MSI CR400 Classic Notebook

MSI CR400 Classic Notebook

MSI release a new classic notebook CR400 with 14-inch LCD display and it has unibody design with 45-degree angles after release MSI CX Series.

MSI CR400 has a large 14-inch high resolution display with 16:9 aspect ratio and 1366 x 768 LED backlighting. It has a 6-cell high capacity battery and the latest GeForce 8200M graphics processor unit. In addition to providing the performance of high-quality display, LED backlighting saves power and increases battery life.

The CR400 notebook from MSI supports 802.11 b/g/n high-speed wireless LAN, and has a Bluetooth V2.0 + EDR, which offers a triple progress in the flow of data. It comes with an integrated 1.3M webcam and microphone to provide a well-organized, real-time communication.

The MSI CR400 is compatible with Windows Vista Home Premium operating system supports Intel Core 2 Duo with Nvidia chipset MCP79MVL. The notebook has a storage capacity up to 4GB and a 2.5″ SATA HDD 250/320/500GB. It also includes a DVD super-multi optical drive with a 4-in-1 card reader that supports SD, MMC, XD and MS.

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Microsoft Offers Web Browser Choice to IE Users

Source: BBC Technology News

Millions of European Internet Explorer (IE) users will have the option to choose an alternative browser from 1 March, Microsoft has announced.

It follows a legal agreement between Microsoft and Europe's Competition Commission in December 2009.

Microsoft committed to letting Windows PC users across Europe install the web browser of their choice, rather than having Microsoft IE as a default.

Figures suggest that over half the world's internet users have IE.

Testing for the update is already underway in the UK, Belgium and France.

The software update choice will arrive automatically for Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 customers, according to a blog post by Dave Heiner, Microsoft's vice president and deputy general counsel.

The blog also contains screen grabs of the message as it will appear.

"Users who get the choice screen will be free to choose any browser or stick with the browser they have, as they prefer," wrote Mr Heiner.

Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera are the alternative browsers that people will be offered.

"Millions of people who have never really thought about which browser to use will now be forced to make a choice," said BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones on his blog.

"That presents Microsoft's rivals with a unique marketing opportunity."

Mozilla Foundation chair Mitchell Baker described the news as "an important milestone towards helping people take control of their online lives."

VLC Media Player - Free Download

If you are looking for a computer program that can play every audio and video file format, do try VLC Media Player. You can download it for free from here.

Description (from FileHippo.com):

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols without external codec or program.

It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
VLC can play:

• MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 / DivX files from a hard disk, a CD-ROM drive, and so on
• DVDs, VCDs, and Audio CDs
• From satellite cards (DVB-S)
• Several types of network streams: UDP/RTP Unicast, UDP/RTP Multicast, HTTP, RTSP, MMS, etc.
• From acquisition or encoding cards (on GNU/Linux and Windows only)

Acer Aspire One 532h

Because I still cannot find an Asus Eee PC 1005PE available in stores until now in this part of the world, I am contemplating on buying an Acer Aspire One 532h instead.

The specs are very much similar to that found in Asus Eee PC 1005PE and other new netbooks. It has a Pinetrail processor (Intel Atom N450), 250 GB HDD, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Connectivity, 3 USB's, Windows 7 Starter OS, and others.

Acer Aspire One 532h also offers a 63Wh battery which allows it to run for several hours longer than other netbooks. However, when it comes to battery, I prefer Asus Eee PC 1005PE's.

However, with respect to "looks", Acer Aspire One 532h is miles ahead of its rivals. 

Anyway, since I have not found any video review yet of this netbook, I am posting this YouTube video I found of the unboxing of Acer Aspire One 532h.

I Can't Find any ASUS EEE PC 1005PE

Late last December, Asus came up with its new netbook, the Eee PC 1005PE.

This netbook looks very similar to 1005HA. However, 1005PE has a new processor - Intel Atom N450, otherwise known as the Pinetrail, which boasts of its power efficiency, giving batteries longer life on a single charge. The Asus Eee PC 1005PE can run for a maximum of 14 hours on its battery on a single charge, according to ASUS. In real-world situations, this translates to about 10 hours of use, which is still excellent.

Aside from the processor, what sets the 1005PE from its predecessor, the 1005HA, is the keyboard style. While the earlier 1005HA has flat, tiled keys, the 1005PE has chiclet-style keyboard.

Moreover, the physical storage capacity was also increased from 160GB (in 1005HA) to 250GB (in 1005PE). The pre-installed OS in Asus Eee PC 1005PE is Windows 7 Starter Edition; in 1005HA, it was Windows XP.

These past weeks, I have been looking around stores for an Asus Eee PC 1005PE but I was not able to find any stock on sale. However, I have seen Acer Aspire One 532h and Toshiba Mini NB305 - also using Pinetrail processor - already available. What keeps me wondering is why these two netbooks are already in stores here but not the 1005PE when, in fact, those two netbooks were released later than the Asus netbook.

I have still seen stocks of 1005HA in the stores I visited. I have a theory that they are first selling out the 1005HA before stocking their shelves with 1005PE. It's just a theory.

Valentine's Day Card We Wish Existed

I know that this is a topic not even related to the general topic this blog was principally put up for. However, in the spirit of Valentine's Day, I decided to post this here.

While I was relaxing and whiling away my time watching YouTube videos, I came across this funny video.

So, if these cards indeed exist, would you give one to someone?

Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

Have You Heard of Maxthon?

So... have you really heard of Maxthon? Maybe not, especially if you are not into searching the Internet for programs and all.

Maxthon is just another browser.

When we speak of web browsers, we often refer to Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, or Apple Safari. But not Maxthon.

For those who want to try something new, give Maxthon a go. It, just like the other browsers, allows tab browsing. It also offers other amazing features and here are some of them (and check out the video at the end of this entry):

(taken from FileHippo)

The Ultimate Out-of-box Experience

• Easy to use and powerful straight out of the box
• Download now for free, forever!

Maxthon Works the Way You Want It To

• Swap, add, move, remove, and change Maxthon's tool bars, icons, menus, colors, skins, and layouts until it looks the way you would have designed it.
• Don't like menus? Use hot keys, word aliases, toolbars, or mouse gestures - it's all up to you.
• Pick from more than 1,400 plug-ins that make Maxthon the do-all of browsers.
• Remote conferencing, screen capture, electronic passports, and automatic password inlcuded, free.

Security.

• Maxthon is 100% free of viruses, spyware, adware – any kind of malware.
• The built-in Ad Hunter blocks harmful, or just irritating ads, images and pages.
• Filter packs screen out offensive and irritating Web pages.

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