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Pixcom Andro Note

Campaign.Spot-Pixcom Andro Note merupakan produk terbaru dari vendor lokal Pixcom. Ponsel ukuran besar atau sering disebut dengan phablet ini dilencurkan dengan ukuran 5 inci. Phablet adalah ponsel android yang memiliki ukuran layar besar diatas 5 inci dan dibawah 7 inci. Pixcom Andro Note didesain dengan bentuk yang kompak karena memang didesain agar mampu bersaing dipasaran. Pada kesempatan kali ini kami akan membahas kelebihan Pixcom Andro Note dan Kekurangan Pixcom Andro Note beserta harga tepatnya saat ini.

Phablet Pixcom Andro Note mengusung os Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Spesifikasi Pixcom Andro Note memang cukup bertenaga dengan dukungan prosesor Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual Core 1.2GHz. Keunggulan dibanding phoblet lainnya Pixcom Andro Note sudah mengakomodasi kemampuan Dual SIM. Produk yang sangat cocok untuk dipasarkan di Indonesia, karena pecinta ponsel android Dual SIM memang cukup besar saat ini di Indonesia. Meskipun mendukung DUal SIM amun hanya satu slot saja yang suppoert jaringan HSDPA karena pada slot satunya hanya bisa digunakan untuk telepon dan SMS.

Pixcom Andro Note juga memiliki fitur dan fasilitas WiFi serta juga mengakomodasi kemampuan sebagai hotspot WiFI untuk 5 perangkat sekaligus. Dari segi fitur multimedia, phablet ini sudah menghadirkan kamera 5MP dibagian belakang dan kamera VGA dibagian depan sebagai kamera sekunder. Kelebihannya kamera bagian belakang phablet ini sudah memiliki kemampuan rekam video Full HD.

Kelebihan Pixcom Andro Note :

1. Mengakomodasi kemampuan Dual SIM
2. Kamera belakang sudah memiliki kemampuan rekam full HD
3. Bisa digunakan sebagai perangat hotspot WiFI

Kekurangan Pixcom Andro Note :

1. Dual SIM pada phablet ini hanya satu yang support HSDPA
2. Warna layar masih kalah jernih dibanding phoblet terbaru lainnya

HTC One X Specification

General	2G Network	GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
	3G Network	HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
	Announced	2012, February
	Status	Available. Released 2012, May

Body	Dimensions	134.4 x 69.9 x 8.9 mm
	Weight	130 g
		- Touch-sensitive controls

Display	Type	Super IPS LCD2 capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
	Size	720 x 1280 pixels, 4.7 inches (~312 ppi pixel density)
	Multitouch	Yes
	Protection	Corning Gorilla Glass
		- HTC Sense UI

Sound	Alert types	Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
	Loudspeaker	Yes
	3.5mm jack	Yes

Memory	Card slot	No
	Internal	32 GB (26 GB user-available) storage, 1 GB RAM

Data	GPRS	Yes
	EDGE	Yes
	Speed	HSDPA, 21 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
	WLAN	Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Direct, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
	Bluetooth	Yes, v4.0 with A2DP
	NFC	Yes
	USB	Yes, microUSB (MHL) v2.0

Camera	Primary	8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, check quality
	Features	Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, face and smile detection
	Video	Yes, 1080p@24fps, stereo sound rec., video stabilization, check quality
	Secondary	Yes, 1.3 MP, 720p

Features	OS	Android OS, v4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich), upgradable to v4.1
	Chipset	Nvidia Tegra 3
	CPU	Quad-core 1.5 GHz
	GPU	ULP GeForce
	Sensors	Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass
	Messaging	SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
	Browser	HTML, Adobe Flash
	Radio	Stereo FM radio with RDS
	GPS	Yes, with A-GPS support
	Java	Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
	Colors	Gray, White
		- MicroSIM card support only - Beats Audio - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - TV-out (via MHL A/V link) - SNS integration - MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player - MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk - Document viewer/editor - Voice memo/dial/commands - Predictive text input

Battery		Standard battery, Li-Po 1800 mAh

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LG Optimus LTE 2

LG Optimus LTE 2

The LG Optimus LTE2 is a monster phone, but while we all anticipated the Samsung Galaxy S III, the Optimus LTE2 came out of the blue and struck us with specifications we haven't yet seen in a phone.

