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Two days later,I will have my 25th birthday.If I could be healthy enough or the medical service grows more advanced that I could live  until 100 years old,I’m now going to pass my first quarter of my whole life.

I have to say that I’m so lucky.My parents always love me as well as my grandma does.I also think my grandpa is blessing me somewhere too.I got married in the beginning of the year with my dear whom I sincerely love with.Of course,there are friends surrounding me,often bringing fun and sharing sadness together.All these keep telling me that I am one of the luckiest man in the world.

Maybe life in this century will never be easy as living in a modern city is so complicated,but I believe nothing is going to be tough with the support from all people around.In fact,I will not expect any wonderful party or some big surprises there because no trouble is the best gift for me.

Happy birthday to me!

Google Nexus one is unavailable to sell in its official website permanently as said by Google that it has achieved the initial aim.However,it will be sold at some authorized retail shops as well as partners in US,European countries and South Korea.On the other hand,it will be also treated as a developer phone and sold by Android develop team in some other ways.I just caught the announcement from Android developers blog about it:

Nexus One Developer Phone

from Android Developers Blog by Tim Bray

We’ve always offered unlocked phones for direct sale to registered Android Developers. As of today, the Developer Phone is the Nexus One, at a price of $529. To see the details or order a phone, you need to sign in to your Android developer account and click on the "Development Phones" link.

The Nexus One combines an up-to-the-minute platform (Android 2.2), modern hardware, and the pure Google Experience software suite. It’s a good choice both for people who want to build Android applications using either the SDK or the NDK, and those who want to experiment with modified versions of the Android platform. Note that the Nexus One still ships with Android 2.1 but will download 2.2 soon after you turn it on; make sure you’re near a fast network.

As well as being an outstanding developer platform, it’s a really nice everyday phone; we’re really happy to have connected the right dots to make this happen.

So if you are an Android developer,you still can use that provided method to get a new Google Nexus One which has advanced hardware and designs.If you’re not,you can find some way to get it too.Google Nexus One will never die.

Seagate and Western Digital are the giants in the hard disk industry.However,Seagate recently has to face a lot of noises about the firmware issues which has caused the company lose some market shares.Well,Seagate is trying the best to maintain the reputation by introducing new products,including the fastest 2.5 inch 7200 RPM hard disk-Seagate Momentus XT.

Basically,it is a 7200RPM hard disk with 32MB cache and 4GB SLC NAND solid state memory.Seagate applies Adaptive Memory™ technology to utilize the solid state memory when it’s necessary.The performance will be improved by normal usages and also boost the boot speed.

I did some simple tests using HD Tune.Here are the snapshots.

The pics show the read speed,the health of the disk and I/O speed.You will find the figures maybe are quite similar with other 2.5 inch 7200RPM hard disks because the SSM can’t be utilized in such kinds of tests and so no enhancements for the overall figures.In fact,you can see the real differences between Seagate Momentus 7200.4 conventional hard dish and this Seagate Momentus XT hybrid hard disk.

The price of this hard disk is almost 1.5 times than the normal 500GB 2.5 inch 7200RPM hard disk,but if you always eager to save your time on opening files or loading some programs,this new product from Seagate will give what you want for your laptop.I enjoy it!

Firefox 4.0 beta 2 just released yesterday.It built up a lot of improvements on the outline and enhanced the overall performance in order to face the competitions from the coming IE9 and Google Chrome.

The following long lists are the things done by the engineers in this latest version.

• Firefox 4 Beta 2 is available in 24 languages.
• Tabs are now on top by default on Windows and OSX - Linux will be changing when the theme has been modified to support the change.
• You can turn any tab into an "App Tab" by right-clicking on it and selecting "Make into App Tab" from the context menu.
• Web developers can animate content using CSS Transitions.
• Responsiveness and scrolling improvements from the new retained layers layout system.
• JavaScript speed improvements due to engine optimizations.
• Changes to how XPCOM components are registered in order to help startup time and process separation.
• See the complete changelist from the previous beta.

As well as these features from previous Firefox 4 Betas:

• You can search for and switch to already open tabs in the Smart Location Bar
• New Addons Manager and extension management API (UI will be changed before final release)
• Significant API improvements are available for JS-ctypes, a foreign function interface for extensions.
• The stop and reload buttons have been merged into a single button on Windows, Mac and Linux.
• The Bookmarks Toolbar has been replaced with a Bookmarks Button by default (you can switch it back if you’d like).
• Crash protection for Windows, Linux, and Mac when there is a crash in the Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime or Microsoft Silverlight plugins.
• CSS Transitions are partially supported.
• Full WebGL support is included but disabled by default at this time.
• Core Animation rendering model for plugins on Mac OS X. Plugins which also support this rendering model can now draw faster and more efficiently.
• Native support for the HD HTML5 WebM video format.
• An experimental Direct2D rendering backend is available on Windows, turned off by default.
• Web developers can use Websockets for a low complexity, low latency, bidirectional communications API.
• Web developers can update the URL field without reloading the page using HTML History APIs.
• More responsive page rendering using lazy frame construction.
• Link history lookup is done asynchronously to provide better responsiveness during pageload.
• CSS :visited selectors have been changed to block websites from being able to check a user’s browsing history.
• New HTML5 parser.
• Support for more HTML5 form controls.

Developers can find out about all the changes and new features at the Mozilla Developer Center.

However,what I like here is the new feature-App Tab.You can see how it works in my pics:

I always open Google Reader and Facebook when I’m surfing Internet.The normal tab occupies unnecessary spaces.Well,now I can just simply make a right click on the tab and select to ‘make into App Tab’ and it then is reduced to a lovely size.It’s nice,isn’t it?

The bad thing is most of my existing add-ons are not yet supported.I think the developers will catch their work up.I just hope it won’t be too long.

If you wanna try this new Firefox,please get it here and install it.You will have a fresh experience.

The battle is for Apple iPhone4 which will soon be available in Malaysia.DiGi and Maxis offered to register the interest of iPhone4 two days ago.

I think Malaysia will be in the next list of countries to sell iPhone4.Most people believe that it will be around mid August.In this competitive industry,no doubt that DiGi and Maxis will open their mind to promote iPhone4 with some attractive plans.The past history tells us that normally DiGi will win some fields.Well,nothing could be confirmed.I guess some of mobile service providers may offer some exchange program,trade-in your iPhone 3Gs for a bit rebate.

Let’s wait for the further information!