Tracing a website using command prompt

Tracing or Routing a website using command prompt. This tip is only meant for educational purpose. I mainly use this trick to find out the hosting provider where a particular domain is hosted.

Follow the below steps:

1.   Start->Run->CMD  ie; open Command prompt

2.  Type the following command and press enter.


tracert www.websitename.com

in the above command, enter the desired website name.
Once you press enter, it tell you where a particular domain is hosted, Location, Country and some details of that domain.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for this trick if this is used in a wrong way. I didn’t invent this method rather I myself found it somewhere else. Do not use this for Hacking purpose.

New Megacheap megazooms: 10 sub-$250 cameras

Ah, the allurement of the continued lens. Camera manufacturers accept spent the accomplished brace years waging a zoom war, aggravating to backpack as abundant deepening into added abate camera bodies. A few of them, such as Nikon, Fujifilm, and Olympus, are alms both budget-friendly and high-end models of full-size megazooms, while aloof about all of the makers accept a lower-cost bunched megazoom in their lines.

It acclimated to be absurd to acquisition a 10x optical zoom

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Samsung Wave 723 Review

Germany will soon be able to say hello to the Samsung Wave 723, the newest model of the smartphone built on Samsung's open Bada platform. Samsung will release the Wave 723, also known as GT-S7230E, in Germany in September, and then it will gradually release it to other countries in Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

The Wave 723's specs include a 3.2-inch WQVGA TFT-LCD screen, a 5.0 megapixel camera, 3G and 802.11 Wi-Fi support, and QVGA video recording and playback that includes support for H.264 HD video.

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Facebook scam claims to need testers for iPhone 4, iPad

Popularity of Apple products has always brought out scammers, hoping to prey on the wish list's of potential targets. Currently, a Facebook scam promises to send consumers a brand-new iPhone 4 or iPad 3G for testing. In return for your opinion, you get to keep the device.
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For Some, A New Beginning

(Wow! It actually looks like I'm running instead of just shuffling my feet! Thanks for the nice action shot, Dave K.)

I don’t remember if I mentioned this last year, but waking up in the early morning and hearing a rooster crow in the middle of the city seems strange, but I’ve heard this sound in the past year when I was getting ready for AREC marathon training on Saturday mornings and I don’t know where it’s coming from. Does one of my neighbors have this chicken as a pet? Incidentally, one of the sounds of my talking alarm clock has is the cock a doodle do of a rooster but I don’t think what I’ve been hearing is a clock but rather a real cock.

After getting anxious last Friday thinking about how I was going to perform Saturday morning, I decided that I had to change my mindset to - just show up and run. I was worrying too much about what pace, how far, how am I going to feel, I hope it won’t be a repeat of last week, and so on and so forth. It’s terrible when what is supposed to relieve stress is causing me to become anxious. I believe it was just a matter of a lack of confidence having been absent from the activity for so many weeks and having a bad run the previous week. When I stopped overthinking the process, I felt so much better. I actually showed up at the start with a smile on my face.

I was planning on starting out early, ahead of the training group because I was going to do the Galloway run/walk method and I didn’t want to be the last person out on the course. Sometimes one has to make some adjustments after being in the middle of the pack in past years to the present time where I am now at the back of the pack. No matter. The same distance still had to be covered only taking longer. Well I changed my mind at the last minute and started with everyone else anyway. Off I go running the slowest pace I could possibly do, so as not to get winded right way like I did the previous weekend. I was slow enough that I skipped the first walk break, and the next, and the next. Well let me just say that I skipped all the walk breaks until past 6 miles. I was lucky enough to have been able to run with this Puerto Rican lady from about 4 miles on (I think she’s Boricua, but I’m not sure). Her name escapes me since the last time we introduced ourselves was around last November, and I’m not good at remembering names. She was also coming back from an injury and was game enough to tackle 10 miles on her first day back. I told her we were both crazy and she concurred. We mutually agreed that we were going to do the 4 minute run with 1 minute walk break after 6 miles since she was getting tired and I had to preserve my ankles. It was at 6 miles that we paused at Steve’s water stop where he offered some honey sticks. Honey stick? President Todd was hanging out at that water station and I told him that I could think of something inappropriate regarding the words “honey stick”. Todd said, maybe I should just keep that remark to myself. With that advice and a fist bump, Boricua and I proceeded down the Peninsula on Ocean Boulevard. Around 7 miles I could feel a cramp developing on my right calf but I managed to hold on. However, hours later as I write this, it’s still stinging. Well, to make a long story short, my unnamed friend and I made it all the way to 10 miles, even skipping the last walk break with about ¾ miles to go. Compared to my sallow look after last weeks’ unfortunate run, I was grinning from ear to ear again.

On a side note, I couldn’t help but feel joyous upon seeing Dona running again when I saw her climbing 6^th Street hill. She had been having a piriformis problem in recent weeks and had to stop running too. With Dona, Boricua, and me back into running, all is well in the world again. New beginnings indeed.

Putting on a happy face :)

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Working Out In A Dizzy Tizzy

Due to the sudden return of my dizziness problems in the past week and the heat finally scorching Southern California, I have been conservative with my outdoor workouts especially after my terrible run/walk last Saturday. I already mentioned the 1 ½ hour stationary bike ride last Sunday. This was followed by an hour run on the treadmill on Monday which a surprise by itself because I usually don’t have the patience and concentration to last that long on the machine. The very slow pace which allowed me to read the newspaper, helped pass the time and still gave me a good workout. On Tuesday, it was back to the stationary bike in the form of the recumbent this time. It was so hot that I trained the electric fan towards me and cranked it up to the highest level. That workout lasted an hour and twenty minutes which consisted of intervals. This brings us to Wednesday which is normally not a running day for me but I was feeling pretty good and despite the high heat at 1 P.M. I ventured outside with hopes of completing at least 30 minutes. I could feel a slight breeze in the beginning which was definitely better than the dead air indoors. When I approached 30 minutes, I extended my goal to 40. Having to do some detours to avoid street constructions in my neighborhood (The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 at work), I hit 50 minutes by the time I reached home. How hot was it? Well I lost 3 ½ pounds of sweat in just 50 minutes or very slow running and had to rehydrate quickly. I hope to show up at AREC marathon training on Saturday feeling better than last weekend. Know what? Very slow running or jogging has not been a problem for me. At least I can still do it and taste the sweet nectar of endorphins J. 

