FBX900 Fan/Fixture Box

I recently bought an elegant chandelier for $387. I decided to place it in my living room. As a result, I called the expert to have it installed. What a good idea that they install it between two rafters using FBX900 Fan/Fixture Box. Usually, I've noticed that chandelier gadget is mostly placed directly in the ceiling. But the home expert said that it is better to have an expandable brackets that securely mount the chandelier between joists, eliminating the need to cut and nail 2x4s to the fan or fixture.

What a delightful idea! I appreciate their intelligent work.

Phillips brings cinema to TV.

I have experience true cinema into my living room because of Phillip's 21:9 television. Obviously, the TV gets its name from 21:9 aspect ratio which matches the proportions of many films. It is really good because I can watch the film or my favorite movies without any distracting black bars at the top and bottom of the picture.

Unfortunately, some of the DVDs and TV programmes which I often watch have a narrower image (typically 4:3, 16:9 or 1.85.1) which means that my Cinema 21:9 will either have to display black bars on the side of the picture of stretch the image to fill the screen, causing some distortion.

On the other hand, the horizontal bars at the top and bottom of the film are stored on DVD and Blu-ray disc as part of the picture. To get rid of them, the TV has to upscale the middle of the picture to full the screen's native resolution of 2,560x1,080, resulting in some loss of picture quality.

But these aren't really problems for me. My Cinema 21:9 is tailored to movies and that the aspect ratio is what sets the TV apart from most wide screen TVs, which are tailored for broadcast TV.

Anyway, those are not a big deal for me. What is essential is that I was entertained with what I've watched.

How to make your blog popular.

I have numerous blogs and some of them get the highest rank. Higher rank means getting huge, abundant opportunities. But risking to attain high rank needs time-investing, sacrificial efforts.

Launching a blog? Easy. Having your personal musings read by someone besides Mom? Not so easy, given that 175,000 new blogs hit the web every day. Get yours noticed. Here's how:

Digg it. The purpose of dig.com is to help people find and promote cool but obscure websites. To submit your URL, just register with the site. Users rate the entries, and if you get enough "diggs", your blog could be featured on the sites front page where millions of visitors can see it.

Furthermore, submit your blog to the big three search engines: Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's Live.com. If they know you exist, your site will show up in search results.

The easiest technique: Do a Web search for "add url to Google" (or Yahoo or Live). Follow the link, enter the info, and you're done.

Moreover, post a lot. The most popular post content daily, so focus on a topic so interesting that finding great stuff to muse on doesn't feel like work.

Lastly, write strong headlines. Clear is better than punny. Words that are directly related to your posts are indexed better by search engines.

There you go! Now, you know. Hoping you will make it into the blogging business. This is indeed takes the effort.

New Canon Printer.

I have my old printer at home. It is Epson but when one finds this brand nowadays, it is obsolete or many store regarded this as face-out.

As a result, I bought a new printer which also has two 150-sheet paper trays, a duplex ADF copier and full network scan, fax and printing. Pixma MX850 Canon has it all and I love using it. I can have all the task done without me doing the work on different machines. This is truly all in one. It drat prints emerged at 13.5 ppm, text at 7.9 ppm and full-colour is cheap to run, with a mixed-colour print cost of just 5.6 pp per page.

Furthermore, it has four-colour inkjet MFP=9,600x2,400 dpi maximum resolution, 4,8000x9,600 dpi scan resolution, USB, 10/100 one-year RTB warranty.

Moreover, it has power but it is cheap to run, with a mixed-colour print cost of just 5.6 p per page.

Actually, this one is what I really need to work my job done, easy and fast!

About my SLR Camera

Traveling to places takes me to capture sceneries and natural pictures of people, nature or just about anything that struck my sight. In fact, I always have with me my SLR camera. I just love this and exact photographs of everything that I want to capture.

One of the main benefits of an SLR camera is that its lens can be upgraded or augmented with additional specialist lenses. Still, it makes sense to work out which other lenses you may want before you buy a camera. The lenses must fit the camera, which means sticking to the brand or going for a Sigma or Tamron lens, as these are available in a range of lens mounts.

The most important lens specifications are its zoom rand (expresses as a pair of focal lengths) and the amount of light is can capture (referred to as the aperture size).

Most readers will be familiar with zooms being described as 3x or 12x. These figures tell us the difference in magnification between the wide-angle (zoomed out) and telephoto (zoomed in) ends of the zoom.

The focal length, which is expressed as something like 18-55mm, indicates the specific magnification range of a lens. On a consumer digital SLR, any values below 30 mm are considered wide-angle and any above 80 mm are telephoto, the values in between are referred to as standard. On the other hand, the aperture of the lens is the size of the hole that lets light through. The bigger the hole, the more light is captured and the better the picture quality. Bigger holes make the focus tighter, so background and foreground objects more blurred. This is preferable in many situations, as blurring the background draws attention to the subject.

