Apple Magic Trackpad
Bought the Magic Trackpad at iStudio in Changi Airport Terminal 3 before flying to Jakarta. Apple Singapore ran a Chinese New Year sale that day, but with no 7% airport tax the price was about the same, S$91.59.
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How Facebook Ships Code
An interesting blog post by yeeguy, How Facebook Ships Code, and mig33 shares some of these traits. Among the highlights: all engineers go through a four-to-six-week boot camp learning the system by fixing bugs and attending lectures from senior staff.
SingTel Bridge Data Roaming
Li Xiang and I head to Jakarta tomorrow to visit my secondary school friend Sugih and meet Pei Jun. My iPhone 4 is a paperweight overseas thanks to pricey data roaming, so I'm finally trying SingTel's Bridge DataRoam Unlimited.
A.C. Ryan Announces Playon!HD2 And Playon!HD Mini2
A.C. Ryan has announced the Playon!HD2 and Playon!HD Mini2, just after I got my Playon!HD back in November 2010, argh! I love the new gigabit wired networking, since the original's 10/100Mbps made transferring files over my gigabit LAN painfully slow.
Verizon’s iPhone 4 Summary
Verizon Wireless announced last night that it too will sell the iPhone 4 in the US. Unlike the AT&T and most worldwide units, this is a CDMA version rather than GSM, with three slight differences in its metal band.
Apple One-Day Chinese New Year Sale
Apple is holding a one-day Chinese New Year sale this Friday, 14th January. They run it yearly; instead of America's Black Friday, Singapore gets a red one. I skipped 2010 but bought a Belkin Auto Charger in 2009.
Mac App Store
The Mac App Store is live, bundled with the OS X 10.6.6 update, where US$4.99 is the new US$0.99. I haven't bought a paid app there since I get software directly from the makers, fairly useless to me.
Moved To Vodien
If you're reading this, the DNS resolved correctly: I've moved the site from my dedicated server at Frro to a VPS at Vodien. I did it to play with more Linux without risking downtime for other sites.
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