So Apple has introduced the long time anticipated ultra-thin MacBook Air yesterday, now the question is whether you are convincing enough to invest $1799 for it Many pros and cons are listed, some of them are worth to mention. I’m tempted to get one for me indeed but let’s try to see how well do we know of this Air. (Photos courtesy of Apple and Engadget)

1. Love

- MBA is silvery finish which is following closely the ‘Mac’ style of aluminum casing. I love that design – the same reason why I bought MacBook Pro last time.

- It’s thin, very thin. No one denies that MBA has a striking slim body, its thickest part measured ~2cm

Wait no more, MacWorld Conference & Expo 2008 is on the air today, January 15th 2008. After people experienced the ‘art of technology’ with Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2008 at Las Vegas, they gonna ‘wow’ and ‘wee’ for the upcoming super cool stuffs from Apple

Last year, Steve Jobs rocked us with the revolutionary iPhone and Apple TV. This year, people expected to see: a super thin lightweight and gorgeous ‘AirBook’, an 3G iPhone 16Gb, iTunes Movies Rental service, software update, price reduction …

Let’s look at 4 main points are introduced today:

The best fast-moving and action-oriented first-person shooter game finally arrives

If you ever played Unreal Tournament (UT) before, you found that UT series are totally different than the typical shooter coming out these days: the content are rich enough to keep you busy; the textures, character models, and animation are all top-notch; the background music and voices are high in energy; especially those game modes are designed just to blow you away

Epic kept their promise. UT III (previously known as UT 2007) was out for PC version on 19th November; the PS3, XBox 360 and Mac version are on their ways, we’re looking forward to see them all out by this December.

Books aren’t dead (and they will never be), they’re just going digital ♥ This week, Amazon just announced their wireless portable reading device Kindle. Kindle is simply a ‘electronic paper’, which definitely is a must-have device for all professional readers. Let’s look at the fantastic features of Kindle.

Paper-like Screen: revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, anti-glare, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.

Wireless Access: but unlike wifi, you don’t need any hotspot; using 3G network as advanced cell phones, content will be delivered wirelessly to your Kindle for free

Size does matters: only 10.3 ounces and pencil thick, Kindle is lighter and thinner than typical paperbacks, and fits easily in one hand.

File types: Kindle supports documents, pictures (.JPG, GIF, .BMP, .PNG), audible (.aaa), music (.mp3). You always can plug extra SD Memory card to store as much as you want.

While surfing through System Preference, I was surprised to find out that Leopard now supports Vietnamese Input much better Nothing need to be configured, no external driver, no extra keyboard layout, no 3rd party software; you choose the language then type – pretty easy isn’t it

Just to help some Vietnamese friends who indeed need to type Vietnamese on Mac OS X. To enable it, follow these simple steps:

1. First go inside System Preference and open International

2. Go to tab Input Menu, tick on “Vietnamese Keyboard”. You also want to check on “Show input menu in menu bar” for faster access. (Look at the tiny icon, it’s Van Mieu, Temple of Literature )

3. From the menu bar, select the input method you want. For me, I choose “Simple Telex”

4. Now you can type Vietnamese character whenever you need. Example: open TextEdit, type something:

and save it into any format (RTF, Word 97, Word 2007 …. It will be readable across multiple platforms

Now you can type documents, blog, or do whatever you want in Vietnamese by simply switching the Input type to Vietnamese.

Note 1: a quick feedback from my friend: if the font you use it’s not Unicode, you may see the vowel and consonant displayed in different style. It’s due to the font itself, pick up another Unicode font then

5. Since you will have 2 input methods: English and Vietnamese (Telex), you might want to find a hot key to switch between those 2, Mac OS makes it very simple for you.

Again open System Preference/Language & Text:

Click Input Sources/Keyboard Shortcut to open the menu:

Once the menu opened, find “Keyboard & Text input” in the left list, tick onto the last 2 choices (You can change the combo key as you wish, for me I choose Ctrl + Space bar, that will allows you to switch between all the input methods):

After set there, you now can use the combo shortcut to change the keyboard input quicker than choosing by mouse

Note 2: all of above information is valid till latest Mac OS X (Snow Leopard), and of course will be applicable toward future too ^^