Introducing the New Nokia Phone Nokia X6 with 3.2-inch touchscreen, 32GB of storage, 35 hours of music playback. You guessed it, that’ll be a check. Did we mention the blow-your-mind design? We’ve only just clapped eyes on the sleek and sexy X6 and already we can’t keep our peepers off it. At a touch under 14mm thin, it’s slim frame packs plenty of power and will leave music lovers in no doubt as to how they’ll be listening to music on the move when the device goes on sale this side of Xmas. What’s more, the Nokia X6 is a Comes with Music device which means you’ll be able to tune into as much all-you-can-hear music as you like without having to spend a penny extra.

The 3.2-inch widescreen display is optimised for photos and videos, proving the Nokia X6 is more than just a musical masterpiece. Pack 20 friends onto your homescreen, along with communities such as Facebook and it’s also a fully connected social butterfly.

Did we mention the 35 hours of music playback? Well what about 16 days standby time, a 5-megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss optics, dual LED flash, TV-out, video editing, online sharing, Nokia Music store, full web browser and Flash Lite support. Still want more? Okay then, A-GPS, Ovi Maps and Playlist DJ. If you fancy a bit of gaming, then Spore is included, along with DJ Mix Tour and Asphalt4. Phew.

The addition of this device to Comes with Music takes music on the move into a totally new dimension. And we’re pretty excited about it. Have a look at the Social Media Release for more info.

Key Features:

• It’s all about your music – the Nokia X6 has a superb quality music player and built-in FM radio. Listen over Bluetooth stereo audio with a compatible headset like the new Nokia Bluetooth Headset BH-505 with its cool, sporty headband. Or plug your choice of headphones into the standard 3.5mm headphone jack.
• Nokia Music Store is all yours – As a Comes With Music device, the Nokia X6 gives direct access to millions of tracks online. Download for free and yours to keep forever*. Stores thousands of tracks with 32GB out-of-the-box memory.
• 5 megapixel camera with Carl-Zeiss optics autofocus and dual LED flash for truly fantastic image quality.
• Customisable homescreen – add up to 20 shortcuts for one-touch access to Facebook, Nokia Music Store, Email, Contacts, Maps, Games – whatever you choose!
• Stroke-sensitive touch-screen interface – Nokia’s smoothest, slickest interface ever – with a 16:9 widescreen made specially to give the best photo and video viewing experience.

  

• Social networking – supports easy access to Facebook, Ovi, Windows Live!, Yahoo IM, YouTube, MySpace and more.
• Brilliant web browsing – built-in Flash player and auto-landscape orientation means you really get the best out of online video and movies.
• 3 premium games on-board – Nokia X6 ships with Asphalt4 and DJ Mix Tour by Gameloft and Spore by EA.
• Nokia Maps – The Nokia X6 comes with A-GPS with compass and integrated Maps so you can find your way to friends and venues quickly and easily with turn-by-turn, voice-guided navigation. Geo-tag your photos with Ovi to remember and share those great moments.
• Other Ovi services include push-email and IM with Nokia Messaging, N-gage games, downloadable Java applications and widgets, Ovi Contacts and Ovi Files for keeping your personal stuff safe and sound.
• Easy email – simple steps to set-up your email and combine multiple accounts into one inbox. Supports popular email clients such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and most other POP3/IMAP email – plus a lifetime license for Nokia Messaging, Nokia’s mobile email and IM service.
• Video editing and sharing – includes video center and video editing plus support for online-share and TV-out. So, you can make your clips perfect, then upload them to your social network page or play to friends and family at home.

The Nokia X6 is expected to ship in the fourth quarter of 2009 for an estimated retail price of EUR459 before taxes and subsidies.

Product Specification:

This is my first trip to Bali after 23 years living in Indonesia. Bali is the most famous place in the Indonesia, even my friend from Scotland only knew Bali, and don’t know if Bali were part of Indonesia.

