Posted on Friday, 19th January 2007 by Auw Jimmy

For once more, I will play with Crystalizer. I use Creative Xmod for this purpose. I have discussed Crystalizer on my previous article here. That times, I used RMAA. Now, I’m going to use the real world application, I mean, the real sound sample. Check this out. All screenshots in this page were reduced to minimum size. You can click the image to see the larger size.

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Posted on Tuesday, 16th January 2007 by Auw Jimmy

Creative has just launched some their latest products. One of them is the X-Fi Xtreme Audio. Some rumours say that this X-Fi Xtreme Audio is not a real X-Fi. Is that true? I don’t know since I haven’t checked the card with my own hands and eyes. Photos below are taken from Creative’s website.

I got this picture from Creative’s website.

The X-Fi Xtreme Audio (click photo below for larger view):

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Posted on Friday, 12th January 2007 by Auw Jimmy

Few hours ago, my colleague told me that he has a broken processor. It was an Intel Pentium4 Extreme Edition (I havent’s checked the model number). One of the capacitor was broken, or removed accidentally.

Added: I didn’t take any photo from this broken processor. Sorry! Because I thought that this one would end in the trash bin (or became my key chain).

So, I needed to find the capacitor to replace the broken one. I went to look for some old motherboard. I checked for similiar size (I didn’t bring my Capacitance Meter nor my soldering kit for such SMD devices). So I was completely using my feeling to pick the right capacitor. For your information, this SMD capacitor size was around 1 mm only – or even less! So this made all the process became so complicated for common user.

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Posted on Monday, 8th January 2007 by Auw Jimmy

Artist: Chen Lily/Chen Chie Li (陳潔麗)
Album: Each in a Different Corner of the World (一水隔天涯)
Publisher: Rain Forest Studio
Recording Technology: N/A (available in XRCD2 and LP)

About this album:
Weird album name? Wait until you hear her sound. This is one of my favorite album for easy listening session. Nice, warm sound. I suspect they use some digital effect, but who cares? They did the mastering in a smooth and neat way. Perfect! I enjoy this album a lot.

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