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Free Download Blogger Template, Styleicious

2008-08-04T16:11:00.004+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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Template design by ThaSlayer. Convert to Blogger by Blog and Web. Review by myself.

Three coloums template in both right the posts. The navigation can you adding urls by yourself. This template has much pictures like in the top, side, main, and bottom. This maybe can i say simply templates but full of colors maybe dominan with light blue color but that in the main page using light color so the post can read clearly. Interest in this template? download here. Or you can click on the image above.

Free Download Blogger Template, Cute

2008-08-03T20:51:00.001+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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Template design by Templates para novo blogger and review by me.

Three coloums template in right and left posts. The left sidebar is wider than right sidebar. This template name is match with the template itself. That is full of pink color maybe only the left sidebar dominan with white color but that still full of pink color in all sides.Interest in this template? download here. Or you can click on the image above.

Free Download Blogger Template, Cronos

2008-08-02T19:40:00.006+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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Simply Blogger Template Cronos, design by Templates Novo Blogger. Also have lisense from creative commons org.

Simply two coloums template which has three additional gadgets on the above the posts. Also has navbar here can modified by yourself. I can also modified on the bottom, so do you can add some element there, maybe you can add a new sidebar or etc. Interest in this template? download here. Or you can click on the image above.

Free Download Blogger Template, WP Premium Brown

2008-08-02T19:40:00.004+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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Short description; three coloums, both sidebar are in the right side, you can add some Google Gadget there by the way the element is in the vertical position but that can be looks like other three coloums templates, on the above post you can also add some Gadgets which the size is full from post to sidebar, in Footer there also menu to add some Gadgets. I also used this template to my own blog. Interest in this template? download here. Or you can click on the image above.

Free Download Blogger Template, Japanese Fleur

2008-08-02T09:10:00.003+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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An Artistic template, Japanese Fleur, design by Lorelei, converted to Blogger by Blogger Templates, reviewed by Teiranho.

Short description; two coloum, top image background, search box, rss image which direct to your blog post feeds. I also used this template to my own blog. Interest in this template? download here. Or you can click on the image above.

Yohanes Aerani Sofian, Work At River Looking For Sand And Stone

2008-08-01T15:57:00.005+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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Full Name : Yohanes Aerani Sofian
Nickname : Sophy
Place, Date of Birth : Gombong-Kebumen, September 24th, 1984
Country : Indonesia

In 2002, Sophy decided to work as sand and stone seeker. Usually he helped by his friend Roso, he also rent an ox-cart for carrying sand and stone. He get approximately 40.000 Rupiah or 4 USD (today value) a day. Everyday he came down to the river on 07.30 am until 12.00 am then take a break for an hour in his home, he came back to the river on 01.00 pm until 04.30 pm.

There is no holyday for him because nothing else job yet for him. I think Sophy is quite funny, I say that because I always laugh everytime I meet him. He, my other friend Rizky, and I usually playing card everynight at Rizky's house. Together we meet but there is different ways of us in "suviving".

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Pencairan Cheque Google di Citibank

2008-05-11T07:03:00.002+07:00

Written by ZEZA
Member of adsense-id forum
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Yak setelah keliling dari bank Ekonomi ampe bank niaga yang biaya adminnya tinggi2. ternyata memang harus kembali ke bank penerbit cheque Google yaitu Citibank.

Syarat2nya :
1. KTP.
2. Uang Rp. 100.000,-

Prosedurnya adalah :

1. Datang sendiri, tidak boleh diwakilkan.
2. Ke Teller yang ada tulisannya "Nasabah Non Rekening"
3. Tunjukkan Cheque Google & KTP nya.
4. Minta Formulir [url=http://imageupload.freeweb7.com/viewer.php?id=Letter_of_Instruction_For_Collection .jpg]Letter of Instruction for Collection.[/url]
5. Isi tanggal, Nama, No KTP, Alamat, No Telepon & tanda tangan. Selebihnya akan diisi Teller. Kita akan mendapatkan Lembar warna kuning.
6. Tellernya akan memberikan [url=http://imageupload.freeweb7.com/viewer.php?id=Formulir_Setoran_Citibank.jpg]Formulir Setoran Citibank[/url] untuk pembayaran biaya administrasi sebesar Rp. 100.000,-
7. Isi Formulir setoran tersebut, pada bagian Lain2. Nominal Rp. 100.000,-, Nama & Tanda tangan penyetor. Kita akan mendapatkan Lembar warna biru.
8. Teller akan memprosesnya.
9. Proses membutuhkan waktu 3-4 minggu. Kalau sudah clearing, maka Teller akan menelpon kita untuk mengambil uang hasil pencariannya.

