My New Nokia N76

HEHEHE!
Wanna share with you all my new Nokia N76.
It really looks great: Slim & Stylish.
I bought the phone at the price of RM2073 @ Sungai wang.
The original package come with a free Nokia Headset & 512M micro SD.
At first feel like wanna upgrade the memory card to 1G, but the salesman wanna extra charge me RM70 which i think is quite expensive, so i din take the offer.

Quality of the sound & speaker quite good.
The speed of applications is up to satisfactory, everything start up at a just nice timing.
Camera response is fast, but this phone is dun have a Carl Zeiss's lens, photo quality just so so if compare to N73.
Web browsing is quite convenient coz can rotate the screen to view more text lines at one time.
Will share more experience, as i just starting to explore this phone.

For me:-
Outlook: 9/10
Value: 7/10
Applications: 8/10

PS:-
For those who having problem to access the internet (wap) or sending/receiving MMS with you new nokia handphone (even after you have already save the settings from your service provider), i have a tip here for you.

SYMPTOM: When trying to send MMS, Error code display: Packet data not allowed.

1. Go into the main menu
2. Tools
3. Settings
4. Connection
5. APN Control (Access Point Network Control)
6. Waiting for the phont to retrived your SIM content

If there is notes saying: Retrictions activated,

7. Options
8. Deactivate Restrictions

The phone will asked for your SIM card PIN2 code.
For Maxis's SIM, by default is 1234.
If it is not, you can call your service provider to get the code.
Dun try to guess too many times, the phone will block the PIN2 code, and ask for PUK2 code, which is even more troublesome -.- !

Problem with my DELL's Laptop LCD Screen

I'm using my Dell Inspiron 2200 for 18-month already. This morning when i start-up my laptop, i noticed there is a permanent blue line on the LCD screen. I try to restart and reinstall the monitor driver, but the line is still there :(

When i surfing the internet, hope to get some solutions to solve this problem, i found a website that discuss about "Faulty Dell Inspiron LCD Screen". Then... i realized that i'm actually one of the victim. Haiz... I never have this kinda LCD screen problem with my Compaq's laptop which is already 3 years old.

Feel sad about this. The line is annoying. Don't feel the same satisfactory anymore when i'm playing my warcraft now. :(~

Battery Hours of O2

I really fedup with my O2 battery hours! My O2 Atom has some many function and games but the battery hours really s*cks! I just play game for half an hour and it consumes 50% of my O2 battery hours? I just can't imaging that. That is no point to have a sophisticated device that can only be use for a while.

Compare to my Nokia N73 Music Edition, i can listen to FM radio/music for a whole day but my Nokia N73 still have more than 60% battery hours. That is what we call balance design! The battery hours really can support the N73 as a great music device & a handphone at the same time.

Window Pocket PC vs Palm OS

Recently i'm looking for new staffs for my O2 Atom. Actually i didn't explore much on my O2 since the day i bought it. I just use it as my organizer and phone. When i started to install new software to my O2, i found that ... window pocket PC is totally different from palm OS.

Most of the freeware i downloaded are in .prc format and cannot be installed. Then only i realized that my O2 is actually running on Window Mobile 5.0. Well, i think i knew it but never realized that it is different from Palm OS. I need to look for files in .cab format or installer for window pocket PC for my O2. A bit stupid -_- but never too late to learn new things ^^

Would like to share a few websites that have freeware and nice games for pocket PC.
http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/
https://www.astraware.com/

PS: I have also tried on the new Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5. The syncronization process is faster. If you would like to try on it, can download it from Microsoft website.

Where to get the local GPS maps wor?!

Hmm, I think everyone should be quite familiar with the GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation tool already. "GPS" should be something that can navigate us to a place accurately. Last time, whenever I heard about GPS, I can imagine about having a PDA alike tool with LCD screen in my hand. When i look into the screen i can see my own location and the tool can shows me the way the location I intended.

However, when i purchased my first GPS receiver (HOLUX brand, a simple one)... I just found out that, i actually need a sophisticated local digital map for the GPS receiver, and also a navigation software for it to work as a navigation tool. Without a valid digital map, and navigation software, i just can only see my own location in Longitude & Latitude. In fact, THE MAP IS REAL EXPENSIVE!!! Only then i know... GPS receiver is just a tool that can tell your own location accurately >_< (But, i still can cope to find some free GPS maps online)

Recently, i tried on the new launch N95, which have built-in GPS receiver, it comes with Singapore and Klang Valley maps (smart2go Nokia maps). Map is free, but need to pay extra for the navigation function (-_-!!). Hmm, just have a feel on it at the shop, never test it on the road, so cannot comment on the accuracy (++ It is still at the cost of RM3000 ++ VERY EXPENSIVE!!) . In fact, I think it is quite difficult to get other free digital GPS maps that work on Symbian OS.

Haiz....

Virus arrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get infected by virus again... and this time my AVG seem likes can't kill it!!!!
(Pls dun ask me where i get the virus -_-!! i din't surf the porno website... k? >_<) OMG!! I have scanned my laptop for thousand and million of time and i can't get all the virus kill. After each scan, the will be some new familiy member: Trojan Horse PSW.Generic3.xxx in my AVG's virus vault!

These are the symptoms
1. Everytime, when i wanna shut down my laptop, it will turn into blue screen.
2. When i restart my laptop there will always be a runtime error warning...
3. When i check in my Window Task Manager, there is a lots of "isignup.exe" processes which occupied up my CPU usage.

However, after some hardworks, i finally get it kill.
1. I scanned my laptop using AVG, Panda Online Active Scan, SUPERAntiSpyware, DrWeb-CureIt, and ComboFix I just have been told that one antivirus software can't kill all the virus... -_-!!


2. Then, kill the isignup thing by

a. Delete the ShellExecuteHooks event：
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellExecuteHooks]"{B8A170A8-7AD3-4678-B2FE-F2D7381CC1B5}"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{B8A170A8-7AD3-4678-B2FE-F2D7381CC1B5}]

b. Restart my laptop

c. Delete the virus exe files：

ProgramFiles\InternetExplorer\ConnectionWizard\isignup.sys
ProgramFiles\InternetExplorer\ConnectionWizard\isignup.dll

d. Delete the Virus Registry：
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\qqjdd]

Finally, my laptop back to normal and i need not to format my laptop. Well, i am actually, i getting guidelines and helps from the Geekstogo forum. Quite a lot of expert there which is kind to offer their help. They also introduce quite a lot of useful and free antivirus/antispyware software.

Sketchup A Nice 3D Software

Recently, i have tried on the Google Sketch-Up, and i came up with a 3D drawing which displayed above. Well, it is a stage design, that i tried to propose to my boss. I'm not a graphic designer, and I know it is actually not sophisticated -_- However, what i wanna mentioned here is, i just took about 15 minutes to learn the software and another 10 minutes to draw. It is much more easy compare to Photoshop.


Free version can be downloaded at http://www.sketchup.com/. There are a lots of tutorial and Plug-in for this software. The one which is quite useful to me is the "Sketchup for Film & Stage".

PS: If you have any other 3D drawing software which is easy to learn and use (hope that it is free -_-!!), please drop me a comment and recommend it to me. Thank you very much!