Intel Atom N450 vs N550

16 Mar 2011

I am deciding to buy a netbook, which is not too expensive, and yet provides higher value. I am choosing between Dell Mini Inspiron 1018 and Asus EeePC 1005P as both of them are just within my budget, sold at the price of RM999.

I was told that both of them have dual core chipset. Thank god I did some research and obviously I was fooled.

Read this:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Buying-A-Dual-Core-Netbook-Intel-Atom-N450-Or-N550

Later, I found out N550 actually performs faster and can support DDR3, but then it would cost me another RM300.

http://www.netbookreports.com/2010/08/atom-cpu-showdown-intel-n550-vs-n450/

How to unblock youtube video

25 Dec 2010

Youtube's staff is getting more responsible? I had no video being blocked before until the two recent videos. I had no idea their reason being blocked. I made a photo slide show, of course with music behind that may violate the copyright. But out there are millions of videos which as well violate the copyright. Some of them even upload movie and series. Why me???

I just need to unblock them. Here I found the tricks from http://1001how2.com/how-to-unblock-copyrighted-youtube-videos-fast/

1) Login your youtube account

2) Go to My video

3) Click on the Content ID Matches on left

4) Click of View Copyright Info of your video

5) At the bottom, click on "I want to learn more about the dispute process"

6) You will be directed to another page. Click on "Take me to the dispute form"

7) You will see three options. Choose the second one saying about fair use

8) Under the please explain section, paste this statement:

Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use

9) Type you name as signature and under the statement of good faith, just copy the statement as displayed below the text box.

10) Click on Continue and then "Submit Claim"

It should immediately work right once you are done with the instructions above.

Garmin on Symbian, Nokia E71

25 Sept 2010

I finally have my Garmin working perfectly on my phone now. Here are the steps:

Installation:

1) Download Garmin Mobile XT for SymbianS60 version 5.00.50 from
http://www8.garmin.com/software/GarminMobileXTforSymbianS603rdEdition_50050.exe

2) Connect your phone to PC via Mass Storage Mode through a USB cable

3) Copy the entire Garmin and other folders to the root directory of your memory card

4) Unplug the cable, search for the .sis file that you have just copied into your phone

5) click on the .sis file to start installation

Unlocking the device

1) go to GmobileXt on the phone

2) Go to main menu --> setting --> about. If you are unable to directly go into the menu, but prompted with a screen to enter the key and etc, choose "Connect to GPS device"

3) On the About screen, find the Card Id titled "Unlock ESN" and exit the application.

4) Record this ID, extract the keygen (garmin_kgen.exe) and run it on you PC. Enter the Card ID and press generate toget the device unlock code for your card.

Download keygen here:
http://www.ziddu.com/download/6171292/GarminKeygenv1.5.rar.html

http://netload.in/dateiV4lyHMJbNL/GarminKG%20v1.5.rar.htm

http://www.hotlinkfiles.com/files/2766142_zbl6b/GarminKGv1.5.rar

5) Copy the unlock code to notepad and save as sw.unl

6) Place this file in the root directory of the Garmin folder.

7) Run the application and now you should be able to skip being asked to enter the license key.

How to use A-GPS

1) Go to phone main menu --> tools --> setting --> general --> positioning

2) In positioning method, check Assisted GPS, Integrated GPS, and Network Base

3) In positioning server, set server address as supl.nokia.com

4) If you already have an internet setup, choose the appropriate access point. If you do not have one, setup an internet access. For DIGI, go to *128*6*4*3# and press dial button. You will receive the setup promptly. Open the configuration message, Options and then save. Now you can set the access point as Digi Internet.

I think it worths me to spend 10 cents for the inital locking. At least I do not have to wait for 30 min to get the satelite signal.

Nokia GPS - Ovi Map

22 Aug 2010

Nokia has its free walk and drive navigation for 74 countries in 46 languages now. Maps are cached offline for future use. I found out it works faster, and looks more "eligant" with the 3D view. It is easy to download, upgrade and install with no cracking required. The only thing to complain is the search function which turns out to be poor, having you to key in the search keyword in a pattern in order to get the result.

For more details, please read this:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nokia_releases_ovi_maps_with_offline_caching.php

I have been frustrated by the garmin's slow performance in getting GPS satelite and locking. So I decided to give this a try. It spent me two days doing research and getting the map into my phone.

Here are the steps:

1) Connect your phone to PC via USB and choose PC suite mode when you are prompted with the selection.

2) install ovi maps

http://maps.nokia.com/services-and-apps/ovi-maps/downloads-and-services#map-loader-steps

3) install ovi suite

http://europe.nokia.com/support/download-software/nokia-ovi-suite?intc=ncomsup-fw-ilc-bdy-con-na-ncomexpserveu-g0-20-downloadnokiaovisuite_0x0

Ovi suite is an application which works similarly as PC suite. But this allows you to download your map and navigation voice easily.

3) When you open the application for the first time, you would be prompted to create an account. Please do so and continue with the wizard.

4) To download the map, make sure you are connected to PC using PC Suite/Ovi Suite. From the home menu, choose Map icon (5th from the left), which looks like a green compass. I am not sure if login is required but I realized that I have to login or else I would not be able to connect to the map serve and get directed to the screen below. Here you can choose the country maps and voice guidance from the list.

5) In your phone, go to Menu, GPS, and Maps. Click on Option, Settings, then Navigation. Choose the Drive Guidance and Walk Guidance as the one you have just downloaded from Ovi Suite.

That is all!!! You will be able to get the signal really fast but I am not sure if it charges since Nokia claims it is free. However, I tried to change my phone mode to offline, and sadly I could not get the signal and consequently the navigation failed. I am going to Nokia center to verify this again.

One more tips for you all. I really do not like the search function. What I would do is to get the GPS coordinate of a location in Internet, set the coordinate and save it as one of my favourites to my phone. When I need the navigation, I will just have to choose from the favourites with no searching the place required.

Well, too bad that I could not find anyway to directly enter the coordinate. There is a workaround though.

1) Go to Menu, GPS, and Landmarks

2) Click on Options, New Landmark, then Enter Manually.

3) Fill up the details of the place like name, description and etc. Scroll down towards the end and you will see Latitude and Longitude. Key in the coordinate here and click Done.

When you need to get the navigation from your current place,

1) Go back to GPS main menu, choose Drive or Walk.

2) Choose Set Destination

3) Choose Favourites

4) Select the one you have saved into the favourites.

Happy Touring:)