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It is common for people to want to customize their gadgets and make it their own style. No one wants the boring black notebook anymore. This is the direction that many electronic companies are heading towards: to enable consumers to customize the look of their favorite gadgets. I was browsing through Dell’s latest range of designs available to customize your laptop, and guess what!!! There’s a new series of laptop skin design by OPI! Wow. I’m sure many girls out there love to use OPI nail polish, including myself!

I really like the “Happy Anniversary!” shade because it’s pearly white just like my car! Although, the OPI collection that I have consists of mostly dark red shades, I think a pearly white laptop skin is cool. We all know which skin Sab would pick…. The “Princess Rule!” skin is definitely something Sab would love to have on her gadgets! Her love for “princess” and pink gadgets is so infamous, she even bought a pink camera bag online for her DSLR. I’m just surprised she’s not driving a pink car

The designs are available for Dell’s range of Studio 15 laptops which ranges from S$1599 to S$2099. The most expensive laptop uses the latest Intel® Core™ i7 processor, 4GB RAM, 500GB hard disk, 512MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 and Windows® 7 Home Premium 64bit. With such an awesome specs for a 15inch laptop, Dell’s prices are very competitive for high performance laptops.

Recently, Dell held a contest called “MAKE IT YOURS” where contestants get to submit their designs for a chance to win S$2500! Wow. Too bad I don’t really have the time to design something cool for the contest (it’s really because I don’t have the skills to!)

I browsed through some of the designs submitted and I felt relieved that I didn’t make a fool of myself submitting some random Photoshopped shapes! Many submissions were creative and some were even hand drawn. My favourite submissions would have to be…

http://www.makeityours.asia/sg/view_work.php?id=109

http://www.makeityours.asia/sg/view_work.php?id=70

I have already voted for my favorite design.. Please head on to http://www.makeityours.asia/sg to view all these cool design and vote for your favorite one now! Also note that you have to register to submit your votes! The deadline for voting is 12 February 2010!

Tags: contest, Dell, notebook, vote

iPad has been “leaked”

A review I read from PC World some reasons to buy or not to buy the iPad.

Reasons to Buy:

1. Undeniably cool. The iPad looks like a giant iPod and the look supersizes quite nicely.

2. The best e-reader? The iPad is already generating comments that it will be a Kindle-beater and Nook-destroyer. The 16 GB $499 model may not be good for carrying around lots of movies and music, but it should hold a lot of books. I want to hear more about the hands-on reading experience, but early word is the iPad is an excellent place to enjoy a good book. Or a textbook, which is a huge potential market for the device.

3. Gaming. The iPhone became a surprise hit among gamers, or at least expanded the market to include lots of previous non-gamers (such as myself). Either way, the iPad is optimized to improve the iPhone gaming experience, allowing new elements to be added to games that can be played on both the iPhone/iPod touch and the new iPad.

4. The iPad makes it easy to share media. Not for a whole room, but you and a friend or two should be able to watch movies, listen to music, or pass the iPad back-and-forth for games. It’s just the right size for sharing up-close and the lack of a keyboard makes the iPad easier to handle than a notebook.

5. Applications. With all the above going for it, the iPad almost doesn’t have to do things like Web surfing and e-mail checking or document writing. But, it does them all and runs 140,000 iPhone apps besides. Sure, the best apps will be specially-written for the iPad, but you can use iPhone/iPod touch favorites right away.

6. Time may be on your side. The iPad may become much more compelling–thanks to new apps–between now and its March/April ship dates.

Reasons to Hold Off:

1. There is no subsidy on the 3G version. Apple wants you to pay $829 for the 64GB device, plus monthly wireless fees for AT&T’s 3G. The first year total: $1,189.

2. The wrong screen. It’s not clear why Apple didn’t choose a 16:9 aspect ratio, the standard for widescreen entertainment, but not doing so makes the iPad much less interesting for watching movies.

