Monday, December 14, 2009
What's that song?
Have you ever heard of a song and you didn't know who sang it and what is the song title? But since you love it you may try to catch the lyrics and Google it, that's probably the easiest way you can do, but what if you don't know the lyrics but you do know the beat to it?
Either way lyrics or no lyrics, I found a site that will help you search a song. All you need is a mic for your computer and you're set. Sing parts of the song or even hum the music and it will try it's best to locate that song or somethin' similar.
I've actually tried it and of course it's not 100% accurate. But it's probably i'm a bad singer or "hummer" hah. Tryin to rap on it doesn't get any good results, my rap result are music from the orchestra, weird.. Beatboxin' doesn't help either, try doin Firestarter from Prodigy and songs from Church turn up, funny..
But some songs are accurate even with my "weed whacker" voice. Tried songs from Lifehouse, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, and a chinese song from Beyond and got accurate results, first on the list even. Even an old song like Earth Angel which I liked from the movie "Back to the future", a 50's song, just knew that the song was originally from Elvis Presley, not bad.
Although it didn't actually helped me find a song yet, I played with it all night, just as geeks do to see how well it works, go ahead and give it a try, have fun.
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Avatar not the airbender
What movie are you lookin' for end of this year? I remember the time when i watch Lord of the Rings Trilogy every year end for 3 years, it's more like attendin' an event than watching a movie, which is fine with me. So let me share with you what i'm lookin' forward to end of the year, the trailer below might interest you as it did for me...
Well if you guessed it's the movie '2012' which will show this month, you're wrong, even though, that's one of the biggest movie comin' this year. That was the movie that was on top of my list of interest weeks ago until I learn about this movie call 'Avatar'. If you're thinking the Avatar which is an anime, I never watched that but I know the character,...you know...the bald kid with some weird symbols on his head.
So now back to the topic, this Avatar is written, produced and directed by James Cameron, he created this story and fantasy around 14 years ago and kept it in the closet as there's no way the technology at that time could bring his vision to the screen, and now, when it's all possible, here it is. When James Cameron makes a movie, there's no question it's gonna be a great movie, his previous work includes, Aliens, Terminator, Terminator 2, The Abyss, Titanic, and True Lies.
Enough of the talking, here's the trailer, judge for yourself.
Here's another version of the trailer in high quality if you have Quicktime installed.
Monday, October 19, 2009
PS3 Slim and PSP Go coming soon to Malaysia
PS3 hasn't been selling well worldwide compare to the other consoles, probably the reason was Blu-ray that still doesn't sell well till this day compare to DVD, it's expensive to make etc. We're seein' Blu-ray players going down in price and it will go down more next year. As expected PS3 will follow it's predecessor in the Slim department, and so far PS3 Slim is sellin well, smaller and cheaper, even not for gamin' and as a Blu-ray player, it's very affordable, so when will it be available in Malaysia?
Slashgear said that it will arrive in Malaysia 31 October 2009, obviously, slower than any there country, as i've suspected, well it's not that bad, it's the game pricing that slows down PS3 sales anyway. Approximate price will be RM1,299 and it will come in the traditional black color.
With PS3 Slim accessories and other goodies, another new product launching with PS3 Slim in Malaysia will be the PSP Go, one of the coolest lookin' portable gamin' device i've seen, price will be around RM1,099.
If you're interested you can attend the launch event at Kuala Lumpur, 1 Utama Shopping Mall
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Paranormal Activity
Any of you that love horror and ghost movies, this may be one to check out. It's not a big Hollywood/internationally release movie it seems, and in order for it to launch worldwide, you will have to help them get 1 million votes, hmm interesting, a movie launch decide by you. If you are a horror fan, read on and watch the trailer.
This movie is not currently available where i'm from, which is sad. All I can do it demand it at their site, but not sure it will work or not, maybe with your help, it will. As a fan of these types of movie myself, i think it will be interesting to watch it in the cinema with horror fans.
