BankSea- tech news and reviews

Galaxy S3

2012-05-09T21:26:00.000-04:00

"Designed for Humans and Inspired by Nature"; the slogan dedicated for the new phone by Samsung for the Galaxy S series, and despite it's cliche-like slogan, its true, at least the way they put it. Its 'pebble' like curves ' Inspired by Nature' make the phone look simple and comfortable, it was definitively not overdone.

Moving on to more of its appearance. The front of the phone boast a 4.8 inch 1280x720 res screen, below the screen the phone features a physical home button and two touch sensitive buttons in each side of the phone. The menu button to the left and back button to the right. The buttons are conviviality dimmed when inactive and light up when touched.

The spec of the phone are as listed below,

4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED (1280×720) display
Android 4.0
Back Camera; 8 Mega pixel
Front Camera: 1.9 Mega pixel
Accelerometer, RGB light, Digital compass, Proximity, Gyro, Barometer
136.6 x 70.6 x 8.6 mm, 133g
2,100 mAh

4 Way To Speed Up Your PC and Free up Hard Drive space Using CCleaner

2012-04-15T19:40:00.002-04:00

It is very important to clean your computer every once in a while. After becoming used, your PC stores files temporally or permanently that you may never use again or need. Here are 4 different ways to restore performance into your PC using CCleaner.

First you must download CCleaner, of course. Visit this page and continue to download. [link] or download the latest version here. [link]

After downloading and installing your new software we can begin. Run CCleaner.

1. Run the Cleaner

Over time small files are saved onto your PC which can accumulate and create many megabytes or even gigabytes of unnecessary data which slows down your PC.

It's selected by default, it is located in the left of the window.

Note that if you want to spare some of your potentially erased data you may want to browse through what is going to be deleted, I like to save my Google Chrome data so I uncheck it.

To run the cleaner you can press the run cleaner button Or instead press analyze to see what will be deleted before it actually is in case you wanna make changes.

2. Fix Registry Errors

Many programs add bits of data to your PC which allow the software to run properly, but sometimes if you delete the software the registry belonging to the software may stay behind and accumulate. To fix outdated or unused registry files run the Registry Cleaner.

The Registry tab is located below the cleaner tab.

3. Uninstall

When using your computer you tend to get curious and try out different software. No harm in that, but your hard drive can become cluttered with old software you've only used once. Uninstalling old and unused software is good for saving up hard drive space.

In the tools tab you can find the Uninstall option. Click it and look for software you know you don't use. It should be okay to remove software that you don't recognize but to be safe you can Google something if you're not sure what it is.

4. Remove Start-Up Software

When your computer starts up it runs different software and update checks. This can slow down your computers time from when you press the power button to the point when it is ready to be used. Removing startiup software and updates will reduce your start up time.

Located below the Uninstall option is the start up button. Click it and you will see a list of programs that begin when your computer does. It should be safe to uncheck all of the options but you remove only those you know you don't need for example Skype if you don't need it all the time. If you want to minimize your start up time and be ready as soon as possible google all the items on your start up list and see if they are necessary.

Follow these rules around once a month and your computer should be running fine. And way better if you didn't otherwise.

Happy Cleaning.

-BankSea

Windows 8 on your iPad

2012-04-13T14:51:00.002-04:00

Its almost oxymoronic to even think about it, but here it is; Running the beta version of Microsoft's upcoming multi-platform operating system Windows 8 on Apples iPad.

Developers at a company called Splashtop have created an application for the Apple iPad that allows you to test the beta version of Windows 8 on the tablet itself. The application is called Win 8 Metro Testbed, it is directed towards developers which explains the price of $25. On their site the application is promoted as "As you code and debug your Windows 8 Metro app, test it out using an iPad! Get a feel for how your app will behave on a tablet running Windows 8 with touch gestures enabled."

Allowing the developers to get a native tablet feel for their Windows 8 applications is a very great idea. And without having to modify your iPad or any other tablet and voiding your warranty to run the beta version of Windows the application is totally worth the money. I am diffidently looking forward to see what the Splashtop developers have in store next.

