Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc vs Apple iPhone 4

Hi!I would like to show some comparison on Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Apple iphone 4..

The Arc is the most impressive Sony Ericsson device yet, but how does it fare against the current smartphone favourite, the Apple iPhone 4?
We take a look at the specs.
 

Look and feel

There's no doubt about it: the Apple iPhone is one of the best looking devices to date. It's simple, seamless and keeps buttons and obstructions to a minimum.
At 9.3mm thick, it was also one of the thinnest devices to launch in June last year.
The whole device is covered in an anti-scratch, anti grease coating (although this doesn't stop fingerprints showing up), and in either black or white it looks sleek.
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is the thinnest smartphone to day, just about beating the LG Optimus Black at 8.7mm at its thinnest point.
The Xperia Arc is, as you'd expect from the name, curved on the backside. It curves in and as such, sits perfectly in the hand. The Xperia Arc features a scratch resistant surface too, but we don't like the design as much at the iPhone's.
Winner: Apple iPhone

Screen

The Sony Ericsson Arc and Apple iPhone both feature stunning, high resolution touchscreens. The iPhone features Apple's Retina display, with a resolution of 640x940 pixels.
It's pretty seamless, but falls short in size when compared to the 4.2-inch Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc. The iPhone 4's screen isn't small at 3.5-inches, but it feels a lot smaller in comparison to Sony Ericsson's flagship model.
The Sony Ericsson also features Sony's Mobile Bravia technology that really does improve the colour, clarity and sharpness of movies and other content played on the screen. You can see a comparison in our hands on video.
Winner: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Processor

The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc and Apple iPhone both feature a 1GHz processor. Sony Ericsson has opted for the same Qualcomm Snapdragon as seen in other high-end devices including the HTC Desire, while Apple has implanted its A4 processor, essentially the same as that in the Samsung Galaxy S.
Both devices have 512MB RAM and are pretty speedy in comparison to their predecessors.
However, it's hard to judge how well they both perform when multiple apps are open, because the iPhone 4 doesn't support full multitasking.
For day to day usage, both are zippy, so it's a draw here.
Winner: Draw

Camera

The iPhone 4 showed real progress in the camera department for Apple, with 5-megapixel resolution, a flash and touch to focus. Apple then introduced HDR and photos really did improve. A top effort.
However, Sony Ericsson has used another of Sony's technologies in the Xperia Arc's architecture. Exmor R dramatically improves photos taken in low-light conditions. We saw examples of the Sony Ericsson's results against another smartphone and were very impressed, as the camera seemed to make details appear as if from nowhere.
If we're talking numbers, the Xperia Arc wins there too sporting an 8-megapixel snapper.
Winner: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

OS

The Apple iPhone 4 runs on the latest version of Apple's iOS software and although it still lacks quite a lot in comparison to other smartphones such as full multitasking, live widgets and Flash support, it's still a very easy to use and pretty seamless interface, just maybe needs a little updating now to fit in with the other platforms.
The Sony Ericsson Arc runs on Android 2.3 from the box, although we've been assured it'll be updateable to future versions on Android, including, surprisingly, Android 3.0, AKA Honeycomb. The one bonus of Android updates is that they can happen over the air (OTA) unlike the iPhone that has to be plugged in for updating.
Android is a much more open, flexible operating system and although the iPhone offers a lot for anyone who wants something simple to use, Android offers that little bit more.
Winner: Sony Ericsson Arc

Applications

The iPhone's App Store is leaps in front of Android, although Android offers many more free apps.
Applications are shown just for your device too, so you can be sure they'll all be compatible for the device you're using. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case for the iPhone. Older apps won't work, so you may find you've downloaded an incompatible application only after paying for it.
The Sony Ericsson Arc also (as mentioned earlier) supports live apps on homescreens, whether that's a Twitter stream, FaceBook status updates or your favourite RSS stream. This is a massive advantage for Android and one of the reasons we're fans.
Winner: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

Storage

When you're playing with storage, numbers are key, and the iPhone boasts an impressive number. It's available in either 16GB or 32GB versions, while the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is only available with minimal internal storage.
However, the Xperia Arc does feature a microSD card slot, allowing you to add up to 32GB storage. It ships with 8GB which isn't the end of the world, but the iPhone will still allow you to load on a massive music collection straight from the box.
Winner: iPhone 4

Verdict

Sony Ericsson has brought out the boxing gloves to try and defeat the mighty iPhone 4 and in our opinion, has won.
The Sony touches, including Mobile Bravia and Exmor R are certainly working to strengthen the Sony Ericsson brand and we like it a lot.
Winner: Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc

I am......

