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Android is the most popular mobile platform besides BlackBerry and iOS. It offers many best apps to install and nice games to play. Here, I want to share top 5 games (based on my opinion) for Android devices.

#1 Need For Speed Most Wanted



I sure you know this one. NFSMW is very popular game for PC platform. Now, this game not only available on PC, it also presents for Android devices. I very like this game. Need For Speed Most Wanted brings high quality graphics like PC games. I was updated on December 20, 2012. There are something new in new version of this game (according to Google Play). There are updates for more cars and new events. This game can be played by everyone (according to ESRB). Before you install this racing game, please make sure your devices equipped with Android version 2.3 or higher. But, this game is not free. You should buy it for $0.99. It's very cheap you know! Because now, Need for Need For Speed Most Wanted game is 86% OFF for a limited time. You should buy it before late!

#2 Plants vs Zombies



You know, this game very suitable for children. But it nice to play for refreshing :). This game is not free. You should buy it for $0.95. Very cheap.

#3 The Dark Knight Rises



I sure you know the movie The Dark Knight Rises was released few months ago. Now it presents on Android devices as a game. This game need Android 2.2 or above. The content is "Medium Maturity". I hope it will play by you, not your children.

#4 The Amazing Spiderman



This is nice android game. Fun and full combat between the spiderman and the rivals.

#5 2XL Supercross



This is motocross game. This game is safe for everyone. You should buy it for $4.99. This game need Android 2.2 or higher.

I hope this article will helps you to choose Android games for your devices.

source: Android Apps - Google Play

I hate when I watched a tilt video on my PC. Now I find a little application to rotate, flip add effects to a video. With this software you can flip a video horizontally or vertically, you can also rotate a video 90 degress. This little app is VirtualDub.

First, you can download VirtualDub here. It has small size (only 1.6 MB). After download finished, extract zip file. You will find many files there. Just double click VirtualDub.



Open your video file you want to be rotated. Click Video menu and then Filters (You can also access it using CTRL + F). On Filters dialog box, click Add, and then select Rotate2. If you want rotate video 90 degress, you must type 90 on Rotation angle textbox. Click OK - OK to apply change. You will see your video has been rotated 90 degrees. You can save your video file using click File menu -> Save as AVI. I hope it can helps you. :)

Google is a huge company that has various products such as Blogger (free blog service), YouTube (online video sharing), Android (smartphone operating system), Chrome (internet browser) and many more. But the biggest Google's product is the search engine. With Google search engine you can find what you want such as articles, pictures, locations, videos, news and you can also translate a language to other languages. At this time I want to share a tip how to convert a currency to other currency with Google search quickly.

Many currency in the world and of course it's different between country. The most famous currency that often used in the world are USD (American currency), GBP (Great Britain currency), AUD (Australia currency), EUR (Europe currency), JPY (Japan currency), SGD (Singapore currency). There are many ways to convert between these currencies. But I want to share to do it using Google search engine. Please follow steps below.

#1 Open Google.com
#2 For example, I want to convert 100 USD (American dollar) to EUR (Europe currency). So type "100 USD to EUR" (without quote) and then press ENTER. You can see the image below.


This tip not only for currency I've mentioned above, but also you can convert the others currency from every country by using 3 letters code according to ISO 4217. You can do it like step #2 above. You should type value1 currency1 to currency2. Please fill value1 with amount of source currency, fill currency1 with 3 letters code of source currency and fill currency2 with 3 letters code of target currency. When you press ENTER, you will find the amount of your target currency.

#N.B. I cannot mention all of 3 letters of currency codes. For 3 letters of currency codes according to ISO 4217, you can see on Wikipedia.

I think it's enough to share this tip, please press like if you like my article. Thank you so much.

IE (Internet Explorer) is old browser from Microsoft that still exist until now. This browser already known before Firefox and Chrome born. Now, the latest version of Windows Internet Explorer is v.9 (IE 9). According to Microsoft Official Site, Internet Explorer 9 only can run on Windows 2008, Windows Vista and Windows 7. I don't know can it run on older Windows versions or not? But can try it by your self.



Before install Internet Explorer 9, you have to make sure your PC is meet with system requirements. Your PC need at least 233 MHz of processor's clock speed, 512 MB of RAM, 70 MB of harddisk space, 800x600 pixels of monitor resolution. To download Windows Internet Explorer 9 please use this safe link. I recommend to download from Official Site (microsoft.com) or trusted site such as CNET. To avoid browser vulnerability, please make sure your IE can update automatically when computer is connected to the internet.

