Disney and Pixar unveiled their complete animated movie line-up from 2008 to 2012 today at a press conference in New York. Featured in their announcement is a diverse and ambitious slate of 13 new animated feature films, most of which will be featured in 3D. As has been the case recently, Disney will be releasing two major animated movies per year - one Pixar and one Disney. Starting in 2009, however, we’ll be treated to 2 Pixar movies per year: 3D versions of Toy Story (in ‘09) and Toy Story 2 (in ‘10) as well as Up (in ‘09) and Toy Story 3 (in ‘10) and Newt and The Bear and the Bow (in ‘11). In addition, Pixar also announced a new movie - Newt - for 2011. Disney also has a promising line-up of their own, including an adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story titled King of the Elves.

• Wall-E - June 27th, 2008
• Bolt - November 26th, 2008 (In 3D)
• Up - May 29th, 2009 (In 3D)
• Toy Story in 3-D - October 2nd, 2009 (In 3D)
• The Princess and the Frog - Christmas 2009 (In 3D)
• Toy Story 2 in 3-D - February 12th, 2010 (In 3D)
• Toy Story 3 - June 18th, 2010 (In 3D)
• Rapunzel - Christmas 2010 (In 3D)
• Pixar’s Newt - Summer 2011 (In 3D)
• The Bear and the Bow - Christmas 2011 (In 3D)
• Cars 2 - Summer 2012 (In 3D)
• King of the Elves - Christmas 2012 (In 3D)

Source: Disney and Pixar’s Full Animated Line-Up Through 2012!

As you may or may not know, “Tube” is the codename for the next S60 touch screen aka iPhone killer from Nokia. The OS behind it is the 5th generation of the S60.

Of course, it has a pretty respectable list of features, starting with a great high resolution (16:9) touch screen, larger than 3" but still smaller than 3,5". Yes it has a camera, a decent auto focus one that is way better than the one that we can find on an iPhone but still not as good as on the latest Nseries devices!

It is a quad band phone that also has a wide range of connectivity options: Bluetooth, uPnP , GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA and WLAN. Furthermore it has built in GPS and will support geottaging. All of this is even more impressive considering that all of these features are packed into relatively small and compact body with size of “_ _ _ _”. I’ll only say that it is similar in size to the Nokia N73 but it is maybe a little bit wider. One more thing, NO, there is no multi touch and YES there is tactility feedback!

Check out the source for the video and more information.

Source: Symbian Freak: latest update on the hotly anticipated Nokia Tube
Source: Symbian Freak: “Tube” is the code name of upcoming Nokia’s iPhone killer

Caught Untraceable last week at GV VivoCity. Took 2 hours off to relax myself. Been so busy with my school nowdays.

I heard mix reviews about the movie, but personally I love Untraceable. I love all those technology stuff that they mentioned in the movie. Like TTL value, botnet, etc. I hope there is more of these type of movies.

Here is the plot:

Untraceable is a 2008 thriller film which stars Diane Lane, Joseph Cross, Billy Burke, and Colin Hanks. It was directed by Gregory Hoblit and is distributed by Screen Gems. The film is a social commentary on Internet schadenfreude.

Set in Portland, Oregon, the film involves a serial killer who rigs contraptions that kill his victims based on the number of hits received by a website (”www.killwithme.com”) that features a live streaming video of the victim. Millions of people log on, hastening the victims’ violent deaths. Lane plays the protagonist, a cybercop named Jennifer Marsh, who pieces the mystery together, at great risk to the personal well-being of herself and her family.

Source: Wikipedia

But I am wondering why not block the domain, www.killwithme.com, at ISP level? I have been wondering that all the while after the movie.

Just for fun, you can refer to the domain that is mentioned in the movie, Kill With Me.

I have been interviewed by The Pakistani Spectator

Would you please tell us something about you and your site?

My name is Lester, I am currently 24 this year, studying in National University of Singapore. Majoring in Information Systems. My site http://lesterchan.net started out as one of my assignment for one of my colleges module. As time goes by, I changed it along the way and now it has become my personal site and the based for my WordPress Plugins.

