Grenade MP3 player

A MP3 grenade? Who ever thought of making one?

A sure-fire way of getting you attention... and troubles.



Source: Flickr Album

The White House Website: Today Vs. When Bush Took Office

Wow... the difference is impressive and I actually feel that I have advanced through 20 years. Given that 8 years ago, the website is considered "not bad" and representative of websites of that age, I still feel that they can do better.

Source: Gizmodo / ValleyWag

Gangs recruiting in online games

Bus Arrival Information for "Academic Belt" (Singapore)

For those who like to know when the buses comes, there is a new web service at http://publictransport.sg/public/ptp/en/Getting-Around/academicBelt.html#academic
Alternatively, you can also SMS 77722 the same bus-stop number to get the arrival times by SMS, useful when you do not have internet access at the bus-stops.

Pity is that this service only works for select bus-stops when the current location tracking system should work for the entire island.

See Also: LTA Press Release

Lenovo Power Manager 2

Maybe we were already running Power Manager 2 for a long while, but the recent 2.41 update (from 2.37) brings about a new splash screen. I have no idea why they like splash screens that will steal focus by displaying about all other windows and thus disrupting your workflow. Good thing is that it looks rather nice, but that is obviously what you expect from a business class product.

Another feature that also made it into this update is the "InstantResume", allowing internet connection to be maintained for a while before it turns off. This is good for some quick moves and thus you can get back to work quick.

Last is the minor changes they made to the right-click power gauge. We see some reorganization and also the addition of the InstantResume feature.

There was a Lenovo Blog also talking about the feature and the underlying Vista improvements but to me, I see limited differences. But surely, I appreciate new and improved stuff.

Google's New Favicon

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Did anyone notice it? At first sight I didn't even notice that it's a G on the left, since the white parts blend in with the surrounding background elements.

The blog over at GoogleBlog explains the move, but I still feel that it could have more improvements (ie closer to the original art by moving it slightly back to the center and giving it more contrast by not allowing it to blend in with the surroundings.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/googles-new-favicon.html

D-Link DNS 343 Images

Since I have nothing to do after installing my new NAS (it is still waiting for firmware fixes for 1.5TB drives), I might as well post some images of new my D-Link DNS-343.



External and internal looks


Why buy this? Of course because it is small (only slightly bigger than the volume of the 4 HDD it can hold. However, the size is also probably due to the external powerbrick which is big... or should I say massive.



Top and bottom bay views



EDIT: New beta firmware finally enables my config.

Windows 7 Exploration

Is Windows 7 really lighter? Well it might be and reports indicate it does indeed boot faster and runs better. I almost never met with a UAC prompt except when software is installing.

And the processes running on a clean installation really does looks shorter.

But wait... there are even more processes included with Windows 7 but are not running.

But there are also some nice additions, like communication enhancements to things like improved network center.




And lastly... hardware ratings increases to 7.9. I guess this ensures compatibility with Vista ratings... You can now boast that your gaming rating is now 133.7!