At the start of the month, my job offered a website (Healthyroads.com) where employees can track their fitness and health goals, and after putting off signing up for several weeks, I finally joined a few days ago. Just for signing up they gave away an exercise kit which included elastic bands and a walking kit which included a pedometer. Upon logging 12 workouts, they will also send you a water bottle as a reward. Since I already reached that level, I was expecting three items in the mail, which arrived today. Unfortunately, I didn’t see them because I was asleep when the mailman tried to deliver. Maybe when they redeliver tomorrow… By the way, they also have reward for reaching 36 and 72 workouts: a towel for the first and a t-shirt for the next. Since I work out every day, getting the free stuff would not be a problem. It’s just too bad that they stop giving rewards after 72 workouts :P

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Top Ten IT Companies In India

Information technology is an important indicator to gauge a country's economic growth and India is no exception. Therefore, organisations, financial bodies and media houses conduct surveys time and again to arrive at revenue structure of reputed IT companies of India.

The top 10 hardware and software companies had average revenues of $2 billion in 2009-10, according to the latest survey conducted by Dataquest, CyberMedia group journal.

However, the top 20 companies just about managed to match the Indian gross domestic product growth rate of 8.4 per cent in rupee terms to report a combined revenue of Rs180,193 crore ($39.52 billion) in FY '10 compared to Rs 174,605 crore (Rs 1,746.05 billion) in FY '09, according to the survey. All the company revenues are from April 2009 to March 2010.


The revenues do not include their business process outsourcing  revenues. Which is also why Infosys Technologies is not included in the top 20 list compiled by Dataquest.


For companies headquartered in India, Dataquest has taken the entire IT revenue; for companies that do business in India too entire domestic IT revenue has been taken; for non-Indian companies who export out of India, the journal has taken only the revenue generated by the Indian legal entity.
Let's take a look at India's top 20 IT companies in India in terms of revenue.

Hewlett-Packard India: 1
Revenue: Rs 14,992 crore (Rs 149.92 billion)
Growth: 16% 
Hewlett-Packard Company is an American multinational information technology corporation with an office in almost every country of the world. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Mark V Hurd is the company's president, chief executive officer and chairman.

HP specialises in developing and manufacturing computing, data storage, networking hardware, designing software and delivering services.


HCL Infosystems Ltd: 2 
Revenue: Rs 11,836 crore (Rs 118.36 billion)
Growth: -4%
HCL Infosystems Ltd is a subsidiary of HCL.

The hardware and systems integrating company has a presence in 170 locations with headquarter in Noida.

It has manufacturing facilities in Chennai, Puducherry and Uttarakhand.

Ajai Chowdhry is the company's chairman and chief executive officer.

Ingram Micro India: 3
Revenue: Rs 8,824 crore (Rs 88.24 billion)
Growth: -6%
Ingram Micro Inc. is the world's largest technology distributor, providing sales, marketing and logistics services for the IT industry worldwide. Ingram Micro India is a subsidiary of this company.

Ranked 67 in the 2009 Fortune 500 listing, the company operates in 34 countries with approximately 15,000 associates worldwide.

Greg Spierkel is the chief operating officer of Ingram Micro Inc and Dale Laurance its chairman.

K Jaishankar is the managing director of Ingram Micro India.

Redington: 4
Revenue: Rs 7,024 crore (Rs 70.24 billion)
Growth: 7%
Redington India, incorporated in 1961, commenced the operations in 1993 distributing information technology products.

The company gradually expanded its operations across India covering a broad range of IT and telecom products with offices in India, West Asia and Africa.

P S Neogi is the president of IT products and E H Kasturi Rangan is its president, consumer and digital products division.

IBM India: 5
Revenue: Rs 5,888 crore (Rs 58.88 billion)
Growth: 2%
IBM India, Indian subsidiary of IBM, has facilities in Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Pune, Gurgaon, Noida and Hyderabad.

IBM is a multinational computer technology and IT consulting corporation. Its headquarter is in New York, USA.

IBM worldwide expects its revenues to be about $120 billion by 2010.

The company's key people are Shanker Annaswamy, country manager and South Asia head and Rajesh Nambiar, vice president & general

Dell India: 6
Revenue: Rs 5,275 crore (Rs 52.75 billion)
Growth: 24%
Dell India is a subsidiary of Dell Inc. The latter is a multinational information technology corporation.
 Based in Round Rock, Texas, the company develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services.

Michael S Dell is the company's chairman and chief executive officer.

Dell is one of the largest technological corporations in the world, employing more than 96,000 people worldwide.


Wipro: 7
Revenue: Rs 5,268 crore (Rs 52.68 billion)
Growth: 9%
Wipro is one of the largest IT services company in India and employs more than 108,071 people worldwide as of March 2010. It is headquartered in Bengaluru.

The company does business in information technology, consumer care, lighting, engineering and healthcare businesses.

Azim Premji is the company's chairman and Girish Paranjpye and Suresh Vaswani are the joint chief operating officers.


Intel India: 8
Revenue: 4,690 crore (Rs 46.9 billion)
Growth: Not available
Intel India is a subsidiary of Intel Corporation. The latter is a technology company, and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.


It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers.


The 2010 rankings of the world's 100 most powerful brands published by Millward Brown Optimor showed the company's brand value at number 48.

Paul S Otellini is the company's chief executive officer and Craig Barrett is its chairman.


Microsoft India: 9
Revenue: Rs 3,575 crore (Rs 35.75 billion)
Growth: 14%
Microsoft entered India in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, IT industry, academia and local developer community for ushering in some of the early successes in the realm of IT.

Bill Gates is the chairman of Microsoft Corporation, Steve Ballmer the chief executive officer of Microsoft Corporation and Ravi Venkatesan, chairman of Microsoft India.


Microsoft currently has offices in 16 cities -- Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Jamshedpur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, and Pune.


