Facebook recently unveiled it’s new re-design to all it’s users, called Facebook Timeline, where it takes over the traditional profile based design and replace it with a brand new interface with heavy emphasis of time and well, not to mention age, many users would take time to understand the re-design and there’s a foreseeable backlash of users that would object against it.

However, this is certainly the right step of presenting users with useful and detailed information, as its now presented in a life profile, allowing any individual to learn more about one’s life. (And not whatsoever that’s recent).

I believe this is a response to Google+, extending the circles concept further with it’s wealth of information collected over the years, with a strong emphasis of history.

This is Facebook’s Brand New Re-designed profile (The photo was taken from one of my recent Toastmasters’ competition)

Immediately beside your titles are tiles / tabs, which you can easily update, add applications (which will be made available during launch) to include in your profile and it shows you interesting services and contents which you are linked to, for example, like Spotify (it will pull up your musical tastes)

But just for this example, I’ve included Tetris Battle in one of my featured applications, seems cool, don’t you think so?

Well, unless there’s further privacy concerns.

As you scroll down, you’ll no longer see lines of excel sheet sized status updates and photos, its more like a magazine styled design with a timeline at the centre, allowing you to navigate through your virtual life, and learning all about your past with dates at the side.

You can easily add a status, photo, place or any one of the diversified categorised, such as Work and Education, Family & Relationships, Living, Health & Wellness and Milestones & Experiences.

And yeah, you get this feature too in the timeline profile itself, at the sharing box located right below your personal information. And yes, you get access to the diversified categories!

As you scroll down through the timeline, it will show you a month by month summary on all the events you had RSVPed and Friends you had made, so it’s easy to consolidate and have a one glance view on what you had done.

Through the new Facebook Timeline, I get to scroll through all my old and long met friends and probably see when I added them, since its heavily focused based on time (the past and present), the content are modified in such a way where time becomes the content of wealth.

And if you didn’t notice, as you scroll down, you’ll get to see a large personal bar which you can share and add information about yourself automatically straight from the bar on top.

Scrolling through the timeline is like reading your own personal life magazine, it is fully customised based on what you’ve input to Facebook over the years, its a breeze to see what you had done, accomplished and experienced in both good and bad ways over your usage period in Facebook, and for some, it starts when they are born.

Some extra privacy details about sharing information in your timeline profile before I jump into the important Facebook applications, as usual, you could delete / hide the post from the timeline. And now, for those stuff and moments you are proud of, you can always feature them in the timeline.

And yes, not forgetting the Info tab, which you can learn more about the person in the profile that you are currently viewing. It’s now so much neater, cleaner and provides you with only information that you need. Nothing else.

Now, lets go through some of the crucial Facebook apps, one of them is Friends, it shows your friends in tiles, with their display pictures at the side. Looks like Windows Phone 7 tiles, it’s easy to comprehend, and instead of putting friends in alphabetical order, it shows friends that you always talk to. Some personalization algorithm there, I believe.

The photos application look similar to the friends app above, it shows you all the photos that you’ve recently added and Facebook still employs their same old tactics, more images will load when your scroll down (so there’s nothing to show other than this feature right now)

Using your check-ins, Facebook will now show you a map representation on the places you’ve been and classify it accordingly with the tabs located at the bottom, the places are also really interactive. For example, after clicking on one of the shiny dots, which represents the number of check ins:

Now moving onto Facebook Likes:

I wouldn’t say that Facebook had really invested time onto changing the Likes section, as it looks similar to the older Facebook profile under the info tab, but the interface looks cleaner and simple.

Facebook also provides an activity log, or a stuff that you’ve done over the past few years. Nothing in much detail, doesn’t need much explanation, what you see is .. what you get!

Alright, I believe that I had managed to cover some of the most essential features about Facebook Timeline, hit me up at @thejeremygoh if you’ve any more questions.

PS: After scrolling all the way down in my timeline, Facebook is seriously asking me to add my baby photo (Are you sure about that Facebook, this timeline is even thicker than my graduation yearbooks combined!)

J.

