31-Eijan v1.06

Eijan’s Recommendation–Opera Browser The Best Web Browser hands down (Also a Review)

2011-04-18T02:11:00.003+08:00

I recently changed browser from Orca and Chrome to just one browser which is Opera. I was looking for a browser that has the features of Orca/Avant that I really liked and the performance of Chrome. I really liked Orca (have been using it for 4 years) because it makes my browsing experience a lot easier with its address nickname features, its online password storage and mouse gestures. But with its aging engine (Firefox 3.0), I’m starting to feel its downside with the newer sites that uses the latest CCS and HTML commands and keeps on crashing with multiple tabs streaming videos (about 10 – 15 websites at once). I decided to move all my bookmarks and passwords to chrome because of its performance with the newer sites but I was quickly turned off because of the lack of features and stupid plug-ins.

Movie Preview–Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011-04-18T02:10:00.002+08:00

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (what a long title) is a prequel to the Planet of the Apes series, The 5 original films not the 2001 Tim Burton Debacle. If you don’t know what the planet of the apes is about, it is basically chronicles the fall of mankind and the rise of some kick ass intelligent apes through the eyes of George Taylor and some protagonist apes.

Hardware Preview–Sifteo Cubes– *A Gaming Device For Adults And Children, Kids Today Are So Lucky!!

2011-04-15T07:05:00.000+08:00

One of the newest and coolest hardware that making noise right now is Sifteo’s Sifteo cubes.

Small and Compact

Web Series–Mortal Kombat:Legacy Episode 1~ Its Here , Its Here!!

2011-04-15T07:04:00.003+08:00

Here is my old post about the preview of Mortal Kombat: Legacy (It was called Rebirth before but changed to Legacy), please read it before watching this video to get an Idea. (Click this paragraph)

Here is the Video of the first Web Episode:

Manchester United 2 vs. Chelsea 1 (2nd Leg UCL)–The One Where Carlo Ancelloti is in trouble with the Roman Empire

2011-04-15T07:03:00.000+08:00

The Korean Sensation

Like the first leg, this game was thrilling from end to end. Chelsea was looking for the win as they gambled with Fernando Torres starting over the lethal Didier Drogba. The game turned exciting late when Chelsea scored an equalizer and just needed one more goal to advance to the semi final, but they were caught with their pants down as Manchester United was back in the lead aminute after.

Shakhtar 0 vs. Barcelona 1 (2nd Leg UCL)–The One Where Barcelona Was All Business

2011-04-15T07:01:00.003+08:00

I decided not to do a analysis on the first leg of this matchup because it was completely a one sided affair, and it seems hard to write an analysis that is full of praises at one team.

The second game was much closer compared to the first leg as Shakhtar pressured Barcelona’s defense. It was a gutsy performance by the Ukrainian side but alas, in the end, it was still a Barcelona victory

No one Mess with me

News- Sony and GeoHotz Have Settled

2011-04-12T21:51:00.000+08:00

One of the top stories for the last 24 hours in the world of technology is the settlement of Sony and George Hotz.

Eijan’s Recommendation–Logitech G510 Gaming keyboard (Also Review!!)

2011-04-11T21:46:00.003+08:00

* Unboxing video is here

I was looking for a new gaming keyboard for a while now, I was really disappointed with my past keyboard, the OCZ Alchemy Elixir, it had faulty software with Windows 7 and just plain bad hardware design especially its polling algorithm.

So I was researching for keyboard, there are few simple rules I follow when buying a keyboard, 1) Never buy a Razer Product (I Simply hate Razer products, their product is over expensive, the so called feature(s) can easily be found on a cheaper hardware *and works much better than Razer's, Software and Hardware are faulty and does not work well) *Don’t believe me, ask the forums, not those Razer fan boy forums, of course they will defend Razer because they are the few who bought it and had to live with their poor choice. 2) It should have tons of Macro buttons, If you haven't use macros, you are truly missing out. 3) It should have a backlight, I rarely turn the lights up on my room. 4) It should have Media Control Buttons, I don't like having to exert myself to use a mouse then point the pointer to those small media buttons just to pause or stop a movie I’m watching.

