Multiple displays settings for Windows 8's Taskbar Properties

Something that a Windows 7 multiple desktop user would dream about.



This simple feature is one of the reason why I think Windows 8 rocks!

BLIMS Fine Furniture @ Robinsons Galleria -- worst after sale service

We bought ___ ______ and waited for 2 weeks, then the delivery arrived today. We are not really informed that the assembly is on the next day and that's why my wife is comfortable about the Sunday delivery because we are at the office during weekdays AND no one's at home.

While making some arguments with them regarding the assembly schedule I heard other crews including the "Manager" like laughing at my back on the other side of the phone saying "hindi naman umabot ng 2 weeks, less than 2 weeks naman na deliver (laugh)"... and more.

X79 setup it is!

I love my Q6600 and it also serves me well for almost 5yrs in January 2013!

Though if my motherboard is not having issues like USB power failures, often power on button / cold boot failures, often CMOS resetting after OC for quite some time, a bit loosed ram & pcie slot... maybe I will be still using this system for another year. Also since I'm a family man now, power consumption and heat may become a big factor to my upgrade reason.

So I finally decided for X79 setup. From my rough analysis with q6600 overclocked to 3ghz, the i7 3820 is 50%+ more faster, 30%+ less power on idle, and 10%+ less power on full throttle.

Besides I already bought all I need for my upgrade...
- Intel Core i7 3820 3.6-3.8GHz
- Asus P9X79 Pro Motherboard
- Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Turbo Dual Fan CPU Cooler
- GSKILL RipjawsZ 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 1600mhz
- Crucial M4 128gb sata

My existing will be...
- Lian-Li PC7 casing
- Seasonic X760 PSU
- MSI Frozr II AMD Radeon 6950 2gb
- Seagate 1TB and 1.5TB

...now I can't wait to bench this baby this weekend!

Wish me luck! :)

Upgrading Intel Core2 Quad 6600 to Intel Core i7 3820... worth it?

Here's just my rough percentage estimate of the improvement of Q6600 -> i7 3820 from the benchmark source @ cpu-wars.com, Intel Core i5 & i7 Game Benchmarks, Intel Core i7-3820 Synthetic Benchmarks

MULTI-TRHEADING: The factor of all upgrade reasons, speed!

q6600 @3ghz -> i5 750 = 23% improvement
i5 750 -> i7-3820 = 33% improvement
Q6600 @3ghz -> i7 3820 = 56% improvement

Globe Tattoo Postpaid vs Smart Buddy Prepaid (Part 2)

What: Globe Tattoo (Postpaid) vs Smart Buddy (Prepaid)
Where: Orient Square, Ortigas Center, Pasig City
When: 11am
How: Unbiased result from CA US server, unlike Globe/Smart server
Who: wins? See for yourself...

Datablitz vs X-Play: Who's side are you?

I don't want to discuss everything here again to what happen, Google or Bing it!

In Defense of Datablitz: Analyzing Datablitz’s Official Statements regarding CIDG Raid, Inside Sources Speak Out (updated)

Datablitz selling “pirated” "smuggled" software is not accurate, misleading and would cause catastrophe to their reputation and to gaming industry.

I have big respect to Datablitz. I've been buying games from them since God knows when and all are legits and never deal with their after-service ever!

So, do I love or hate Windows 8?

I hate metro originally (like I mentioned in my previous blog post : Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 thoughts...) but for the sake of catching up on development trend so I installed it in my laptop together with Visual Studio 2012 Express and for Windows Phone 8, off course.

Kinda weird seeing there is no start menu and all metro screen at first, but somehow in just 1 day I finally starting to love it for few reasons:

What is your Christmas Wish?

For me world peace! Seriously, more happiness to my family :)

...and this:

Intel Core i7 3770k
Noctua D14
Asrock Extreme4
GSkill 16gb 2400ghz
Corsair M4 SSD 128gb

Advance Merry Christmas!

Globe Tattoo Postpaid vs Smart Buddy Prepaid

What: Globe Tattoo (Postpaid) vs Smart Buddy (Prepaid)
Where: Potrero, Malabon
When: 7am
How: Unbiased result from CA US server, unlike Globe/Smart server
Who: wins? see for yourself

Gmail beats Hotmail as World's Top Email Service...

Got the news here from TomsHardware: Gmail Becomes World's Top Email Service

Well good for Google and I was surprised that it didn't surpass Hotmail long time ago. For starters, I thought I'm the only one using Hotmail hahaha!... (reference: my family, friends, relatives and co-workers).