At the request of one of the viewers at YouTube, I have recorded how my UMPC had performed at starting up from suspension and hibernation. It’s getting late here in Hong Kong now, so I have only uploaded the suspension video below to YouTube:
As you can see, the computer actually resumed quite fast from suspension. But it ran into all sorts of problems after resumption. First with the fingerprint sensor and then the Bluetooth radio. I don’t know whether it is a driver issue or simply the fact that those two hardware components had taken their time to wake up. The problem with the mouse is obviously a software issue with IntelliPoint. Since the mouse was already working at the login screen.
Tommy is one of many stray cats that my friend, let’s call her Mary, attends to. Tommy is very sick now and "she" wants me to spread her life story so that people don’t mistreat or abandon their companion pets. Being caretakers of stray animals in Hong Kong is not easy. They are always being misunderstood by people living in the neighbourhood of stray animals. Please help spread the message of not buying or breeding pets. Adopt stray animals. They need our love and compassion.
It is about time to write something about PC. I have had my first UMPC for almost two months now. The latest generation, which should become obsolete by early 2008 the latest, of UMPC offers portability that is almost as good as PDA (depending on how you usually carry your PDA) and the functionality of a true computer running Windows Vista. The beautiful thing about PC is that there are so many manufacturers out there and the demand is so great (90% of the entire population on planet earth that does some sorts of computing), it never ceases to amaze me how the industry as a whole has kept "inventing" and hyping new designs and form factors that on rare occasions, do rise up to their hypes. In this case, the UMPC. It’s small and light. Granted, it’s slow but its battery does give me at least 2 full hours of operation with both Bluetooth and WiFi turned on between charges. It does a decent job on running Microsoft Office and browsing the Internet. I can use it anywhere to connect to the Internet through a Bluetooth connecion with my 3.5G Windows Mobile 6 Smartphone acting as a modem. How many times a day do you loathe your 3.5G PDA that can’t access your, say, online banking site or your faviourite AJAX sites? Depending on the price, I might get its optional 3.5G module when it comes out later this year, that is, of course only if the new generation hasn’t come out yet. In the meantime, my UPMC lives happily with my MacBook.
The title says it all. This is my first video podcast and my first entry on my newly created blog, gadgetjunkie.hk. What better subject to blog on than using the just released iMovie’08 to create a video for sharing on Apple’s new Web Gallery. The following is a low version of the video on YouTube that can be viewed quickly. The high resolution video created in the podcast can be viewed at my .Mac Web Gallery.
If you have missed An Inconvenient Truth on both the big screen and DVD, don’t miss this one. While An Inconvenient Truth has revealed the "truth" about global warming, The 11th Hour is supposed to offer us answers and how we as individuals can change at the 11th hour to create a sustainable future. I hope it will be shown in Hong Kong soon.
Tim Flannery’s The Weather Makers arrived just now from Amazon. When I checked two weeks ago, Commercial Press had never heard about this book and Page One had only one paperback copy in Festival Walk. And they didn’t plan to restock it. The Weather Makers tells the history of climate change and looks at solutions where individuals can help to reverse the change. The book had already been credited with triggering the debate that caused the Australian government to clarify its stance on the science behind global warming. Australia had even named Tim Flannery Australian of the Year 2007 for his contribution to making Australian better appreciate and understand the environment. I came to learn about Tim Flannery the other day while I was reading an interview of Richard Branson. Richard Branson spoke highly of Tim Flannery as an environmentalist. Tim Flannery is one of 5 judges of Richard Branson’s Earth Challenge.
花落誰家, a very beautiful and refreshing song from Hacken Lee’s new album. Like many Cantopop it tells a love story, only that it is about loving earth and what it will become if we stop loving it. The beautiful lyrics are written by 林若寧. I didn’t know what 黑臉琵鷺 is so I googled it. It is Black-faced Spoonbill and is an endangered species with a population of only about a thousand in the whole word. About 200 of them migrate to Hong Kong’s Mai Po Marshes every winter. I googled further and found some interesting resources:
This is my first moblog entry created entirely on my N95’s builtin Lifeblog application. As soon as I finish it on the bus I am riding to work now, it will be uploaded over 3G (actually 3.5G to be precise). The map and the position of the landmark are captured using the builtin GPS and Maps application. The landmark is where I boarded this bus near home.