P/PS: If you’ve not got your timeline, you are probably not a developer, which you can easily sign up and do it here, which should look something like this:

The device retails at a decently high price, but given the Solid State drive, the price point is understandable. The device should probably work on the Android UI and keep Windows 7 as it’s main operating system. The battery life is not remarkable and could be improved, about 3 hours plus of usage, slightly lesser than a netbook. Given the device’s price point, it should need a closer review especially with upcoming tablets in the market such as the Viewsonic ViewPad.
Overall, the device provides an average user’s day to day needs with an entire Windows OS without lugging the weight.

Windows Updates is still a must though

J.

Many people have questions about the newer iPad release, some might even doubt their purchase as many expected more from this release, some people realized that the new product fall short of their expectations. So let me clarify my take of this whole new iPad vs iPad 2 (1.5) saga.
So don’t start thinking that the iPad 2 is just another iPad 1S [Remember iPhone 3G to 3GS?]

Let me take all this new features and ergonomics inspiration as a first generation iPad user to justify for the product purchase.

1) It’s an add on.
True enough, the iPad do not have the capacity to do all things crazy and digital. No matter how Apple tries to add as much capacity on the iPad (like adding Garageband and iMovie), such as the range of apps and products, it still could not take over the entire Macbook / iMac – Mac OS X line of products. And of course, it couldn’t run Flash, which many competitors use that as a selling advantage.

2) It’s a convenient-product
This is a tablet computer (sort of), and many people expected a lot from something which is so portable and thin (Are you serious?). Bulk Vs Computing Power. Like what the old saying goes, one will rise above the other. Do you know that the new iPad 2 is thinner than the iPhone 4?
As compared to the original iPad, do you know that the iPad 2 is now lighter and thinner?

3) What are you expecting?
It’s just a tablet, In my point of view, Apple would never come out with brand new technologies in an instant, if the competition could not live up to the hype. Have you heard of any compiling tablets after the iPad? Okay probably, the Galaxy Tab which is totally reskinned by Samsung and not a native Android UI? The Motorola Xoom? Something which is still not being released to the public yet, with its traumatising pricing? (The specifications of the product makes up for it though, but who needs something that can process so much on an Android?) but in my view, there isn’t a real competitor! Although tons of tablets were released, not one managed to hit it’s sales target as strong as the iPad. And not to mention that some tablets from other manufacturers is actually slow and buggy as hell.

4) Do I totally need this features?

Camera?

Yes, iPad 2 comes with a camera. And yes, don’t most laptops do as well? ( Although I am pretty happy that Apple included Photobooth, which is a type of Neoprint and on the fly image effects and editing application). However, the camera they used is the same as the iPod Touch (4th Gen), which is totally not cutting it. The camera in the rear supports 720P HD video recording is a strong standpoint for the camera, however the image capture is terrible and some of the photos which came out of it is really pixelated and do not capture the essence of the image with washed out colours. At the same note, the camera in the front of the device is only VGA quality, if you remember, it is the same quality as my old Motorola Razr V3 phone. On the other hand, the front camera is only needed for FaceTime, unless you want your friends to see every detail (Including your pimples), you don’t really need a good camera for that. (FaceTime is a video chatting technology by Apple, and since all your video conversations will pass through Apple’s servers, they will not provide HD video calls as it will slow down their servers and increase load)
The camera is not visible, and taking videos on the iPad might need some time for people to get used to.
Final Say: The FaceTime idea is not too compiling as there’s no iOS messenger or a system to find friends who are using an iOS device which contains a camera. On the other hand, the FaceTime idea is not very compelling as it only runs only through Wifi. (Lets not talk about Cydia hacks)

Do I need the faster performance on the iPad?
Probably, I notice that Apple tried to shrimp on the RAM (Which is a component which temporary memory is stored) by providing only 256MB which caused many applications to crash and run out of memory really fast. Especially when they are intensive games or applications that involve heavy processing power. So their answer to that is an Apple A5 chip, which is better than the previous A4 chip as it’s duo core and have double the processing power. However, Apple did not announce and release the specifications for the iPad’s 2 RAM.
From what I understand from other sources, Apple’s point of lowering the RAM is for developers to write better and ‘cleaner’ code for the Operating System to run. The processing power on the iPad is significantly bumped up, but the RAM is still crucial on the device which Apple is keeping quiet about.
Final Say: Unconcluded, despite the better processing power of the device, the RAM is not justified, yet. (Until we see those iFixIt photos!)