I went to Bali from Jakarta, The Cengkareng International Airport. I flight with Air Asia, the most affordable flight I can use because may budget was very tight. Luckily me, I got promotion ticket that I just need to pay 350.000 rupiah or 35US$ for the ticket from Jakarta to Bali and Bali to Jakarta.

After the arrival at 11.00PM, I just looking for Taxi. And I ask the driver to take me to Poppies Lane II, the place for the cheapest accommodation or room you can get in Bali, and not only the price, The location is near the Kuta Beach, it only takes 10 minutes walking. 5 minutes to the famous Legian street for night live, also where Bali Bombing tragedy happen.

After try to calling many of Losmen/Hotel that I have in my list, only the 5th place that has empty room. You cannot booking in this cheap hotel, so you only can booking and pay at the place. The name of the hotel is Okie’s House, it has many rooms in three floors. I choose double bed with fan just for 7.5US$/day it was including breakfast for 2 peoples. The room was big enough, clean, the bathroom looks old but clean with big mirror. The room also has balcony with 2 chair and 1 desk.

The room with double bed

The Balcony with 2 chair and 1 desk

The Bathroom, clean but looks old, the shower is not good

Here are the list of the cheap accommodation but good enough:

1. Cempaka II  : good place, Clean

Phone: 0361- 757750

2. Ronta Bungalow : Nice place, Clean, but never empty room. 9US$/day

Gg. Ronta, Phone: 0361- 754246

3. Losman Arthawa

Poppies Lane II, Phone: 0361-752913

4. Dua Dara: It has swimming pool, but small bathroom, noisy fan. 9US$/day.

Poppies Lane II.

5. Segara Sadhu Inn.

Jl. Poppies II Gang 1 # 3A, Phone : 0361759909

6. Jus Edith Bungalows

Gang Ronta, Poppies Lane II, Phone: 0361-750558

7. Gora Beach Inn

Poppies Lane 2, Banjar Pengabetan, Phone: 0361 – 752578

8. Yunna Cottage

Jl. Pantai Kuta Gg Poppies 2 (0361 – 753015)

9. Tunjung Bali Inn

Poppies Lane 2 (0361 – 762990)

10. Palm Gardens Taman Nyiur

Poppies Lane 2 (0361 – 752198)

11. Okie House: big room, balcony, free breakfast, old bathroom but clean. 9US$/day

Poppies Lane 2 ( 0361- 752081)

12. Mahendra

Poppies 1 Banjar Pengabetan (0361 – 752371)

13. Puri Agung

Poppies 1 (0361 – 750054)

14. Bungalows Taman Ayu

Poppies 1 (0361 – 751855)

15. Komala Indah

Poppies 1 No. 20 (0361 – 751422)

That’s all. next posting I will write about great places in Bali… stay tuned..

Links:

very good site  : http://www.pruwanto.com/2008/03/penginapan-di-bali/

http://ikman.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/penginapan-murah-di-kuta-bali-tips-perjalanan/

I bought this Laptop at Best Buy. The specs are:

• Product Height x Width x Depth: 1.4″ x 14.3″ x 10.4″
• Product Weight : 5.7 lbs.
• Color Category : Blue-Dark
• Processor Platform : Intel® Centrino ®Intel® Core™2 Duo Mobile
• Processor Speed : 2.0GHz
• Display Type : WXGA+ widescreen with 1280 x 800 resolution
• Screen Size : 14.1″
• System Bus : 800MHz
• Cache Memory : 2MB on die Level 2
• System Memory (RAM) : 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 SDRAM
• Hard Drive : 250GB Serial ATA (5400 rpm)
• Optical Drive : Double-layer DVD±RW/CD-RW
• Digital Media Reader or Slots : Yes, digital media card reader
• Graphics : NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GSUp to 512MB
• MPEG : Yes
• Built-in Webcam : Yes
• Networking  : Built-in Ethernet LAN with RJ-45 connector
• Wireless Networking : Wireless-A+B+G+N
• Security Technology : Facial recognition
• Additional Audio/Video Connectors  : HDMI
• Audio : Dolby Theater
• Speakers : Built-in stereo
• PCMCIA Slots : 1 Type II
• USB 2.0 Ports : 5
• IEEE 1394 FireWire Ports : 1
• Laptop Weight : Standard (more than 5.5 lbs.)
• Battery Type : Lithium-ion
• Battery Life : Not available
• Pointing Device : Touchpad
• Operating System : Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1
• Included Software : Power 4 Gear Extreme, Asus Color Enhancement, Instant Keys, Life-Frame 3 and more

