Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Things you should do in a week:

Get sun burned on Sunday.
Make money on Monday.
Twitter on Tuesday.
Get marrid on Wednesday.
Drink nothing on Thursday.
Eat toast on Friday.
Don't lie down on Saturday.

Friday, June 5, 2009

PS3, XBOX 360, Netflix

Got PS3 and xbox 360 together and have been playing with both of them.
xbox 360
pro:
has more game selection - does matter to me since i don't play that many games
streams netflix pretty well, it even supports jump among tracks

PS3:
can play blue ray, which has amazing picturs
con:
cannot stream nexflix. It could be made to indirectly using a PC running a media server, such as playon. However the performance was not satisfying - it pauses sometime and you cannot fast forward/backward at well.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Setting up 51mike in dual monitor mode

After two nights of trial and error, i finally set up my online KaraOK system to play one dual monitor - one monitor shows the video playing and the other monitor shows the playlist.

PS. The KaraOK system I use is from www.51mike.com. It cost less than $20 to become a life time member!

To enable the dual monitor mode, you first need your video card support. In my case, i have an ati card, so you need to enable its theater mode - download its control center and under video category, enable theater mode.
also, you need to enable your windows media player's overlay mode, since 51mike software uses that internally. In my case, i am using windows media player 10. Go to tools -> option, performance , advanced , video acceleration and check use overlay.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Trip to Santa Cruz



Last weekend, went to santa cruz beach.
Went to the beach close to the town, which seemed to be quite crowded, since there was an amusement park there.

Then i went to the light house beach, where there is a light house and many people were surfing there.

Finally, I went to the natural bridge beach, where there is a big piece of rock shaped like a bridge.

The west cliff drive was a nice drive with good view and it would be ideal for a walk/biking as well.