I am the orphan of Gaza. I am the deformed of Iraq. I am the violated of Afghanistan. I am the bombarded of Pakistan. I am the martyr of Uzbekistan. I am the catalyst of Tunisia. I am the hope of Egypt. I am the courage of Syria. I am the determination of Yemen. I am the martyr of Libya. I am the freedom of Palestine. I am the hunger striken child of Somaila!..Does anyone pray for me while celebrating Ramadan??

Let's remember them in our dua'a..

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Hye,this is the first time I giving out a post in my own class blog.What I have prepared for all of you is just something simple but yet still interesting by my own opinion..Enjoy :)

10 amazing facts about dreams!!

10. Blind People Dream

People who become blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound, smell, touch and emotion. It is hard for a seeing person to imagine, but the body’s need for sleep is so strong that it is able to handle virtually all physical situations to make it happen.

9. You Forget 90% of your Dreams

Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream if forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone. The famous poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, woke one morning having had a fantastic dream (likely opium induced) – he put pen to paper and began to describe his “vision in a dream” in what has become one of English’s most famous poems: Kubla Khan. Part way through (54 lines in fact) he was interrupted by a “Person from Porlock“. Coleridge returned to his poem but could not remember the rest of his dream. The poem was never completed.

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
[...]

Curiously, Robert Louis Stevenson came up with the story of Doctor Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde whilst he was dreaming. Wikipedia has more on that here. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was also the brainchild of a dream.

8. Everybody Dreams

Every human being dreams (except in cases of extreme psychological disorder) but men and women have different dreams and different physical reactions. Men tend to dream more about other men, while women tend to dream equally about men and women. In addition, both men and women experience sexually related physical reactions to their dreams regardless of whether the dream is sexual in nature; males experience erections and females experience increased vaginal blood flow.

7. Dreams Prevent Psychosis

In a recent sleep study, students who were awakened at the beginning of each dream, but still allowed their 8 hours of sleep, all experienced difficulty in concentration, irritability, hallucinations, and signs of psychosis after only 3 days. When finally allowed their REM sleep the student’s brains made up for lost time by greatly increasing the percentage of sleep spent in the REM stage. [Source]

6. We Only Dream of What We Know

Our dreams are frequently full of strangers who play out certain parts – did you know that your mind is not inventing those faces – they are real faces of real people that you have seen during your life but may not know or remember? The evil killer in your latest dream may be the guy who pumped petrol in to your Dad’s car when you were just a little kid. We have all seen hundreds of thousands of faces through our lives, so we have an endless supply of characters for our brain to utilize during our dreams.

5. Not Everyone Dreams in Color

A full 12% of sighted people dream exclusively in black and white. The remaining number dream in full color. People also tend to have common themes in dreams, which are situations relating to school, being chased, running slowly/in place, sexual experiences, falling, arriving too late, a person now alive being dead, teeth falling out, flying, failing an examination, or a car accident. It is unknown whether the impact of a dream relating to violence or death is more emotionally charged for a person who dreams in color than one who dreams in black and white. [Source]

4. Dreams are not about what they are about

If you dream about some particular subject it is not often that the dream is about that. Dreams speak in a deeply symbolic language. The unconscious mind tries to compare your dream to something else, which is similar. Its like writing a poem and saying that a group of ants were like machines that never stop. But you would never compare something to itself, for example: “That beautiful sunset was like a beautiful sunset”. So whatever symbol your dream picks on it is most unlikely to be a symbol for itself.

