Send replacement Nexus One back to HTC (they sent me non-working unit)
Submit school loan application
Lunch with Jenny
Tire-shopping
Put my camera on eBay.
Things to get done today.
September 2, 2010
Official Twitter app for iPad first impression
September 1, 2010
Gadgets iPad, Twitter, app, Osfoora Leave a comment
After i saw the app has been released i connected to app store right away had downloaded it. It is pretty simple and clean, works well. It seems working better in portrait then landscape. I like how it opens up a website if a tweet has a link. (it can also be a con)
Under setting it doesn’t have much options, so I guess what you get is what it is. I wish this came out two weeks earlier. I wouldn’t have to purchase Osfoora. I will give this one some time and see which one I like better.
Roger Clemens and his indictment
September 1, 2010
Baseball MLB, Roger Clemens, Rocket, Indictment, HGH Leave a comment
It is little late, but I decided to write anyway.
“Rocket” Roger Clemens, my childhood baseball hero indicted and pleaded not guilty. As I witnessing how this thing is going through, it somewhat upsets me. Let me be clear, I’m not upset simply this is regarding Roger Clemens.
Why does congressman wasting my money on issue like this? MLB is an association that are capable of handling this issue by themselves. Sure Roger Clemens possibly lied (I used word possibly since Rocket still claims he hasn’t used any HGH nor steroid) but congressman are the worst liars of all. They consistently lie. Mitchell Report, if i remember correctly this reports should have hundreds of players who used HGH/Steroids. This should be released to public. Every single player’s name. It is simply not fair only few are mentioned. Lastly, I do not like how media is covering the issue. I have many issue with media in this country but sometime I seriously have to wonder if they are purely delivering what is going on or listening to their opinions.
Rocket, I wish you the best and I truly hope that you come clean.
If you love me…
August 26, 2010
to be like Jesus John, love, obedience. Leave a comment
“If you love me, obey my commandments.” – John 14:15 NLT
What a dilemma it is. Such a tragic statement in many ways. I fell into this trap of thoughts “I better obey His voice to show I love Him.” What a wrong mind set I had yet I find myself lacking in love resulting failing to obey Him. I want to be set free from obey to love, I want to love first and my obedience follow through.
I need to write more.
August 25, 2010
I’m a person who forgets easily. I’m a person who has hard time communicating. I’m a person who is not friendly with language. I’m a FOB (means an immigrant). God has been requesting me to improve in this area for His glory. I’ve been pushing back and refusing to improve in getting better at communication skills. There are many other areas where I need to work on but surely I need to improve efficiency in delivering my thoughts.
My solution to this? Write more often. So here I come, I’ll write as much as possible. Hopefully i’ll not stop after a day or two. Lots of random things or thoughts in my head will be posted here. If you know me well enough and know how to contact me, nudge me time to time if I stop writing. Thank you.
update.
August 4, 2010
Life Guatemala, Kentucky, school Leave a comment
Woah, it has been about a month since I updated my blog. It has been busy and i’ve been away for a bit. Here are what I’ve been up to. For those who were wondering what I’ve been up to and what God has been doing in my life, here are quick update.
- Summer school was extremely busy trying to finish up everything before I left for Kentucky and Guatemala. Especially last 2 days before leaving for Guatemala. I would never do that again and know will not, I have one more year left.
- 2 days at Kentucky were great enough. I enjoyed it, however, didn’t get much rest before the Guatemala trip. Who knew? I’d slapped by tons of school works to turn in before I leave after a long trip to Kentucky? I still can’t believe a tire poped on trailer and weren’t able to find it quick enough. + Q hit my car with church van….
- Guatemala = amazing. This was the first year I left there with peace in my heart. It was amazing to get to know people in depth. Compassion, what I lack a lot but He is willing to work with me. I don’t know how long it will take but with faith and trust, i’ll enter into this journey to learn compassion that Jesus had.
That pretty much sums up one month of my journey.
iPad
June 14, 2010
Gadgets iPad, Kindle, NexusOne, Froyo, 64gb, wifi 2 Comments
Many of you who know me was actually surprised that i held off this long. I finally purchased my iPad yesterday, 64GB wifi version. Until i purchased it, i was more like “do i really need this thing?” but I’m really glad i got it.
