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It’s Showtime

Normal Caps - Yes!I am now blogging at 2.02am, I no insane. I slept at 11.30pm just now and I woke up at 12.50am. What for? To watch the live update of Apple Special Event : It’s Showtime. Sadly, don’t get to watch the video-on-demand live video. So here’s the update. I am getting myself an Ipod very soon, don’t wanna think about Nintendo DS that much, Ipod dropped it prices from 299USD to 239USD which is around 915MYR. The Ipod Nano is tempting too with 5 different colours and cheaper price too! iTunes user getting iTunes 7 tomorrow which has new feature like separate libraries, cover art finder and much more. In Malaysia, we don’t have iTunes Store, so the newly added stuff like movies and TV series download is not available here, but you might use our neighbour country Singapore iTunes Store. However, you can’t buy a movie here because the internet speed for home user max is 2mb/s.

Near DVD quality. Same encoding as TV shows at 640×480. If you have a 5mb/s broadband connection, it will take approximately 30 minutes to download a movie

5mb/s?!That’s a crazy speed here, but in the U.S., it might be just their normal broadband speed. Upgrade your service lar, Steamix! Apple going to release a new video streaming set-up box codename iTV which allow you to stream your iTunes media (movie, music) to your living room and features HDMI output with price $299, releasing in Q1 2007 with the size half of Mac Mini. One thing, new games available to buy at 4.99USD for playing in 5th gen Ipod, downloaded movie from iTunes is now 640×480 up from 320×240

The iPod video

Without further ado, Jobs introduced Apple’s new and improved video-capable iPod, with a screen that’s 60 percent brighter. Battery life has been increased from 2 hours while playing video to 3.5 hours, Jobs says.

Also new is a new earphone design that took Apple 18 months to develop, said Jobs. Superficially, they look similar to the old design — they’re still white.

The new iPod provides gapless playback, according to Jobs, which works with MP3, AAC, Apple Lossless and uncompressed music files. New software features have been added such as instant searching that uses the wheel to input letters and does a live search of iPod content.

As rumors has speculated in recent months, Apple’s been hard at work on new games for the iPod — while it still may not be a substitute for a Nintendo DS or Sony PSP, the new iPod can play versions of popular casual games including Bejeweled, Mahjong, mini-golf, Pac-Man, Tetris, Cubis, Texas Hold ‘Em, Vortex and Zuma — all designed to work with the click wheel interface which has been retained. These games aren’t included with the new iPod — they’re for sale, for $4.99 each, from the iTunes Music Store.

Apple is offering two iPod video models: a 30GB and 80GB version, both in white and black. The 30GB model is available for $249, the 80GB model for $349 — less expensive that previous versions.

Jump for Tetris and Pac Man

New iPod earbuds?

iPod nano, take 2

Jobs also unveiled the second generation of the slim iPod nano, Apple’s color screen-equipped flash-based iPod that made its debut a year ago. “The iPod nano is the most popular MP3 player in the world,” Jobs said.

Critics of the first iPod nano complained that the glossy front of the unit could be scratched too easily — Apple has addressed that problem by making it out of aluminum, much as it does its MacBook Pro laptops.

“And we’re bringing back colors,” said Jobs — harkening back to the iPod nano’s predecessor, the venerable iPod mini. The iPod nano will be available in anodized blue, pink, green, silver and black.

The second-generation iPod nano also features a battery with better charge capacity than the first — up to 24 hours of play, versus 14 for the first-generation nano.

The iPod nano debuts in three different models — 2GB, 4GB and 8GB versions, priced at $149, $199 and $249.

What’s more, the iPod nano ships in a smaller box than before — it’s barely bigger than the nano itself. Apple has similarly shrunk accessories like the battery charger. And accessories will be available including an armband and lanyard headphones with the new earbud design. And it works with the much vaunted Nike+iPod Sport Kit.

Colored and Brushed Metal.

iPod shuffle Rev 2

Also on stage today is the new iPod shuffle, a diminuitve flash-based digital music player that’s even smaller than before. While the first-generation shuffle resembled a pack of stick gum, the new iPod shuffle takes it styling cues from the Apple Remote.

