Apple Refreshes MacBook, MacBook Air & MacBook Pro
Apple has refreshed the MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. The 15-inch Pro now starts at S$3,188 with a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 and dual NVIDIA GeForce 9400M and 9600M GT graphics.
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Founder of lesterchan.net, a Singapore tech and gadgets blog running since 2002. An engineering leader by day and a WordPress plugin developer since 2003, with a soft spot for gadgets, smart home, and a good deal.
Microsoft Releases Silverlight 2
Microsoft has released Silverlight 2, available to download tomorrow. I've been waiting for this, as Silverlight 1 and 1.1 felt in their infancy. Microsoft calls it one of the industry's most comprehensive and powerful solutions for creating rich applications.
Official Name For Windows 7 Is Called Windows 7
It's confirmed: Windows 7 will simply be called Windows 7. Since development began, Microsoft had been referring to the next Windows client by the codename Windows 7, and now they've decided to keep it as the official name.
Big Stan
As usual I'm swamped with school, with assignments due every week since week three, and it's now mid-October. My last day of school is 14th November 2008, with three exams on the 22nd, 25th and 27th.
Site Traffic September 2008
Busy with Nokia Remix 2008, I hadn't compiled my September traffic stats, but better late than never. September 2008 saw 10,026,167 hits, 804,734 pages and 173,723 visits, with about 37.3 million KBytes transferred over the month.
Nokia Remix 2008 Singapore Party
This is the second part of the Nokia Remix 2008 event, a party from 7pm at the Red Dot Design Museum, where I went with Li Xiang. A blogger meet at Pacific Coffee let us try the XpressMusic 5800.
Nokia Remix 2008 Singapore
Nokia Remix 2008 Singapore was held this morning at 9am at Supper Club, Odeon Towers, a beautiful space whose huge, comfy sofas nearly put me to sleep. Thanks to yesterday's pre-media briefing, I already knew most of what Nokia announced.
Nokia XpressMusic 5800 “Tube” (Exclusive)
It's now 1am Singapore time and my NDA has ended, so I can finally talk about the Nokia XpressMusic 5800, aka The Tube. Thanks to Text 100, and Supriya, I attended the Nokia Remix 2008 pre-media briefing at Marina Mandarin.
Configuring iPhone/iPod Touch WLAN For NUS Wireless
Here's a tutorial on configuring your iPhone, iPhone 3G/3GS or iPod Touch to connect to NUS Wireless. We use the NUS SSID rather than NUSOPEN, since NUS is PEAP-protected and much faster. Note an iOS 4 bug affects this too.
My iPhone 3G Springboard
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.
Convert .plist From Binary To ASCII/Text XML
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.
Questions Of The Day
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 G1 aka Google Phone
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 Creative Suite 4 Announced
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 2008 Lineup
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.
SwitchEasy Capsule Neo For iPhone 3G
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.
Entire iPod Lineup Refreshed
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.
Singapore Chinese Garden Lantern Festival 2008
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 Chrome
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.
Site Traffic August 2008
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.
D-Link DNS-323 + Wall-E
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.
Interviewed By My Paper (我报)
Kenny Chee of My Paper interviewed me about IT fairs in Singapore. My Paper, Singapore's first free Chinese newspaper, launched on 1 June 2006, is aimed at bilingual adults aged 20 to 40 who straddle Western and Chinese cultures.