SAP India: 10
Revenue: Rs 3,204 crore (Rs 32.04 billion)
Growth: 46%
SAP India is a subsidiary of SAP AG.
The latter is a German software development and consulting corporation, which provides enterprise software applications and support to businesses of all sizes globally.


The company is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with regional offices across the world.

Bill McDermott is the company's co-chief executive officer, global field operations, and Jim Hagemann Snabe is its co-CEO, business solutions & technology.

 Source: rediff
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9 ways to make money online

From blogging to profitable social networking and playing games to posting on forums, the internet is a world of moneymaking opportunity

James F Thompson

With the advent of university top-up fees, student life doesn’t come cheap for today’s overworked undergraduates. But the power of the internet offers up a number of ingenious ways to generate some extra beer money from the comfort of your own home. Here are ten of the best.


1. Social networking
It might seem like nothing more than a pipe dream but making money as you trawl through profiles of friends, prospective and ex boyfriends and girlfriends is actually a reality. Yuwie, an upstart social networking enterprise, offers to pay its users as they increase the page impressions of their public profiles, upload photos to share and refer others to join in the fun. All of this is achieved by a proportionate payment structure that sees around half of the website’s advertising revenue – its chief source of income - distributed directly to its user base.
Admittedly it’s still early days but with around half a million registrations to date and no shortage of testimonials, Yuwie looks like the real deal.


2. Blogging
There are two ways to make cash through blogging: either by earning commission from advertising banners placed alongside a blog of your own or by engaging in the (slightly dubious) practice of “sponsored” blogging. An array of third party tools is available in the case of the former option; Google’s AdSense remains one of the more popular solutions. Just establish yourself a decent blog, configure the ads and see what happens. Sponsored blogging on the other hand is an altogether more calculated affair, with specialists such as Blogitive and PayPerPost providing a platform through which companies essentially contract bloggers to post favourable content about their products in exchange for cash. Unethical, granted, though nonetheless undoubtedly fruitful for those subtle enough to get away with it.


3. Message boards
Every message board - both small-time niche operation and gargantuan general interest community alike - relies on posts from its members in order to sustain user interest. Newly-created forums are particularly dependent on regular contributions in order to encourage conversations and attract the registration of new members. This, of course, is where you come in. In exchange for a nominal fee of anywhere between £0.01 and £0.10 per post, message board administrators frequently advertise externally for “ringers” to sign up to their endeavours and get the ball rolling. Popular recruiting grounds include webmaster-talk and Digital Point.


4. Stock photography

If you’ve a keen eye for an impressive frame, or even just some half-decent camera kit at your disposal, selling pictures to any one of the plethora of stock photography agencies scattered across the web represents a sure-fire method of generating an income online. The likes of iStockPhoto and Fotolia offer budding photographers the incentive of earning potentially significant sums for their snaps on a per-download basis in exchange for their other royalty payment rights. Predictably, the most sought-after depictions are of a fairly mundane nature – think three-quarter view angles of pretty women dressed in suits – though equally inevitable is the high demand in some quarters for photographs of an altogether more risqué nature…


5. Surveys
As inglorious a means of making money online as you’re ever likely to find, completing market research surveys for cash is time-consuming, invasive and very, very dull. It also happens to be very effective. Opportunities in this field are virtually endless too, with literally thousands of research groups vying for your time and attention. Perhaps the most well known of these is YouGov, whose methodology involves obtaining responses from an invited group of internet users at prices ranging from £0.50 to £2.00 per survey completed. Registration is free and relatively painless, though if you are planning on going down this route, you would do well to create another email account solely for the purpose of survey completion – your personal details are going to be getting bandied around an awful lot.


6. Games
Believe it or not, it is possible to make money simply by playing computer games. Second Life, one of a range of so-called massively multi-player online games, allows users to both buy in-game currency called Linden dollars (a name derived from its creator, Linden Labs) and later exchange any amount amassed within the game back into real-world funds. Ailin Graef made the headlines in 2006 having claimed that her in-game avatar, Anshe Chung, had generated enough resources to allow her to be classified as a millionaire in reality. Other prospects include Moola, which claims to pay players over five million pounds for the straightforward task of winning thirty of its games in a row. Perhaps tellingly, the grand prize is yet to be claimed.
7. Freelancing
If you have a talent – be it for writing, graphic design or even programming - online freelancing will allow you to exploit it for a handsome profit. Services such as Elance and oDesk advertise outsourced remote working opportunities on behalf of thousands of companies and allow members to sign up to assignments according to their desired criteria. Naturally, there’s a catch - said services also take a cut of up to 15 per cent of your potential earnings. Depending on your skills and availability though, there is a lot of money to be made in this fashion, with the fastest-growing fields - like document translation - paying the best rates.
 
8. Selling 
A method as old as the internet itself, hawking wares through virtual auctions and shops provides a quick income boost for many students, enabling unwanted Christmas to be disposed of with ease. The obvious starting points are eBay and Amazon Marketplace , though classifieds websites such as Ad Trader are proving increasingly popular. Those of you looking to secure revenue on a more long-term basis will need to source in-demand products and be able to sell them at a mark-up on the price that you yourself paid. One example is “vintage” clothing – cheap clothes with retro appeal are available in abundance at charity shops and can easily be sold to other fashionable students online at a higher price.


9. Doing something crazy 
Most truly spectacular success stories of making money online don’t involve any of the aforementioned routes at all. Instead, they showcase brazen opportunism that flies in the face of all logic and reason. Take Alex Tew’s MillionDollarHomepage from 2005 for instance – a website set up with the sole intention of selling pixels at one US dollar apiece to advertisers in order to fund its proprietor’s university degree. On paper it was a ludicrous concept – of course it was - but a 21 year-old Tew soon found himself a certified millionaire. So too did the founders of Doggles, an internet business devoted to selling goggles… for dogs. The point is that, just as in the “real” world, originality paired with good business acumen may potentially reap far greater rewards than any supposedly tried-and-true method of generating cash that you might care to mention. So be creative.

