Mobile Guard - 清理你的 Symbian 手機

上回在手機上刪掉 SPB Mobile Shell 後，念念不忘那十分好用的介面，決定找一個程式幫助清理一下手機上的內存，給我找到了 Mobile Guard。

原來有幾個程式即使沒有在表面運行，也會在背後常駐的，這包括了 Whatsapp 及 Worldmate。Mobile Guard 可以禁止這些常駐的運行，清空了一些系統資源。在考慮過後，我亦把必須裝在手機主記憶體的 Whatsapp 刪掉，結果給我在手機上騰出了約20MB 的記憶。再次裝上SPB Mobile Shell 後，這回可順利運行了。

樂透。

SPB Mobile Shell 試用記

SPB Mobile Shell 是在 Windows CE 年代一個非常受歡迎的 Shell 軟件。它的介面有點像 HTC 的，絕對可以令沉悶的 Symbian 系統耳目一新，甚至令手機更加易用。當我看到OVI Stores 上有試用版時，忍不住下載來試一試。

初初試用的感覺非常好。它運作的速度很快，動畫漂亮，用家自訂的程度也很大。使用後的感覺非常好，覺得自己的手機升了兩級，也不怕其他人看不起我的Cheap 機…… “看！我我手機跟你的android 沒差啊！”

只是它佔用的系統資源頗多，很別是在5230這部內存和運算速度都不足的手機上問題更大！初初用時我被迫從主記憶體刪去幾個少用的程式，包括 Facebook及 PDF Reader 等，試了幾天好像沒有大問題。但這幾天卻發現手機比較不穩定，有時使用中的程式會無故關掉，更甚者是試一兩次要關機重開。可惜的是手機主記憶體上已沒有多餘的程式可以再刪，而SPB Mobile Shell 亦不可以簡單地關掉，迫不得而唯有把它刪去。

再見吧 SPB Mobile Shell，我會懷念你漂亮的介面…… 可惜是我的下價手機不爭氣，真的用不了。對不起！

Nokia OVI 地圖北京導航體驗

舊的手電壞了，去買了一台Nokia 5230，約港幣一千一百元，使用Symbian 作業系統，功能除了 wifi 上網外一應俱全，算是最便宜的 smartphone 吧。

換手機沒幾天便到北京自遊行去了，順便一試內置的地圖及導航功能。在沒有數據傳送的情況下，手機定位不算太快，導航功能也算可以。加上地圖內建有食店、購物點、地鐵站、觀光點等資料，對一家大小自由旅行的人相當有用。例如我要找我附近的食店，軟件便可以列出食店的名稱及距離，選好你要去的店家後點選“導航“手機便會帶你去；很是方便。

當其他作業系統的導航軟件動輒要售數百元港幣，一千一百元的手機免費送你軟件，Nokia 真的很大方。沒錯 google map 是免費的，內建的資料也很齊全；但卻沒有觀光點或食店資料，也沒有真正的導航功能（有分步行或開車模式，並且能向使用者發出語音指示如何轉向等）。

New iPOD shuffle

The new iPOD Shuffle is out. Except the slick design, the new iPOD comes with a proprietary earphone connection and you have to control the iPOD with the earphone - that means you can only use the Apple earphone, say sorry for your Shure.

There is an interesting new feature call 'voice over' function. Basically, the iPOD will 'say' the information of the song you are listening to. I wonder how it handles the Chinese song information...... ;)

iPOD mini 重生

旱幾天把 iPOD 插進 hifi 中不幸把 iPOD 當死了機，今天心血來潮再插入 Macbook 試一下，竟然又重生！！

誰說今天是黑色星期五？

LG MINI HIFI 駁 iPOD = 災難

上幾個月買部 LG 電視，送部 mini-Hifi，都算幾正。

放賣左成個月都冇人吼，卒之拆盒自用。Ｄ聲..... 普通 mini-Hifi 聲，有收音機，有 USB Port 又有ipod port, 駁 USB 手指播歌都可以，不過因為選歌好煩，部hifi 又冇中文display，所以今早試下駁部 ipod nano (第一代)試下。唔試由自可，一試把幾火！！駁左ipod 後部ipod 出左一個怪icon，跟住點都認唔倒部ipod內既歌；unplug　啦，點知ipod 開唔番，駁入電腦，又認唔番...... 頂！唔通咁就要報費？

My new external hard disk

Putting all my photos in it, and build the library with Macbook + Aperture. My old photos alive again!

下一個目標

LG-KS20:




普通既 WIN-MOBILE 電話一部, OK快既 CPU... 最大吸引就係好輕便, 只係同一部普通電話差唔多重... 等遲少少到貨睇真d咩 spec 再定奪.

Yet another new toy

Recently I tried to buy a pair of inline skate in Hong Kong... no luck. Gigasport only carry the very cheap (and ugly) brand "Scorpio"... simply not good enough. Is Hong Kong an "International City"? Crap I say!

