Adam and Eve at a party in Toronto

Jennifer Connelly, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Jeff Bridges, Megan Fox at the Toronto International Film Festival

Matt Damon, Penelope Cruz, Dominic Cooper, Jonas Brothers

Ewan McGregor in Toronto

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This new Sony Vaio mini laptop is first netbook I saw that has a hi-resolution 1366X768 10.1” screen, which will make a big difference in user experience of this laptop, improving its owner’s productivity tremendously.

Most 10.1 inch netbook computers come with a 1240X600 screen, which makes doing any work in Microsoft office extremely difficult, some other software won’t even open in that resolution.

I tried the keyboard, very comfortable, together with the chassis, this netbook is very well built.

At $499.99 CAD, this netbook laptop is a good choice for people who want a small and light computer to carry around and also get some work done.

This new Acer netbook computer looks very similar to its larger siblings of the Timeline series, the build looks quite nice.

The screen is a low resolution one, however, at $329.99, this thing is a steal.

This Gateway netbook computer comes with a 11 inch high resolution screen (1366×768), it is a little larger sitting beside all the 10 inch netbooks, but it comes with a larger keyboard as well, which makes typing much more comfortable. The keyboard does not feel very solid, however.

This Samsung netbook is very ordinary spec wise: 10 inch low resolution screen, 1 GB RAM, 160G hard drive, but the design and build quality look very good. It is also much more expensive than the Acer model.

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Did some research on the internet, seems that this is a quite common problem, especially with iPhone 3G, with no obvious solutions. Many people tried factory restore functions in the iTunes and went through the unlock and joailbreak process again and again, only to find the problem persisted.

Turns out there is a very easy fix for this problem:

On your iPhone, go to general settings and choose “reset”, in the following options, choose “reset all data and settings”, confirm and let iPhone go to work, this whole process only takes 1 minute or so, depending on how much data the phone has to wipe out. All my third party applications are intact and my wifi network settings are still there. Some of the home screen buttons are gone, but they are all shortcuts to websites, so no big deal.

Next, connect your iPhone to iTunes, and a very nice surprise jumped out:

Choose restore, and you will see this screen:

The process takes about 5 minutes, after it is done, you will find that all your home screen buttons are back, together with call history, contact list and SMS messages, in fact, the iPhone will be restored to the exact same status last time you synced with iTunes. Nice, isn’t it?

Finally figured out who the artist is a few days ago and found the lyrics thanks to Google, oh my! It is a rather cynical song! But I still like it, here it is:

Closing Time

Leonard Cohen

Ah we’re drinking and we’re dancing
and the band is really happening
and the Johnny Walker wisdom running high
And my very sweet companion
she’s the Angel of Compassion
she’s rubbing half the world against her thigh
And every drinker every dancer
lifts a happy face to thank her
the fiddler fiddles something so sublime
all the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka-dots
and it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
and it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
it’s CLOSING TIME
Yeah the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka-dots
and it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
and it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops:
it’s CLOSING TIME

Ah we’re lonely, we’re romantic
and the cider’s laced with acid
and the Holy Spirit’s crying, “Where’s the beef?”
And the moon is swimming naked
and the summer night is fragrant
with a mighty expectation of relief
So we struggle and we stagger
down the snakes and up the ladder
to the tower where the blessed hours chime
and I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can’t say much has happened since
but CLOSING TIME

I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
the Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can’t say much has happened since
CLOSING TIME

I loved you for your beauty
but that doesn’t make a fool of me:
you were in it for your beauty too
and I loved you for your body
there’s a voice that sounds like God to me
declaring, declaring, declaring that your body’s really you
And I loved you when our love was blessed
and I love you now there’s nothing left
but sorrow and a sense of overtime
and I missed you since the place got wrecked
And I just don’t care what happens next
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it’s something in between, I guess
it’s CLOSING TIME

Yeah I missed you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex
looks like freedom but it feels like death
it’s something in between, I guess
it’s CLOSING TIME

