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BREAKING: Apple’s October 4th iPhone 5 Event Confirmed

BREAKING: Apple’s October 4th iPhone 5 Event Confirmed – Latest update on the upcoming rumors Apple event which to be held on October 4th, 2011 is now confirmed by Apple. The event will be held at Apple HQ in Cupertino, California at 10.00 AM Pacific Time (1am Malaysia Time, Wednesday October 5th).

It is known that Apple will be announcing about the next generationg iPhone (iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 or both) at the event, and is also expected to include updates on the iPod line. Besides, iOS 5 will be also debuting at the event. Apple has skipped the iPhone discussion in recent WWDC. Other reports have also shows that Facebook may launch its iPad app at the event too.

Anyway, it will be an exciting event after a long wait and speculation of rumors around the Internet. All eyes are on the iPhone now.

Are you excited?

September 28, 2011
Happy 13th Birthday Google

Happy 13th Birthday Google – 27th September 2011 marks the day that Google thirteenth birthday. It marks Google’s 13th years of service to the netizen and the world. A very happy birthday to the company, the search engine and everything about Google. If you visit Google’s homepage, you will notice a cute Google Doodle appears on top of the search bar, which is actually means they are celebrating their 13th anniversary.

Google has put up different doodle each year since 2002 when the birthday comes at this time of the month. This year’s is a cute one. Happy birthday.

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September 27, 2011
Stand A Chance To Win A Nokia Symbian Belle Phone

Stand A Chance To Win A Nokia Symbian Belle Phone – Nokia is having a contest right now where you can win the latest Symbian Belle powered phone, a Nokia 700, Nokia 701 or Nokia 600 by just answering a Nokia related question. There will be 19 units of phone to be given out for the next 19 days. All you have to do is just answer the question of the day at Nokia’s Facebook page and you will be in the draw for the Symbian Belle-powered phone.

The question is pretty simple which you can actually Google on the Internet for it. Just try your luck and who knows, you might be lucky one who wins away one of the latest phone by Nokia. Just visit the Facebook page to know more and you are on your track for a new Nokia mobile phone.

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September 27, 2011
Sign Up For Yes Life For Android Beta Tester

Sign Up For Yes Life For Android Beta Tester – Yes, one of the 4G broadband provider in Malaysia has open a page for Android user to sign up as beta tester for the upcoming Yes Life for Android. Yes Life app has recently launched on the iOS is now coming to you on the Android smartphone OS.

Yes Life app is actually an app that is similar to Skype which allows you to make phone call, receive phone call, and SMS with a Yes ID, which is actually a 018-phone number. It’s useful if you have friends and family who lives oversea and you can call them through a Malaysian number. On the other hand, you can make phone calls on-the-go if you are a Yes broadband user.

Currently, it only runs on devices running Android 2.1 and above. Since it’s in Beta version, there might be bug and flaws. Do try it at your own risk and I believe the final version is coming very soon.

Sign up and get your beta version here.

September 26, 2011
Samsung Sells 10 Million Galaxy S2

Samsung Sells 10 Million Android Galaxy S2 – Samsung Mobile‘s flagship devices, the Samsung Galaxy S2 (Galaxy S II), an Android based mobile phone has sold over 10 millions units worldwide as reported by Samsung. This device is known to be the Apple iPhone killer. Despite various patent lawsuit facing by Samsung from Apple, the Galaxy S2 is still a heat around the world.

The device was launch in April and has successfully impressed users all around the world and reach 10 millions units sales mark without being present on the market in United States. It’d recently launched in the United States with a small changes in the design by removing the home button last week.

It’s a truely powerful mobile device provided by Samsung and is also known as iPhone biggest killer. Despite war going on between two company, the sales of the phone is still going strong. Apple iPhone 5 is about to announced in two weeks time according to rumors and that’s the time to see two powerful device facing each other.

Samsung or Apple, which side are you on?

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September 26, 2011
Apple Opens Its First Store In Hong Kong IFC

Apple Opens Its First Store In Hong Kong IFC – It’d been a long wait for Apple fans in Hong Kong to visit a real Apple Store, officially from Cupertino based Apple computer. There are currently 5 stores in Mainland China and this one at the Hong Kong’s tallest tower, International Finance Centre (IFC) marks the first store in Hong Kong SAR (Special Administration Region) of China.

Featuring the Apple’s interiors design concept, a spacious interiors with minimalist furniture, well lighted with huge amount of natural lighting from the glass panel. as well as the famous spiral stair case same as the one at 5th Avenue, New York. First floor is where all the Apple’s products are showcase and the 2nd floor is where you consult for technical issue and where the Genius Bar is located.