Battery Life.
I believe it’s a signature for Apple products, increase all the features and keep the batteries strong and steady is something which Apple took pride in since day one. I currently own an iPad and their claimed 10 hours of battery life not only hits its target and even went further, I have been getting close to 2 to 3 days worth of usage, which is really constant and amazing. Other phones, especially those running on the Android platform, do have quite an issue with the battery usage due to many factors such as multitask and options like that.
Final Say: Leave Apple running in it’s hamster wheel on the power management! It’s doing a good job!

iPad Smart Cover.

In short, its an accessory, but it gets so much attention because it’s made by Apple and the design is in it’s essence. So the quick idea is there’s this cloth you put on the iPad and the device will sleep, you take the cloth out, the device will turn itself back on again.
Final Say: This is actually another sub product of a product for users to purchase, consider all options before you intend to get one.

HDMI output (High Definition Video output to Televisions or Display outlets).

Yes, its important, and once you know that it’s important. Apple would charge you for an optional accessory to go with it, because not everyone use this feature. So it will cost you about another $50 to get the cable to route the video out. However, one feature you get is Video Mirroring, which is finally resolved as its a really big issue on the first generation of the iPad as many people thought that they are able to broadcast any content they see on the iPad to the big screen. However, seldom knew that it will only work for certain supported applications, such as the video app and Apple’s iWork suite, Keynote (Powerpoint), Pages and Numbers.
Some Android tablets have a HDMI port out of the box, but to keep the product slim and the profit higher, a HDMI cable is being sold, but not everyone would need it anyway. Definitely my grandma won’t!
Final Say: You don’t need to be concerned if you are a regular user. If you are a business user, the HDMI cable come with a charging port while you are doing presentations, so it’s quite a trade off even for the price you are paying.

Gyroscope and features like that.

I understand that the strong factor for the iPad is about applications. If you do not have apps, you can probably forget about getting the iPad. Which is why Apple emphasizes a lot on Application development and API usage, which is to utilize all aspects of the hardware that the device have, while maintaining the game in it’s field. Gyroscope is a technology which could be really hard to implement as it is have to do with gravity, and adding so many features into a game could delay development and increase pricing due to the R&D involved. So many games developers actually do not use the gyroscope technology yet, which is quite disappointing as it is such a huge potential. However, the compass is a genius when you are walking around the town area with Google Maps and the accelerometer is a no brainer, almost all the functions rely on it, including changing the device orientations and stuff like that.
Final Say: As compared to the first iPad, a new gyroscope is added, might not be useful, yet.

5) Why I am still a little disappointed.

(I am on the road and this happens, Now do you see the whole big issue)
Many people say the Wifi version of the iPad is a poor man’s device. Although that’s quite true, but they should have added more features to the product. As compared to the 3G iPad, the Wifi iPad do not include GPS and 3G. I mean 3G is definitely justifiable as its a mobile technology which would definitely cost more. But GPS? I mean, it will be awesome if I am able to use the iPad as a GPS unit while driving instead of my phone, with its miniature screen size and a small squeaky speaker. And there’s so many GPS applications on the app store such as Sygic Aura, Tomtom, among many other GPS Navigations applications. Most of the maps is downloaded and use offline anyway. On top of that, many hoped that there will be newer display technologies, such as the Retina Display for the iPad, but given the jump in cost price if that happens, they might hold it off for another product release. Some were hoping that there will an SD card slot for importing music and images, high capacity (apart from their 16GB, 32GB and 64GB), a smaller version of the iPad (Probably something of the size like Galaxy Tab) or many people simply label it as a iPad Mini or Nano and finally the crappy mono speakers, which they really need a bump to stereo speakers this time round. But again, is that really needed? (A bump would be good, nevertheless)
Final Say: If you want to get an iPad, look for one with 3G, even though the price point is slightly steeper and since most telco’s provide a free data card (Mobile broadband) all you need is a MicroSIM cutter or a new MicroSIM from your Telco. If you are not willing to spend, just go with iPad (first generation), most users do not need the new features, we have our mobile phones for them, or more specifically the iPhones and the Androids.