To get the application or see how it is installed visit http://www.splashtop.com/win8

Google: Project Glass

2012-04-07T12:10:00.000-04:00

Have you ever have you ever imagined yourself walking around like your favorite video game character, maybe Nomad from Crysis with the fancy Heads Up Display and they really awesome Cryo Suit that lets you jump really high or run really fast? Well you're out of luck... technology publicly ;) at least is not quite there yet.

However, Google did announce really awesome news earlier this month through Google+ [link]. Project Glass, a project by Google X Lab is a project to research awesome technology and create a really awesome device. The device currently has no official name but it is a head-mounted device which have a very similar structure to glasses the main difference? it has a Heads Up Display.

There is contently not much information on the Project or a product, although The New York Times reported that there would a product available to the public by the end of the year at the cost of current smartphones. In the meantime, we can salivate to the video posted along with the news.

Project Glass - Google+

2012-04-04T19:51:00.001-04:00

I was looking around new and articles to share with you guys I ran across this.
Project Glass, Googles Current project to make glasses with a heads up display. Check it out and I will make sure to write my thoughts on it when i gather more information soon.
Project Glass - Google+:

Microsoft and its new Windows Logo for Windows 8

2012-03-02T21:51:00.002-05:00

I would have guessed that Microsoft would have changed their Windows logo for Windows 8, that comes to us with no surprise. And I personally like when logos are simple/simplified, for example Google Chromes logo change, a few people didn't like it, but I and many others though it was awesome, and now we have all grown to love it. Even I simplified my own logo. But moving on to what I was saying.

The new Windows logo for Windows 8, in my opinion was a bit too simplified, and only slightly resembles the old windows 7 logo and its predecessors. It lost its various colors from the look of it and its flag like wave, it's now very basic but I think we will soon get used to it just like we did with the Chrome logo. I think I will still miss it though, the flag like windows logo was and is very iconic, I'd love to see the faces off the people who have windows logo tattooed on them when they see what Microsoft has done.

What do you think?

-BankSea

Announcement: Changes Being Made Soon

2012-02-16T23:17:00.003-05:00

'Guten tag' fellow bloggers and readers, BankSea here with a pretty exciting announcement. I'd like to let you guys know that within the next two month i should be registering a .com or possibly .net domain. .net because I have looking into making BankSea[tb] into a network and renaming it BankSeaNetwork. Unfortunately BankSea.com is taken.

What I hope on making looks a bit like this. Click to enlarge

Back on track, I will be adding writers to the blog, although my website scripting skills are really lacking [I am only self taught] I will do what I can to integrate the new writers, they of which will be writing about different subjects which may not be technology related.

Currently I have a few friends who I have spoken to and have agreed to blog in BankSeaNetwork about Gaming, Fashion /Beauty/ Pop culture and a few other things to come. Myself of which may be making tutorials on using photoshop to design and edit photographs.

Stay tuned.

BankSea

Google France gets Sued for Providing Free Map Scerivce

2012-02-16T23:01:00.001-05:00

Who would have thought? Someone giving away something for free, which not to mention belongs to them and then getting sued half a million Euros for being so generous. In the famous words of our mothers, "this is why we cant have nice things."

The french company, Bottin Cartographes which provides a mapping service to other company's for a fee, begun a legal battle with Google France two years ago claiming that Google used illegal strategies to remove its competitors, Bottin Cartographes being on of them. They told it to the judge and the French court ordered Google to cough up half a million euros, approximately $660,000.

I have a general idea and can understand why the company would do so, implying that they had begun their service well before Google Maps, they must have actually had a chance in becoming more used and over all a larger business, but they need to realize that some paid servicing can become obsolete due to the fact that they can easily and legally served free.

But of course, they are just milking Google for their money, I think some companies don't have enough respect for others.

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City

2012-01-21T16:51:00.000-05:00

I wanted to talk about Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, not simply for my speculations on the game, but actually for its cinematic trailer. The trailer is obviously not gameplay, but nevertheless does a great job on entertaining and getting the viewer interested in the game.

