Macbook and LCD

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Finally I took out my wallet and get the DVI adapter for my Macbook. There are a few reason that make me buy this expensive little adapter.

Eyes candy, this is the first reason. I’m a student, so I can’t run away from presentation, as I would like to be more special and more perfect on my presentation, I wanna use Keynote from iLife instead of Microsoft PowerPoint. All my course mates used PowerPoint and all of them are lack of knowledge in beautifying their PowerPoint slides. In order to take advantage from there, I think Keynote would do me much more better than a beautiful PowerPoint slide. (Hey, I know how to use PowerPoint in real deal.). No more breaking bathroom faucets for getting nervous on my stupid slide or even content. Believe it or not, beautiful presentation can help the content.

Secondly, 13.3 inches screen is a headache. I’m graphic based, so I do a lot of graphic related stuff which need lots of details. Hence, bigger screen will be better than small. One more thing, I’m using an external keyboard, there are some destine in between the screen with my eyes

Hopefully I’m not gonna waste this adapter on only presentation How I wish I have an LCD display back at KL.

Tags: DVI adapter, LCD, Macbook

Personal branding and apology

First of all, I would like to say sorry, this blog was suppose to be an operating systems related blog, but it ends up to be some kind of internet related blog. Some of my friends asked me why I don’t post any tips and tricks and etc about operating systems. Well my friends, tips and tricks of ANY operating systems are now fully packed available around the internet, just Google, Yahoo!, Ask, MSN it and you’ll get tons that you couldn’t finish. To be frank, due to the paid post I’ve been writing and the keywords were all around the life, insurance, credit card and etc has gotten me here today. Let’s put it this way now, this is a blog ON operating systems, there you go, sound much more to do than sticking with operating systems only This blog is one of my best acne treatment, although there was some lack of update recently, but don’t worry, once I have my stuff off update will be frequent.

Done my apology and my explanation, allow me to continue the main topic Very quick, personal branding. I’ve been following with Fakesteve blog and Chedet (Former Malaysia Prime Minister blog) for sometimes, and they have a good branding of themselves. But I would say Fakesteve would champion all the way on personal branding. As most people know that Fakesteve isn’t the real Steve Jobs, but I don’t want to care first, doesn’t matter he is or he isn’t, the branding and getting the most out from the blog is very successful.

This guy (Let’s say it’s someone else) has a very clear mind and understanding of Steve Jobs. Along the way, all the entries made were consistent, the pride and the arrogance are all over the blog. From the first day I clicked into this blog, it already has Google Adsense there, after a period, Amazon was in then blah blah blah, all in. And I predicted that this guy behind the blog must have something wanted to do with this blog. Look into the most recent entry, he is writing a book now, costing? Heh, don’t mention.

Now you think the book is can’t sell? First, Steve Jobs has been storming the computer industry since 2002 (As I know, correct me if I’m wrong) after the come back on 1997. “Apple Mac” became something that is so familiar few years back, then came iPhone that storming the whole mobile phone industry. If you’re still wondering what could you do to make some traffic (Read: TRAFFIC ok?) from your blog, “Steve Jobs” could be a keyword you can choose

Tags: Apple, Fake Steve, iPhone, Mac, Steve Jobs

Corporate Web

Since a year ago, I’m working as a freelance web master for a small company in town. It was also my first time joining the force of real life project. The small company (Let’s call it as ABC) has quite some web with them, mostly are blog driven web.

So every time there is an update ABC company will give me something to update their corporate web ONLY, the rest of the web will update by themself. Since those are blog driven, it’s easy for them to update. But there was a question though, the messy information flowing around each web, be it a blog or a corporate web.

According to my experience on webing on the internet, this is fine but technically for a corporate it’s making a mess though. There I get a sudden urge of using a CMS system, Wordpress I would say. Why? The ease of plugins and integration of other scripts are the point.

I believe, by using this CMS driven for a frequent update company, not only will it save my time, it is also good for them on long run (Remember, I’m just a freelancer for them). Next meeting I will bring this matter up.

HP Pavilion Desktop

Recently mom bought a new desktop for my younger sister who needing some computer work for her studies. So we went to some computer store, our budget was low though, RM2000 (USD600), and we spotted this HP Pavilion G3300 series is on the promotion…

Spec:
Intel Pentium Dual Core 1.80GHz
512MB RAM
160GB HDD

Price tagged at only RM1788 (USD552) sound like a good deal for my sister as she only online and do some Office Word process, we ordered it and arrive only at night, the initial promise in the noon was delayed. Anyway, since it comes with Windows Vista Starter, and the memory was only 512MB, imagine how slow everything was? So waiting the right time, this afternoon, I took some times and bought a Windows XP SP3 DVD, erased the whole partition and on with Windows XP and running so smooth now

Previously when I was with the slow motion Windows Vista, I checked around the internet to make sure that it was cause by the hardware configuration (Low RAM), who knows maybe some softwares that cause it, and I find out that even HP support recommend me to upgrade my RAM, and I was fucking pissed, honestly. If you know it’s not going to work so well, why bother built Windows Vista on it? Either the planner is a dumbass or he/she just want to fool their consumers.

Tags: Desktop PC, HP, Pavilion, Vista

Dell Inspiron 530

Recently I’m toying with my girl friend new desktop, the all new Dell Inspiron 530. Although it’s run on dual core processor, but it is enough for a XP to run so smooth. Gosh, I’m sooooo being pampered here, feeling like baby bedding every night. Internet, mine. New desktop, mine. Nonetheless FOOD!

This desktop installed a SmartRAM which monitor the whole RAM process and clean it up if needed or manually. I’ve checked it out by open both Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and some tabbed FireFox, 1GB RAM that built in this desktop really have some trouble to run them, it’s the same, depending how much work load I gave to the applications I’ve opened, the more work I put on either one, consumed a lot of RAM, especially if I take some times adjusting in Photoshop.

On the other hand, I do see the improvement Microsoft put on Service Pack 3 update. The secure and the speed is so satisfying As for Vista, let me check it out next time, and spend more time on it.

Tags: Dell, desktop Inspiron 530