Bumping up the memory to 2gb and adding the GT240 video card made a great improvement on my computer. I can run more applications simultaneously, my wife can play CityVille flawlessly, I was able to run Left 4 Dead (first installment, have to grab Left 4 Dead 2), faster user experience. See the windows experience index.

Old Windows Experience Index (subscore: 2.3)

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New Windows Experience Index (subscore: 5.5)

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Here is the info for the graphics card

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Want this video card? You can buy this from Amazon, just click on the image below.

Another Upgrade – my PageRank is back to 2!

I recently posted here about how my Pagerank went down to 1 when Google applied their update on their system. Then, I was told by netguides through the comments that my PR was back to 2! I am not expecting it to be back to 2 that fast. Did google just made a mistake giving me a lower grade or I just got that “lukcy” that I deserve to have a PR2? In any case, I’m glad with the PR2! I’m almost finished with my home chores (wow, it’s to hard to move house) and can have more time now on my blogging schedule.

Soli Deo Gloria!

I got a new phone. It is a Samsung SGH E250.

It is a low priced mobile phone that have almost everything I need. A mobile phone with GPRS/EDGE (don’t need 3G/HSDPA yet), FM radio, MP3 Player, VGA camera (yeah, VGA, I am planning to buy a digicam soon), video recording, voice recording/memo, expandable memory (up to 2gb).

Actually, I am not planning to buy a phone. I have (or had) a Nokia 1112i phone. My father in law also have the same phone. But he lost his phone when he went to Bagio City for a seminar. He is hesitant in buying a new phone since he don’t want to “study” the new phone. So, my wife sold my phone to him. And I have to buy a new phone.

I was looking at three phones, this one, a Nokia and a Sony Erickson. which has (almost) the same specifications. I chose (actually, my wife did) this one because of expandable memory and MP3 Player.

There are things that I don’t like (but it is not a problem though) with this phone is, you can’t set the extended memory (microSD) as the default memory for the phone to save captured photos or videos. So, you have to copy those pictures to the memory card. It is a bit of a hassle. But I’m not using the phone as a digital camera. Well this is not specific to this phone because all Samsung phones can’t use extended memory as default memory. Another thins is, the user manual is not elaborate enough for a not that easy to understand menus and submenus.

Overall, I like the phone. I only had it for a day, and I hope I won’t experience something that would make me call their customer service and rant about it… hehe…

This phone was released last year (but it is not yet “phased out”, but due to my limited budget, I bought it.