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4th Jul
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

Toshiba Portégé G900 Specifications and Photos

Posted by Shaun at 5:04 pm under Gadgets | 1499 Reads | Post Comment

Announced early January this year and showcased in Cebit, The Toshiba G900 is official out for sale in all glory the main feature being a wide 800 pixel width screen making web browsing a breeze, here are some shots of the beauty:

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G900 Box
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QWERTY Keyboard
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Box contents

Official specifications of Toshiba G900 from the user manual:

Processor
Marvell PXA270 Processor at 520 MHz

Memory
128MB RAM 128MB ROM

Operating System
Windows Mobile 6 Professional

Cellular system
UMTS/HSDPA GSM/GPRS/EDGE Frequency Range

Cellular Bands
3G (UMTS) 2100 : 1920-2170 MHz
GSM 900 : 880 – 960 MHz
DCS 1800 : 1710- 1880MHz
PCS 1900 : 1850 – 1990 MHz

Continuous Standby Time
3G (UMTS) area : Approx. 330 hrs
GSM area : Approx. 320 hrs

Continuous Talk Time
3G (UMTS) area : Approx. 160 mins
Video Call : Approx. 75 mins
GSM area : Approx. 265 mins

Charging Time
Approx. 170 mins

Dimensions (H x W x D)
Approx. 119mm x 61 mm x 21.5mm

Weight
Approx. 196g

AC Adapter Input Voltage
100 to 240 VAC / 50/60 Hz

Display
LCD Resolution :3.0″ TFT LCD with Touch screen 480 x 800 (64k colours)

Audio/Video
Codec Audio Video : AMRNB, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+. H.263, MPEG-4,WMV,ASF MP3, WMA

Camera
2Megapixel with QVGA video recording

Security
BioMetric Fingerprint Sensor doubling a scroll strip

Bluetooth
Bluetooth ver 2.0 + EDR (Power Class 2)
GAP (Generic Access Profile) SPP (Serial Port Profile) HSP (Headset Profile) HFP (Hands Free Profile) PAN (Personal Area Networking) AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile) A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile)

Wireless LAN
IEEE 802.11b/g WPA. WPA2. WPA-PSK. WPA2-PSK. WEP, TKIP, AES

Cable and Phone Charging
mini USB (Host/Client, Full Speed & Charger)

Headset Connector
2.5 mm Stereo headset

Expansion Slot
miniSD (Not stated SDHC slot)

Expected Retail price will start from about $1200SGD w/o mobile contract
Official Product Website

4th Jul
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

2007 Site Hosting Upgrades

Posted by Shaun at 4:30 pm under Site Updates | 1240 Reads | 1 Comment

Been around with my host lately to discuss upgrades to the my current hosting plans of shaunchng.com. Having doubled both my webspace and bandwidth to accommodate for future site expansions. Though my site doesn’t really take up much space (about 380MB in pages and images in total), bandwidth was a particular concern especially with the increasing traffic to the site (about 450MB transferred daily form page views alone).

The site had always and will still be hosted on a lightning fast Singaporean server, which is not really the cheapest in the market, especially we know about Overseas hosts offering like 300Gb of webspace and 3TB of bandwidth at a fraction of the hosting rates I am paying for, I believe those are gimmicks, and my current host had been performing to expectations to date so I am sticking with them.

4th Jul
Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

SEO fun, Search Engine Rankings

Posted by Shaun at 4:05 pm under Site Updates | 1159 Reads | 1 Comment

Yes, I know this is not how search engines goes, but for some SEO fun, had some time to play with with them recently & here are some findings of my own using my name as a test search option & the ranking of the site. Well, just for fun.

Keyword (worldwide): Shaun Chng
1st search result on

  • Yahoo
  • Google

The keyplayers are Yahoo & Google as the rest are actually indexed from the latter.
Other engines with No. 1 ranking I tried to date with the keywords “Shaun Chng”:

  • Excite
  • Lycos
  • Altavista
  • My Way
  • All the Web
  • Ask Jeeves
  • Alexa.com

Exceptions:

  • 9th on MSN

Keyword (worldwide): Shaun

  • 17th on Google
  • 18th on Yahoo

Keyword (local): Shaun

  • 1st on Yahoo
  • 1st on Google
2nd Jul
Monday, July 2nd, 2007

Farewell Captain America, for now

Posted by Shaun at 12:03 am under News | 930 Reads | Post Comment
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Well, yer all Marvel Fans, especially Captain America Fans here are some news to expect in the coming issue of Marvel Comics. Yes, folks, Captain America is dead and buried in the latest issue of Marvel Comics’ “Fallen Son,” due on newsstands 5th July 2007.

After 66 years of battling villains from Adolf Hitler to the Red Skull, the red, white and blue leader of the Avengers was felled by an assassin’s bullet on the steps of a New York federal courthouse.

Captain America was headed to court after refusing to sign the government’s Superhero Registration Act, a move that would have revealed his true identity. A sniper who fired from a rooftop was captured as police and Captain America’s military escort were left to cope with chaos in the streets.

But the sniper didn’t act alone, and didn’t even fire the shot that killed the captain…

Why did Marvel Comics kill off the patriotic superhero? Writer Jeph Loeb has been busy working through the stages of grief in his most recent titles. A book centered on Wolverine dealt with denial; one with the Avengers covered anger; and Spider-Man battled depression.

With the story line so relevant to present-day politics, and the timing of the latest issue so precise, it’s hard not to think the whole thing is one big slam on the government.

Since then, Marvel Entertainment Inc., has sold more than 200 million copies of Captain America magazine in 75 countries.

In the most recent story line, he became involved in a superhero “civil war,” taking up sides against Iron Man in the registration controversy, climaxed by his arrest and assassination.

Marvel says you never know what will happen. He may make it back from the dead after all, although Loeb says that question isn’t really important right now.

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