I’ve got a new monitor! It’s widescreen. I chose a widescreen monitor because I feel it increases productivity for me. I was really excited about it when I brought it home yesterday. I just tore the plastic like a little kid and plug the monitor in. It works great!
(My new BenQ widescreen LCD monitor. Can you guess what are the things that I own?)
Would you be able to guess what are the brand of the things in this picture? Try guessing the following:
* What’s the two devices sitting atop my CPU?
* What’s the brand of my mouse?
* What programs am I running?
* The brands of my CD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD-RW drives. You’re an absolute nerd if you get that right.
Any guesses?
_(Close up of the logo of my speakers which brand I don’t even know!)_
you doing flash?!
by cockroach (Jun 21, 2006 at 1 PM)i only know that the thing that’s blue and black is probably a linksys wireless router. And maybe one of the programs is Flash (the timeline gives it away
) and the other is dreamweaver?
by pketh (Jun 21, 2006 at 9 PM)the rest i have no idea, but you should include a high res version or link to the high res on flickr so that we don’t have to burn our retinas squinting lol
@pketh: you forgot the speakers
by Nafcom (Jun 21, 2006 at 11 PM)Yes, it’s Flash. Both pketh and cockroach got that right. I didn’t run Dreamweaver though. That’s indeed a linksys wireless router.
I didn’t have a high resolution image because it would be too easy, hahaa…
The program I am running is Flash indeed and the dialog box is the Actions panel.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 22, 2006 at 7 PM)hehe, the color coding and the weird lines made me think u were doing html
by pketh (Jun 23, 2006 at 6 AM)There’s so many speakers on the market nowadays.. umm I’ll guess creative labs? Well at least i got one right before
pketh: It does kinda look like that, hahaa… I don’t want people to guess my speakers because it doesn’t really have a brand. I mean, it does, but I never heard of the brand before! It’s a Taiwanese brand and is quite cheap.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 24, 2006 at 8 AM)Mr Dew: Oh come on, be fair, what is the brand of your speakers? O:-)
by Nafcom (Jun 25, 2006 at 12 AM)It’s not written anywhere! You got me in a fix. I have no idea too. There is a logo there though, it’s a alphabet ‘e’ in italics. I think it probably stand for Eagle or something. I can’t remember.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 25, 2006 at 8 AM)Mr Dew: Upload a photo of it
by Nafcom (Jun 25, 2006 at 11 PM)I’ll upload it soon.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 26, 2006 at 12 AM)Mr Dew: Great, looking forward to!
by Nafcom (Jun 26, 2006 at 8 AM)I posted the image in the post itself.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 28, 2006 at 7 PM)Mr Dew: WHy not using a stereo? Many people own a HIFI stereo and it sounds soo much nicer
by Nafcom (Jun 30, 2006 at 1 AM)What do you mean?
by Mr. Dew (Jun 30, 2006 at 1 AM)a stereo. no boxes. but a stereo. like this: http://www.rotel.com/images/portal-image.jpg
by Nafcom (Jun 30, 2006 at 4 AM)I see. I don’t really know how to fix it up to my computer. Does it use the stereo’s auxillary ports or something? I seen some that support USB ports and don’t know what they’re about. These stuff aren’t popular in Singapore.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 30, 2006 at 6 AM)Mr Dew: you just connect the soundcard - the normal green connector (do not use the black one if you have one - that’s for headphones!) with an aappropriate cable to the audio in connectors (left/right) of your stereo. Either AUX or CD or Phono. But please notice that if your stereo has more than 1 audio in, do not use the Phono one, since the Phono one is most likely with sound boost, and you need one without.
It’s a thing that costs a few bucks and requests 5 minutes of your time.
Please refer to the stereo’s manual if you find that you should be on the sure side
but it’s very unlikely that you can damage something
by Nafcom (Jun 30, 2006 at 10 AM)I’ll try that next time, perhaps after my speakers aren’t working for me. I don’t have a stereo though. I seen some of those with USB ports, do you know what they do?
by Mr. Dew (Jun 30, 2006 at 3 PM)@Mr Dew: As far as I know you can just connect external devices with that but more exactly stuff I do not know.
maybe google
You are welcome. If you ever buy a stereo you now know how to connect it!
by Nafcom (Jun 30, 2006 at 6 PM)I was thinking the same, hahaa… I think buying speakers for computers has its advantage though. Most hifi stereos are still more expensive than the computer speakers.
by Mr. Dew (Jun 30, 2006 at 9 PM)[...] At first I thought it’s my BenQ monitor that went wrong. I plugged the monitor into the lap top and everything looked fine. I am able to extend the laptop desktop to the monitor. So it means the culprit is probably my graphics card. [...]
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