If you have a modem that comes with router you might want to skip to Step 7 to set it up.
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If you do not have an existing wireless network and wish to add one, read on!
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First, I assume that you have a modem / ADSL, if you have zero idea what a modem / ADSL is, it looks something like that. Many companies do Modem, the common one’s like Motorola or Prolink.

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Secondly, I assume you got a wireless router off your IT shop. In my case, I received a brand new Linksys WRT54G2 router a few days ago.

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Thirdly, I also assume that you pay for internet bills and you have an existing internet connection with your provider
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Alright, once you fulfill the 3 requirements as above, you are good to go!

We are not going to use the documentation and CD tools provided as we are going to manually set it up ourselves!
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Lets start off learning a few names and stuff in the box, shall we.

This is a LAN (Local Area Network) Cable, this cable allow network packets or in simpler terms, allow computers and networks to link to each other.

In the box, it contains the AC Adapter.

Lastly, the router itself (Which is the mastermind of the routing connections at your home), and after that, lets get started!
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After knowing whatever inside the box, lets set it up!

1) Plug in the AC Power in the socket.

2) Pull off all relevant stickers and plug in the power. After that, switch on the Power.

3) Inside the box should provide you a LAN cable right? Plug that in.


4) Plug the other end into the source of the internet, in this case, a modem.

5) Look for a network which have the highest signal and which is unsecured and identical to your own router. You may also buy or find another LAN cable to connect your router to your computer.

6) You could get Windows 7, which I am using at the moment to help me set up, however, in my case, as I mentioned earlier, we will be using our own methods to set it up without installing additional software.

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If you are a Windows Vista / 7 user, please skip this and go direct to Step 8.
Windows XP users, please go to the Control Panel Start -> Control Panel OR Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
At the left hand corner, switch to Classic View and go to Network Connections, if you are using Wireless, click on Wireless Network Connection or the manufacturer of your Wireless card and it should show some kind of signal bar on it. However, If you are using LAN Cable, click on Local Area Connection and once you are done, right click and go to Status and click on Support followed by Details under Connection Status. After you are done, skip to step 11

8 ) For Windows 7 and Vista users, go to Control Panel by going to Start -> Control Panel than search Network and Sharing Center to get there.

9) Look for your internet connection, once you found it click on it.

10) Than click on details.

11) Here comes the confusing part, look for default gateway and take down the IP address.

12) Than use your web browser, like Internet Explorer or Firefox and enter that IP address inside it.

13) You should see a username and password screen and click here to help you with it [Replace the search line with your Router Manufacturer and Model number]. If that do not help you, look inside your box or call the support line and request for the default username and password for your router.

14) After you are inside the system, it varies from router to router, you might want to go into your settings or administration console to change your router password.

15) Go to Wireless Security and change the basic security settings. Firstly, you can change your Network Name, or known as the SSID to something else, like your own name, or anything else.

16) Go to wireless security and change to WPA Personal, which is the most secure method available for wireless protection, so you won’t be a victim for those who tap on your network to download pirated materials. If WPA Personal give problems, choose WEP ( A Legacy protection method ), but it does it job too.

17) After that, set a password and save it!

Your router may restart and if you are using a wireless network connection while setting it up, you may have to reconnect to the network and key in your new security credentials!

If you have further questions on setting up your router, Twitter me at @jeremy89632

All the best on setting up your new router!
Jeremy Goh.

1) A New iPod Nano – 5th Generation
I know, you will go like wa right?
Yes, there is a brand new iPod Nano.

Do you notice something different?

As you may know, new products will cost more right?
Wrong! In fact, they reduced the price. I will walk step by step with you and explain to you the different features in the new iPod Nano.
- Video

The most noticeable feature in the new series of iPod Nano, is this Video Camera.
The bad thing is, it cant take photos. When it took video, the resolution is 640×480 standard definition video at 30 frames per second, MP4 format and AAC Audio (For the geeks) Which is somehow decent, like a phone camera. This kind of video quality is totally not on par, if you are going to compare to a video cam. This could be only the YouTube kind of quality you are getting.
- FM Radio

Something which Creative had for 200 years is now in your iPod Nano! Yup, its radio! RADIO, a technology back in the 80s. Is coming to your NEW iPod in the 21st century today!
- VoiceOver

