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King.com, My Current Obsession…

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Hehehe… I have a bit of free time lately but I always tell many people that I’m busy. In fact I was busy and since now I have some extra time to relax, I played games 😛 As I don’t think I will have much free time starting next week. Assignments, classes and works would be taking up most of my time. So I took this opportunity to play as much as I like.

This is not paid!! I stumbled upon King.com few months back when I was looking for some new games such as Diner Dash, Fab Fashion and so on in Yahoo. I registered this account for fun and played some games in there. It’s quite fun and relaxing. Then I forget about it for few months. Until lately I decided to log in again to release some stresses.


You can make your own avatar. There are many types of games available and I’m so engrossed with Cooke Rookie 😛


Manage to win lots of jewels from Cookie Rookie. It’s so nice to win hehehe… Seeing your avatar smilling face after the win just make you want to play more. BEWARE! It’s really addictive because you want to progress to higher level and unlock those features, extra accessories or components for your avatar. Seeing the jewels fall into the cylinder will give you a sense of success 😛 The more the more satisfactions you’ll get hahaha…

There are various tournaments. You can choose any tournament that you want to play, almost all of them are free, means no jewel needed. You just play and if you win you will be awarded with jewels.


I didn’t expect to reach Topaz level in 3 days hehehe… Each level will let you unlock a feature and each feature has cute animation hehehe… You have to reach them to see them. It’s so cute!! The one ou see here is the feature for “Send Challenges”.

Beware not to click ont he Royal Games because I didn’t know and I loss 20 jewels of mine!! You’ll be playing the games to win more jewels with the jewels you have. If you don’t want to loss your jewels, then don’t go there.

By the way, if you notice I blurred my name? 😛 That’s because I don’t want you to know my username for this account, it’s a nickname I used when I don’t want people to know who I am. Go figure 😛 Want to join? Tell me, I will send you an invitation because I want to earn some jewels!! 😛

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Dell XPS M1530 Review

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Finally bought a new laptop!! It’s a Dell XPS M1530 for RM4199 at Pikom yesterday. My budget is around RM3000-4000. I narrowed it down to Toshiba, Sony and Dell and at the end Dell has better price with such kind of specifications. Besides, checked it online and only lower specifications available, it’s already RM4299. Therefore it’s really a deal.

Got free upgrade of RAM from 1GB to 2GB, a carry case, bluetooth and insurance for one year that worths more than RM400 for the laptop in case your laptop is stolen, burnt, flood or burglar carted it away for your house. Online offer only gives free optical mouse.

Performance wise, I haven’t check *LOL* For now it’s still new and clean, of course it’s fast and perform well except Vista that I hate! *LOL* From the Internet, the comments about the performance aren’t that bad. What kind of review is this?!?!? I’m concentrating more on the non-technical parts. At least I know it won’t be as slow and as lag as the one I’m using now.

Specifications(This is not full specifications, just some major ones):
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor T8100(2.1Hhz/3MB/800Mhz)
2GB DDR-2 SDRAM(after upgrade)
15.4” WXGA Display with TrueLife™
250GB SATA Hard Drive
Integrated 2.0 mega pixel web cam(below left)
DVD Super Multi Dual Layer Drive(below right)

256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8600M GT
HDMI-out
Card reader(SD/MMC/Memorystick, just to name a few, I lazy to check the manual hahaha…)

Biometric FingerPrint Reader

MediaDirect one-touch-access

1-Year licensed Anti-Virus, McAfee
MS Works 9.0
Windows Vista® Home Premium
1-Year limited warranty
CREATIVE earphones
CD organizer
Weight: Starting at 5.78 lbs6 (2.62 kg)
Width: 14.06″ (357 mm)
Height: 0.93″ – 1.38″ (23.7 mm – 35.1 mm wedge)
Depth: 10.34″ (263 mm)

Pro:
Lighter than what I’m having now.
Better sound system than what I’m having now.
Better graphic card than what I’m having now.
Nicer design.
Bigger than what I’m having now.
Better performance than what I’m having now.
Huge screen.