As we know,  Chrome is one of best web browser that used by million users in the world. Google Chrome also has good performances. It can run fast and consume low memory. Chrome can be installed by using two ways: online installer or offline installer. But I think it's better to download offline installer than perform online installation. Why? Because by download offline installer, we can install chrome without need internet connection. For example: we have reinstall PC's operating system and off course all programs has been erased. By download offline installer, you can install your chrome without connect to the internet. Google chrome support almost all Microsoft Windows operating system. So you can install it on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Opera Mini is a famous mobile web browser. I and my friends always use it to browse internet on our gadgets. Now, Opera Mini 7 is the latest version. I was used this browser since few years ago (since Opera Mini 3). Opera Mini grows quickly and it's used by many users around the world.


One difference between Opera Mini and other browsers. Opera Mini support many mobile devices. It supports Symbian S60, BlackBerry, Android phones, and Apple products such as iPhone, iPod and iPad. Opera Mini 7 (the latest version) is easy to use. It has tab feature like PC web browsers. So, you can browse many websites at the same time. It also has good look and I feel it more faster than previous versions. Okay, for you who looking for Opera Mini 7, now you can download for your gadgets.

Opera Mini 7 for Symbian S60
Opera Mini 7 for Symbian S60 2nd Edition
Opera Mini 7 for BlackBerry
Opera Mini 7 for Android
Opera Mini 7 for iPhone
Opera Mini 7 for iPad
Opera Mini 7 for iPod

I hope this Opera Mini version can run on your gadgets normally.

Maybe you often see love simbol ♥ or other simbols on your friend status on facebook that can not be typed by using your keyboard. Why? because your keyboard has not love simbol button. Actually it can be typed by using your keyboard. Press ALT button (don' release it), and then press 3 button on the numeric pad, and then release both. Now you can write ♥ .. :-) Please press like if you like my post. Thanks..

Windows operating system has good look because it has theme service that running. Have you ever seen the Windows XP/Win Server 2003/Win 2008/Win Vista/Win 7 has bad theme like Windows 98? Look at below!

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My friend asked to me. Why the themes of my computer is disable and turn back to classic theme? I think the problem was on the Windows service. If you have the same case with my friend, try to go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > and double click on Services. On the Services window, find Themes and double click it.

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Click Start to activate the Windows Themes. Change startup type to Automatic (it let the themes service run automatically when windows startup. The themes problem will be solved using this way. If you want to deactivate the themes, Click Stop.

I hope this article will help you.. :-)

When was your computer created? Did you know? At this time I want to share a tips how to know the age of your computer. With this tips, you can find out the date, month and year of computer manufactured. For example, I use Windows 7 operating system on my computer. Below are the steps how to know the age of your computer.

• Press CTRL+D, Run dialog box will appears.
• Type cmd and then press ENTER. Command Prompt window will appears.
• On Command Prompt, type DEBUG and then press ENTER.

• Type df000:fff5 and then press ENTER. Now. the date, month and year of computer manufactured appears on the right side of the command prompt window. If you asked "how to know the age of your computer?" Now it's can be answered.

It's so resent if my files deleted by antivirus automatically. It often happened. Why? I know because every antivirus has realtime protection feature. This feature will perform realtime scanning while we working. But I hate if this feature delete my files suddenly. I like to create some applications such as PC monitoring tool. The file like PC monitoring usually detected as trojan by antivirus software. But if you think it will not be harm to your PC, you can exclude your files into excluded items on antivirus software.

How to exclude files from realtime antivirus scanning?. Below are tips to exclude the files into excluded items on antivirus software (for example I use AVG Internet Security 2011).

• First, open AVG Internet Security and access menu Tools > Advanced Settings...

• Advanced AVG Settings dialog box will appears. Choose Excluded Items and then add files that you want to exclude by click Add File and then clik OK or Apply. So the files added into Excluded Item will not be scanned and deleted, even the files harmful for your PC.

Digital life style is coming. PC, notebook, internet, these terms has familiar for our ears. Many people should buy PC or notebook because one some reason such as "job equipment requirement" or just for life style such as for internet access or maybe for gaming. How choose your PC or notebook for your need?