Gampang khan?

Semoga berguna.

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Insert Google Adsense Into Blogger XML Post Body

2008-05-11T06:52:00.015+07:00

Have you ever tried to insert the Google Adsense code directly into your Blogger XML Template and get this error?

Your
template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure
all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The processing
instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed.

So, you resolve to insert the Adsense code using blogger widgets.
However that means your widgets can not appear within each post, the
best spots to place your ads. Don't worry, there is a way of inserting
Adsense code straight into your XML templates.

Since Blogger started using XML everything is more strict and
standardized. The above error simply mean the Adsense code is not
standized XML and solve it we need to replace all the html character such as '<' with '>' '"' with '"'. For example:

Quote:

<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

would be

Quote:

<script type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

You can use your text editor to replace all the HTML, but Blogcrowds also has an HTML parsed that takes care of everything for you. Now with the code you can paste it anywhere in your HTML code with no error at all.

Here are some tips for where in the XML Template you should paste the
parsed HTML code. I used a barebone Minima template so it should be
similar in all templates. Find the normal text and then add the bolded
code are added by me:

1)Next To The Post

<div style="float:left;">

</div>

<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> 
</div>

2)After Post Before Credits

<div class='post-body'>
<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear: both;'/> 
</div>

<div></div>

<div class='post-footer'>
<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>
<span class='post-author'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/> <data:post.author/>

3)After Credits

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/>

<div></div>

</div>
</div>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>

If you worry this method may violate Google Adsense TOS continue reading this update.

Thanks Stavanger for sharing this. Want to read the Original Article?

HTML Parser

2008-05-11T06:52:00.009+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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HTML Parser

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Make Related Post

2008-01-11T18:04:00.005+07:00

Copy from Purple Moggy
Copied to NEWS
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I first got the idea for this after seeing Hoctro's similar hack. Unfortunately his requires that you change all your post titles to have the same prefix for related articles. I wanted one that would show related posts based on labels. I also wanted to do something with the new JSON format. I also looked at some of the already made hacks from Beautiful Beta to figure out how to parse the JSON properly.

FYI, this probably won't work correctly if your labels use any reserved url characters, like question marks (?) or the slash character (/). I'm not url encoding anything here.

First of all, go to Template -> Edit HTML and paste the following into the page header:

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var relatedTitles = new Array();
var relatedTitlesNum = 0;
var relatedUrls = new Array();
function related_results_labels(json) {
for (var i = 0; i < json.feed.entry.length; i++) {
var entry = json.feed.entry[i];
relatedTitles[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.title.$t;
for (var k = 0; k < entry.link.length; k++) {
if (entry.link[k].rel == 'alternate') {
 relatedUrls[relatedTitlesNum] = entry.link[k].href;
 relatedTitlesNum++;
 break;
}
}
}
}
function removeRelatedDuplicates() {
var tmp = new Array(0);
var tmp2 = new Array(0);
for(var i = 0; i < relatedUrls.length; i++) {
if(!contains(tmp, relatedUrls[i])) {
 tmp.length += 1;
 tmp[tmp.length - 1] = relatedUrls[i];
 tmp2.length += 1;
 tmp2[tmp2.length - 1] = relatedTitles[i];
}
}
relatedTitles = tmp2;
relatedUrls = tmp;
}
function contains(a, e) {
for(var j = 0; j < a.length; j++) if (a[j]==e) return true;
return false;
}
function printRelatedLabels() {
var r = Math.floor((relatedTitles.length - 1) * Math.random());
var i = 0;
document.write('<ul>');
while (i < relatedTitles.length && i < 20) {
document.write('<li><a href="' + relatedUrls[r] + '">' + relatedTitles[r] + '</a></li>');
if (r < relatedTitles.length - 1) {
 r++;
} else {
 r = 0;
}
i++;
}
document.write('</ul>');
}
//]]>
</script>

Save it, and then click the Expand Widget Template checkbox. Scroll down to the blog1 widget, and find the following:

        <b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
        <data:postLabelsLabel/>
        <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
          <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if>
        </b:loop>
      </b:if>

It'll probably be down in the post-footer-line section (whether that be line-1, -2, or -3)

Change that to:

        <b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
        <data:postLabelsLabel/>
        <b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
          <a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'><data:label.name/></a><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<script expr:src='"/feeds/posts/default/-/" + data:label.name + "?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels&amp;max-results=10"' type='text/javascript'/>
</b:if>
        </b:loop>
      </b:if>

The 3 lines in bold are what I added ;)

