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The New Chip from Intel

padmajani — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:24:44 +0000

Intel, which is famous with its great processor, has a new product. Intel will launch its new chip in August. Intel claimed that its new processor chip is suitable for all of the types of computer, from desktop, laptop, till server. Intel said that the new processor chip will use the micro architectural design named Nehalem.
Beside that, Nehalem also has some other strength. First, this chip is able to do more tasks than others. Even, it only needs less power consumption. In addition, Intel designed the Nehalem to overcome bottleneck problems which usually disturb processor performance.
Intel will use Nehalem architectural design to all of high quality notebooks and desktop next September. In the same month Intel will launch quad-core desktop processor. This company named this kind of processor with Lynnfield name code. After that, Intel will launch quad core notebook processor with the name Clarksfield a week after the launching of the first processor. Intel developed both of Clarksfield and Lynnfield by using 45 nanometer technology. Next, this company may will use the 32 nanometer technology to their processors.
Besides some processors I reviewed before, Intel also will launch processors chip which are suitable with ultra thin notebooks, such as Celeron 743 and Celeron SU2300.

The First Round Touchpad

padmajani — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:22:10 +0000

Most of the companies make innovations to their products in order to get the consumers as much as possible. Innovation here also done by Gateway. This corporate made a notebook which is facilitated with a round touchpad. Even, this is the first round touchpad ever had! Great! I believe the users will enjoy the unique touch on the round touchpad.
Gateway named this unique notebook with UC7807u. Now, take a look to its design. The UC7807u has a 13.3 inches screen which has 1280 x 800 pixels resolution. The display is able to present a sharp screen. However, you may will be disturbed with the display because it’s so flashy in the bright condition. The weight is more than 2.5 kg.

How about the processor? It runs on Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 2GHz processor. It is also facilitated with SATA 250GB 5400rpm hard disk and 3 GB RAM. However, the customers will not enjoy using UC7807u to play high performed games because of its fair Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) of Intel. It supports Windows Vista Home Premium from Microsoft.
The battery’s endurance is about 3 hours and 36 minutes. In addition, it also offers some facilities, such as microphone jack, headphone, 2.0 VGA USB port, and V.92 modem. This notebook supports Bluetooth and Wi Fi too.

Apple Killed Music Player Feature in the Palm Pre

padmajani — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:19:53 +0000

Palm Pre is the biggest rival of iPod Apple. The prominent feature of Palm Pre is its music player which most of the people love it. Apple of course doesn’t want Palm Pre defeats its product. Therefore, Apple did some actions. After being led by an iPod executive, John Rubinstein, Apple killed iTunes software in the Palm Pre. In addition, Apple also killed music player feature in the Palm Pre recent days. These actions done by Apple to limit the Palm Pre’s ability, so it can’t exceed Apple’s features.
If you are Palm Pre’s user, please check it out this information. You are still able to save your music via free Apple iTunes software. However, it seems that Apple has been updating iTunes nowadays. Consequently, there’s a big possibility that Apple will block the access into iTunes feature in the Palm Pre.
It’s proved by a statement from Tom Neumayr, an Apple spokesperson. Tom said that this update will also make another devices’ ability will not as the same as iPod’s ability, even the Palm Pre.
On the other hand, Leslie Letts from Palm said that this Apple’s action will effect to the users directly. In other words, the costumers will be disappointed with Apple synchronization. He also stated that the Palm Pre users are able to use the old version of Tunes, use music third party applications, or save music from our PC into the Palm Pre through USB cable.