A keyboard that meets my requirements

Fun Stuff- Doing some video editing with Adobe After Effects

2011-04-11T21:12:00.000+08:00

* I was playing around with my sister’s cheap HD camera, those camera that can upload to YouTube immediately just using Wi-Fi

* My cousin and I decided to shoot some kick ass video and I decided to record some cool star wars inspired scene

*After months sitting inside my HD, and being bored, I decided to edit the video using Adobe After Effects

Here is the Unedited Video:

After 30 minutes or so editing, here is the outcome

That’s all for now

Peace Out

Player Preview–David De Gea–The Future Spanish No.1

2011-04-11T21:04:00.002+08:00

Full name: David de Gea Quintana
Date of birth : 7 November 1990 (age 20)
Place of birth: Madrid, Spain
Height: 1.92 m (6 ft 3 1⁄2 in)
Team: Athletico Madrid (Spanish La Liga)
Playing position: Goalkeeper
Playing Style: Orthodox
Player Comparison: Edwin Van Der Sar

Udinese 1 vs. As Roma 2 (Serie A)–The One Where Totti and His Signature move, ‘Er Cucchiaio’, kept the Lupi Rolling.

2011-04-11T21:00:00.000+08:00

* If you don’t know what is the Cucchiaio, Totti’s signature move, it is basically a dipping lob shot.

*here is a video for you

Match Analysis:

Il Capitano ,Francesco Totti celebrating his goal with David Pizzaro and Capitan Futuro, Danielle De Rossi

Unboxing Video–Logitech G510 Gaming Keyboard

2011-04-07T23:05:00.002+08:00

*I’m not feeling well to blog right now, so I decided to post one of my unboxing videos, I’ll definetly write a review of this product over the weekend, Enjoy

*This video was shot with just 1 take and also I haven’t slept the whole day, so i probably made a lot of mistake and said some jibberish haha,

Here is the video

Chelsea 0 vs. Manchester United 1 (UCL 1st Leg)–The One Where Angry Rooney Caused Panic at Stamford Bridge

2011-04-07T23:03:00.001+08:00

As I predicted, this match was the most competitive among all the quarter final matches. Both of these team are evenly matched from the defense to the offense, and usually a bad performance from 1 player is enough to separate both sides. And unfortunately this was the case, Bosingwa played an average game but he was caught sleeping in one moment and that led to the goal for the Red Devils. One thing that caught my eye is that the Red Devils were superior in the midfield as the ageless Ryan Giggs and Carrick pick apart the Chelsea Midfield with their slick passing and smart runs which was rewarded with the lone goal of the game, a nice lob pass to Giggs by Carrick and Giggs finding an open Rooney for the goal. And once again, Wayne Rooney proved again that (in my opinion) he is the best striker around, as he troubled the Chelsea defense with his size and strength and also his ability to find open teammates.

A Hungry Rooney is maybe, the best player in the world

Real Madrid 4 vs. Tottenham Hotspurs 0 (UCL 1st Leg)–The One Where Peter Crouch is the BIGGEST Loser

2011-04-06T20:51:00.002+08:00

This game was done after the 15th minute, as Tottenham were only able to produce 1 good chance after Peter Crouch was sent off. As expected, Real Madrid was too much for Harry Redknapp’s boys as they were toy around by the Los Blancos. The 2nd half was like seeing an amateur team against a professional team as Tottenham did nothing offensively but defend to no avail as they conceded 4 goals.