Namely, a whopping 2GB of RAM packed inside the Optimus LTE2. Now, you can be pretty much sure you won’t run out of memory, even if you’re the toughest multitasker. Actually, bumping up the amount of RAM is one of the easiest ways to boost system productivity, and we applaud LG for being the first to take this step.

Now, are you excited already? Hold your horses, the handset is targetting Korea only in the beginning and there's no word or whether we'll see it in other markets. Still, given its technical prowess, we doubt that LG will be keeping this to its home market only for a long while.

We don’t much of the details like the actual screen size yet, but we’d bet on more than 4.3 inches in diagonal. We do know however that the LG Optimus LTE2 will feature a TrueHD IPS screen, and the “True” part here means that you get the full RGB matrix, not a pentile screen like the one in the S III.

It can also brag with running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich out of the gate, and pack a relatively big 2,150mAh battery with the promise of a 40% battery increase compared to the original Optimus LTE. The power efficiency is said to be courtesy of a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 chip inside, but we're waiting for an official confirmation. Of course, as the name suggests, the handset will feature LTE connectivity.

Also, the hanset supports wireless charging via a separate dock, a neat little addiction that will help you cut cords. The design is rectangular, reminiscent of the visuals used in LG's L-series.

The rest of the details are murky, but we shouldn’t have to wait long - the Optimus LTE2 release date in Korea is mid-May.

Source : Phone Arena

[Impression] The Anatomy Of the Electric Guitar

The diagram below provides a guide o the location of the electric guitar's major components,some of which have already been mentioned in this lesson. It is not necessary to memorise them all at this stage, although many have common sense names which you will quickly pick up as you play the guitar more.

The Body

The body of the instrument is where the string are strummed, plucked or picked. It is also the part of the instrument which rests on your leg if you are playing the guitar seated. As well as being the most visually distinctive part of each model of electric guitar, the body contains the electric circuits and components which convert string vibrations into electrical signals.

1. Bridge

The bridge unit of the guitar holds one end of the strings in place. The strings feed over several (ussualy six) saddles before being anchored within the body of the instrument.

2. Pickups

Each pickup units houses six magnets wound with coils of wire. As already described, these transform the vibrations of the strings into electrical signals.

3. Tone Controls

Tone controls unit it used to adjust the sound.

4. Pickup Selector

The pickup selector determines which pickup(s) will be used to sense string vibrations. Typically the neck pickup will produce a brighter sound.

5. Output Jack

One end of the lead is plugged into the output jack of the guitar and the other into the amplifier.

6. Strap Button

The Strap of the guitar is fixed to these buttons. Often these buttons will be part of a strap-lock system which prevents the strap from falling off the instrument at inconvenient times.

The Neck

The neck of the instrument is where a guitarist places their fingers to alter the length of strings and so the pitch of the sound that is produce by the guitar.

7. Fingerboard (or Fretboard)

The fingerboard is the part at the front of the neck. This Holds the fret-strips of metal placed horizontally across the fingerboard at specific intervals that create different musical notes. To play particular note, depress immediately behind one of the frets. This pulls the string taught across the fret and alters the length of the string to create the desired sound.

8. Nut

The nut is located at the top of the neck. This guides the strings toward the machine heads.

9. Position Markers

When playing the guitar it is useful to have marks on the side of the neck, as well as on the fingerboard itself, to signify certain frets. These are typically placed just behind the 3rd, 5th, 7th, 12th, 15th, 19th and 21st frets.