I love reading books with kindle app (i should give a chance to ibook sometime), thanks to android froyo i didn’t have to purchase 3G version and over paying monthly service to AT&T! I tether with my NexusOne and I’m online every where.
I’ll post a review after my honeymoon period is over.
Kindle for Mac
June 3, 2010
Gadgets Adroid, Amazon, eBook, iPad, Kindle 2 Comments
I finally entered into the world of Kindle. I’m not much of a reader. So when I first saw the Kindle and idea behind of it, I was excited as a geek and gadget nerd but I really didn’t bother to try it for my own personal leisure.
I totally forgot, actually didn’t care, one of my summer class is meeting this Saturday first time. Of course my professor emailed us what I need to get done before the first class. Being who I am, I completely forgot about it and panicked when I saw a reminder yesterday. I have to read a entire book by saturday? I don’t even purchased one yet!
I originally planned to go to school early today and purchase one at the bookstore. I was also checking the availability at Borders and Barns and Nobel, I saw the Barns and Nobel’s Nook advertisement and remembered Kindle has an app for Mac. I quickly searched the title of the book and purchased it!
After reading about 15% of my first reading on Kindle, I’m somewhat disappointed. This is more of computer’s fault, I find myself not liking reading wide screen at all. This is really annoying, I wish I can change my screen’s orientation. I wish I can highlight what I want to highlight and ability to write a note. I wonder how my reading experience would improve on Android platform once Amazon releases Kindle for Android. I think if I use my phone, I’d complain that screen is little too small. Maybe not, since I read a lot of PDFs on my phone anyway.
I think to get the best experience out of kindle I need to purchase actual Kindle or get an iPad. Possibly another reason to justify myself to purchase an iPad that I kept refusing to purchase. Anyhow, I got to get back to reading and finish it sigh. Hopefully by end of this reading, I like the idea of reading books on computer or any portable device that will make me a bookworm!
Quick Review of Android 2.2 Froyo
May 24, 2010
Gadgets 2.2, Android, Froyo, Google, NexusOne Leave a comment
It has been two full days since I updated my NexusOne to Android 2.2 Froyo.
Briefly some changes I noticed.
- Smoother and faster
- Rotating to 270 degree
- Tethering options (USB or WiFi hotspots)
- New ways to unlock the phone: Patterns, Passcode, and Passwords
- Phone and contact apps rotation
- New car home app
- Twitter for android is built in now
- Flash 10.1 beta enables flash
- Faster browsing experience
- Phone and browser icon on the bottom.
- Option to move apps to SD card
- New GoogleTalk app
- New Message (SMS) App
Probably there tons of other changes but those are ones that I can actually experience by using them. Is Froyo a huge improvement? Absolutely! Am I completely satisfied coming from Eclair Moded rom? No way.
I was using Enomther’s modified ROM. It did most of Froyo improvements already except Flash. It had even more; such as data connection optimization, trackball colors for different notifications, IM app from G1, able to delete stock apps without adb commands, and etc.
I love almost every aspects of Froyo. I know it will get even better once moders comes out with custom mods. As of the stock these are things I don’t like
- Rotation to 270
- Facebook and Twitter app is built in. I had to adb to delete them
- Not all apps are working with Froyo yet – I want my MLB at Bat and Pure Calendar right now!!!
- CarHome looks nice. But in order to go to home screen, I have to exit and relaunch it to get back to CarHome.
- TrackBall color notification options are still very limited and not implemented well yet
These are things I noticed, hope Google will update Froyo again soon to bring better user experience.
Google nexus one Car Dock
May 8, 2010
Car, Gadgets Car, Dock, garmin, Google, navigation, Nexus One Leave a comment
yes, I did it. I could not hold it any longer. This is great so far.
I love how it recharges the phone pretty well, speaker phone works great, navigation seems working better than my Garmin nuvi 255wt.
here are improvements I want google to work on it
- When the navigation destination is not set, default map viewer is google map, which isn’t as nice as navigation view.
- Voice search searches internet before contacts on my address book
- Every screen doesn’t change its orientations
- Does not have way to tell me how many miles i have left for my trip. It only tells me how many minutes i have left. =(
- wish it has speed limit display
Android 2.2 supposed to come out shortly, I don’t know how many of this google has thought about it and planning to change it. What can I do other than just wait and see?
