I love Halo! Do you? Why I like Halo 1
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 | General | No Comments
I just beaten Halo 1 again! Have not played it in like 2 years I think it took me 6 hours to beat over 3 days. Thats not too bad is it? I have Halo 2 but have never gotten past the first couple of levels I got bored with it. Halo 2 did have online play that was fun when i had Xbox live. I think thats why I never beaten halo 2 Xbox live was so much fun. Halo 1 had way better guns like the pistil 2 or 3 shots to the head and you enemy was dead. Not to mention my all time favorite one shot to the chest shotgun.
Witch Halo was your favorite was it Halo 1 or Halo 2 or Halo 3 and why did you like it? Just leave a comment
Philips 42” 1080p LCD TV 42ta648bx
Monday, October 27th, 2008 | General | No Comments
Phillips just released a couple new series of flat plane TVs. The all new HD TVs has three new series 5000, 7000, and the Eco series. The 5000 series has four models 52-inch 52PFL5403 1920 x 1080 resolution, 47-inch 47PFL5403 1920 x 1080 resolution, 42-inch 42PFL5403 1920 x 1080 resolution, 32-inch 32PFL5403 1366 x 768 resolution. The 5000 series range from $799 to $2899.
Then we have the Phillips 7000 series. This new Phillips line ranges from 19″ to 52″ So they pretty much have you covered when it come to size.
The Strangers
Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Tech news | No Comments
I just saw “The Strangers” has just come out on Apple’s site. I saw this movie 2 or 3 months ago in the theater and I could not believe how bad it was. The movie is about a couple that want to an out of town wedding. After the wedding they went to his parent’s cabin in the woods then “The Strangers” came and killed them. The movie was way! to long like 2 hours too long.
Dell launches Inpiron Mini 9 Netbook
Friday, October 24th, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Dell is soon going to ship its Netbook, Inspiron Mini 9 as Vostro A90 available in 9 different colours. 8.9″ screen and Intel Atom 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, 8 GB HDD and 1024 X 600 display. This piece is selling in japan for $972 ! This is pretty high price and with that price, you can get a nice configured netbook of HP or any other brand. It is expected that Dell will sell at one-third of this price in UK or chances it would sell is negligible. Who insane will buy netbook for nearly $1000 when you can get it for $350 for same specs.
Critical Security Update MS08 067 and kb958644
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Tech news | 1 Comment
MSO8-067 : Microsoft has made a update to their server security issue which was reported by someone privately. The loophole in this is that if any affected server is send a RPC request, it allows access. Without any authentication for arbitrary code, the attacker can exploit it. This Critical update is necessary for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This security update actually will tell server how to actually handle special RPC request and hereby avoid get exploited by some hacker.
Kb958644 : Download this security update from Microsoft website so that any unauthenticated third party doesn’t gain control over your system. This update is applicable to Windows XP users.
Lenovo provides largest range of notebooks
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Lenovo provides one of the largest range of laptops with tons of notebooks in both IdeaPad and ThinkPad series. The range is so wide that you can get almost assembled type PC in both notebooks and desktops. Lenovo also sells servers like IBM does. In ThinkPad, there are series in different price range starting from R series to X series tablet to W series. And U series and Y series and also S series in IdeaPad models. You can customize your PC online with extras and accessories like Web cam, bags, etc. and then get it shipped at your place in 2 weeks time. There are some good models in Lenovo like Elite ThinkPad R500, ThinkPad T61, etc and like IdeaPad U330 in U series of IdeaPad.
Dollar exchange reaches Rs.50 in India !
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Tech news | No Comments
If you today exchange one dollar in India, you would get whooping Rs. 50 per dollar. XE shows Rs. 49.1 for 1 dollar and in India i know you get a rupee more than that listed at XE. So finally the mark i wanted dollar to reach has reached. I would still suggest dollar to be at Rs. 45 for some healthy rupee because this shows how weak rupee has got against dollar. I hope rupee doesn’t get weaker than this because then its not good for economy also because developing countries import major things and lower currency value means more outflow of currency. The crude oil prices have been dropping but govt. still doesn’t think its right time to cut petrol prices in this environment of inflation where most basic amenities are as much costlier by 30-50 %. Dollar value is definitely high in India currently. This means if you buy any gadget or device from US, you need to pay about 25% more than what you would have paid 3 months back when dollar value was at Rs. 40 per unit.