3. It’s not much of a work machine. New applications may hammer away at the iPad’s limitations, but the truth is that a notebook or netbook or even (in many circumstances) an iPhone is much more useful. Maybe it isn’t even fair to ask a device so well-tuned for entertainment to work at the office too, but Apple is promoting the iPad as a work tool. And right now, I have to respond, “No” in most circumstances.

4. If you don’t need all the other features, a Kindle or Nook offer better battery life for e-reading, but lack the color screen.

5. The iPad is a “tweener,” in the bad sense of the word. Not a computer, but not a smartphone, the iPad lacks the functionality of a notebook and the convenience of an iPhone or Droid. The iPad may be just one more thing to haul around if you already carry a notebook, which it doesn’t come close to replacing.

6. By the time the iPad ships, the excitement may be over. Perhaps helping lots of people save money.

There are many more reasons, both pro and con, regarding an iPad purchase but the best one may be the simplest: You’ve either got to have one (and have the spare cash) or the iPad doesn’t do much for you.

Since it won’t be available until March or April (for the 3G models), you have lots of time to change your mind. And for the initial excitement to wear off.

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Recently, I came across two really wonderful songs that I find very meaningful. First was Kris Allen’s Live Like We’re Dying and the second is John Lennon’s Imagine as performed in the TV series Glee.

Kris Allen’s song basically summarizes my obession with life and death. To be able to appreciate death as a requisite of life. Yes, we MUST all die someday, that’s why life is worth living. I try my best to live each day of my life to the best that I can, to enrich myself and enrich other’s. Life simply isn’t as meaningful without death. Live each day as it is your last, it may very well be, and count every new day as a blessing

The second song I came across while watching Glee - an American TV series. Sigh. Talking about a better world. Don’t we all wish for a better world? One day…

John Lennon - Imagine

Imagine there’s no Heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today

Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world

You may say that I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one

Kris Allen - Live Like We’re Dying

Sometimes we fall down and can’t get back up
We’re hiding behind skin that’s too tough
How come we don’t say “I love you” enough
‘Till it’s too late, it’s not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won’t come
We could make a feast from these crumbs
And we’re all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you
What would you wish you would’ve done?

Yeah… we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got
86,400 seconds in a day too
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying

And if your plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbye?
Should be so careful who we live out our lives
So when we long for absolution
There’ll no one on the line

Yeah… we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying

Like we’re dying, oh, like we’re dying [x2]

We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying

You never know a good thing ’til it’s gone
You never see a crash ’til it’s head on
All those people right when we’re dead wrong
You never know a good thing ’til it’s gone

Yeah… we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start pickin it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin’
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got
86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we’re dying

Tags: lyrics, music, song

It’s a new year!!!

In the past year, I think the best buy of 2009 must have been my iPhone 3GS. I loveeeeee using my iPhone for so many reasons…

1. It tells me where to go, how to go, where else I can go

2. I can browse anywhere

3. I can check my email anytime

4. I can book cinema tickets on the go

5. I can listen to iPod

6. I can play many many games

7. I can check carpark rates all over Singapore

8. I can watch youtube videos

9. I can message any iPhone user in the world for free

10. iCan. Can yours?

Tags: iphone

The Singapore Tattoo Convention 2010 starts today at Singapore Expo from Friday 8th January 2010 to Sunday 10th January 2010 at Expo Hall 6B.

A couple of months ago, I emailed a few tattoo artists from the States and UK to book an appointment for the tattoo convention. Yeah, I did send an email to Chris Graver as well, but no reply

Well, not too unfortunately though, I manage to get in touch with Demian from UK. He liased with me over email and we decided to meet up and see what he had in mind for my new Rose tattoo. I’m not going to put up a picture of my old tattoo here, but it was done when I was a teenager picked randomly out of a stencil booklet, so yeah, you get the picture.

