Asus P750 review

Bought this phone on February. The reason I didn't release the review out soon was to give me some time to properly test it.

The black packaging for the ASUS P750 is very impressive indeed. In the box, you will find one piece of USB synchronisation and charge cable, a quick start guide and the user manual book, a wall socket charger, a stereo hands-free kit, two CD containing manuals and essential softwares, a black leather pouch, a spare stylus pen and a spare 1300mAH battery. My phone came with a 2 gig microSD memory card, which is a lot to me already.

Thou P750 design looks rather similar to the P526, the difference is that the P750 has a dark brushed aluminium frame. The screen is TFT 2.6-inch in size and displays 65k colours in 240 times 320 pixel.

P750 is quite light, weights around 130g. This is no fingerprint magnet, because all the exposed surface of the device, except the screen of course, is dark matte. Cosmetically, the P750 is very business-like and should appeal to corporate customers.

The P750 features a 3 mega pixel camera that has an auto focus and macro. Serious photography should not be expected with the P750, but it should be adequate to cater the needs for normal everyday snapshots.

There's a GPS antenna socket located at the side. Just plug in an in-car external GPS antenna, mount the phone in the supplied car mount kit and you're ready to go anywhere, navigation ready. P750 comes with the SiRF StarIII chip, popular due to quick satellite connection acquisition. It requires you to be out there in the open thou, being inside the house or any place inside buildings - it can be hard to find those GPS signals.

The good: Numeric keypad for text input, many applications bundled, convenient power switch, car kit bundled in, excellent battery life, leather pouch bundled, large touch screen.

The bad: No navigation maps bundled for GPS applications, ordinary design, camera shutter lag, reception is kinda low in rural area.

The bottom line: P750 is not going to appeal to most users, but it has all the basic functions and some extras.

GoDaddy promo codes

If you are using GoDaddy (or plan to use it), here are some promo codes that you can use :

OYH1 - 10% discount
OYH2 - $5 off any purchase above $30
OYH3 - $6.95 for .com's (Pretty useful for bulk buyers)

Enjoy :)

Google declares war on paid links

Excerpt from site :

If your site has been buried under a heap of results, there may be a good reason for it. Google, which partially bases its search results on inbound links, has made life difficult for some marketers by declaring war on paid link sites.

While Google has always banned paid links, the search giant now seems serious about enforcing the rules.

Rand Fishkin, who compiled a list of 70 sites that have drawn Google's ire, told Forbes the crackdown on link directories has begun in earnest.

We do consider buying links to be outside of our guidelines, and be notified that we may take stronger action on that in the future," said Google senior engineer Matt Cutts. "If you're a webmaster, you can do whatever you want on your site. But as a search engine, we can do what we think is best to return a high quality index."

But one concern over the crackdown is that Google may go too far, blocking out blogs and other sites that sell links to marketers.

"This is a shot across the bow from Google," Fishkin said. "They're seeing a heavy amount of manipulating, and they want to show what it looks like when they take punitive action. It's intended more as public relations than anything else."

End of excerpt

Taken from http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/16900.asp

My view : All those webmasters who have paid link stuff in their site, better remove it quickly.

New AT&T terms of service: We'll cut off your Internet connection for criticizing us

AT&T has brought down new Terms of Service for its network customers. From now on, AT&T can terminate your connection for conduct that "tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T, or its parents, affiliates and subsidiaries." So AT&T customers aren't allowed to write/podcast/blog critical things about AT&T, its billing-practices, or its cooperation with illegal NSA wiretapping, on pain of having their connections disconnected. Link

My view : Sounds familiar? I wonder if our "local home brew net company" resorts to this kind of tactics later, sure die one x_x. It's plausible to happen since so many people are dissatisfied with their service anyway, I've seen so many negative comments regarding their services spawning around the web these days ...

I'm still waiting for our "savior" to come. One that doesn't need a telephone line. One that I can access anywhere. One that is cheaper and reliable. Yes ... oh yes!

Gimp - Free image manipulation tool

Excerpt from the site :

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages."

My view : It is a cool tool, similar to Photoshop. It's size is small, and handy enough to be carried around in your USB handy drive. The results obtain after experimenting with a few image manipulation? Quite good, nearly as good as what you will get using Photoshop.