Has Profy shut down its blogging platform ?
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 | Tech news | No Comments
The latest entry in blogging service providers was Profy, a Russian startup which gave its service as social networking sort of blogging. That’s fine. Also i looked upon it promising that it would provide some very good service after its major downtime. But several weeks back everyone who had his/her blog on profy must have got message to backup their profy data as they were going for some transition period for major developments. I had contacted profy when it was just started and they said response was quite good from public. But now its seems after a long time that they have shut down their blogging platform and only thing they do is write tech news and latest web 2.0 happenings on their profy blog. I contacted again to profy why it was taking so long for their logging service to come back live and they said its still under development. Today i again tried to open and here is what i get :
The Profy blogging platform is currently suspended for transition. We apologize for the inconvenience and will appreciate your patience. Feel free to contact Svetlana Gladkova at s.gladkova@profy.com with any questions you may have.
Its seem they are now not as enthusiastic about blogging developments as they seemed when they started because i have never heard about whats going about their blogging service, when would it become live again for their users. They just blog about tech news like sites like Tech Crunch do. It seems to me as they must have felt like not favourable in blogging field and just shifted their attention towards just blogging about online news or they should have officially blogged about developments on their blogging service.
Now this is one proof which seems to say that their startup was just publicity stunt and nothing else than to promote their tech blog.
We will wait for next 8 weeks and see whether they still resume their blogging service and if not, it would be clear that they just wanted to gain popularity and readers for their blog (which is tough in today’s time) by just opening a sucking blog platform (yeah, it didn’t have much features, hmmm, no, no features at all, they were yet to add some and those social features never came).
Lenovo IdeaPad U330 - 22672BU Review
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Lenovo ‘IdeaPad’ series features some exclusive business class suited notebooks priced above $1000 range. Today i will review IdeaPad’s model 22672BU. Also model 22672AU is also available with minor configuration change. The idea of whole game of keeping so many models is to perfectly make a model which best suits you or which is almost near to your configuration you want. That is the reason these brands keep a lot of models with minor differences between 2 models.
Configuration - Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7350 2 GHz, 1GHz FSB and 3 MB L2 cache, 2 GB DDR3 SDRAM, 250 GB HDD at 5400 rpm, DVD recordable, ATI Radeon HD 3450 256 MB graphics card. Supports Wi-Fi. Battery is still 6 cell lithium ion one.
13.3 inch WXGA TFT Anti-glare and also comes with Integrated Webcam. One year warranty on parts and labor and even 1 year warranty of system battery.
Operating System - Windows Vista Home Premium. The RAM Type is DDR3 than DDR2. Model 22672AU has 3 GB RAM and 320 GB HDD. All other configuration same as BU suffix model.
Price of U330 - 22672BU - $1200
Price of U330 - 22672AU - $1300.
Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | Laptop reviews | No Comments
Lenovo ThinkPad T series has 3 models, T400 and T500. I will review T61 model. T400 had 14.1″ screen instead of 15.4″.
Configuration - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.1 GHz T8100 with 800 MHz FSB and 3 MB L2 Cache. 1 GB DDR2 SDRAM. 80 GB HDD at 5400 rpm. No Bluetooth. Ultravnav. DVD Recordable 8X, has 128 MB Dedicated NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M. Supports Wi-Fi, 6 cell Li-Ion Battery.
15.4 inch WXGA Widescreen TFT. Comes within 1 year depot warranty. The only drawback i feel is 80 GB HDD. A PC must at least have 160 GB HDD in today’s time.
OS - Windows Vista Home basic. Priced at $860 on lenovo’s official website.