You can read the full interview transcript here.

Yesterday, 3rd April 2008, I was invited by Ian Tan from Microsoft to a private Xbox 360 Anniversary Party at The Screening Room (Theatre). That was my 2nd time I have been to The Screening Room.

Publishers such as EA, Atari, LucasArts, THQ, Namco Bandai, Rockstar, and Team Ninja were there to give us a sneak peak of their upcoming games. What we see are mostly confidential and hence no photos or videos can be taken.

The following games were presented to us in either actual in-game demo or trailers:

1. Ninja Gaiden II by Team Ninja (Official) (Gamespot)
2. Dragon Ball Z: Burst Limit by Namco Bandai (Official) (Gamespot)
3. Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon by THQ (Official) (Gamespot)
4. Alone In The Dark by Atari (Official) (Gamespot)
5. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed by LucasArts (Official) (Gamespot)
6. Facebreaker by EA (Official) (Gamespot)
7. UEFA Euro 2008 by EA (Official) (Gamespot)
8. Dead Space by EA (Official) (Gamespot)
9. Mirrors Edge by EA (Official) (Gamespot)
10. Grand Theft Auto IV by Rockstar (Official) (Gamespot)

Release Dates

• Most of the games mentioned above are going to be released between late May 2008 and June 2008.
• According to the LucasArts spokesperson, he said that this is the first time they announced the released date of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, and here they are:
  • 16th September 2008 in the United States.
  • 17th September 2008 in Asia Pacific
  • 19th September 2008 in Europe.
• GTA IV will be released on the 29th April 2008 and it will come to Singapore this time as MDA has a new rating system for games soon.

As this is a private party, they split us into 4 groups (Rockstar, Covenant, Ninja and Ghost) for us to compete in 3 games (Bomberman, Guitar Hero III and Project Gotham Racing 4). Sabrina, Eunice (did not really get her name), Nicholas/Aaron and I are in Rockstar.We came in first only in Bomberman but loses out in Guitar Hero III and Project Gotham Racing 4. But nevertheless, it was fun and stressful at the same time. TeamNinja won. I also saw U-Zyn there.

The lucky number 12 belongs to Farinelli was called for the lucky draw and he won an Xbox 360 (Halo 3 Special Edition). But my number was 3, sigh.

The goodies bag was good, 2 t-shirts, and 1 black wireless Xbox 360 controller.

Now I got both the controller and the Xbox 360 game which I won from a lucky draw during Premix 2007. What I lack now is an Xbox 360. Hopefully I can get a discounted version straight from Microsoft, keeping my fingers cross.

I enjoyed myself at the party even though I got a Maths test today! The food is good too. I just love the mini burger (it is really small) which cost like $12 for 2 if you order it from the alacarte. I ate at least 10 yesterday.

Can’t wait for the 3rd anniversary or the next event. I hope they will have something like this also but for PC games.

Kudos to the Xbox 360 team and event organiser for a successful event and thanks to Ian for the invite. Looking forward to the next one. =D

Here are some pictures from the event official photographer:

Nice Sofa Where We Played PGR4 And Bomberman

Food! The Mini Burger Rocks

Me And Another Guy (Didn’t Catch His Name) Chatting With Oli Pettigrew (Host) On The Right

Individual Birthday Cakes

Our Group Photo

I have uploaded all the photos that are released to us to Facebook Photo Album.

Starting from March 2008, I think I shall be posting my site traffic generated by Webalizer on a monthly basis to let my readers know how much site traffic lesterchan.net is getting.

