Got this Lenovo T61

Last week I got a new laptop from my company. It is IBM Lenovo T61. Finally, I need to let go my old laptop Toshiba satellite which I do not know what satellite model it was.

Black color with slim rigid body makes Lenovo T61 looks professional. Overall it is a good laptop powered with Intel Centrino Pro. I have heard a lot about Intel Centrino, Intel Centrino Duo, Intel Centrino Core Duo, but I do not know what is Intel Centrino Pro. I did my homework by googling it and I found out that Intel Centrino Pro is similar with Intel Centrino Duo.

My laptop comes with 2GB RAM and installed with Windows XP. With this combination, the laptop runs faster. I am not planning to move to Windows Vista anytime soon because I do not want to waste my 2GB RAM to be slowed down because of windows Vista.

I satisfied with this laptop, however, after a week using it, I found something that in my personal opinion really annoying:

1. Batterry is a little extruded at the back of laptop. I do not know why IBM has to design it this way. I dont mind with the look, but every time I lift my laptop (from the front), the back part of the laptop get pressured with the table. I am afraid that in time, this will make the battery loose from the body (laptop).

2. Keyboard sounds is annoying when I type. When i try to type fast, I apply more pressure to the keyboard pads. The sounds it loud from my opinion as compared to other laptop that I have used. I notice that space bar is the one making a lot of noise when pressed.

3. USB port is vertical. The USB port is designed vertically on the right and left of laptop. Since the body is slim, I find it difficult to put my USB to the USB port. Especially with my USB flash disc that a little bulky, I need to lift and put something under the laptop so that it can be fitted. But I thing this is normal problems that we encounter with USB port for the laptop.

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Interactive Advertising

I have seen many ads in the sites with interesting moving images stored in gif files. Some are also putting video advertising to give more duration to the movie ad. But this could slow down the ad being displayed in the site or blogs.

What interest me is the ads that I have seen recently. Well, I might have seen that a long time a go but did not bother to notice it. Until recently I had nothing to do and start looking at the ads. It surprises me that the ad were interacting with my mouse movement and clicks. The ad was basically saying me to do some mouse movement and clicks to reach a goal. To give you a concrete example, I saw an ad that told me to move the airplane (inside the ad area) and shot the missiles. When I move my mouse over the ad area, the airplane moves as well. And if i press a click, it fires. Hehehe... I played a little until finally I reach the end and my browsers open a new window saying a congratulation. Of course, after that congratulation, there are some sales page that the company wants to sell.

Overall, I like the idea of interactive ad. It gives a user to notice the ad longer and try to read the sales letter afterwards. Good job you... advertiser.

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Let us improve your credit rating

Have you been into situations that your loan application were reject because your past credit rating? It is quite frustrating when your past credit rating make your life difficult in applying any type of loans. If you are in this situation, most of the time that you will bluntly applying for loan offer that you found in mall or in your mailbox saying "Any previous credit rating will be accepted". Well, take care of the offer and do not decide taking any loans without comparing them first. There are still a lot of financial institution that can help you repair your bad credit loansby giving reasonable loans in the beginning. Through time when you always pay the monthly mortgage on time, your credit rating is improving and the financial institution will increase the budget for your loans.

Most of the vendors would give you an convenient to apply it it online. You can find the comparison of financial vendors that you would like to apply at User Guide to Bad Credit. Simply choose your loan category, either: Credit Card, Personal Loan, Home Loan, Auto Loan and many more. You will be directed to the list of financial institutions that could help you even if you had a bad credit rating previously.

The idea is to start improving you credit loan. Take advantage of their offer. Apply them and start paying your loans on time.

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Tattoo Removal Side Effect

I read an article from medicinet that around 10% of Americans has permanent tattoo. Unfortunately, 50 % of those people want their tattoo removed after a period of time. The question raised is

What are the side effects of removing permanent tattoo?

It depends on what techniques are going to be used to remove the tattoo. Using traditional methods such as excision, dermabrasion or salabrasion are obviously could cause more side effect of heavy infection. Well, the past few years, laser technology has been popular way to remove tattoo. This laser treatment minimize the side effect of tattoo removal. Below are the minimal side effects to tattoo removal by lasers. Even these are minimal side effect, you should know it well before taking the decision.

1. Upon removing tattoo using laser, there is a risk of infection in the tattoo area. It means that there is a small chance that the laser burn will leave you with a permanent scar.

