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After having a HTC P4350 for two year, which is a very good & nice phone, it was time for some new gadget/toy to play with.
Obviously there are a lot of cool phones which you can get these days but after a recommendation of a good friend (and my man of honor) I decided to stick with HTC and go Pro with the new HTC Touch Pro2!

As you might know HTC is actually a very large player on the Pocket PC ground and therefore it runs on Windows Mobile 6.1 PRO. I like having Windows Mobile installed on mobile phones as you can quickly have it working with your Windows PC/synchronizing it  and like a Windows PC you can install third party software on it and off course.. You can tweak it!

Anyway, the specs of HTC Touch Pro 2 are actually awesome, check them here below!

• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support and HSDPA 7.2Mbps
• 3.6″ 65K-color touchscreen WVGA display (480×800 px)
• Five row full QWERTY side-sliding keyboard of brilliant ergonomics which is really handy!
• Revamped TouchFLO 3D Home screen and gesture controls
• Wi-Fi and built-in GPS receiver with A-GPS. Yep, navigation is possible with TomTom!
• Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 Mhz CPU and 288 MB DDR SDRAM (yeah, reminds me of one of my computers which I used to have in the 90’s!)
• Dedicated graphics chip (64MB RAM reserved for graphics)
• 3.15 MP auto focus camera
• Active stylus
• Touch-sensitive zoom bar (which works with pictures and even with Opera browser!)
• microSD memory expansion (I guess it could go up to 16GB, but I’ve used my old microSD card of 1 GB for time being)
• TV out
• Teeter game aboard (a very nice game which you can play by tilting the phone up, down, left and right!)
• Cool YouTube client
• Excellent video playback
• MS Office Mobile document editor
• Opera 9.5 web browser (Yes, it has Internet Explorer on it, but believe me I’m NOT going to use that!)

I just have the phone for a day and I’m having a lot of fun with it and I don’t think I’m done “playing” with it!

While surfing on the net I just came across a very funny commercial from a phone service company in Norway called 1881.
What this commercial is about ? Well..”Be sure you know the spelling before getting a tattoo or better yet, make sure your tattoo artist knows the spelling”

I just installed a very cool FireFox add-on which you might want to give it a try! This FireFox add-on is called “Locationbar²” and it basically allows you to formats and linkifies URL segments in your location bar.

At first I didn’t know what to expect but after spending 30 seconds on playing with the options, I have to say that this is a great add-on! It makes browsing even more easier, I mean take a look at the screenshot here below!

As you can see you can also add breadcrumbs to the URL segment and as I already mentioned; This is very handy to use and to navigate websites with! Give it a try, I know you’ll like it!
PS: See here below a screenshot of my preferences of Locationbar2..

Requires: FireFox
Publisher: Dao Gottwald
OS: Windows 95,98,98SE,NT,2000,XP,Vista, Mac OS X, Linux etc.
Current Version: 1.0.3
Language: English
License: Freeware
Download: Click…

It was last year when I saw Metallica live on PinkPop, yeah they did give a nice performance, and now it’s time for you to step on the stage as Metallica!
Yesterday I saw a Guitar Hero Metallica ad in “Bart Smit” paper.. Guitar Hero Metallica has been released in Europe just a couple of days ago and is now offered with the Game (duh! ), Wireless guitar and a Metallica t-shirt.

I obviously haven’t played the game (yet), but as a Metallica fan I think I would like to give it a try.. However.. me and “making” music?
Anyway, while surfing the net I saw this very funny Guitar Hero Metallica commercial which you have to see! As mentioned it’s hillarious: “means you gonna have to put on some pants, pops”! Watch it your self here below!

Are you looking for a good & free alternate software for Adobe Photoshop? If so you have to try The Gimp. The Gimp which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program is a free graphics editor which can be used to edit, resize, crop, alternate the colors used in a photo, removing unwanted image components and much more. Off course you can use The Gimp too in order to design graphics, icons an logo’s!

The Gimp’s manipulation tools can be accessed via the toolbox, menu paths, and dialog boxes. Beside this “basic” stuff, you also have access to include filters, brushes, transformation selections, masking tools and my favorite: Layers! Having that mentioned you can see that The Gimp is pretty much like Adobe Photoshop, only this one it’s free!

If this isn’t enough for you and you would like to read more about The Gimp’s features, feel free to look here…

Publisher: Gimp
Version: 2.6.6
OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, GNU/Linux (i386, PPC), Mac OS X, Sun OpenSolaris, FreeBSD
Language: English
License: Freeware
Download size: 15.31 MB
Download The Gimp: Click here…

Last Sunday was a nice day; the sun was shinning, there was this beautiful blue sky without any clouds and to top it all.. It was really hot! Jannie and me didn’t want to stay at home and so we already had decided to do something cool if the weather was great… And believe me it was really a nice weather!

Anyway, for some times we wanted to explore the Southern part of The Netherlands, Valkenburg and Vaals to be exactly. The Southern part of The Netherlands is really beautiful because of it’s landscapes and off course because of the history! Luckily for us, both cities aren’t that far from our house.

