Apad 1.6 Review
Few weeks ago, I bought an Apad. Well, actually two apads because we got the money and we wanted to have a mobile internet device for our company. We bought it from someone in New York City. Shipping was actually pretty good, better than I expected (International Shipping). So, along came the apad to our hands. Once charged, I started using and here is my review of it.
It has been a very useful device. It comes with everything: Web browser, music player, video player, and a camera. Web browsing is actually pretty good. It has a google browser preloaded. I installed Opera, Skyfire, and Dolphin, but unfortunately l got used to the default browser.
Moving on, the music player is OK. It doesn't has a playlist creator and I doubt it reads .m3u files. One good thing is shake-and-change song system. One very bad thing is its non user friendly user interface, however I'm used to this kind of weird limited user interface (I'm a Linux User). Also, it lacks of a live radio marketplace. But for listening purposes, it is a decent player. I tried to install a new one, but it is a big problem. Don't worry, I'll cover this later.
Video Player. Where do I start? Well, a 648 x 360 avi video didn't playback well. The weird thing is that a Palm device with lower specifications could play a 640x480 .mkv and .avi video without a problem. Even with subtitles. So I do not know where Google stand on this. I strongly believe it is an Android problem, rather than a hardware issue.
Market Place. It is pretty much useless. A quick google search will confirm that. I do not know why it fails but it does. However, with a little help from google I could download the top wanted android apps.
Music playback is ok. I can survive without HD videos and I hate market applications such as the ones that comes on Linux. I prefer saving my apps and then install them. Email App works fantastic, no problems there. The great thing is the Gravity sensor. I love that. Screen Quality is ok, it does what I want, so I have no complains there.
Picture viewing is quiet surprising. It opens a 8 megapixels 22 mb pictures without a problem. Although, I couldn't find a resize app for Android.
The camera is somehow useful. It is a shame that I couldn't find a video chat app such as Skype for my Apad. Quality is... how can I put it? ehh... it has Motorola V3 picture quality. Not a very good quality, but it is kinda of acceptable. Video Recording is... OK. Don't expect an HD video.
In conclusion, the Apad is only for true geeks, not for consumers. I strongly recommend for consumers to wait for the Motorola Android Table. It's quite expensive, but it is 10 times better than the iPad.
If you got bored, well... then beat it!
See ya!!
is El Salvador becoming the next Greece/Argentina?
About six years ago, I told my friends that El Salvador was heading towards becoming the Argentina of Central America. Too many loans to international creditors and the worst decision ever, change the currency to dollars. El Salvador changed its currency about 10 years ago, I think, and I was very very young, but I knew it was a bad idea. My friends were like "dude, stop reading, stop listening to the communist party" however I didn't change my mind. Why it was a bad idea? Well, people don't know what is involved in keeping the exchange rate at 8.75. Like in Argentina, we kept the dollar exchange rate static, and that is not something that you just do.
Keeping a static rate involves paying a lot of money (millions?) and yes we are paying to keep it static. The majority of people don't know that, and will never know. So, right now, we are paying a lot of money in interest so that the dollar "doesn't go up". We are wasting millions of dollars that we could use to help recover the economy or impulsing some fiscal benefits to big corporations in order to create jobs. It sucks right? Well, there is more.
Like Greece, we (El Salvador) became a nation of turism and services. Yeah, I've been reading the Greece case and their main focus for economy growth was turism/services. What are the companies that are establishing here in El Salvador? Call Centers (Services) and hotel chains (Turism) I'm not saying those are bad companies, what I'm trying to say is that we have no industry. We are not producing anything. We are importing way too much and producing way too little, kinda like Greece. Look around, research, read, we are almost under the same circumstances. El Salvador is a house of cards. What can we do? Argentina survived 'cause it had a well developed industry and agriculture. Yeah, you read that right, Argentina export vegetables and such, they had/have a surplus in export/import and they could recover their economy. They are not quite yet, but at least they are not in bankruptcy. Greece? Well... They are hanging in there. They have a big turism industry, unlike here, but their main focus was Services, just like here.
So, what about El Salvador? Well, soon we will fail as a country. Not because of gangs, but because we will go bankrupt. Many will disagree with me, they have the right to be wrong. What if we can't pay our loans, our creditors? We will go bankrupt, like in Argentina. What will happen to our money? lol our money. There are not national banks in which you can save your money, our money will be gone. Banks won't release the money, like in Argentina and there will be chaos.
What we can do? The only thing that we can do is start to work to get agriculture back on track. Try to get some industries to come here and create jobs. Balance the import/export rate. We can no longer be a Services nation.
We need to regulate the exchange rate. I'm not saying go back to our old currency. I'm saying stop the static rate. Either we do this now, or wait for chaos...
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LOS CABALLEROS LAS PREFIEREN BRUTAS
....y los televidentes preferimos buenos programas...
Hace unas semanas vi el anuncio en Sony Entertainment Telev.... SETLA acerca de un "nuevo show latinoamericano". Desde el momento en que vi el anuncio supe que iba a ser un big flop, pero le di su oportunidad y quise ver que ofrecian. Me puse a verla por unos 3 minutos. No aguante mas. Aburrida, mala actuacion, dialogos internos obsoletos (inner dialogs), falta de imaginacion, malas escenas de sexo....
La verdad, no se de que se trata toda esa falacia: Es acerca de hombres? Acerca de mujeres tontas? Es una novela??
El nombre que tiene, no es propio de una "serie". Es muy "generalista", y la verdad no denota si se desea presentar la vida de hombres que salen con mujeres idiotas o si se trata de mujeres idiotas que... la verdad, no se me ocurre nada. Es un nombre malo, malisimo!
El guion.... es horriblemente malo. Tan malo que decidi ver un episodio repetido de Icarly en Nick!!!
Las escenas de sexo... Parecian dos perros machos tratando de fornicar. Ha eso ha llegado SETLA??
En fin, no vean este pedazo de mierda!
milocker.com
After several weeks of development, we finally manage to put our website online. It was hard and kinda expensive, but we did it. In less than five days, we managed to attract 42 users into our website. We expect to attract more in the following days, perhaps, it has been a hard work just being an admin of this website with only few people.
More features are yet to come, so, keep an eye on our weekly updates!
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Happy Christmas (War is Over)
Despite of all the hatred that I saw this year, I think that we all should be grateful for what we have.
Several things had happened this year, from outbreaks to bombing the moon. However, I still believe in this country, I still believe in its people. No matter what problem we face, there's always a helping hand wiling to get you through this tought times.....
Well, that's it for tonight, oh yeah, I do not how I got so tangled up...
Installing Windows 98 Through Qemulator
A screen shot of windows 98 being installed on a 500 Mhz ibook G3. It took like 8 hours to install. It never booted :S