Save it, and now go to Template -> Page Elements and add a new HTML/Javascript widget. I added mine underneath the main blog posts widget. You'll need to add it after (in the page) the above codebox for it to work correctly. Paste the following into it:

<script type="text/javascript">
removeRelatedDuplicates();
printRelatedLabels();
</script>

Now go back to Template -> Edit HTML, check the checkbox to expand the template code, and find the HTML/Javascript widget you just added. It'll look something like the following. Add the lines in bold:

<b:widget id='HTML13' locked='false' title='Related Posts' type='HTML'>
<b:includable id='main'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<!-- only display title if it's non-empty -->
<b:if cond='data:title != ""'>
  <h2 class='title'><data:title/></h2>
</b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
  <data:content/>
</div>

<b:include name='quickedit'/>
</b:if>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>

There's a few numbers you can tweak to show more or less related posts. In the first codebox there's a part that says i < 20 and the 3rd codebox has a part that says max-results=10. You can play around with these numbers if you want. After playing around a little these numbers seem to give a good trade-off between the speed of page-load and the number of related posts displayed.

Earn Money with Google Adsense

2008-01-07T10:28:00.000+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
"If you copy my articles, please copy this part too"

This is tutorial for newbie. Just to the point.

1. You must have an e-mail. If you already have, skip this step. Or you haven't yet, you may read this articles : Make a Gmail and Make a Yahoo!Mail.

2. Make a blog or a site. Then build your blog. I suggest this articles : Create a Blog at Blogger, Create a Blog at Wordpress, and Optimize your Blog.

3. Sign up to Google Adsense. Just go to here, then click Sign Up and follow the instruction. Wait for 24-48 hours to be approved. Then check your mail.

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Create a Blog at Wordpress

2008-01-06T22:48:00.001+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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Here is another blog services beside Blogger from Google Product, lets read the point.

1. Go to Wordpress then click Sign Up. Or just go directly here.

2. Fill all form. Your user name will be use for log in to your wordpress account. Then click Next.

3. Fill all form. Then click Signup.

4. If success you will see Your Account Is Now Active!

5. Check your mail which you fill at second step. I don't have any idea yet about that.

Happy Explore there!

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Optimize your Blog

2008-01-06T22:46:00.000+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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What should you do after you create a blog? Maybe I like to give you some of term.

Publisher
This word is connected to articles. So, here you can post and publish much articles. Also the articles must be match with your blog theme. If you won't to get bored, I suggest that your blog theme is something you like most.

Template
Here you can build your blog physically. Just go to some of free template such : here, here, here, here, and here. To use that template, it probably can be upload at your blog account after you download the file. And the file extension is .XML for Blogger. Beside that, you can add more page element. Just practice by yourself there.

Visitor
Thats many way to gain visitors. You can observe your blog visitors by sign up to ExtremeTracking. Below I give you some terms and some ways to gain more visitor.
1. Authority, do link exchange. You can check your authority by sign up to Technorati.
2. SEO (Search Engine Optimization), write and publish much articles. You can check this by sign up to HitTail.
3. Leave your blog URL track to some of message boxes.
4. Join community sites. For examples : MyBlogLog, SpicyPage, Yahoo!Group, and more.
5. Tell your blog to friends via forums, e-mails, and chat services.

PR (Page Rank)
The mark is from 0 (zero) until 10 (ten). This can be your spirit to improve your blog. You can check your blog PR at prchecker.info and this site is own by Google. And Google do update PR every 3 (three) month.

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Create a Blog at Blogger

2008-01-06T22:44:00.000+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
"If you copy my articles, please copy this part too"

This Blog services is one from many Google product. Before you create a blog, you must be have an e-mail. You may read my articles : Make a Gmail and Make a Yahoo!Mail. If you already have e-mail, just follow this steps.

1. Go to Blogger then click on Create Your Blog Now or you can go directly here.

2. Then you must have Google account, make Google account there or if you already have Google account such as Gmail, you just click on sign in there, then write your user name and password, click sign in.

3. Follow the three steps. And thats it, your blog has been created. *Tips : at the second step click on check availability to make sure that your URL isn't in used yet.

4. If you want to start posting for now one, click Start Posting. Or later you can click on Home.

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Make a Yahoo!Mail

2008-01-05T07:06:00.000+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
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One from many e-mail services is Yahoo!Mail. And Yahoo!Mail is a product from Yahoo. Also Yahoo is a famous Internet services beside Google which have Gmail for an e-mail services. You may has both of that and here the steps.

1. Go to Yahoo then click on MAIL at the side or you just go directly Yahoo!Mail. Then click SIGN UP or you can go directly here.

