Singtel will be launching the new iPhone 3GS on Friday, 10th July 2009. Hopefully it will NOT be during office hour.

Received this SMS From Singtel

IPHONE: You have a date next Friday 10 July with your new iPhone 3GS – keep it free! We will email you early next week with launch event details, prices and upgrade options. Have a good weekend and see u next Friday! It’s going to be huge!

Looks like the launch of Singtel iPhone 3GS is getting nearer, got this in my mailbox yesterday:

Click to view the full teaser email

Here is what it says:

Hi Lester,

Thank you very much for your interest in the iPhone3GS!

I know you are waiting for details on pricing and the launch event. Don’t worry, as you have registered, you will be among the first to know.

Expect an email from me with details of our great launch offers. Keep an eye on your inbox to stay ahead of the game.

The iPhone 3GS lets you do it even faster than before. Launch and switch between applications quickly. Shoot, edit and share video right on your phone. Make a call or play a song using just your voice. And discover many more features that make iPhone 3GS the best iPhone yet.

Plus this device also downloads data much quicker at 7.2 Mbps using SingTel’s unrivalled 3G network. With all its remarkable features – the wait will certainly be worth it.

If you have friends who want to be ahead of the pack they can register at www.singtel.com/reg

Sorry to tease you; I will be back with more: soon.

With best regards,

Wong Soon Nam
Vice President – Consumer Marketing

You can register your interest with Singtel for iPhone 3GS at https://www.singtelshop.com/iPhone3GS/.

June 2009 Total Traffic

• Total Hits: 12,353,277
• Total Files: 11,498,846
• Total Pages: 928,925
• Total Visits: 238,957
• Total KBytes: 47,913,285
• Total Unique Sites: 174,547
• Total Unique URLs: 20,253
• Total Unique Referrers: 36,590
• Total Unique User Agents: 7,286

June 2009 Daily Traffic

• Hits per Day: Average: 411,775 – Max: 543,863
• Files per Day: Average: 383,294 – Max: 509,580
• Pages per Day: Average: 30,964 – Max: 101,269
• Visits per Day: Average: 7,965 – Max: 1,2416
• KBytes per Day: Average: 1,597,110 – Max: 3,532,779

Note: Green denotes increase, Blue denotes no change and Red denotes decrease when compared with April 2009.

Previous month site traffic: May 2009

Firefox 3.5 is based on the Gecko 1.9.1 rendering platform, which has been under development for the past year. Firefox 3.5 offers many changes over the previous version, supporting new web technologies, improving performance and ease of use.

What’s New In Firefox 3.5?

Some of the notable features are:

• Available in more than 70 languages.
• Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.
• Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.
• Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.
• The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.
• Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.
• Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.
• Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

For more details, check out the Firefox 3.5 Release Notes.

Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features
Check out Lifehacker’s post on Top 10 Firefox 3.5 Features. I have listed the points in below, for more details check out the site.

• Video superpowers with HTML 5
• Geo-location
• TraceMonkey JavaScript engine
• Color profiles that pop
• Private browsing mode
• Smarter session restore
• Keyword AwesomeBar filters
• Tab tearing
• Forget this site
• Undo closed window

Download: Get Firefox 3.5 now!

Copy and pasted from PHP 5.3.0 Release Announcement.

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

The key features of PHP 5.3.0 include:

• Support for namespaces
• Late static binding
• Lambda Functions and Closures
• Syntax additions: NOWDOC, ternary short cut “?:” and jump label (limited goto), __callStatic()
• Under the hood performance improvements
• Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
• Optional mysqlnd PHP native replacement for libmysql
• Improved Windows support including VC9 and experimental X64 binaries as well as portability to other supported platforms
• More consistent float rounding
• Deprecation notices are now handled via E_DEPRECATED (part of E_ALL) instead of the E_STRICT error level
• Several enhancements to enable more flexiblity in php.ini (and ini parsing in general)
• New bundled extensions: ext/phar, ext/intl, ext/fileinfo, ext/sqlite3, ext/enchant
• Over 140 bug fixes and improvements to PHP, in particular to: ext/openssl, ext/spl and ext/date

This release also drops several extensions and unifies the usage of internal APIs. Users should be aware of the following known backwards compatibility breaks:

• Parameter parsing API unification will cause some functions to behave more
  or less strict when it comes to type juggling
• Removed the following extensions: ext/mhash (see ext/hash), ext/msql, ext/pspell (see ext/enchant), ext/sybase (see ext/sybase_ct)
• Moved the following extensions to PECL: ext/ming, ext/fbsql, ext/ncurses, ext/fdf
• Removed zend.ze1_compatibility_mode

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.

For a full list of changes in PHP 5.3.0, see the ChangeLog.

YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener has been released by Ozh and I. I have been running YOURLS on lc.sg and Ozh is running it on ozh.in.

What is YOURLS?

YOURLS is a small set of PHP scripts that will allow you to run your own URL shortening service (a la TinyURL). You can make it private or public, you can pick custom keyword URLs, it comes with its own API. You will love it.

There’s a WordPress plugin available for YOURLS, making integration with your blog a snap: create short URLs and tweet them automagically as you publish blog posts.

Check out Ozh blog post on the announcement, Introducing YOURLS (Your Own URL Shortener) and its WordPress Plugin Companion.

YOURLS comes with a WordPress Plugin as well and this plugin is developed by Ozh.

YOURLS WordPress Plugin

This plugin, YOURLS: WordPress to Twitter, is the bridge between YOURLS, Twitter and your blog: when you publish a post or a page, it will use your own YOURLS install, either hosted on the same webserver, or another server, to create a short URL for your post and send it to your Twitter account. The plugin also works with public popular services such as TinyURL, tr.im, is.gd or bit.ly.

Check out Ozh blog post on the WordPress plugin, YOURLS: WordPress To Twitter (a Short URL Plugin).

You can follow us on Twitter as well, Ozh and gamerz.

Official Site: YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener

I grew up listening to Michael Jackson songs. It is a little sad that he pass away at such a young age, 50 is still considered young! Despite his scandals in the recent years, my perception of him still has not change. Rest in peace Michael Jackson, you will always be remembered!

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson, the child star turned King of Pop who set the world dancing but whose musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex scandals, died on Thursday. He was 50.

Jackson was pronounced dead after arriving at a Los Angeles hospital in full cardiac arrest, Los Angeles coroner Fred Corral said. The cause of death was not known and an autopsy would likely take place on Friday, he said.

Jackson’s sudden death had been reported earlier by U.S. media including the Los Angeles Times and the TMZ entertainment website, which said he was taken ill at his home and rushed to the hospital by paramedics who found him not breathing when they arrived.

Source: King of Pop Michael Jackson is dead: official
Wikipedia: Michael Jackson

Not in any particular order and it is sorted by price.

1. TweetDeck – Free
2. Facebook – Free
3. WordPress – Free
4. Skype – Free
5. Currency – Free
6. iGV – Free
7. SG Buses – Free
8. Wikipanion – Free
9. SG 4D – Free
10. Carpark@SG – Free
11. Tap Tap Revenge – Free
12. BeejiveIM – $9.99
13. FTP On The Go – $6.99
14. Byline – $4.99
15. Bejeweled 2 – $2.99
16. Web Tools – $1.99
17. SG ERP – $1.99
18. Bytes – $0.99
19. TVGuide@SG – $0.99
20. A Level – $0.99

WOM World has sent me two sets of Nokia E75 all the way from UK for a E75 Project. The project name is called “Teach a Technophobe”. I have to coach a user, in this case, it will be my mom on how to use the Nokia E75 for email messaging. There will be a few series of challenges for both my mom and I to complete on a weekly basis.

Photos

1 of the E75 comes in a briefcase!

After opening 3 layers, you get a red E75

The other E75 came in a normal box

Nokia E75

Gallery

Video

Nokia Europe: Nokie E75

I took a day off and went to the LG Press Conference at Communica Asia 2009 which takes place yesterday at the Singapore Expo. The event name was called “World Premiere of LG’s Newest Feature Packed Smartphone”. 3 phones were mentioned during the press conference. The LG GD900 Crystal, LG GM730 and the LG Viewty Smart (LG GC900).

LG App Store
LG also announces their own LG Application store which will be opened on the 14th July 2009. It will have about 1,400 apps at launch time out of which about 100 of them are free apps. It will have local applications as well as LG dedicated applications. At lunch time it will only support Windows Mobiles app, if I am not wrong Java and Android apps will be supported eventually.

They also did mentioned a double assurance test on each app. The first test is by the content provider and the second test is by LG. Similar to how the Apple App Store works. I don’t really consider the “content provider” as a first test as I don’t think developer will released an untested app.

The revenue sharing scheme is 10% better than Apple. LG will get 20% and the developer will get to keep 80%.

LG GM730
The LG GM730 is a Windows Mobile 6.1 phone (upgradable to 6.5 when it is released) with the S-Class User Interface running on top of it. My first hands on with the device is that is is surprising quite smooth and doesn’t lag as much as I expected it to be. I will be getting the unit to review sometime in July 2009, so do keep a look out for it! In the mean time do check out these videos on the LG GM730:

Facebook Gallery: LG Press Conference at Communicasia 2009