The Headstock

The end of the neck furthest from the body of the guitar is called the headstock. The primary function of this is to house the machine heads of the instrument. Some guitars, most notably those made by Steinberger, do not even have a traditional headstock.

10. Machine Heads or Tuning Key

The most important components of the hadstock are the machine heads. This is where the other end of a guitar string terminates. A tuning key tightens and loosens a string so that it creates a sound of the desired pitch when it is playe open (i.e. without any notes being fretted).

11. Truss Rod Adjustment

The truss rod runs the length of the neck, its purpose being to keep the neck rigid. If your guitar has been set up correctly, you should not need to alter the truss rod. It can be altered from the illustrated position, although this is not recommended for a beginner as incorrect adjustment can cause serious damage to a guitar.

12. String Trees

String Trees are often ommited from electric guitars. Where present, they assist in guiding the strings toward the machine heads.
Now that you know what the different parts of an electric guitar are called and what they do.

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[Impression] Gomez PEER zone Community

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The Gomez software is completely private and secure and has no noticeable impact on how your computer runs or how much bandwidth you consume.

To be eligible, you must meet certain program requirements, then download and install the Gomez PEER. It's as simple as that.

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Test and Measures

There are two tests you can do, namely Read stability tests to see if there are errors on your flash drive and read speed, and Write and Read test to determine the speed of read or write flash drive.While the actions you can do is low-level initialization to edit partition information on a flash drive, Save image to save image from a flash drive, Load Image to load the image into the flash drive, and Full Erase to wipe out the flash drive. But before running the test, you must first select the Access Type. To run the Read / Write Stability tests, we must select a logical or physical drive.

Read Stability Test

The first test is Read Stability Test. Select the Access type as physical devices. From there, you have several options. The options related to how much testing you want to do. You can test a full cycle, "burn" where the test will continue until you stop it manually, or you can specify how many cycles are executed. This depends on how thorough you want to do testing. If you just want a cursory test, select a cycle.
After selecting the testing and action, click Start. During the test run block on the right panel to be colored to indicate the test is being done (see picture below). You can also view real-time speed reading near the bottom left corner. After the tests are completed, you will get a simple report in the right panel. In the Read Stability tests, the report will only tell whether there are errors found. You can find more information in the Information section near the bottom left. There, you can see the average read speed of your flash drive.

Write and Read Test

It should be noted that the Write and read test will erase all data on the flash drive. Format the flash drive will also be removed so you should reformat if you want to use it again. At the time of selecting Write and read test, you also have to choose the pattern you want to use. There are two patterns, namely small pattern and a full set of pattern sets. After selecting an option, click Start, and testing will begin. This test will be slightly longer than the reading test only.After the tests are completed, you will be told how to condition your flash drive. As shown in the image our flash drive full of errors.

Original author by Impression

Checking Flash Drive with CheckFlash Application

If you use flash drives for everything from the portability of data to a portable operating system, of course you want to learn to read or write speed of flash drives or flash drives are on stable storage.The task is not easy, without the right tools. CheckFlash a flash drive benchmarking tool useful for those of you who want to know if the flash drive ready for use. We'll see how to run the Read Stability test, and Write and Read test on the flash drive.

CheckFlash can be found at the website developer (Misha Cherkes). Download the zip file and save it to a known location.There is no installation process because CheckFlash is a complete executable binary file that can be directly run, by double clicking.

You can simply run the application CheckFlash (with Administrator rights) and then insert the flash drive or insert a flash disk, and then run the application. If you run the application first, then you must press the refresh list button to see the drive listed. Once the application is open, we are ready to do some tests.

