Sunday, March 28, 2010

Pelawak Terfavorit, Olga Menangis Bahagia

Bikini Pics - Presenter dan komedian Olga Syahputera terpilih sebagai Pelawak Terfavorit di ajang Panasonic Gobel Awards. Olga sangat bersyukur hingga ia menangis bahagia.

Saat namanya masuk dalam nominasi dan dibacakan oleh empat pelawak, yakni Parto, Azis Gagap, Sule dan Andre Taulani, Olga menutup telinganya karena begitu nervous. Begitu nama Olga disebutkan sebagai pemenang, Olga pun berulang kali mengucap syukur.

"Ya Allah, alhamdulillah. Terimakasih ya, Allah," kata Olga di acara Panasonic Gobel Award di Djakarta Theater, Jakarta, Jumat (26/3) malam.

Namun ketika ia naik ke atas panggung, Olga malah dikerjai Parto, Sule, Azis dan Andre. Olga sampai dibuat keki saat Parto mengatakan kesalahan dan pemenang sesungguhnya adalah Azis Gagap.

Olga spontan dibuat bingung. Namun kejadian itu justru membuat penonton di dalam studio terpingkal-pingkal.

"Olga senang banget. Alhamdulillah. Sumpah, Olga nggak menyangka. Ini semua atas dukungan teman-teman dan penggemar semuanya. Sekali lagi terimakasih," tutur Olga Bahagia.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Nokia 5230 Nuron

Watch Movie Online - The Nokia 5230 Nuron has a familiar design which resembles the Nokia 5800 Xpress Music. The handset has a refresh look due to the white-and-silver chassis. The phone has the following measures: 4.37 inches tall by 2.03 inches wide by 0.61 inch thick. The weight of the handset is 3.98 ounces. In general, it is lightweight and compact as well.

It spots a 3.2-inch resistive touch screen which supports the resolution of 640×360 pixels. The screen displays 16 million colors. As a result the display of the Nuron is bright and clear. In order to rotate the handset, you can take advantage of an integrated accelerometer as well as proximity sensor.

The Nuron is considered to be the first smartphone which is preloaded with the Ovi Store where you are able to download as well as browse free and paid apps, video, audio, games, themes, and others. It is very useful to have Ovi Maps. One can use them in case you do not have a data connection. As the app is downloaded to the device, you are able to use them even if you are offline.

The handset is able to support SMTP, IMAP, and also POP3, it can also back up Exchange by means of Mail for Exchange 2008.

The Nuron has an integrated video as well as music player that offers support for MP4, MP3, AAC, eAAC+, MPEG4-SP, WMA, WMV9, MPEG4-AVC, and other audio formats. The interface of the music player is basic.

The Nuron has a 2-megapixel camera which lacks a flash. One can take advantage of 3x zoom as well as the standard editing options, like color effects and white balance. The picture quality is mediocre.

The smartphone integrates a 1320mAh lithium ion battery which offers 7 hour of talk time and also 18 days of standby time.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Global Fighters for Life

When the fourth iteration of a German franchise you've never heard of lands on your desk unexpectedly, nine times out of five it's going to be rubbish. A cursory glance at the quite unbelievably bad cover, replete with a model-shot straight out of Playgirl, should've had this consigned straight to the grinty games' graveyard. Luckily, despite the fractured English on the back, the screenshots alone gave me pause. Lucky because this is actually a flawed gem of a game.

The premise lends itself perfectly to the real-time strategy game; you are the coordinator for all the emergency services in a particular section of the Western world. With a mix of police, ambulance and fire services, you can take the game anywhere and the twenty missions of the main campaign do just that.

Your stint in command will have you tackling incidents ranging from an accident at a monster truck jam, through terrorist attacks and drug raids to a final massive earthquake.

The game's hub though is your main city where you earn credits through taking care of the odd everyday incident. These can then be spent on new equipment, which in turn triggers one of the campaign missions. At first, these incidents are very minor, but as you progress require more and more complex mixes of emergency crew.

Basically, it's Tonka toy town mixed with Casualty and a bit of just about every disaster movie you can possibly think of. Playing through the campaign in the office I couldn't help the odd 'nee-naw' escaping my lips every time I sent my water bowser in to douse the flames. Even when things are going horribly wrong and a derailed train carriage is floating directly at the rescue boat trying to pull survivors out of the mess left behind by a broken dam, or a fire is raging out of control and blowing up parked cars and fire engines, there was always a grin on my face.

It's by no means perfect though; the game engine, while being sturdy and functional, rarely goes beyond that. The animation and pathfinding can be a bit ropey too, and I'm still trying to forget about the phoned-in, voice-acting with its constant repetition of a few stock phrases. But it's great fun, especially being above the law and engaging in a bit of offhand police brutality (sorely underutilized as a game mechanic since SWAT4) when you feel like a change of pace. I often decided to send along a couple of officers to accompany my ambulance or fire appliance simply to shoot/arrest anyone within ten feet of the incident. So there's an air of realism about it too.