Archives for: "January 2010"
Apple iPad
I think the hottest IT@topic today is Apple iPad. Last night, Steve Jobs announced the first Apple's tablet PC, iPad, in his keynote. The rumors were talking about that for long long time. It doesn't bring a lot of surpises to myself. It looks like an… more »
Country Setting on Trending in Twitter
I found Twitter has an new option on Trending. You can change the Trending to an individual country. But currently, they only provide the trending on these countries,included: * Brazil * Canada * Ireland * Mexico * United Kingdom * United States Not… more »
Create New Window in Android
You can jump to a new window by changing the content view. CodesetContentView(R.layout.second); But the type of Activity between two views must be same. In my case, I need to switch to a List view(Activity) from a normal window. I can't do by switching… more »
Day time test of Panasonic HDC-SD20
I went to Lamington National Park. I took some video. That sounds my camorder works much better in day time. The image is very sharp! more »
Another HTC New Phone
There is a big IT Gadgets event held in Las Vegas not long ago. That is the International Consumer Electronics Show(CES). I think that is a good time for the companies releasing their new phones. HTC released their new phone,HTC Smart, in there. This… more »
My New Toy - Panasonic HDC-SD20
During last year Christmas Holidays, I brought myself a new toy, Panasonic HDC-SD20. This is a Full-HD SD camorder. That is around AUD$700. Not Expensive. But it is quite powerful. It got 16x optical zoom and optical image stabilizer. Moreover, it got… more »
Kindle DX is available internationally
I got a newsletter from Amazon. On 19 January, 2010, Kindle DX will be available internationally. This times, it got a bigger eInk screen 9.7". Related Link: Amazon more »
Lightweighted Linux
I am trying to reimage one of my old laptop which has Celeron 1.1Ghz and 128 RAM with a linux distro. I remeber I bought it on 2002 or 2003. 7 years old laptop! I have tried Xubuntu, it should be ok form 128 MB. But I can't get it running to GUI… more »
Google Nexus One
Google released their own branded phone, Nexus One. That is with 3.7" OLED screen and a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon. So, it should be super fast, may be faster than iPhone 3GS too. The most impressive function is voice enabled keyboard. Rather than typing,… more »
Tags: android
WordPress 2.9.1 is released
Not long ago, WordPress 2.9 was released, I am very impressed by its improvements, such as the image resizing function. Today, WordPress released 2.9.1 version. That is a minor upgarde, only for fixing some small problems and making compable to the most… more »
XUbuntu is quick as well.
Google Chrome OS is simple and quick. Please don't forget XUbuntu as well. Although XUbuntu is not customized for Atom, but that is light-weighted and fast. I got a VM with 512MB, that took less than 30 seconds to boot up. Moreover, that is a completed… more »