Recently, I spent some late night hours reviving my first Mac, a 12-inch iBook G4 manufactured in the 22nd week of 2004, which had been quietly collecting dust for tens of months. Bringing a five year-old laptop back to life is kind of like restoring a classic car, though I’m no automobile enthusiast. The 1.07GHz [...]
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I had been waiting months for this: I finally made time to try out the public beta (build 7000) of Windows 7 that I obtained through a source at work a few weeks back. It’s good till the end of July 2009. But indications are that this will be a short-lived test-drive; the Release Candidate [...]
Wrong. Right. Wrong. Right. There are reasons why I would never buy certain laptops with my own money – even if the economy is good and the local currency is exceptionally strong against the greenback. For people who: type with their ten fingers; use the keyboard to copy, cut, paste, save, select all, undo, find, [...]
To celebrate the BAFTA/Oscar season, I thought I’d do something remotely related on a personal scale: to award top four shows on TV with a lost cause. I wanted to do Top 5, which feels like a nice odd number, but couldn’t quite think of the fifth one. Anyway, here’s the ranking: Number 4 – [...]
It’s been almost 28 weeks since I started this blog and it’s now the end of the year – and it looks like an opportune time to pick the Movie of the Year, too. Well, it’s not just because of the timing that I picked 28 Weeks Later; in fact, timing’s a bit off considering [...]
It’s been a week since I bought my first iPod. And it’s a 2nd-generation 32GB touch. I wanted something that could productively occupy my 23-minute on-foot commute but also wanted something more than just a music/podcast player. I bought the touch because I knew it was the most compact – and affordable – Mac portable [...]
Last night, I upgraded my blog from WordPress version 2.5.1 to 2.6. After learning that my hosting provider won’t do upgrades on individual blogs, I decided to do it myself. Aside from the fact that WordPress had persistently been nagging me about the newest version released about a month ago, I wanted to take charge [...]
When I became a Mac user in 2004 after being inspired by my former supervisor Jonathan, one of the most significant changes I had to adapt to was that I couldn’t use keypad arrows because Macs didn’t have them. The keypad was there, but the keys would only function as numbers unlike PC keyboards where [...]