I was more impressed at the detail put into the video, but not only that, the voice acting, sound effects and music are great too. Overall, it makes you feel like you're there. At points I'm wondering weather this is a movie shot with actual video cameras, or a pre-rendered film, but then I realized... this looks to real... to be real.

It comes to show how far the technology animators have to work with has advanced. It is no longer a matter of having to cut down on detail, objects and polygons in order for the render to actually finish in a reasonable time period. The only limit now is their imagination.

check out the video.

Who killed MySpace?

2012-01-14T22:52:00.001-05:00

I don't think I will ever forget the request by my friends, or me asking them, 'Hey, add me on MySpace" or "Do you have a MySpace?" Honestly, MySpace used to be the shiz. Going to a friends profile and listening to their favorite music, or the animated gif profile picture, or even the lame nicknames everyone had as their username, it was all so... so... AWESOME! What ever happened to that, part of it being the rise of popularity in Facebook, but that's not the whole story...

On friday, Rupert Murdoch admitted to killing MySpace. On twitter he posted 'Many questions and jokes about My Space.simple answer - we screwed up in every way possible, learned lots of valuable expensive lessons.'

Back in 2005, when Facebook was open to the public gaining popularity, Murdoch was writing a big fat 580 million dollar check in order to buy MySpace, changing and altering it for the worst trying to compete with Facebook, eventually failing at the end. Last year Murdoch and his company sold the social network most of us once loved to Justin Timberlake for 35 million, with a 96% loss.

...Maybe Justin can resurrect it?

(Video) Gadget Announcement: Recon Mod Live

2011-12-23T22:55:00.000-05:00

It seem that everyday were getting closer to the 'hovering/flying' cars and plasma guns with the new and compact technology we like to call our phones, or our touch screen music players. We would have never imagined a wireless device that could tell you your exact position on earth that fits inside your closed hand even twenty years ago. But now we would almost be surprised if no one had already though about it. The 'Recon Mod Live' for select ski goggles is a prime example of this futuristic technology I am talking about.

This little gadget is an attachment for compatible ski goggles. The recon Mod live a device which adds a Heads Up Display (HUD) like feature for skiers. The HUD has features which display travel distance, speed, air time GPS and much more. It also tells you when you get a phone call, although it will not answer for you, its still pretty fucking neat. It's a little pricey, going for 3 and 4 hundred, you might wanna consider getting a map, but if you can afford it, I don't see a reason not to get it, check it out for yourself.

Game Review; Shift 2 Unleashed

2011-12-19T17:23:00.001-05:00

We're getting to a point where games are crossing the line into simulators, if you've play Shift 2 Unleashed then you know what I mean. When you first start to play the game you will notice that, one, the graphics are awesome and two, the physics are great. At the beginning the game is quite difficult to play if you're coming from other style of racing games where you are used to knocking cars out of the road and going 200 mph into a concrete wall and being just fine. The Shift series like i said, is more simulator-like than previous series in the Need for Speed franchise.

the pc version of shift 2 unleashed

In Shift 2 your precision is tested. Taking a corner is more than just turning right as soon as you get to the end of the straight away. You must slow down or else face the consequences of hitting the wall hard which will cost you precious time or flipping the car over as you hit the grass or sand at 180 mph sideways.

I think the developers achieved their goal when they made shift 2. Amazing visuals from the HUD to the grid, the attention to detail when tuning the cars only helps make your individual car more unique when racing it against others when playing online, and even offline you can tune it to perfection. What is different in this game than many other simulator-like racing games is that you can make multiple tuned settings for your vehicle, where you can switch between the saved tunes to corresponding with a type of track weather its long with a minimal amount of turn or small with many turns, it takes the pain away from having to switch from settings if you are a perfectionist. Also, you may buy multiple of the same car in case you want to use them in different a racing class/tier or maybe just to give them a different paint job. If this is your style of racing game i recommend you pick it up. I give this versatile game a 9.5 put of 10.