Original author at http://ellenimpression.blogspot.com/2010/10/checking-flash-drive-with-checkflash.html

[Impression] Maximizing USB Flash Drive Chapter 3

Running websites

If you are a web developer, you may be interested in Server2Go applications. With these applications you can run a web server that supports Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Perl directly from USB Flash drives. You can use Server2Go application without any installation.Server2Go can be used on all versions of Windows, supports popular browsers, and completely free.
For developers, the advantage of having a portable Web server on a USB drive is a great deal. For example, you could bring a live demo of the website during the meeting. For more information about Application Server2Go, please visit the Website at http://www.server2go-web.de/. Happy trying …

PC Lock

Have you ever seen a movie in which a secret agent just by inserting and removing the card to enter and exit from the PC? If you think it is a cool thing, then you also can do that, how? With Predator application you can do it all with ease. Once the application is installed and configured as needed, this freeware utility lets you convert a USB flash drive into a key to lock and unlock the computer.
When a USB flash drive is plugged into your computer, everything will work as usual. However, after a USB flash drive is not plugged in, your computer will be locked, keyboard and mouse is disabled and the screen dimmed. To unlock the computer, plug the USB flash drive to the computer, and computers will be opened, and you can use it again. For more information about the Predator or download the program, please visit the website at http://www.montpellier-informatique.com/predator/en/index.php .

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NetFlix On Tivo

Dooooooods! Not only can you order pizza and carry on a technosexual relationship with your Tivo, but as of today, you can watch Netflix on it. I'm never leaving the house again...ever.

LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION! MOVIES AND TV EPISODES
FROM NETFLIX DIRECTLY TO THE TV THROUGH TIVO DVRs AVAILABLE TODAY

Just in Time for the Holidays, Offering Brings Budget Conscious Entertainment to Consumers

ALVISO, Calif. - December 8, 2008 — After announcing a groundbreaking partnership in October with Netflix Inc., TiVo Inc. (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), today announced that subscribers to both Netflix and TiVo® Series3, TiVo HD, or TiVo HD XL can now access thousands of movies and TV episodes instantly streamed from Netflix directly to their TVs.

The service is being offered at no additional charge to customers who subscribe to both services. This morning subscribers can browse through an expanding library of more than 12,000 movies and TV episodes at www.netflix.com, add them to their Netflix instant Queue, and then watch them on TV with just a click of the TiVo remote. The library includes titles from every genre, with a modest selection of HD content available as well. Both standard and HD titles are expected to grow in the weeks and months ahead.

“With so much talk focusing on the economy these days, this partnership makes more sense than ever because it brings people more movies at home, offering substantially more entertainment options than cable or satellite," said Tara Maitra, GM and Vice President of Content Services at TiVo Inc. “TiVo offers consumers everything they need from just one box. Not only great content from Netflix, but also movies from The Walt Disney Studios and Amazon, music from Rhapsody, videos from YouTube and even pictures from Picasa Web Albums and Photobucket. And that’s all in addition to TiVo’s core functionality that made us a favorite in the first place. It adds up to a one-of-a-kind value.”

“Netflix offers an unbeatable combination of convenience, selection, and value, which now extends to TiVo customers,” said Netflix Chief Marketing Officer Leslie Kilgore. This partnership is a win-win-win for Netflix, TiVo, and consumers alike.”

Movies are streamed from Netflix through TiVo DVRs via wired or wireless broadband connection and a Netflix Queue-based user interface. Members visit the Netflix Web site to add movies and TV episodes to their individual instant Queues. Those choices will automatically be displayed on subscribers’ TVs and are available to watch instantly through the TiVo service. With the TiVo remote control users can browse their instant Queue, make selections right on the TV screen, as well as read synopses and rate movies. In addition, they have the option of pausing, fast-forwarding, rewinding and re-starting whenever they wish.

For more information on how to have movies instantly streamed from Netflix via your TiVo DVR visit www.tivo.com/netflix

Sony to cut plants and 8,000 jobs

Sony has announced plans to cut 8,000 electronics jobs - 5% of the division - as well as shutting 10% of its manufacturing sites.

The company said the jobs would be cut by April 2010 but did not say in which countries the staff would go.

Sony said it had been trying to reduce production because of the downturn but warned it still had to do more.

