Archive for January, 2008



Skyfire

When this is ready, I won’t need to wait in vain for the Nokia N810 anymore.
I played with the N810 in a Nokia shop in Jakarta over the weekend and it was already on sale there for about nearly S$900. There has been a lot of rumours going around that the N810 will be [...]

A special one-day Apple shopping event. Wednesday, January 30.
Have you marked this in your calendar yet? I am just wonder how special this sale is going to be…. I have Time Capsule and maybe Apple TV on my ‘to buy’ list… we’d see.

Macbook Air

Make a super ultra portable. No DVD/CDROM drive? Lug around an addon. But well no, that’s not elegant you see. Leave it to Apple to provide Remote Disc to transform your nearby computer into one giant disc drive.
I can’t help but wonder if the custom built Intel Core Duo would be any slower though… surely [...]

The day google disappeared

I think I am reasonably techy. People come to me for tech advice all the time. Now if someone came up to me yesterday and said “Hey I can’t access Google” I would immediately conclude it as a network problem. Then the user would say “But I can access everything else! yahoo, apple.com, everything else [...]

The story behind the iPhone

Wired has a great story about the iPhone. I really enjoyed reading it, about the challenges Apple faced, the $150 million or so they poured into designing it everything from fake human heads to creating their own mobile networks to test the iPhone.
One man to change the wireless industry. It can only be Steve Jobs. [...]