PC Case Mod Xtreme! PIMPERRRRIFIC!

The craziest and coolest mod I have ever seen!



I hope this inspires the local modders . Filipinos are known to be good artists, let's show them what we’ve got! :-D

Ultimate Media Player for your home

I was always in the search for the best player in the market.

My Goal:
I have a very small home theater at home, of course :-D It's about 14x15ft in size. This will be my Media Center. I will soon setup an HTPC (home theatre PC) here and that PC will also be the one to download all my media. Then on all my different rooms in the house I wanted to have a network ready Hard Drive based media player that will be capable of streaming video/Music/Photos from my HTPC, meaning, all the files are stored in the HTPC and do not need to be physically copied to the Hard drive of the satellite players. Aside from the player being network ready, you need to make sure you can get a network connection within the area- this is solved by the FU POWERLINE Bridges which gives you network connections anywhere around the house! Of course since it's a hard drive player, it will also be able to store personal videos which can be copied to it via network still or through a USB device. It is also very important that these Players can play MKV or H.264 File Types and of course all the normal Codecs. MKV and H.264 files are the two shells for BLURAY and HDDVD ripped videos. These are the two major file types capable of playing FULL HD 1080P or 720P resolutions. Right now we have a Sony Bravia 40inch capable of 720p wall hanged on our Theater. It's perfect for the size and doesn't strain our eyes. Speaking of which I will blog about the right LCD/Plasma size for your area very soon (once I find that diagram I downloaded ages ago :-D ) We plan to get a 52" (I think this will happen like 3-5 years from now) for our Master bedroom which has the right room size for the TV, to be enjoyed in all its glory ad full 1080P-2 megapixel resolution.

With that in mind, we need a good Media Player and as the title specifies, I have found the ultimate- Meaning, it's got all the functions we need at the Right Price. Its competitors, I believe, are priced way higher than this with all the same functionality.

Presenting... (Drum rolls)

The HoneyWld Media Player with HDMI and Digital Optical Out, Plays FULL HD 1080P files (mkv and H.264) and is Network Ready and supports Sata Drives up to 1 TB! Also Supports Media Streaming via network and direct download to device! HoneyWld Power Zest HD-301 by Fine Upgrades.

It's the It thing

It's a Hard Drive Enclosure (transfer via network only)

It's a USB host (plays media files directly form USB drives plugged to it)

It's Network Ready (Download from the internet directly to device, share and stream media)

It's a Media Player (Music, Full HD videos mkv, h.264, WM9, Divx, Xvid etc.., Photos)

It's plays 1080P output

It comes with a Remote control

It has HDMI digital Video/Audio Output

It has Optical Out

It has Ordinary Stereo Audio output

It has Analog RCA Video output as well

It supports up to 1 Terrabyte Sata I/II HD



PowerZest Specs:

1. High Definition Media Player up to 1080p ( H.264,VC1, MKV and WMV9)
2. Trans-code to support most updated multimedia format
3. Instant Access to favorite internet Video/Photo/Radio (Live365,vTuner,etc...)
4. Media Transferable among PC, Mobile and NAS
5. DLNA and UPnP Compliant
6. Multimedia Streaming from PC, Mobile and NAS media storage to PowerZest via Wired or Wireless
7. Projector for Wireless Office Presentation
8. HDMI//Composite Video Output built in support
9. 10/100 Network Device
10. Network wizard support to easily connect to home networking
11. One-TouchColor Coded Shortcut Buttons Remote Controller-for Quick Access to Music,Photo,Video , and online media
12. HDD storage support(Optional) as Personal Media Center
13. Premium Content Protection (DRM,DTCP-IP)

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Note: The HD301_EX model available in Cebu does not have wifi. They recommend to use it with the FU Powerline Bridge instead which gives a more reliable and stable connection.

OCZ Dominatrix Gaming Mouse

In the world of Gaming, weapons are brought to life every now and then to arm these "fraggers" with the best tools to swiftly kill there enemies onsite or whack these online monsters to oblivion.

Gaming being one of the biggest industries in the World demands for kickass hardware and OCZ heard their call!

OCZ Technology Unveils the Ultra-Comfortable and Customizable Dominatrix Laser Gaming Mouse



Sunnyvale, CA—August 21, 2008—OCZ Technology Group, a worldwide leader in innovative, ultra high performance and high reliability memory and components, today unveiled the latest addition to its peripherals with the Dominatrix, a top-of-the-line laser mouse for PC gamers. The OCZ Dominatrix mouse is built with the hardcore player in mind with a solid design, maximum functionality, and programmable customization unique to each user. The Dominatrix offers a competitive edge with quality ergonomics and advanced features to excel even when immersed in the most challenging gaming environments.