Most SLR lenses are useless at macro focus, so extreme close-ups require a dedicated macro lens. You should also look out for optical image stabilisation. This counteracts blur-inducing camera shake and is important for telephoto lenses where shakes are magnified.

These are some important points that I must share to you so that when you buy a camera, you can figure out which is the best fit for your choice.

MF-2HD Formatted Diskette instead of USB

For many years, I have been trusting to use the USB to save files, scanned photos and download music which I got from the Internet.

In fact, whenever I encoded prints using the Microsoft Word, I save the files in the USB. Moreover, when I have it printed, I just insert my USB in the computer, open the file name and have it print. There are many things that I can do with my USB. It makes my work faster, easier and it saves time.

Just currently, I have found out that my computer grasp virus which I think I get it from saving files from the office to my computer. No matter I close the file (having the virus), it successively show in the screen and so I have to quickly close them which I can't catch up.

My computer is destroyed and I spend $400 to fix them in the computer shop.

With this, I shift using the MF-2HD Formatted Diskette to save files. Eventhough, it can only store little files, I get the right protection from computer virus.

As a result, I also have my computer virus protected. NG2Q6GMCRNPF

My problem with my wireless adaptor.

I have a USB wireless adaptor connected to my PC and it works well. However, when I wake up from sleep mode, the adaptor no longer connects to the network and is no longer recognised by Windows. As its a USB model, I simply have to unplug and reconnect it, and it comes back to life and connects to the network automatically.

While this problem isn't fatal, it's certainly annoying. How can I get Windows to recognise my adaptor all the time?

New Windows for Mobile Phones

I have enjoyed using the pleasures of mobile phones especially my Windows Mobile 6.5 home screen. Wherever I go, whatever I do, this keeps me updated about the important information of my emails, text messages, missed calls and calendar appointments. It really does include an update version of Internet Explorer.

Furthermore, the operating system includes Microsoft's new My Phone service which is a mobile data synchronisation service that lets me back up text messages, photos, video and contacts to Microsoft's servers for free. This service is made perfectly for us, customers, to make it easier for us to upgrade our Windows smart phone or retrieve data if our handset is lost or stolen.

Moreover, the company has also launched Windows Marketplace for Mobile, a new online applications store that will provide mobile applications directly to our phone.

With this enjoyment of life's comfort through using the phone with connection of the Internet, everything is made possible!

My Windows forgets how to show folders.

I have a problem with my Windows XP SP2 system. I like to view files in List view, but ever since I reinstalled Windows after a hard disk failure, it doesn't work. I haven't upgrade to service Pack 3 because it crashed my computer when I tried it. To set the view, I opened Explorer and chose the Tools Menu, Folder Options, View, Remember each folder's view settings. I then opened each folder and selected the List view. I applied these changes to the folders on the computer's D: drive, which holds my data files, and on every removable USB drive I own.

Unfortunately, although Windows remembers to use the List View on the D: drive, it doesn't do so with the removable drives.

Hacker cracks web padlock

I felt extremely mad this morning as I opened my Friendster account. I tried to type my username and password again and again but still it didn't activate. I surely know that I was not mistaken of my account because I even wrote them (username and password) on my notebook. Someone probably hacked my account. I really felt extremely, overly mad.

To thoroughly know what's often the "underground" business of these hackers, I read some articles which talks more about them.

One of the article I've read form The Computer Shopper, May 2009 series on page 11 reveals that a hacker has developed a tool that can steal information by tricking victims into believing they are visiting a secure encrypted website.

When a website displays a padlock in the address bar of the web browser, it indicated that the connection is encrypted, which in turn means that is is secure form eavesdropping criminals. The system is called Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and it's the only way regular Internet users can be sure that their online transactions are safe.

An independent hacker, going by the name of Moxie Marlinspike, has demonstrated a software tool called SSLstrip, which fooled both the website owner and the visitor into believing that a secure connection exists between then. It displays a green address bar in the browser, along with the security padlock and a secure https web address. In fact, the website is using an unencrypted http web address instead.

"Marlinspike's larger message is one that a lot people have been talking about for a few years now. This SSL thing is not working very well," said Dan Kaminsky, director of penetration testing at security firm IOActive.

There is currently no fix for the problem, but users can reduce the risks by avoiding public wireless services and other Internet connections that may be used by other, unknown parties.

Printer ink prices rocket.