How to make money online with Google (Page2)

money online with Google" at this point, without using it in context, he would very naturally expect Google to simply ignore such blatant attempts to game the system.
In addition to a few keywords, you will make more money through Google traffic if you get other websites to link to your work, increasing your profile online. Getting links from reputable websites is not easy, and the subject for an article in itself. Suffice it to say that if you write really good stuff, sooner or later your stock will rise in Google's eyes.
Equally, if you are a business, you can make a huge amount of money online with Google if you are highly placed in their search results and floods of traffic are directed to your site as a result. Whether you make your money directly through ad revenue sharing programmes, or indirectly through the sale of products, try to follow the same basic strategy of keyword-rich quality content, building links around the Internet on relevant sites.

3) Google consultant
Of course, there is always a third way to make money online with Google. Google knows that the volume of traffic that flows through its search page can make or break online businesses and so quite sensibly keeps its search algorithim a closely guarded secret, to stop web entrepreneurs from gaming the system and skewing search results so that their own sites rule supreme on the first page of listings.
This hasn't stopped a whole cottage industry of consultants for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) looking at a lot of high-ranking websites, making some educated guesses about how the programme might work, and then offering their services to anyone prepared to pay for them. If you really want to make money online with Google, your best bet is to learn the techniques of the SEO consultant (and depending on how ethical you want to be, you can learn enough to persuade the average small business of your credentials within half an hour) and start peddling your wares.
Although it's a crowded marketplace, there are still literally hundreds of thousands of small businesses out there who just about have the savvy to own a website, and are aware that this Google thing is important, but without the initiative to sort it out themselves. You can write your own cheques to provide Search Engine Optimisation consultancy services to small and medium-sized businesses, and you CAN boost their Google traffic quite easily, it's just that it's so basically easy that you will feel like a bit of a fraud.

The above three money-making methods can generate appreciable amounts of cash for you with Google, but it should be clear that the best option is to combine the different strands. Start an SEO blog, put some Google Adsense advertisements on it, and then make sure there are plenty of keywords and backlinks around the net to gain traffic from Google. There you are - some people can make a living by advising other people on how to make a living through Google. A blog that gives tips on making money online with Google, which makes money through Google advertisements which are viewed by Google customers.
Google will eat itself.

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Riding To Nowhere

Feeling a little bit better on Sunday, I had to make up for the aborted workout on Saturday and did an hour and half stationary bike ride while reading the newspaper. In the past couple of weeks I have done two 1 ½ hour rides on the upright stationary bike. The longest I can remember doing that was in 1980 when I was still working at the CDCP employees’ gym in Makati, Manila where I was the fitness trainer. While rehabilitating from my first running injury (I just started running that year), I had done a couple of two hour rides. You wouldn’t believe what reading materials I had that enabled me to ride that long: Playboy and Penthouse magazines that clients left for the gym staff!

I wore the new Louis Garneau cycling shoes and they felt okay other than because of the shape of the sole, your center of gravity shifts slightly backwards. I would liken the feeling to those rocker Skecher shoes with the concave shaped soles which are supposed to burn more calories when you walk on them because they engage more muscles.

It appears that the malaise I was feeling on Saturday can be attributed to a slight increase in blood pressure. I didn’t check it Saturday morning but did so on Sunday and noticed the difference from the usual norm, although it wasn’t abnormally high. Time to cut back a bit on the 32 oz. a day coffee habit.

This has nothing to do with the workout, but later on Sunday, I watched an English movie which was dubbed in Chinese and in turn came with English subtitles. That was weird. Can you imagine John Cusack speaking Chinese?

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Facebook Confirms Its Location Product

As I said earlier tonight, code doesn’t lie. Facebook has now confirmed their location-based feature, which is apparently due to launch shortly if the code found on their touch.facebook.com site is any indication. Of course, they only confirmed it so they could clarify something else.

“There are currently no plans to add marketing partners to this product. We may consider working with marketers to enhance the experience in the future, but have no plans to do so at launch,” a Facebook spokesperson tells us in response to our story. You’ll notice two key words in there, “product” and “launch.” So Facebook is acknowledging the “product” that we found. And you have to believe they wouldn’t bring up a “launch” or know details about it if it weren’t happening soon.

This was in response to the section of my previous post where I say, “This information seems to go along well with reports last week in AdAge that Facebook was teaming up with some big brands for their location functionality. Presumably, these brands will be populated, and maybe even some highlighted, in this new Places tab.” Facebook wants it to be clear that there will be no marketing partners at launch (but there could — and likely will — be later).

Actually, this is what AdAge said in its most recent article about marketers and location on Facbeook. “Marketers, which have taken a keen interest in both Facebook and geo-targeted marketing, will be integrated into the system sometime after [the launch],” Michael Learmonth and Emily Bryson York reported last week. Facebook wouldn’t talk about a specific product for that article, but did have the same line about there being no marketing partners at launch.

I asked Facebook for a comment about the launch timing, all I got back was, “Sorry – nothing to share around timing.” But again, this acknowledges that the code we found on the site, is in fact what’s coming. That means a check-in service built around a new Places component.

With A Yuck Yuck Here and a Yuck Yuck There

Here, there, everywhere, yuck yuck.

In other words, what a yucky and miserable day of running it was for me. I woke up feeling out of sorts and it didn’t get any better later. Maybe it was the self imposed stress of performing well in addition to having a hard time deciding whether to wear the new shoes or the older ones. In the end I wore the old ones because as I was on my way to the car to meet with the AREC group, my left Achilles tendon started to hurt while wearing the new shoes. This made me more tense and hurried and when that happens, my lingering dizziness gets worse. I didn’t get much of a warm up due to getting there almost late, but my legs and ankles felt pretty good and bouncy at the outset. Maybe I would be able to do 8 to 12 miles after all. But it was too soon to be presumptuous because by the time I passed 2 miles I was already feeling lightheaded. I made it to the first water stop at 3 miles, turned around to retrace my steps to the finish area, doing more walking than running. It took so much effort trying to stay conscious due to the lightheadedness. Did I start out too fast on a warmer day? Maybe I did, based on my current level of conditioning. Last weeks’ 9 miles must have just been a fluke, with assistance from over enthusiasm and adrenaline. As I write this several hours later, I don’t feel any much better. I thought it was dehydration or the decreased food intake the last few days, but I’m not sure anymore. During Thursdays’ bike ride and on Friday I felt ok, but it sucked waking up Saturday morning feeling crummy, especially when I was eagerly anticipating running with the AREC training group again. Even my hellos to my friends Linda, Cyndi, and Sophie were so unenthusiastic because of the way I felt. Sorry about that ladies. When I feel this way you can see it through my crestfallen face and the absence of my smile, and believe me, I hate that feeling. Whatever endorphins my body managed to manufacture in those 6 miles of running and walking wasn’t enough to offset the low serotonin level I had. I hope tomorrow is a better day. In fact, I insist on it.

