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!