A report from Computer Shopper Magazine which was disseminated through the public on its March 2009 release (page 11) stated that the price of ink cartridges for printers has risen to unprecedented heights although this trend has gone unnoticed by many consumers.

Since June 2007, the price of ink has shot up by more than 50%. What may seem to be just an extra 2p or 3p per printout soon adds up. There was a marked increase in the cost of printing between December 2007 and January 2008 which Computer Shopper gathered these figures from printers reviewed over the past 18 months, and they always choose the cheapest possible prices.

It's not clear if this situation is due to global increases in the price of the oil needed to manufacture ink cartridges or printer manufacturers seeking extra profits. However, the hidden cost of the printer is likely to have increases significantly over the past 18 months.

People who print out only a handful of pages in a year are not necessarily immune from the rising price of ink cartridges. They may find they have to replace cartridges that have lain id;e because the ink has solidified and clogged up the print heads.

Thus, when buying a new printer, remember that multifunction peripherals (MFPs) are often more expensive to run than regular printers. In all cases, they advise buying high-yield ink cartridges to save costs. Where available, there are the cartridges they use to calculate the print costs.

Customers should also be aware that cartridges for budget MFPs often cost more than those of their more expensive counterparts. Take note of the price-per-page calculations in their reviews when looking for a printer to buy. This way, customers can find the real bargains and not end up making a buying decision they will regret.

Universal phone charger to cut waste

Having been read this information about the cause of phone chargers to universally work together, I found it beneficial to share to everyone.

Leading mobile operators and manufacturers have announced that they'll work together to create a universal charger for all mobile phones. The group includes Nokia, T-Mobile, Sony Ericsson, Vodafone and 3.

Many households contain a mess of different proprietary phone chargers. As well as making like simpler for users, the universal charger is an attempt by mobile phone manufacturer to reduce waste.

The companies hope to create an energy-efficient device that will cut standby energy consumption bu half. As the new chargers will work with any handset, is task to supply. Between 50 and 80% of the 1.2 billion handsets sold in 2008 were replacement handsets, shipped with a new charger. Getting rid of the need for these duplicates would cut production of chargers by at least 51,000 tonnes annually, reducing waste significantly.

Compact audio cassettes are but obsolete.

I was born in the year 1982. After 6 years, I was in line in music. I sing songs which are famous of those times. In fact, compact audio cassettes are what I find precious because these are my tools as I practice to sing songs from my favorites artists.

Now, that I am 27 years old, I never find stores selling audio cassettes. They are mostly selling CDs.

Over the past decade, I have seen the DVD format replace VHS tape, but new digital formats are already on the market. HD-DVD and Blu-ray players are available, although the HD-DVD format has already become obsolete, and its highly like that DVD will be replaced by something else in the longer time.

New file formats appear for a number of reasons. Sometimes an exciting new consumer device introduced a new format, or an influential company such as Microsoft makes a decision and most other people follow. For example, its Office 2007 suite of programs uses a new file format called Open XML. It's not compatible with older versions of Office, but Microsoft claims that in the long run will benefit from smaller file sizes, an increased likelihood that data can be recovered when files are damaged and the ability to share data which other systems, such as business databases. The Open XML file format are available for free, so no-one has to pay Microsoft royalties to use it.

Not all such decisions have gone well, though. In 1986, the BBC published a disc containing content generated by more than a million people. It contained writings, photos and videos of their daily lives to give a future society an insight into how we lived. The disc was created using laser disc technology and required a BBC Acorn computer to work. Within 15 years, the BBC realised the disc drives capable of reading the format had become rare. It had to convert the project to the Digital Betacam format to preserve it for the future.

Therefore, when choosing the type of file format for storing your audio and video content, you'll usually have a choice between one that stores a very accurate copy (but takes up lots of disk space) and one that compresses the file into a smaller file (but has a slightly lower quality). Unless you're really stuck for disk space, opt for the higher quality format.

This is the transition of today's generation into a more progressive and instant access of technology's advancement which I, myself enjoyed a lot.

Samsung says new campaign seen to affect long-term sales

Korean consumer electronics manufacturer Samsung expects its two-week facturer marketng camapign directed to youth market to impact on sales in the long term.

"We don't expect it to boost revenue yet of this year, but we expect the campaign to genereate more brand awareness. If that spells into sales, well and good, but not in the short term," Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp. executive Glenn Martin T. Glinoga said.

Glinoga spoke to the Business Mirror at the sideling of the company's Monday press launch of its "Imagine "marketing campaing targeting young people in Metro Manila from 15 to 25 years old. According to Glinoga, the campaign is an original initiative of the company to ramp up brand relationship with the market.

