Posts Tagged ‘geek talk’

Infatuation Towards The Hot.. and Sexy… Blackberry

October 21st, 2010

This is my 168th post on this blog and I feel lucky because I had won the 2nd special prize from Redmummy for this contest. So when I read that there’s a contest to win a Blackberry Torch 9800 – I just got to make a confession:

The Torch has lit a fire of passion and love in me towards that hot.. sexy.. Blackberry… kiss

Seriously, it turns me on to look at that Blackberry. Sleek body, smooth and shiny skins, multi-functional, and no defects like the dropped calls if you hold it like this or that… urghhhh that’s so arousing!! big hug

I got to admit that I do not own a smartphone. Never in my life. It looks dull and kinda stupid that you need to touch a screen to answer calls. Smartphone, ironically – looks very, very NOT smart. It always comes in the shape of bulky bar; and the functionalities for me seems quite bored. Until the recent burst of Facebook and the social media hype, phone is nothing much for me but for SMS, MMS, calls, and occasional music player.

But, with Blackberry Torch 9800 – it is a revolution. Comes with keyboard and full 3.2 touch screen in a slider phone type; it enables emails, web browsing, social media network, instant messaging, and cameras in a smart way! No more smudges or scratches due to your finger actions to the screen. Slide it open like The Matrix baby!

What’s more? Check these out:

  • 8GB of memory (expandable to 32GB with microSD card) for your multimedia storage
  • Blacberry OS 6 – zoom effect by a pinch of finger? Cool!!
  • 5MP camera with flash – perfect to snap that sexy girl pics across the street! tongue
  • Integrated social feeds – no more clutter of different applications for different networks.
  • Faster browser with tab and customized bookmark (shit, now I can put custom icon on my bookmark? Niceee..)

Sure, it has some perks like no openGL support for 3D rendering or small resolution of video (it is said to have only 640 by 480 for video), but I won’t go into much technical details for this since the CrackBerry.com has already reviewed it here. Enough for me to conclude – the pro overwhelm the cons.

See, even the guys at Crackberry felt impressed by this slider baby! winking Watch this video of Blackberry Torch 9800 Review by Crackberry.com if you want to be impressed by this awesome gadget.

Okay, enough about the techie geek part. Here’s an announcement – Celcom, Malaysia’s #1 Blackberry provider is going to launch the Blackberry Torch 9800 Postpaid Plan on 29th of October. The first 100 customers to pre-register at this link and purchase the new Blackberry Torch 9800 will enjoy the early bird promotion of the Celcom Exec Postpaid plan – you can also received below items at the launching event:

  • FREE Jabra Bluetooth Headset worth RM125
  • FREE 8GB MicroSD card worth RM68
  • FREE Energizer portable worth RM58

Well, only the best from the fastest, widest, and clearest mobile network company. That’s not some useless crap that you can find in normal goodie bag. And the Celcom Exec 50 plan also has advantages like..

  • 15sen call rate to any number. Nothing complicated; just a simple rate to all numbers
  • Automatic discounts every month.
  • Talk more, save more. The more you use, the more discounts of up to 30% every month
  • Low monthly commitment of only RM50.
  • FREE Celcom Broadband Basic Plan for 1 month with speeds of up to 384 Kbps

Combined this with the arousing passions for Blackberry baby slider like this Torch – urghhh!! I might get this myself if I have the money! *pray pray that money falls from the sky tongue*

Damn this is interesting it might make me cum! tongue

P/s: On a serious note, if I got this Torch, I’m gonna called it Fireberry. And yeah kinda sick using Maxis now, so Celcom is really in consideration now winking

Cashflow Online Games for Your Personal Finance Literacy

August 31st, 2010

Feeling bored and dull? Wanted to play something challenging? Worried about your personal finance?

Why don’t you try to play Cashflow Online Games created by the best-selling author of Rich Dad and Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki? I guess while we are in the mood of independence and freedom, playing a financial games like this might free you from the burden of the financial illiteracy as well:

If you ever read any of the Rich Dad Poor Dad series, you know that one of Robert Kiyosaki business is the educational program that he called Cashflow, where people learned about personal finance by playing a board game. Ever since I read that book last five years or so, I’ve been itching to play the games and I pray that the game will be available online for free. praying

It is now available, and yes, it is FREE. dancing

All you need to do is register with the website: Cashflow Online Games, verified your email address and boom! Play the game. Your objective is to exit the rat-race as soon as possible and jump into the fast-lane to richness; whoever that reach the goal first will win. You can play this game by yourself, or versus the computer, or versus the other online player as well.

Warning: This game is a Flash-based game and it consumes quite a high volume of bandwidth. Ensure that your network is stable and fast enough. Dial-up users are not recommended to play this game. Broadband users can still play this game, but I’m not recommending you to play with other player (since your side will be too slow to load other person’s action).

Playing this game will not make you rich overnight, but if you’re looking for a fun way to learn all those dreaded financial statements, or personal financial issues, or how to be rich and stay rich the capitalist way; this is the game for you. It teaches you about income versus expenses, assets versus liabilities, good deals, bad deals, real estates deals, business deals, as well as the stock market.

It has two version: Casflow 101 for beginner and Cashflow 202 for intermediate to advance level. I always play the 101 (since the 202 has some major bugs e.g when the stock market rises, your game can hang WTF! laughing) and I always play by myself or versus the computer due to the slow network that I have at home. I am now a level #9 Employee trying to break into the Self-Employed level. Heh heh heh hee hee

Have fun playing and happy holiday!

Idiot Guide To PageRank (PR)

August 30th, 2010

Me and my other half was talking on the phone about blogs and bloggers when the issue of pagerank comes out. Me being techy and she being normal, of course the first question from her was: What is a pagerank?

Alamak.. *bertukar kepada tutor mode*

Definition and Explanation:

Pagerank is a ranking given by Google to all websites that is being indexed in Google. The more important a website is, then a higher ranking (out of 10)  will be given. E.g Facebook – the largest social networking websites that is being indexed in Google as #1 sites with the most users: have a pagerank (PR) of 10.

The exact way Google determined whether a page is important or not is unknown. It is believed that the algorithm calculated the pagerank based on 500 millions variable and 2 million terms and the algorithm changed over time – quote from Wikipedia.

So, since this is Google’s way of determining the importance of your page, usually PR is used to determine whether a site is a hoax, a scam, or not. That’s one of the use. Also, it gives an indication whether that sites (and it’s owner) is popular or not.

So, the simple way of understanding it is..

  1. The higher the pagerank, the easier Google put the page in it’s search engine result.
  2. The more search engine result given, the more users visiting the page.
  3. The way to increase your pagerank is to publish something useful for your keyword that you wanted to target, so that many links will share your sites and make it popular plus useful — maybe this is the easiest concept in increasing your pageranks.

Having said that, usually it is hard for a niche blog / personal blog to achieve more than 5 or 6 pageranks nowadays. It is hard but it is not impossible. Seth Godin blog has a PR7. Mine? I got 2. Obefiend’s and Redmummy got 3.

How to check my pagerank?

Two ways:

  1. Go to this web service that offers you to check the pagerank of any sites: http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php
  2. Install Google Toolbar and enable the Pagerank features. See video below.

Google has already put a short video explaining how to enable the pagerank feature from the Google Toolbar. Personally, I use this since it is integrated into Firefox directly:

So, was that helpful? Does it give you an idea to get your web ranked better? winking