Posts published in 2013, including the year-in-review and the gadgets, launches, and events covered that year.
My work laptop had been a MacBook Air 13-inch (Mid 2011), now a three-year-old model. Under migme's policy of replacing laptops every three years, they bought me a 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina (Late 2013), with a 2.4GHz dual-core i5.
In Looking Back 2012, I'd hoped to travel to several countries, which I sort of managed. My 2013 wish is to travel even more, to places like Australia, Japan, Korea, London, or New York. I'm posting this from New York.
I bought the 16GB Nexus 7 (2013) from Amazon for just US$199 during Black Friday week, with the 32GB also discounted to US$239. It qualified for free AmazonGlobal Saver shipping to Singapore, so US$199 worked out to roughly S$250.
Earth Hour takes place tonight, 23rd March 2013, at 8.30pm, with Earth Day following on 22nd April. A worldwide event organised by the World Wide Fund for Nature, encouraging households and businesses to switch off non-essential lights.
I last printed my Blogger Name Cards in 2010, getting 200 for S$60 from Tommy Print. I'd nearly run out, and Li Xiang had redesigned my logo for lesterchan.net v4. I returned to Tommy Print, where 200 cost S$60.
In my Looking Back 2011 post, I'd hoped for a new iMac and MacBook Air to replace my ageing desktop and MacBook Pro, and I managed it. My 2012 wish is simpler and cheaper: just those same two replacements.
StarCraft 2: Heart of the Swarm launches on 12th March 2013, though Singapore gets it a day earlier on the 11th. It retails here for S$49.90, or MYR125 in Malaysia. A Licence2Play exclusive pre-order event runs at Marina Bay Sands.
A year on from Titanium Maximum Security 2012, Trend Micro launched the 2013 edition at GV VivoCity, inviting partners, Facebook fans, and bloggers, followed by a screening of Resident Evil: Retribution. It brings several major improvements to the security suite.