by Steven Sentosa on July 9, 2009
This is my first post using WordPress Blackberry application. To be honest with you, my main reason why I rarely blog again lately is because I rarely use my actual laptop again to do my daily routine (checking email, browsing, Facebook, etc.) Now with this apps, I can blog anytime I want using my phone. It’s really convenient, isn’t it?
So far, I’m quite pleased with the apps. It ran smoothly and didn’t give me any problem yet. If you are a blackberry user and has a WP blog, either wordpress.com or self-hosted WP, you should try this apps and let me know how it goes for you.
For more information about this beta version of WordPress Blackberry Apps, go to http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/ or if you want to give it a try right a way, the download link is http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install
Enjoy it 
by Steven Sentosa on June 6, 2009
Finally, after 2 months of absent from the blogosphere, I’m back now. There are a lot of things going on in this past monts that made me so busy, that I have little or no time to blog. In the future, I’ll try to set up priorities so that I can still blog even though I’m so busy.
If you were following my blog, you’ll know that I fall in love with iPhone. The reason that I haven’t got it until now is because I’m waiting for iPhone’s new release this June. Lo and behold….I ended up with Blackberry Bold now. You might ask why in the world that you changed your mind? Well…there are several reasons:
- iPhone is more for entertainment, but I need a phone that can be used for both entertainment and business uses. First of all, iPhones lacks physical keyboard. Since I’m emailing, typing and texting a lot, physical keyboard is more comfortable to use for me. Even though iPhone has bigger screen, BB Bold has decent size screen with screen sharpness and color deep that are in par with iPhone.
- Blackberry (BB) has the true and “real-time” email and application push notification that are not yet to be found in iPhone (the next iPhone might have this push feature included) or any other phones. The reason is because iPhone doesn’t support bakground application processing, which make the program “unaware” of any new content updates.
- BB has its own BB Messenger that works even as International text message. The downside is that it has to be between BBs. BB Messenger is so robust that it can send files, pictures, and voicenotes (max 2.9 Mb) to your BB partner. It is surprisingly much faster than sending them through regular email though. It may be because they went through BB server instead of just a regular server.
- BB looks more professional for business use. I don’t know why, but BB has this business atmosphere around it. It is just different when you found out that your business partner is using BB than if he was using iPhone.
- BB is not ATT’s owned, so you can unlock it for free, and bring it overseas and use your own local cellphone carrier.
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Cons
Even though BB Bold is a great device, there are couple things that can be improved by RIM in the future:
- Memory Management. You need to do a battery pull once and a while, or using application such as “Quick Pull” to accomplish the same effect. If the memory is low, your BB will work really slow.
- Battery life. If you are using BB Bold for chat, email, browsing, and checking FB constantly, you will probably get a half day of battery life. The power management definitely needs some works. You can buy a more poweful battery though, even it might add the bulkiness of BB Bold.
Final Verdict
BB is definitely for business people. It is so easy to send email, texting, and typing using BB. However, it lacks the entertainment glamour that is in iPhone. However, BlackBerry, especially BB Bold, starts catching up in entertainment side with its nice Media Player looks and stereo speakers (the loudest and clearest cellphone speakers I have ever heard so far). So if you are a “text” person and can’t miss a single email or maybe a private message from someone special on Facebook, you should go with BlackBerry, in my case, it’s gonna be BB Bold. Why? because it has 3G and faster processor.
by Steven Sentosa on March 30, 2009
I don’t know why, but I really like sleeping. I belief that it’s one of God’s greatest blessing that we can sleep. Can you imagine not being able to sleep for several days. Would you be so miserable? not to mention also how cranky you can be on that day. This past week I found several facts about sleeping that I thought really interesting. Here are the 7 surprising facts about sleep:
- Sleep improves memory.
- Lack of sleep has immediate consequences. Our brain and memory are affected after just one night of lack of sleep. The more poor sleep you got, the more severe it’s affecting your brain function.
- Sleepy deprivation could cause catastrophes. Lack of sleep is probably the top health problem according to CNN Also, lack of sleep could lead to disaster if you are not careful.
- Countermeasure don’t help much. I’m sorry coffee lovers, but coffee doesn’t help you wake up according to Will Meek, Ph.D. Playing music in the car might help you fight sleepiness, but it won’t completely get rid of the drowsiness you got.
- Sleep people don’t know they’re impaired. Sometimes when you were sleepy, you just didn’t realize that you had poor judgment. I can be a witness to this. If I’m reading a book when I’m sleepy, it really frustrates me. Sometimes it took me 30 minutes just to read one short paragraph when I’m sleepy and drowsy. The problem was that during those 30 minutes, I didn’t even realize that what I’m doing was a total waste of time. Eventually, I realized it, and took a power nap for 10-15 minutes, then resume whatever I was doing. That power nap made a whole difference, believe me.
- Poor sleep may contribute to serious health problems. Do you know that lack of sleep could cause obesity, emotional problems, heart problem, and diabetes?
- Think about it. So how is your sleep? are you getting good sleeps lately? I heard that an average adult need 7-8 hours of sleep. I know…maybe some of you can’t afford that much of a sleep. It’s ok….the answer is to increase the quality of your sleep. Turn of the light, sleep in a quite place, have a good bed. They all can help you to have quality sleep.
Personally, I’m the one that’s guilty the most of this. Usually, I only get 4 hours of sleep every night, so I need to make some “adjustment” to my schedule so that I can get enough sleep. How about power nap? Did you ever do it? my definition of power nap is sleeping for only 10-15 minutes. It really helps me when I got a lot of things to do.