The news came as Japan said its economy had shrunk between July and September by much more than initially estimated.

The Cabinet Office said the economy had shrunk at an annual rate of 1.8% in the quarter, compared with its original estimate of 0.4%.

Investment cut

Sony aims to generate cost savings of about 100bn yen ($1.1bn; £730m) by the end of the next financial year.It will cut its investment in electronic operations by 30% and shut down about 10% of its 57 production facilities."The number sounds big, but this staff reduction won't be enough," said Katsuhiko Mori, a fund manager at Daiwa SB Investments.

"Sony doesn't have any core businesses that generate stable profits - the next thing we want to see is what is going to be the business that will drive the company."

[world/BBC News]

FYI: Blending a Charged iPhone Causes Explosions and more...

 
On Saturday at the Gizmodo Gallery, we blended a fully-functioning iPhone with a Blendtec, sacrificing it to the gods of copy and paste. What we learned was that if you blend an iPhone with its battery inside, it explodes. Whoops!Yeah, so we probably should have taken the battery out, but we wanted to show that it worked when we blended it (the iPhone was Blam's first generation model). Of course, I was the idiot chosen to do the blending, but luckily I was wearing a lab coat, which caught most of the battery acid milkshake. The same can't be said for Brian, who caught a lot of it on the face, but luckily none in his eyes.

Sexy Athlete Yeah babes

Sexy and hot well toned Carly Zucker is Joe Cole’s footballer fiancee.

They were engaged in May of 2007, a year after Carly fell into the spotlight at the 2006 World Cup.

The proposal followed dinner at a trendy London restaurant called The Ivy.

It’s a good thing she said yes, as the ring cost the Chelsea footballer over $100,000.

Carly is a personal trainer known for her washboard stomach, but she came under fire last year when she dropped from a size eight to a size zero.

The tabloids speculated that she had an eating disorder, but Carly claims that that isn’t true. “I lost a lot of weight last year simply because I stopped my weight training.

It was a lifestyle change after I left the gym I’d been working in. That’s all there was to it.” Thankfully, Carly has resumed her exercise (or her eating, depending on who you believe) and is back to her normal size.

Optimize With RSS

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An easy way which you can increase traffic to register with the RSS feed en masse to Rss various search engines. Forget manually, do not spend your time doing it, order the registration process to be easy, I recommend using the assistance Rss submit, with tools, this means you have to do your rss submit to 80 directories at once. Said Feedcount you can experience an increase of 80 coming and this is not including the readers. Unfortunately these tools are not free, you have to spend a little pocket that is not, do not worry you can try a trial version that can submit to 18 rss directories only. You should download here

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Sony Ericsson launch camera phone marketing campaign

Collecting - 27-10-08

Iris Digital is behind the latest Sony Ericsson global digital campaign timed to coincide with the release of new James Bond film Quantum of Solace.

Sony Ericsson's C902 Titanium Silver Cyber-shot phone is used by James Bond in the film and the campaign allows users to download mobile applications such as a wireless spy cam and fingerprint scanner.

Users can unlock the code to download mobile applications by participating in an interactive movie Directive C902 via microsite www.sonyericsson.com/bond. All players can also enter a competition to win a VIP trip to Monte Carlo.

"This is a great opportunity for Sony Ericsson to leverage its ongoing relationship with the most eagerly anticipated release of the year," said Sony Ericsson director of global marketing communications Cathy Davies.

"As well as enabling our customers to actually own the James Bond phone we're able to offer them unique experiences online, in-store and through partner marketing as well as through the phones themselves."