Ha! The new VoiceOver tech is now in your new Nano. Which basically means that your Nano is able to ‘talk’ to you and tell you what song you are listening, but as usual the voice sounds like a robot and yeah. Technology existed since the start of 2000. But good implementation though.
- Pedometer

This is something I am waiting for. This iPod will actually count how many steps you walk using a hardware called accelerometer inside your Nano. It will also calculate how many calories I burned. Good stuff! Pebble, mind buying me one?
- Genius

It will analyze what songs blends with another and such. Well, this is actually an old feature.
Alright, so thats all for the new iPod’s.
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2) iPod Classic
There is also some changes to the iPod Classic, the same price, $388, will get you a 160GB iPod, which is a good deal, as compared to the older 120GB.

3) iPod Touch
Same changed to the iPod Touch as well, cheaper price.

4) iPod Shuffle
Even lower price for the iPod Shuffle. No changes to design or memory.

5) Other Small Changes
Some small updates has also been mentioned, the new iPhone / iPod Touch 3.1 firmware is out, so do update it. iTunes 9 for both Windows and Mac has also been released.

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Fun Facts from News.com
• Apple has sold 30 million iPhones since the launch of the device.

• More than 20 million iPod Touches have been sold.

• More than 100 million iPod Nanos have been sold.

• Users have downloaded 1.8 billion apps from a catalog of more than 75,000.

• Apple has 100 million registered iTunes users.

Have fun during this recession times, as Apple cuts down prices.

Cheers
Jeremy

To update, just go over to the Help menu and click ‘Check for Updates’.

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Opera 10 : First Look
Features
- In Line Spelling Check, its long and had arrived.

- Opera Turbo

- Visual Tabs

- Ability to change tab bars.

- Opera Widgets
Your favorite games and applications, all under the Opera Engine!
- Opera Link
Carry your Bookmarks and Notes, everywhere, anywhere

Many more features like more tabs..

Opera Mail..

See the whole features list here.

Jeremy

Managed to get my hands on, onto one of the Windows Mobile 6.5 ROMS and get it to my phone.
Check it out and notice a few changes compared to Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.0 or even Windows Mobile 5.
They introduced a really nice User Interface to it and did changes to the start menu, now its a honey comb instead of the 3×3 icon start menu.
This is not the Final Build, but there is more improvements to be made in this software.

Actually, I did all these screenshots some time back. Around a week or 2 ago, so some of my blog images has changed ;D

Cheers,
Jeremy

Pictures : Copyright of Microsoft Corp

Don’t tell that to anyone okay? Non-productive time

1) Head over to Facebook’s Username Page

2) Than wait for the counter to count down, that time when I sign into Facebook that time is about 2 hours, which I didn’t take a screenshot yet.

3) At the very last second, I managed to press print screen and get you an image, which is the one below.

4) After the page refreshed, the continue button will appear.

5) After that, you will be brought to a page to register your nickname !

It will take your email’s username and start guessing from there, but usually if can’t, than the best is to provide a custom username.

6) After picking your favourite username, click check availability and they will give you a box to say whether you wanna confirm this name.

7) Than the final screen will tell you that its confirmed!

It’s so simple and fun to chop your own Facebook Username!
Where got so simple, actually. Wait until I kee-siao.
Hahaha, I kid, I kid.

Facebook Admins, don’t terminate my account after reading this.

Cheers,
Jeremy

On top of that, I can tune into Internet Videos:

Get Applications:

Catching movie trailers:


(Courtesy of Paramount Pictures)

(Courtesy of Discovery Networks)

Watching Internet Pictures:

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With Boxee you can stream your local network movies,songs and videos.
On top of that, you can stream songs from last.fm, Pandora or other music streaming services.
Overall, the experience is perfect but its abit buggy and slow since its still in Alpha.

Jeremy

SMILE!