“We continue to rapidly diversify our product range at OCZ in order to offer an end-to-end line of high performance gaming solutions to our customers,” said Ryan Edwards, Director of Product Management. “The new Dominatrix mouse is no exception, offering world-class performance and specifications guaranteed to provide the discerning gamer and enthusiast with an unparalleled tactile control experience.”



Gaming in extremely large resolutions and fast paced battles requires a specialized mouse that is built for comfort and speed, and Dominatrix users can fine-tune the weight and balance of their mouse up to 40 grams for ultimate control. With multiple dpi settings of 2000/1600/800/400, independently adjust both “X & Y” axes for a combined maximum of 3200 dpi for lightning fast responsiveness and fluid gameplay. High speed USB 2.0 delivers a poll rate up to 500Hz and bi-directional connection for breakneck acceleration and control in any first-person shooter.

The OCZ Dominatrix mouse is built with the demanding requirements of gamers in mind with a solid design, maximum functionality, and programmable customization unique to each user.

Dominatrix users can fine-tune the weight and balance of their mouse up to 40g for ultimate control. With multiple dpi settings of 2000/1600/800/400, independently adjust both “X & Y” axes for a combined maximum of 3200 dpi for lightning fast responsiveness and fluid gameplay. High speed USB 2.0 delivers a poll rate up to 500Hz and bi-directional connection for breakneck acceleration and control in any first-person shooter.

The Dominatrix features two programmable buttons with three different modes each for game settings and internet navigation to make the mouse your own secret weapon. The included software allows gamers to record, read, and edit unlimited scripts of complex keyboard and mouse commands, while the built-in memory allows you to save your mouse settings onboard, useful when switching computers. Featuring a special 4-way scrolling wheel-tilt button, the Dominatrix allows you to move either side to side or up and down without ever moving the mouse.

The Dominatrix sports a large, ergonomic, and stylish design with a comfortable, no-slip rubber grip. Whether you plug and play or decide to program the software with your unique specifications, the Dominatrix is ready to take on your next battle right out of the box. Each OCZ Dominatrix mouse is backed by a 3-year warranty and unbeatable technical support so you can always be on top of your game.


Specifications:

DPI Settings: 400/800/1600/2000
500Hz Polling / Report Rate
Max Tracking speed: up to 45 inch / second
Frame Rate: 7080 frames / second
Software Setup Included
Operating System: Windows XP, Vista (32-bit only)
3-year warranty

Special Features:

Set X&Y axes up to 3200 DPI w/ software
Onboard memory (save profiles)
Customizable weight cartridges up to 40g
4-way tilt scroll wheel
3 Custom Modes
Click / Keystroke Recording
Unlimited Script Profiling / Grouping
Import / Export Profiles
Loop and Fire Key Recording Capability
Ability to Record in Intervals / Duration

Here are some more pics:







Tomshardware got there hands on it as well and see's it as the New Gaming Master for some!

I got some internal info that this is going to be available in the Philippines very soon!!!

My UMPCs ( Kohjinsha SR8) Little Accident

It was an ordinary day. I was at my home-office. Had some guests in the house meeting about the MBM Lanparty coz this happened just before the LP. My UMPC was sitting perfectly on the table while I was typing on my desktop discussing things with Jiggy of ACMEweb Solutions.

Anyways, as the guests left, it was just me and jiggy left when all of the sudden the kisame of my office suddenly fell directly on my table and me. Dust flew all over the room, there was albeit of pause from both us and shock. After the dust cleared, I looked at my table and my Kohjinsha SR8 got a direct hit.

Dust and small cement chips were all over my UMPC :-( Mixed emotions really. My first reaction was to call my wife and rant about it over the phone then I called our Architect. Here lies the problem. We have been living in this house around Jan 1 of 2007. It was built for us from scratch by my father in law. It's actually still very new. Well, we have been noticing large cracks in our room, bathroom tiles beginning to crack as well and wooden TMG floors slowly opening up, but we thought this were all natural curing of the house. But the Roof Falling? This is too much. The Architect is a cousin of my better half. That's the problem. How can you actually get mad at your wife's first cousin? I know what you guys are saying, call the contractor. There lies the second problem, it's the same guy. Thinking we could save up on costs,the architect and contractor are both one and the same.

I think our house is sinking albeit on the right side (if your are facing it) as most of the cracks are appearing there. Our master Bedroom is there and so is my small home office. It wouldn't have really been that bad if only my UMPC wasn't involved in this uncalled for accident.

My Kohjinsha is also very new, got it last July at Taiwan when we were there for Computex.

Why I am so pissed off?