2. Fill all three part form. Then click Create My Account.

3. And Congratulations. Click Continue for continue. Then activate your Yahoo!Mail at your Alternate e-mail you write down on the third part.

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Make a Gmail

2008-01-05T06:55:00.000+07:00

Written by Herianto
Administrator of NEWS
"If you copy my articles, please copy this part too"

One from many of Google product is Gmail which refers to Google Mail. This is an e-mail services. Most of Internet users must be know e-mail. But, according to my experience, Indonesian peoples doesn't know that well. Also some of them haven't an e-mail yet. So, here the steps.

1. Go to Google then click on MAIL on the top or you just go directly Gmail. Then click SIGN UP or you can go directly to LINK.

2. Fill all eleven forms. Then click I accept. Create my account. *Tips : Click on check for availability! at the third form for make sure that your user name isn't used yet.

3. Click I'm ready - show me my account on the top right. Then verify your e-mail at your other e-mail which you write on the ninth form.

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Happy 2008 New Year from TEIRANHO

2008-01-03T08:34:00.000+07:00

Hello all, first i like to say happy new year to you. By this article, I want to announce that I change my blog theme from Computers be NEWS. Wish by this, the goodness will belong with us. May I congrats to myself :). May I say thanks to all of you whose always support me, especially to Arya Kusuma. He teach me about blogging and we live together in boarding house Yogyakarta. Until now, I has many blogs because of his support. Here is my blogs :

1. Computers and Electronics
2. Entertainment
3. Home and Garden
4. Automotive
5. Teiranho Personal
6. NEWS
7. Education

Joybook S32

2007-11-17T21:55:00.000+07:00

Get a laptop with enough mystique to match your own. A casual glance at the Joybook S32 is sure to turn into a mesmerized stare. Bystanders will be transfixed by the stunning 3D image embedded in the svelte aluminum body. Using an exclusive painting process, BenQ evokes stellar mists from deep in the galaxy. It's right on the lid panel, also adorned by a striking silver strip with a diamond-cut logo. Open up this beauty and you'll find even more fabulous touches like a ripple-textured touchpad. If you're ready to be dazzled by your next laptop, you're overdue for a Joybook S32.

13.3" Widescreen Display
Stunning 3D Metallic Shading
Smooth Body and Contoured Lines
Striking Silver Strip and Diamond-cut Logo
Fabulous Ripple-textured Touchpad
1.3-megapixel QEye Webcam

Brilliance on view

The Joybook S32 uses a 13.3" widescreen display that achieves an ideal balance between compact size and spacious on-screen real estate. The premium 250nit, high-resolution widescreen panel provides the best specifications and color performance, while also taking advantage of BenQ's exclusive UltraVivid technology. These enhance picture quality by using unique DBEF™(Display Brilliance Enhancement Film) to dramatically increase brightness, and a low-reflectivity anti-glare coating that aggregates emitted light, ensuring saturated color and crisp, accurately rendered details.

Stay in touch

The Joybook S32's built-in 1.3-megapixel QEye webcam and internal microphone let you to enjoy video chats with friends and family. Or simply take some snapshots to share—all you need to do is click the QShot hotkey and you're good to go.

Get an earful

Get cinema-class audio with the Joybook S32. Featuring SRS TruSurround XT technology, change everything you hear into breathtaking virtual surround sound. Included are SRS TruBass and SRS Dialog Clarity to deliver deep, rich bass and improve dialog intelligibility in movies. And along with exclusive audio processing software, noise and echo is suppressed—providing the best-quality audio whether you're in a videoconference or enjoying your personal entertainment.

Speed to spare

The Joybook S32 leads the way in adopting the latest Intel® Centrino® Duo processor technology along with the Windows Vista® operating system. Incorporated Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor and Intel® GM965 Express Chipset ensures operation stays smooth even when numerous applications are open. You can be downloading your entertainment while playing the latest games or your favorite tunes with no interruptions—giving you a whole new entertainment experience. And whether in multimedia applications or digital home features, performance or data security, Windows Vista™ provides more information in a more intuitive and useful manner on your computer desktop.

Tested tough

Adhering to BenQ's dedication to quality, the Joybook S32 is subjected to a battery of 25 tests—including a scratch resistance test, pressure test, hinge test, compatibility test, high and low temperature tests, drop test, vibration test, audio muting test, and EM emissions test—to ensure its quality. BenQ is tough on the Joybook S32 so you can enjoy a trouble-free experience that measures up to your exacting standards.