6) Why I am pleased.
Pricing point, no change in pricing at all, in fact Apple has lowered the price point for the first generation of iPad by $200 and for the refurbished about $300 SGD. So if you want one, it’s good to get it first and help Apple to clear their inventory.
The battery life is rated at 10 hours, despite all the new astonishing features being added to the iPad 2, the battery life is still the same as the first generation iPad.

The lovely iOS 4.3 is an update to their slightly dated iOS 4.2
Which I appreciate Apple for not charging for the update for the entire line of Apple iPad, there is some tactful new features such as AirPlay, which is an over the air streaming protocol between Apple products. Probably one of the most worthy update is to the Safari web browser on the iPad with the new Nitro Javascript engine which claims to load pages twice as fast as it’s previous Safari browser on iOS 4.2. Other annoying features fixed is the preference for the iPad Side Switch, iTunes Home Sharing extended to the iOS device and a slightly improved mail client.
Final Say: iOS 4.3 is just a fix for some of the annoying bugs that iOS 4.2 face, luckily they added the better javascript engine which many would really benefit from it. The price drop for the older generation iPad is what I call as a lady killer. Yeah, go for it!

7) Upgrade?
Many sources have mentioned that existing iPad owners should not upgrade to the iPad 2 as its improvements is not exactly really huge. Trading in your iPad at the current moment is not a variable option as the resale value has already dropped. Do you need the newer features, is it really necessary? If not, stick with it, if yes, consider your budget and all your options that the new iPad got to really offer.
Final Say: Think twice if you want to upgrade your existing iPad to the newer iPad 2.

Price Point?
New users on a budget constrain should probably look into the refurbished section of the Apple site for the first generation iPad (It changes from time to time, so stocks and quantity is limited) or wait for the upcoming weeks to get your newer iPad. As always, if you order your iPad through Apple’s online store, you will get a free engraving and shipping! (But your iPad casing would probably cover off the engraving like what my colleague have said and it would decrease trade in value, unless you use Apple’s new smart cover case)
Final Say: The first generation iPad fits within most budgets (You could get one for as little as $450 SGD, if you get the time right), if not just settle for the second one. (If you find a budget surplus that is)

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All comments and opinions expressed are solely of Jeremy Goh.
Questions, Opinions and Thinktanks?
Leave your comment below or tweet me @jeremy89632

All Image credits: Apple Inc

Today, we have the HTC Desire HD set for review. Revealed during HTC’s event in London, many of my friends from VillainROM managed to get some photos of it and touched it before it was sold. So finally, it was released here in Singapore, and we could get one to review on hands today.


Like every HTC shipment, they are mostly white, and are safety sealed to prevent the phone from opening.

This is what you get when you open the box, not too fancy about it, we had to dig out fingernails in to take the phone out. Or you could take the phone flap out and try to get the phone out of the flap.

This is where it gets interesting, a warrenty statement, safety guide, customer service guide, quick start guide. And hang on, whats that, HTC Locations? Yeah, its their built in GPS service on the phone, bundled with the entire HTC framework.

Accessories, a USB charging cable + USB AC Adaptor, 3.5mm headphones with Mic (The quality of the earphones is horrible), thats pretty much it.

As for charging wise, its using the standards complient MicroUSB port, which is supported by most cables.

As I decide to be cheap, I will merge all the reviews into one, what you see in this photo is the charging port, and beside it is a headphone jack and with the 4 touch sensitive and haptic feedback keys.

The phone comes with Dolby Mobile and SRS WOW HD sound enhancements ONLY IN THE HTC MUSIC APPLICATION (What a bummer!), nevertheless, the battery slot is at the side. The battery life is terrible, you could only get 5 hours of usage if you are a heavy user.

Once you remove the cover of the bottom of the phone, you can change sim cards and microsd cards. By the way, the cover is an anthenna for the phone to communicate to the cell networks.

