October seems to be a quiet time for movie-goers November is coming with many movies which I believe will cause storm in cinemas.

1. Hitman (2007)

Adapted from the hugely famous Eidos game, Hitman retells the story of Agent 47 (Deadwood’s Timothy Olyphant) who has been educated to become a professional assassin for hire, whose most powerful weapons are his nerve and a resolute pride in his work.

But the hunter becomes the hunted when 47 gets caught up in a political takeover. Both Interpol and the Russian military chase the Hitman across Eastern Europe as he tries to find out who set him up and why they’re trying to take him out.

Most believe his very existence is a sin… but others know he is a necessary evil

Sau những năm giải phóng, tên tuổi của ông được nhắc đi nhắc lại trên nhiều tạp chí sách báo trong và ngoài nước. Khi ông mất, nguyên Thủ tướng Võ Văn Kiệt và nguyên Bí thư trung ương Đảng Trần Quốc Hương (tức ông Mười Hương) vinh danh ông là niềm tự hào của ngành tình báo Việt Nam; còn thế giới thì đánh giá ông là 1 trong những điệp viên cừ khôi nhất của thế kỷ XX. Ông là ai Một cuộc đời có một không hai, một điệp viên nhị trùng huyền thoại, ông – không ai khác – chính là Thiếu tướng tình báo, Anh hùng lực lượng vũ trang nhân dân Phạm Xuân Ẩn. Cuộc đời ông gắn liền với những huyền thoại mà người ta tin rằng không thể tìm đâu được một điệp viên chính trực, yêu nước và có trình độ thượng thừa như ông. Ông đã làm gì? đã có những chiến công gì để đóng góp cho chiến thắng lịch sử của dân tộc? Hãy thử cùng tìm hiểu về ẩn số Phạm Xuân Ẩn hay điệp viên Hai Trung

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 ^^

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 many who don’t have DL DVD Burner

After a very long anticipated time, Apple finally announced their new OS – Leopard – will be shipped worldwide on 26th October 2007. Leopard is the sixth major release of Mac OS X, “the best upgrade we’ve ever released” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. Their Leopard website is updated to reveale more than 300 new features of Leopard.

Amongst the new features, there are some coolest features that Mac users would love to have:

• TextEdit: supports Word 2007 Formats
• Guest Log-In Accounts
• Grammar Checking
• PDF Manipulation in Preview
• SMS Forwarding
• Event Dropbox
• Instant Screen Sharing from the Finder
• Wikipedia in Dictionary
• Photo Booth effects
• iChat Theatre
• …