I've done it again!

I sold off my Acer Laptop and the Gateway Netbook! I am now the owner of the Asus 1410-2801 Notebook. It has the 11.6" screen and the dual core Intel Celeron processor! It came with only 2Gig of memory and well, that seems to be enough for now. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. So far I like it. But you know, it will more than likely get replaced in about 6 months! Ha!

Later,
Carlos

Memory Upgrade!

I have replaced the memory on my netbook with Kingstons HyperX 2Gig memory. It did increase the speed. A $26 investment. I believe it was worth it. Now every app I run is speedier than before. Next, I am waiting for the price on the ssd's to come down. I will invest in one, but would like the 500 gig ssd. Which, at this time, the highest capacity ssd is 250Gig and is priced at $725 (ouch) at NewEgg. That is quite high for 250 Gig.

c
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Technology, how it manipulates us

I've recently sold my EEEpc. I had to, I was in need of something faster. So I then invested money on an ASUS laptop. It was great, fast, bright screen, but too heavy. I still have it, but it is going up for sale soon. Now I have a Gateway LT3103U Netbook. This beautiful slick machine is exactly what I wanted. Instead of the SLOOOOWWWW Atom processor, it has the AMD64 1.2Ghz processor and 2 gigs of memory. It is fast. Unfortunately, it came with Windows Vista, so I think I will upgrade to Windows 7 when it comes out. Then I will have it just how I need it to be. This gem will become my tool out in the field. Photography field, that is, when I need to view and edit. Even with Vista, it operates very fast. I have not noticed any slow processing. I have installed CCleaner and WiseRegistry Cleaner. Just to make sure it stays fast. Don't want the Registry to get too FAT.

This is all for now, catch you later,
carlos
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The G1

I went ahead and upgraded my phone to the G1. I think this phone is great. I do miss the small form of the HTC Touch and the onscreen keyboard. But the G1 has some really good stuff. I like how I can have my gmail and cdpaa emails come to my phone. The calendar is great too.

The things I would like to see for it are a better Image Viewer like the Slide 2 View (S2V) and then there's the Music Player, I really like Slide 2 Play (S2P). Both of these are Windows Mobile apps. I am hoping that the author for these two apps would create them for the Android OS, or port them over. I'll post more when I find some more cool apps that come out.

Later, Carlos
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The Asus Eee PC 2Gig Surf

I got this little gem about a week ago. Ordered it through Red Barn Computers, did not pay tax, just $7 shipping/handling. Received it in a week.

Eeepc is quite nice. I love the size and the weight of it. The fact that it comes with linux is wonderful. I did have an issue with the simple gui, so I researched found some very helpful sites. I was able to change the simple gui to the advanced gui. I installed Opera to help with the zoom feature, it helps to be able to view the entire webpage and then zoom in where I want to read.

Currently I use it just for surfing, email, and dnd. Dnd, I use it to access information quickly using the pdf reader and the books that are in pdf. I also use it to do some simple editing on images. The screen is only 7", but I can still view a slide show if I need to. It's fast. I think I will try to install Picasa.

Later,
Carlos
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HTC Touch and S2P

This is a cool piece of software I came across for my HTC Touch, called S2P. This is landscape mode.

Portrait view.

Normal view

I had a tough time trying to figure out how to make the time show up in 12 hour format and not the 24 hour format. Every entry at the developers forum was indicating to install S2U2, which is an iPhone like slide to unlock the phone. I did not want to add this to my phone, so I read the settings for this S2U2 app and found that it used a registry setting that was labeled "TimeFormat". So I decided to add this entry myself without the installation of the software. For this, I used Total Commander: file manager that is freeware, came with its own registry editor. I then restarted my phone and it worked. Once I went into the S2P, the time was showing up as 12 hour format. Problem solved, there have been no issues with the phone or the app since. Hope this helps others with their use of the wonderful S2P app for music playback. Sure beats WMP.

Carlos
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