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Momento is a diary app on the iPhone. It is an app that makes me love my iPhone even more, and I didn’t think it is possible. One of the most gorgeous and elegant app out there. I can’t believe how pretty this is. There is a million note taking app out there, in fact the iPhone comes with one. It’s true that an app that has text input can serve the function of a diary because all you are doing is recording a memory …

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A few years back I was tagged to show my desktop, that was when I was still using my Powerbook G4 as my main computer.  It’s fun to show off the desktop because it also preserved a piece of your own computer history.  Anyway, lately I found this site called Minimal Mac and was extremely impressed by ways to simplify your desktop to look good, I followed some advice there and clean up my desktop a bit.  Now many on that site go to the extreme end to have absolutely …

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I don’t have a giant HDTV, my computer isn’t attached to the TV, and I don’t have an AppleTV either, so why would I want to try out media centre softwares? one simple answer – my librarian tendency of organizing things! My current way of organizing media is once I acquired an episode of the TV Show, I re-encode it to an iTunes/Front Row accepted format, then copy and paste episode info, summary, and artwork from wikipedia into iTunes. A really long…

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Apple’s brand new line-up of their notebooks offer me a review of my pre-set upgrade strategy of my computers. Actually there was many factors piling up before this, but Apple’s new notebooks are the last straw to make me think about revising my upgrade strategy that I setup long ago.

My original plan was to replace my Powerbook G4 next year, while replacing my iMac in 2011 or after. But many situations factors has changed so much in the past few years that I doubt I can follow this plan any…

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After 18 months continuous usage (I hardly EVER shut it off), my iMac finally experiencing problems and need to take a trip to see a genius. Unlike my powerbook, the iMac is a 24″ screen giant monster, so a trip to the Apple store for me is a logistic nightmare. Without a car, my choices of Apple store is limited to the accessibility of public transit. The 5th Ave store is immediately eliminated because of the closest E,V train access are at least a few blocks away, not to mention …

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This is by far the best music video!!! It combined a song that I really like – Again and Again by the Bird and the Bee – with a demonstration of every feature you can find on a Mac!!!! It’s bloody brilliant!!!!!!

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I think Judy Greer is terrific, I love her in all her supporting roles in those romantic comedies. I was surprise she showed up in Apple’s Get A Mac ad though…cos it never really featured any other stars no matter big or small other than Mac and PC themselves. This wasn’t a particular funny commercial comparing to the previous Get A Mac ads, but if you see the next ad I am showing after, you will prefer it 100 times more so than the second ad I am showing.

This other …

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I am sure by now you have heard that Apple announced some new toys today.  I am not gonna go into details of what they are, but will predict when will you see these new toys appeared around me.
Steve announced 5 major things during his keynote in Macworld, so here goes:

1) iPhone software update: downloaded it today! 
- GPS-like location on map? awesome! it works like magic and pinpoint my right at the intersection of where i live! totally accurate! 
- home screen and web clips? love it, so much easier to …

Personal »

I was quite busy trying to take care of the fall out of my recent dumbness 1 , 2, 3. Get new replacement cards, make phone calls, change my automatic payments that are link to the credit card, etc. Naturally, I don’t have time to blog as much for the last 2 days, but I have a lot to say. Unfortunately, I can’t blog about what I want to say but to blog about my desktop first – because someone challenged me to show my desktop. Original questions were in …