Goodbye Crouch, Goodbye Spurs

Inter 2 vs. Schalke 5 (UCL 1st Leg)- The One Where Italian Defense is Now A Myth

2011-04-06T10:11:00.003+08:00

I was in awe when I was watching this match, Schalke dominated the second half by pushing the ball on the flanks with no support from Inter’s attacking midfielders, it was left to Julio Cesar and his Defense to stop Schalke’s attack, which by the way, resulted to one of the worst defensive performance this season. Inter’s defense was unorganized, slow and was simply overpowered by the small Schalke’s offense. Raul turned back time and channeled his prime form, and Edu, the former Suwon Bluewing, was the best player in the game with 2 nice goals to his credit.

Italian defense, where!?!

News–Anonymous is Threatening Sony (video)

2011-04-06T10:08:00.000+08:00

A group of hackers is threating Sony that they will hack their website and the PlayStation store.

It seems that Anonymous is demanding that Sony would allow free distribution of information, in other words, allow piracy and jailbreaks.

This is a response by Anonymous to Sony’s action against George Hotz (legal actions), the one who first cracked the internal gates of the PS3.

Eijan's Recommendation–Shogun 2–Do you have what it takes to be Shogun? (Also Review!)

2011-04-04T22:26:00.001+08:00

* Sorry for the delay again for Eijan’s Recommendation article, there was no internet the whole weekend because of ongoing construction with the telephone lines along the highway

*I decided to do a review and Recommendation at the same time

Minimum Specs (Required for playing Total War: Shogun 2):

2 GHz Intel Dual Core processor / 2.6 GHz Intel Single Core processor , or AMD equivalent (with SSE2)
1GB RAM (XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows7)
256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card (shader model 3)
1024×768 minimum screen resolution
20GB free hard disk space

Player Preview–Neven Subotic–A true rock at the back

2011-04-04T22:25:00.001+08:00

*sorry for the late post again, There were no Internet the whole weekend at my place, so I wasn’t able to watch any Serie A matches and I will not be able to create an analysis of the Milan Derby, but fear not, champion’s league is around the corner, I’ll try my best again to watch and analyze it and hopes that the internet doesn’t fuck with me

Full name: Neven Subotić

Date of birth : 10 December 1988 (age 22)

Place of birth: Banja Luka, SFR Yugoslavia

Height: 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)

Team: Borussia Dortmund (Bundesliga)

Playing position: Centre back

Playing Style: Aerial Threat/Tactician

Game Preview–Battlefield 3 ~ I think Activision needs to step up their game

2011-04-02T02:39:00.000+08:00

* I decided to make the Weekly Eijan Recommendation article, a weekend thing because I always seem to be busy every friday night. I think Sunday morning or afternoon would be a perfect time to post it, so stay Tune

News–Max Payne 3–Pushed Back again, Its Duke Nukem all over again

2011-04-02T02:37:00.000+08:00

Max Payne is Old and Bald, but still a Bad Ass

Funny News–Starcraft 2’s current state with a song

2011-04-02T02:35:00.002+08:00

One of the top happenings in Starcraft 2 in online and tournaments are the domination of the Protoss race. Those damn High Templars and their feedbacks are destroying both Terran and Zergs. The Protoss race also one of the most powerful combo on clashes with Vortex and Psi-Storm

Player Preview–Welliton–Call the authorities, a Poacher is on the loose!!

2011-03-29T01:33:00.002+08:00

Full name: Welliton Soares de Morais

Date of birth :October 22, 1986 (age 24)

Place of birth: Conceição do Araguaia, Brazil

Height: 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Team: Spartak Moscow (Russian League)

Playing position: Striker

Playing Style: Poacher

Burst of Speed

Web Series Preview–Mortal Kombat: Rebirth ~ oh hell yeah!!

2011-03-29T01:30:00.001+08:00

One of the most anticipitated web series out there is the Kevin Tancharoen's Mortal Kombat: Rebirth. It is basically about Mortal Kombat the game, but the movie is more serious and more of a reboot of the franchise from the 2 disaster movie that gave Mortal Kombat a bad name and also movies based on Videogames.

Eijan’s Recommendation–Dexter

2011-03-27T23:32:00.002+08:00

*Sorry I missed posting last Friday’s article because I had some important priorities to do.

