The Storm is coming: BlockBerry 9500

I can’t help it but to post this sales banner here. A mobile manufacturer in China, Huff-Comm, has produced a Blackberry Storm clone, called Blockberry 9500.

The Storm knock off is powered by Windows Mobile 6.1, is equipped with a 3.2 inch touch-screen display, FM radio and GPS. The BlockBerry 9500 is offered in 6 colours and has 3G/EDGE connectivity.

The header says, "Obama has BlackBerry, I have BlockBerry." I’m wondering whether the company has authorisation to use Barack Obama as their ambassador for their new BlockBerry 9500 mobile phone?

Source: BlackberryOS

Beauty and the Beast: Erika and Tsuyoshi

Name: 沢尻エリカ (さわじり えりか)

Name (romaji): Sawajiri Erika

Nickname: Deco(Childhood), Kacchan, Aachan

Profession: Actress / Model / Singer

Date of birth: 8 April 1986

Birthplace: Nerima, Tokyo, Japan

Ethnicity: Japanese/Algerian (Her mother is Algerian-French mixed)

Height: 160cm

Star sign: Aries

Blood type: A

Talent agency: Stardust

Read more about Erika.

---> Tons of photos here ! <---

Sawajiri Erika and her husband Takashiro Tsuyoshi went to New York to attend the fashion show of Takashiro's good friend Marc Jacobs.

More than meets the eye: Soda vending machine

Welcome to the jungle: Safari 4

In the recent WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2009, San Francisco. Apple Inc. has launched several new products to the public and developers. One of them are the all new Safari 4 web browser. They claimed is as the fastest and most innovative browser with the Nitro JavaScript engine.

This browser works on the iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and PC. The browser’s war has begun. But in term of speed, Google Chrome still leading the way, and Safari 4 lacks innovations, like the Web Slices and Accelerators in Internet Explorer and the extreme customizability of Firefox. I personally haven’t really tested Firefox yet and the coming soon, Opera 10 with turbo compression technology has spice up the competition.

Back to Safari 4, I have no problem installing it on my Windows PC running on XP Professional and Home Edition. But it was slightly bulkier with 27MB download file than that of the smallest browser, Chrome, which is a mere half megabyte.

The most eye-catching feature are the Top Sites, which shows your most-accessed Web pages in a glorious 3D view. When you open a tab, you see the new Top Sites page, a curved, 3D grid of images of your most frequently visited Web sites.

The missing part from the final release are the Chrome-like ‘Tabs on Top’, which placed page tabs above the address bar. When you open a tab, you see the new Top Sites page, a curved, 3D grid of images of your most frequently visited Web sites. An Edit button lets you remove any of these thumbnails, and you can drag any mini-page to a spot of your choice and ‘pin’ it to that spot.

Safari's bookmark management is adequate, but I was unable to import more than one IE bookmark at a time. Chrome has the same problem, whereas Firefox let me import a whole folder at once. Safari also lacks Firefox's ability to show recently bookmarked items and its tagging capability.

Unlike the Chrome, Safari includes a handy sidebar, which you can show by clicking the book icon at the top left of the window. The sidebar has a variety of functions; you can choose from among History, Bookmarks, Bonjour networking, and a basic RSS reader. Any of these sidebar choices takes advantage of the scrolling Cover Flow view in the top half of the main center panel, while the bottom half offers a simple list of the links. You can scroll back and forth through the Cover Flow images via mouse wheel, or you can use a slider beneath the images.

Overall, Safari 4 performed relatively well on Windows. It passes Acid 3 tests with a 100/100, browsing were smooth and fast. Let’s the hunt begins. Give Safari 4 a go on your machines.

A footballer claimed ‘I am a slave’ but to us he is the world richest slave

This remark made by none other than the world’s most expensive player, Cristiano Ronaldo last summer. Well, if earning £120,000 a week was considered a ‘slave’, how about those earned just enough to cover his basis needs?

Ronaldo’s rant has eventually got him what he wants, a multi-million move from Manchester United to Real Madrid this summer. Real are ready to pay a staggering £80million to prise him from United and the transfer fee has surplus Zinedine Zidane’s previous fee of £65million.

I couldn’t help myself to blog about Cristiano ‘Lady-boy’ Ronaldo after I read an article by Mail Online on his holidays antics at the Sardinia, Italy. Checkout the photos below (place your mouse on the photos).

The lady-boy’s summer holidays not over yet, next stop Los Angeles, where he celebrates his £80million move to Real Madrid with a bunch of close friends and celebrities. He was seen with Paris Hilton at MyHouse nightclub flirting around.

The party aren’t over yet, for the second successive nights, he was partying with Paris Hilton and some girls. With the £200,000 a week salary at Real Madrid, he can afford to partying all he wants. The gossip says he checked into a £5,400 a night suite with two girls from the party. The rest are history.

So, to those all the adorable Devils’ fans out there, the whole premier league’s team are ‘happy’ that he’s finally gone. We would like to wish him all the best in his football future. Adios amigo!

Pulp to Fiction are fully operational

I’m Andy, the author of this blog, would like to welcome you to my world of ‘pulp to fiction’. The definition of this blog’s title was simply something that probably shouldn't be taken too seriously.

You must be wondering why I didn’t use the title ‘Pulp Fiction’? It’s because the blog’s URL is unavailable on Blogger and it’s too closely related to Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 movie with that title.

You see, I Google searched the definition and I got something saying like this;

The term pulp fiction originally referred to "pulp" paper magazines of the late 19th century, such as Weird Tales and The Strand, which featured the work of such prolific literary masters as H.G. Wells (The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (The Lost World, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) and Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan of the Apes). Generally, pulp fiction stories focused on man struggling with dark, powerful and often, evil forces -- both internal and external --beyond his control. By the early and mid-20th century, pulp fiction, with its mix of science fact and speculative fiction, launched a new era and genre of fantasy stories with compelling alternative or parallel realities.

Well, I’m not going to use this blog for literature, reviewing books and magazine. I’ll write about anything that’s cool, funny, sad, what’s happening, sports, etc. Hence, the description ‘Anything goes…’.

Well, thanks for visiting and please bookmark or email me if you want a link exchange.

 

Andy.

Pulp to Fiction going live this Sunday

This blog will be officially opens on this Sunday, June 14. Stay tune and please come back later.

Thank you.

Almost done

Setting up a new blog sometimes took a spin out of my head. Just a few more things to be inserted and I can start my first blog post here.

See you soon.

Coming soon

This is a new blog about anything and whatever came to my mind. Please be patience before I start posting here. Thank you for visiting and hope to see you again.