Pokki - review of another Android Emulator

Installation guide of Pokki is here:
Installation guide of Pokki

By right click on the Pokki icon on taskbar will give you some options. To launch Pokki, simply click on the icon.


Setting of Pokki:



Pokki Launch pad, can also do search on your computer, type your keyword on the box on the top of the launch pad.


Pokki comes without any apps, except the Pokki apps store. We will need to launch Pokki apps store to add additional apps.


The Pokki Apps Store. About hundreds apps only, very little compare to Google Play or Apple apps store. The apps store has the same feel like Google Play when I access it from web browser.


A few famous games, such as Plant vs Zombie, Cut the Rope.


Installing Cut the Rope now.


Cut the Rope is installed. New icon added to taskbar, luckily these icons will be gone after you completely exit Pokki.


Trying out Cut the Rope on Pokki.


Start playing Cut the Rope. It will pause automatically if Pokki is not in the focus.


Searching function on Pokki Apps store:


Pokki's memory usage. This is when playing Cut the Rope.




Pros:
1. Pokki consume less memory compare to BlueStacks.

Cons:
2. Compare to BlueStacks, we cannot install apk into Pokki at the moment, apps are limited. However it is just matter of time that member of XDA will come out with some tutorial or guide. :-)



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Nintendo Wii U Teardown

Remember the unboxing video of Nintendo Wii U? If you missed it, here it is:
http://outdatedpenanguncle.blogspot.com/2012/11/nintendo-wii-u-unboxing.html

Before we start the teardown, lets see what are the stuffs hiding inside the Nintendo Wii U main body:

• IBM Power®-based multi-core processor
• AMD Radeon-based High Definition GPU
• 8 GB or 32 GB internal storage with external USB storage and external USB hard drive support
• 6.2 inch, 854 x 480 pixels LCD touch-screen with motion control and front-facing camera
• Near-Field Communication (NFC) functionality
• Broadcom BCM43237KMLG Wireless LAN module
• Broadcom BCM43362KUB6 802.11n Wireless Module—the same one used in the Roku 2 XS
• Broadcom BCM20702 Bluetooth 4.0 module
• Panasonic MN864718 HDMI Controller
• Samsung KLM8G2FE3B eMMC 8 GB NAND Flash/Memory Controller
• Micron 2LEI2 D9PXV [part number MT41K256M16HA-125] 4 Gb DDR3L SDRAM (4 x 4 Gb for a total of 16 Gb or 2 GB RAM)
• DRH-WUP 811309G31
• Fairchild DC4AY
• SMC 1224EE402
• Samsung K9K8G08U1D 4 Gb (512 MB) NAND Flash

And what are the stuffs hiding inside the Nintendo Wii U controller?

• Broadcom 20792 KMLG NFC controller
  
• T130 MsEu
  
• Broadcom BCM4319XKUBG
  
• STMicroelectronics UIC-WUP MCE GH226
  
• STMicroelectronics MSA3D 01F
  
• Texas Instruments TSC 2046I Low Voltage I/O Touch Screen Controller
  
• InvenSense ITG-3280 Gyroscope
  
• Micron 25Q256A 256 Mb Serial Flash
  
• DRC-WUP 811309J31 1217LU603
  
• Texas Instruments AIC3012 Audio Converter
  
• Texas Instruments 1010007

Unless you are in component business, there is no need to know all these, just brake the piggy bank and head to store to buy Wii U now. :P

Oh, almost forgot, the teardown:


And to read it at iFixIt website, here is the link:
Nintendo Wii U Teardown



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Pokki - installation guide of another Android emulator

Beside the Android SDK, BlueStack is another popular Android emulator that runs on Windows and Mac.
One of advantages of BlueStacks is you can install apk on BlueStacks. This is the post that I wrote which is received more than 12k views:
How to install apk into bluestacks
Another post is how to enable Android Market on BlueStacks, which also with more than 12k views:
How to enable android market for BlueStacks

Recently another Android emulator come out, which is Pokki (which sounds like vulgar words in some dialects in South East Asia countries). Anyway, here is the installation guide of Pokki:

1. Go to Pokki's website to download the installer by click the "Download" button on top right. Don't worry, it is completely free:
http://www.pokki.com/

2. After the installer downloaded (which is very quick, following steps explain why), go to the folder that you keep it, double click to run it.