After watching the trailer it kinda reminds me of the movie 'Blair Witch Project' long time ago, not all may like this type of genre, for me i think it's great, I think the idea that it was captured with a home video camera, makes you beliVery original style for some but i think i've seen the same style for a 70's movie 'Cannibal Holocaust' (don't ask). The same as, COPS and World's Greatest Home Videos.
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
District 9 anyone?
This seems to be an interestin' movie to look forward to. Sort of like alien on earth kinda story with some Cloverfield flavor to it, Peter Jackson's involvement as the producer, as you all know he kinda produce, write and direct all 3 Lord Of The Rings movie.
You can visit their site, which is kinda interestin' and watch the trailer after the jump
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Sam Raimi to direct Warcraft movie
The adaptation of the widely popular game Warcraft will be coming to the big screens in years to come and Sam Raimi, director the Spider man trilogies will helm the movie. I've always imagine that Peter Jackson may pick this up or maybe Blizzard may consider him since one of his movies are quite close to the Warcraft universe, i'm talkin about Lord of the Rings. With the technology today, it's safe to say that any game, comics, cartoon, etc. can be made into a movie. I guess Sam Raimi's visual is not bad, we'll have to wait and see..
At least 1 good news coming in relations to the Blizzards' bad decisions over no LAN capabilities for their upcoming sequel, Starcraft II and Diablo 3.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
19 is the new record courtesy of Transformers 2
Speakin' of Transformers 2, hmm I felt there's somethin' missin' in the finale, here's my take on it, those who haven't seen the movie, possible spoilers alert
The movie was good but it's not really greater than the first one by that much. It's really cool to see more well known Transformers in this movie but the story is just too much and unnecessary with the fallen and primes, probably too soon or just plain complicated even for a Transformers fan like me.
The first scene of the movie was spot on of what i'm expectin' to see, and that's just the introduction of what they were doin in those 2 years workin' with humans to fight Decepticons. With that first impression I can expect this movie to be a great popcorn movie. But it was weird that it wasn't like that in the end, the introduction is far more excitin to me than the endin'.
The fight between Optimus Prime and 3 Decepticons is good, and the fight between Bumble Bee and the red thingy is aight, the fight with the twins and Devastator not so very much. I mean that's just all of the excitement you can get which I can remember. Base on the introduction I actually expect the finale to be at least twice as exciting but it's not, and i'm eager to see how would the autobots defeat Devastator? They didn't, he was defeated with a single human shot from the ship, what a waste of what could be a great battle between Devastator and multiple Autobots.
And the appearance of Sideswipe is good, the introduction shows him to be a very worthy robot against the Decepticons, he just look mean, and you expect to see him in action in the end but no I didn't see him in action after that first scene, other than the few robot battles i've mentioned above, you don't see much of robots battle robots, I felt I see more of humans and tanks and planes against Decepticons more, and the Autobots didn't do much other than protecting humans and Sam with the Matrix, don't see much fightin with them.
When the Decepticons reach earth in groups, I'm stoked to see a war, but it's Decepticons attacking them and humans fight back, now that's a bit of disappointment, they can just switch the introductin scene with the end.
Good to see they include Soundwave in the movie which is one of the favorites, although he doesn't do much, i do like his Decepticon voice, hmm just somethin about it.. :) I think people actually wanted to see this for the eye candy effects more than a serious story, well this movie doesn't need to be that serious, just robots fightin each other, that's fine with me, they can just take out the fallen and primes story line, really it is not the most important thing in the Transformers' universe, that's why I sense the long scene with the primes explainin the history of the primes, the pace has been compromise, not as fast pace action movie as I thought, a lot of explosions though, mostly done by humans, oh well..
I agree that addin' some comedy sense to a movie is an option, an action movie like this won't be a bad movie if there's no comedy in it, we went to see action not comedy anyway, take out the comedy put in the action, that will work better. But it's ok, the only problem is the jokes are lame in most case, the twins are annoyin and juvenile, i'm fine with that, the robot humping Megan Fox's leg, what da hell was that, and showing devastator's balls? oh.. geez please get rid of those unnecessary jokes, you're just makin your movie a joke.
Maybe the good news is, the good stuff is saved for last, will there be a Transformers 3, I think it will happen, seems to me this movie is quiet successful.