3. Quitters have more vivid dreams

People who have smoked cigarettes for a long time who stop, have reported much more vivid dreams than they would normally experience. Additionally, according to the Journal of Abnormal Psychology: “Among 293 smokers abstinent for between 1 and 4 weeks, 33% reported having at least 1 dream about smoking. In most dreams, subjects caught themselves smoking and felt strong negative emotions, such as panic and guilt. Dreams about smoking were the result of tobacco withdrawal, as 97% of subjects did not have them while smoking, and their occurrence was significantly related to the duration of abstinence. They were rated as more vivid than the usual dreams and were as common as most major tobacco withdrawal symptoms.” [Source]

2. External Stimuli Invade our Dreams

This is called Dream Incorporation and it is the experience that most of us have had where a sound from reality is heard in our dream and incorporated in some way. A similar (though less external) example would be when you are physically thirsty and your mind incorporates that feeling in to your dream. My own experience of this includes repeatedly drinking a large glass of water in the dream which satisfies me, only to find the thirst returning shortly after – this thirst… drink… thirst… loop often recurs until I wake up and have a real drink. The famous painting above (Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee around a Pomegranate a Second Before Awakening) by Salvador Dali, depicts this concept.

1. You are paralyzed while you sleep

Believe it or not, your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams. “Glands begin to secrete a hormone that helps induce sleep and neurons send signals to the spinal cord which cause the body to relax and later become essentially paralyzed.”

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my way to learn English without opening the books

Different people have different way to learn English but my favorite one is watching movie and comedy series. I bet my lecturer will disagree with my way but never mind. Moving on, I love to watch movies that can make me laugh and have language easy to understand not like Irish accent ( i can not understand Irish). Examples of the movies that I love to watch are Grown Ups, The Hangover, Paul and many more. For the comedy series, I love to watch How i Met Your Mother, The Family Guys and maybe a bit of 'Two and A Half Men'.  For me, it is fun to watch something that can make you laugh and learn English at the same time. Other reason is watching movies and comedy series can fix my pronunciation on words. So, the bottom line is watching movies could be a good way to learn English in a long period class ( I'm just saying). That all that I can post for now.

Happy Fasting.

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Shafeeq

Crysis 2

Crysis 2 bears the weight of heavy expectations on its shoulders. PC gamers want a new system-crushing game to show off their hardware, and console players were promised the "best-looking game ever." In the wake of Modern Warfare's ascension, Crysis fans worried that the series' expansion to consoles would lead to a narrow, dumbed-down experience.

Thankfully, Crysis 2 sidesteps the excessive simplification of recent shooters with Nanosuited grace. It mixes destruction with beauty, and manages to deliver a more focused experience than its predecessor while retaining the building blocks of what made the original Crysis unique. Crysis 2 is the kind of game that speaks in superlatives -- and even when it stumbles, it's quick to recover, always pushing forward to another amazing moment.

Set in a 2024 that seems more like the day after tomorrow, Crysis 2 depicts New York City, under assault from all directions. A bizarre virus is devouring entire boroughs; the city is under uneasy martial law, brought about by a strained partnership between the military and private security conglomerate Crynet. Then the alien invasion begins, and things fall apart. As a marine named Alcatraz (Callsign? Codename? Rude parents? Crysis 2 never says), you arrive amidst devastation and chaos, sporting Crysis' trademark Nanosuit -- a semi-living suit of combat armor with advanced AI.

The Nanosuit is the lens through which you view Crysis 2, and it adds a great sense of cohesiveness to the game. Once you hit the Start button, everything you see and do -- save for load screens -- occurs in first-person view. Instead of wading through weapon- and power-selection menus, you're presented with in medias res overlays and subtle visual effects, which indicate the Nanosuit's status. The Nanosuit has three modes: Stealth imparts near-invisibility; strength grants more powerful melee attacks, greatly increased movement speed, and jump height; and armor makes you something of a walking tank. Each power drains your suit's energy to varying degrees -- and Crysis 2's foundation lies in juggling these powers, finding new ways to combine them, and using them in unexpected ways.