LG KS20, The New Smart Phone 'Prada'

2007-11-17T21:19:00.000+07:00

The 'Prada' from LG is not famous as iPhone from Apple. But, the newest Touchscreen technology inspirate its vendor from Korea to fix their product. One of that is LG KS20. Not only touchscreen technology, but also another great features integrated to this phone that participated in 'Consumer Electronics' world class : IFA 2007 at Berlin.

As iPhone, the use of standart keypad is very minimalize on this KS20. The active screen 262,144 colors, with QVGA resolution (240x320 pixel) be very important element for user interface. So, many information can be access via your fingers also stylus there in.

This smart phone count on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional operating system. 2 Megapixel camera plus video call camera faced sweet on the body. Not only has triband network GSM, KS20 also can execute HSUPA (High-Speed Uplink Package Access) technology for file upload process. Transfer rate as fast as HSDPA line that also supported by this phone.

Another features in LG KS20 such as : Wi-Fi 802.11b, bluetooth v2.0, TV out, and Microsoft Office. For the entertain, Windows Media Player 10 can be used. File with extention MP3, AAC, AAC+, WAV, WMA, 3GP, MPEG4 can be played well. FM radio also there, that can be the second alternate.

This phone has dimension : 9.95x5.8x1.29 cm and 90 Megabyte internal memory with expansion slot microSD.

Eizo CE240W 24" LCD Display

2007-10-31T22:54:00.000+07:00

The Eizo CE240W 24" LCD Display is the epitome of LCD display excellence. Not only do I have no reservations about giving the Eizo five stars, but I sincerely wish I had more stars to award it. Sure the Eizo is not cheap, but there is nothing, and I mean nothing low end about the CE240W. If there were ever a poster product for you get what you pay for, Eizo has it right here. I have yet to see a display with better specs anywhere, and if you know one let me know because I have to see it!

Features of the Eizo CE240W 24" LCD Display

The features of the Eizo CE240W 24" LCD Display read like a geek's wish list. The native resolution is 1920x1200 with a contrast ratio virtually unheard of for an LCD monitor of 1000:1. Wow, most high end monitors have a contrast ratio of between 500:1 to 800:1 at best. For comparison the mighty Apple 30" Cinema display only has a contrast ratio of 700:1. The Eizo has a great contrast ratio, no doubt about that but what about brightness? How about a stellar 450 cd/m²! The aforementioned Apple 30" Cinema Display has a brightness of 400 cd/m² as comparison and the brightest monitor I have reviewed recently was the Viewsonic VX2025WM 20" LCD that sported a 300cd/m² brightness. This is a rare occasion for me when the product I am reviewing is better than the measuring stick I typically use. The Eizo ColorEdge CE240W is raising the bar significantly.

Eizo also has great viewing angles on the CE240W of 178 degrees horizontally and vertically, you almost have to be behind the monitor before the image is greatly affected. The CE240W's weakest point for gamers will likely be its gray-to-gray response time of 8ms. While certainly that is no slouch of a response time, faster monitors can be had, but at a huge hit in image quality. The viewable image size is 611 mm diagonally and the color pallet is 16.77 million. Both analog VGA and digital DVI-I connectors are included.

Eizo also included a built in USB hub on the side of the monitor that has two ports, one downstream and one upstream. The monitor stand on the CE240W is perfect and offers adjustability in most every angle you can think of. Height adjustability has long travel over a range of 95mm. The tilt for the monitor can go 60 degrees up and 5 degrees down. As you can see from the image above, the CE240W can almost lay flat for viewing while standing. You can also easily swivel the Eizo up to 172 degrees both right and left. The one thing the Eizo can't do is rotate for portrait viewing, which in all honesty I have never wanted to use. If that is a factor for you, Eizo has monitors that will do that.

One of the best things for design pros and business users about the Eizo ColorEdge CE240W is the included color calibration software making the act of calibrating the CE240W quick and easy. If you use a hardware calibration tool, the software will interface directly with Eye-One, MonacoOPTIX and Sypder2 calibration devices. Ambient light calibration is handled easily with the software allowing you to set the monitors white point to ensure that what you see on screen is what you end up with in print.

The CE240W is a wide aspect ratio monitor at a true 16:10. The aspect ratio allows you to have two documents side by side in popular office applications like word and even run multiple programs on the screen at once. I was able to run four web browsers when working with no problems at all reading the text in each window. This is a huge time saver. Color accuracy is boosted with Eizo's stock 14-bit color processing that provides for smooth gray transitions and midtone transitions as well.

