Jun 17
Apple did it again! It seems every product they make is packed with “WOW” factors. I upgraded to the latest iPhone 3.0 firmware as it was released today, the downloading, backup and upgrading took awhile, but the end result was well worth the wait, in fact, my iPhone feels like a brand new phone!
One of the coolest new 3.0 feature by far is the “Find My iPhone”. For MobileMe subscribers, if you ever miss place your iPhone, you can use the MobileMe web interface to see where you left it (cell tower triangulation?) and send a message and alarm to the phone so whoever pick it up can contact you… At the worst case, you can remotely wipe out all the data! That’s badass!
Well, I did a test, the triangulation took a minute or two, and the result was surprisingly accurate! My phone displayed the message and alarm I sent almost instantaneously. I didn’t have the guts to remote wipe my data, I will just take Apple’s words for it, I am sure it works. 
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Apr 20
The new Mac Pro is what you might called the “strong and silent” type. Simple, slick exterior hides the beast it neatly packed inside. This is not your average desktop, as the matter of fact, it eats the other desktops from Dell/HP for breakfast.
The new Mac Pro workstation is powered with 2x quad-core Intel Xeons “Nehalem” processors, with direct DDR3 memory attached to the CPUs. The raw spec is impressive enough, but like all Apple products, there “wow” factor is the design! Open up a Mac Pro’s chassis, you won’t find any wire flopping around, the entire interior resembles a castle built with Lego, clean and composed. The CPUs/DRAMs have their own slide out tray, making inserting/removing an ease and the HDDs also have their own slide out compartments. Looking at the Mac Pro, it just makes so much sense, makes you wonder why all other computers aren’t like this?! Is Apple that much better of a company than the rest? Well, it is…
I so want one… but have to justify the need first with Vivian… hummm… that’s the hard part.
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Jul 11
This has been a busy week for Apple, software updates to iTune and MobileMe were rolled out to accommodate the iPhone3G and the me.com launches, respectively. My .Mac account went offline Wed afternoon while it was being upgraded to MobileMe. While the online community reported the new me.com was up and running late Thurs afternoon, the new look didn’t appear for me until 2am Friday 7/11 morning…
It is pretty cool tho…
Ok, I am going out to line up for the iPhone3G now…
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Jun 14
If a picture is worth a thousand words?
Then this picture tube is definitely worth thousands of bucks!
It will be our 5th anniversary (7/11) soon in about a month, over the course of five years, we got closer, have grown together, and also became more practical. I didn’t want to buy Vivian another LV bag or spend another romantic weekend at a spa, I wanted to give her something that she really needs.
So, after witnessing her hunching over her laptop all day everyday, complaining that her neck hurts due to her bad posture, I thought a nice HUGE monitor can help her see better and thus avoid further “work-related” injuries.
Got the biggest LCD monitor they offered at Apple, check this baby out!!! As with all Apple products, this 30″ monitor radiants elegance. While other 30″ monitors out there costs hundreds of dollars less, it was still not enough to change my mind.
Simply beautiful, beautifully simple!
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Huge box! Heavy too!
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Gorgeous image!
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Vivian in front of the new 30″
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Apple 30″ Cinema Display
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Jun 13
Steve job announced Safari beta for Windows platform at the WWDC this Monday.
Safari!! on Windows!! need I say more?
Downloaded as soon I heard the news, set Safari as my default browser as I opened the application for the very first time… as it turns out, it was a brave move, too early.
While I drool everytime I use the Safari on Vivian’s MacBook Pro, the Windows beta version was utterly disappointing… while the Mac version is blazing fast, the Windows version was slow to the point of unusable!
Have to work on my patient, four more months to go for the OS X Leopard release, that’s when I am going to get my very own MacBook Pro, can’t wait to say Sayonara to the Windows’ world!!
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Dec 14
The Mac arrived while Vivian and I were on our vacation in Hawaii, we almost cut our vacation short to come home for it. This is Vivian’s new laptop, it is also Vivian’s very first experience with Mac — she is now a believer!
Everything about this Mac just reeks of elegance. From the packing material to the OS X, Apple just got it right! The attentions paid to the details is just amazing, I couldn’t resist myself to take pictures as I open up the box for the very first time. Everything has its place, neat, organized, simple, and just made sense.
Vivian was laughing at me as I took pictures of the Styrofoam, to me, it is just amazing how slick the packing material can even be!
As a notebook, the Mac Pro notebook is in a league of its own, sleek lines, clean look, immaculate package. It is simple but with a huge presence, less really is more.
I can’t wait to get my own Mac in April when OS X Leopard releases…
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