So I asked my brother traveling to Vancouver to buy for me. He get me a K2 Moto Speed, at CA$200 plus tax. It looks good. Will try it in the coming weekend!

Wired wireless

 

A battery free wireless mouse, how a nice idea!! Too bad the mouse cannot be used on any surface but the dedicated mouse pad, which must be WIRED via the USB port.

Stupid!!

Heart Rate Monitor problem

My rest heart rate is 58, and my calculated max. rate is 180. But even when I slowdown my jog tonight, my average rate is at approx 160bpm, max. rate is 17x, more than 90% of my max rate. At over 90% of heart rate, it should had been a very hard training for me.... but I felt very comfortable. So I am very puzzle: what's the problem? Is it possible that my max. heart rate is higher than the calculated estimate?

Another problem is, the Casio CHR100 interfered with my iPod. I have to switch-off the iPod to get an accurate reading on the CHR100. I will try to wear the iPOD on another arm to see what happen next time.

Heart Rate Monitor

Just get my Casio CHR-100 at MK tonight, tried out tonight. Oops.... no wonder I can't loss much weight by jogging: I was running too fast. My average HR tonight during a 34 min jog was 159 bpm, and I'm over trained at the anaerobic zone.

Let me check my rest heart rate tomorrow morning, and get a more clear heart rate zone.

Palm Foleo

Linux base, 10" screen, full size keyboard - the Palm Foleo.

What for? A sub-notebook maybe more expensive, but it's certainly much more powerful, and more software support. A smartphone maybe less powerful, but certainly much more portable. Do you really need something in between?

I can smell the death of Palm Inc. Amen.

widgets

冇錢換電腦, 用住 Yahoo widgets 先.... 又幾靚仔播! 仲好多 widgets 可以揀.

My hi-fi

Yesterday, my friend asked me to go together with him to MK to buy hi-fi cables. We audited a few cables, on the expensive hifi at the shop. Yes, I can spot the difference of different cables, quite easy indeed.

When I backed home, I tried to listen to the same music with my hifi. OH S__T!!

I know I need a better CD player (I am using DVD now), and I know I need to place my speaker more carefully, and I know my amp is not good enough for hi-end. But the difference is so big! Yes, my set has the power; is good enough to listen to beautiful voices; also good for ensembles with few instruments (even with drum ensembles). But when it comes to big bands, it sucks.

I should never go to hifi demo rooms again.

Motorola Razr - crap product or crap brand??

Analysis said that Motorola has loss an opportunity to build a brand when it has the 'good' product Razr.

Is it?

I say the Motorola phones suck. Some friend are using Motorola phones. Most of the time when I talking with them on phone, it's very difficult for me to hear clearly what they are saying. The DSP (or mic?) sucks and the background noise amplified too much and you just can hear what the user is saying.

Motorola fail because the product is crap. Not the brand.

My new Sony car audio - Works with iPod!

As in last blog, I have installed a new Sony CD player at my car.

The player has an USB port with it, and said to accept "most USB device". There is no list of supported device from Sony, thou. To my surprise, it works with my iPOD!!

Very nice. I now have the 2 iPODs and 1 20GB portable HDD that can connect to the player... that's weeks of continuous music without repeating.

Sony website

The Sony website... it sucks!

Just bought a new car CD player today.

The radio of the old CD player on my car is not working anymore, so I need to get a new one. I stick with Sony because it can control my old CD changer.

I tried to go to the Sony site to look for more information about car audio, but there are very limited product information. There is no info whatsoever telling me which CD changers the latest models support, nor a good comparision tables about the feature difference of different models... There is also no info about what kind of USB device the CD player accepts... So the Sony site cannot serve the #1 objective of the web: to give information to the customers.

So I go to the shops and ask for advise, and get this model and install it myself. AFTER installation, I click on the Sony website to register my warranty online (for additional 3-month warranty), and the site is not working on Firefox. Switch to IE and re-enter all my information, and it comes to product serial number. There is a photo on the site to tell you how to locate the serial number... but IT'S ON THE PRODUCT!! There is no guide to tell me how to locate the serial number on the box... so I have to do the most silly thing in the world: go to my car, unmount the CD player, for just a quick peek of the serial number!

How silly is that!!

Nevertheless, the quality of the CD player is good. Good sound, perfect match to my old CD changer (and it also matches the supplied remote controller of my old player), convenient feature (such as front USB port to accept USB drivers)...

Product is good. But the site is too fancy and doesn't serve the basic functions of website.

Live TV broadcast to your mobile phone

New initiative launched in CES 2007.


Do you really want to watch the TV show on the 2.5" screen of your mobile phone? Honestly, I find the 4" screen of my Palm TX to be too small for watching movie; and the mobile phone screens are *much* smaller.

Microsoft in your car

Ford, Microsoft Develop In-Car Communications System

Em.... will it "crash"?