Cons:
You need to hold the base down when opening the lid, as it’s light, the whole laptop would move or flip.
Power cord pulls out very easily.
Power cord very short. This is one reason why I didn’t consider Dell at the first place.
Vista suckssssssssssss! That’s why it took me ages to find a new laptop as new laptops now all come with Vista.
Quite bulky.
I don’t like built-in webcam.
Battery life is only 3 hours.
Fingerprints everywhere!! However, easily cleaned with the cloth provided.
The lid closes very LOUDLY when you are not gentle, there’s no way you can close it like normal laptop. You have to hold it and gently close it, if you didn’t pay attention and let go of your hand when it’s almost closed, it will SLAM down by itself! Imagine opening a book and then close it when you are angry. It will give you a loud “PAP!!!” Almost got heart attack for this.
(Told you I’m jinxed! Contacted Dell’s customer support already, waiting for their reply)

Need to get used to:
Vista… Sigh…
Don’t like the keyboard, just need to get used to it, no umph when typing 😛
The touchpad, need to get used to it too.
The screen has huge glare, the major problem with all glossy screens.
Slot load drive instead of the traditional press and eject.

Funny fact:
Wrong sticker!! Hahaha… It should be Intel Core 2 Duo but it has Centrino sticker on it *LOL*

It’s strange that I can’t find proper reviews on the Internet search except from Dell’s site itself. Maybe it’s still too new.


Left: (bottom to top) Free carry case, CD organizer, the case provided.
Right: The cables and the box, even the box design is so cool!


Left: The earphones provided.
Right: Even the the user manual looks like a nice notebook.

Anyway, I need to wait for Dell Support to contact me about the lid problem. Told you I’m jinxed!! Sigh… I bought 3 laptops(Toshiba, NEC, now Dell) and all sure to have problems! Will tell you about this in other post hahaha…

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Drive Traffic To Your Website

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I’m sure we all want to bring in as many traffic as possible to our blogs because traffic=money. There are so many ways to do it and Buzzfuse is one that I found quite useful for your to drive in more traffic to your blog or website.

They will do the marketing for you. If you are an aspiring photographers, graphic designers or artists, it’s going to be a great way for you to show your work to the world with minimum cost involved. You can also sign up for free to test the water. Buzzfuse* will drive traffic to your site. The registration is fast, you only need to fill in your e-mail and activate your account.

If you are lucky, you might even make some money from their monthly contests or bonuses. Try it out, there’s no harm to do so.

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I Have A PSP!

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Been slaving myself in the kitchen these two days… Finally done… Time to start spring cleaning…

Hehehe… I bought a PSP! Believe it or not? I’m supposed to buy a laptop, a DSLR next but instead I bought a PSP! Hahaha… A ceramic white PSP.

😛 Before you start to yell at me… NO! This is not mine! Hahaha… It belongs to my brother. My dad bought it for him for about RM1000+, including the Memory Stick.

Frankly I have no idea what PSP can do 😛 All I know is you can play games with it. Online too but it’s not that easy to use for online. Typing is such a hassle. It’s only best to play game. I played some games with it, still trying to get used to it, I’ve not been playing anything like this for almost 10 years… Everything in there is in Japanese, I had to guess my way around but I’m still clumsy in what each button is for… Talking about an IT graduate that has no idea what PSP is all about and don’t know how to operate it hahaha…

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If Only Edison Used This

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I’m sure you all know about Edison photos that are spreading around the Internet like wild fire. It’s a very big news in the Hong Kong and even Asia entertainment industry. It’s not only involved him but also other celebraties in Hong Kong. He go this really “fun” hobby don’t you think?

The story is that people found out the photos of him having “fun” with those girls from his computer that he sent to repair and that person sent it out to their friends and it ended up available everywhere on the Internet! Here’s a lesson that we all should learn.

What will you do to keep your digital photo album safe? Heard of photo encryption? If only he knew about Hide Photosâ„¢ desktop software product. This software will enbale him to hide his photos from the curious eyes but too bad… It’s too late.

If you have this hobby just like Edison, you should know how to keep your photo safe. Don’t risk it!

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