“Wearability” was of key importance to first-generation iPod shuffle owners, said Jobs. So Apple designed the new iPod shuffle in an aluminum case with a built-in clip. The headphone jack is also where the device charges and connects to the computer. Apple bills the new shuffle as the world’s smalled MP3 player.

Available for pre-order and shipping in October, the 1GB iPod shuffle will cost $79.

iTunes 7

Apple on Tuesday released iTunes 7, a new version of its popular music jukebox and online music download store. The new software has been organized into sections — separate libraries for music, movies, TV shows, podcast and radio.

A three-position switch alternates between different views, and a new view has been added called Album View, which puts album art and all tracks from the album so you can scroll by album now, if you wish.

What’s more, iTunes will now populate your music collection with album cover art if the cover art is missing, and if you have an iTunes Music Store account.

“We may not have everything, but we have 3.5 million songs of album artwork,” Jobs remarked. “If you’ve got an iTunes account, iTunes will automatically download it for free.”

A third view is called Cover Flow View. It enables you to find songs more quickly by album cover — it’s a window that shows a 3D representation of album covers above your music list.

Improvements to video

“We announced TV shows less than a year ago,” Jobs said. “Since then over 45 million TV shows have been downloaded.”

The iTunes Music Store has expanded from five shows to more than 220 and from one network to more than 40, including ever major network, said Jobs.

Shows downloaded from the iTunes Music Store are encoded at 320 x 240 pixel resolution. “Today we are taking [resolution] up a notch,” said Jobs. “We are going to increase that resolution four times, and all video will be at 640 x 480.”

iTunes 7 features gapless playback, of course, and also lets users manage the iPod from right inside of iTunes — no more having to fiddle with iTunes’ preferences to get your iPod configured. iTunes can search for music library for albums that are meant to be played in gapless fashion, and sets them to work that way.

A frequent complaint of iPod users is that the iPod only synchronizes content on one computer at a time, even if both computers are authorized with the iTunes Music Store. Now you can take your iPod, sync it with a computer, move it to a different authoried computer, and content will “flow back” to the new computer, so you can transfer purchased music between authorized computers using an iPod.

iTunes 7 also shows the games you’ve downloaded from the iTunes Music Store in your library, so you can see instructions and other information.

iTunes 7 is available today

One more thing … movies

“But there is one more thing,” said Jobs. “And that is movies. Today I want to talk about adding movies to the iTunes Store and the whole iTunes-iPod experience. Today we’re starting out with films from Disney, Pixar, Touchstone and Miramax — four studios owned by Walt Disney Co.”

The service launches with more than 75 films online, starting today. Apple is adding more, including Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and Cars. New releases are priced at $12.99 for pre-orders and during their first week of release, the same time they’re available for purchase on DVD. After that they increase to $14.99, though older “library titles” will be priced at $9.99 every day.

Movies available for download from the iTunes Store are shown at 640 x 480 resolution in “near-DVD quality,” according to Jobs. Jobs said that if you have 5 Megabit per second broadband service — not uncommon for cable modem users — you can expect to download a full-length movie in roughly a half an hour. What’s more, you can start watching the movie in as little as a minute, while it’s still downloading.

To ease that process, iTunes now has a Download Manager that lets you watch items you’re downloading from the store, and you can switch priorities if you’re downloading multiple files.

Jobs described the audio quality as “Dolby Surround.” Usage rights for movies purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store are the same as the TV shows — so you can’t burn them to disc, though you can share them among multiple authorized computers and video iPods. And parental controls have been updated with MPAA ratings.

“We hope to take this international in 2007,” added Jobs.

Articles from Macworld.com and photos from Gizmodo.com

the story

Normal Caps - I found cool stuff, my cousin sent me this text through IM. So I gonna share with you guys, those who don’t know how to read mandarin, too bad! This is a mini story or short essay using all Jay Chou’s song name.