2. As laser has burning capability, you might have the treated skin paler than the surrounding skin. Or you might have the treated skin is darker than the surrounding skin. In medical term, they call risk of hypopigmentation for the first case and risk of hyperpigmentation for the latter case.

The side effect of tattoo removal sometimes depend on the color of the tattoo. It is not because the color affect the laser behavior. But because the color could determine the length of laser treatment. Some colors can be easily removed and some colors need more treatment.

In the end, it is better to consult to a experienced physician on laser tattoo removal because the treatment could be different from one case to another.

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Discrimination for Bad Credit Rating People

It is a fact that Credit Rating is considered important for Americans. Once you have a bad credit rating, it is difficult for you to take another home loan, personal loan or even to apply for credit cards. Every time you want to apply for new credit cards, the financial institution will ask your credit rating. Once it is considered bad credit rating, they will not consider your application anymore.

If you think that the world are against you, it is normal because most of financial institution takes an extra careful steps to avoid bad debt. However, there are still some financial institution that can give you a second chance. They will consider your credit card or other loans application even if you have bad credit credit cards. This is your change to improve your credit score. After getting approved, try your best to pay on-time to have a good credit rating.

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Shopping Cart for Online Store

Recently, I was contacted by one of my friends who wants to setup his online store. He has been having a furniture store and really eager to expand the business online. He is one of the smart friends I have and I know that he can learn to build his online store.

However, I recommend him not to build the site by his own. It will take a precious time for him to do these details while he can focus on other things. I was telling him that building the sites could be easy, but to integrate the shopping cart and to resolve technical problems (if any) could be time consuming. Not to mention that the Search Engine Optimization method that he should implement.

There were many ecommerce software available online and affordable. This software comes with shopping cart that is integrated to the site. It will be time saving and my friend could focus on marketing the product online.

One example of shopping cart software is Ashop. Ashop gives total solution from site template that we can personalized, free emails, shopping chart, and the most important is 128 bit SSL checkout security. Security is one of the top priority to kept the customer fell safe doing online transaction.

In addition, the vendor gives full fraud alerts and web promotion services for the site. I tell my friend to give a try on this product. At least he can try the 10 day free trial to test if it fits of what he plans to have in his online store. If he likes it, he can start investing on the total solution in affordable monthly payment and focus on the product marketing instead of building the online store.

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Just Curious of This Service

A friend of mine this his affiliate link to register in this 1on4 site. The site basically provides free services to help your site in search engine for your chosen keywords. What's the catch? Nothing actually from the info I read in the site. They are now still in beta. That is why they offer free services and it will end until end of March 2008.

After March 2008, the company will open the keywords for bidding. The highest bid will enjoy the luxury of services that the company tried to offer. To make No 1 in 40 search engine based on keywords provided. The company states that it will not charge the customer if they can not provide what they have promised.

Well, for me... it is nothing loss to try. I have submitted one of my sites and I would like to see the results. If you want to try, you can join free using my affiliate link. At least I can use some of the credits to bid after end of March 2008.

Click here to join. (aff)

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Nasi Goreng Special

Wow.... I miss nasi goreng (fried rice) all of the sudden. I used to buy nasi goreng from the walking vendor (abang-abang) that passes by in front of my house. If you notice it, it seems to be easy to make it. Just fry chopped garlic, onions and put rice with "kecap manis" (sweet soy sauce). But when I try to make it my own, the taste is very different. Well, maybe the seller puts more vetsin/msg/any flavoring... hehehe....

To make it special, nasi goreng is usually served with fried egg, and "emping" (cracker from melinjo seed).

Wikipedia defined nasi goreng as:

Nasi goreng is the Indonesian version of fried rice - that is what it means in Bahasa Indonesia. The dish is often accompanied by additional items such as a fried egg, fried chicken, satay, or krupuk (fried crackers / chips made of shrimp or vegetables). In many restaurants, when accompanied by a fried egg, it is sometimes called the nasi goreng special.

Below is the pic of nasi goreng that I liked :D ... hmmm.. looks yummy right?