At the opening, Apple gives out 5000 free t-shirt to fans and I want one too! Too bad, I am not in Hong Kong now.

Well, this means that the Apple Store is now added to my place-to-visit-in-Hong-Kong list in my next visit to Hong Kong somewhere during Winter.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09lN9ho47Q4&w=640&h=360]

[image from micgadget.com]

September 24, 2011
Apple’s iPhone 5 Event On October 4

Apple’s iPhone 5 Event On October 4 – Tuesday, October 4 2011 is the day where Tim Cook, the new CEO of Apple will step onto the stage and announce the new iPhone 5. It sounds just so delicious, that this news is not 100% confirm but was reported by Wall Street Journal’s All Things D.

It was reported that Apple will hold the next big media event on the date above with the announcement of the next iPhone 5 and iPod series. In previous years, Apple announced iPhone during WWDC and iPod in a media event in September but this year, it’d been a little bit later.

Rumors speculating shows that the iPhone 5 will sports the Apple A5 processor, 8mp camera, bigger screen and iOS 5 firmware.

All eyes are looking at Apple right now to officially announce the event and I am just waiting for it, anxiously and excitedly. Mark your calendar now and wait. Latest news will be updated here in this blog too.

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September 23, 2011
Facebook Timeline – The New Facebook Profile

Facebook Timeline – The New Facebook Profile – In the previous post, I wrote about How To Get Facebook Timeline. Now I would like to tell you what is this Timeline all about. Just yesterday at Facebook F8 Developer Conference, Mark Zukerberg announced several new features for the Facebook, one of which is the Facebook Timeline profile.

Timeline is the new Facebook profile that tell the story of your life in a timeline view. It’s a complete redesign of the current profile page, with your wall posts and updates posted side by side down to the screen. It’s easier to find older post than before that you can just click on the month or year of the post you want to look.

It’s something that you can record your memory or just like your historical scrapbook. You share your photos, or even do more with Apps like you can share the songs you are listening, the movie you are watching, a book that you are reading or even your running tracks.

Everything become more social. The interface is really cool with a featured cover photo at the top which you can change anytime. The cover photo is for you to show the people who you really are, like showing your favourite traveling photo, put a delicious food photo to show that you like to eat, a huge profile picture of you or anything you just like.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPEPfJHfKU]

The interface is nice, somehow privacy get exposed as people can stalk and read about you easily. So hopefully Facebook will do something to protect the privacy of the user too. Do tell me what you think in the comment.

If you want to activate the new Timeline feature, check out this post.

September 23, 2011
How To Get Facebook Timeline Now

How To Get Facebook Timeline Now – Facebook just announced a new profile page that is coming soon at the recent Facebook F8 Developer Conference and Mark Zukerberg called it the Facebook Timeline. It has not release yet and no open beta for normal user to try out, however if you have a developer account using Open Graph API, you will be able to try it out first.

It will be available soon for normal user but if you really want to try out, you can join the developer program too and get your hands on the new Facebook Timeline profile.

Follow the steps below and you will be in the new Facebook in no time.

1. Go to Facebook Developer page, you can click here or type “developer” in your Facebook search bar then enable it for your account.

2. At the Apps page, click on Create New App that we are going to make an app but with no functionality just for trying the new Facebook Timeline.

3. Type your name or whatever name you want to name for your app at both blank. Please type normal case for App Display Name and small case for App Namespace.

5. After creating your app, you will be taken to the Open Graph page (if not, you can click Edit App then navigate to Open Graph). Then, define an action for your app, just simply type a verb and noun, just like mine “find (a) job”. Follow the on screen instruction, click Continue and Continue until you are done.

6. Finally when you are done, go back to your Facebook main page, and you will get an invitation for you to try out the new Facebook Timeline.

Enjoy. Only people with Facebook Timeline activated can be view your Timeline profile. Pretty right?

September 23, 2011
Soon You Can Replace Yale Key With NFC-enabled Phone

Soon You Can Replace Key With NFC-enabled Phone – NFC-enabled is getting more and more popular. NFC also stands for Near Field Communication which is a wireless signal just like what you use for your metro card like the Touch N’ Go (Malaysia), EZlink (Singapore), Octopus Card (Hong Kong) and Pearl Card (UK).

The world top key and lock manufacturer, Yale Locks & Hardware has just unveiled a new door lock that can be unlocked with a NFC device. What’s demoed in the video is an iPhone with an extra accessories which serve as the NFC adapter, unlocks a door lock. Soon it will hit the US market, but no news about Asia yet. Check out the video to know more.

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkBODXyk0S8&w=640&h=360]

I wonder is it safer or normal metal key safer? What do you think?

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September 22, 2011

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