Panasonic Thoughbook

Apple Macbook

Below are some tips "How to buy a PC or Notebook":

1. Before you buy a PC or Notebook you should consider "what is it used for?". For example: a officer need a PC for office data processing. I think it will not be efficient if the officer buy PC with high specification such as PC that equipped with Intel Core i7 with 4 GB of VGA card and 8 GB of RAM. Otherwise, a animator need a PC for create animation movie. It also will not good if the animator but PC with low specification such as PC that equipped with Intel Pentium 4 with 256 MB of RAM and 64 MB of VGA Card. So for conclusion, before you buy a PC or Notebook you should consider "what is it used for?". Why? Because if you will buy a high specification PC only for office data processing, you will waste your money. Office data processing will not need high memory or processor consumption. Otherwise, If you buy a low specification PC for create animation movie, you will waste your time because to create animation movie need high specification of VGA card, memory and processor. Low specification PC will not able to handle this work.
2. Second, you should consider "where are you work". Are you work at indoor or outdoor? You need different notebook for different place work. For example: there are two different notebook. First, Apple Macbook. Second, Panasonic Toughbook. These are two different notebook. Apple Macbook designed for office or multimedia use. Otherwise, Panasonic Toughbook also known as rugged notebook. This notebook is suitable to used in harsh environments for example in outdoor such as forest, garden or desert. It suitable for you are working at outdoor such as police/soldier who working at field or scientists who are conducting field research. Panasonic Toughbook designed for outdoor. It has waterproof and it has hard body because it was designed using metal material.
3. Consider about "Brand". Many brand of PCs or Notebooks around the world such as Apple, Toshiba, Acer, HP, Compaq, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, etc. Which one do you like? Who the best? I honestly, I can't answer these questions. Why? Because every brand always has good product and bad product. Sometime, the popular brand produce bad products that make the vendor recall the products. So, it up to you which one you will choose. You can also consider the the most famous brand.

source: Apple Macbook, Panasonic Toughbook

Do you like Porsche car? I think all of you know a luxury car that named Porsche. I don't know before that BlackBerry has a product with Porsche design. Yes, it is BlackBerry Porsche Design P9981 was released one year ago. I like it. It has futuristic design. Look at below!.



As usual other BlackBerry smartphones, BlackBerry Porsche Design P9981 also comes with qwerty keyboard. You can navigate this smartphone using optical trackpad. Don't worry about its performance. BlackBerry Porsche Design P9981 equipped with 1.2GHz of processor, 8 GB of Internal Storage and 768 of RAM. If you like to collect many mp3 files or video files, you can insert microSD card up to 32 GB. I think it's able to store thousands of songs and video files. You can transfer files from PC to this smartphone via Bluetooth or USB cable.

BlackBerry Porsche Design P9981 equipped with camera 5 MP (with LED flash). It can also record the video upto 720p of resolution. According on GSMArena, this smartphone is not support for Java. I don't know why. So without Java support, you can install any java games or java apps on BlackBerry Porsche Design P9981. However, you can still install BlackBerry games or BlackBerry Apps. You can buy this smartphone about 1390 EUR. I know it's too expensive for the price of a smartphone for me. :(

Mozilla released and fixed Firefox 16, new version of Mozilla web browser. Actually, Firefox 16 has been released since few months ago. On October 11, 2012, Mozilla rereleased Firefox 16 because there're some flaws related with browser security before. I have posted article about Firefox 16 before. Evidently, that unfixed version.

Now Firefox 16 fixed version is available to download on Mozilla official website. This new version support for HTML5, CSS3 Animation, and many more.

source: CNET

Samsung announced new smartphone on October 2012, It's called Galaxy S3 Mini. Of course we know why it's called "mini". Yes, size factor make it called Mini. This smartphone is mini version of Samsung Galaxy S3 that was posted on my blog few weeks ago. Galaxy S3 Mini has a smaller 4-inch screen than Galaxy S3.

S3 Mini is equipped with operating system from Google, Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean). As we know, new samsung smartphones always equipped with this operating system. Same as Galaxy S3, S3 Mini also has touchscreen for input commands. Galaxy S3 Mini comes with Samsung TouchWiz UI. It has features such as SmartStay (where the screen doesn't turn off if it detecs that you are looking at it and also S-Beam feature that able to sending files using NFC and Wi-Fi Direct fasterly.

Galaxy S II Mini equipped with competitive hardware that has good performance. It has 1 GHz of processor clock speed and 1 GB of RAM and equipped with good power supply, It has 1500 mAh of battery capacity. For connectivity, Galaxy S3 Mini has GPS, A-GPS, 2G until HSDPA/HSUPA, Bluetooth and also WLAN.

There're some party has opinion that Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini designed to compete with the iPhone 5 in Europe. As we know, iPhone 5 is new smartphone made in Apple Inc. I don't know why Galaxy S3 Mini designed for that, few weeks ago I think Galaxy S3 that will compete iPhone 5.

source: CNET Asia

One of the main reasons the BlackBerry popularity is the number of users of BlackBerry Messenger (BBM). RIM also realized that it launched products that promote these features, one of which is the BlackBerry Curve 9320.

