I was looking for a good solution to mount a console wheel that I intend to buy. GameRacer Pro cost around £290 without the wheel. It is good if I got the money to burn. Eventually budget has landed me to this Ikea Hack where the whole configuration set cost less than £60. It does require to drill a hold and several screws to the paddle.
I'd spent an hour yesterday grabbing a copy of VMWare image that contains Mac OS 10.5.5, then I installed the iPhone SDK for 6 hours! Eventually I'd the software upgrade and installed the 700+MB Mac OS 10.5.7 Combine Update and found that it killed the virtual machine. Total time lost was half a day!
I got my iPhone 3GS today, finally I'd decided to move away from HTC Hero after 2 weeks of consideration. But I'll get an Android phone early next year when it has NVidia Tegra chip in the smartphone.
I'd done some research on which case best fit my iPhone, and I bought SGP Shield at eBay from a Korean seller. At first I was looking for an anti fingerprint LCD film, but ended up buying this invinsible shield. SGP shield only comes with a Steinheil Crystal film. Thanks to the generous seller I got anti fingerprint film FOC.
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Hi, may I know is it possible to swap and top up for an anti fingerprint sgp screen protector before you ship? I understand the lcd screen protector included in sgp shield is not anti-fingerprint. Thanks.
- engowen07
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thank you for your buy.it is include one clear screen film.Originally, it is impossible...but i will send one clear and one antifinger print film.thank you.
- wowsomethingnew
Zagg's invisibleshield is another popular choice, but I didn't get it as several users complains about the stickiness of it. I hope SGP will not have this problem.
While I was searching for HTC Hero, I came across this web site, Clove Technology that actually selling it. Too bad I'd already order iPhone 3GS a while ago... which I can still cancel.
Updated 1/7: Get it cheaper at play.com for £399
Finally Apple Iphone can be ordered online from Apple Store. You need not to buy it from eBay anymore.
I ordered mine, hurray. It will be locked to O2 provider, which I'm currently using.
Update: I'd cancelled my order as I changed my mine. I'll go for HTC Hero for the same amount of price.
Amazon has listed D5000 kit for a ridiculous price of £799 and the price doesn't make this baby as an entry camera. As compare to D90 kit which is still selling for £745 with a better lens (18-105 VR), D5000 has lower fps and function, with the only benefit is the swivel LCD.
Panasonic done a great job by putting HD video recording to Lumix G1 and resulted GH1. It distinct from its competitor by having Auto focus advantage during video recording. That's a thumb up for point and shoot user who is planning to upgrade to dslr. The Micro Four Thirds body form promise a smaller and lighter body weight compare to the ordinary DSLR. This one sure look promising. Well done Panasonic!
I got my Asus Nova TV dock last Friday, it was shipped to me from Australia. Many thanks to JYing. Having the only person in UK to own 1 of this tv dock, I have no one to share my joy except those geeks in Australia. :) Okay, this tv dock is what I expected except the expandable HDD enclosure. A 2.5" HDD can be mount to the base of the TV dock. Brilliant!
2.5" HDD enclosure for expansion
The back of the DVB-T TV dock
Front of the TV connector. SD + card reader, and 3 usb ports
Asus Nova P20 + TV DockSaw an advertisement in Best Denki today at Vivo city where you can pre order Vaio P13 fpr SGD1299, 660 pounds equivalent or SGD1699 for P15.
Zin-5003 is the only device in the market support HDMI output, standard video output format (avi, wmv, mp4) plus rm, rmvb, and subtitle avi+srt format. It also play standard audio format (mp3, wma,..) and picture files (bmp, jpg,...). It is a bittorent server as well. Just plug it to your home network or you can directly connect an external HDD to the usb port to play the content.
For more details, see here.