GIZ Explain

The phrase "64-bit" has been tossed around lately, the most it's been since the Nintendo 64. If you haven't heard it, pay attention. One of the most important steps forward in computer power is happening right under your nose, but most people don't know thanks to the sneaky efforts of Microsoft and Apple. Though fully 64-bit operating systems are the OSes of tomorrow, you can taste some of that power today with 64-bit versions of Windows and OS X. Here's why 64-bit computing is so awesome:

In a word, memory. We're not going to get super nerdy on you here (Wikipedia will gladly go there). To keep it simple, the whole bit thing (16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit) refers to how much data the computer can keep track of, or talk to, at once, and that's what determines how much memory it can handle. A processor with 32-bit memory addresses can basically roll with 4GB of RAM. A 64-bit system can rock, on the other hand, 16 exabytes of RAM. That's 16.8 bmillion terabytes. Of RAM. You're not going to get that kind of memory, not anytime soon; for now, from a user standpoint, this means there's simply no ceiling to memory expansion.

So while 32-bit hardware and software—the current norm in PC-land—limited you to 4GB of RAM (Physical Address Extension will let you have more, but 32-bit software will still only use 4GB), with 64-bit hardware and software, you can use vast amounts of RAM, which enables a whole new world of possibilities for applications, since they'll have a massive amounts of memory to work with.

The road to 64-bit rather conveniently dovetails with the multi-core processor arms race, using graphics cards for processing and growth of parallel processing in mainstream computing. In other words, in just a short generation, applications will be able to harness an exponential increase in power over what they can use today—a crapload of processors working together with a smorgasbord of memory at their disposal. With 64-bit, computers can also crunch bigass numbers way faster, so it's excellent for science-y things. So get ready for some cool stuff.

You're probably asking: Why not now? I've heard of this 64-bit stuff before. Well, the hardware has been around for a while—64-bit super computers go back decades, and AMD brought 64-bit processors to the mainstream a few years ago with the Athlon 64, for instance. The PowerPC G5 for Macs was also 64-bit. And if you buy a Core 2 Duo today, it's 64-bit. But the operating systems regular people use have essentially been slow to adopt 64-bit until recently, and won't plunge excluslively into 64-bit for another generation, Windows guru Ed Bott explained to us. Windows Vista ships with separate 32-bit and 64-bit editions, with Vista 64-bit being the first consumer-usable 64-bit version of Windows. Apple has been moving more and more of OS X over to a 64-bit architecture with every new version. Bott told us that while Windows 7 will have 32-bit and 64-bit versions, its eventual successor, Windows 8 (or whatever it's called) will likely be the first Windows that's exclusively 64-bit. Reportedly, next year's Mac OS X Snow Leopard will be 64-bit down to the kernel.

The reason 64-bit is the future and not the present is that 64-bit is a whole different architecture from the 32-bit status quo—different kernel means different drivers, application compatibility issues, that kind of stuff. A swift, clean break means lots of headaches, especially for the corporate world, which, as Bott told us, is as big of a concern for Microsoft as the consumer space. That's why Apple has been transitioning OS X to total 64-bit over time, and why Microsoft will still ship a 32-bit version of Windows 7. And likely, Bott says, an exclusively 64-bit Windows 8 would have a virtualization setup to run 32-bit apps. "Fortuitously," he told us, "an x64 system with lots of memory should scream at virtualization."

Another hitch on the path to true 64-bit glory that Bott raised is the question of "When will people outside of the specialized work software" like Adobe (Photoshop CS4 will be a native 64-bit application in Windows, though not in OS X) write 64-bit apps? With the coming wave of many-core parallel processing and ridiculous amounts of memory to take advantage of, programmers have a lot to play (and deal) with. Applications have to be re-written to take advantage of the multiple cores and huge amounts of memory at their disposable, and that transition is going to take some time. The other slight downside 64-bit Bott mentioned—and it is slight—is that hibernation will be slower, since all that memory means more to write to the hibernation file, and more to read when it wakes up.

While that awesomeness sounds like it's too be good to be the norm anytime soon, it's not. Leopard already does quite a bit of 64-bit voodoo, like having a 64-bit GUI and Vista 64-bit is supplanting 32-bit on computer maker's systems, now that the driver situation isn't so abysmal. And while four totally usable gigs of RAM in a Vista machine is a thing of beauty, 6GB and 12GB will quickly become the standard for performance machines with the launch of Intel's Core i7, since it uses triple-channel memory—three delicious sticks of RAM—so 64-bit couldn't come soon enough.

