netbook os x chart

a roundup of netbooks supporting os x


notice dell mini 9 being on top of the list? :D

can't wait to get my hands on the 16gb SSD for me to install os x into my dell mini 9!

staples city

2006 work of art : by peter root



low-rise

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.

wonder how long and how many times did he take to build this.

HD format

i guess u've all heard of several HD format discs available everywhere, such as Blu-Ray Discs (Sony+Pioneer) or HD-DVD (Toshiba) but i guess u've never heard of something called CBHD(Optical Memory National Engineering Research Center [OMNERC] of Tsinghua University)?


don't want to elaborate too much on the details of how all these work :)



CBHD (china blue high definition/中国蓝光高清光盘) is a new type of disc format available in china, apparently its features are quite similar to HD-DVD (which ceded in 2008 after the movie industry voted to support Blu-Ray) except in certain terms of compression and copy protection. this CBHD is available in china in early 2009 but has already dominates the HD market share in china, leading 3% ahead of blu-ray discs, eventhough blu-ray discs were launched back in february 2008.

this new format has also received recognition and support by Warner Bros. where they have launched several titles such as Harry Potter series and blockbuster movie Blood Diamond in CBHD format back in March 2009.



wonder wat's the price for this CBHD format? it's stated to be sold at 50 - 70 yuan (25 - 35 ringgit malaysia) per discs which i think is a killer to blu-ray discs! do hope that this product would be made available worldwide as it will definitely manage to fully battle out piracy and everybody can really enjoy what is really called High-Definition!!





until then, we can only drool to what we see playing in front of sony centers, or video stores on their full HD screens in Blu-ray formats which costs a bomb. i wonder if those awesome chinese can make a "playstation 3" running CBHD format. that would be a PS3 killer! haha

lisa

picture of a thousand words ...

a mac advert i saw depicting the personal computer approximately 25yrs back. the introduction of apple's project called lisa(local integrated software architecture), trying to re-invent the usage of a personal computer with graphical user interface (compared to line to line command interface).



yes, it's been sold at $9,995 USD at that time (a bloody premium to pay for a personal computer) which is equivalent to $21,000 2008 dollars converted (plus minus the inflation and blablabla). although considered a commercial failure at time due to cheaper and popular IBM PC, it was still a technology from the dreams of steve jobs (apple's boss), which he managed to achieve successfully.



doesn't mean much but there's always success n failures in someone's life, so don't fall apart becoz of 1 failure given it's small or big but learn from it and work to improve on it. someday, somehow, u will make it :)

and people complain that their pc is slow when they don't know they're paying RM900 for a 2000Mhz dual core processor with 4000MB worth of RAM...lolz! humans juz won't be satisfied...




*lisa is the name of the first daughter of steve jobs.

the orb

came through this very nice looking ring-like gadget with an OLED screen...

can u guess what it is ??



well, this futuristic looking thing is called the orb and it is actually a working unit of bluetooth headset deemed to be selling in shelves in 2010. juz twist the ring around and u can flaunt it, and use it in style...



talk about designers ;)
they really do shape our future...

htc click

another version of android phone coming out from htc ... namely the htc click

details on the model are quite scarce but heard it would be carry around the $250 - $300 price tag. i guess it would be a tonned down version of htc hero and htc magic
given the price and also the design.

there's also a report stating that htc would be marketing the next 80% of their phones running android os ~~~~~~ the rise of androids???

uh oh microsoft...

android

some1 told me my android picture is not moving in my msn so it's not interesting

so i'm posting something interesting here now



IT'S MOVING ANDROIDS!

阿辉 生日快乐 2009!

and here it is! the 2009 version of fai's birthday present :)

this year in HD!



thanks to chin for editing and uploading the video~

conceptual router

a bunch of designers came up with conceptual designs of common household gadgets and one of it that caught my attention would be these specially integrated wireless network routers for your future home. looks cool and fun even by looking at it...

1. 8-port jellyfish wireless router


2. coffee table wireless router


3. key holder wireless router


4. wall clock wireless router


what sort of shape would u want ur wireless router to look like?

i wonder how would a future home look like in 10years time :)

happy birthday~!

happy birthday to u, happy birthday to u,

happy birthday to chow chun fei,

happy birthday to u ...

对不起我来不到...

hope u had fun opening ur present :D


wish u a happy 22nd birthday!

a clip from last year's birthday...


hopefully there's a newer clip this year ... hehe

online stores

as we seen mobile devices becoming a norm in the everyday society, so are the applications used in these mobile devices...

let's see, how many types of smart mobile platforms do u know about?

1. microsoft windows mobile 6.x
2. apple iphone os
3. nokia symbian
4. palm pre
5. google android
6. rim blackberry

these are the popular ones that i know of (not to mention others)

first off, what is the purpose of the platform? it's basically a software inside the mobile device which is capable of performing what you want it to do when you turn on the mobile device.

as you all might have known or may not know, all these mentioned mobile platforms are moving towards online stores in terms of gaining more potential customers and also attracting more developers in their own different platforms.


for instance :-
1. microsoft windows mobile 6.x - launching windows marketplace
2. apple iphone os - apple app store
3. nokia symbian - nokia ovi store
4. palm pre - palm app catalog
5. google android - android app market
6. rim blackberry - blackberry app world


each and every one of the stores provides free downloads and also paid downloads for users of each mobile platforms ease of access jus by tapping the store icon located on the mobile device.