GTA V Trailer

2011-11-03T17:42:00.000-04:00

I'm sure even Patrick Star has heard of it, and he lives under a rock. The GTA V trailer. The trailer to Rockstars upcoming game in the GTA series looks freaking awesome. Some gamers would say they were disappointed from the lack of features provided in GTA IV when compared to one of its predecessors, GTA San Andreas. The lack of jet packs, vehicle and character customization, and feeling of endless things to do just wasn't cutting it for some of its gamers. But I'm sure GTA V will do more than just sooth the pain. If you haven't seen the trailer or didn't pay enough attention, it looks like it will take place in Los Santos, possibly and hopefully the rest of San Andreas.

I'm really excited to seem more on this game, it is some what surprising that the game is in such stages of its development and it has been kept a secret for so long. They did do a good job on keeping the viewer guessing what is really going on, who the main character is, is he new, is it Tommy, what are we going to be able to do. There is no other information as of now, but I am guessing (but hoping not) that it will be out sometime October 2012, if not sooner.

Leave your comments on what you though about the video, i personally though it was kinda cool seeing Mexicans working on the fields, which may imply that you may have some missions around illegal immigrants. Sounds really interesting.

Battlefield 3 Beta Over :(

2011-10-12T20:18:00.000-04:00

It was fun while it lasted, the game was so great I haven't posted much if anything since I started playing. Haha, well I will defiantly be getting the game. The maps are giant, the amount of players is completely ridiculous (in a good way) vehicles... awesome. It's a bit frustrating when you get pwnt, especially if your coming from CoD, but I did pretty well, my best KD was 47-7 what about you? Post in comments if you played or plan on getting.

iPhone 4S on Sprint (Official)

2011-10-04T22:35:00.000-04:00

"Hello again to all my friends", Remember that post I made a while back about iPhone coming (or going, depending on your side of the River Grand,) to sprint well me neither but... Yup, iPhone is on sprint now (if you're from the future i mean since it hasn't been released yet but), what does this mean? Double rainbow? nope... well maybe... possibly. But most likely means I will be retiring my BlackBerry Curve, it wasn't that fancy to begin with, but i was waiting till my contract was up to get a neat Android phone.

Any way back to real news, Apple recently had their little get together where all the hipsters holds hands and awaits anxiously, while drinking Starbucks, for Apple to release news on their upcoming gadgets that look just like the ones before but with cool sounding upgrade a suffix change like a number or letter, that being said OOOHH MY GAWWD [Skrillix reference], iPhone will be available on all carriers, yup ALL. CARRIERS!!!111oneone!!1 (I have
Sprint is what I'm trying to say) And with actual unlimited plans comes actual unlimited youtube, gmail, more youtube, facespace, unlimited posting shit on Facebook that ends with "-sent from my iPhone", unlimited stalking your ex-girlfriend*, unlimited blogger, unlimited limits, unlimited fapping, unlimited picture mail from your girlfriend**, and so on, the unlimited list is unlimited... well hopefully. Cross your fingies (funny way to say fingers) that sprint won't take the same path as AT&Titti and Verizon with the speed caps or "unlimited" plan (note the bunny ears aka quotation marks), that are only 2gb of unlimited GayDa (funny way to call data gay) -_-.

Well guys... I'm off to go sell drugs and street profrom for several hundred dollars since my sprint plan isnt up yet. But hell, what will not eating 3 meal a day do to my body, pft, nothing. At least ill have an iPhone :)

*ex-girlfriend required

**girlfriend required

2011-09-28T19:02:00.000-04:00

What has a 4 core processor, multi-touch screen, a camera in the back, a camera in the back, a six-axis motion sensor, dual, yes dual analog sticks, can talk to the internet though wi-fi and 3g, can play games just as well as your PS3 and fits in your pocket for just $299? You guessed it, Sony's soon to come Portable gaming thingy, PlayStation Vita. I could keep writing but that should be enough for you to want to go dig a hole in your back yard and put a box with $300 (or $250 for wi-fi only model) in it in the ground ready for sometime 2012 which is estimated time it will be 'hittin' tha streets of Compton' (North America). It will, though however, be released in Japan a bit earlier, so if your more anxious than just a little... book that flight for Japan before December 17th and brace yourself to stand in line and stop by a souvenir shop to get Perez something nice.