《上海1943》年，在《伊斯坦堡》《圆游会》的《白色风车》下看见一个身穿《黑色毛衣》，嘴含《麦芽糖》，手拿《浪漫手机》正在拍《大头贴》的《可爱女人》。《她的睫毛》如此迷人，身上《七里香》和《迷迭香》的混合味道如此熟悉，让我的思绪《回到过去》。《爱在西元前》的一天，《安静》的《晴天》突然刮起《蓝色风暴》，《搁浅》的《珊瑚海》上《枫》叶随风《漂移》。《龙卷风》过后的《梯田》里只剩下几只《印的安老斑鸠》和《蜗牛》爬行过的《轨迹》。仿佛《世界末日》已经到来。《反方向的钟》声响起。《将军》从《半岛铁盒》中拿出《绘梦之卷》，《以父之名》向敌人宣战。《忍者》军团带着《米兰小铁匠》所打制的《双刀》和《双截棍》《一路向北》走去，到了《千里之外》的《威廉古堡》，将与《半兽人》在《菊花台》上展开《最后的战役》。我们没有《退后》的《懦夫》，于是到《夜的第七章》敌人终于《四面楚歌》了，只是做最后的《困兽之斗》

love country 9/9 爱国99 part II

Nicholas Chan near the backstage.Chen Ren Feng, singer.
Gary Chao Ge, chating with his friends.
Close up, Gary Chao Ge.
Backstage - Ah Niu
Jin Sha on stage
The stage, raining.
Chit Liang, my friend.
Yu Heng on stage.
Danny on stage.
Fucking cardboard block my sight.
Daniel Lee on stage.
All the singer on stage.
Daniel Lee on the big screen.
Danny Ong, my friend.
Friends.
Before the concert.
Palm print.
Andy Ooi, my friend.
It is the sign of it is going to rain.My hand, before the Chop
On the clothMy print.
Nicholas Chan Shot

love country 9/9 爱国99

Normal Caps - So, yesterday night I went to the concert held at Esplanade, Penang. my blog title is the title of the concert too. My tuition centre, did tell US that we are getting the seats infront of the stage because that our friend there, his dad is the organiser of this event which is also a “big people” from the national news department. They told us that there is something we need to do if sit infront of the stage, everyone must has national flag on their friend to show patriotic, it’s ok we said. So, teacher asked us to arrived at site before 1815, so I did what they say. At there, we went to like chopped my palm print on the cloth, because they wanted to collect 99,999 palm print from the Malaysian. Colourful print I got, the paint kinda smelly, haha. Ok back to my hate thing, at there, they said that the seats is for the media and reporters and not for us. I heard that, I like WTF?!, I think that’s ok, at least we get to be in the first rows. Then, they told again, no first row, if we want the first row, we need to get there like those people get there as early. So we quickly join the crowd to look for a place where I can shoot the stage with my DC. Insane, irresponsible tuition people and always give stupid wrong information and always do last minute work! Ass holes! We just stood in the middle of the big crowd to see the concert, first single was Daniel Lee, Malaysia’s 2nd Malaysian Idol, and then a woman singer which I don’t know, she isn’t famous, then Yu Heng, I know her, cute singer, Danny Wen, then I and friends went out of the crowd. Fuckingly, my friend got a SMS that the tuition assholes are sitting at the VIP there, fuck them all, at first say they make a mistakes that we are not able to have a sit, no they are in it. We were fed up, we went to the place near the backstage where a gate was block a distance from us with the backstage tent, at there, it kinda fun, I can see those singer from there, hahaha. Snap some photos, but not clear. Darn camera, went to the other side of the backstage, saw Gary Chau Ge and Queenzie there. x) Happy, at least I can get some close up shot of them. Penny Tai walk pass infront of me only, like 0.5 metre, I don’t get to shoot her pict, my camera startup is slow, Jing Sa too! Funny things was I saw Ah Niu, who is a singer and also actor, there doing exercise. work-out, haha, I think dance gua. He keep jump up and down then stretch his leg then do all sort of stuff. At the end of the concert, not yet end, everyone was running away, because there are raining really heavy, everyone ran to look for shelter and I do. So it ends with rain, fireworks, and crowd. I went home in cold and wet of sweat and rain. This concert not so success, not really that much people were there, the field is big, but just filled 3/4 of the field only. The emC not cool, not really know how to make fun, they are the DJ from AiFM which is a radio station I don’t listen to, boring station with various dialect and never heard Cantonese speaking DJ there.

