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Location: Penang,Malaysia
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This blog is about technology, some useful guides, my hobby collection and also topic that I am interested. Hope you guys enjoy here.
I feel so sorry about not updating my blogs for this few days because i have some personal things to finish up. I currently just move out and not yet get any house to move in. I’m staying in my friend’s house temporary and keep seeking for a new house now. Thus, i’m facing Internet connection problem and feel very sorry here.
Hope you guys can understand that, Thanks.
See ya.
As my post title said, this is not a TV Remote. So, what do you think? 
In “Next Generation Game Consoles“, there are 3 new game consoles to be released soon: Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft XBOX 360 and Nintendo’s Revolution. Microsoft XBOX 360 is the first-mover among these 3 consoles because it will be released on 22 November 2005 whereas Sony PlayStation 3 is gaining higher demand due to it is still a major choice for gamers. Thus, Nintendo’s Revolution comes out an extraordinary game controller that is different from what the normal game controller that we seen. I guess you guys shall know what is it in the picture above now, right? Ya, it is the new game controller for Nintendo’s Revolution.
After brief intro of next generation game consoles in previous post, i believe some of us might wonder when will Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft XBOX 360 or Nintendo Revolution release in market.
Microsoft has made an announcement at Tokyo Game Show that the next generation game console, Microsoft XBOX 360 will be released in North America on 22 November 2005, in Europe on 2 December 2005 and in Japan on 10 December 2005.
There are few reasons that Microsoft would want to have earlier release of XBOX 360 compare to PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Revolution. Obviously Microsoft targeted on holiday shopping rush during Thanksgiving day in the United States. Other than that, it is also around X’mas and New Year holiday that someone may buy XBOX 360 as a gift for other. As Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Revolution are expected to be released on 2006, XBOX 360 will get the first-mover advantage over them.
As the XBOX 360 is to be released, more than 20 games will be on market as well. Here are some famous games’ title:
So, would you like to have one in future? Or you would want to wait for PlayStation 3 or Nintendo Revolution? Believe me, each of them also worth the price. Remember, you pay for what you get. The more you pay, the more you get.
Personally i think PlayStation 3 will be my choice again.
Anyone knows about PlayStation 3, Microsoft XBOX 360 or Nintendo Revolution game consoles? Well, I believe many people heard about PlayStation 2, Microsoft XBOX and Nintendo GameCube.
PlayStation 3 is the next-generation of Sony PlayStation game console that provide better features such as Dolby 5.1ch and DTS sound, 6 USB ports, Ethernet, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g, support Blue Ray Disc and etc. For more details, please visit Play-Asia.com or PS3Land.com
Microsoft XBOX 360 is the next-generation of Microsoft game console that provides following features: 3 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/g, built-in Media Center, rip music, able to stream media, and etc. For more details, please visit XBOX 360 Official Site.
Nintendo Revolution is the next-generation of Nintendo game console that provides following features: 2 USB 2.0 ports, SD memory slot, Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11b/g, and surprising Nintendo Download Service which allows gamers to download classis NES, S-NES and even N64 games.
All these 3 new game consoles are backward compatible which means PS3 is able to play PlayStation and PlayStation 2’s games, Microsoft XBOX 360 is able to play Microsoft XBOX’s games and Nintendo Revolution is able to play Nintendo GameCube’s games.
Hope these next-generation’s game consoles will be released soon!! Personally i am looking forward to PlayStation 3. 
For those who owns Slimline PS2, please refer to www.ps2ac.com to verify whether your PS2 AC adaptor needs replacing.
Sony has announced a global recall of certain AC adaptors sold with Slimline PlayStation 2.
There are 38 reports of adaptors overheating cases in United States. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commissioin (CPSC), 2 reports of minor burns, 1 minor shock and 4 minor property damage were reported.
These AC adaptors were manufactured between August and December of 2004 and supplied with PS2 models SCPH70002, 70003 and 70004.