When we arrived in Valkenburg we went to the Chairlift which will take take you to the 90 meters higher! While sitting in the chairlift, you’ll get this view:

As you can see the view is pretty awesome! When you’re at the top of the “hill”, you can eat and drink at a cosy restaurant.
Beside the chairlift there’s also a toboggan slide, which is always fun to do, right? With the toboggan slides with has a length of 325 and 375 meters you can slide down the hill.

After walking around in Valkenburg, we moved to our next point; Vaals. Like Valkenburg, Vaals is also a very unique place. It borders on both Belgium and Germany. The two borders meet on the Drielandenpunt, which is also a few hundred meters from the highest point of the Netherlands (300 somewhat meter higher), the Vaalserberg.

Going to  Drielandenpunten was very easy, but going to the city was a bit harder. Why? Because almost ALL the roads were closed because of  a bicycle race! Any that couldn’t spoil our day..
After exploring the town (after a long way of looking for a way to go to the center of Vaals) having a very delicious Italian ice cream, walking to Germany.. It was “time” to head back home.

Next weekend is going to be a “long” weekend as we’re closed at the office on Monday, so we’re looking for a nice town which we can explore again.. Any ideas?

For more pictures, click here!

The Windows Registry is a database which contains information about almost everything you do on your computer; From a visit to a website to information and settings of  the hardware in your computer. The registry also contains information about drivers, other programs, user settings, etc.

So you can see that the often you use your computer, the more fuller the registry gets. I mean think about all the junk and temporary files stored on your computer, all those broken registry, which Windows forget to delete, etc. So that’s why your computer is getting slower and you notice a loss on your computer performance. However this doesn’t have to mean that you have to accept this, right? Luckily the registry can be cleaned up using a registry cleaner. One of them is: Auslogics Registry Cleaner.

Auslogics Registry Cleaner is  a free software which will clean Windows registry for you. It will analyze it by searching for broken entries, non-existent file associations, uninstallation leftovers, and other elements that can turn the Registry into a real mess.

One of the good points of Auslogics Registry Cleaner is that it’s very easy to use for everyone, no matter your technical knowledge.  When you run the program you get to choose between a quick scan and an advance one, where you get to choose which registry categories you want Auslogics to scan.

The results are displayed in a basic or detailed format. It will also show you your computers performance before the clean up and the percentage gained after the clean up, which is always good to know! Auslogics Registry Cleaner offers you a backup function too, just in case!

As mentioned above, this is just a great and simple software which is good for everyone. Make sure to  use it once in a while in order to keep your registry nice & clean!

Publisher: Auslogics
Version: 1.3.9.145
OS: Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista and even Windows 7!
Language: English
License: Freeware
Download size: 1.81 MB
Download Auslogics Registry Cleaner: Click here…

For a couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about to re-arrange and clean my sidebar as I wasn’t very happy with it. After giving it some thoughts it’s time to re-organize my sidebar a bit.

Something which has been deleted from my sidebar is the Blogroll. Well, I haven’t deleted the blogrolls, I just have created a page only for the blogrolls! So from now on you’ll find the blogroll in their own page instead of my sidebar.

So what’s going to replace the blogroll!? Well,I’ve decided to display my 15 Popular posts, which are being sorted by total views. This is a good idea to make sure that new visitors will read those as well..

Another thing which has been changes is the re-placement of “A Year Ago”. From now on you can access this from my tabbed sidebar. I figured that this was a better place to display it, right next to recent posts, popular post and post from a year ago!

So with this chanegs I’m once again very happy when it comes to my sidebar! I hope you’ll like the changes too.

Last weekend there was a small Alborz reunion at our house; my cousin Kasra and his girlfriend Carmen, from Italy, came to visit us for a weekend. It was such a long time ago since we had seen them and so we were really looking forward to see them.

From left to right: Kasra, Carmen, Jannie and me

They arrived Friday at the airport and off course we picked them up. So after we got home from the airport, drinking something and making sure that Kasra and Carmen could “recover” for a while from their long trip , Jannie and me decided to give them a tour through our favorite city Eindhoven;  As this was their first visit to The Netherlands. The day went by pretty fast and we all had a great time together.

The next day we went to the market, showed them where we’re going to get married, the party place and more. We ended the day at our house with drinking something (Yeah, Kasra and me just love Smirnoff!) and catching up.

On Sunday they saw Amsterdam and later that day we went to this 3D movie called: “My Bloody Valentine”, which was an awesome movie! I really enjoyed watching it, unfortunately Carmen didn’t like the movie that much.. (Sorry Carmen! )

Unfortunately the weekend was too short and went by extremely fast, even faster as usual, and Kasra and Carmen had to go back to Italy on Monday. Yeah, time flies when you’re having fun, right?!
Anyway, it was really nice to see them again and we really enjoyed their stay! If only weekends were a bit longer!

You can find some more pictures in the Gallery: A Small Alborz Reunion Pictures.

If you’ve followed my on Twitter then you must have noticed that I was twitting about designing a new blog called BJ-Alborz.com. Well, the blog is finally ready and can be viewed online!

So make sure you visit my new blog and leave a massage!!