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Thursday Ride, Flugtag, Garneau Shoes

I haven’t ridden my bike in a week and a half and on Thursday morning I headed back on my usual L.A. River Bike Path to Shoreline Village to Belmont Shore ride. While in Shoreline Village, I saw a lot of workers setting up for Saturday’s Red Bull Flugtag on Rainbow Harbor. You can find info on that here: http://www.redbullflugtagusa.com/LongBeach2010 .

Did my speed suffer from my lack of riding? Wait a minute, what speed? As they say in the American vernacular, “I ain’t got none! Dad gump it!” I appreciated the slightly cool air generated by the ride, although on the way back home going North, there was a definite change of temperature once I got past Pacific Coast Highway. It felt considerably warmer the farther away I got from the coast. Having not ridden since last week as previously mentioned, I expected my derriere to have lost some conditioning and start being sore again. To my surprise, that wasn’t the case and there was no soreness at all. Another thing missing from Thursday’s ride was horse poo. There was barely any on the path. Either it was cleaned earlier, or the horses got the day off, or they learned to use the litter.

I received the new Garneau cycling shoes in the mail on Friday, a day too late for Thursday’s ride. They’re fairly comfortable for walking but it sounds like the clippety-clop of a horse cantering, as most cycling shoes do when you walk on them. Those sounds might blend pretty well with the horse doo doo I encounter sometimes.

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Heat + No Company = Bad Run

What happens when it has been cool all summer and the body hasn’t had the time to acclimate to sudden heat? The heat that we have been waiting for all summer finally hit us on Tuesday and increased further on Wednesday. Thursday’s newspaper said the high was 88 degrees on Tuesday and jumped to 96 degrees on Wednesday.  I can’t say that it drained me, but I felt dizzier than usual so maybe that‘s just the way the heat affected me. As a follow up run to last Saturday, I did a 6 mile run/walk on Tuesday, which I thought I should have stopped when I reached 5 miles because I felt so sluggish. Even though the pace was exactly the same as the 9 mile run/walk I did last Saturday, it felt much harder. 6 miles much harder than 9 miles? Doesn’t make sense, right? I don’t think it was so much the heat as it was the lack of company. Last Saturday, even though I wasn’t pacing with anybody, I was still surrounded by runners of different paces. On Tuesday, I had to do it all by my lonesome. It’s so much more motivating to be around people trying to achieve the same thing. Same pace, harder effort alone, but easier perceived effort with others. The company is what I missed for the 6 weeks that I stopped running.

 On Wednesday, I picked up a new pair of running shoes at a store in Cerritos and even though I wasn’t scheduled to run, I just had to try it out. I ran for 15 minutes going out, and walked for 25 minutes coming back. In that short span of time at 2 p.m. in 96 degree heat, I thought I might faint because I got dizzy off and on. It was probably a combination of the heat, lack of sleep, and dehydration. That experience was scary and getting anxious about it made things feel worse, but I survived by reducing the walk by 20 minutes. Drinking 32 oz. of water afterwards revived me. Oh, by the way, the shoes feel ok, but then again new shoes always feel that way.

                There is a different story about these shoes altogether. They are the Asics Gel Foundation 8 which first came out in 2008. The newest model which is the Foundation 9 was just released last month so it’s no surprise that the model 8’s are now mostly on closeout sale. Well, Big 5 Sporting Goods must have bought a lot of these shoes at a bargain from Asics because they are selling it for about 50% off regular price. There is just one problem with this. Although the shoes came in several sizes, they were all in 4E width, meaning they are really, really wide! That leaves out a lot of shoppers with narrow feet. Not a problem for me because I usually wear 2E to 4E, although I would have preferred the 2E. In absence of that, I bought the 4E because the price was right.

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Shopping For Cycling Shoes

On my way home from Saturday’s attempted running comeback (http://noeldlp.blogspot.com/2010/08/return-to-running.html), I stopped by Jax Bicycle Store to check out cycling shoes. I had been wearing my 1980’s era Nike Velo touring shoes and while the sturdy soles are still intact, I’ve had to patch holes on its top with Shoe Goo. An old pair of Sidi racing shoes that I had years ago is long gone. I don’t even remember if I threw them away when I stopped cycling, or if I donated it to charity. I mentioned to the new, young salesperson that my shoes were probably older than he was, and indeed, they were :-D. The store had several models from Shimano, Bontrager, and Garneau. Oh boy, did I get sticker shock when I saw the prices of these shoes. The cheapest was $79 and it went all the way to $200 + for the ultralight carbon fiber type. But none of them felt as comfortable for walking as my old shoes did. After trying several pairs for comfort and size with the new employee, an older employee finally showed me a hybrid shoe, the Garneau Multi, which can be used with or without cleats. The previous ones I tried were either mountain biking shoes or racing shoes. Well, I don’t plan on mountain biking, racing, or doing triathlons. I just use the bike for fitness riding. Since they didn’t have any in my size of the hybrid shoes, we exchanged contact information in case I want to special order them or if a shipment with my size came in. A couple of hours after I got home, I looked up my choice of shoes online and most of the prices were the same as it was at Jax’s, except for two online stores. One offered it for 67.95 plus 11.50 shipping, while the other had it for 69.95 with 6.50 shipping. It turns out, the second option was the same store that I bought my padded cycling shorts from, where I got free shipping. However, this time the website didn’t indicate the same free shipping offer. Next, I looked up any promotional codes for that particular store and found a free shipping coupon code. I applied it to my purchase and voila, I had myself another bargain! If I bought those shoes at Jax’s, it would have been 79.99 plus 9.75% state tax. At the online store, it was a flat 69.95 without tax and included free shipping. Having paid off my bike just moments before and since my credit card entered a new billing period, I went ahead with the shoe purchase. It was too sweet a deal to pass up. Anybody interested in reasonably priced cycling gear? Try aerotechdesigns.com. I hope the new shoes will give me a similar number of years of service like the old one is still doing.

