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Hard disk registration to Optical Media Board

penoycentral — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 22:23:56 +0000

Valenzuela argued that since hard disks have magnetic components, then it falls under the control of the OMB based on Republic Act No. 9239, also known as the Optical Media Act of 2003. — Gmanews.tv

Only in the Philippines!!!

Unboxing Apple Macbook

penoycentral — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:32:11 +0000

This is my wife’s new toy. Apple Macbook Intel Core 2 Duo 13inch . We decided to go with Mac on our next purchase of a lappy as we are not familiar with OSX. So let us unbox this toy.

Box front with the Apple Logo

Box back

Inside the box

Power cables

Apple Macbook power adaptor

Installation and application CD

Apple Macbook

Pure white eh!!!

Keyboard with a close up shot

Macbook boot up.

Specs

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.26Ghz 3Mb shared level 2 cache

250Gb Hard Disk 5400 rpm

4Gb 1066Mhz SDRAM DDR3 memory

13.3 inch led widescreen

Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics

Samsung LCD TV LA40B650T1M Firmware upgrade

penoycentral — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 04:07:52 +0000

I had an avi file that was not supported by Samsung LCD TV series 6 builtin media player. Dont get me wrong as the media player can play mkv, avi, mp3 etc. Maybe its the new encoding that was used in ripping files. Good thing after months of waiting, Samsung released Firmware patch last Nov that fixed my avi issues. You can say im pretty much satisfied to the functionality that Samsung integrates to their new product line of LCD and LED TVs. You don’t have to buy external media player to enjoy your downloaded media files.

Olympus Tough-8000 Shockproof and waterproof camera

penoycentral — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:41:54 +0000

We h00ted in Singapore’s COMEX 2009 a point and shoot compact camera. Olympus Tough-8000, a shockproof and waterproof digital camera. Personal choice of my wife coz she likes to take underwater pictures. There goes my XBOX hehehe.

Olympus Tough-8000 digital camera Benefits

SHOCKPROOF (6.6ft.)
Life can be tough, this camera is tougher. Rugged metal body and revolutionary shock-absorbing construction are designed to withstand a 6.6-foot drop, bump or other mishap.
WATERPROOF (33ft.)
A revolutionary system of waterproof seals and gaskets keeps water out so you can take pictures as deep as 33 feet underwater.
FREEZEPROOF (14°F/-10°C)
Boldly enter that winter wonderland without worrying about your camera. This camera is winterized to perform at below-freezing temperatures.
CRUSHPROOF (220lbf.)
With a rugged body and reinforced LCD, the STYLUS TOUGH-8000 withstands up to 220 pounds of pressure so your camera and images are protected.
DUAL IMAGE STABILIZATION
Forget about blurry shots with this 2-in-1 anti-blur solution. Sensor-Shift Image Stabilization compensates for camera shake to keep your shots steady while Digital Image Stabilization captures crisp, clear images in any situation.

Our freebies includes:

Screen protector USB Card reader

Floating arm band Two 8Gb microSDHC

Table tripod Two batteries

Gavio headphone

Tabo Stress Test

Let’s see if this a true waterproof camera using the “Tabo” stress test

Soak for a while

Look Ma!!! still Alive!!!

Coming SOON!!! The “Inodoro” Stress Test

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COMEX is a yearly IT show in Singapore showcasing the latest technologies in a bargain price

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I’m so lazy that’s why I use Windows Live Writer 2009

penoycentral — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:16:44 +0000

Have you tried Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer 2009? It is a blog editor that supports blogger and wordpress. Now you can layout your blog posting the easy way. Supports Technorati, LiveJournal, Flickr etc tagging, picture, photo album, table, map and video. You can add also plugins from its Windows Live Writer Extensions

Full Feature List
In addition to the highlights of this release, here’s the list of all the major new features added since Windows Live Writer 2008:

New border treatments (including Instant Photo)

Crop and tilt photos

Insert multiple photos

Toolbar alignment commands enabled for images

Insert and upload Windows Live photo albums

Insert and publish video to YouTube

Additional spell checking languages: Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, English (Australia), Estonian, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Turkish, and Ukrainian

Server-side tagging (for supported blogs)

Type-down filtering in the Open dialog

Twitter, Digg and Flickr Plug-ins

Improved blog account setup

Lightbox and Windows Live Spaces inline preview support

Improved category control: adding categories, type-down filtering

Tabbed view switching

AutoLink glossary

Smart quotes/typographic characters

Word count

Support for bidirectional languages (like Hebrew and Arabic)

Tabs for view switching

Updated look and feel

It is still in active development so beware of some bugs that might come in your way.

Windows Live Writer 2009 Download

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Old school spam

penoycentral — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:53:10 +0000

Who says that you can only receive spam messages thru email. Well here a concrete example of old school spammer. Everyday we recieved tons of flyers from our mailbox where spam filtering will not work.

Old school Spammer

New Sony PS3 Slim

penoycentral — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:37:30 +0000

Sony announced its new PS3 Slim!!! Good news for gamers and sad news for Linux geeks though as this new console doesnt have an install other OS option.

Sony stated in the press materials. Apparently Linux just isn’t entertaining enough to make the cut.

Samsung LCD TV firmware upgrade

penoycentral — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:45:16 +0000

Yesterday i upgraded my Samsung LCD TV LA40B6450T1M‘s firmware. At first im quite nervous. Oh come on, i dont want our very own 40 inches tv to become a brick. Downloaded firmware at www.samsung.com.sg/support page, unzipped software at my thumbdrive, load the firmware using the update utility of the TV.. and that’s it. Proud owner of one of the latest LCD tv in the world with updated firmware.

Kantaris Media Player : Alternative to VLC

penoycentral — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:57:01 +0000

While looking for an alternative to VLC, i stumbled upon Kantaris a new media player. Kantaris is a media player based from the source code of Videolan Client VLC and Bass audio library. It has cool 3d menu, last.fm, cool movie trailer and 3d video library. Also, kantaris support mp3, dvd and cd audio playing(search amazon and last.fm for cd covers and info).

Video Library for your locally saved movies. It searches IMDB database for movie covers and information

3D Movie Trailers

3D Menu

Kantaris media player is still on the early stage and have bugs but i can’t wait for the final release.

TV galore!!!

penoycentral — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:35:48 +0000

We are contemplating to replace our borrowed TV. At first we are puzzled if we go for PLASMA TV or a LCD TV. For some obvious reasons like power consumption, good gaming experience, price, etc. we opted for LCD TV. But now here’s the deal, we are confused if we will go for Samsung LCD TV Series 5(around SGD1,900 for 40inches), or pay an extra bucks for Samsung LCD TV Series 6(around SGD2,700 40inches). Both have free DVD Home Theater system or a 21inches Flat TV.

I researched for the pros and con and found some interesting reviews from ProductWiki. Although im convinced(financially) on Series 5, my wife wants Series6 because of the Crystal Clear capability of that product line of LCD TV. Oh well, let see what happens.