normal week

small caps - my life is fun, but nothing much happen recently, getting into photography, but i don’t have a good camera, i should get myself a dslr which cost over 1k for just a low-end wan. this post is simple, i don’t really know what to say, because last week nothing much happens. oh yeah, now i remember, last monday, which was the first period in school is assembly session, after the session, our afternoon supervisor wanted to show us the video of the china man who got the nobel award talks, he set up the laptop and the projector, but the don’t know how to set up the audio, so they just locate the microphone infront the speakers, the sound comes out was so crappy, i can’t heard what that china man was talking, they are so noob, it’s just simple, just take a very long audio cable , red white connect to the amplifier and a 3.5mm jack to the laptop, and it will sounds just like come from the speakers, the audio visual system guy should learn their stuff. hahaha, i sounds just like a electrician, lol, no i am not, this is just simple, because that is how i connect my psp to the 2 big speakers in my house. so, went to cca meeting yesterday, leo club. i was told that there will be some activity coming and which is visiting the blinds and dumbs home, and clean-up-the-area charity program, guess it will be fun as i put my name on it =) . end.

i am blogger

small caps - just another random weekly school days post of mine. talking about this blog, i started it approx 9 month ago, which was october last year 2005. this is not my first blog, i’ve got a few blog in the past, the first blog was in 2004 when i am standard 6, doing some silly post with a lil tagboard using original blogger.com skins and later some not-really-that-nice blogskins templates. still remember my first blog url is http://yikyeou.blogspot.com (it isn’t exist now) why i blog last time? i remembered that i was seeing people’s profile that time, std.6 , in the friend-circle network, friendster.com, i link from friend to friend to friend to friend, then i saw her profile, there is a link, i was curious so i clicked it, and it lead me to a blog site, at that time, i like doing a own webbie which i have a geocities account, so she is a singaporean, i read her blog, and roughly i understand what is blog, so i started a blog too x), and till then, i changed many blog url, now i’ll stick to www.nicholaschan.co.nr which redirect to http://flyin-nicholas.blogspot.com, i intend to subscribe to a domain next time and web hosting, but www.nicholaschan.com and www.nicholaschan.net is used, waiting them to cancle their hosting, haha, or maybe i’ll choose www.nicholaschan.name. so bloging is part of my lifestyle now, my interest or my hobby, hope to be like kennysia.com, who is the most famous malaysian blogger. in the blogging community, my blogger idol is mrbrown, mrmiyagi, kenny, and liewcf. i guess that’s my influence, 3 friend of mine start blogging, although they are not good in html, i am not good too, just slowly explore the coding myself, i guess the teen blogging community in malaysia is slowly growing, in singapore, kiddo as young as 11 or maybe younger which i don’t know, they started blogging and their story are nice =). so, 3 friend of mine, their blog url : [link1] , [link2] , [link3]

not-nearly-the-same-post, link

windows live card arrived!

Normal Caps - 2 weeks ago during the holiday, I was surfing the net on tech site like www.liewcf.com, and I found the freebie, Windows Live Messenger Contact Card, I sign up for it and hope to get it from them, the site which is a German site, made me confuse and I need to copy and paste word by word on Google translate to translate the German to English. After 2 weeks, it arrived in my letterbox, wonder why they sent so far from Europe to Malaysia. Don’t ask me about the link to the site, I forgotten cause it was like 2 weeks ago and my history deleted every two weeks, you might wanna google for it.
I received this envelope on Friday, straight from Europe, Amsterdam I think or Germany or Netherland.
Back of the envolope with German words which I really don’t understand except for Windows Live.Contain 15 cards and a introduction card I guess.
Front and back.