I am Staying on With iPhone For a While More

I've this intention previously of switching to the Android HTC Sensation XE from my current iPhone 4S.

Now this intention has been put on hold after I've got the New iPad.

One prominent thing when you got the new iPad package is the outstanding "iCloud" logo at one side of the box.
And "Photo Stream" is one of the built-in features that utilises iCloud.

What I'm using it a lot about Photo Stream is this:
I took photos using my iPhone 4S camera. With Photo Stream set to on, whenever I'm back home with my home WIFI connected, the photos are uploaded to my iCloud account automatically. No user intervention.

When I'm settled down after a good evening shower, these photos would have already been automatically downloaded to my New iPad's Photo Stream section.

I would then use my current favourite photo editing tool, PicCollage to create some leisure "photo art" albums.

Sure, Android may have similar cloud-based, but its implementation is not as "transparent to users" as Photo Stream.

Is Your Android Phone Really Capable Of True Multitasking?

There is this popular statement we heard frequently, "Android OS has true multitasking".
Well, the software probably is.
But, is an Android device running Android OS offers "true multitasking"?

Well my Galaxy S WIFI 5" certainly doesn't! And I will tell you why.

I have this habit of surfing the net, reading emails, news on my hand phone while I lunch or dine.

So, today while I lunch, I whipped out my Galaxy S WIFI 5" to have some lightweight news catching up while I eat.

Guess what, I gave up using the device after 1 minute. The device is so wide that it takes a good acrobat artist to access the various buttons such as the back button, menu button using one hand without making the set drop down and drink my soup.

As expected, I replaced it with my trusted iPhone 4S after that.

Now, this is multitasking!

P.S. So now you know why I resist the Galaxy Note as my phone.

The iPad 3 Comes to Singapore First

So Apple announced the latest generation of iPad, "The New iPad" or iPad 3 as we commoners call it. A surprise for me is that Singapore is one of the countries to get the shipment of iPad 3! That's a first!

I went to pre-ordered online yesterday and was given the delivery date from 16th March to 22nd March.   The home page Apple Singapore site was showing the delivery date as from 16th March.

A day later, today, in the same web page, it's now showing delivery date as "after 18th March".

So, is this iPad 3 flying off the shelves?
I think it is!

SD Storage Through the Years

While cleaning up my study room, I found this old digital storage card.

It's a Smart Media card with 32 MB storage size. Yes, MB, not GB.

This card was bought around the year 2002. Its size is roughly 10 times that of the current micro SD.

10 years on, and now the card I'm buying now is in the capacity of 32GB, 1000 times bigger than the on I bought 10 years ago!

That is calculated to be an increment of about 100MB per year!

Impressive!

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My Favourite iOS Game of the Month - Dream League Soccer

I've always been a fan of PC soccer game. And no surprise there that the FIFA series PC game is one of my favourite games.

My current gaming machine is the iPad, to no one's surprise.
And the game I'm hooked to is the excellent "Dream League Soccer" for iPad and iPhone.

It's free and the develop earns when the consumers "buys" the virtual coins using real money and then use these virtual coins to upgrade their players.

Now, I've "advanced" far enough into the game to unlock "legendary" players like Pele, Zidane and Maradona, etc.
And yes, these three are part of my Dream Team now!

One great feature of the game is that it allows uploading of any saved Replays to YouTube.

I will start off by sharing one of my saved Replays with Maradona scoring a superb goal.

More uploads will come in the following days ...

My Songs of the Year 2011

These are the three songs that left the best impression on me this year:

李佳微 - 煎熬

She is the winner of a Taiwanese idol talent show.
She shows she can go high in terms of note in this song.
The music video is a controversial one with captured more than a million hits on YouTube.

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胡夏 - 那些年

Again, a winner of a singing talent show, he got to sing the theme song of this year big chinese movie hit, 那些年,我们一起追的女孩.
He has a clean and soothing voice.

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A-Lin - 无路可退

She got a strong, mid-low voice that need no trending auto-tune to excel.

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My iPhone / iPad MiniUSB Connector

Recently, Apple released a MicroUSB connector for iOS devices. With that, you can charge and sync your iPhone/iPad/iTouches using MicroUSB cable.
It's still not available in Singapore yet.

Days ago, I stumbled upon this similar connector, but for MiniUSB. Bought it straight away!
It works well using my portable harddisk's MiniUSB cable!



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