It’s glad to have a beautiful and cosy house. And also, a fully furnished house. From a couch and a television, into bed and the cupboard. Do not forget some lamps for lighting.

If you are coffee lover, I think you have to consider a  Coffee Makers in your home. You can have some cup of coffee easily with simplicity. Toaster Ovens are a good choice if you want to toast some slices of bread your your breakfast before you go to your office.

If you prefer to dine in your own home and cook it yourself, you should considering some Kitchen and Dining furnitures. From Pots and pans to choices of Steamers are available to “accompany” you while you cooking.

Ah! Wine Glasses are not a bad idea if you want to have a drink in your own place. Or, just use it for some juices of smoothies that you have just made with your Blenders.

Olympus’s E-PL2 only surfaced on the public radar just last month, and already reviews are rolling in indicating The Schwartz is quite strong with this latest Micro Four Thirds entrant. Interestingly enough, both Photography Blog and Popular Mechanics saw the improved MSC 14 to 42mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens as the most important change to the new rig. That’s because it’s been retooled to be lighter, slimmer, and shorter, adding to the overall compact feel of the camera. A new internal focus is also apparently much faster and nearly silent — making it more appealing for video shooting. Outside of the lens changes, both saw the camera’s new 3-inch, 460,000-dot LCD, faster max shutter speeds, and greater ISO sensitivity as welcomed additions to the solid foundations laid by the E-PL1, resulting in a highly recommended rating from PB. Reviewers at Popular Mechanics also futzed around with the new Bluetooth-enabled photo sharing PENPal accessory and found it great for transferring photos to a phone — but lamented how it blocked the camera’s hot shoe in the process. To dive into all the juicy review details for yourself hit up the source links below.

It was a dark day when Pioneer announced its mighty Kuro HDTVs would be no more, but the Pioneer Elite brand still has significant cachet and will return in 2011 on new high end TVs. The bad news? They will be LCDs, not plasmas, manufactured by its partner Sharp, a not entirely surprising move since this was actually the original plan for the Kuro brand back in 2008. Apparently both see potential as Sharp will gain access to higher-end AV salesrooms and integrators for its products, while Pioneer will have TVs to match its continuing Pioneer Elite Blu-ray player and receiver lines. Despite an impressive local dimming demo at CES we’re still not sure Sharp can create enough new pixels to replace what we once had, but we should find out for sure when the new models arrive the end of the year.

It’s not just the iPhone 4 that’s going the way of CDMA. Verizon CFO Francis Shammo has told Bloomberg that the iPad will also be getting similar treatment. Although light on details like price (which we can guess) or release date (which we have no idea, really), Shammo did explicitly say a version that connects directly to Verizon’s network is in the pipeline. We assume he meant the current iPad, which the carrier currently sells as WiFi-only with a MiFi bundle, but hey, anything’s possible.

Do you bring and listen to your iPod when running? I love running, and the Nike+ system make it great, and fun. I just want to share some tips for running with the iPod.

Never bring harddisk when running. No, I’m not kidding. Some people do not know if they bring harddisk on their pocket when running. I’m talking about the harddisk inside the iPod. Some iPods contain the mini harddisk. The original iPod (including iPod Photo and iPod Video), iPod Classic, and iPod mini are using harddisk (microdrive in case of iPod mini) instead of silicon chip or flash disk. Harddisks are sensitive to shock. Even you can carry the iPod safely when you go, but running gives more shock to the harddisk.

Listen to the ambient sound. Don’t fully concentrate to the music from the iPod. You need to listen to the sounds around you. You still have to listen to car’s horn when you running on the road. There was a lot of people died on the street due to iPod. You can plug the earphone just in one ear, so the another ear can hear the ambient sounds. Avoid the isolating earphones such as in-ear type when you running. This can isolate the sounds around you.

Use the remote. Touch screens are great, but it is difficult to control your iPod Touch, iPod nano touch, or iPhone without looking at the screen. You can decide for earphone with volume and remote control, to keep your concentration. So you can control your music just with the touch of your hand, without have to look at the screen.