Eizo CE240W in Use

I can sum my time with the Eizo CE240W up in one word, stunning! There is simply not a better monitor to be had on the current market than the CE240W. No matter what you plan to do with it, it just excells. Movie watching on the Eizo was the best I have ever seen. The dark scenes in my test movie, Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, were so much clearer and sharper than with any other monitor I have used there was no comparison. Sometimes I see pixelation and dithering in the gray tones especially on lower end monitors, I didn't see any of that with the CE240W.

Gaming on the Eizo CE240W is hard to describe. The image quality response of the monitor to rapidly changing colors and quick motion is the best I have seen yet. No ghosting or smearing on games or movies was noticed. Gamers if your in the market for a high end monitor like the Apple 30" Cinema Display or the 30" Dell, seriously consider giving up the six inches in screen real estate and going with the superior specs of the Eizo CE240W. That said, I am seriously hoping Eizo has a 30" display to pull out of their hats. I'll be the first in line to buy!

abit AW9D-Max Mainboard

2007-10-31T22:48:00.000+07:00

The PC enthusiast crowd out there knows that for a long time abit was one of the biggest and best names in enthusiast class mainboards. However, for a long while abit slipped and their performance dropped compared to the other big names in the marketplace like Asus. abit is back at the top now with their newest mainboard for the LGA775 Intel socket that is compatible with the Core 2 CPUs all the way up to my test machines Intel X6800 Core 2 Extreme.

Features & Use of the abit AW9D-Max Mainboard

abit decked the AW9D-Max out with nearly everything that a PC enthusiast could want starting with the Intel 975x chipset supporting Intel CPUs with up to a 1066 MHz front side bus, dual DDR2 800, dual PCI-E 16x slots for CrossFire graphics, and a whopping 7 SATA 3G ports. Also included is one eSATA port for external drives, dual PCI-E gigabit Ethernet adapters, dual IEEE 1394 FireWire headers, 7.1 channel HD AuidoMax sound, silent passive cooling and abit’s own uGuru tech.

At first glance, the packaging is large and very attractive. The view through front panel gives you a look at the unique audio riser card and the OTES-2 passive cooling pipes. OTES 2 is what abit calls their passive Northbridge and Southbridge cooling system. Those in Europe will be glad to know that the AW9D-Max is RoHS compliant as well.

Abit went with an AuidoMAX riser card for their onboard sound solution to remove the sound as far from the noise generating components on the mainboard as possible. Onboard sound is a big deal on this mainboard because if you intend to run dual graphics cards, you will very likely not be able to get a soundcard into the system.

If you are like me and typically shun onboard sound for the likes of an X-Fi card don’t fret, you typically buy a soundcard to get the kind of sound quality abit delivers with the AuidoMAX card. In fact, the AudioMAX HD system is Dolby Master Certified and delivers fantastic Dolby Digital 5.1 sound via SPDIF optical output. There are also enough analog connectors on the riser card for 7.1 surround sound.

If overclocking is your thing, this board will do it abit utilized what they call OC strips on the back of the board to dissipate the extra heat overclocking of components generates. The uGuru software included also allows you to overclock your system voltages and your CPU from within the uGuru application. OC Guru AutoDrive will also automatically over clock your system for you.

Do it yourself types, abit used a very friendly overclocking bios that puts all the settings you need form timings to voltages and the FSB in your hands. uGuru also provides hardware monitoring of system temperatures, fan speeds and voltages.

With the AW9D-Max, abit opted to forgo all legacy connections so you do not get serial or parallel ports for printers. Interestingly, while abit ditched the parallel and serial ports they opted to keep the PS2 ports for the mouse and keyboard. I seriously doubt that buyers of this board will be using anything other than USB powered keyboards and mice. I would have rather seen abit ditch the PS2 legacy ports and go with more USB ports personally.

Dual PCI-E x16 slots allow you to run dual graphics cards, though a bit confusingly since abit includes an SLI connector and the board runs an Intel chipset that can support SLI, you can only run ATI’s CrossFire dual card solution on the AW9D-Max. Personally, I would have preferred SLI and I figure someone will release some hacked drivers to allow this board to support SLI.

For testing, I used an ATI X1900 XT and an ATI X1900 CrossFire edition card. CrossFire performed well and I noted no issues at all during testing. The sole problem I found with the AW9D-Max running dual graphics cards was that the second graphics card covered the BIOS reset jumper. I once ran a bit too much overclocking on the system and needed to reset BIOS to get it running again. I ended up having to pull the second graphics card to access the BIOS jumper, which is a huge pain and quite a problem on a board destined to see lots of overclocking with dual cards in the system.