Get it at www.gimp.org

Google Adwords Learning Center

If you're an AdWords advertiser, Google Advertising Professional, or just interested in learning more about AdWords, you can use our free training to sharpen your AdWords knowledge. We offer both multimedia and text lessons to match your preferred learning style. While lessons are organized to build upon previous ones, you can skip between topics and take them in any way you like. After each lesson, test your knowledge by taking a quiz. Because so much is covered, you probably can't complete training in one sitting (without the help of caffeine), so return often. Content is updated regularly to keep you current.

My view : This is a goldmine of information, and best of all it's free. A must visit site.

http://www.google.com/adwords/learningcenter/

Nvu - a free open source WYSIWYG

Nvu (pronounced N-view)

"Finally! A complete Web Authoring System for Linux desktop users as well as Microsoft Windows and Macintosh users to rival programs like FrontPage and Dreamweaver. Nvu (which stands for "new view") makes managing a web site a snap. Now anyone can create web pages and manage a website with no technical expertise or knowledge of HTML"

This is among the best free tools that I have used, get your free copy at www.nvu.com.

Easy WiFi Radar

Some things in life should be free. Easy WiFi Radar helps you find and connect to open wireless access points with a single mouseclick. It's WiFi for Dummies. And we're giving it away for your PC.

If you have ever tried to use Windows XP's built-in connection manager, you know what a hassle it can be to quickly check your mail or browse the web on the go. You need to browse through a list of access points, find one that you can connect to, manually try to connect to it, confirm the connection and then wait. Even if it says that's it connected, often it doesn't open a webpage or you mail will stall. Easy WiFi Radar automates all of this. It's main goal is to let you get your mail or surf the web without having to go through all of the connection trouble, and without having to pull your creditcard. Just run it and it'll connect you for FREE to the internet. It doesn't get easier than this.

Note : Get this cool tool now. You can connect to any hot spot hassle free with this tool. Recommended. Enjoy!

Part 1: My DIY project - Use an ASTRO Dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna

Part 1

Yup, you heard it right.

To use an ASTRO dish as an IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna.

Don't understand what the hell I'm talking about? Read on.


I got inspired by stumbling across this page ...
http://www.wwc.edu/frohro/Airport/Primestar/Primestar.html


Why?
Because the location where I teach is a rural area and there is no internet connection available there, so its so bloody boring. I got an unused ASTRO dish too laying in my house, so what the heck, might as well use it for experimentation purpose.

Is it possible?
Theorectically, yes. The current world record for the longest Wi-Fi distance record is 382 kilometers, held by a researcher Ermanno Pietrosemoli, who hails from Latin America. He established a Wi-Fi link between two computers located in El Aguila and Platillon Mountain, Venezuela. That's a distance of 382 kilometers, or 238 miles. He used technology from Intel, which is concocting its own long-range Wi-Fi equipment, and some off-the-shelf parts. Pietrosemoli gets about 3 megabits per second in each direction on his long-range connections.

Nearest town to my school is Mukah, and its approximately 70 kilometers from my school. So, the idea is quite plausible to try since my area is consisted of lowlands, no hills here dude, so chances of hills interfering the signals are slim. However, I really need to focus more on the design of the actual antenna since it will be the focus and the workhorse for this project. So, you town people should appreciate your easy-to-reach-use-WIFI-signals because you don't have to try zany ideas to even try to get connected to the net.

By the way, I can reach the internet from my school by using my trusty K750i but that's by paying. I need a more cost effective way and this Wi-Fi thingy seems to be the answer.

After doing some more research on the matter, I stumbled upon another good site which is at http://www.usbwifi.orcon.net.nz/. They even use easy to find items for their projects. They dub the site as "Poor Man's WiFi" since they use a cheap USB Wireless adaptor + DIY antenna for their projects. What suprises me the most was they were using asian parabolic cookware @ wok as their antenna, can you believe that?

There's alot of designs available - like the CAN-tenna, WOK-Fi etc ..
But I think I'll stick with the ASTRO Dish + USB Wi-Fi design since I already have an unused dish laying around.

More on the design in Part 2 ...

How Easy It Is For Someone To Hack Into A Secured WiFi Network

Better double check that connection, dude! >_>"