A lot of gadgets today are capable of doing more than what it is expected to do. Consider perhaps the palm PDA that is everything but the ref. Laptops do a lot of wonders too. It is enticing that the prices of these multi-tasking devices are a steal. A second hand PDA costs only around $100 in eBay. Small laptops are only around $300 in malls. There sure are down sides though with jack-of-all-trade-gadgets. Mainly, as it provides everything, losing it means losing everything too.
We want, nonetheless, devices that are capable of different functions. In a recent get together I attended in SMX, I was annoyed I had to buy $3 value FM radio. It was used to hear language translations. Not that I am against Jurassic technology, but the thing is that there are gadgets that are more than just FM radios, and those are what I would prefer more. For instance, some cellphones have radio. I have Motorola L6 and it does not have it.
With the success of “Everything but the Ref” article (subjective though), I thought of following up with something of the same level. I have been having particular liking to the word “optimizing” and I would like to share with you my thoughts on the matter. It is a broad topic in itself, but as we are into tech stuff here, I will zero in on my other device: the tiny PC in Eee. This article is about optimization of the Asus EeePC.
We talk about optimization when we want the most out of something. For instance, optimizing my palm pda, I use it as dictionary to look up the meaning of the word “optimize”. According to the Webster program in my zire, “optimize” means “to make as perfect, effective, or functional as possible”. A device then is effective, thus optimized, if it works with its full potential, if not more. We can actually speak here of 101% as I believe I am making my eee work more than it potentially is capable.
The desktop of my eeepc currently looks like this:
Among the hated subjects in schooling is math. It is difficult and challenging. You need to be gifted to be good at it, or understand it easily. I may perhaps agree with the former, but I beg to disagree with the latter. Recently I found a very useful tool in making math easier to understand. It is among the fruits of technology, so my apology goes to the oldies- those who weren’t fortunate enough to have fruits available for harvest then.
Now for those who hate math, I would like you to meet Geogebra (merge of geometry and algebra), an application program designed to simplify matters concerning numbers and graphs. They say the best things in life are free. Geogebra is pretty much one of the best things- it is a freeware. You may download the program from this site: http://www.geogebra.org.
In this fast-paced world we live in today, everything comes in instant. If you are hungry there is instant noodles for you (or the fast food). If you need money you get instant cash through the atm. If you need information you get anything with a few clicks via the internet. What is even more amazing is that you can get all the “instant” help you can get through something just about the size of the palm. And hence, we call it the palm pda. I call it the “palm wonder”.
I am a secondary school math teacher and technology has been my buddy in teaching since I acquired some of it. In this article, my objective is to showcase the wonders of the palm pda; how something as small as your wallet can do so much. I use my zire 72 (palm pda) in my math classes. I seldom use it nowadays though with my acquisition of a tiny pc in asus eee. But it still is and remains to be what I fondly refer it to my students: “everything but the ref.”
Yes it’s about fakes again, and yes it’s about another Sony product. Well Sony Ericsson anyway. What we’ll discuss is about how to know a fake Sony Ericsson headset and why to avoid it. Moreover, we’ll only tackle fake Walkman Series headsets which come in the following package designs.
Now the only Sony Ericsson Walkman headsets that I know which have packaging like the ones illustrated below are the HPM-64, HPM-65(Sport’s headset), HPM-70(bass headset), and HPM-82(superb bass with remote). I’m sure that there are a lot of other Walkman series phones which also arrive in the same packaging, but these are the models that I have seen to be faked.
Last week I was victimized twice by fake Sony Ericsson headsets. They said it was original and I believed them as the headsets really looked like authentic Sony Ericsson products. I didn’t even know that they fake headsets now.
The reason I bought these were to upgrade my old ones. They were still ok but I wanted to try the HPM-82 (the one with the remote). I guess after this I’ll just stick to my good old HPM-82.
I took some pictures of the "suppossed" Sony Ericsson headsets for all of you to see.
I have always been a bang for the buck kind of guy. I naturally go for the cheapest thing but I usually don’t sacrifice quality. That’s why I usually shop at e-bay. It’s cheap even with the shipping costs, and as long as the seller has many feedbacks I don’t hesitate to buy.
But in reality you can’t just rely on the feedback system of e-bay when buying memory sticks. If your planning to buy a Memory Stick for your PSP or Sony Camera, then this is a must read. I’m really a fan of e-bay, and I usually get my stuff there, but you can never be too careful and you should never be too trusting.
This isn’t only a guide when you’re just buying at e-bay, but also on other stores – online or in an actual shop.
Last week a friend of mine went to Singapore and then brought home a PSP for her kids. It was working great. All her games loaded properly. The sound was great. The controls were awesome. It was also fast.
However, after a week or so of playing it started to really slow down. It wasn’t just slow. It was really, really slow. The main menu of her PSP was so slow that the screen was sometimes flickering. It would take you about 5 minutes or longer before you can even go to the menu where you can choose and play a game.
If you even got to choose a game, loading time is impossible to bear. If for some reason you were able to wait (I tried sleeping), the gameplay was in slow motion.
