My (mom's) phone

While the world is going gaga over Ipads and touch screen phones, I just remembered that I actually have a touch screen phone. It's an HTC, although an older model. Seeing all those htc desire reviews reminded me all about it! It was my mom's. She gave it to me when she acquired an IPhone. The reason why she gave it to me was because it was in Chinese.  (She bought it in Taiwan and she always preferred Chinese, even with her computer programs).  That's the main reason why I haven't gotten around to using it, the other reason being my reluctance to transfer the phonebook.

Well, my more-than-6-year-old business cellphone has more than outlived its usefulness.  It still works like a charm, to be fair.  But I guess I'd better move forward with the times and use my mom's gift while it's not too passe yet. 

My mom is more techie than me

My mom is more "techie" than me! She's also a recent convert to Apple. Her laptop is a Mac, she's using an iPhone and she now has an iPad, courtesy of my uncle!  She used to like buying digital cams (the point and shoot type only, her choice is Sony) but not lately.

Me?  I'm just a techie wannabe.  I'm still using my 4 year old Acer laptop. My Nokia N90 is already 5 years old, and my other phone is even older (I guess a snatcher wouldn't even notice it). I do not even have an ipod touch.  I'd love to have those other gadgets but the kuripot in me always whispers that I still have something that serves my purposes.  I mean, my laptop still works fine (okay, it's hard drive gave way a few months ago taking away some precious files and data recovery attempts are underway) and gets me through web surfing, data and word processing and those other things that I need to do.  I do not need a more hi tech (and more expensive) gadget for those things I do.  (Well, I'm still trying to convince myself. :) )

Maybe some kind soul would donate a gadget for this Tsinay?  Now that's what I call wishful thinking!

Ipad still out of touch

I've been salivating over the IPad for a while, but the price tag is making me hold back. I even stayed for the fellowship night in our convention (I usually do not do so) because of the slight chance that I might be the lucky winner of the year's most coveted gadget. No dice. Somebody else was lucky enough to win. Sigh.

If a relative or friend would be coming home from the States, I might consider doing shopping online on Cyber Monday and having them handcarry the ipad. But I do not know of any. Sigh again.

Maybe I'll just go out and buy one of the lookalikes/imitations. Most of them are made in China that's why their price tag is so much lower. I've heard some of them are pretty good. But it's a touch and go thing. You may get a good deal, or you may end up with a lemon of a gadget. But at 1/4 of the price of the real ipad. Hmmmm....

It's the hard drive

Remember the laptop problem I'm having?

It seems like the problem lies with the hard drive. It seems like the hard drive has given up after about 4 years of usage. My Windows OS is gone. We've tried using the recovery disk to reinstall the OS but nothing.

The good news is that a new hard drive is not that expensive at all. Definitely much cheaper than a new laptop. The bad news is that we have not accounted for all the files that we have lost. There are lots of pictures, softcopies of homework, blog articles like the one I'm doing for apidexin, etc. Some are backed up or easy to reproduce, but there are others that may be more difficult. Sigh. We have to accept that some data or files may be gone forever.

Another reminder to keep backing up important data.

Laptop conked out

What does it mean when the computer shows a blue screen, gives off a weird sound, and finally gives up?

That's what happened to me yesterday. I left my laptop running while I went down to greet the visitors -- my cousins and my brother's mother-in-law who came over to practice a little something for my grandma's upcoing grand birthday celebration. Prior to that, I was doing some work and surreptitiously doing some fat burner reviews. Nothing really unusual at all. My husband was the one who actually saw the screen become blue, and then weird sounds came from the computer, then it no longer booted up to the windows OS.

We are not quite sure what the problem is. I hope it's still something we can salvage. In the meantime, I am borrowing my husband's netbook to do some work.