Posted by YILKA in Hardware, Software, TechJan 16th, 2008 | 4 Comments
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...
Posted by YILKA in Software, TechNov 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment
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...
Posted by YILKA in Hardware, TechNov 22nd, 2007 | 4 Comments
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,...
Posted by YILKA in Software, TechNov 1st, 2007 | 62 Comments
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:
Posted by YILKA in Software, TechOct 31st, 2007 | 9 Comments
Finally I had time to backup then install Mac OS X Leopard on my MacBook Pro Overall, the installation is quick and painless . Leopard is deadly gorgeous and much much faster than Tiger
There are many ways to install Leopard into your Mac: via Leopard DVD, via Network, via External HDD (Firewire, USB). I made use of my iPod Video 5G (30Gb) to boot up The backup took me around 45 minutes to complete, whereas the installation only took about 15 minutes.
Just a quick note, you can find online tutorial how to squeeze Leopard Install DVD from Dual Layer to Single Layer, that would probably benefit...