I know about grading sport cards services like Beckett’s BSG or PSA and grading comic books. I used to collect hockey and basketball cards, then send some valuable cards for grading to increase its value and proof the card is not counterfeit. Now someone is grading old video games. Video Game Authority is now grading old games and sealing them away in a tamper-proof case that will tell  buyers the exact condition of the game they are buying. Some gaming fans might find it interesting, but I think this game authority a little overwhelming.

Source: Kotatu

Wikigiz has been launched for 6 months, total of 243 posts, 60,000+ page impressions and gave away 4 prizes (including the 4GB USB+ $20 that just won). This is way beyond my initial expectation! As a thank you to our regular website visitors, I’m giving away more prizes.

Currently, I have 30 RSS Email Subscribers, still pretty low for a 6 month old blog. For getting more people involved and to leverage the number of RSS Email Subscribers, simply enter your email address using the form below or the right hand side by June 30, 2008. Or write an article about this blog and send me the url by June 30, 2008 to be eligible for one entry - multiple entries by the same person is allowed!

Have Latest Gadget News plus Gizmo-meter Stats Delivered to your Inbox!

Here is the list of prizes which I have right now. I may add some more prizes later on:

1 person will get $50 cash (via paypal)
1 person will get a 4GB USB Drive (Sponsored by Flitech - my neighborhood computer store)
1 person will get a featured ad 125×125 on this site (1 Year term)
Good luck!

Intel has announced plans to release an anti-theft initiative for laptops by the end of the year. The rate of data hacked from stolen or misplaced laptops has been increasing and Intel has planned to release this technology to prevent your vital data from being widely misused. Read the rest of this entry »

Asus launches a new device called MS71 - it is a USB Thumb Drive and a mouse. MS71 is a wireless laser mouse with built in flash memory. The device consists of two parts: mouse transmitter and receiver (mouse itself). The two parts attaches together in a magnetic locking mechanism forming a USB drive! The other thing is that when the device is plugged into USB port, it charges built-in mouse battery. Read the rest of this entry »

I received emails that asked me how they could win from this blog. There’s no secret, I encourage you to visit the site more frequently especially when the meter reached above 90% and subscribe to my RSS. For example, this particular post depicts that the meter is 92%, you know this from your inbox or RSS reader! Some readers only check out the main page (wikigiz.com) but did not click on any subpages, links or leave a comment. They have just missed out the opportunity to trigger the Gizmo-meter!

The Gizmo-meter reacts to any actions like Google Ads, leave a comment and page views within a degree. To prevent abuse of the blog, refreshing a page many times will NOT increase your chances or deliberately making comments to multiple posts in a short time.

The quality of the prizes are directly proportional to the amount this blog earned. Since we made a record high profit of $246.28 last month, let see what’s the coming up gift. It may surprised you. Good Luck!

More explanation from the previous post.

Hey, it’s time to reveal the blog’s income for March 2008. Google Adsense income is $235.97 which is all time high since this blog launched 6 months ago. As you might know that this site incorporated Chitika advertisements because this blog surpassed the 10,000 hits milestone per month, in fact, this happened since the second month - I just didn’t implement the Chitika until last month. Total views for this site is over 58,000.

$10.31 was generated from Chitika which isn’t bad since it started in a short period of time. In conclusion, the grand total for March is $246.28

With the recent KDE 4.0.3 released, the third bugfix and maintenance release for the latest generation of the most advanced and powerful free desktop. KDE 4.0.3 is the third monthly update to KDE 4.0. KDE’s award-winning tools and applications are available in 49 languages. KDE, including all its rich libraries and neat applications, is available for free under Open Source licenses. KDE can be obtained in source and various binary formats from download.kde.org

Today I decided to ditch my Debian server and install Kubuntu 7.10. First, I obtain the Kubuntu (KDE 4.0) from http://kubuntu.org/download.php. Proceed with the installation process, takes about 20 minutes. Read the rest of this entry »

3G phones are the future, but apparently iPhone, HTC Touch and other popular cellphones are NOT 3G phones. Apple’s iPhone will be launching its 3G version in months! AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega mentioned earlier in the event that he expected all of their smart integrated devices to be 3G in the next couple months - which includes iPhone.

Dell is commemorating Blu-ray’s victory by offering a Blu-ray playback drive in its super low price, 15.4 inch laptop, the Inspiron 1525. Starting at $880, you can watch BD movies on its screen (at 720p resolution) or send the video to HDTVs via HDMI. You will be seeing more Blu-ray read (not read-write) desktops and laptops in 2008 since the format war is over - HD DVD is defeated.

Note: The Blu-ray player disc drive is fully backwards compatible, and will play as well as burn traditional DVDs and CDs.

This LG XNote P300 laptop is aimed to compete with the MacBook Air and X300 in size and weight, but knocks both of those out of the park when it comes to performance. It weighs at a mere of 1.6 kg, that is less than both the MacBook Air and the X300, and it has a 13.3-inch screen. Read the rest of this entry »