He notes that while the company has maintained a lead market share in the liquid-crystal display (LCD) television category, "we eant to consolidate that lead and give a good showing in other consumer categories."

Aside from LCD TV, the companu also inports and sells in thelocal market mobile phones, LCD camera, printer, video disc players and computer monitors, among others.

The campaign, launched on Ocotober 15, invite young people to send text messages about what they imagine. Messages that get theo most vote from other users, according to Glinoga, would win a cash prize, consumer electronic products and gift certificated from retailer Folded and Hung. "We're encouraging yourn Filipinos to speak uo and voice out their opinions, thoughts, feelings and ideas," he said, adding that the campaign is in no way connected with politics or the electoral exercise next year.

Called "shout-out," the messages are entered through a micro-site of the company's main address in the Internet.

Mobile phones with Internet access can also be used to get into the campaign website.

According to the firm's press material, the shout-outs can be in English or Filipino but must fall under one of three categories: talk, play and love.

Only one slogan can be accepted for each category. Submission will be accepted until November 30, and the winners will be announced after this date.

Glinoga said he's optimistic that even without this campaign, the company willmeet its revenue target for this year. He, however, declined to cite figures.

Likewise, he added that despite the year nearly ending, the company will release new products.

However, he said, "Samsung has yet to see major attractions to justify putting up a manufacturing plant here."

"As of now, our imports and distribution model of business is working so we don't see that plan coming into view."

New PLDT service offers mobile payment system

The Philippine Long Distance Co. (PLDT) has now made it easy for vendors and clients to carry out payment transactions. By using a single wireless card terminal, merchants can now merchants to seipw all ATM debit and credit card brands.

Called Shops Work Unplugged (SWUP), this new service is a groundbreaking innovation done through strategic partnerships with major acquirer banks. "SWUP operated on a portable payment system that takes advantage of wireless data technology to process sales from practically anywhere," said PLDT customer sales and marketing group head Eric Alberto in a statement.

The PLDT executive said SWUP makes wireless card transactions easy for both vendors and clients, especially in remote areas where there are scant or no banks to withdraw cash from. This is because SWUP runs on the same wireless network that powers Smart Communication Inc.

PLDT corporate business group head Nerissa Ramos said SWUP now accepts major card brands such as Visa, MaterCard, JBC, American Express and Diners Club International as well as Visa Electron, MaterCard Electronic, Megalink and Express Payment System.

SWUP also boasts of security features that make it better than wired credit and debit card point-of-sale terminals which rely solely on the host bank's security system.

PLDT corporate business solutions head Vic Tria said the service to use a private and secure technology called the multiprotocol label switching as its transaction medium rather than the public Internet which is prone to viruses and hackers.

Oracle vows fight as EC objects to acquisition of Sun Microsystems

The European Commission has objected on competitive grounds to the proposed acquisition of Sun Microsystems by US business software giant Oracle, Sun.

Sun, in a filing with US regulators, said that the EC has issued a so-called preliminary "statement of objections" to the proposed $7,4-billion deal.

The EC objections were limited to the combination of Sun's pen source MySQL database product with Oracle's enterprise database products and "potential negative effects on competition in the market for database products," Sun said.

The Santa Clara, California-based Sun noted that a statement of objections "does not prejudge the European Commission's final decision" and is subject to appeal, and Oracle said it planned to "vigorously oppose" the EC move.

The Redwood Shores, California-based Oracle said "the Commission's Statement of Objections reveals a profound misunderstanding of both database competition and open source dynamics.

"The database market is intensely competitive with at least eight strong players, including IBM, Microsoft, Sybase and three distinct open source vendors," Oracle said.

"Oracle and MySQL are very different database products. There is no basis in European law for objecting to a merger of two among eight firms selling differentiated products," it said.

"Mergers like this occur regularly and have not been prohibited by United States or European regulators in decades," Oracle said.

"Given the lack of any credible theory or evidence of competitive harm, we are confident we will ultimately obtain unconditional clearance of the transaction," Oracle said.

The US Justice Department, which gave the deal the green light in August, also reaffirmed its support.

"After conducting a careful investigation of the proposed transaction between Oracle and Sun, the Department's Antitrust Division concluded that the merger is unlikely to be anti competitive," deputy assistant attorney general Molly Boast said in a statement.

"At this point in its process, it appears that the EC holds a different view," she said. "We remain hopeful that the parties and the EC will reach a speedy resolution that benefits consumers in the Commission's jurisdiction.

"The Department and the European Commission have a strong and positive relationship on competition policy matters," Boast added. "The two competition authorities have enjoyed close and cooperative relations.

"The Antitrust Division will continue to work constructively with the EC and competition authorities in other jurisdictions to preserve sound antitrust enforcement policies that benefit consumers around the world," she said.

