I am a heavy YouTube user lately. Watching a lot of my next mobile phone HTC HD2 review. Most of the reviews are in HD mode. So is this SpeedBit Video Accelerator going to help me reduce YouTube videos loading time? Let’s try it out.

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Yeah… I have been watching lot of YouTube video clips lately. However, I don’t know how to download the videos. Hehe. Here comes the hero ~ Easy YouTube Video Downloader. It is an add-on for Firefox. You can use it to download YouTube video to FLV, 3GP and MP4 formats, in HD mode too.

Download Easy YouTube Video Downloader add-on here. Use the above video as sample. Enjoy…

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Attention to SLR camera lovers, here comes another new entry SLR camera from Canon ~ Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i / Kiss Digital X3. This is the next 2 generations from the SLR camera that I have ~ Canon EOS 400D Digital. So is this a good time to upgrade?

Canon EOS 500D / Digital Rebel T1i / Kiss Digital X3

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PC LCD monitor trend is going to 16:9 ratio? I received a call from my aunt lately. She wanted to buy a new LCD monitor and asked for my opinion. I told her to grab a 19″ LCD monitor at PC Depot. Few hours later, she called back that there were not 19″ LCD monitor available. There were 18.5″, 20″ LCD monitors. I was surprise. Therefore, I checked online. I discovered that most of the LCD monitors out there is using 16:9 ratio instead of previous 16:10 ratio. The first question comes to my mind. Is 16:9 ratio good for PC gaming?

Most of the latest LCD monitors are all in 16:9 ratio. There is the standard for high definition (HD) LCD monitor. Several 20″ and above LCD monitors will have Full HD standard ~ 1920×1080px. And their price is very attractive too. 1920×1080px resolution is good to watch 1080p Blue-Ray movie disc. How about in PC gaming? Most of the latest games do support 16:9 ratio resolutions. So gamers do not need to be worry. After all, TV console games are all in 16:9 ratio.

Let’s take Dell S2409W 24″ Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor as example. The online price for this 24″ LCD monitor is only RM699. I still remember that I bought my Samsung T220 at RM950 last year. Oh boy, the LCD monitor price really drops fast. With RM699, you can get yourself a Full HD 1920×1080 LCD monitor. Isn’t that great? Dell S2209W 21.5″ Widescreen Flat Panel Monitor is another Full HD LCD monitor and it is priced at RM529 right now. I still remember that 15″ LCD monitor cost more than RM1,000 during my university life time.

I don’t mind to have 16:9 ratio LCD monitor. How about you?

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Help… My Panasonic TX-32LX75M TV HDMI cannot work with PC. The story goes like this… I bought a HDMI cable from Carrefour last month. It was a value HDMI cable. I tried to connect my girl friend notebook BenQ Joybook S42 to the TV with this new cable. However, I failed to get a clear picture on my Panasonic TV. It does not have problem to display at 1366×768 resolution while using PC Mini D-sub 15-pin cable. I have a clear picture. However, it failed when using HDMI cable. By the way, the BenQ Joybook S42 laptop is using Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT display card. I tried different resolutions but still failed. And I don’t believe that Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT is causing the issue. Therefore, I brought my new desktop to the living room to test. I used Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 to test. But the result is same ~ blur text and not sharp at all.

Did have a faulty HDMI cable? Well, I asked my friend to test it for me. And it is working on his TV. So it is not Carrefour value HDMI cable issue…

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