Alright, first impressions, 4.3 inch screen, gorgeous. Loads of room for playing and surfing around the screen, the processor is fast and snappy and show no obvious sign of lag. Scrolling around the playing with the improved Sense UI is excellent.
It’s just the battery life which is not cutting it.

Moving onto the setup process, transferring contacts and personal information is a breeze with the easy to use quick import function through bluetooth.

You could also set your phone to sync your data with Google / HTC / all the other providers, such as Facebook or Twitter, manually or automatically.

The new and improved HTC Sense features online cloud solution for your phone, you could basically set up call forwarding, sms forwarding, phone lock and alarm all for free on their website at HTCSense.com without even touching the phone at all. This new cloud service is pretty smart, isn’t it.

The usual Google / Exchange support is there, no big deal.

You could connect to all the social networks and add even more networks to the existing list by downloading add on applications from the HTC Hub.

This is your first look on the HTC Desire HD.

Big Screen (4.3 Inch Scren)
Good Sound Quality (Dolby Mobile / SRS WOW HD)
Good Lighting and viewing angles
Good Camera ( 8 Megapixel + Dual LED Flash + HD Video Recording)
Good Sensors (Light Sensor + Accelerometer )
Good Software (HTC Sense)
Bad Battery Life (4+ / 5 hours, heavy usage)

(Click here to view the Hardware review for the Apple iPad 1st Gen)

Today, we are going to take a look at Apple’s new software for the iPad. Lets see what did Apple really do as compared to the other competitors such as the Samsung with their Galaxy Tab in terms of the software aspect, which is one of the important factors when it comes to usability and the capability of the device. The amazing home screen is able to rotate in 360 degrees, which is all for sides of the screen. You could turn the iPad upside down and it would work as well, so it’s really good for mobility usage. I will only show all the default applications included in the iPad to make it a fair competition between all the other devices. I will also not compare the number of applications in the app store.

I will first show you around the calendar app, which is really nice. Apple redesigned it and you could see your agenda at one glance and place events by just clicking on the time slots. It shows the monthly calendar as well, and oh yes, its awesome flip animations while flipping through days. It’s really smooth as well, and doesn’t lag, especially when I am syncing my calendar with Microsoft ActiveSync.  Now, to the Mail app, the animations is plentiful, from deleting mail to the flying mail to the trash bin effect. You could also tick as many mails as possible and delete them all at once or to move them to somewhere else. One downside, which I really have to complain is you couldn’t attach an attachment to the app or just simply download an attachment .

It’s even more intuitive when it comes to composing or replying to emails, there’s this popup effect on the mail app itself, so it’s really nice, big and gorgeous when replying or composing mails.

When coming to the Contacts application, it really shows all the your contacts in a ‘old diary’ format, while making it look neat at the same time. The groups tab above is really good especially I have already sort out all my target audiences in groups via Microsoft Outlook or Gmail. Just one small annoyance is the smaller contacts display when using the portrait mode, looks like this app is optimized for landscape.

The next application is YouTube, not much difference from the iPhone app, you just get HD YouTube video streaming and .. that’s pretty much it. But this is how the interface is like when searching and scrolling through videos. No much interesting stuff.

This is the app store, which anyone could download apps from. Difference? Not much, it’s just bigger, and that’s it. Do you see a difference? No? Okay. Good.

This Notes application is really interesting, you could really see the potential being used for such a big screen, and it really works well. It’s big and gorgeous when typing notes and the left panel shows all the notes that have been written and saved, where the notepad’s pad itself is where you type stuff in.

The iTunes application on the iPad allows access to the massive database of the iTunes Store, so you could get all your Music, TV Shows, Podcast, Books and Movies. However, in Singapore, there’s no iTunes Music, Movies and TV Shows support yet.

iPod application to play music and videos, its nice that they added the music volume bar on the top left corner of the app. One downside, small play and pause keys, make it bigger and it would be good.

The iPad browser is actually really nice, like literally nice! The thumbnails are really nice, it looks like the Safari browser itself, well done for that. Frankly, once you open more than 3 or 4 tabs, the Safari would just close and crash due to the limited RAM that the iPad actually have.

This is the videos app which shows all your movies in a nice and neat view. Except, sometimes the videos couldn’t be played without closing the iPad application or apps that actually plays video or music. Like some player in Safari.