Abit makes the solution to this BIOS reset problem in their uGuru panel that moves CMOS reset to the front panel along with overclocking functions and system monitoring. However, I was still surprised to see something that important overlooked in the design of the AW9D-Max.

The only other thing I can say bad about the abit board is that if you run dual graphics cards that use two slots per card say goodbye to all hope of running other expansion cards in the system. I was unable to utilize my X-fi and you won’t be able to get network cards or physics cards into the system either.

At the end of the day, I was able to over look the few shortcomings of the abit AW9D-Max thanks to the overwhelming amount of fantastic features and great performance of the board. If you overclock a lot, I suggest you either get the uGuru panel or expect to have to pull your second graphics card every now and then. Overall, the abit AW9D-Max is one of the best Core 2 compatible mainboards you will find.

Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad

2007-10-31T22:42:00.000+07:00

Description

Lag free even at extreme distances from the base station.
Great battery life for the cordless gamepad.
Buttons are programmable via included software.
Works on PC and Mac.

Features of the Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad

The Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad's main feature is its wireless 30 foot operating range. The Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad boasts a 100 hours battery life from the two "AA" batteries that power the actual gamepad. The base station is powered by the USB port on your computer.

The ten button layout of the Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad is programmable with the included software and the two analog control sticks give you 360 degree motion.

Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad in Use

When playing with the Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad I noticed no lag at all even at long distances from the base station. This is a big deal and a point I was concerned about, cordless mice often fail at gaming due to lag. I think the 2.4 GHz frequency helps the Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad's lag free ability. Another point I was concerned about was that my cordless phone also uses the 2.4GHz frequency as well. I noticed no interference between the controller and the phone, even when using them both at the same time.

Picking up this controller is like seeing an old friend after years, everything is familiar. If you are used to play station the learning cure with the Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad is next to nothing. The Play Station 2 controller and the Logitech Cordless Rumble Pad 2 Gamepad fell near identical in your hands.

OCZ ATV Turbo 4GB Flash Drive Review

2007-10-31T22:36:00.000+07:00

Features & Specifications

OCZ quotes read and write speeds for its OCZ ATV Turbo flash drive 33-35MB/s and 26-30MB/s respectively. The storage capacity for the drive is 4GB and it works with Windows and Mac computers. The rubber housing is shock and water-resistant and the drive has an orange LED on the back of the drive flashes when the drive is working. OCZ also covers the drive with a lifetime warranty.

Benchmarks & Testing

To test the OCZ ATV Turbo I used HD Tach, Sandra XII, transferred files to and from the drive while timing the operation. I also washed, and dried the drive with some laundry to see just how durable it was. The first test was Sandra XII’s removable storage benchmark. This test showed that the OCZ ATV Turbo had a drive index of 7740 ops/min and an endurance factor of 19.70. The Corsair Flash Survivor that I recently reviewed had a drive index of 9575 ops/min and an endurance rating of 16.4 for comparison.

The next test was HD Tach which showed the OCZ ATV Turbo had an average read speed of 27.9MB/s and an average write speed of 23.5MB/s. To compare the Corsair Flash Survivor had an average read speed of 23MB/s and an average write speed of 20.6MB/s. That makes the OCZ ATV Turbo quite a bit faster than the Corsair drive.

For the final test, I copied a folder with 944MB of data in it to the OCZ ATV Turbo and then copied the same folder from the OCZ ATV Turbo to the system drive and times the process with a stopwatch. Writing the folder to the OCZ ATV Turbo took 1-minute and 9-seconds, copying the folder from the OCZ ATV Turbo to the system drive took right at 41 seconds.

The OCZ ATV Turbo is certainly fast, but the drive promises shock and water resistance as well. To test the shock resistance I threw the drive onto concrete as hard as I could. The OCZ ATV Turbo worked without any issues after throwing it down repeatedly. To test the resistance to water, I ran the OCZ ATV Turbo through a full washer cycle in the pocket of my jeans. When the load was done, I found the cap had come off the OCZ ATV Turbo at some point in the wash cycle. I plugged the OCZ ATV Turbo into my computer expecting it to be ruined. However, the OCZ ATV Turbo performed flawlessly after its washing.

After the run through the washer, I put the drive back into the jeans for a dry cycle on high heat. Once again, when the load was dry, I found the cap to the OCZ ATV Turbo had come off at some point. Fortunately, the OCZ ATV Turbo still performed flawlessly. The cap covering the USB port comes off frequently in instances like this, which could lead to failure of the drive. My review sample survived without issue though, and most likely yours will too. Overall the OCZ ATV Turbo is the fastest flash drive I have tested to date and is durable enough to stand up to the rigors of the daily grind.

