I've been swamped with school lately, despite a one-week holiday I spent catching up on never-ending assignments. There seems to be one due every week, all report writing, which basically tests your Googling, paraphrasing and, frankly, smoking skills.
A popular site that converted binary .plist files to ASCII text XML has been down for a while, so I've mirrored it, using PHP instead of Perl for the processing. Here's the link.
I had a good laugh at these questions. If FedEx and UPS merged, would they be Fed UP? If olive oil comes from olives, where does baby oil come from? And why aren't people from Holland called Holes?
T-Mobile has announced the world's first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1, also known as the HTC Dream. It packs a 528MHz Qualcomm MSM7201A, 128MB RAM, 256MB ROM and a preinstalled 1GB MicroSD card supporting up to 8GB.
Adobe has officially announced Creative Suite 4, a milestone release of its industry-leading design and development software spanning virtually every creative workflow. A major update across the Adobe family that creative professionals have been eagerly anticipating for some time.
Microsoft Hardware marks 25 years by unveiling new products at Movida, St James Power Station, though I can't attend due to lessons. Highlights include the Arc Mouse, a strikingly stylish, foldable design that ups the style stakes.
I bought the black SwitchEasy Capsule Neo case for my iPhone 3G for S$49.90 from GizmoSquare on Tanjong Pagar Road. I like that I can pay by PayPal online and collect at the physical store.
Apple has just refreshed its entire iPod lineup at the Let's Rock event, the last refresh having been on 6th September 2008. The second-generation iPod Touch features a stainless-steel design, side volume controls and a built-in speaker.
On Friday I went to the Singapore Chinese Garden for the Lantern Festival 2008, themed F8: Hello Kitty Go Races. I'm not sure why it's called F8, perhaps because the mooncake festival falls in the eighth lunar month.
Google has jumped onto the web browser bandwagon with Chrome, an open-source browser. Highlights include the auto-completing Omnibox address bar, the speedy V8 JavaScript virtual machine, a privacy mode, and the ability to launch web apps standalone.
My August 2008 site traffic stats: 9,922,623 hits, 791,515 pages and 164,135 visits from 129,710 unique sites, with about 35.7 million KBytes transferred over the month. A solid month, with traffic holding steady close to ten million hits.
Comex 2008 ran at Suntec City Convention Centre from 28th to 31st August. I hooted plenty, including Canon colour and black ink for my mom's MX700 printer, plus a D-Link DNS-323 and a Wall-E pickup for myself.