On this week of Eijan’s Recommendation, I will discuss one of my favorite TV series of all time and why you should watch it.

Software Review- Firefox 4–Mozilla’s new toy

2011-03-25T01:44:00.004+08:00

One thing I’m a fanatic about are browsers, there are around 6 browsers or more installed on my computer and all of them have their own features, but my primary browser of choice are Avant’s Orca browser and Google Chrome, will Firefox 4 be included on my list? let see

It took me 3 days to fully test and play around with Firefox 4, and Mozilla’s new browser seems to have a lot of hits and also miss.

Movie Preview–Captain America: The First Avenger–The Trailer was just released today

2011-03-25T01:43:00.003+08:00

The Captain America Trailer was just released courtesy of E!

Here you go:

That’s all for now

Peace Out!!

News–Some Superhero Movie Tidbits

2011-03-22T00:22:00.000+08:00

It’s the start of another week, and to start this week,its time for some movie news

Player Preview– Alexis “El Niño Maravilla” Sanchez–The Next Superstar

2011-03-22T00:21:00.000+08:00

* I like to apologize for the late post, I Had some things to do yesterday and wasn't able to blog, anyway back to the post

The Next Big Thing

News–Firefox 4 is coming out next week

2011-03-19T21:49:00.000+08:00

If you haven’t heard or haven’t tested the Beta releases and RC, well this might be a surprise for you but the Firefox 4 is coming out next week, March 22,2011

Movie Review–Season of the Witch–A Nicolas Cage

2011-03-19T21:47:00.003+08:00

“A Nicolas Cage is now synonymous to a fucking bad movie” -Eijan

For my first Movie Review after a long time, I decided to watch in DVD (I was lucky I didn’t get the Blu-ray and wasted money) Season of the Witch. I have been a fan of Nic Cage since his early career especially after faceoff, the greatest action movie of all time!!. I was expecting this movie to be great as it was based on medieval times, I can’t remember a movie that didn’t do well at the box office which used Medieval timers as their setting. Medieval times is synonymous to War,sword fighting. blood and arrogant kings. Well, this movie had it all, War, some sword fighting, an arrogant king and even witches and magic. With all that elements, this movie should be a sure thing at least reach a popcorn potential movie, right?! Wrong!!

Uefa Champion’s League Quarter Final draws and Predictions

2011-03-19T17:57:00.001+08:00

The Champion's League quarter-finals draws are here!!

Eijan’s Recommendation (TV)–Breakout Kings

2011-03-18T23:37:00.002+08:00

*The first article of my new segment every friday, “Eijan’s Recommendation”. As I recommend all the stuffs I like and hopefully you will like it as well.

From the creators of Prison Break, Breakout Kings is about a squad of US Marshals who tries to catch prisoners who have escaped from Prison with the help of some ‘specia’” prisoners. These ‘special’ prisoners are unique and have certain special skills set that can help the US Marshals in their investigation. For the US Marshals to convince these ‘special’ prisoners they had to make a deal. The deal goes,if they agree to help, their sentences will be reduced and they will be transferred to a minimum-security facility. However, if any of them should try to escape, they will all be returned to their original prisons and their sentences will be doubled.

News–Addicted to Angry Birds?! Mike Tyson has the remedy for you!!

2011-03-18T23:36:00.001+08:00

Manchester City 1 vs. Dynamo Kyiv 0 (2nd Leg Europa League)–The One Where Balotelli Was Just a Big Mistake

2011-03-18T14:20:00.001+08:00

Manchester City is out of the competition with a disappointing score of 1-2 on aggregate. Manchester City was much better compared to their first leg showing, and they created a lot of great chances but unfortunately they missed majority of it. Even though Dynamo lost this game, the boys from Kiev was a factor in this game, as they caused problems for City’s defense but was stopped by an inspiration performance by England’s no.1, Joe Hart.

A Night to Forget for Mario Balotelli