Posts Tagged: MAC

TECH / photoshop — 1 Comment
21
May 09

GMail, Facebook and Apple

The three of the most discussed “brand” on tech blogs. Besides Twitter, that is.

Well what’s new? GMail is getting more and more far ahead its ‘lousy’ competitors Ya-boo-hoo and really-not-Hotmail. GMail is totally pwning the rest. Now GMail labs comes with ‘Inbox Preview‘ while your GMail is loading.

While Gmail is loading, a simple, static preview of your inbox with your ten most recent messages is displayed. Turn it on from the Labs tab under Settings, and if you’re on a slow connection you’ll know from the start if it’s worth the wait.

Next up, Facebook. SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM. So many people using facebook, many more scams coming out to steal your passwords and spread the fire, steal others’ passwords. Moral of the story, never input your passwords anywhere except the url with facebook domain! OR DON’T SPEND TOO MUCH TIME WITH YOUR DEAR FACEBOOK!

Sites like FBAction.net, FBStarter.com, nutpic.at, bests.at, areps.at, kirgo.at,  simply asks for you to input your Facebook username and password, with a design that looks similar to that of Facebook.

Don’t give this site your information. If you do, it will proceed to send all of your friends a message telling them to go to there, and hence, the scam will continue to spread like wildfire. Just like what happened on MSN.

Lastly, Apple. This is exciting! Techcruch reports that More evidence of the Apple Tablet surfaced today. Woohoo. Another addition to the mac family?

Read about it here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/21/what-we-know-about-the-apple-tablet-so-far

That’s it for the tech update!

TECH / interesting / update — No Comments
17
Mar 09

Exams, iPhone OS and more…

Hohoho!

no, not Santa, but exams are here. Just had one today, didn’t really feel like an exam though.

We had a partial power blackout in certain part of the main house and my housemate’s room. No internet too. Life without internet is hard! LOL

What else is here? iPhone OS 3.0! Oh well, not really here here as it’s due to be released over the summer, but it’s total awesomeness, really really really and I can say really till tomorrow but it’s better to just check my post here to confirm for yourself http://www.macgeek.co.cc/2009/03/iphone-os-30-whats-groundbreaking-whats-new/

While on “stress-mode” I baked brownies yesterday night, mixed homogeneously till my arm hurted but the outcome was so TOTALLY worth it. I should make brownies for others when I’m back in Singapore. Did I mention that I made a very good beef rawon too? though I get very stingy about the beef portion since it’s expensive, but the soup alone is nice! (plus soy sauce, of course)

Oh, I slept only for 2 hours last night but I felt fresh! Haha :D

photoshop — No Comments
18
Feb 09

The Best Apple Ad Ever?

You know when you surfed to apple.com, you’ll see dynamic/changing ads on the first page everytime you refresh. Over the years, Apple has been designing top-notch advertisement. I think their philosophy is be different, don’t look good, look GREAT, advertise with sleek design and further advertisement will be from mouth to mouth (like from this Apple fangirl). Oh, of course the I’m PC I’m Mac ads but I’m pretty sure that’s just for fun, not so much for advertising.

Do people get showcased in their ads? They used to be. Now it’s more of just product + tag line, or software + features. So, Apple fangirl in action presents you this. Click on it for the original large version. Now all of you can say, “YOU WISH!”. Thank you very much.

TECH — 2 Comments
18
Feb 09

what geek?

Hi guys,


I created this yesterday and just pre-launched a new blog called macgeek. Basically, it’s blogging about interesting mac-related stuff. It’s not really open to public, or publicized or whatever yet. I’m just trying to keep it private till I filled it up with enough interesting blog posts (there are currently only 6) :]

I’m not sure if there are any huge Apple fanboy/girls among my friends but if there is anyone reading this who has the same passion and would like to contribute (voluntarily of course) or if you just have any suggestion of any posts you would like to see, please contact me :]

TECH — 5 Comments
20
Oct 08

Pixelmator

Haha.. another reason to get a mac, including the fact that a new series of macbooks are now on sale :P

Pixelmator

Is it better than Photoshop? Nah.. GUI-wise, yup yup. But.. functionality-wise, let’s say it’s a total eye candy that I can’t stop myself from learning how to use it. And.. it does have certain filters that Photoshop doesn’t. Also.. it’s always nice to learn new things right?

Here is the screenshot of Pixelmator at work. See how the ‘bucket’ to fill the background pops up when you click on it. Eye candy! That’s really one of the things that I love from mac apps.

Pixelmator Screenshot

And, as I’m learning from tutorials, the wallpaper below was created in round 10-15 minutes. The wonder of Pixelmator and its filters… YEAY…. maybe I need to import it to Photoshop to make it nicer haha…

geekywall

TECH / funny — No Comments
22
Sep 08

Cancel or Allow? LOL

Yesterday one of my friends, Har, used “I’m a mac” for his nickname on msn and gmail. This reminds me of the I’m a Mac, I’m a PC – get a mac ads by Apple. Curious, I searched and found many, from year 2006 onwards. Some are very funy :D

All of you who have been users of Vista for quite some time might be annoyed with this “Cancel or Allow” security measures thing. Hahaha. I’ve been a victim too, so I know how it feels :P

Enjoy …

TECH — No Comments
20
Aug 08

Dell Studio Hybrid

Seems like many IT companies are gradually accepting their defeat and started learning from Apple (and yeah, they still do say that they have different markets).

No one really cares that much about design, until Apple came in, not with good design, but GREAT ones. Designs that customers do not mind paying high prices for.

For Dell’s case, my guess is that, if you can’t beautify your laptop, then beautify your desktop! Make it sleek, shiny, and… small of course. Presenting Dell Studio Hybrid: “Dell’s most unique, stylish, and conscientious desktop PC. Designed to fit into your environment while protecting the environment.”

Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop in colours

Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop in colours

Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop

Dell Studio Hybrid Desktop

For windows user, this is good news! but.. I think iMac is still better :P

And this not even its best side :P

And this not even its best side :P

Is this the best side?

Is this the best side?

TECH — No Comments
19
Mar 08

Now Available: Safari 3.1


Now Available: Safari 3.1

 

Apple today introduced the world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs — Safari 3.1.

safari 

In addition to loading web pages 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than FireFox 2, Safari 3.1 runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers. Available for free download for Mac OS X and Windows, Safari 3.1 is also the browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences.

Speed

features 

Have I turned into a MacFreak?

No I still use Firefox 2 :P but safari is really fast :)