Use armband. Armband are invented to bring your iPod in your workout. And it is better than putting your iPod in your “unsecured” pocket. It also improves the GPS reception quality because your device is exposed. And your Nike+ GPS or miCoach tracking will be more accurate.

Watch out the cable! the cable of your earphone. Keep it safe and make sure it will not stuck at the other things or other people.

Disable Shake to Shuffle. This is an amazing application of accelerometer on iPods. But, even it won’t work when you switch the “hold” on, believe me, you will feel more comfort when you disable Shake to Shuffle feature. Because you will always “shake” your iPod when you running.

— Adham Somantrie.

PS: I originally posted this article for MakeMac in Bahasa Indonesia: Berlari dengan iPod; and at my personal blog in English: Running with iPod.

Nokia Indonesia baru-baru ini meluncurkan tiga ponsel seri terbarunya, yaitu Nokia E5, Nokia X5, dan Nokia C3. Tentunya ketiga ponsel ini memiliki karakteristik uniknya masing-masing yang ditujukan untuk tidak segmen yang berbeda pula. Nokia E5, sesuai dengan target seri E, yakni para eksekutif yang super sibuk. Sementara Nokia X5 dari lini XpressMusic, tentu saja untuk kalangan pecinta musik. Dan Nokia C3 untuk pengguna yang selalu aktif dan mutakhir di jejaring sosial dan media sosial.

Untuk itu, Nokia memberi tiga karakter yang mewakili ketiga segmen itu. Dan mari perkenalkan: Daisy, Kareem, dan Anton!

Daisy adalah seorang pecinta musik. Tak heran jika earphone acapkali menempel di telinganya. Tentunya iringan musik mengalir dari jajaran lini Nokia XpressMusic seperti Nokia X3, Nokia X5, ataupun Nokia X2. XpressMusic bukanlah hal baru, Nokia sudah mengembangkannya sejak lama. Tentu saja, fitur-fiturnya semakin memenuhi kebutuhan dan memuaskan para penggemar musik.

Kareem si super sibuk. Selaku profesional muda di era internet, tentu saja dia tak bisa lepas dari surat elektronik. Di jaman yang dinamis ini, internet pada ponsel bukanlah hal yang baru, apalagi untuk mendukung pekerjaan. Komunikasi pada ponsel tidak lagi sebatas komunikasi tradisional, email sudah awam, chat juga sudah umum dilakukan dari ponsel. Nokia E5 dengan papan ketik QWERTY tentu saja akan memanjakan para “Kareem” dalam mengetik email ataupun sekedar chatting.

Sementara Anton yang aktif, tidak bisa lepas dari Nokia C3 yang memanjakannya dalam bersosialisasi di internet. Sekedar update status facebook atau berkomunikasi dengan twitter dapat dilakukan dengan mudah, dan fun! Tak heran jika ia selalu eksis dan dijuluki eksis abis!

Nokia pun mencari 3 orang yang cocok untuk mewakili ketiga karakter tersebut dengan Nokia Funaholic Icon Search yang dilakukan pada 22 November hingga 12 Desember 2010 di halaman situs Nokia Funaholic. Dan telah dipilih 9 finalis Nokia Funaholic Icon Search yang akan dipilih melalui voting mulai 13 Desember 2010 di situs tersebut.

Jangan lupa untuk memberikan vote pada finalis Nokia Funaholic Icon Search favorit Anda karena setiap pemberi vote akan berkesempatan untuk mendapatkan hadiah dari Nokia Indonesia. Hadiahnya adalah ketiga ponsel baru Nokia tersebut – Nokia E5, Nokia C3, dan Nokia X5 – untuk tiga pemilih yang beruntung.

Pengumuman pemenang Nokia Funaholic Icon Search akan dipublikasikan pada Januari 2011.

Jika masih ingin tahu lebih informasi seputar Nokia Funaholic Icon Search, langsung saja klik Nokia Funaholic – terus dukung finalis favorit Anda, dan menangkan hadiahnya!

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