Yeah we’re drinking and we’re dancing
but there’s nothing really happening
and the place is dead as Heaven on a Saturday night
And my very close companion
gets me fumbling gets me laughing
she’s a hundred but she’s wearing
something tight
and I lift my glass to the Awful Truth
which you can’t reveal to the Ears of Youth
except to say it isn’t worth a dime
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
but the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
we’re busted in the blinding lights,
busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME

The whole damn place goes crazy twice
and it’s once for the devil and once for Christ
but the Boss don’t like these dizzy heights
we’re busted in the blinding lights,
busted in the blinding lights
of CLOSING TIME

Oh the women tear their blouses off
and the men they dance on the polka-dots
It’s CLOSING TIME
And it’s partner found, it’s partner lost
and it’s hell to pay when the fiddler stops
It’s CLOSING TIME
I swear it happened just like this:
a sigh, a cry, a hungry kiss
It’s CLOSING TIME
The Gates of Love they budged an inch
I can’t say much has happened since
But CLOSING TIME
I loved you when our love was blessed
I love you now there’s nothing left
But CLOSING TIME
I miss you since the place got wrecked
By the winds of change and the weeds of sex.

Oh will you never let me be?
Oh will you never set me free?
The ties that bound us are still around us
There´s no escape that I can see
And still those little things remain
That bring me happiness or pain

A cigarette that bears a lipsticks traces
An airline ticket to romantic places
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

A tinkling piano in the next apartment
Those stumbling words that told you what my heart meant
A fairgrounds painted swings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

You came, you saw, you conquered me
When you did that to me, I somehow knew that this had to be
The winds of march that make my heart a dancer
A telephone that rings – but who´s to answer?
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

Gardenia perfume ling´ring on a pillow
Wild strawb´ries only seven francs a kilo
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

The park at evening when the bell has sounded
The isle de france with all the girls around it
The beauty that is spring
These foolish things
Remind me of you

I know that this was bound to be
These things have haunted me
For you´ve entirely enchanted me
The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations
Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

First daffodils and long excited cables
And candlelight on little corner tables
And still my heart has wings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

The smile of garbo and the scent of roses
The waiters whistling as the last bar closes
The song that crosby sings
These foolish things
Remind me of you

How strange, how sweet to find you still
These things are dear to me
That seem to bring you so near to me
The scent of smould´ring leaves, the wail of steamers
Two lovers on the street who walk like dreamers
Oh, how the ghost of you clings
These foolish things
Remind me of you, just you

I take my PDA with me everywhere: on my morning commute to work everyday, on the 17-hour flights to Asia and to the local library. I listen to music, watch TV shows and movies on it, check emails in a hotspot, make Skype phone calls and take notes on it, the X51v has been an amazing digital assistant to me.

However, it has been two years since Dell stopped development on their PDA product line, and the X51v is in dire need of a refreshment, especially after Microsoft updated their Windows mobile OS to version 6 earlier this year.

Dell does not provide the upgrade for the X51v, but you can do it on your own, here is how:

1. you need to get a copy of the customized WM6 ROM for X51v by following this link:

Béta00Cp, download link

Unzip the downloaded file, create a folder on your PC hard drive and save the uncompressed files in it.

2. Get a SD card, format it to FAT32 file system on your PC.

3. copy the two files you unzipped in step 1 to the root of the SD card.

4. Connect your X51v to external power, insert the SD card. Press the on/off button (top front), Wifi button (on the side) and the reset button (on the back) all at the same time, the ROM files on the SD card will run.

5. A file will show up, double click action button (front bottom, center of the d-pad) to run it, the new ROM image will be loaded, it will take a while, so be patient.

6. After the image file is loaded successfully, do a hard reset on your X51v by holding down both the on/off button and the reset button at the same time.

7. After the system boot up and guide you through a brief calibration process, you will see screen like this:

Windows Mobile 6 Today Screen

Windows Mobile 6 on X51v System Info

8. Congratulations, you are done, enjoy your refreshed X51v with Windows Mobile 6 Pro!

Credit and reference:

This ROM is developed by “Makuu”, please check out his posts at:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=384266&page=14

If you need more visual tutorial on how to upgrade your X51v to WM6, this youtube video might help you:

Video tutorial