I just celebrated my anniversary birthday (on Aug 5th). Thanks my dad, mom (who’s far away from here), sister, wife, naughty daughter, and all family members to stand on my side.
Thanks my cosup and Thai friends (= P’Tao, P’Tip, Yun, Sutt, and Mike) for the dinner at Kuishi Bo / Jurong Point. Thanks friends from PDCC (= Irene, Alan, and Jiangming) for the other dinner at Big Eater / Jurong West near City Harvest. Thanks P’Tip for the lovely concept cake Cloud Computing! That’s inspiring me a lot. And I would like to say Thanks to all friends from facebook
In this anniversary, the new iPad is another gift of the year
ข่าวจากเว็บGridTodayพาดหัวข้อ A Man, an iPhone, and the Cloud โดยDerrick Harris เนื้อหาเป็นเรื่องราวของ Douglas และ Brooke สามีภรรยาคู่หนึ่งเจ้าของเว็บไซต์ Apple iPhone School เว็บยอดนิยมของกลุ่มผู้ใช้มือถือiPhone ในข่าวได้กล่าวถึงความสำเร็จในการก่อตั้งเว็บของบุคคลธรรมดาๆสองคนนี้ จากที่เคยเริ่มต้นเพียงหน้าเว็บที่ทำรายได้จากการโฆษณาเพียงวันละไม่กี่เซ็นต์ แล้วก็เขยิบมาเป็นวันละไม่กี่เหรียญ ฟังดูอาจจะเป็นเงินน้อยๆ แต่มันก็มากพอที่จ่ายค่าบิลโทรศัพท์รายเดือนของทั้งคู่ได้
วันนี้พนักงานจาก Apple Center โทรมาหาผมให้ไปรับMacBookPro ที่ Wheelock Place ถนนOrchard ผมเอาเครื่องMACไปซ่อมเพราะปัญหาเบิร์นดีวีดีไม่ได้ สรุปแล้ว ทางร้านก็ทำการเปลี่ยน DVD Drive ให้เป็นรุ่นใหม่เอี่ยมเลย โชคดีที่เครื่องยังอยู่ในประกัน ชอบ Mac ก็ตรงนี้แหละนะ มันประกันทั่วโลก และก็บริการรวดเร็วทันใจดี ตอนแรกกะว่าถ้าไป Apple Center จะถ่ายรูปร้านAppleที่ Wheelock Place มาให้ดูด้วย ชื่อศูนย์Appleที่นี่มีชื่อว่า Epic Centre ถือว่าเป็นร้านที่ใหญ่พอสมควร ถ้าผมได้ไปร้านนี้อีกครั้งจะเก็บภาพมาให้ดูนะครับ อย่างไรก็ดี ตอนที่ผมรับเครื่องเสร็จแล้ว ผมก็ได้แวะร้านหนังสือที่อยู่ชั้นแรกของห้าง ร้านหนังสือนี้ชื่อว่า BORDERS เป็นร้านใหญ่ที่มีชื่อเสียงระดับโลก ถ้าในอเมริกาก็ถือว่าใหญ่เป็นอันดับสอง (อันดับหนึ่งคือ Barnes & Noble)
In fact I metioned this thing on the previous news - ”The Next Touch“, but I’d like to talk about the other side. Those stuffs from that topic are unofficial and fake, just designs, however I expect that Apple must release a kind of them someday. Let’s look a few incoming realmulti-touch products shown above that running genuine Microsoft Windows 7. The advantage of Windows 7 is that it can run on any vendors’ compatible hardware while Apple’s OS generally performs on only official Apple’s hardware, except when Apple’s is open-source (e.g., Darwin). So we might see more kinds of products running Windows 7; that could be laptops, tablet PCs, kiosks, vizwalls, and (touched) screens; and produced by any vendors. Finally I can (multi)touch the Windows but I wonder whether it could be trusted
Let’s see a few designs of multi-touch products. Many people might see these stuffs before. I collected these things via Google by guilding the keyword “mactouch“. I’d like to keep these stuffs on my blog. Then let’s see when Apple will release a kind of these things. Like it’s happened before, unreal iPhone was ever designed by someone , and then the real one has been released. The question is that what the name of this product is – MacTouch, MacBook Touch, TouchBook, iTouch, or iTablet.
The new version of Mac OS X might be released to support the multi-touch technology and the accelerometer control also. I found that the new version of MS Windows, Windows 7, supports the touchable screen more than Tablet Edition does, also see at blog.wired.com: Ballmer and Gates demo Windows 7. I hope that Apple might invent more fascinated products by using both multi-touch and accelerometer. They will be the new user-interface for the next generation of PCs, maybe not the next gen, but now.
Sorry I didn’t update ‘My iPhone’ section for a while. Due to my study, I have to read papers before choosing the PhD Thesis topic. About iPhone topics, Previously I had a series of them I need to post. Basically most ones are very common in which many iPhone users know. By the way, I’d like to post them here to keep the log. Maybe! finally I could close this section if I don’t have much on iPhone topics. But don’t worry, I still update iPhone news if I have interesting ones.
Well today I like to talk about the talk time of iPhone. Generally I charge it every 3 days. How I usually utilize my pretty phone per day ? Well I listen a music for 20 - 30 minutes in the morning while going to school. Then I call my wife, who stays in Thailand (must say the one wife ), for 3 – 10 min. Then I update my mailbox and RSS news via WiFi. Because the call rate here is very expensive, I communicate people in Singapore via SMS. For my chosen plan, it’s free 500 SMS / month. Hence I make a call if it’s much neccessary. Next I always use it to take photos when seeing good places/food/people/gadgets. When having freetime, I often play the game, “Labyrinth” (also see the clip above). This game is very fun in which we must swipe the phone to direct the ball to the goal, but be careful on black holes. When going back home, I either listening the music or watching some downloaded youtube clips. At bedtime, I either watch a movie or sometime listen a few classic songs. Finally I call my wife again. Well I use the phone for voice calling only 2 - 5 times, generally less than 10 min / time, so the power is not too much consumed to be charged every day. I miss one thing, I hear the fire alarm (as the clock alarm) before waking up every morning . How’s about your usage ? I found some info on http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2007/06/18iphone.html that metioned the fact that iPhone can deliver up to 250 hours for standby time while 8 hours for talk time. Unfortunately I cannot prove the later fact in Singapore, the 8-hours period is not cheap! while I can do that in Thailand! I miss Thailand so much.
On this topic, I would like to review the disk partitions and filesystem of iPhone. The objective is the fact that I want to know how iPhone organized the filesystem. I also introduce some interesting system files and configurable ones. All commands I used here are just basic Unix commands. I expect that this topic will be the good point to review many things in the future. I am just an iPhone rookie (just bought and reviewed iPhone for only 5 days), so you can give me a piece of advice if you found that the content I put here is incorrect or not good enough.
About the title ”Openning iPhone Officially”, it does not mean that Apple had just officially released iPhone. Actually it refers that I would like to introduce my iPhone and also to open a new blog category named “My iPhone”. Since a few days ago, I’ve just bought a new iPhone from a famous IT department store in Singapore on April 28th and spent much time to study its underlying mechanism. During these days, I found many interesting techniques posted on Webs and also discovered many techniques (may be not new) by myself. This is my self study and not mainly to discover a new thing. Consequently I think that I should record my study on this blog (javaboom.wordpress.com). I hope that my records could be at least a benefit for my future retrival and also many iPhone users.
