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I checked out the new iPhone 3G at a Hutchison 3 outlet in Tuen Mun yesterday.
I loaded Google News on Safari over the 3G network. Performance was quite agreeable, and the gorgeous screen! I could read it all day!
It is not cheap thou. HK$4,680 and HK$5,640 to take the 8GB and 16GB models out respectively. [...]

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The download was fast (over 300KB/s!) and the upgrade was pretty much seamless. A few plugins are not yet compatible with Firefox 3 and have been automatically disabled, pending update.
A total non-event, which is the best kind of upgrade.

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Updated entry. The first words are in. Mum and dad said the Chinese-made ceramic knife is much better at cutting bread their special-purpose bread knife.

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I have attended two field trips in the last few weeks and took my GPS with me. I created two Google Earth KML files from the GPS data and emailed the Guangzhou file to fellow member of the travel group. Except more than half of the group have absolutely no idea what Google Earth is [...]

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The workflow sucks.I am now deeply convinced of the usefulness of the BT wireless microphone. You could pick up much better sound by sticking that mic close to the speaker, plus any conversation between the speaker and the audience. This beats a shotgun mic. Pretty much ideal for my needs. One little nit to pick: [...]

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Light and small.Excellent movie image quality. Reasonable (to my own standard) low-light movie image quality. Good photo image quality.Reasonable audio quality. I have yet to scrutinze the audio quality given by the BT wireless microphone. Next time may be I’ll bring along my Zoom H2 to pick up some decent sound during meetings and presentations.The [...]

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is a total pain in the neck.

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Ubuntu encrypted partition is very good. All data strongly encrypted. Bootloader asks for password when booting or waking from hibernation then it all works transparently.
Performance of X30 with 768MB RAM running Ubunto 8.04 was a bit slow but still quite usable. I even wrote a long paper on it using the excellent Kile (LaTeX editor) [...]

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Modern as in, available for sale today.
Around August 2006 I set up a computer running Ubuntu for my old man as he wanted something for the Internet. The Intel Celeron chip was a late version just before they went multi-core. Not too shabby for the day, and works okay.
Then the computer died. I suspect it [...]

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The previous version 7.10 Desktop running on my newly acquired old Thinkpad X30 has poor stability when it comes to Wifi connection. The connection would work for 10-20 minutes and then die. This happens w/ a Linksys 802.11g PCMCIA card running on some voodoo Win32 blob driver over an emulation layer, as well as an [...]

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We went to the local public library last Sunday w/ Jasper to pick up some English readings. There I found Arthur (ex-NPCer) with his gigantic desktop computer in the children’s section, occupying one round table all by himself. He recognized me so I went up to him and was just about to ask him WTF [...]

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I’ve just got hold of a nearly mint IBM Thinkpad X30. The one with the legendary keyboard. No, my Lenovo Thinkpad X61 keyboard is nowhere as nice.
The problem was, the X30 only had 256MB of RAM. I wiped out the harddisk containing WinXP Home and installed Ubuntu Linux. The machine simply wasn’t usable because of [...]

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I have just found out about it. Hurrah! With Google Sync, you may now sync Google Calendar with your Crackberry.
It doesn’t work with my ancient Crackberry thou. I couldn’t download the software. Insufficient memory! Crap.

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Last Saturday was cold and wet. I had my TP X40 in a bag. While walking down some outdoor stairs which were very slippery I slipped, landed on my backside, and stopped myself from sliding all the way down the stairs by rolling over. I also broke the computer. The casing protecting the screen and [...]

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SuperDuper! has just been updated to be compatible with Leopard. Now I can upgrade the OS on my iMac.
I would say SuperDuper! is one of the greatest invention for modern personal computing. It enables you to easier backup your Mac. As long as your backup is intact, you could always resume work easily. THE. BEST. [...]

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The customer demography of Apple dealers, especially those in Central is very different to that of the average computer shop in SSP or MK. Their customers are often rich and powerful, and maybe even famous, and those dealers try very hard not to annoy them, ‘cos otherwise there may be dire consequences.
If I were a [...]

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The Lady needs a laptop computer for her study during the upcoming holiday, so we went window shopping yesterday at Wanchai Computer Centre at Southorn.We looked at the Lenovo Thinkpad X61. The shops there sell a higher model than the one PCCW and Broadway are selling for just under HK$10K. For HK$1K more you get [...]

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I have just realized that PCCW has a special deal w/ the 8 universities re: their extensive Wifi network. Any staff or student would get free access. Since I am an associates student of the CUHK Faculty of Arts, it’s just a matter of signing up (which took a couple of minutes), althou the sign-up [...]

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As reported by the BBC. Let the World Factory flood the world w/ this gadget! Move over Eee PC. I want two.

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Read about this special offer in the paper. B/W laser printer, B/W photocopier, B/W/colour fax and colour scanner all-in-one. Special price at HK$2,499. My employer uses Ricoh fax and photocopiers and they have been solid. I personally would prefer something with Postscript or PS emulation and duplex printing, but this looks like a reasonable deal.
Link.

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