Apple App Store

apple has juz announced that they've reached the 1.5BILLIONTH mark of app store downloads where they've just mentioned they've reached the 1st billion 3mths ago. that's a substantial amount to be added in jus a short timeframe of 3mths. they've a database of more than 65,000 different applications plus more than 100,000 developers under the developers program which makes it difficult for others to catch up. kudos to them~! USD$99 would get them the friendly and easy to use SDK (software developers kit) and also place to publish their own applications given they are approved by apple!


Google Android AppMarket

another platform i would be looking up to is the google android platform, which is currently the runner up in the mobile device applications race. more and more people are getting used to android and working to make it even better. even with giant manufacturers such as HTC and Sony Ericsson have come up with their personalized edition of android platform. no price for google developers now but heard that it's very lowprice and user friendly developers kit and also there's a 24hours no-questions-asked return policy for users who bought apps which they don't like!


Windows Mobile Marketplace

windows mobile, a longtime veteran in mobile platform is just starting to kickoff their online marketplace after seeing such success in bitter-rivals apple and newcomer android. we'll see how they fare-off in this "emerging online market" i would call it. listing price in windows mobile marketplace would be USD$99 for 5 apps a year and might be supporting credit card or carrier charging.


Nokia Ovi Store

nokia ovi store has just been launched about a mth ago and it's starting to pickup the pace due to the launch of new touch screen phones such as the xpress music 5800 and the newly launced n97 smartphone. this ovi store also caters to symbian s40 and s60 users which covers many many previous nokia smartphone users as well thus the rapid growth in this new store. the ovi store not only covers applications but they also provides ringtones, wallpapers, themes and basically everything you'll find suited for a symbian phone. at the moment, developing symbian apps is free and you can publish anything anywhere anytime unlimited!


Blackberry App World

blackberry's app world is also a newcomer into this online market and currently showing up in the app world are basically common software such as facebook, twitter, messenger and tons of other stuffs but heard that blackberry hasn't come up with a very good plan for developers to list their apps. a hefty price of USD$200 would be charged to list 10apps and this doesn't even include the SDK(software developer's kit) for users.


Palm Pre App Catalog

finally the palm pre store, which is still quite mysterious, i don't really know much about palm pre but it would be a device definitely worthy of looking up to.

what do you think?

jargons

so many technical jargons being used worldwide in different industries and different environments, for me, i work with IT jargons ... would be quite familiar with all these funny funny names or codenames they might call it, such as, Nehalem, Snapdragon, Lynnfield, Spider, SenseUI, TouchFlo and so on and so forth ...

Recently the latest one which is being talked about the most would be snapdragon, the 1Ghz mobile processor offered by qualcomm for mobile devices. the snapdragon uses an application processor core codenamed scorpion, which is similiar to the previous ARM architecture cortex-8 core.

how could ppl possibly remember all these jargons and able to understand each and everyone of it? haha, indeed there are lots of ppl who could do that and they don't even notice it.

the first snapdragon device will be toshiba's TG01 smartphone, snapdragon also has been seen in an asus eee pc running android in COMPUTEX.



the upcoming sony ericsson model that everyone is looking forward to would be the sony ericsson's Rachael. it will be featuring snapdragon, 7.2mbps HSDPA, 8mp autofocus cam, 3d graphics capabilities and the most interesting feature of all would be the OS, and yes it'll be running a customized version of android! something similiar to senseUI by HTC.

probably something like this?

www

it's very common nowadays...for everyone to own a computer whether it's a desktop or a notebook. other than that, another service which i find quite accessible for ppl in malaysia would be the internet (which i assume most ppl don't notice it due to the accessibility) because compared to d few countries i've been to, most of it requires subscription or to pay to use the wireless internet service available.

so, when u turn on ur computer ... u'll definitely have a few things up and running. let's see, a messenger service (whether it's MSN / Yahoo / Skype / AIM / QQ), an internet browser with lots of windows or tabs opened (Internet Explorer / Firefox / Safari / Opera), alongside with whatever u wan to do (Windows Media Player / iTunes / Microsoft Office), juz to name a few.

i was jus wondering ... where do u usually browse to when u click on the internet address bar?

http://www.google.com
http://www.facebook.com
http://www.hotmail.com
http://www.gmail.com
http://www.yahoomail.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.friendster.com
http://www.youtube.com

where else would u visit?

actually i'm quite curious ... do drop me some comments and share with me :)

hero

from the previous post about htc hero (the android phone launched in uk) a week ago, guyz from xda-developers have already managed to cook a rom to be used for htc dream or magic now...given that there are still some glitches, wifi and camera couldn't be used at the moment but i believe they will manage to right it back and flaunt the full features of htc hero's rosie SenseUI rom in a htc dream G1 or htc magic G2 soon!

until then ... looking forward to get a hand on 1 of it :D