I love my UMPC. Its the smallest of its kind in the world. 7 Inch with Everything you need including an OPTICAL DRIVE. Its the only one of its kind really. Even the Macbook air doesn't have an optical drive.

-800 mhz intel Atom (not a speed hog but enough for office word)
-Touch screen
-Can tranform into tablet format
-Bluetooth, Wifi, GPS
-Digital TV tuner (cant be used in the Philippines though)
-SD/Sony MS and CF slots (can take high speed cards as well)
-two USB slots
-VGA out.

I downgraded my OS from Windows Home Premium to XP tablet. Luckily I got a lot of tips from www.umpcportal.com if it weren't for that site I would have been stuck with Vista.

Yes all of that in a small 7 inch package. Fits in my man purse too! Before, I had 12inch MSI laptop, it was already very small but still, when I travel locally or out of the City I always have second thought on bringing it along coz of the weight.

You ask me if the screen is too small? At the office I have a 22inch LCD attached to it, thank God it has a VGA port! And when I travel, I call it my chest top, yup, CHEST TOP, since it doesn't sit on my Lap, it lays on my chest when I am lying down. Keyboard is big enough for you to be comfortable with, again at the office, I have a Logitech MX500 wireless keyboard and mouse attached to it as well wirelessly via its Built in BLUETOOTH PORT.

Now you see how much this baby means to me and why it hurts.

After blowing of the dust and brushing off the small rocks and crumbled cement I tested my UMPC, some keyboard keys werent pressing down anymore.


AAAAAAAAARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrGGGh!

What's worse is, a couple of days later was showing this little bugger to a friend, and after carefully explaining all the unique functions I showed him the optical drive, it wouldn't eject anymore!!! Dust got stuck, had to manually pry it open and clean it :-(

Oh well, all seems to be well now, but I am quite sure there are still a lot of small debris in there. But I don't want to open it up, not unless I get a complete how to manual form kohjinsha.

Tragedy really.

Here are the pics of the mishap:






Good thing my DSLR was in the Bag. (blue bag beside umpc) if it was out, I think I would be forgetting that he was my wife's cousin.

Oh well, all is well, but I mite be getting someone else to repair it coz the guy my architect sent told us that the only reason for this to happen was a ghost was on our roof! Dope!!!!!!

He is a VERY GOOD architect though, design wise and functionality wise and he's still our friend ;-)

Le Card Readerrr

My fully functional Internal Card Reader on my Home Desktop will soon be replaced with a new one. Why? Well, it cant read 8 gig SD cards. My Point and Shoot and DSLR both use Sandisk 8 Gig High speed SD cards.

Most old Card Readers can't read these new cards because of the speed mostly and not the size. As memory cards grow in space from SD, Micro SD, MMC, Sony Memory stick etc.. the speed also has to catch up and as it does, it automatically junks our old card readers :-(

Too bad really as my card reader is still in mint condition. Oh well. It hinders my daily use of my PC and my Camera's so off to istorya.net's buy and sell section it goes.

So if you are out in the market for a card reader, whether it be internal (for your desktop PC) or external USB type. make sure to ask the seller to test it with a high speed card so you wont end up replacing it or wasting your money and getting a new one that does.

Just some fyi before I get to bed.

Expect some blogs about:
- A hole in my Roof and how it terribly messed up my UMPC.
- HoneyWld Hard Drive Media Player capable of playing 1080P and 720P H.264 and MKV files hits the Philippines!
- Jabra BT8040 Bluetooth Headset
- Motorola DC800
of course many more to come!!

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Update on my Cancer Stricken Mom
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My mom just got a few bags of blood today at the hospital. Her albumin count went low, we were told she would need 5 bags but wont be able to get all at the same time. Some good news though, her SGPT and SGOT count have normalized. That is a very good sign because during our last checkup we were told that the cancer has metastasized to the liver. Atleast we had some good news. Please continue Praying for my mother, Concepcion Ongking Yu from Cebu City, Philippines.

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BSOD Shirt and the search for the Mysterious IPHONE GIRL.

After taking a short break from a another busy day and reading one of my favorite forums, www.istorya.net I stumbled upon this blog about the "iphone girl" Apparently, one person who bought an Iphone had two undeleted photos on inside his recently purchased iphone and now has created so much Hyped about it. The photo was most likely taken upon testing the goods on the production line and they forgot to delete it.

They even started a BLOG about it here:
Iphone Girl Blog



This blog updates us on some iphone goodies, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY about the IPHONE GIRL :-D

She is comfirmed to be working still at the factory that manufactures the Iphone.

Bow you may be asking, what the hell is "BSOD SHIRT" doing in the title??!!

I found this very cool shirt at the blog above I want one myself!

So I'll have it printed soon anyone want to join me? :-)

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