Physically, the BlackBerry Curve 9320 is very similar to the Curve 3G 9300. But the BlackBerry Curve 9320 is thinner and lighter than the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300. While the screen size is almost the same.


BlackBerry Curve 9320 products are made available by RIM for BBM feature. BBM button can be accessed on the left side. BBM button will run the BlackBerry Messenger application automatically even when you are doing other activities such as browsing, play audio, video, etc..

Beside BBM, RIM also provides social media such as facebook and twitter. Thus, users do not have to bother to setting it because it is available by default.

For the camera, the BlackBerry Curve 9320 still has 3.2 megapixels camera quality standards. If you want to save a lot of audio or video files, you can upgrade the memory up to 32 GB. It is enough to store hundreds of video and audio files. WiFi is also available for you if you want to enjoy internet connection in hotspot areas.

source: plazahp.com

Recently, Sony has introduced its new pocket camera products RX-100 series from Cybershoot family. Sony always give a different touch to the new products. RX-100 as good as DSLR camera. This time Sony wants to combine the power of DSLR cameras in the RX-100 pocket camera.

So what makes the RX-100 cameras can be compared with a DSLR? One is the existence of a 1 inch CMOS camera sensor technology . Sony sensor allows for higher pixel compress the pocket camera. So do not be surprised if this pocket camera specification RX-100 to mention the figure to 20.2 mega pixels maximum resolution that can be achieved.

Censorship is not the only weapon RX-100 to be different, because Sony also enclose this high pixel sensor with Carl Zeis Vario-Sonnar 28mm-100mm. Lens that can perform up to 3.6 x optical zoom can be used in low-light areas, especially the value of ISO light reaching 256,000. The images produced by the sensor and lens combination is then processed accurately by Sony's BIONZ image processor.

This camera can be said to be very fast. FX-100 can capture images up to 10 frames per second in burst mode the maximum resolution. It has 0.13 second of focus speed that can capture fast-moving objects.

source: pocket-lint.com

As we know, in 2012, iOS 6 has been released. iOS 6 is the latest operating system for apple device. You can perform update your iOS of  iPhone, iPod and iPad by visiting Settings > General > Software Update. But, it only can be apply for iPhone 3GS or later, iPod touch 4th or later and iPad.

So what' new features of iOS 6? iOS 6 has more features, below are list of iOS 6 features.
Dedicated signatures for all email accounts
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4 or later, iPod touch 5th gen and 4th gen, New iPad and iPad 2.
Facebook integration
This feature only can be apply for apple device same as above.
FaceTime over cellular
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and New iPad.
Flyover
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th gen, New iPad and iPad 2.
Offline Reading List
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, New iPad and iPad 2.
Panorama
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPod touch 5th gen.
Passbook
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 and iPod touch (4th and 5th gen).
Turn-by-turn navigation
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th gen, New iPad and iPad 2.
Shared Photo Streams
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4 or later, iPod touch 5th gen and 4th gen, New iPad and iPad 2.
Siri
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod touch 5th gen and New iPad.
VIP inbox
This feature only can be apply for iPhone 4 or later, iPod touch 5th gen and 4th gen, New iPad and iPad 2.

I hope this information about new features of iOS 6 can be useful.

source: techcrunch

Nokia phones are scattered around the world. Time after time, Nokia often release the latest smartphone products. Nokia has announced a new smartphone called the Lumia 920. This smartphone with touch screen and bar form is indeed one of the smartphones that compete in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Nokia Lumia 920 has a screen size of 768 x 1280 pixels (4.5 inches). Same with the latest smartphones such as the iPhone 5, Lumia 920 also supports 4G LTE network. This feature allows the  Lumia 920 user to download data at speeds up to 42 Mbps and upload up to 5.76 Mbps . For connectivity, the Nokia Lumia 920 has a full-featured, ranging from Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and USB data cable.


Lumia 920 has a main camera with  resolution same as the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S3. With 8 MP resolution of  camera, this smartphone can produce images with good quality because the smartphone is also equipped with a dual-LED flash that helps shed light on the object being captured. According to some information, the Lumia 920 does not have a memory card slot so users should be satisfied with the internal memory of 64 GB.

And comes with a dual-core 1.5 GHz and 1 GB RAM, this smartphone can provide a fairly good performance. For the operating system, of course, Nokia does not rely on Android, Nokia 920 rely on Microsoft's operating system Windows Phone 8. Nokia Lumia 920 available in 5 colors (black, white, red, yellow and green).

source: Nokia