Monthly Archives: January 2010
New Family Member
Nichole finally selected her kitten; it is a shaded silver Persian cat. Nichole is going to name her “Sugar”. Here is the picture of Sugar’s dad. And her Sugar’s mom Share on Facebook
ANIME To Save The Economy
Lucky Star’s Impact on Shrine’s Town = $11 million USD. 70 million yen spent on Lucky Star anime goods alone at Washimiya The town of Washimiya estimates that the Lucky Star anime has brought over one billion yen (about … Continue reading
Google Is The New Big Brother?
Google is the real Big Brother from the book “1984″? According to Benjamin Edelman, who says that Google’s Toolbar will continue to tracks your every browsing move when you’ve authorized it or NOT. The page is a bit technical for … Continue reading
Benchmark Of The New AMD CPU Line Up
Extreme Tech just publish the benchmark result for the new AMD CPU line up: Phenom II X2 55 Black Edition, Athlon II X4 635, Athlon II x3 435, Athlon II X2 255 and Phenom II X4 910e. I agree with … Continue reading
This Program Might Not Have Installed Correctly
Windows 7 may be friendly to SSD but it doesn’t like portable applications (those application you carry around on your USB stick or on a dropbox storage). The messages are powered by the Windows service PcaSVC which is the “Program … Continue reading
Darker than Black: Ryūsei no Gemini – One BAD Anime
Not BAD as good but real real BAD. This got to be one of the worst anime in years, the animation itself not too bad but the story is just horrible. It can easily be make into a 2 hrs … Continue reading
Now Watching Anime: Tentai Senshi Sr. 2 and FairyTail
Got hook onto Tentai Senshi (天体戦士), now onto season 2. It is a VERY VERY funny anime if you can understand Japanese, kind of like a Japanese version of South Park. The story revolves around battles between the evil organisation … Continue reading
Hire a human ‘bed-warmer’
Holiday Inn is offering a trial human bed-warming service at three hotels in Britain this month. If requested, a willing staff-member at two of the chain’s London hotels and one in the northern English city of Manchester will dress in … Continue reading
The new Microsoft XP phone?
Whenever it releases (which is still a mystery), it’ll retail for somewhere between $400 and $650 without contract. Unverified, is that the phone will be able to run Windows 7. The phone will have ful VGA and USB support, allow … Continue reading
South Korea plans to adopt digital textbooks next year
Look like South Korea take a lead in adopting ebook in school. Elementary, middle and high school students will be learning with electronic textbooks in addition to currently used paper textbooks starting next year, the Education Ministry said yesterday. The … Continue reading
How To Speed Up A Netbook
I got 1-2 email a week now from friend and family asking why the new cool netbook they get during last xmas is not hot on performance. The truth is netbook is design as a ultra-portable computing device and is … Continue reading
Why 3D TV?
The big buzz word in this year CES got to be the so call 3D TV. Although I loves gadget and new technology, I really don’t understand the need or reasoning behind the technology. Watching an 3D movie on Bluray … Continue reading
Offbeat Way To Protect Valuables from Airline Theft or Loss
Have you ever want to check in your laptop (or any valuables) into a check in baggage but afraid it will get stolen? Most of the time travelers are on the short-end of TSA regulations. In this instance, however, you … Continue reading
How Cold is England?
Take a look of this photo from NASA. England is cover in snow from top to bottom… Now that’s cold. Share on Facebook
Homemade Gummi Bears
You need: 3 oz box of JELLO (regular or sugar free) 1/4 oz packages of unflavored gelatin 1/3 cup water or fruit juice for more favor. candy molds of your choice Direction: Place water in a small sauce pan, sprinkle … Continue reading
Lumix DMC-FZ35
I did not pick up the Lumix DMC-GF1 during X’mas not because it is sold out at most places but our old family camera (Sony T900) break down. The GF1 is nice but is a bit too complex and too … Continue reading
First readers with SiPix screens announced
Looks like Jinke is moving from E-Ink to SiPix technology. They announced two new models with Sipix screens with integrated multitouch, WiFi and optional 3G. A6 has a 6″ 16 grayscale screen with 2G of build in memory; A9 has … Continue reading
Acer Recalls 22,000 Notebooks
Acer Timeline owners can’t seem to catch a break. Back in October 2009, Acer recalled a whole bunch of its 13-inch models citing an overheating hazard, and once again, the exact same problem has forced Acer to issue another recall, … Continue reading
Sony unveiled the smallest and thinnest Full HD video Capable Digital Still Cameras
The new Cyber-shot cameras “DSC-HX5V” and “DSC-TX7 “are capable of recording videos in Advanced Video Codec High Definition (AVCHD) format with 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution at 60i in 17Mbps which you can afterwards burn to discs and play … Continue reading
PowerPoint Tips
The 2 most “destructive” tools in the Office suite got to be PowerPoint and Outlook . I usually create n average 3 presentations a week on various subject from technical review to business review. The slide deck usualy feel a … Continue reading
Playing Darksiders on PS3
Pick up Darksiders last night. IMHO, the game is a slightly above average action game. There are some minor slow down and frame rate drop from time to time but not too annoying. The control and combat is very easy … Continue reading
Why this BLOG is name M78?
Few friends ask me why I name this BLOG M78. The reason is very simple, M78 is the homeworld of my childhood favor super hero- Ultraman. Share on Facebook
Windows 7 GodMode
The hidden Windows 7 GogMode is all of the net now. If you haven’t heard of it, GodMode is a feature that was revealed by CNet’s Microsoft Correspondent, Ina Fried. GodMode is a folder that brings together a long list … Continue reading
New Year New Theme
Hope all of you like the new theme. Share on Facebook
The Threat of Non-Latin Domain Name
As I mentioned in my previous post the new non-latin domain name standard will open up big security hole. Look like more people now understand what I mean and agreeing ICANN really screw up on this. Maximum PC recently posted … Continue reading