So overall is a must see movie, why not if you love the first one, you would like this one too, maybe i'm just expecting too much of it that the movie pales in comparison hehehe. I had a good time watching with 18 others, one of the most grueling & interestin.... event to plan... Read more »
Monday, June 29, 2009
Starcraft II without LAN!
Before online gaming exist, there was LAN (Local Area Network) gaming, where every computer that's on the same network can play the game with each other without the internet. Widely preferable in cyber cafe or at home with multi computer and laptops.
And then internet gaming appear, i agree that it's far more convenient because of the fact that you don't need to go to a cyber cafe or have mutiple computers at home to enjoy multiplayer games.
Seems like the next upcoming blockbuster game will NOT include LAN capabilities base on Blizzard's game-designer Rob Pardo. Yes Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty won't be able to do multiplayer with LAN, online online using Battle.net. According to him, LAN wasn't famous anymore in the 90's, huh? Starcraft in Korea was made famous with LAN! and LAN is certainly not dead yet. What's the big deal if you include a simple LAN capability for the product you sell? Is it hard? The word LAN Party are widely used I think he got it all wrong, it seems he only plays game alone at home through the internet all the time, don't compare internet multiplayer and LAN multiplayer, they are different, so now anyone who wanted to play the game also needs an internet connection eh? I'm sure everyone has internet now, but what's the big deal if you include LAN anyway, this is probably due to pirates. Look at Demigod, they can even sell the game with LAN capability. This is just wrong..
Now Blizzard has made a big mistake, what's next, all Starcraft II series will have no LAN and worse yet Diablo III with no LAN, great...just great..very nice, everyone on the same network still have to connect to the internet and servers to play, doin unnecessary bit transfers, server down, internet down? No game? I like to rely on my network and my PC for multiplayer fun, I have bad experience with online gaming anyway, everyone's been complaining how laggy the experience was, not everyone has good internet connection and with 1 bad apple in the group, everyone will not enjoy the experience, further more I like playin' with my peers than someone else.
I wonder how many will pirate this game.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
R.I.P The King of Pop..
Michael Jackson one of musics' popular icon past away last night due to cardiac arrest, he was 50.
One of my childhood favorites, the king of pop is known throughout the world. Some may know him since the Jackson 5 days when he was still a kid, some may know him since Thriller, everyone knows him as an icon of many generations.
I still remember the first I bought his music in a form of a cassette at the local street market, I didn't know that Thriller was one of the best at that time but I did know I want that cassette because of his other single "Bad". I remember watchin the mini series about his life as a child with his brothers as Jackson 5, it was one of the greatest journey of a musician. I remember listening to "Liberian Girl" with my childhood neighbor. Doin' the moonwalk at school, spinning like him, imitating him..Billie Jean, the song he performed alone on stage live at Motown is one of the most memorable for me.
Thinkin back now, his great music, his one of a kind dance moves that everyone seems to try doin'. I'm gonna miss all that tremendously. I still till today imitate the legend from time to time, he will be remembered as one of my generations' king of music. A flashback of all his music started playin' in my head..
No doubt we lost one of the greatest superstars in music history..
Rest in Peace Michael..
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Windows 7 will dominate?
I never get a chance to download and try it out when it was available for download, another great move for users to try it out and install on a wide variety of system, so when problem arise, Microsoft knows and will fix it, so far it's been all good.
There's a lot of new features which I didn't get in, but what is it so different from Vista? Back in the day of Windows 98 moving to Windows XP, a system upgrade is necessary, and from Windows Xp to Windows Vista another system upgrade is recommended, I would say a 2GB RAm would be ample to experience Windows Aero and such, so do you need an upgrade for Windows 7? That would suck now would it?
People were sayin that Windows 7 works very well on netbooks, a smaller version of a notebook, it probably won't mean much, it's a modern device anyway but not as powerful as a notebook, some people have been reviewing and testing Windows 7 to see how fast it works on some application and games, which all seems good so far with the next generation of DirectX; DirectX 11, of course you don't require to upgrade your graphics card, DirectX 9 and 10 and 10.1 will still work with it, thank god.
