My first notebook was a Dell Inspiron 8200 and it’s already 5 years old. It suffered through the IT storm for so many years and up till today, it is still alive and kicking (except the battery; it died officially last year).
The most significant change was the Operating System (OS) as I’ve been using it [...]

Why am I so tempted to buy this? *Thinking all potential sinister shots*

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Microsoft has launched a new search engine to replace the buggy Live.com, But-It’s-Not-Google!
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TokyoTosho has been invaded by the Reds! LOLz

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Here comes the next Vocaloid 2 singer (third), Megurine Luka which is expected to be released end of this month. The new virtual singer has a bilingual vocal database, Japanese and English apparently.
[Demo song]
Don’t worry Hatsune chan, I’m still a fan of yours.

Google has launched its own web browser called Chrome. Very simplistic and tidy design and it’s freaking fast! Yep, I’m using it right now to write this post.
On the downside, there’ll be more work for me. As a web/ multimedia developer, platform testing has just increased by one extra web browser. Grrr.

[ 8 August 2008 to 10 August 2008. ] http://au.worldcybergames.com/t.php/WCG+National+Finals+are+coming%21

Dear otakus and otakus-to-be, introducing Dennoh Figure ARis.
Meet Alice, a little virtual maid living in an Augmented Reality (AR) world. The interactivity is done by utilising an empty cube and a cube stick. With the help of a web camera, your interactions are projected via your monitor (the bigger the monitor the better ‘experience’ you get).
With this cool gadget, the otaku [...]

Who says Windows can’t have what they got in Macs? Firstly it was iTunes that invaded into Windows. Then the buggy Safari. And now it’s the bubbly effect Dock (signature feature in Macs) offered by RocketDock. Unfortunately it’s only meant for Windows Vista.

(I don’t need a Mac for this!)

Finally upgraded my blog to WordPress 2.5.1. Some hiccups along the way but I managed to keep it away from falling apart. Also noticed some page loading improvements and better user interface in the control panel. ;D
With the newer version, I can install better plugins offered from the WordPress community.

How would you like a R2-D2 be part of your complete home entertainment system in your house? Check this out!
You want one? That’s about USD$3000 bucks to burn.

In my line of work, this is so true.
 

(One of the first “virtual singer”, Hatsune Miku)
 I was a little slow to pick up this neat application. Vocaloid is a human voice synthesizer developed by Yamaha some years ago that will change the need of human vocals in music composition. With an “authentic human voice” Virtual Singer, all you need to do is to provide [...]

A wonderful tool called Vector Magic which converts your bitmap image into a vector based image. It’ll be very useful when you’re developing applications/multimedia in Flash where stretching an image is possible without heavy pixalisation. The details of some areas are much left to be desired, but overall they look good.
  
Left: Original bitmap image
Right: Vectorised image
 
 
 
Left: Original bitmap image
Right: [...]

I have been keeping in touch with Windows/DOS era since 1992 and not once I thought of straying away from it. But time and curiosity teams up as a deadly combo and slowly they crept onto me, I was thrown into Linux world briefly and by the late 2007, I’ve decided to hook up with a Mac. Reason? Hungry for more? No. I [...]