Sun, a one-time Silicon Valley star, is the developer of the popular Java programming language.

Sun is also the fourth-largest maker of computer servers but has been steadily losing market share to IBM as well as Hewlett-Packard and Dell.

IBM also made a bid to acquire Sun but was edged out by Oracle.

Oracle develops, manufactures and distributes company software and is the market leader in proprietary databases - big beasts fro large-scale management of commercial information by businesses.

Sun, meanwhile, has built up the leading open source databases - which are now able to support similarly large-scale commercial databases running to hundreds of computing gigabytes in size.

Oracle, IBM and Microsoft together control about 85% of the database market in terms of revenue according to the EU.

Nokia recalls millions of dangerous chargers

Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, a global recall for 14 million faulty chargers made by a subcontractor this year.

The recall concerned "approximately 14 million (chargers) globally," Nokia spokesperson James Etheridge told AFP.

Nokia said the chargers could cause an electrical shock and would be replaced without charge.

The Finnish firm said in a statement it was "not aware of any incidents or injuries related to these chargers."

Etheridge said the recall did not concern China, Britain, Brazil, Argentina and some other countries.

Nokia said the potentially dangerous chargers models AC-3E and AC-3U, manufactured between June 15, 2009 and Aug. 9, 2009; ans the AC-4U model, manufactured between April 13, 2009 and Oct. 25, 2009.

The AC-3E charger was marketed in Europe while the two others were sold to the North and Latin American markets.

All three models were manufactured by subcontractor BYD.

Nokia said customers could check if their charger was potentially hazardous on the company's website.

Netflix movie streaming coming to PlayStation 3

Playstation 3 owners will soon be able to stream movies and TV shows from Netflix to their TVs using the gaming console, just as Xbox 360 owners have been able to do for a year.

Sony Corp. and the DVD rental company announced the service and plan to launch it next month. It will be available for free to PlayStation 3 owners who have a Netflix subscription that starts at $9.

Netflix streaming is already available on a broad range of devices, such as the Roku digital video player, Internet-connected TV sets (including Sony's) and Blu-ray players - and the PlayStation 3's archival, Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. On the Xbox, however, the Netflix streaming is available only to Xbox Live "Gold" members, who pay $50 a year mainly to play games online with friends in other places.

For Netflix Inc., the deal brings millions of potential new customers, to add to the 11.1 million it already has in the United States. About 9 million PlayStation 3 systems have been sold in the US, and more than 25 million worldwide.

Movie streaming is an increasingly important service for Netflix even though it says it expects to keep renting DVDs until 2030. And Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has said he would like the streaming service to be available on all three of the major gaming platform - the Xbox, the Wii and the PlayStation. Until now, however, the company had an exclusive deal with Microsoft.

"The PlayStation 3 is an amazing video platform," Hastings said in an interview.

This leaves the Wii as the last console without Netflix streaming. But even without it, the Wii is the top-selling console.

Netflix has about 17,000 movies and TV shows available for streaming, though few of them are new releases. This will expand the movies Sony already rents and sells through the Play Station 3, and will give the company another feature to tout as it markets the PlayStation as a diverse entertainment device.

Twitter becomes mutual friend of Google, Microsoft

Twitter, Inc. is selling the rights to mine its communications hotbed to both Internet search leader Google, Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in dueling deals that underscore the growing importance of being able to show what's one people's minds at any given moment.

The announcements made within a three-hour span also represent the latest bit of gamesmanship between two of technology's fiercest- and most powerful - rivals.

Microsoft seemed to have seized the upper hand in the information arms race when its top Internet executive, Qu Li, took the stage at a technology conference in San Francisco.

Li used the platform to declare Microsoft's search engine, Bing, would become the best way outside to find out what people are saying in their Twitter messages, or "tweets."

The messages, consisting of no more than 140 characters, can be posted from Internet-connected computers of mobile devices, enabling people to share mundance details about their lives or intriguing news and commentary from all over the world.

It's real-time information that is didn't look like Google's search engine would be able to provide - the kind of competitive advantage that Microsoft has been seeking while investing billions of dollars in what so far has been a fruitless effort to narrow Google's huge lead in Internet search.

Refusing to be upstage, Google revealed on its blog that its search engine has secured the tweeting rights, too.

Neither Microsoft nor Google would disclose how mush it is paying for the rights to index the millions of public updates distributed by Twitter each day. The data is considered to be among Twitter's most valuable assets, raising the possibility that the Google and Microsoft deals will result in the first meaningful revenue for the San Francisco-based startup since its 2006 inception.