But I believe testing how slow it can go is also has a strong point, what I meant is can a slower system run Windows 7, since it can run on a netbook, I guess people is curious to find out. And it's true, some people get it to run on a Pentium II system with 96MB-128MB RAM, that's right.
So if you have Pentium II with 128MB RAM, you can't even run Windows XP let alone Windows Vista, but you can run Windows 7? now that's one strong point, Microsoft did a good job in this area. Now everyone can use Windows 7 without upgrading their system like Windows Vista required. Read more »
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Movie timeline tells a story
There's a lot of futuristic movie out there and most of them mentions the year of the event, but it doesn't matter that much, what matters is it's in the future, that's all we know and important perhaps, but have you ever keep track of the year? How realistic you think it is? For instance the movie Back to the Future 2 is set at year 2015. You think we're 6 years behind hover boards and flying cars? Hmm guess not..
But here's an interestin' find, someone manage to create a list of futuristic movies and arrange them in order, for me, lookin at it I get a sense of how our future will go ahead ;) We are gonna be ruled by apes then our world will look like a scene from Dune with mutated giant earth worms, great....just...great
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Linkin Park - New Divide [Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Soundtrack]
Monday, June 15, 2009
Will Microsoft *BING* Google?
A lot has tried to compete with it but deep down inside, they know it's not easy, people is so use to Google that anythin else will just slip their minds, sounds like Google has manage to embed da G in our thoughts, I think it's just a habit thing.
Compare to Yahoo, Microsoft atleast were tryin to do right with it's search engine, and tried they did, with names, from Live searches, to Kumo, all just doesn't seem to keep customers to stick with it. The latest of their efforts is call Bing, I believe it doesn't meant to mean anything, my guess it's the sound *bing*, you know....the sound when someone has an idea and a light bulb appears on top of their head..
It's actually not bad coming from Microsoft, there's not much comparison done by my, whichever is better is searches, Google will still be the first people go to, it's in our blood, Bing's front page is also more pleasant, with some pretty random picture everytime. And it looks like Microsoft is also planning to integrate all Windows Live account in it's searches, just like iGoogle, it's a start, but hard.
Another note is, each country has it's own preference set, I found that my country doesn't have some buttons which USA has, so it's better to set to USA to see full feature, hey if you wanna compete with Google, everyone should experience the full feature of the engine..
On a final note, it's common people say they've googled somethin or someone, but to say you bing someone sounds like you did somethin naughty HAH, it's still on BETA btw...try it you may like it.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
E3 wraps up
Monday, June 1, 2009
Left 4 Dead 2 coming soon!
I had fun with the first one and i'm sure the sequel is gonna be the same, even better I hope. Lets just wait till we can actually get our hands on it NOVEMBER this year, check out the teaser
Here's the announcement
Left 4 Dead 2 is the sequel to the best-selling and critically-acclaimed co-operative multiplayer smash from Valve, creators of the Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike game properties. Left 4 Dead 2 promises to become one of 2009's top-selling games and set a new benchmark for co-operative action games.
The title adds melee combat to the award-winning L4D style of play, with items such as a chainsaw, frying pan, axe, baseball bat, and more.
Introducing the AI Director 2.0, L4D's dynamic gameplay is taken to the next level by giving the Director the ability to procedurally change weather effects, world objects, and pathways in addition to tailoring the enemy population, effects, and sounds to match the players' performance. The result is a unique game session custom fitted to provide a satisfying and uniquely challenging experience each time the game is played.
Finally, with new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, maps for Survival mode at launch, and more.
Supported by a $10+ million marketing campaign, Left 4 Dead has sold over 2.5 million retail copies since it was released in November of 2008. Left 4 Dead 2 is targeted for release on Xbox 360 and the PC this November, and will be launched worldwide with a multi-million dollar marketing campaign across TV, Outdoor and Online.
Setting:
Left 4 Dead 2 is set at roughly the same time as the original – just after the outbreak that turned most of the population into various zombie mutants. Players assume the role of 4 new “Survivors,” each with their own personality and new dialog. The game leads these “Survivors” through the southeastern region of the US - from Savannah, Georgia thru the bayou country, and climaxing in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
Product Features:
* Next generation co-op action gaming from the makers of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress and Counter-Strike.