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A Return To Running

The first part of this post is a precursor to what happened Saturday morning.

So I sorta jogged on the treadmill on Thursday morning. After a 20 minute warm up on the elliptical machine, I got up on the treadmill and set the speed to 4 MPH because I read Amby Burfoot’s blog in Runnersworld.com last week about his return to running from knee surgery. In it, he mentioned that it was indeed possible to run that slow on the treadmill. I’ve mentioned in another post before that I thought that treadmill speed does not seem to dictate what you are able to run on pavement. Like for example the 15 minutes per mile that I did on the treadmill Thursday felt like 11 minutes per mile on the street. However, the pace was so slow that I was even able to read the newspaper while jogging, which was okay with me because it kept me distracted from the amount of time I was doing it. In the end, I was able to complete 45 minutes which was indeed a pleasant surprise.

 Another thing I tried was eliminating the use of orthotics and just use my shoes which are already built for motion control. It didn’t seem to make any difference in the ankle pains that I’ve been having. It doesn’t hurt any more or any less, so that was also a surprise because I thought my feet would have lesser support.

 If I keep the pace steady and resist the temptation to run hard when my breathing feels good, there might be a possibility that I could run short distances once or twice a week. It would be a good break from my usual stationary exercises and bike rides. After all, one of the tricks to make your body to burn more calories by revving up metabolism is by varying your exercise routine. If I can do that, then I should learn to accept that it should be enough and not do long or hard runs any more. Running a little is after all better than not being able to run at all.

After the treadmill run, I walked barefoot indoors all day in hopes that it might help strengthen my foot muscles and tendons. I even ventured outside to the garage and the mailbox but the pavement was so hot, my feet felt like they were on fire. I hope I don’t develop blisters.

This brings us to Saturday morning. Until this past week I had not run for six weeks due to my ankle tendon pains and I thought I may never run again if the left ankle didn’t heal. The right ankle? Well I’ve given that up as permanently damaged. I wanted so badly to join my running club in their training the past two weekends even just to walk but I got so used to sleeping till 7 a.m. that I’ve gotten lazy and didn’t want to set my alarm to 5 a.m. But I did anyway and showed up for the Saturday morning run. The half marathoners were doing 9 miles and the full marathoners were doing 16 miles. No way was I going to be able to do those distances, so my plan was to run/walk for 6 miles since I was just starting over. Before we started running, I was able to catch up with a few friends about the goings on of the past several weeks that I’ve missed. There were no expectations on my part on this day, so if I ended up at the back of the pack or even dead last, I didn’t mind. So off we go and I started out as slowly as I can, resisted skipping the one minute walk break after each four minute run, went past the six mile turnaround point without complications, reached Donna’s water station at the corner of 6^th and Orlena Streets, went up the hill and didn’t come tumbling down to break my crown, and kept going because I always had the option of cutting the course or walking to the finish. I did neither and when I reached Deb’s water station, I figured I might be able to finish at least 8 miles if not the full 9. My legs felt heavy in the last mile but somehow my long-dormant muscle memory kicked in and propelled me to the finish. Even though my ankles were sore afterwards, it felt like a manageable type of pain. What a heady feeling it was to be back in the game! And I wasn’t even the last runner to finish! Nine miles may have been too much after a six week layoff, but such is the advantage of being in the company of like-minded people. You just can’t help but join them in their journey to the finish line.

Back in the grind and back in the pictures.

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iPad vs. Windows 7 Tablet Comparison Video

below is vidoe comparison between ipad and windows 7 tablet .Its not about acceptable or losing, we are blessed to alpha seeing some antagonism to industry’s best accepted Book device: Angel iPad.

As illustrated in the video, there are things that iPad would do bigger than Windows 7 tablet, and carnality versa.

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Web Browsing: Windows 7 Book ability be hardly faster at this but layout, awning size-wise, it fails to advertise its appeal.

OnScreen Keyboard: The on-screen keyboards are great, iPad absolutely has a bigger one.

Flash, youtube: Windows runs built-in Beam in browsers and iPad relies on built-in youtube app to accomplish the same. Other beam sites, aloof wont work. However, actionable iPad Beam [Frash] should attach bottomward to adherence and support.

Screen: Windows 7 Tablets will affection altered screens, assorted by the bell-ringer that articles it. But iPad already appearance best in chic IPS display.

Email & apps: As you can see from the video above, Windows 7 book actively lacks on user usability. Its not accessible back it comes to affecting baby areas which were originally meant be acclimated with abrasion cursor.

Connectivity: Windows 7 Tablets accept its bend over actuality as it accommodate all kinds of accepted PC connectivity ports: USB, SDcard and what not.

Battery: Mileage may alter but, iPad gives a bald minimum of 10hours, which is atleast 2x times bigger than any Windows 7 Book accessory that will be advancing anytime soon. This is one of the affidavit why HP windows 7 Slate was dropped.

Multitouch: Nobody, I said cipher can exhausted angel in this. They are the mastters of multitouch action smoothness, google ability be abutting them, but Angel is far added above at this.

35 Dollar iTablet from India

Despite all the speculations from the critics, India’s cheapest $35 Tablet is showcased, and Reviewed by NDTV for the aboriginal time.

For most, the aboriginal affair to adduce would be: ”it works as advertised”. As we analyzed from the aboriginal screens, it does runs on Android 1.6 and decidedly enough, the accouterments makes it run fast enough. This is what makes me admiration how fast would it go with Android 2.2 Froyo, back its get its port.

The bad ancillary is of advance the Resistive touchscreen which works with and after stylus, but that’s accomplished for a accessory that costs 1/15th of the iPad.

Apple redy to launch Apple iTV

Tech companies are branch appear TVs as they hit adamantine on the TV as a affiliated device. After Google appear its accessible android based Google TV, Apple seems to be abutting the race.