The iPhone has created lots of buzz this year and it has won the hearts of many fashion perfectionist and such. Of course, there are some companies which will also be trying to create a photocopy of it.
So check out this $100+ A88 Phone. (Yes, it even has an AT&T and Apple Logo)

This A88 Phone features a stylus! How amazing! An extra Lithium Ion battery which the original iPhone doesn’t have, it also includes a car kit and a really small and weird dock connector! It doesn’t have iTunes and it only has 3 games! Even the touchscreen was kinda crappy and it has that often drop calls issues even on other networks other than AT&T. This phone is unlocked, and if you are really out of your mind okay, you should check it on eBay!
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The Playstation 3 make lots of money during last year because of the holiday period and the wide variety of games that it features, but who says that imitations can’t be done. It offers very exciting games such as basketball, formula 1, soccer, motorbike race, submarine, street fighter, invasion space. Really nice right?
Check out the PolyStation 3 ! How Authentic!

On a bright side, the instructions was written in really good english. This revolutionary PS3 has its own 3 inches LCD Screen!! So you dont have to hook up to a TV set while playing this! And halfway this guy is doing the review, the thing spoilt and when he eventually cracked open it, the speaker which is supposed to be glue was dropped off and wires were not arranged well and it was dangling all over the place. Well check out this cheap console!
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To all the big drummers and band lovers, check out .. the PLUG AND PLAY – GUITAR FEVER! Such nice marketing name and yet a very nice slogan ‘ The Closest’s You’ll Ever Come To Feeling Like A Real Rock Star ‘. It comes with a 16 Bit Super Arcade Graphic! It comes with 15 games licensed by Song / ATV Music Production. Furthermore, you do not need a console to run this! It comes with 5 colors and a huge metal ‘string’.

The starting theme song sound like the Nokia Polyphonic Ringtones. While navigating through menus, it comes with guitar hero sounds. It has delayed reactions and really horrible music and software to power this junk. $140 USD and it can be found on ebay.
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Ever wonder how to play a 3D shooting game WITHOUT and electronic devices, but just paper and pen? Check this out. PC By Post!

They will send you a postcard with the game which you are playing, than you just have to write your commands at the back of the postcard and send back. After 3 working days, you will received a new postcard with your applied instructions. Its so simple! Just write for eg: Turn Left and Shoot Enemy and send it back to PC By Post and 3 days later through snail mail they will shoot the enemy for you and will give you a new screen shot via postcard! Cool !
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Ever wanted a DS? Check this out and see whether it really suits you! It features a game called ‘Frog Jump!’

It has 2 black and white screens for those 3 year old kids! No backlight and color. The music is very nice, like those used in the Nokia phones 6 years ago. Check this DS out and see what you think about it by posting on the Shoutbox beside this post.
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Ever wanted a PSP? Check out the POP Station!

It has a really nice polyphonic sound. Which is exactly hopeless, A screen which is far worst than LCD’s and the backlight is powered by 2 LED’s. Which is terrible. The power switch is on top and the sound is far worst than terrible.
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On top of that, you might want to check the new VII ! It is done by this company called KenSingTon. Its pretty nice and lots of graphics on the cover which the Wii doesn’t have!

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If you do have some time to spare, check out the New Xbox Jasper Edition!

To make sure the warrenty is within a year, a banana is included inside, so when 1 year is up, the banana will rot away!
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Comments can be pinged back on ShoutBox.
Exams is in 10 days time, content will be posted quite frequently still, but not as frequent as before. But on my system, we have lots of posts and interactive pictures still to come.

Jeremy.

Jeremy

To cover, the IT Show is nice. But the management of people is not effective. They have to draw proper markers and lines on the floor, rather than to engage one or two security guards to manage.

Thanks,
Jeremy

Let me show you, if you do not know about Opera, check out Opera for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux over here or if your phone have WiFi or Wireless Internet or GPRS, you can check out Opera Mini for Java Phones. Both are totally FREE, no strings attached.
Warning : Your Mobile Provider will charge $$ for GPRS charges, unless you have a internet plan for your phone, if not use it within your means.

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1) You can go to www.operamini.com on your phone or on the computer ( Internet is required )
2) Download it and run
3) Enter www.jeremygohblog.com

4) My Blog will appear and you can use it like what you do on the computer

5) Enjoy reading !

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Very fast and simple browser, you can use Opera Mini to surf websites like Yahoo, Google, Wikipedia and so much more. Almost anything .

Thanks,
Jeremy
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