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Google Earth Version 4.2

Today I finally upgraded my Google Earth into ver. 4.2. At first running of updated Google Earth application, I noticed the "Show tips" at the start up and it is saying"

Tip: Viewing the sky

New in version 4.2: explore stars, constellations, planets, galaxies and more. To view these objects, click View > Switch to Sky or the Sky button:
New in version 4.2: explore stars, constellations, planets, galaxies and more. To view these objects, click View > Switch to Sky or the Sky button:
Display or hide these objects by checking items in the Layers panel. Click a placemark in the 3D viewer to learn more about an object.
Learn more about viewing the sky in Google Earth »

Well.... so far, I am not interested to view the sky and other galaxies... hehehe.. In any case, I just keep the show tips to appear every time I run the application just to know what I am missing in the new version.

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Apple is releasing new patch

If you think that hackers are only targeting Microsoft products, you are wrong. On early November Krystian Kloskowski from Poland who are working on monitoring software security found a "hole" in Quicktime player. Not long after, many hackers took advantages of this hole by attacking users of Quicktime player. Unfortunately, quicktime player are most used by Firefox webbrowsers. This event, ofcourse, bring firefox developers into a head ache while they are trying to campaign a slogan "Safe Browsing".

Apple in this matter tried to resolve the problem quickly by releasing new patch. Now, quicktime users not need to worry about this problems. But until when? nobody will know!

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Thinking to buy HP Pavilion dv6500t series

Currently I am having this TOSHIBA laptop with P4. It works OK because my RAM is 1GB. But it becoming very slow when I am installing some new applications. Now... when Christmas is near, I am thinking to buy new laptop as a gift for myself.

So far, I am looking at HP Pavilion dv6500t series that is fit my budget. I will choose the one with:

Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 Duo processor T7250 (2.00 GHz, 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB)
2GB DDR2 System Memory
HP Imprint (Radiance) + Fingerprint Reader + Webcam + Microphone
Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection
250GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive

With some coupons, I can have it for about USD 757.49+
I will be researching a little bit and compare the prices with different brands on the same specs.

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Insteresting Sites

This blogpost will be dedicated for exchange links. Since there are many requests to exchange links or many sites that I found interesting and worth a link for; it will be difficult if all of them are put in the sidebar. Thus, I will put it here. I added one link in the sidebar that will always link to this blogpost.

Here we are:

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Where do you put your extra money for your passive or additional income?

As an ordinary worker that put effort from 8am-5pm in the office (well, sometimes up to 10pm), I tend to try to put my savings to some programs that could bring me some passive income. I have tried some HYIP (High Yield Investment Programs) Online and got scammed twice. The good thing is that I only invested there around $10-$50 to test their program. Now, I never trust those HYIP Online anymore. If some of you really get good return, then, good luck to you and stay safe.

I tried also playing FOREX and it really consumed my time to search and monitor the progress. Being greedy, I lost about $1000+ in the process. Finally I stopped playing it myself and put my money in managed fund handled by FXCM. So far, I got a return of 20%-50% a year. Not much? At least I am not wasting my time looking at the chart, news, and reports.
Similar to FOREX, I tried to understand options trading. Option trading is a derivative of stocks trading. I signed up for a virtual trading in OptionsXpress and learn it by myself. In the end, I stopped it as well because it consumed my time to monitor the news and movements everyday. I have read that some people could only spend 2 hours per day and get profit out of that. Well, may be I am not smart enough or discipline enough to just spend 2 hours per day and understand the positions.

From 2 years ago, I put some of my money in mutual funds. I choose big investment houses like Schroders and Fortis to manage my funds. Why? Because it is easier for me to trust them as compared to small investment houses that have just started up and promising big returns. So far, they gave me return around 30%-50% a year for my aggressive portfolio.

Please take note that even I have benefits some passive incomes from forex managed funds and mutual funds, there are NOT risk free. Those kind of investments involve risk of losing money. They put it clearly on the form when I signed up. Thus, only put your additional money that you can risk on those types of investments.

How about you? What programs did you join to bring you additional income or passive income? Please share it with me by putting in comments?

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Christmas is coming

Although it is just 6 November now, I need to think a little bit of Christmas gift ideas for my parents, brothers, and some of my friends. Why so early? because I would not want to be in rush for my Christmas shopping in December. You must have experience the crowded store during December. In addition, the most important is that I do not want to miss someone in my list.

Sometime, it is safer to give shop gift cards. This will be a gift certificate that my relatives or friends can used to buy any products they like in under the shop on the gift cards. Of course, I need to give the popular gift cards like Home Depot, JC Penney, Bloomingdale's, etc. Another reason to give a gift cards is that it is easy to handle and send because some of them are gift card online that you could send through email.

