Monthly Archives: July 2010

Seagate Momentus XT hard disk

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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.

ST95005620AS(1)ST95005620AS(2)ST95005620AS(3)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! 微笑

Firefox 4.0 beta 2

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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.

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.

DiGi and Maxis start a battle

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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! Smile

Seagate Replica 500G portable hard drive

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I’ve planned for getting a portable hard drive for years to back-up important files,pictures recording my memories,wonderful movies and nice songs.Furthermore,I wish the external hard disk could do things simple and smart so that I could restore my system whenever I need without any trouble.

Seagate finally makes this kind of products.Seagate Replica is a very new product which has a sharp outlook and a smart ‘mind’.It could automatically back-up the whole system when you connect it into PCs.I think it will be an impressive product for people lacking of time and knowledge to deal with it.

Let’s have a close look!

I bought it at Lowyat Plaza,Kuala Lumpur,costing me RM369(USD115).I think the 5-year warranty and the good reputation of Seagate is worth the price.How do you think?

I’m happily using it. :)

Bad movements?Good movements!!!

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Malaysian government announced that the prices of oil,gas and sugar will increase into a proper stage effective from 16th July,2010 in order to cut some subsidies.The details are as follow:

From Friday, the subsidies for sugar, petrol, liquefied petroleum gas and diesel will be cut as part of the gradual subsidy rationalisation programme, according to a statement from the Prime Minister’s office on Thursday.

The price of sugar will go up 25sen to RM1.75 per kg; LPG will go up 10sen to RM1.85 per kg; petrol RON95 will be up 5sen to RM1.85 per litre and diesel will be up 5sen to RM1.75 per litre.

RON 97 will no longer be subsidised. It will be subjected to a managed float, where the price will be determined by the automatic pricing mechanism, the statement said.

(Reported by TheStar)

In fact,I have totally agreed the movements of cutting the subsidies and I had talked about it one month ago.Oil and gas have been limited resources all over the world and they will create a lot of pollutions.By increasing the prices of them,it could reduce such issues.Eating too much sugar will cause diabetes.Higher price of sugar will let people reduce the consumption of it and so being much healthier.However,I also care about how the government will monitor on spending on savings of those subsidies to affirm that the savings will put into places where it could benefit all Malaysians.

I do hope that the accounts of Malaysian government could be more transparent and the officers could also do the jobs hard and think of the citizens in every second as they are public servants.