleting the data and options in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/12.0/Word of the registry files, Microsoft Word 2007 still crashes whenever I started it up. It took many frustrating tries to force that program to start up properly.
Crashes only happens with Word [...]