Apple is beneath the works of authoritative a $99 adaptation of the set top box, analogously sized and arranged with internals affiliated to that of the iPhone 4 (A4 CPU, 16GB of beam storage). The aboriginal Apple TV will be rebranded as iTV beneath this upgrade.

The Video and audio agreeable can be stored in the beam drive or beck over a anew advancing iTunes alive service. However, there is a limitation of Highdef video content. The accessory is alone able of administration 720p, actively blank amount of 1080i, 1080p video.

Feature Android Voice Search Actions

We no best charge those claimed assisitants, acknowledgment to our smartphones, they are acceptable at acclimation and applicable our best needs. But the articulation that is still adumbral is the adeptness of your buzz to accept your accustomed language.

Siri was the aboriginal attack on this, which fabricated its way to the iPhone platform, after Apple saw some solid abeyant and that’s why they bought the company. Now google is accomplishing the aforementioned to the Android platform, but its way better.

Android Voice Search Actions

Voice Actions are a alternation of announced accustomed articulation commands that let you ascendancy your buzz application your voice. Call businesses and contacts, accelerate texts and email, accept to music, browse the web, and complete accepted tasks, all aloof by speaking into your phone.

The possibilities are amazing. You can accept to any song, on the web, cross application maps to ay abode and several added being aloof by speaking it.

New Verizon Motorola Droid 2

Is it tomorrow already? Must be because the Droid 2 is now up for auction on Verizon. $199 additional a two-year charge takes home this Android 2.2 (Froyo) QWERTY slider with 3.7-inch 480x854 WVGA display, 8GB of centralized anamnesis additional addition 8GB on microSD, and 5 megapixel camera. And clashing the aboriginal Droid aloof adapted with Android 2.2, Verizon hasn't bedridden the 3G adaptable WiFi hotspot adequacy this time, instead alms it as a $20 / ages add-on. Order now if you can't delay for Thursday's in-store availability or the R2-D2 copy slated to access abutting month.

Update: Hey, it looks like our ol' pal Derek is back, this time walking us through the bigger credibility of Motorola's new Droid 2. Hop on accomplished the breach for his refreshingly agog take.

TweetDeck Versi Beta for Android

Applications TweetDeck now present in the Android platform. Although still in beta stage, convenience is not much different application than desktop version.

For those not familiar with, TweetDeck is a desktop application based on Adobe AIR technology. This application displays the latest status updates in real-time, some social networking, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, or Google Buzz.

With this user need not bother login one by one on Twitter, Facebook, or Google Buzz when I want to exist in social networking. Only armed with just one deck, all the chatter in the social networking needs are met.

Like the desktop version, TweetDeck for Android now present. Unfortunately users can not get it in the Android Market. The reason this application was still in beta stage.

When dijajal detikINET, look not much different user interface as the desktop version. Before entering the main menu, users are given the option to enter an account on Twitter, Facebook, Buzz, or the Foursquare.

After entering the main menu, users can move the slider to the right to move the menu. On this main timeline, TweetDeck will display feeds of all the social networking that has been previously registered.

Scroll to the right, users will see some other pages such as Direct Messeges Twitter, Facebook or Foursquare. Well, in this case they could arrange such notification will be displayed on TweetDeck.

From consumer feedback intended for TweetDeck, some phones such as Motorola Droid, HTC Aria, Xperia X10, and Samsung Captive was not compatible with this application. Some cell phone records are reported still experiencing a crash on the Direct Message column.

Hopefully, this application is coming soon on the Android Market as soon as possible, with the recent completion of course. Many parties say TweetDeck might shift the popularity of other Twitter clients such as Seesmic. Just wait for the final version.

HD BRAVIA LCD TVs Specification

HD BRAVIA LCD TVs Specification

BRAVIA NX803

Edge LED screen with Monolithic Design for the ultimate design statement

Go clutter-free with Wi-Fi access to online content, services & Internet widgets

Super-smooth, blur-free action scenes no matter how fast the action is

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BRAVIA HX703

Smooth, detailed movie and sports action with Motionflow 200Hz

Optimal viewing on a screen with ultra-high contrast and rich colours

Wi-Fi Ready to enjoy online content and Internet services on a Full HD screen

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BRAVIA EX703

Slim, Edge LED screen with crisp & detailed picture quality

Wi-Fi Ready for access to online content and services

Presence Sensor & range of energy saving features

Minimalistic Monolithic Design – give your room a unique style and sense of space with an elegant, flush screen surface which enhances the viewing experience and looks stunning even when the picture is off
Edge LED backlighting – experience enhanced colour intensity with GigaContrast for the whitest whites and blackest blacks within the same frame; this innovative backlight technology also delivers thinner screens and energy savings too
Wi-Fi Integrated – easily connect to your wireless home network without the clutter of cables
BRAVIA Internet Video – connect your TV directly to the Internet to access online services, stream full-screen videos and watch the programmes you missed on catch-up TV (available services subject to country)
BRAVIA Internet Widgets – download handy online widgets to your TV to help you keep up-to-date with news from your favourite websites while you watch TV
Motionflow 200Hz with Image Blur Reduction – enjoy smooth, sharp images in fast-moving scenes, such as sports or action movies, with technology that delivers four times the number of images than conventional 50Hz TVs
Full HD 1080 – watch sports, movies and games in superb High Definition detail with a 1920 x 1080 pixel picture resolution
Deep Black Panel – watch incredibly vivid pictures with an impressively high contrast and deep detailed black levels; the screen is specially designed to reduce glare in bright rooms and looks stunning whether the TV is on or off
BRAVIA ENGINE 3 – view images with impressive detail, optimal contrast, and truer-to-life colour tones
Optional designer stand - this uniquely designed brushed aluminium TV stand brings an extra element of style to your living room
DLNA – stream movies, music and photos to your BRAVIA from compatible devices, such as a laptop, mobile phone or music player, no matter where in the home they are located
Live Colour™ – select from four modes, Off, Low, Mid, and High, to adjust colour settings for vibrant pictures and optimal image quality
Invisible Speakers – enjoy the perfect fusion of image and sound from speakers hidden in the TV design and positioned for ideal sound elevation
Cinema Mode – choose from two different cinema modes to reproduce an authentic movie experience at home with unique film-like textures and adjusted colour and brightness settings
Scene Select – with one-touch of the remote control you can easily enjoy the best atmospheric, dynamic and realistic picture and sound settings to suit whatever you're watching
Intelligent Picture – view crisp, clear analogue TV pictures which have been enhanced for improved viewing quality
USB Media Player – plug in a USB device and enjoy movies, photos and music on your TV using USB playback
BRAVIA Sync – control your entire home entertainment system with a universal remote control option which lets you play or adjust settings on compatible devices at the touch of a button
Favorites – mark your favourite channels and Internet videos, browse favourites by genre and quickly go to your favourite content at the touch of the button
HDMI™ – 4 inputs (2 on rear, 2 on side, all with CEC) make it easier to connect to High Definition sources such as Blu-ray Disc™ and PLAYSTATION®3
Integrated Freeview TV tuner – access free-to-air digital TV channels from Freeview with a built-in DVB-T tuner (MPEG2) which means there’s no need for a set-top box; it’s the easy way to make the digital switch-over when analogue TV is turned off
Integrated Freeview HD TV tuner – access digital Freeview HD channels from a built-in DVB-T2 tuner which means there’s no need for an additional set-top box
My Sony – registering your BRAVIA couldn’t be easier; become a My Sony member and get exclusive access to tutorials, special offers and more