Korean Online games! It's time to march into U.S.

2007-10-31T22:15:00.000+07:00

'Game&Game World Championship 2007' the final of the U.S. region was held on L.A.

At U.S. final selection, more than 60,000 players participated from preliminary match of ‘Shot online (Sports)’, ‘War rock (Action)’, ‘Silkroad online (MMORPG)’ and US regional final event held successfully with 17 players who advanced from preliminary match and more than 200 supporters from all over the US.

This regional event was held successfully at the ‘Internet PC Café’ near LA area, and it began with press conference to help local presses understanding, and participants had great time through Korean online games with special events like professional DJ performances, and participants side shows.

Over 20 journalists from 14 local presses such as ‘MMOGD’, ‘WarCry’ visited to this event, and they showed off hot interests to Korean game companies and Korean online games.

US regional final had various episodes and special participants due to lot of games took part of it.

Especially, ‘Lunia (Allm)’ has hot-spotlight than any other events, because more than 50% of Lunia users are located in US area.

The winner of Lunia, Travis Verhagen who is student of AIU, and wish to be programmer to make games like Lunia said “It is great pleasure to win this event and I will try harder to get better result at Grand final at Seoul on Dec.”

The winner of ‘Navy field (Enternet)’ is Jedi1 (US), and OPR (Poland) took second place on 15 vs. 15 team play match. Even though it is US regional final, the ‘Navy field’ excited envy in other games because participants showed off great passion like came from all over the world (Canada, U.K., Poland, etc.) and prepare for the final.

Also ‘Bomb’N Dash (Innodis)’ brought big attentions because a user who has special job. US Marine, Jason who enjoy ‘Bomb’N Dash’ with his friends very much will dispatch to Afghanistan expressed inconvenience because he cannot play ‘Bomb’N Dash’ often after dispatch.

Last year regional finalists of ‘Silkroad online (Joymax)’ Gerald Bastien and Zachary Witeof took first and second place in this year event again, and have chance to win at Grand final this year too.

The ‘War rock (Dream Execution) proceed this event with at scene registration. ‘War rock’ had great heat from more 50 participants who came very early to enroll this game.

Mr. Kwon (KIPA) said “Over 60,000 players from US, UK, Canada, and Poland participated in this event, it proves that Korean online game already take great part of the world game market.”, also “We will try best to lead world game market by Korean online games based on popularity of this event.”

Last August, starting with the GNGWC European Finals, Korea (Yongin, 9.29-30), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh, 10.13), the United States (Los Angeles, 10.20), Japan (Tokyo, 11.17) the series will be held, each chosen gamers through regional finals will be join the Grand final on December 1 during the SoftEXPO & DCF 2007 Seoul COEX exhibition.

via Aving.

Acer AcerPower FH Budget Desktop PC

2007-10-29T21:16:00.001+07:00

AcerPower FH Desktop

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Description

Intel Core 2 Duo E4400 Dual Core Desktop Processor
Two Gigabytes PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory
160GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner
Intel GMA 3000 Integrated Graphics
HDA 7.1 Audio
Gigabit Ethernet Interface
Six USB 2.0 Ports
Windows XP Professional

Guide Review - Acer AcerPower FH 4401 Budget Desktop PC

10/22/07 – The AcerPower FH lineup of desktops is very clearly directed at businesses looking for a low cost desktop option. That doesn't mean that this can't make a very usable home desktop system. Some of the features are very clearly targeted at business use. Take the Windows XP Professional operating system over the newer Vista. This may actually be a bonus for many people who don't want to migrate to the new OS yet.

In terms of performance, the AcerPower FH 4401 has lots of it for the price. Rather than using older Pentium D or Duo models, Acer has elected to use a newer Core 2 Duo E4400 dual core processor. This gives it an edge on most available budget desktops. Combine this with two full gigabytes of memory and the Windows XP Professional operating system and it should have no trouble handling multitasking.

Storage does suffer a bit over a traditional consumer system. Most budget desktops have 300GB or more of hard drive space, but the AcerPower FH comes only with a 160GB drive. This is large for a business system but still quite low overall for the market segment. At least they included a dual layer DVD burner over the more traditional CD-RW/DVD combo drive found in business PCs.

While performance is quite good, the business nature means that many smaller peripheral interconnects are missing. The system has six USB 2.0 ports, but lacks any FireWire connector or a media card reader for digital peripherals. They also elected to not include a modem with the system even though they are not used as frequently as in the past.

What this ends up with is a system that is a good fit for those needing strong performance but don't require much in terms of storage space or peripheral connectivity.