The Gaming Misadventures Of Yoroi360 (Xbox 360) and Yoroi3 (PS3): asus eeepc

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Sunday, January 13, 2008

Lets Make A Difference...

If you're constantly connected to the internet for work or play, why don't you help out to make a difference... I fold... Do you??? Do your part and support F@H... Feel free to join the eeepc360 folding team (team id 103805) and do your part for humanity...

There are several ways to support F@H, for pc/mac users you may download one of the available clients here and for ps3 users you may access the F@H from your xmb interface...

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Monday, November 19, 2007

Making The Most Of Things...

As display space is a premium on the eeepc (7" screen at 800 x 480), there are several tweaks (not hacks because linux is like your wife's hot sister i.e. looking is fine but if you touch anything you're fucked) that I recommend... As I didn't have much time to setup my unit today, I concentrated only on firefox...

First off, there is fullerscreen... Basically the addon invokes the full screen and hides the navigation bar automatically when viewing webpages... This gives you an extra half inch high viewing area (which is plenty on the eeepc)... Its a nice touch that the navigation bar reappears when you move to the top of the age you're viewing...

For maximum space savings when using fullerscreen, it is suggested that it is used in conjunction with littlefox when you need to use the navigation bar (as the icons are only half the size and the menus have been reworked to save as much space as possible)...

Twitter addicts might also want to abandon their sidebar addons and opt for firefox twitterbar instead as it allows you to update your twitter via the navigation bar (thus saving the space required by a sidebar addon)...

Those on blogger/blogspot might also want to install greasemonkey and the magical sheep userscript to integrate a multiple technorati tag generator into their blogger interface... This saves space as by removing the need for a messy sidebar addon...

It would be best if the firefox default fonts were decreased by 2 sizes to allow for even more of a webpage to be dsplayed... I'll update once I setup the rest...

Sunday, November 18, 2007

The Song Of Silence...

I haven't been using the eeepc much so, its set up is still far from optimal... I have however just figured out how to enable sound alerts in Pidgin... I know you guys must be wondering, "Don't you just go to the tools>preferences>sound menu and click on the enable sounds checkbox???"... Well you guys forget that in linux, the experience is somewhat different... Because in linux the above is not sufficient to enable the sound alerts, what you have to do is set the "sound method" to "Command" and key in the text "aplay %s" in the command box... I'll never take vista for granted again...

Eeepc Pictures...

Here are some eeepc pictures for your viewing pleasure...

The eeepc...

The eeepc being dwarfed by my 14.1 acer lappie...

The eeepc and my 14.1 acer lappie side by side...

The eeepc with a nintendo ds lite to further illustrate the size...

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Gadget Lust...

Why is everyone lusting for the eeepc??? Simple... Its fairly affordable and yet stocks are limited... Thats why... So you can't even get it if you could afford it??? Shallow I know, but hey its true...

Friday, November 16, 2007

1st Post From The Eeepc!!!

Typing fast will take some time but its good to be able to pop open the eeepc and blog from virtually anywhere... Pictures will follow when get back tonight...

1299...

As most of you might already know, the eeepc (4gb) is being launched at MTCS Pavillion @ 1.00 pm today at the introductory price of rm 1299.00...

Some of you might scoff when you see the specs of the eeepc, but let me assure you that if you approach it with an open mind, you will start to see how special it really is... And what do I mean by special??? Well consider this, its got a 7" screen and @ rm 1299.00 you will be hardpressed to find a media player with a comparable screen size...

Judging by its dimensions and sub 1kg weight it can and should be classified as an ultra portable, and how much do most ultra portables cost??? More than 3.5 x the asking price of the eeepc...

I know the 4gb storage (only 1.4gb allocated to the user after os and program install) is miniscule but bear this in mind, its solid state... Which means it can withstand bumps and drops and boots up faster while consuming less power... Most reviewers have commented that the unit boots up and is ready for use in under 20 secs while shutdown mostly takes less than half that time...

Now time for a little math...

eeepc 4gb = rm 1299.00
entry level 3g handphone = rm 399.00
unlimited data plan from celcom (per month) = rm 68.00

At rm 1766.00 for all the items above, you can officially surf everywhere and anywhere (even when there is no wifi hotspot)... Great for facebook addicts... why surf on your pocket pc when you can do it on a 7" screen??? Also great for all you msn junkies, no more typing on cramped thumbboards!!!

So at the rm 1299.00 price point it does present itself as a very viable blogging tool / media player / internet surfing thingie... Heck to put things in perspective, most of the new kick ass pc graphics cards out there cost just as much, question is are they as versatile??? I think not...

Here's a chronology of events that lead to the procurement of my eeepc...

http://theshow.marauderzstuff.com/2007/11/16/BreakingNews.aspx
http://theshow.marauderzstuff.com/2007/11/16/BreakingNews11.aspx
http://theshow.marauderzstuff.com/2007/11/16/BreakingNews12.aspx