Artsy Farts With Fiber One

Okay, I want to make a preemptive apology for this post because this might fall under the category of TMI (Too Much Information).

Last week there was a 50% off sale on Fiber One Cereal Bars at Ralph’s Supermarket and I bought a few boxes. The product claims it contains 35% daily value of fiber. I could always use some fiber so I ate a couple of bars for dessert after lunch and it had the consistency of rice krispy treats. In other words, very yummy. About 4 hours later, I started to feel rumblings within myself and it didn’t have anything to do with hunger pangs. I must say that these cereal bars should come with a warning label on the box in addition to the ingredients and calories: Eating this may cause you to lose friends and loved ones to avoid you. In short, GAS. More than you can imagine. More than what you thought your body is capable of producing in 4 short hours. If that amount wasn’t bad enough, the aroma was so toxic that you wouldn’t even want to be on the same room with yourself. I could have put a sign on my door to warn passers by: Noxious Fumes Within, Stay At Least 50 Feet Away.

So I got curious. Was it just me or has it happened to others too? I just had to look it up on the internet to find out if other people had similar experiences. I found out that I’m not unique (darn! For not being unique, and thank goodness for not being unique!). Here are just 3 websites that I found addressing the issue: http://www.pleasegodno.com/archives/66-Fiber-One-Bars-make-me-Fart.html , http://www.diet-blog.com/07/fiber_one_oats_and_chocolate_bar_review.php?page=2 , http://www.urbanmonarch.com/fiber-one-chewy-bars-stomach-problems-gas/ . It appears that chicory root extract, the bar’s main ingredient is the culprit. But as far as the efficiency of the amount of fiber? Well, let me just say that it moves things along very nicely, but I’ll try to limit myself to one bar a day because I think I might have OD’d when I had 2 of them the first time.

If you have excellent sphincter control, you can probably shape the sound of what is emanating from your body in such a way that you can consider it art or music, maybe in the form of The William Tell Overture. 

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Hard Drive Impact Sensor technology

Get the bead on abrupt falls

Hard Drive Impact Sensor technology

You can acknowledge Toshiba addition for your aboriginal band of aegis adjoin abrupt knocks, dings and drops. It's alleged the Adamantine Drive Impact Sensor―a circuitous arrangement of accouterments and software advised to ascertain abrupt movements (as back your laptop starts to abatement off the table) and "park" the active of your adamantine drive afore accident occurs. It works faster than you can blink to advice assure your laptop and all-important data.

Dial in aloof the aegis you need

Because anybody uses a laptop differently, we fabricated abiding you can adapt the Adamantine Drive Impact Sensor to clothing your situation. Safely advancing your laptop on a board for awhile? It's accept to "tune" the sensor to its everyman acuteness level. Taking your laptop about town? Putting it on a academy board or dining table? Better crank up the ambience to advice accumulate the abrupt from ruining your work.

Station Toshiba dynadock V USB Docking

New feature from Toshiba laptops can set you free in so many ways—on the move or at a desk, thanks to our dynadock™ family of universal docking stations.

Make your laptop mobile again. dynadock™ expands your possibilities by giving you the ability to take full advantage of your laptop by plugging in all of your gear. dynadock™ allows you to stay completely mobile by disconnecting one simple cable, or even wirelessly with our dynadock wireless U.

» Increase productivity and multi-tasking

» Add a full-sized HD monitor, keyboard, mouse, printer or external hard drive to tear through proposals, spreadsheets and side-by-side documents

» Scale up your fun with a big HD display, an array of surround sound speakers, or external storage for holding all your multimedia

» Plug in and charge your smart phone, MP3 player and other portable devices, with or without your laptop using Toshiba’s exclusive Sleep and Charge USB ports on the docking station.

New Toshiba Portege R700

The New Toshiba Portege R700 wears a accomplished clothing -- matte atramentous actuality this season's must-have -- and abreast from a brace of LEDs by the trackpad and some chrome highlights on the screen's bezel, there's not a accomplished lot of blatant being activity on about the R700's magnesium chassis. Note the fingerprint scanner, in case you charge to feel like a hardly arid spy.

We're abreast that the palmrest appearance a bore anatomy that gives added aegis to the centralized components. Toshiba didn't acquiesce us to bung the R700 into a brick bank (our accepted stress-testing benchmark), so acutely we can't affirm whether this makes abundant of a difference. It does, however, affiance the R700 will break cool, acknowledgment to 'Airflow Cooling Technology' which should accumulate fan babble to a minimum by channelling calefaction added finer than the disgusting, bathed laptops we're acclimated to.

Things get a little added agitative back we analysis out the screen. That's a 13.3-inch LED backlit affectation with a best resolution of 1,366x768 pixels. We accept to say it was attractive actual nice indeed, and affably we didn't apprehension any vision-ruining reflections on the audience model.