ikmalThink : hp mini gets a make-up artist

Warning - highly fashionable stuff.
Let's start of this one with a celebrity intro - a designer to be precise. Vivienne Tam, a well renowned designer from Asian part of the world has collaborated with Hewlett-Packard (HP ) and transform a powerful mini warrior into a bragging right for chicks.

Bright red, sexy and curvy; an absolute beauty, the portable.

I was talking about this :

HP Mini 1000 by Vivienne Tam (Special Edition)

If I were a girl, I will say this is an absolute beauty; but I'm not and I still don't think otherwise. This is the world's first Designer Mini PC - HP. Light, powerful and pink.
With an appearance like this, no wonder people will love to be accessorize with a lappy.
Let's begin the geek talk.

• Processor : Powered by Atom 1.6Ghz
• RAM : 1GB of DDR2 memory
  
• Hard Disk : 60GB of file space
  
• And more integrated into this 'Mini' - yeah, this small

But most of all, I really love the full-sized keyboard (92% to be exact). I own one of the 'Mini' series, the 2133 edition. I can say that I really loved it. It's really light, small and most importantly functional.

Check them out :

www.HPbyVivienneTam.com - I made this up *haha

I really hate it when they create something really small but can't find anyone small enough to operate them properly, you know? Even if you are trying to compare them technically, it really wouldn't bother.
It's an ultra-portable which aims to do tasks on the run and not meant to multitask.
They do not aim for power-hungry user but more to a friendly road warrior. If it can handle internet browsing with some audio entertainment simultaneously, it's the real portable.

Go encode movie or PhotoShop-ed 4000 image-res elsewhere. *smiles

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ikmalThink : apple shuffle get slimmer?

You've guess it! Apple has release a new iPod (again?). The new ipod shuffle. Lot smaller compared to a normal house key form factor (and cooler, yes).

No more Apple wheel, but it talks!

The new cool features on the iPod Shuffle. It's no longer have controller on the iPod itself. Instead, it uses the 'earbud' to control.


If you see this as dumb development to the iPod family, you are wrong! It's the upgrade for iPod shuffle. There are no cool controllers on the original. Just forward/backward and voices. This is not the upgrade for the whole iPod.
I'm pretty much sure 'Shuffle' lovers will love this. But I do agree the earbud dependencies to navigate is purely marketing strategy. *hmm

Back to the new iPod Shuffle features :

• Playlist can be announce via middle button
  
• Tap on the middle button to skip or whatnot
• Normal voice -/+
• Smaller
  
• Larger in size : 4GB (up to 1000songs - Apple)
• Peek at the video at Apple.com - Apple will cause PC/Mac bloodbath based on the video. *smiles
  

This will be surely a faithful companion to oneself. Light enough for a jog, walk or workout. Honestly, who needs larger capacity? Car audio system is cheaper nowadays and laptops are getting lighter by the minute. Who needs more audio entertainment.

Unless you are wearing your iPod all the way inside a mall so you need your 60,000 songs capacity. Then don't.

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ikmalTips : watch movie for free

If you are a movie buff like me, one thing you'll love for sure is unlimited source of movie. Watching movies till you crap yourself is one of the biggest joys you could had in life. There are ways to watch movie for free. Do you know? You can also watch movie online. Read my previous post.

Watch free movies at MoviesPlanet. Read on.

However, some movies are worth watching repeatedly. Have them store in your personal storage is a really nifty features nowadays.
This method could be achieved by downloading these movies in your disk. The question now is where to download them?

We need these criteria for a start :

• a huge source of movie database
  
• downloadable content
• ability to stream movies

And the result, I found one which is very useful and to my experience, let just say I did crap myself. A wide source of movie and TV series from all time. Best part is; it's FREE! How cool is that.

The site is called MoviesPlanet. This site has a decent layout, a cool speed to stream up movies and huge movie database. They even have info on cast, director and stuffs.
There also have a section for new release that updated frequently from time to time. I already watch The Uninvited, which rated 6.5 at IMDB.
You can watch The Uninvited using the link below :

Watch The Uninvited

Plenty of movies to choose from their movie library. Wide range of movie genre at quality resolution. I even watch Hotel for Dogs online at their site.
Navigate yourself to their site will easily burns few hours of your time.
Please be warned : Site contains lots of movies!

I'm sure you will find this site useful because it does not cost a dime.
Hurry up; sign up at MoviesPlanet and watch movie online at no cost! Really awesome stuff!

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ikmalTips : finding a subtitle for your movie

If you like downloading movies via torrent and streaming sites, you'll know this. Most of it will lack of important bundle of subtitles. Regardless of lack of understanding, sometimes we might misinterpret certain script that will totally misleads you and reminds you of "hairy ball sack".

However, there are certain sites that able to provide you this kind of services. Not the balls, but the subtitles. There are long list for finding a subtitle for your movie sites.
These are my favorites :

• OpenSubtitles
• MySubtitles

How to add subtitle to a movie?
All you have to do is download desired movie subs (mostly in .srt or .subs format). Rename the file exactly with the video content and that's it.
For example : Movie1.avi needs to match with Movie1.srt.

However, be warned that not all subtitles are the same as you version, you might get a slight faster timeline version. If that happen, find another one.

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