2022... alhamdullilah

Saturday, December 31, 2022

Dear 2022,

Alhamdullilah for being one of the best year of my life. It has been quite a journey for me and my wife and my little family. Yes, you read that right. I am now a father for my beautiful daughter, Elisha.

I started to write another blog about my baby since last year until she was born last February. 

There are many things worth mentioning but I guess 2022 has been a great year for all of us.

Alhamdulillah.

Windows 11, are you ready for it?

Wednesday, November 17, 2021

 Windows 11 was released on October 5, 2021 with less publicity than previous windows. I don't even know about this announcement or I was having this impression that Windows 10 will be the last windows and they will do OS updates to bring latest features, security and etc.

I am comfortably using Windows 10 and no major issues with it especially I use it for playing games. You know how gamers hate every time there is a major OS upgrade, the first question will always be 'Will it improve the game performance especially the frame rate?'. Lol. I can't blame them on this. 

I have my Predator laptop which is eligible for a free upgrade but I didn't bother to upgrade. Why? I like to wait for Windows 11 major patch when they will properly fixed some of the bugs, drivers, and etc. 

If you're someone who doesn't really care or willing to go for the new OS. I would recommend try the in-place upgrade via Windows Update (where you can downgrade to Windows 10 if you're not happy) but in doing so, it will eats your disk space which you may need to consider.

I have another laptop which I recently brought for $100, a HP EliteBook 830 G5 model. I had it clean install with Windows 11. My first impression? Wow but the UI/UX is familiar (if you have been using MacOS you will notice this). So far I have seen improvement in battery consumption which is very low with 'Battery Saver' feature on. I have yet to try most of the features but I am happy with Windows 11.

Are you ready to switch? 



Transition Endomondo to MapMyRun

Saturday, April 17, 2021

It is sad to see one of the most reliable Sports app has been retired. I have been using this app since 2011 for running and hiking. It shows more stats than any other app and gradually improved since then. When Endomondo was acquired by Under Armour in 2015, I was very excited to see where this will lead to. More devices and applications were integrated for Endomondo


Eventually, Under Armour decided to retire this awesome app and lead everyone to use MapMyRun (which is another app acquired by UA). I dislike the idea. This is the second time I experienced to let go of my favourite app, the first one was Sportypal

UA makes thing seemless for people to switch from Endomondo to MayMyRun (with discounts for subscriptions and imported historical data from Endomondo to MayMyRun). I was at first very disappointed with the MayMyrRun app but eventually decided to just give this app a chance. I am sure, most of the people don't have any choice but to actually just move on with this app. As long as I can see my historical data and other devices/apps (Relive) integration are still there. I'm happy.

So what are your thoughts? I hope Under Armour don't mess this app again!


Stay at home and be a gamer

Saturday, May 09, 2020

This morning I got nothing to do except playing Half-Life 2 : Episode 2. I recently bought the Orange Box from steam (it was the first time I bought games online). It seems 'Stay at Home' makes me to be a gamer during this COVID-19 pandemic. 

I just completed the original Half-Life 2 and HL2 episode 1 (easy mode). LOL. Running on my new Predator Helios 300 and sets everything to high, the game is incredibly good to play and consistently playing at 300fps is a bonus. This is my 3rd laptop which is mainly to play games and for video editing. I upgraded the RAM to 16GB and Storage up to 1TB SSD. 

This is not my first choice as I was actually plan to look for a better specs (Acer Triton with RTX 2070) but most of the IT shops here told me "It's sold out' and 'We don't bring in this model'. So I settle for Helios. Luckily, it's not that bulk but I noticed if you play intensive games, the laptop can go up to 95 degrees Celsius. Hence, you probably need to buy a good laptop cooler.

p/s: I don't like this new Blogger UI. 


What's up 2020?

Monday, March 09, 2020

We are just few months into 2020 but there are many things happening around us. I have many plans coming up for this year but some I had to cancel it due to unforeseen circumstances. 

I was planning to go back to Sibale, Philippines but had to cancel it due to earthquake and active volcanic activity at Ta'al volcano. 

Then comes COVID-19 disease. People are scare to go to public places where there are large crowd gatherings. Not to mention where public transportation and flights are also affected by this. People rush to cancel flights. Airlines have to cut budgets due to less demand for travels. We have seen people buy stuffs and emptied food cabinets in the market in preparation of self-isolation and quarantine (if required). 

Throughout the history of humans, this type of diseases exist and had killed millions of people before us. We are not prepare for something like this.

It's a crazy world we live at the moment. Let's hope in the coming months, everything will be better.
 

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