Samsung N110 netbook

The first PC Fair 2009 is just around the corner. For Klang Valley folks, where the nearest PC Fair is going to be at KL Convention Centre next weekend, this would be the biggest IT fair to shop for computer stuff in bargain price. I bet this year, netbook will again the star of the show, with more computer manufacturers, rolled out new models over the past few months.

From today onward, till the PC Fair days, you’ll see more netbook post right here in blogjer. To start with, lets go to Samsung N110 netbook, which just released last week.

N110 is the latest model in Samsung’s netbook line product, which famous with NC series before. What cool about this netbook is, it is equipped with 6-cell lithium battery,  lasts for up to 9.5 hours! Better than most full-sized notebook out there right? I’m not certain if this netbook is going to be here  that soon.

Ermm, I don’t see any netbook in Samsung.com.my. Scroll down for the specs.

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Specification. Product detail

Operating System Genuine Windows XP Home SP3
CPU Intel® Atom™ processor N270
Maximum System Memory     2 GB
Storage Hard Drive 160 GB (2.5″, 5400 RPM)
Dimensions (W XH XD) 10.27” x 1.19” x 7.3”
Weight, Including Std. Battery     2.78 lbs.

Use Diggbar for faster digging

When I heard Digg unveiled Diggbar, I thought it was just another toolbar for web browser. Turn out that I’m completely wrong. Although the name sound bar, it is actually dynamic bar that appear on the screen when you ‘digg’ any site using Diggbar method.

The whole concept of Diggbar is to let everyone easily digg any web page without the hassle of toggling between Digg.com and story page. Seriously, it can be done in 2 steps.

- To submit any story to Digg.com, just add digg.com/ in front of any URL such as below.

diggbar 1 Use Diggbar for faster digging

- Press enter/go. New bar will appear on top of the page. You can submit the story to digg, to tweet the story as well as send it to Facebook. Basically, you’ll see slightly different view between story that has been sent to Digg, and that still not.

diggbar 3 Use Diggbar for faster digging

- This is the Diggbar for the story that has never been ‘digged’.  It’ll show shows the ‘submit to digg’ button.

diggbar 4 Use Diggbar for faster digging

- Diggbar with the story that has been ‘digged’ before, will shows the number of  diggs, and comments and related stories

diggbar 5 Use Diggbar for faster digging

Done..For further information, check out this video


DiggBar from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.

Yahoo redesign Image Search preview page

Yahoo update its image search preview page with new looks and adding more interesting features for greater viewing experience. Opening up Yahoo image search home, won’t show you any difference, but when you click any images to view it, the image will be open up on the newly redesign preview page, where the changes made.

The preview page is now divided to 2 sections. The top section , showing the image detail (size, source) that you clicked. Beside that image, there are other images in thumbnail size as well as back and forward button to scroll backward and forward all images result. The new design focus on convenient, where user longer needed to go back and forth, in order to view the rest of  the searched images.

And the bottom section, showing the website where that images are originated. If you familiar with Google image search, similar concept is applied here.

There is also search bar on top of the preview page. You can closed the first section to fully view the website, where the images comes from.

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Gmail turns 5

Last Thursday, Gmail turn 5, a quite achievement for the Gmail team. Human at this old, has enrolled to kindergarten, started to learn letters and reading, mathematics and etc. Brilliant kids do much greater things, including solving complex mathematics for instance .

But Gmail is not human, although it was invented by human.. genius human being. It has changed how mailbox suppose to be, beyond its traditional function of sending and reading email. Gmail has transformed email to the extent, that it was like other not an email application, which is great. You can chat, create and manage task and many more. But it still not free from outage, which hurt millions of users.

Take all these as lesson to improve it further. Keep up all the good work!

Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook price drop to RM1699

3410729588 f7aafebd71 Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook price drop to RM1699

Dell apparently has slashed the price of its Inspiron mini 10 netbook to MYR1699 from MYR1899 when it was first released to the local market. No worry, as the specs are remain exactly the same.

But personally, I think netbook should be priced below MYR1500 in order to look more tempting.

WWAN support and other ‘coming soon’ features are still nowhere to be seen. Head to this page to find out more.