Thoughts About Windows 8 (DevPrev)

2011-09-28T18:17:00.000-04:00

Of course, we all know that Windows 8 is not going to look or act just like it is in the dev preview (is was released with devs in mind after all, not even beta testers so there is no room to criticize it for not being a cute as you'd expect) , but you get a general idea. The sleek design of the new start screen looks awesome simple and easy to work. If you haven't tried it think of it like a windows phone 7, just in a larger screen a physical mouse and keyboard and a butt load of PC applications or... if physical keyboard and mouse isnt your style it will also be a tablet version when release (not sure if the Dev version works on tablet). I haven't gotten to play with it hands on just yet but from what I have seen it looks like an extreme change for Microsoft's Windows operation system, the traditional desktop hasn't been completely wipped out but like i said its only a dev preview, i wouldn't be surprised if they did get rid of it by the time of final released. I'm sure they could incorporate the old school desktop with the new WinPhone7 like start screen. For now it isn't great, but i'm not mad. Just wanting to get a beta hands on when it's ready. Microsoft, call me ;).

What if iPhone came to Sprint?

2011-09-25T16:19:00.000-04:00

Sprint has not denied iPhone coming to the carrier nor confirmed it so it leaves a lot of room for speculation. So what would this mean for the company's? I say i would bring many customers to both. And Verizon and At&t could be left behind due to the fact that thier 'unlimited' plans aren't well... unlimited, they either slow you down if you use it too much or give you 2gb to work with, and when you pass the cap you have to pay for more data usage, but if iPhone comes to sprint & sprint doesn't change their unlimited plan for the worse, i think they could be on to something. I guess we'll have to wait and see, October 4th here we come.

Google+ is open to everyone!

2011-09-25T15:04:00.000-04:00

Well almost everyone, you just have to be 18 or older but what i mean is that it is no longer invite only. And it is already at 50 million users, that may not sound like much in comparison to Facebook's user count (currently about 800 million) which is only 6.25% of the amount. But i mean it did only have 25 million last month, that's 200% the users in one months time. I don't know about you but I think if Google+ continues to grow at this rate Facebook may have to start making (more) changes.

What if Google Ruled the World?

2011-09-24T20:55:00.000-04:00

Have you ever imagined how the world would be if there was one ruling government... called Google? Well i wouldn't be surprised if it happened. If you haven't noticed Google is most likely your search engine, your internet browser (Google chrome), you way of getting directions (Google maps), your mobiles' OS (android), maybe even your computer OS (Chrome OS), your email provider (gmail), your Social networking site (Google+) your means of video entertainment (YouTube) and so many other things you haven't even taken into consideration. But how did they get so powerful in the sense of technology, how do they get so many people to use their services? Easy, they make it free, all of the things i just mentioned above are free. They don't cost you a thing, in my opinion they are the perfect company, when they advertise they don't bug the hell out of you its simple text ad's. :) if you ask me I wouldn't mind google being my government because they're fair, They listen to their users, They're creative and they dont hide anything aginst you (or if they do theyre very good at it). What do you think? leave a comment.

Introducing myself

2011-09-24T19:30:00.000-04:00

Hello fellow bloggers and readers, I think is only right i introduce myself before posting blogs about my topic (which is technology in general). First off my name is Bank, but you guys can call me Sea since most of my friends do. I like things most geeky guys like me do. Computers, gaming, taking to the ladiees (over the internet). I also like designing (graphic design) my blog is in its early stages right now but soon after i get it going i will make sure to make it look really fancy for all of you to look at. that is all for now, i will begin to make more post as time goes by and bare my opinions at you guys about new things that come out in the world of technology.