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UPGRADE YOUR SMART PHONE

HTC has always known their biggest weakness: Windows Mobile. They've done their best to hide the aged interface in glossy costumes and bolster performance, but they can only do so much—the OS is slow, buggy and can drain battery life on certain hardware. Luckily, Windows Mobile responds well to per-device modification. A dedicated community of hackers called XDA has built a collection of streamlined, debugged, turbocharged OS builds (or ROMs) to resuscitate your flagging HTC phone, along with some less daunting smartphone tweaks for the weaker stomached.

Now, it bears mentioning that HTC is pretty diligent about updating their phones, releasing driver and software updates to improve performance when necessary. Problem is, these updates don't usually trickle down through the cellular providers, leaving most users stuck with the first (and only) generation of the phone's branded—and sometimes crippled— software. Thanks to XDA, most users can switch to an up-to-date OS, with a variety of extra tweaks added at the discretion of the community.

What do you stand to gain from upgrading your ROM?

• Better battery life
• Faster performance, especially in TouchFLO 3D
• Stronger reception
• Quicker, less laggy GPS locking and tracking
• Bundles of useful software, included updated, faster Opera browser
• Reenabling carrier-chopped features such as tethering, HDSPA

Popular phones best suited for upgrade:

• Touch
• Touch Dual
• Touch Diamond
• Touch Pro
• Other variants

The prospect of upgrading your phone's entire OS might sound intimidating, but the XDA community has provided GUI tools for each step. The procedure is not risk-free, but the success rate polls highly among people who follow the directions closely. I flashed T-Mobile's branded Diamond, the MDA Compact IV, without incident.

Ready to give this a shot? XDA's detailed guides are available here:

• Touch/Touch Dual
• Touch Diamond/Touch Pro


• Others can be found in the device subforums here.

If ROMs and bootloaders and radios all sound too scary (and I wouldn't blame you), XDA also has a hefty collection of simpler tweaks and mods for your HTC phones, including themes, games and apps that you might not find elsewhere.

Expect to hear a lot more about these guys in the coming months—they'll probably be the first ones to port Android to older HTC handsets. As of the 4th, they've got a severely gimped version of Android 0.8 (the G1 launched with 1.0) running on the Diamond, so an "Install Android on Your HTC Phone" Dealzmodo Hack is inevitable, if still pretty far off. [XDA Developers and ModMyDiamond]

Sumanto Makan Korban Lagi

Sumanto Makan Korban lagi..., wah belum sadar nih doi..., eits tunggu dulu kali ini Sumanto gak makan daging manusia lagi, korbannya sekarang adalah sebuah program acara Talk Show yang mempunyai rating yang tinggi yang disiarkan oleh salah satu stasiun televisi swasta di negeri ini. Tentunya anda sudah tidak asing lagi dengan acara Empat Mata kan..? Acara inilah yang jadi korbannya Sumanto Kali ini.
Wah.. koq bisa ya...? Gara-garanya 'Empat Mata' yang dibintangi Tukul Arwana itu mempertontonkan bintang tamu makan ikan hidup-hidup.
Mulai Selasa (4/11/2008), Komisi Penyiaran Indonesia (KPI) memerintahkan Trans7 untuk menghentikan penayangan 'Empat Mata".
Menurut Ketua KPI, Sasa Djuarsa Sendjaj, sanksi itu dikeluarkan setelah pihak KPI melayangkan tiga surat teguran. Dan penghentian ini durasinya paling cepat satu bulan dan paling lama tiga bulan ( wah cuti nih om Tukul ) pasalnya Program acara ini telah melanggar pedoman perilaku penyiaran dan standar program penyiaran ( Standar yang mana ya..?).
Gimana Menurut anda...?