Now, I need to start building my list as not to forget my relatives and friends for Christmas gifts. Well, it means that I need to start to save my money from now :D

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Review on Top USA Online Casinos Website

Top USA online casinos is not just an ordinary online gambling website. It provides informations specially for US players to choose right online casinos.

It would be better if the statement "Reviews of Online Casinos that Accept
US Players." is modified a little bit to make it more stand out. Just to inform visitor right away that the website is about giving information for Best Online Casinos. Most of the time, people are very careful in choosing online poker or casino website. If it is sometime unknown, they will close the window immediately. I am sure that the owner of Top USA online casinos does not want to be mistaken as another online casinos website affiliates.

Overall, the website is clean in design so that readers can read the whole informations without distraction. I like that the webmaster opens new window or tab every time I click on the banner. This way, I could be able to refer back to where I was reading when I clicked on the banner. Here's the site on the site that I review on my blogpost http://www.topusaonlinecasinos.com/

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Unique Idea where the Lowest Unique Bid Wins

Online bidding is becoming so popular in the internet. Even for small prices of products, you can find it on the online bidding or online Sweepstake. The reason of bidding becoming so popular is because it simple follows the rule of supply and demands. When the supply is rare and the demand is high, it will receive more bids with higher price.

But have you heard in online bidding where the lowest bid wins? It is true, in Bid4Prizes, the lowest bidder will win the prices. So, what is the catch? No catch at all. One thing that you should remember that your lowest bid should be unique. For example, if there are two people bid for Apple I-Phone for $1, then the system will look for the next price which is $2. If there are only 1 person bid for $2, then he/she is the winner. It is so easy to bid or can I say “play”. You might get Free gifts also.

Did I say Apple I-Phone? Yes, the products for bidding are not cheap and low quality products. You can even see cars, High Definition TV, and any other electronics, vacation packages, and Cash prize for bidding. If you still do not understand the concept of reverse-auction game, try to look the 2-minute video tutorial in Bid4Prizes.

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Paperclip Figurine

I am not the person who like to put figurines in my house. But this paperclip Figurine caught my attention when it was on display in small store in Singapore. I like the idea of making this figure from paper clips. Well, the original idea was to make the figurine from the used paper clips. As you know that trough time, the paper clips could not fasten the paper anymore and people will replace with new paper clips. These old paper clips are then collected and strigthen up to make it ready for figure collections.

But in those stores, the artists have been started to make paper clips figurine from new paper clips. Well, you can not blame him/her because maybe it is more difficult to find used paper clips :P

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CECT ELINK China Phone

My friend recently bought this PDA CECT ELINK Cellphone. I was playing around for a little bit. In general, it was a good cellphone with full functionality for the price. We will see after some time if the quality is great. At a first try, I like the dual sim GSM functionality and the wide PDA screen. It comes as well with the extra battery for CECT ELINK phone. Here are some specs that I got from the manufacturer of CECT ELINK.

3.0" LCD Tri Band PDA Dual Sim Card Camera GSM CECT ELINK Cell Phone
Unlocked; work with most of GSM network, dual sim card either select one for operation.

Specification:
Body Dimension: 116 x 60 x 15mm ( 4.6" x 2.4" x 0.6" )
Network: Support GSM 900/1800/1900 mHz
Dual Sim: Two SIM card slot setup for call forward or either switch one
Display: 3.0" QVGA color LCD display with touch screen support hand write
Bluetooth: Support bluetooth 2.0 for stereo transaction and files browser
Camera: 1.3 Mega pixel camera
Languages: multi-languages English; France & Spainish etc...( see below picture )
Memory: Support T-Flash extension slot ( bundled 256M memory card )
PC Connection: USB 2.0
Battery: 3.7V 1800mAh Lithium battery
Weight: 123g ( 4.3 Ounces ) included battery
Colour: Black

Features:
Support SMS, MMS, WAP, GPRS, MP3, MP4, Text Reader, Photo & Video recording, Voice recording, Web cam, Mass storage, Caller group, Games and some application program like calculator, alarm, world clock, Unit conversion etc...
Long standby feature for a week
Two sim card slot working by auto call forward
2 speaker stereo sound best MP3 & MP4 playback

Inside the box:
Phone body
USB cable
Handfree Headset
Universal Charger
2pc 3.7v 1800mAh Lithium battery
Manual

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