The laptop is just a casual laptop, although it has nvidia Geforce VGA card, but it only can play casual games with casual graphics, such warcraft.

This is the score from windows vista:

Other review:

http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/asus-x83vb-x2/4505-3121_7-33496180.html

Last month I bought My PSP in Singapore. This gadget is really awesome… I can play game for hours… spend all my day just playing game…

What I likes from this gadget are the picture is good and there are so many game we can played.

Looking for PSP game review, FAQ, cheats:

http://psp.ign.com/

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/

We can use Hyper terminal program in windows to test this program, the setting is:

1. Use COM to communicate

2. Baudrate = 9600

3. Stop bit = 1

4. Bits = 8

The step are: initialize – send data or receive data.

The program:

-start-

#include <stdio.h>

#include<avr/io.h>

int main(void) {

//USING 4MHZ CRYSTAL(Fsoc), SET BAUDRATE TO 9600BPS

//CALC UBRRL=(Fsoc)/(16 X BAUDRATE) – 1=(4000000)/(16 x 9600) – 1 = 25

UBRRL = 25;

//URSEL =1, to access UCSRC reg (if URSEL = 0, we access UBRRH register)

//UCSZ0=1 and UCSZ1=1, to select the number of bits of data that is transmited in each frame, Normally the unit of data in MCU is 8BIT

UCSRC = (1<<URSEL)|(1<<UCSZ1)|(1<<UCSZ0);

//RXEN to enable the receiver, TXEN to enable transmitter

UCSRB = (1<<RXEN)|(1<<TXEN);

DDRA = 0xFF;     //set PORTA as output

//infinite branch

while(1){

//Receive data

// RXC =1, receiver has complete reveived data.

while(!(UCSRA&(1<<RXC)));     //Wait until a byte has been received

//Showing data received at PORTA

PortData= UDR;

PORTA = PortData;

//UDRE =1, ready to send data

while(!(UCSRA&(1<<UDRE)) );       // Wait if a byte is being transmitted

// Transmit data

UDR = PortData;

};

}

-end-

links:

USART programming

http://extremeelectronics.co.in/avr-tutorials/using-the-usart-of-avr-microcontrollers/

http://www.societyofrobots.com/microcontroller_uart_50_robot.shtml

Serial port and communication

http://extremeelectronics.co.in/avr-tutorials/rs232-communication-the-basics/

AVR Studio 4 includes an assembler and a simulator.

To compile your C program in AVR Studio you need a compiler. I use WinAVR that includes GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils, avr-libc, avrdude, avrice, and a few others.

Software:

AVR Studio 4 : http://www.atmel.com/dyn/Products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=2725

WinAVR  : http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/files/WinAVR/WinAVR-20090313-install.exe/download

Tutorial:

http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/ee476/AtmelStuff/doc1019.pdf

http://www.societyofrobots.com/step_by_step_robot_step4.shtml

http://www.societyofrobots.com/downloads/WinAVR-user-manual.html

Simulator:

http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/~enjimmy/IP/Simulation_AVR_Studio_4.pdf

The ISP Flash Microcontroller programmer, this one is simple and easy to use, using your parallel port to download program to your AVR.

http://www.kmitl.ac.th/~kswichit/IspPgm30a/ISP-Pgm30a.html

Following are the main features of this software,

Read and write the Intel Hex file

Read signature, lock and fuse bits

Clear and Fill memory buffer

Verify with memory buffer

Reload current Hex file

Display buffer checksum

Program selected lock bits & fuses

Auto detection of hardware

This type microcontroller is the most all-you-need microcontroller, because it’s has almost all you need to create an electronics application. Including ADC, analog comparator, UART, PWM and EEPROM.