This is the Settings application, its neat and tidy, just like the one is iPhone, except there’s that left navigation bar. Nice user interface and good screen estate management there.

Lastly, iBooks, its nice and interesting. Lots of stuff in there, the page flipping animation is unbelievably nice and good. I hope I provided you with many photos of the interesting user interface that the iPad have to offer. Unfortunately, the lack of enough RAM may cause even its own applications to crash in some occasions, so it will be good if Apple actually bump up the RAM in the device.

Till than.

J.

If you have a modem that comes with router you might want to skip to Step 7 to set it up.
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If you do not have an existing wireless network and wish to add one, read on!
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First, I assume that you have a modem / ADSL, if you have zero idea what a modem / ADSL is, it looks something like that. Many companies do Modem, the common one’s like Motorola or Prolink.

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Secondly, I assume you got a wireless router off your IT shop. In my case, I received a brand new Linksys WRT54G2 router a few days ago.

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Thirdly, I also assume that you pay for internet bills and you have an existing internet connection with your provider
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Alright, once you fulfill the 3 requirements as above, you are good to go!

We are not going to use the documentation and CD tools provided as we are going to manually set it up ourselves!
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Lets start off learning a few names and stuff in the box, shall we.

This is a LAN (Local Area Network) Cable, this cable allow network packets or in simpler terms, allow computers and networks to link to each other.

In the box, it contains the AC Adapter.

Lastly, the router itself (Which is the mastermind of the routing connections at your home), and after that, lets get started!
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After knowing whatever inside the box, lets set it up!

1) Plug in the AC Power in the socket.

2) Pull off all relevant stickers and plug in the power. After that, switch on the Power.

3) Inside the box should provide you a LAN cable right? Plug that in.


4) Plug the other end into the source of the internet, in this case, a modem.

5) Look for a network which have the highest signal and which is unsecured and identical to your own router. You may also buy or find another LAN cable to connect your router to your computer.

6) You could get Windows 7, which I am using at the moment to help me set up, however, in my case, as I mentioned earlier, we will be using our own methods to set it up without installing additional software.

7)
If you are a Windows Vista / 7 user, please skip this and go direct to Step 8.
Windows XP users, please go to the Control Panel Start -> Control Panel OR Start -> Settings -> Control Panel
At the left hand corner, switch to Classic View and go to Network Connections, if you are using Wireless, click on Wireless Network Connection or the manufacturer of your Wireless card and it should show some kind of signal bar on it. However, If you are using LAN Cable, click on Local Area Connection and once you are done, right click and go to Status and click on Support followed by Details under Connection Status. After you are done, skip to step 11

8 ) For Windows 7 and Vista users, go to Control Panel by going to Start -> Control Panel than search Network and Sharing Center to get there.

9) Look for your internet connection, once you found it click on it.

10) Than click on details.

11) Here comes the confusing part, look for default gateway and take down the IP address.

12) Than use your web browser, like Internet Explorer or Firefox and enter that IP address inside it.

13) You should see a username and password screen and click here to help you with it [Replace the search line with your Router Manufacturer and Model number]. If that do not help you, look inside your box or call the support line and request for the default username and password for your router.

14) After you are inside the system, it varies from router to router, you might want to go into your settings or administration console to change your router password.

15) Go to Wireless Security and change the basic security settings. Firstly, you can change your Network Name, or known as the SSID to something else, like your own name, or anything else.

16) Go to wireless security and change to WPA Personal, which is the most secure method available for wireless protection, so you won’t be a victim for those who tap on your network to download pirated materials. If WPA Personal give problems, choose WEP ( A Legacy protection method ), but it does it job too.

17) After that, set a password and save it!

Your router may restart and if you are using a wireless network connection while setting it up, you may have to reconnect to the network and key in your new security credentials!

If you have further questions on setting up your router, Twitter me at @jeremy89632

All the best on setting up your new router!
Jeremy Goh.

1) A New iPod Nano – 5th Generation
I know, you will go like wa right?
Yes, there is a brand new iPod Nano.

Do you notice something different?