Supported format as below:
I saw this Sony Vaio P series in taiwan 2 days ago at Ximen. There are 2 models:
VGN-P13TH selling for 26,800 taiwan dollar. about 670 pounds. Based on the spec, it comes with
I got my DG834N eventually as I discovered the 2nd floor bedrooms are getting bad wifi coverage with the DG834G router. I'd patched the firmware with DGTeam and it works fine.
I was surfing for comment on upgrading P20's processor to E7300 before I saw the new docking station at Asus homepage. It comes with card reader, usb ports and tv tuner. But since I planned to get a Slingbox SOLO as part of my wishlist for 08/09, the reason I might get it is for the card reader.
One of the OZ web site is selling it for $75.
Update: 12/12 - Apparently P20 is not popular in Singapore as compare to Australia. I got an email from the Asus distributor in Singapore that the docking station will not be available in SG.
Update: 30/12: Thanks to jying, I got my TV Dock for AUD$131.75 inclusive of sea postage to UK.
Update 28/9: The cheapest D90 body I can find is £619 from UKDigital, which I think is reasonable.
I've been looking for a decent webcam for my HTPC for almost 6 months but I never committed in getting one. At a point I'm thinking of getting Creative Live Cam, Microsoft webcam, then Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 and finally decided to go for Logitech Quickcam Sphere/Orbit AF. Thanks to Malcolm (Cherlyn's friend), he helped me bought it at Amazon.com for USD91.99 (£53) as compare to £74.9 here in UK. Singapore only has latest pricelist for older model; Sphere MF at about SGD180 (£72).
Not only Sphere AF support Skype High definition streaming, it also comes with motorized Tilt/Pan, auto zoom, auto focus, motion detection and built in microphone. Perhaps the greatest reason for me to buy it is the ability to remote tilt/pan using a 3rd party software such as remotecontroleye, roborealm, eyespyfx and orbsecure.
Moreover, Quickcam team release public API to control the camera if anyone like to take advantage of the webcam for other purposes.
There is another £40 linksys wireless webcam that doesn't required connection to the pc and it does has a good review here.
Updated on 25/1/2012 - Finally after 3.5 years, I'd upgraded the CPU to C2D E6420 and it is running fine, paid £28 from ebay.
Asus Nova P20 has no upgrade option as the reseller in Singapore told me. In UK, there is no P20 model but PX24, P244 Black and P22. The initial look inside the box was very complicated but not impossible. It took me 5 hours to reach the RAM, but probably 1 hour if I would to redo again. Most of the UK models comes with 2GB ram, the maximum for the board, but if you do like to upgrade the processor or HDD, it is possible.
My unit comes with 120GB SATA hdd and a low end Intel Core 2 Duo E2160 processor. I was thinking of putting a new 320GB SATA2 HDD and any of the higher processor such as E6550 as I already gone thru the hassle of opening the box. In the end, I only replaced the RAM with a new 2GB Kingston DDR2 PC5300 667Mhz ram into it. Processor and HDD will be my next upgrade, perhaps early next year when the price comes down 20%.
It is now performed way better than before, for my WMP, Teamviewer and some graphic tools. This made it a better HTPC.
First look inside the box
HDD and holder bracket, without dvd drive
motherboard without the hdd & dvd drive bracket
Intel E2160 Desktop processor
the other side of the motherboard, and most importantly, the 1GB RAM
I got the latest pricelist from a source in Singapore. There are plenty of freebies but the price is not attactive.
Nikon has announced successor to D80 mid range camera, D90 today with several accessories such as a hotshoe GPS unit. Among the highlights of this camera are:
This is the first DSLR comes with video recording function. I was expecting this camera since beginning of the month. Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed with the announcement as I thought gps will be built in to the body. Nevertheless, I'm going to evaluate whether I should upgrade for the new features above plus auto dust removal, lighter body, longer battery life from my d200/ downgrade to a mid range camera without rubber grip, fast sensor, bulk mode shutter release.
More on Video Sample here
More on 16 pages brochures here
More on Sample Images here
The following is the video on the pre-release d90 done by Chase Jarvis, Nikon D3 pro user.
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