March 2008 Total Traffic

• Total Hits: 4,153,886
• Total Files: 3,781,449
• Total Pages: 504,964
• Total Visits: 145,390
• Total KBytes: 12,001,303
• Total Unique Sites: 100,212
• Total Unique URLs: 13,225
• Total Unique Referrers: 14,879
• Total Unique User Agents: 5,154

March 2008 Daily Traffic

• Hits per Day: Average: 133,996 - Max: 196,464
• Files per Day: Average: 121,982 - Max: 181,707
• Pages per Day: Average: 16,289 - Max: 38,207
• Visits per Day: Average: 4,690 - Max: 6,417
• KBytes per Day: Average: 387,139 - Max: 759,665

Do note that there are NO advertisements on this site, not even a single one (I am very proud of that). I am not intending to make any money out of this site. Nevertheless, I still welcome donations (on the right menu) =D.

I am also using Google Analytics to track specific sites like http://forums.lesterchan.net, http://expenses.lesterchan.net, http://files.lesterchan.net and of course http://facebook.lesterchan.net (there is no index page so I am not linking it) where it houses all my Facebook applications.

The N-Gage platform is now live. So far there is 5 devices (N81, N81 8GB, N82, N95, N95 8GB) supported according to the download page.

I think I am going to get my copy of Block Breaker Deluxe. Just love that game.

We are live! The games, the devices, and the community are all here for you to finally get your teeth into. The Forums are back up and the new N-Gage application is here.

There will be an official announcement on Monday, but for you, the N-Gage faithful we wanted to let you know were up and running! So come join our moderators in the Forums for our launch party, and start enjoying the next generation of mobile gaming.

Source: N-Gage’s Blog

Adobe Creative Suite 4 will support 64bit OSes running Windows, whereas for Mac, it will still be 32bit only. When Adobe Creative Suite 5 comes, it will support both 64bit OSes in Windows and Mac.

What’s Adobe doing with Photoshop? In the interest of giving customers guidance as early as possible, we have some news to share on this point: in addition to offering 32-bit-native versions for Mac OS X and 32-bit Windows, just as we do today, we plan to ship the next version of Photoshop as 64-bit-native for Windows 64-bit OSes only.

The development is frankly bittersweet for us: On the one hand we’re delighted to be breaking new ground with Photoshop, and when processing very large files on a suitably equipped machine, Photoshop x64 realizes some big performance gains. (For example, opening a 3.75 gigapixel image on a 4-core machine with 32GB RAM is about 10x faster.) On the other hand, we work very hard at maintaining parity across platforms, and it’s a drag that the Mac x64 revision will take longer to deliver. We will get there, but not in CS4. (Our goal is to ship a 64-bit Mac version with Photoshop CS5, but well be better able to assess that goal as we get farther along in the development process.)

Source: John Nack on Adobe: Photoshop, Lightroom, and Adobe’s 64-bit roadmap

Didn’t realize that McDonalds has a new breakfast item on the menu called McGriddles. It is basically a mashup between Sausage McMuffin with/without Egg and Hotcakes. Just imagine McGriddles as Sausage McMuffin but replace the Muffin with Hotcake. The bread is a little too sweet for my liking. At first my mom thought it is a double meat patty instead.

Sausage McGriddles Without Egg Meal - SGD$5.70
Sausage McGriddles With Egg Meal - SGD$5.90

McDonalds McGriddles Breakfast

I think McDonalds should come out with a Double Sausage McMuffin filled with the goodness of double meat patty.

As you are might know by now that WordPress 2.5 has been released. Many people have upgrade issues, plugins issues, theme issues, permission issues and what not.

If you are having problem with any of my plugins with WordPress 2.5, check out this 3 links below:

• My Plugins Compatibility With WordPress 2.5
• WP-Email And WP-Print With WordPress 2.5
• My Plugins And WordPress 2.5

I just want to add that ALL my plugins - except WP-Wap (not tested) should be working with WordPress 2.5. My WordPress Blog is one good live example of it.

If it does not work for you:

• You may have done something wrongly
• Conflicting with other themes and plugins
• Configuration problem with your server, PHP or MYSQL
• Permission problem with your server

To isolate these problems, I would always advise my users to install a FRESH copy of WordPress in another folder and then test the plugins on it.

Please post all support questions in the Support Forums. Thanks.