The Botnet Attacked Symbian Based 3G Mobile Phone

padmajani — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:17:21 +0000

Virus and malware can attack our PC and cellphones. Now, there is the first botnet attacked mobile device. It is a research result done by Trend Micro, a company focuses on malware research. This botnet will attack Symbian based mobile phone. You can download the botnet entitled SYMBOS_YXES.B from a “bad” mobile. The SYMBOS_YXES.B malware is able to send spammed SMS into the users’ mobile phone. Therefore, it will connect into the “bad” web. In other words, this SMS is called as the botnet for the phone.
A Symbian Information Source file can collect the information related to users’ ID, mobile phone’s information, and cell phone’s network from the infected phone device. The botnet can connect the infected cell phone into a web for sending this information.
The appearance of 3G based botnet has been predicted by a senior security advisor from Trend Micro, Rik Ferguson. He said that this kind of botnet would begin to attack mobile phones which offer 3 G facility in 2009. He also proposed to all of the mobile device companies to protect their cell phones to block communicating network from ‘bad’ sites. Ferguson also proposed them to protect their products from data encryption, spammed SMS, and URL filtering.

Green Printer for a Better Future

padmajani — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:14:15 +0000

Green products are so popular nowadays along with the global warming issue popularity. Many producers try to develop green products which are suitable for all of the ranges of society, include for small scale industry. Fuji Xerox is one of the producers which pay much attention to green products for small scale industry. Therefore, it launched a green printer recent days, DocuPrint C1190 FS.
Fuji Xerox claimed that the DocuPrint C1190 FS has four strengths: better, faster, print more, and more secure. Let’s review the strengths one by one.
It’s called as better because the printer is one of the green products, so we don’t worry with our environment safety. Thanks to its EA-HG (Emulsion Aggregation) color ink. Toner can decrease the carbon dioxide emission into 35 per cents while its producing stage. In addition, the consumers also may minimize their energy using because this printer can change its mode into stand by or sleep mode

The DocuPrint C1190 FS is faster than the others because it is able to print 16 pages (using black cartridge only) and 12 pages (using color cartridge) each minute. In addition, this green printer also can print more than the others. The new printer from Fuji Xerox is claimed as the secure ones too because the developer facilitated the secure fax receive and secure print to handle the secret documents. Consequently, only ones know the password is able to get the fax or printing documents.

Beside that, the DocuPrint C1190 FS provides great features which can send fax from our PC directly.Great!

Dell Studio 15 Appears in the Great Performance and Design

padmajani — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:25:10 +0000

All of us want to have a notebook which has a great performance and design. I believe this notebook, Dell Studio 15 is a good choice. The Dell Studio 15 has a great performance. Moreover, it also offers cool casing. This notebook provides 6 colors, such as Promise Pink, Plum Purple, Ruby Red, Midnight Blue, Black Chainlink, and Spring Green. The casing design chosen by the company is XenoMayan.

Related to its design, it has 15.6 inches display which has 1920×1080 pixels resolution. The dimensions are 1.0-2.0 x 14.6 x 10.0 inches. Its weight is 5.8 lb. Dell Studio 15 has 9-cell 85 Wh battery. It uses Intel Core 2 Duo P8600 processor and supports Windows Vista Home Premium operating system. It also has 3 GB memory, 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM, SATA 250GB 7200RPM harddisk, wireless 1397 802.11g Half Mini-Card, 6X Slot Load Blu-ray (BD) Combo Drive (BD Read Only) optical drive, 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 graphical chipset, and camera.

Strengths:
a. The performance is great
b. Dell Studio 15 offers cool casing design
c. It offers a good customization

Weaknesses:
a. It seems lack of USB port
b. The speaker’s quality is not so good.

Finding Dual Camera in a Great Mobile Phone

padmajani — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:22:56 +0000

Having a dual camera feature in our mobile phone is a great thing. You can find it in Philips TM700. The dual camera built in the TM 700 has two functions. The camera on the front side is used to record videos. Meanwhile, the other camera is for taking picture. The last one has 2 mega pixels resolution.

The company designed Philips TM700 to run in the TD-SCDMA network of 3G version. Besides the great dual camera, this mobile phone also has some other great features, such as MP3 ringtones, H 264 and H 263 video, vibration, 3GPP, handwriting recognition, micro SD card slot, and speakerphone. It has TFT touchscreen 2.2 inches display too which has 240 x 320 pixels resolutions and 65 K colors.