Please make sure you check your AC adaptor from www.ps2ac.com. Any replacements for these AC adaptors will be free of charge. This PS2 AC Adaptor Replacement Programme is costly because there are 3.5 million faulty power adapters were sold. Yet, Sony declined to say how much this replacement programme is likely to cost.
If you find your AC adaptor match to this faulty power adaptor criteria, please contact Sony via the form provided by www.ps2ac.com. The replacement unit will deliver with prepaid postage label so make sure you return your faulty AC adaptor to Sony.
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Online auction leader, eBay has agreed to takeover VoIP provider, Skype for approximately $2.6 billion in cash and stock. Initially eBay will pay $1.3 billion in cash and another 32.4 million shares of eBay stock - about 42 times Skype’s expected 2005 earnings of $60 million. eBay will also make a further payout of up to $1.5 billion by 2008 or 2009 in additional performance-based considerations. This is giving the deal a total value of up to $4.1 billion.
Skype is one of the fastest growing companies on the Internet which is established on August 2003. In Skype web site, you can see the total download of Skype is more than 165 million times. 2 years and a month after the launching of Skype, it now has 54 million members in 225 countries and territories and approximately 150,000 users are added a day.
“Communications is at the heart of ecommerce and community,” said Meg Whitman, President and Chief Executive Officer of eBay. “By combining the two leading ecommerce franchises, eBay and PayPal, with the leader in Internet voice communications, we will create an extraordinarily powerful environment for business on the Net.”
Skype’s CEO and co-founder, Niklas Zennström believe that eBay and Paypal would bring Skype to achieve it’s vision that to build the world’s largest communications business and ease the voice communication via Internet.
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Mozilla has released their popular open source web browser, Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, a test version of its new web browser.
Firefox 1.5 Beta 1, codenamed “Deer Park” is the first beta release of next generation web browser of Mozilla.
Below are the new features of Firefox 1.5:
If you would like to try it out, Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is now available for download from Mozilla website.
Mozilla warned that the beta is “not the final release of the Web browser, and has been made available for testing purposes only, with no end-user support.”
Please bear in mind that Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 is not final release. Thus, do not expect any end-user support from Mozilla. The next beta version of Firefox 1.5 is scheduled on early October while the final released is targeted on end of year.
Last two weeks i tried to install Mac OS X Tiger x86 into my PC after i got to know that Mac OS was able run on x86 machine. I found many sites do guide the installation of Mac OS x86. There are various way to install the OSx86 but what i want to show here is a very simple installation with the use of VMware Workstation 5.
Why i created this guide is because i was mad while facing the problems during installation. What i wanted to do is just try it on VMware but i found myself stupid after i get to know the installation.
This is the screen shot of Mac OS Tiger running on my VMware 5.
Firstly, you must have the following files & software before you start your Mac OSx86 installation:
I have created a page for displaying the price of mobile phone’s. The price is based in Malaysia market and all is in Ringgit Malaysia [RM].
Please check out my sidebar for the mobile phone links Unfortunately i can’t manage to get the latest price for the mobile phone now but i am trying to do so. So i would appologize if the price listed here is not exactly same as the current market price. Any how this can be a good reference for you to roughly know the price of the phone.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs also said that 30 percent of new U.S. cars will sport stereos that can easily connect to iPod in year 2006. And iPod Nano is going to replace Ipod Mini which has sold 21 million units since year 2001.
The nano replaces the mini, and Gartner analyst Van Baker said that Apple — which has sold 21 million iPods since introducing them in 2001 — has moved the goal posts farther down the field with the nano. “It changes the rules of the game,” Baker said.
Apple iPod Nano come with 2 colors for your choice: either black or white.
iPod Nano come with 2GB and 4GB size. 2GB iPod Nano can store 500 songs and it’s price is USD$199 whereas 4GB iPod Nano can store 1000 songs and it’s price is USD$249. I recommends 4GB iPod Nano because the price is only USD$50 more compare to 2GB iPod Nano. Means you just spend USD$50 for another 2GB size.
