Atma Xplorer

Xploring Games, Computing, Photography

1 millionth iPhone sold

At the seventy fourth day after the iPhone’s launch, Apple has sold 1 million units. In a press release, Steve Jobs said that it took nearly two years to sell that many iPods. The


Bleach: Movie Review

Bleach: Movie Review

I was actually reluctant to watch this film because when I look back at all the anime movies I?ve seen (and that?s a lot) I can only name a handful that are worth anyone?s


The Asus EEE

People seldom associate the term ultra, low cost with a laptop? With a desktop probably because you can shave off nearly 50% or more from building your own rig rather than going


AMD Unveils Barcelona

AMD Unveils Barcelona

Monday is the set launch date for AMD’s Barcelona CPU Architecture, branded K10. AMD is prepared to launch its next-generation Barcelona CPU architecture this Monday. Barcelona is the first K8-based product to feature a


Toshiba’s 200GB 2.5″ External Hard Drive

Toshiba’s 200GB 2.5″ External Hard Drive

Toshiba introduced the worlds first 200GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drive today. It’s currently is the largest back up hard drive in the 2.5″ class, and I know some of you are


Why C++ Sucks

Linus Torvalds has recently entered the fray of language vs language, posting a message on a techie list in which he says outright that C++ is a horrible language. “It’s made more horrible by


Testing your AV software

Testing your AV software

If you’re a little worried about how active your anti-virus software is why not test it? Creating an EICAR (European Expert Group for IT-Security) test file would be the easiest and the safest


Microsoft’s Silverlight

Microsoft officially launched version 1.0 of Silverlight on September 5 (yesterday according to post date). This release, the first of the two announced versions, is really focused on delivering enhanced support for audio and


iPod line updates

iPod line updates

True to its word, Apple has just announced a major revamp in it’s popular iPod media


Toshiba’s 32GB SDHC Memory Card

Toshiba’s 32GB SDHC Memory Card

Gone are the days of skimping your digicam, trying to cram as much shots as you can on your memory card or keeping your favorite extended playlist on your mp3 phone (if you’re still


RF Online [Episode 2]: Updates Part 2

RF Online [Episode 2]: Updates Part 2

Continued from Part 1 The New Continent, the Elf Area [1]: Changes to the race leader system 1. Structure. ? 1 Patriarch, 2 sub-patriarchs, 6 officers ? 9 board members ? The race leader election will stay the same as


RF Online [Episode 2]: Updates Part 1

RF Online [Episode 2]: Updates Part 1

Info taken from the Korean server. Changes are obviously present for the Philippine server: Item name changes Normal: These are your standard white weapons, and can be purchased from vendors for all levels. Rare:


Eclipse on my Java

I’ve been messing around with Eclipse for the past month and I must say that I’m quite impressed using it as a Java IDE, it’s default form. I’ve added it to my Java


TouchLight interactive display

With MS Surface still ways off from being released, and then being affordable EON releases Touchlight. This kind of technology got popular after the movie Minority Report. It will be an


More Gphone rumors

Just before hitting the sack, I saw an updated feed from my RSS reader. GigaOm seems to have picked up a few morsels below of information about the Google Phone: Google Phone is based


HP joins the Linux bandwagon

HP joins the Linux bandwagon

After months of speculations from the Open Source community, Hewlett-Packard will soon be selling RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Desktop 5 on its HP dx2250 PC. For now the deal is


Crisis Core Opening

It was leaked a few hours ago and already it’s got PSP and FF series fans clamoring. Even I want a PSP to play it the moment it arrives. Here’s the


Useful Ubuntu Sites

A friend in the Open Source community has invited me to visit two interesting sites, UbuntuHQ and UbuntuGeek. The former collects all Ubuntu related articles in one place while the latter collects tutorials. UbuntuHQ


Blog Engines (Part 2)

If you’ve noticed, Part 1 is limited to closed-source blogging engines. I opted to separate the open-source list to give everyone a perspective of what they’ll be getting on both sides and help


Blog Engines (Part 1)

After reading a friend’s post on Host and Standalone blogs, I decided to do some research (mainly because I couldn’t play RF) on some of the blog engines available today. When you decide to start


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