It's great, then, that Crytek presents such a varied playground in its torn and broken New York City. Crysis 2 shines most when you push the Nanosuit to the limits of what you think it can do, and the best moments come from points where you stop and ask "did I really just pull that off?" Crysis 2 is a collection of sandboxes, some enormous in size, all laid out to provide multiple options for tackling your objectives. Your suit's AI identifies strategic points of interest if you choose, allowing you to mark tactical points or elements, like weapon caches and enemy locations. After that, it's up to you: Will you crank up your armor, tear a mounted machine gun off its hinges, and walk through the front door? Or will you sneak in to flank an enemy position, silently murdering foe after foe

Crysis 2's enemy AI is smart, yet believable. Sure, you can set enemies up for ambushes, but carelessness often provokes massive coordinated responses that require quick thinking to deal with. Combat usually spirals out from the initial encounter randomly, and most fights unfold differently each time you play them. Thank Crysis 2's environments, which aren't just wide, but also tall -- you can always find a way up and over, a way to come crashing down. When you fight Crynet's paramilitary forces, the ability to strike from on high and disorient your opponents is empowering and predatory. During encounters with the alien Ceph, the balance shifts; your attention isn't just on where you can go, it's where your more mobile foes can cut you off and ambush you. While you're the cliched one-man army, the tools at your disposal are primed to enable clever play more than brute force. The free-wheeling weapon customization from the original Crysis has returned, which allowed you to modify weapons with scopes, silencers, undercarriage attachments and such, and it's been joined by Nanosuit upgrades. The suit upgrade menu is actually your hand - twitching each finger selects a different subset of upgrades, and only one of each subset can be active at once.

This adds to Crysis 2's replayability, since the abilities you earn and the weapon modifications you find are available in all previously completed chapters, on any difficulty level. It's a sort of new game plus situation, without explicitly naming it as such. This makes up for Crysis 2's smaller playground.

You won't find quite as much space for random wandering this time out. New York isn't Lingshan Island, and the sense of urgency and forward momentum is that much greater in Crysis 2. But that shift leads to a game that feels more focused than the original, while avoiding some of Crysis: Warhead's more bizarrely funneled sections. Crysis 2's occasional narrow, tunneled areas are almost never combat scenarios; instead, they feel like deliberate moments of respite, to let you take in the catastrophe around you, and to build on the story.

Despite those complaints, Crysis 2 succeeds. It’s a beautiful, engrossing experience that avoids the anemic, scripted playbook made law by the 500 pound shooter gorilla. It plays well, encourages creative problem-solving, and confidently delivers a series of escalating and changing encounters and scenarios that will push you to think in a way few shooters have in an era of increasingly funneled experiences. While Crysis 2 loses its footing during a few odd moments, Crytek more than delivers on the promise of their previous games.

Puss In Boots.......

"Meow,Meow,Meow," is a very familiar voice that is of course coming from a cat..For the record, I also owned 2 cats at the moment (previously were six of them...) , namely Babtam and also Picthie. Both of them are males and they're also brothers..To owned these 2 cats as their master is a proud achievement for me because it teaches me on how to be responsible, compassion and fair person..However, you guys might think that I might reared an exotic species (Maine Coon, Siamese and etc.) or buy these cats from a pet store..Well, you are wrong then. They are just some stray cats that never had been loved or eat nutrition cat food. It all started when one Sunday dawn came out, two little kittens and one is black with stripes( which is Babtam) and another one is in white with pitch colour (that is why his name is Pitchie) came out from the darkness toward to my house main door..With sympathy and kindness, i decided to make an audacity move, by showing these 2 newcomers to my family and thankfully they accepted my proposal..fuh.

However, have you guys ever bear in mind that cats are quite the same as a human? This is a true fact actually, cats have been associated with humans for at least 9,500 years! During those periods, humans had recognized that cats did shared several issues namely, to be loved, loyal and compassion. Despite all of that cats also are known for their soft feline and master in huntings (well sort of except for housecats and yeup my cats too...they are just so lazy with their heavy oversize buttocks...)

Back to the topic, by having Babtam and Pitchie they always shines my day every time i go back home in Kedah..They will welcome me with their various funny actions as a symbol of they are happy and glad to see me again..they will roll on my feet and come up with very cute face begging for food (despite being feed by my parents almost every 3-4 hours) but at the end of the day, they just cheer you up after went through a tedious day.

In a nut shell, cats is one of the best pets that can accompany you and plus they can cheer your day up (although they can be irritating sometimes..) simply because it makes you a caring, loving, responsible and the list goes on.. :)

Cheers...


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