"There is a revenue component...but we've yet to see how significant that will be," Twitter chief executive Evan Williams wrote in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Micosoft has a head start in blending Twitter's feed into Bing's search results. A test version of Bing's Twitter feature debuted shortly after the announcement.

Google still isn't indexing and displaying all the tweets, although that will happen soon, said Marissa Mayer, a Google executive in charge of search products and user experience. She left little doubt that Google's search engine would become less useful without the Twitter access, especially when people are trying to get update about an event that just happened.

"You have to have the answers in order to return them to your users," Mayer said. "That's why a deal like this is so important. It allows us to find answers we couldn't previously have found."

Microsoft will offer another way to probe into the collective mindset by indexing a portion on Facebook - an online hangout with more than 300 million active users around the world. That's about six times the size of Twitter's global audience, but more Facebook users restrict who can see their updates than Twitter users do.

Facebook is only giving Bing access to the updates that its users choose to share with everyone, according to operating officer. It's unclear when the facebook updates will begin showing up in Bing's search results.

Palo Alto-based facebook already has a business relationship with Microsoft, which provides facebook's search results. Microsoft spent $240 million two years ago to acquire a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.

Google, on the other hand, has a prickly relationship with Facebook, which has lured away many of its employees, including Sandberg.

Meanwhile, Twitter's growing popularity has emerged as a potential problem for Facebook. Their rivalry has intensified since Twitter rejected facebook's attempt to buy the service last year.

While Facebook expects to bring in more than $500 million from selling ads and other service this year, Twitter hasn't been trying to generate revenue until now. Twitter is possibly under more pressure to start making money because a group of investors just poured $100 million into the company and will be looking for returns. The deal valued twitter at about $1 billion.

In internal company documents leaked on the Internet earlier this summer, Twitter projected it would have $140 million in revenue next year.

Stand out from the crowd with Panasonic Lumix'x Face Recognition Technology

The Lumix iA mode has an innovation Face Recognition function that "remembers" registered faces. When the camera detects a registered face in the frame, it optimizes the settings to ensure that the face is sharply focused and brighter. The new Face Recognition feature makes it easier to capture stunning shots of friends and family in a crowd, every time.

AVCHD is a cutting-edge format developed exclusively for high-definition video recording in digital still cameras. Using the MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 standard to compress the captured video signal and Dolby Digital Creator to record high quality audio, it allows longer recordings with breathtaking HD visuals and audio quality.

Report on iPhone in China ahead of official launch

At a Shanghai electronics market, row after of iPhones, real and fake are on display, as vendors cash in ahead of the official launch of Apple's trendy smart phone in China.

"The 'high imitation" iPhones sell much better than the smuggled ones," said one 20-something salesman, sitting behind his small counter piled high with handsets.

His candid words are not good news for mobile operator China Unicom, which officially start selling the iPhone in the world's biggest cell phone market, more than two years after the gadget's US launch.

Unicom and Apple announced a multi-year deal in August to offer the touch-pad iPhone here in a bid to turn around weak performance against riveals China Mobile and China Telecom by attracting customers with high-end tastes.

Unicom says it hopes to sell five million hand-sets in three years, but experts and customers question how realistic that goal is when tech-savvy consumers have been snapping up cheaper fake and smuggled model for months.

Shaun Rein, head of the Shanghai-based China Market Research Group, said two million of China's nearly 720 million mobile phone users are already using authentic iPhones purchased here or abroad, and demand may already be met.

"When the iPhone came out in the United States in 2007, there was a huge demand here, and a lot or people were going to the United States, buying handsets, cracking the code and selling it here," Rein said.

"Almost everyone who wants an iPhone already has one."

On top of that estimate, countless more Chinese are using fake iPhones that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing, some of which come pre-loaded with the popular QQ instant messaging system as an added bonus.

Hai Bin, a 32-year-old employee at an auction webiste, said he was doubtful the official handset would make much of a mark in China.

Alpha Protocol lets you play a spy.

Role-playing games (RPGs) offered gamers the opportunities to take part in adventures set within the realms of fantasy or science fiction. As a result, Sega and Obsidian Entertainment have joined forces to redifine RPGs with their upcoming title Alpha Protocol.

Alpha Protocol is a stylized RPG that deals with high-tech espionage. It is where you can play with Michael Throton, a skilled agents who gets betrayed bu his superiors and finds himself being hunted by the government. How he survives, where he goes and how his story turns out depends on your choices. Obsidian puts players in situations where thye encounter how the situation should be handled, and which path they want to take. The game allows you to customize and enhance your character the way you want when you gain experience points.

For most part, Alpha Protocol is a third-person adventure game that will remind gamers of Metal Gear as well as some of the recent James Bond games. Other than exchanging gunfire, players can sneak around or even setup booby traps on your enemies.

