Free 50G for Life

50GB is not a lot nowadays if you compare with normal (magnetic) hard disk. However, it is still a big deal compare to Cloud Storage. The highest free storage is SkyDrive, and you don't need to beg others to sign up so that you can get extra. Others are pathetic 2GB to 5GB. What I mean here is free account, and does not include those paid service.

Okay. How about someone give you 50GB free, and the same "someone" said it is free for life. Well, free until you break some terms and conditions. Or free until they decided not to give you the free 50GB anymore. Or the company being shutdown or bankrupt or the owner being arrested by FBI or CIA or MI7. :P

Alright. It is Box.com that giving away 50GB for free. Wait, box.com is 5GB all this while, right? Yes. But now they are doing some promotion or celebration or just to get more subscribers, I don't care actually, just gimme the free 50GB.

But there is condition. Of course there is always terms and conditions. Everyone have to click agree to blah blah blah before installing a software on PC or installing apk on Android phone, right? Okay, enough crap.

You have to be on Android phone or tablet, install box apps from Android Market, sign up from the box apps and you are automatically getting 50GB for free! Hurry, the promotion end on Mar 23, 2012. It is less than 1 month from now.

LG Android phone/tablet owner is luckier, this same promo last until Jun 30, 2012.

Sony Tablet S or Tablet P, HP TouchPad, RIM PlayBook, and Sony Xperia phone owners are even more luckier, you have time until Dec 31, 2012 to get this promo.

No promo for Apple devices (iPhone, iPot Touch and iPad), hehehe.

If you already have box.com account with 5G only, all you need to do is install the box apps on any of lucky phone/tablet mentioned above and sign in using the apps and you are automatically getting 50GB.

Search for "box" at Android market, or use this link:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.box.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5ib3guYW5kcm9pZCJd

Read the faq for more detail:
https://support.box.net/entries/20768867-box-50-gb-promotion-faqs

I have installed this apps on my wife's Galaxy W and got the free 50GB 2 days ago! Today I login to box.com from my laptop, and verified that I am getting 50GB, yeah!


What are you waiting for? Go Go Go.

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Danger of Smartphone

Ah... Smartphone. We are all tied up with it, be it from iPhone to Android, or some like me which still on Windows Mobile.
[I know some of you will yell, WHAT? Windows M*****?] Anyway, yes, I am still using my Windows Mobile. It is will working, what why would I want to change it? But anyway, I started to get to know about Android when I start playing with Android apk on the emulator called BlueStacks. And ever since I bought the Samsung Galaxy W for my wife, I have been the 'after-sales-service' guy for her.

What are the danger of using Smartphone for extensive of time? Read this:

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Dell Latitude ST Tablet review coming soon......

Dell Latitude ST Tablet review is coming soon. I am tied up with works and commitments and stuffs (sigh). Hopefully I can get it out next week or the week after. Stay tune......


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Razer Gaming Tablet

Tablet tablet tablet, another hot items last year and this year as well. With the power of brand and advertisement, people always assume tablet is iPad. But in reality, tablet is original from PC. Just that people forgot about that. Same like iPhone, many people thought that Apple invented the smartphone. But smartphone has been there for many years, until Steven Jobs showed the world his iPhone, then the world start to focus on smartphone.

Anyway, Razer Gaming Tablet is on Windows OS and playing with PC games on tablet with Intel processors is something new. This tablet even got an award on CES "People's Voice.


It will cost about 1000 US dolar. Don't think I will buy that for casual gaming and net surfing. Only for super serious PC gamer.


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How to Google with More Effective

Google, Yahoo, Bing! are 3 major search engine. However I use only Google daily, I will use Yahoo and Bing! when I cannot find the info on Google, but Google always give me what I ask it to search. Secret? Using this infographic. I found out I have been using some of the methods frequently, therefore this is a very good reference for you too and I should share it here!

Thing to note: Some of the tips showed here are for MacOS, might not work for Windows.
Keyboard Shortcuts:
1. Press CRTL on Windows vs Command on MacOS
2. CTRL+~ and CTRL+tab does nothing on Windows unless you have apps use these shortcut or you assigned them on special tasks.
3. Press "Print Screen" or "Prt Sc" to capture whole screen on Windows
4. Press "Alt+Print Screen" to capture only the Windows you working on
5. Press "Windows+s" to select the area for print screen if you have Microsoft OneNote

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How to Measure Disk Drive Speed

Do you know how fast is your disk read and write speed? Usually we really no need to know about this, but disk read and write speed is crucial to determine the overall performance of your system. even though you have a Intel Core i3, i5 or i7, but you use only the normal (magnetic) hard disk, the performance is defenately slow down by the hard disk. Same as solid state hard disk, some solid state drive might not be as fast as the manufacturer claimed. Thumb drive (or known USB drive) is usually slow, I will show you in later part of this post.

There are a lot of free software out there to do disk read write speed accessment, but I found DiskMark is very simple and direct, or sometime I call it "no-nonsense".





As you can see in picture above, DiskMark interface is very simple, just a few buttons only. Buttons on left are the type of read and write test. Usually I just execute all of them (click "All" button).
As for the pull down options, you can choose to run how many times to run each test on first pull down option from left.
The second pull down option is to choose the file size of the test, 50MB to 4000MB, long bigger the file the longer the test time.
The pull down option on right is the choose which disk to run the test. It will not update automatically if I add in a new drive (on USB) after DiskMark is opened. I have close DiskMark and open it again.

There is skin option which I think is the only nonsense thing on DiskMark. Why need skin when what is needed is the test result.

The help is very simple and direct as well. Disk Mark is available in 32 and 64 bits, if you have 64bits Windows 7, you should use 64bits version.

There are the result of some of my SSD, thumb drive and external HDD:

Intel Solid State Drive on my sandy bridge laptop:


Samsung Solid State Drive on Dell ST tablet (which I will post of review of it soon!)
If you compare it with Intel Solid State above, the Seq write and 512k read/write on this drive is faster than Intel SSD.


Kingston DT101 G2 8GB thumb drive
Not only limited by the USB2 port speed, but also the common problem on USB thumb drive, which that write speed is super slow. The Seq write speed at ~4MB is about the same when I use it to copy HD movies to this drive. Therefore this DiskMark is ready giving me the result as close as possible to the real usage.


Normal HD (magnetic) on external casing, connected over USB2 port
The read and write speed are limited by the USB2 port if not mistaken. These non-solid state HD will have higher read and write speed if it is install inside PC/USB and connected though P-ATA or S-ATA.


To download DiskMark, go to this link:
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html
The latest version is CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1c. Portable version also available, therefore you can put it in thumb drive and run it on any PC/laptop you wish to test the HD/SDD/flash/memory card.


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Star Wars: Episode VI in Iconoscope

To complete the Star Wars saga, here is the Episode VI presented in Iconoscope.

Since there are 5 very long pictures, I resize them to be very small, please click on the image to see it in full size. Better method I would suggest, right click on the image and open it in a new tab.

There you go, final episode of Star Wars original saga.


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