3. The setup file is actually less 1MB which will download 2nd setup file, that's why it is so small.


4. After download completed, now it is still not the real installation.


5. Third time of downloading, that's why step 4 is not the real installation.


6. Now, after download complete, now it is the real installation of Pokki.


7. After the real installation complete, you will have Pokki's icon added next to Start button. Right click to see more options:


That's all of this post on installation guide of Pokki. I will discuss the apps in follow up post.


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Nexus 4 Teardown

Nexus 4 is Google 4th Android phone, which released on Nov 13, 2012.

Okay, let's start with geek stuffs:

- 4.7" 1280 x 768 pixel touchscreen LCD with IPS
- Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro system on a chip (SoC) with 1.5 GHz CPU
- 2 GB RAM
- 8 megapixel rear-facing and 1.3 megapixel front-facing cameras
- Near field communication (NFC)
- Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean)

More geek stuffs inside this phone:
- Toshiba THGBM5G6A2JBA1R 8GB Flash
- SlimPort ANX7808 SlimPort Transmitter (HDMI output converter)
- Invensense MPU-6050 Six-Axis (Gyro + Accelerometer)
- Qualcomm WTR1605L Seven-Band 4G LTE chip
- Avago ACPM-7251 Quad-Band GSM/EDGE and Dual-Band UMTS Power Amplifier
- SS2908001
- Avago 3012 Ultra Low-Noise GNSS Front-End Module
- Samsung K3PE0E00A 2GB RAM. We suspect the Snapdragon S4 Pro 1.5 GHz CPU lies underneath.
- Qualcomm MDM9215M 4G GSM/CDMA modem
- Qualcomm PM8921 Power Management
- Broadcom 20793S NFC Controller
- Avago A5702, A5704, A5505
- Qualcomm WCD9310 audio codec
- Qualcomm PM8821 Power Management

Now, the teardown:

If you prefer to read it on iFixIt website, here is the link:
Nexus 4 Teardown

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Nikon D600 Teardown

Hmm.... This is the second camera teardown being post on this blog. First one was the Sony Alpha A99.

Want to know more of what is inside a digital SLR, start now!



If you would like to read it at iFixIt website you can head down to this link:
Nikon D600 Teardown


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How To Download Torrent without Torrent Client

Torrent, love it or hate it, from time to time we have to download some files that we need from it because the uploader only uploaded it to torrent only. So what if we are not allow to use Torrent Client, or even we installed it but the firewall blocked it.

If you google "How To Download Torrent without Torrent Client", there are a few options, however not all of them are as well. Example: BitLet.org. However you need to enable Java, which might be harmful.




I found put.iO, a new cloud storage that allow us to download torrent without torrent client. I am trying out with Futurama Season 6 in this screenshot below. And since the downloading is by the server of put.iO, the downloading is so much faster then downloading over my super slow Streamyx broadband.



The files will be downloaded into your put.iO, however only 1GB is given for free account. Another disadvantage is free account only allow one download at a time, and after the file being downloaded you have to wait until the file being shared at least the same size of the file. But at the same time you can download the file to your PC/laptop.



More advantages of put.iO are you can use secure connections and choose the server nearest to your location. The nearest one is at Singapore for me.



Since this a web-based torrent client, you can do it on all OS (Windows, Mac, Linux) as long have a internet connection and web browsers.

Another thing to note that, at time the website might not showing the right space being consumed. I had a few times that I already deleted the files, but it still don't allow me to add more torrent even though the main page is showing more than enough space. I found out that closing the tab (I am using Chrome) and reopen to the main page would help, but not always.

To give it a try, go this link:
http://put.io


Note: downloading movie or TV show might be illegal at your country, watch out!

Update (Nov20, 2012 6pm): another thing to note is put.iO will continue download and upload even though you logged out. So no need to worry about the PC/laptop being turn on whole day and night, save some electricity bill. :-)



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[Free] Data Switch Widget for Android

There is a problem with native Android interface (anything older than ICS), you have to click and click and click and click to enable or disable data connection (GPRS/EDGE/3G). I always like my interface on my Windows Mobile, where just 2 clicks and I am on/off the data. I found this widget recently.

For free version, you get to enable/disable data and WIFI respectively.

For Advanced PRO version, which include these features, that going to cost you US$1.26.
- how many minutes in between to turn on data
- how many seconds to allow data turn on before shut it off
- etc.

Anyway, I am only interested for the on/off feature as the widget, that is good enough for me.

The widget that turn on/off data easily:

Okay, only PRO version can set the time:

To install, go to google play:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cb56.dataeasy&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNiNTYuZGF0YWVhc3kiXQ..

Detail of each version at XDA forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1960429


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