If you're the type of gamer who enjoys spy games and RPGs, this one is worth a look.

Globe Tatoo unveils new designs

USB skin - Black Dragon, Purple Brushstrokes and White Techie are Globe Broadbrand Tatoo's new designs. Each Tatoo kit also includes a link to download free McAfee anti-virus software installer for a 60-day free trial. Some selected Tatoo kits also contain limited-edition vouchers for free gifts from Adidas and Levi's.

Globe Broadbrand Tatoo is available both in prepaid and post paid plans. You can load credits to the kit like a regular prepaid SIM through Autoload Max, Share-a-Load or prepaid call cards.

Furthermore, Globe is also the first to offer exclusive content inside each Globe Broadbrand Tatoo Kit to enable users to get more value out of it. Each kits comes with free installers for your favorite online games from Online, ZX online and Audition Dance Battle.

A guide switching to Window 7 system

Windows 7 is now available on new PCs, but you can also but it for a computer you already own.

First, you would want to run a software exam called the Upgrade Advisor to see whether your machine has enough memory and computing power to handle Windows 7. Most computers that are running Windows Vista should be fine for Windows 7.

If your PC passes the test, then you would need to choose a version of Windows 7. You would pick from Home Premium ($12)), Professional ($200) or Ultimate ($220). Big businesses can also buy an even more feature-laden version, Enterprise.

For most people, Windows Home Premium will be fine. Microsoft will sell the software as a download on its Web store, but copies on disc are stocked at electronics retailers and available from such sites as Amazon.com.

Make sure you buy a copy that is compatible with your PC's microprocessor. There are two flavors, 32-bit and 64 bit. Microsoft offers help in figuring out which one is right for you.

GE reveals handled utrasound machine

GE chief executive officer Jeff Immelt unveiled a handheld ultrasound machine at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco recently called the Vscan, saying it could become the "stethoscope fo the 21st century."

The device fold open clamshell-style to reveal a small screen on the top half and a circular button pad on the bottom. A small attached wand can be used to generate a noninvasive scan of a patient's organs or of a fetus.

The Vscan is aimed in part at primary care doctors, who could use it instead of sending patient to get an ultrasound at a specialist's office. It could also be used by doctors in remote regions without access to hospital equipment.

Immelt said the device, which will be available sometime next year, will be "very digitally capable", but that it will not have Wi-Fi access to wirelessly transmit ultrasound images.

The cost of the device is unknown.

I just love my iPod!

Being a music-lover, I couldn't imagine myself living my life without music. This iPod gets me alive with songs from my favorite artists. It can store almost 1000 songs. This is really great because it is possible for me listening to music anytime, anywhere. I can also tune in to AM and FM stations if I want to hear news and if I want to listen to my favorite music on different FM stations. iPod comes in the right time for me and it made this generation go along with it.

Glad is my heart having this iPod!

Perfect Camera!

I am liking this. I have bought this camera yesterday and I like it very much! If you just love life and love to capture every moment, then this camera is perfectly for you. It is Sony Cyber-shot DSC-H9B. This high-performance camera impresses with 8.1 megapixel clarity, 15X optical zoom, Advanced Sports Mode, and the NightShot system for shooting in darkness by infrared light. Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization and high sensitivity (ISO 3200) mode. This high-performance camera impresses with 8.1 megapixel clarity, 15X optical zoom, Advanced Sports Mode, and the NightShot system for shooting in darkness by infrared light. Super SteadyShot optical image stabilization and high sensitivity (ISO 3200) mode allow low-light shots without flash to preserve the mood, Face Detection brings out the best in faces, and HD (high definition) output lets you share memories in spectacular high definition detail on compatible HDTV screens.

I just love this!

I want this new iPhone! Without any doubt!

We had a chat of my sister who is working in the USA. She asked me what gifts would I wanted to receive this Christmas. I never think twice. I directly say that I want to have the latest 3G iPhone. She never sigh or said anything but she showed a thumbs up for it. That is not quite a surprise. But anyway, having the 3G iPhone this Christmas is much more than a surprise.

Yehey! I like it!

Best Templates that I get from...

I am very happy that it is possible for me to get the best and various quality templates for FREE online.

This template that I get from a website makes my blog beautiful and attractive. In fact, I can choose from its varied selections of templates that are privately available. I can even change template every month, for whatever I want. This is of course, economical and FREE.

Now, blogging for me is made possible with the available templates online.

