My New Love :D

I've been out of the blogging scene for almost a year, lots of things are changed. I got married few months back, and ever since finding time for any tech related activities have been increasingly difficult, let alone playing games. I've been playing BF3 for the past 4 months, and not even 50% is completed, Sigh! I'm missing the good old days where I used to finish a game within less than a week. :(

And I bought my first ever ride on last october, nothing fancy, a 1994 Sunny, a well kept car by the previous 2 owners and brought down here as brand new. Still there are little things here and there that needs to be attended. I'm a complete n00b to the car scene and sometimes I lose my sleep over the little things :) . I remember the old days when I couldn't sleep peacefully whenever there was a small glitch with the PC. How I wish the cars were as easy as maintaining a PC

Love you Atom :D

Why would you want a sloppy Atom CPU ticking inside your PC in the first place, either you are not too demanding on hardware or you are a road warrior who wants to squeeze every bit of juice from your Lappy's battery. Well I fall in to the later category, though I'm not exactly a road warrior. The main reason of getting the Netbook was the skyrocketing electricity bills in Sri Lanka. My main PC consumes at least 70-80W just for idling (G92 alone eats around 30W :-/). Unless I have games to play, most of the time I spend infront of the PC are low demanding tasks such as Net browsing, downloading and watching movies.

So I bought this Lenovo Ideapad S10-3 Netbook, the battery life is rated as 7hours by Lenovo, I usually get 5hours+ when browsing net with the HSDPA modem. RMClock readings show around 8-10W being consumed during net browsing, and the funny thing is watching standard definition movies only taxes 7-8W of battery power. The culprit is the HSDPA modem that eats 2W+ alone under load.

The only thing I'm dissapointed in is the inability to undervolt the Atom CPU, RMClock doesn't detect the CPU properly ,Crystal CPUID voltage setting option doesn't work and the damn thing idles @ 0.95v while the lowest specified voltage being 0.8v >_<. I think I'll have to live with that until they release a supported version of their software. Apart from that the performance is just OK. I love the portability. I can be with my parents and I don't have to be inside my room ,which I always get shouted at :P

ෆෝන් එකෙන් සිංහලෙන් පෝස්ට් එකක්!

ටෙස්ට් කරන්නත් එක්ක ෆෝන් එකෙන් බ්ලොග් පෝස්ට් එකක් ලියන්න හිතුන. මේකත් මරු වැඩක් තමයි හැබැයි රෙන්ඩරින් නම් ටිකක් කේස්. හරියට වින්ඩොස් XP වගේ. කොහොමත් සිංහලෙන් ලියන්නනම් අදහසක් නෑ. ටෙකී එව්ව සිංහලෙන් ලියන්න ගියොත් පිස්සු හැදෙයි :පී

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Installed Sinhala on Android

Ok, This is a straightforward simple process. But your android handset must be rooted to change anything in your system folders. I used one click root method aka UniversalAndroot to root my X10Mini. (Get it from here)

Then you can use a file manager tool to explore your system files. Make sure your file manager has gotten root permission. You can check apps' root permission using Superuser permissions app (This is a part of the UniversalAndroot app and will be installed automatically when you install UniversalAndroot app).

I used this tool called Root explorer (Get it from here). First you have to mount the file system allowing Read/Write operations. You can simply do this by tapping this "Mount R/W" button.

Grant read/write permission to  /system/fonts folder. 

Then you have to rename or backup your existing DroidSansFallback.ttf in /system/fonts and copy this new DroidSansFallback.ttf (Get it from here)  to /system/fonts. Now you are done. See! That was very easy! Not as easy as installing on Sony Ericsson A200 platform though :D

I believe the author of the above (right)  facebook status wouldn't mind me using it :P

Why do I hate Apple products

1. Terribly Overpriced.
50k + for iPhone 3G in SL? C'mon!

2. No proper multi tasking.
For the sake of a smooth UI ? Is it really a smart phone?

3. Dumb restrictions.

4. Apple fanboys are annoying (lol)

5. Di*khead CEO.

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Test post from blogger for Android

Just wanted to test this Blogger-Droid Application for Android. Hope this might help me to update the blog more frequently :-D

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From Dumbphone to Smartphone =)

I have been using dumb-phones for around 6 years. They were alright for my day to day needs, not that I didn't miss some features time to time. But they were simple and reliable companions. Then I came across a Samsung i900 Omnia , not as the primary phone though. IMO it wasn't much reliable for my day to day work, battery backup was bad, Sound quality was not up to my standards, Touch screen was an abomination >_<, and not to mention I hated Windows Mobile 6.5 with that resistive touch screen.

My C902 was almost 18 months old (Still rocking) and I wanted a change, Something reliable with good feature set and something "Smart" xD. So it was either Symbian or Android, I had already ditched WinMo after the bad experience with the i900. Funny thing is I always tend to forget iOS as a smart phone OS (You know what I mean :P ).
Symbian is stable and has a lots of applications but at the same time the UI is boring + old skool. Not to mention more and more developers are abandoning the Symbian ship.

I went ahead and bought an Xperia X10 Mini, teh cheapest and smallest Android device on earth. I must tell you, it's an Eagle in a Parrot's clothing, don't be deceived by the looks. The little thing sports a Qualcomm MSM 7227 600MHz CPU, 256MB Ram (128MB user accessible), and all the bells and whistles you could think of, got a pretty decent camera, and heck it's even got the same Adreno 200 GPU as it's big brother Snapdragon Q8250 (as far as my research is correct). UI is very fast, animations are smooth, capacitive touch screen is a treat to use, and since this thing is small (2.6 inch touch screen) it doesn't draw unnecessary attention when I'm travelling in the Bus :D. On the first day I took it to the office most of my office friends asked me "How do I open the slider ? or the Qwerty Keyboard", LOL

In the next post I will upload some of the cool apps I use.
and BTW here is the link for the Phone specs :)