Here are the Features:

• High-performance, Low-power AVR® 8-bit Microcontroller
• Advanced RISC Architecture
– 130 Powerful Instructions – Most Single Clock Cycle Execution
– 32 x 8 General Purpose Working Registers
– Fully Static Operation
– Up to 16 MIPS Throughput at 16 MHz
– On-chip 2-cycle Multiplier
• Nonvolatile Program and Data Memories
– 8K Bytes of In-System Self-Programmable Flash
Endurance: 10,000 Write/Erase Cycles
– Optional Boot Code Section with Independent Lock Bits
In-System Programming by On-chip Boot Program
True Read-While-Write Operation
– 512 Bytes EEPROM
Endurance: 100,000 Write/Erase Cycles
– 512 Bytes Internal SRAM
– Programming Lock for Software Security
• Peripheral Features
– Two 8-bit Timer/Counters with Separate Prescalers and Compare Modes
– One 16-bit Timer/Counter with Separate Prescaler, Compare Mode, and Capture
Mode
– Real Time Counter with Separate Oscillator
– Four PWM Channels
– 8-channel, 10-bit ADC
8 Single-ended Channels
7 Differential Channels for TQFP Package Only
2 Differential Channels with Programmable Gain at 1x, 10x, or 200x for TQFP
Package Only
– Byte-oriented Two-wire Serial Interface
– Programmable Serial USART
– Master/Slave SPI Serial Interface
– Programmable Watchdog Timer with Separate On-chip Oscillator
– On-chip Analog Comparator
• Special Microcontroller Features
– Power-on Reset and Programmable Brown-out Detection
– Internal Calibrated RC Oscillator
– External and Internal Interrupt Sources
– Six Sleep Modes: Idle, ADC Noise Reduction, Power-save, Power-down, Standby
and Extended Standby
• I/O and Packages
– 32 Programmable I/O Lines
– 40-pin PDIP, 44-lead TQFP, 44-lead PLCC, and 44-pad MLF
• Operating Voltages
– 2.7 – 5.5V for ATmega8535L
– 4.5 – 5.5V for ATmega8535
• Speed Grades
– 0 – 8 MHz for ATmega8535L
– 0 – 16 MHz for ATmega8535

Application:

- Robotics

- Motor controller using PWM

- PC interface using USART

- Measurement [Voltage, current, resistance, temperature, etc.]

The measured voltage (0 – 2,5VDC) is connected to pin PA1, and the result will be shown in the PORT B.

-start-

#include<avr/io.h>

#include<stdio.h>

#include<compat/deprecated.h>

int main(void)

{

/*adc initialize*/

//REFS1 n REFS0 =1 to choose reference internal voltage 2.56V

//ADLAR =1 , to shift right ADC data result

//MUX0 = 1, to choose pin PA1 as ADC input

ADMUX = (1<<REFS1)|(1<<REFS0)|(1<<ADLAR)|(1<<MUX0);

//ADEN = 1, to enable ADC

//ADPS0=1, to choose 2 divide factor prescaler for ADC clock

ADCSRA=(1<<ADEN)|(1<<ADPS0);

DDRB=0xFF; //Set PortB as output port

unsigned char DataADC;

while(1)

{

sbi(ADCSRA,6); //set ADSC for ADC start conversion

while(!(ADCSRA & (1<<ADSC))); //wait for ADC finish conversion

DataADC = ADCH; //Take ADC conversion data

PORTB = DataADC; //show data at PORTB

};

}

-end-

Summary:

Step To use ADC: Initialize – Start conversion – wait conversion – take the data – shown the data