Electric Battery Charger for AA or AAA

I always love to take pictures using my digital camera and that is why, I am always on the go capturing scenes and people with the help also of this Electric Battery Charger for AA or AAA for my digital camera. Whenever energies are not available or are already consumed, charging it with this battery charger gains back its energy. I find this stuff very useful. It economical and easy to use. All you need to do is to insert the battery (AA or AAA) and plug it in. The red light signifies that the process of charging is activating. Unplug it when the red light is not showing on.

Having this electric battery charger is a practical way to save!

Portable CD Player

I first received this portable CD player last October 2008 as a gift from my sister in the USA. She gave me this because she has found out that I really love listening to music. I was surprised the advance gift that she told me that I will be receiving from her on a December of that year. Nevertheless, I am very happy. This is my first memorable gift that I received from her. It is GPX Portable CD Player with 60-second ESP.

With this GPX, I can be at tone with music anywhere I go!

My MP3.

I am a music lover. I can't live without music. In fact, wherever I go, whether I am at work, in school or having a travel, music is with me. I enjoy its company. With my zest of liking and loving music, I purchased this MP3 which I bought last year. Before, I use the portable CD player. But it is quite risky for me using the CD because I need to download songs in a CD for me to hear the songs that I like. Unlike this MP3, I can select songs which I download and listen to them successively. In fact, it can store almost 500 songs. Mine, I just got 279 for now. This MP3 has also FM and AM station. This widens my selection if I want to hear the latest news on current events and artist wherever I go.

Life is musical with the use of my MP3! Music makes me alive everyday!

This SIM gets me going!

I have three Prepaid Sim which I use to keep in touch with my family, friends, officemates and especially with my sister in the USA. Using this small Smart Buddy Prepaid Sim, it reaches life. I can be able to make a with my sister in the USA, send text messages to my friends and my family and I can even store some messages in the inbox and its outbox. There are lots of things that this small prepaid Sim has. It gives me the pleasure of communicating people and reaching them even they are located anywhere in the globe. This Smart Buddy Prepaid Sim works anytime, anywhere!

This battery is amazing!

Just like a person takes a jog in the morning to gain energy and fast metabolism, this Energizer Rechargeable Battery doesn't lose energy. It is always full of energy. That is why, it is not a problem for me when I use my digital camera anywhere, everywhere because this amazing battery works for a job well done. Good thing that I got the perfect choice using this battery! It makes my life pleasurable and sustainable.

My old cellphone

I bought this cellphone last January 9, 2001 and until now I am still using it. This 3310 model of Nokia cellphone is what I am using currently. This is really old and I want to replace it. I want to have a new cellphone. But what I like with this phone is that, its services is great. This original model of cellphone stands through time. Obviously, I am using it until now. It has no camera. But it can store picture messages as well as inbox and outbox messages .

Rechargeable Batteries

Using my MP3 and Digital Camera can be made possible with the help of this rechargeable batteries. If the batteries are not full, I can recharge it using this electric battery charger. This serves as a wise and economical technology because whenever my batteries ran out of energy, I just have to recharge it.

This electronic rechargeable batteries are pretty amazing! They keep the work well done and with no hassle! It is economical. I can recharge batteries without buying too many nonchargeable batteries.

My Mini-DVD Player.

I love watching movies and listening to different kinds of music. These things are made possible for me to enjoy with the use of my mini-DVD player. Furthermore, I can bring it with me anywhere I go while I enjoy watching and listening as well even if I'm on travel, in the office, while driving my car, at the park and others because it is rechargeable and portable. I enjoy the pleasures of watching movies and listening to music with this portable mini-DVD player.

Amazing TM Sim!

My sister is far away from us. She is in the United States of America. She is living there for about 2 years now and we miss her deeply. Good thing that with the use of this TM Sim, we can be able to communicate with her. This TM Sim is very affordable. We can text or call using this Sim with the use of the cellphone as well. There is no problem with its signal because it is clear and whenever I make a call to my sister, I can clearly hear her voice.

Communication is just within reach using this TM Sim!

Old CD player

I want to hear the new song of Whitney Houston entitled "I Look To You" with the use of the CD player. The first song, the CD player played well but as the second song is about to play, it is not too clear. The sound is dull. Until the CD player stops to play. I end up feeling sad that I wasn't able to hear "I Look To You".

I called my friend who is a technician and he told me that I have to buy a new set of CD player because the lid is not really working. It is retiring its services.

I decided to buy one tomorrow. Whew...! So sad!

Cellphone as Christmas present.

My sister called yesterday that she will send me a new cellphone that is from the USA. She will give me a cellphone as an advance Christmas present.

Actually, I have my own cellphone but it is now obsolete. It is Nokia 3310. I want to have a cellphone with a cam and Internet access on it. Happily, I can have it this December because my sister will buy me one there in the USA. Hurray!