As you may know, new products will cost more right?
Wrong! In fact, they reduced the price. I will walk step by step with you and explain to you the different features in the new iPod Nano.
- Video

The most noticeable feature in the new series of iPod Nano, is this Video Camera.
The bad thing is, it cant take photos. When it took video, the resolution is 640×480 standard definition video at 30 frames per second, MP4 format and AAC Audio (For the geeks) Which is somehow decent, like a phone camera. This kind of video quality is totally not on par, if you are going to compare to a video cam. This could be only the YouTube kind of quality you are getting.
- FM Radio

Something which Creative had for 200 years is now in your iPod Nano! Yup, its radio! RADIO, a technology back in the 80s. Is coming to your NEW iPod in the 21st century today!
- VoiceOver

Ha! The new VoiceOver tech is now in your new Nano. Which basically means that your Nano is able to ‘talk’ to you and tell you what song you are listening, but as usual the voice sounds like a robot and yeah. Technology existed since the start of 2000. But good implementation though.
- Pedometer

This is something I am waiting for. This iPod will actually count how many steps you walk using a hardware called accelerometer inside your Nano. It will also calculate how many calories I burned. Good stuff! Pebble, mind buying me one?
- Genius

It will analyze what songs blends with another and such. Well, this is actually an old feature.
Alright, so thats all for the new iPod’s.
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2) iPod Classic
There is also some changes to the iPod Classic, the same price, $388, will get you a 160GB iPod, which is a good deal, as compared to the older 120GB.

3) iPod Touch
Same changed to the iPod Touch as well, cheaper price.

4) iPod Shuffle
Even lower price for the iPod Shuffle. No changes to design or memory.

5) Other Small Changes
Some small updates has also been mentioned, the new iPhone / iPod Touch 3.1 firmware is out, so do update it. iTunes 9 for both Windows and Mac has also been released.

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Fun Facts from News.com
• Apple has sold 30 million iPhones since the launch of the device.

• More than 20 million iPod Touches have been sold.

• More than 100 million iPod Nanos have been sold.

• Users have downloaded 1.8 billion apps from a catalog of more than 75,000.

• Apple has 100 million registered iTunes users.

Have fun during this recession times, as Apple cuts down prices.

Cheers
Jeremy

To update, just go over to the Help menu and click ‘Check for Updates’.

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Opera 10 : First Look
Features
- In Line Spelling Check, its long and had arrived.

- Opera Turbo

- Visual Tabs

- Ability to change tab bars.

- Opera Widgets
Your favorite games and applications, all under the Opera Engine!
- Opera Link
Carry your Bookmarks and Notes, everywhere, anywhere

Many more features like more tabs..

Opera Mail..

See the whole features list here.

Jeremy

Managed to get my hands on, onto one of the Windows Mobile 6.5 ROMS and get it to my phone.
Check it out and notice a few changes compared to Windows Mobile 6.1 or 6.0 or even Windows Mobile 5.
They introduced a really nice User Interface to it and did changes to the start menu, now its a honey comb instead of the 3×3 icon start menu.
This is not the Final Build, but there is more improvements to be made in this software.

Actually, I did all these screenshots some time back. Around a week or 2 ago, so some of my blog images has changed ;D

Cheers,
Jeremy

Pictures : Copyright of Microsoft Corp

Don’t tell that to anyone okay? Non-productive time

1) Head over to Facebook’s Username Page

2) Than wait for the counter to count down, that time when I sign into Facebook that time is about 2 hours, which I didn’t take a screenshot yet.

3) At the very last second, I managed to press print screen and get you an image, which is the one below.

4) After the page refreshed, the continue button will appear.

5) After that, you will be brought to a page to register your nickname !

It will take your email’s username and start guessing from there, but usually if can’t, than the best is to provide a custom username.

6) After picking your favourite username, click check availability and they will give you a box to say whether you wanna confirm this name.

7) Than the final screen will tell you that its confirmed!

It’s so simple and fun to chop your own Facebook Username!
Where got so simple, actually. Wait until I kee-siao.
Hahaha, I kid, I kid.

Facebook Admins, don’t terminate my account after reading this.

Cheers,
Jeremy