* AI Director 2.0: Advanced technology dubbed “The AI Director” drove L4D’s unique gameplay – customizing enemy population, effects, and music, based upon the players’ performance. L4D 2 features “The AI Director 2.0” which expands the Director’s ability to customize level layout, world objects, weather, and lighting to reflect different times of day.
* New melee weapons – axe, chainsaw, frying pan, baseball bat – allow you to get up close with the zombies
* Four different survivors. New Story. New dialogue.
* More game. On day one, L4D 2 features more co-operative campaigns, more campaigns and maps for the Versus game modes than L4D 1, plus support for Survival mode out of the box.
* Stats, rankings, and awards system drives collaborative play
Left 4 Dead 2 is coming to the Xbox 360 and PC on Novemeber 17, 2009.
They also release a possible campaign poster, looks like it's gonna be 4 new slayers, hmm I wonder if I would miss the previous 4, or maybe i'm sick of them already, like I said, we need option for cutomize characters and more characters hehehe, I don't care if the customized characters won't appear on the campaign poster, as long as people see me in the game, i'm cool.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Go to pee while watching a movie (possible spoiler)
So what's the ritual you do when you go for a movie, but tickets, buy pop corn, the usual i guess, oh yes I always go pee before a movie, I wouldn't want to go in the middle of the movie, that's just wrong, but even if you gotha go, when is the right time? This is where RunPee.com comes in.
Let's dig in to some details here, if you haven't watch Terminator Salvation yet, maybe you would wanna close your eyes and ears doin' lalalalala because that's the movie we'll be using for this review, first part of the image below is a basic indication of when you can go to pee, clickin on the dots will show you the details and time.
For the second section, we have a little summary on what you'll be missing if you go to pee, this is only visible spoiler you might face, I think it's kinda mild.
Here's a more important and funny part, they are smart enough to scramble the words here because it contains a more descriptive information that you will be missing, it's also useful to read if you actually go to pee at this moment, you can come home and read what did you missed. Even when you pee, there's a time limit for you to pee, I guess this should be ample otherwise they won't have suggested this time to safely go release, here it shows you got 3 minutes to do your business so forget about makin' chocolate cakes at this moment in time.
In closing, it seems that anyone who is a member of the site can actually post this information up, and maybe the moderator will approve it or reject it, but usually the owner has the same suggestion as one of the users. So keep those clock in check.
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Pitbull punch dude on stage
It's disrespectful to make it rain or throw money at someones face, all gestures suggest to the victim that Pitbull is some sort of biaaatch, like what a stripper face all the time. See the clip for yourself
Here's a different angle, you can see the punch land in this one
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Mah Rig!
Just a simple mod, I might try to do more here and there, maybe experimentaing on different types of accessories, so far my main focus was UV, I might go for some neon tube that won't render my UV useless, a bit of a risky move.
Here's some pictures of mah rig
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Modern Warfare 2 looks excitin'
And as always if there's a sequel to somethin', it usually means the first one is good, so as news started to appear about the next installment of this franchise, fans are very enthusiastic about it, after viewing the trailer, there's no question about it.
Now doesn't the opening score sounds familiar?
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The Sims 3 is out?
So what will we expect from this latest release, obviously some fresh new stuff and ofcourse it looks...slighty better It seems, but can my GPU handle it?
Surely i'm gonna test this out, but i know it's just not fun to play on a lower end card, I wanna play games in maximum possible graphics and with a huge screen of mine, a power hungry card is needed, will evaluate probably when I experienced it. Also I hope there's more customization allowed, like adding famous characters and stuff easily, personal music etc. I remember The Sims & The Sims 2 when I was able to put a lot weird and famous characters, The Sims was painful to do, it got easier with The Sims 2, I just hope The Sims 3 will be much easier. Like the clip below, which shows Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent that I mentioned before, and she's seen talkin' to someone on the phone which looks very familiar :)
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