Moreover, the TM700 supports MMS, SMS, and email. Its weight is 111.9 g and the dimensions are 112.4 x 51.8 x 16.5 mm. The TM700 has 2 GB micro SD slot and 6 MB internal memory. The other features offered are games, browser WAP 2.0/xHTML, MPEG4 player, Java MIDP 2.0, voice memo, and organizer.

The company offered Philips TM700 in a black color. Meanwhile, it uses Li-Ion 970 mAh battery which can run till 6 hours for talking and 280 hours in the stand by condition.

Ericsson P990i Uses a New Mobile Technology

padmajani — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:08:48 +0000

Once again, a new mobile phone from Sony Ericsson. It’s the P990i. It’s made to substitute the unpopular P910a from America. The P990i is collaboration from Swede and Japan. The main important thing is the Sony Ericsson P990i uses a new mobile technology. Moreover, the QWERTY keyboard is integrated to this great cellphone.

Now, take a look to its design. The Ericsson P990i seems like too small. The dimensions are 4.4 x 2.2 x 1 inches. It’s also smaller than Palm Treo 700p with its weight is about 5.3 oz. If you like using flip keypad when using QWERTY keyboard, this mobile phone is good for you. Thanks to the silver color which makes it more beautiful. It is also supported with touchscreen with handwriting recognition and stylus. It has a TFT 240 x 320 pixels resolution display. The screen provides 262 144 colors. The Ericsson P990i has a Li – Ion battery which can run till 400 hours for stand by and 9 hours of talk time.

The other applications you can enjoy to this smartphone are music player, 2 MP camera, video recording, and business card scanner. It supports Wi Fi and UMTS/ 3G network too.

However, this small mobile phone seems too expensive. It is sold at $849 till $1,099.

purplera1n, the un-lock iPhone Application

padmajani — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:42:32 +0000

Many people wait for un-lock iPhone application. By using this application, the customers are able to make phone calls outside the AT&T network and run some applications outside the Apple App Store. Thanks to George Hotz, a teenager, who has made purplera1n. It is the un-lock iPhone application which is compatible for Windows, except Vista and Windows 7. Even, you also can run this great application to your Mac. The appearance of purplera1n makes us do not have to wait too long for iPhone 3.1.
Do you want to install software and applications outside the Apple iPhone 3GS? Just install the purplera1n. For installing this application, you should have new iTunes. The customers need iPhone 3GS with iPhone OS 3.0 system and iTunes installation. After that, please run the iPhone normally. Next, clicking the “make it ra1n” is needed. After doing this, please wait the process. Then, run Freeze in the bootup part. Next, run purplera1n installer application. If the customers want to update the purplera1n, you need to make sure that all of the data have been backed up.
In the customers’ point of view, some of them think that the un-lock iPhone application is so useful, especially because they can install applications outside the Apple App Store without any difficulty. So easy and so efficient. On the other hand, this application inflicts a financial loss.

Again, Great Laptop for Businessman and Businesswoman

padmajani — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:36:29 +0000

Nowadays, many developers make laptops for businessman and businesswoman. This market looks promising because the using of laptop in the business area increases. HP launched a new laptop for business area. It is HP Compaq 6730b notebook. This notebook is compatible for who do not need using laptop when traveling. The Compaq 6730b is compatible for office use.
To substitute the desktop function, it has many ports and great keyboard. It is also proper for mobile workstation. Not only D-sub port and S-video out port, the developer also added RS-232 port. The last port is useful to upload data which only have port serial interface and device program.
Now, let’s talk about the design. Its weight is 3.15 kg with power supply or 2.7 kg without power supply. It has 15.4 inches screen which has 1280 x 800 pixels resolution. The display is able to less reflection in the bright environment. Thanks to its unglossy condition.
The HP Compaq 6730b has 160GB 5400rpm harddisk. Therefore, you can’t edit pictures or videos because it needs big harddisk space. Related to the processor, it uses Intel Core 2 Duo. Moreover, the battery can run till four hours for watching movies.
This laptop is sold at $1,500.