Damien agreed to do my tattoo before the convention as it was going to be packed and I wasn’t sure if I could make it down for the convention at all. So he proposed his ideas to me and brainstormed a while, and I went back to the studio that was hosting him Galaxy2 at Temple Street, and got it done!

It was a REALLY awesome TWO HOURS of MIND BLASTING experience.

I love it.

You can check out his work at www.myspace.com/brother_demian

Tags: singapore tattoo convention, tattoo

I attended a beauty seminar held at Paragon Medical Centre by Dr. Z from Z Medical Aesthetics. Dr. Z explained to us why fillers like Juvederm® and Botox® are becoming more popular amongst women nowadays. The cost of “fixing” one area of your face costs about $900 for a temporary fix that lasts from 4 months to 1 year depending on the area for fillers and 4 months for Botox®.

Juvederm® Fillers, being self-explanatory, fills up areas of your face e.g. nose, cheeks, lifting certain areas of your face up to prevent having any saggy baggage. While Botox®, as most of you would know, can help to contour jawline and remove wrinkles. Dr. Z assured us that he tries to use these injections minimally to help create a beautiful new look without looking too plastic or fake. Some people looks great with a little wrinkle around the eyes and forehead, so please don’t go plastic your face like a barbie doll letting everyone know it’s all fake. In Singapore and in some countries, plastic surgery still comes with some stigma, so doing too much surgery to your face actually makes it less appealing.

With temporary injections, you don’t have to worry about not looking good with your new face. Fillers are reversible, and if you really prefer to have more wrinkles on your face, then you’ll just have to wait 4 months to get back your wrinkly face :p The stuff they inject into your face for are made from hylauronic acid, which is a kind of acid that is naturally found in our body, so it is minimally intrusive.

Two bloggers that were invited for a demonstration feedbacked that they loved their new features, one said it was relatively painless while kisscakee feedback that it hurts but it’s so worth it! The results were instant! Dr. Z mentioned that the swelling and effects from Botox® would be more obvious after 2 weeks. But they looked really great just minutes after the injections! There is practically no down time!

Before

After

Before (with Dr. Z)

After

weeks after… I got this from kisscakee’s facebook…

You know who really needs a nose job and face contouring?

ME!

WHERE’S MY BRIDGE???!!!! IT’S MISSING!!!!!

Z Medical Aesthetics
Orchard Paragon
290 Orchard Road, #11-04/05
Paragon Medical Suites, Singapore 238859

6235 234

Tags: botox, juvederm, plastic surgery

I paid $0.99 for the Ping! app on iPhone two months ago when I first got my iPhone 3GS. I love the iPhone, don’t get me wrong. The iPhone has the most wonderful functions such as awesome free and paid games, applications, email functionality, reading PDF and document files, iPod, and an *option* to jailbreak.

HOWEVER. The Ping! app - which supposedly lets you communicate with other iPhone users using 3G or WiFi connection that has the same application - DOES NOT WORK FOR ME. I have viewed their FAQ site and concluded it’s too troublesome for me to do something about me not able to send nor receive using the application.

THEN, I got to know about WhatsApp. A similar application for iPhone that allows users to chat with an internet connection, just like you would on BlackBerry Messenger. The app seemed to work wonderfully for the first couple of weeks, however, the nightmare came when they did the recent update on the application - version 2.3.

Let me share with you why WhatsApp is better than Ping! first. WhatsApp automatically logs you in as your handphone number, so you don’t have to create a separate user name to use the application and all your friends that are using WhatsApp will automatically be added into your friends list. This function alone, beats Ping! hands down. Both Ping! and WhatsApp uses push messenging, meaning it notifies you when you have messages instantly on your phone, just like a normal SMS alert. The chat log is similar to your normal iPhone SMS and can be customized as well. In the recent screwed up update, they also added a few cool functionality such as sending pictures over WhatsApp and changing the alert tone. They are also currently working on making a similar application for the BlackBerry users, so it would imply that in future, BlackBerry and iPhone users can chat for FREE over the internet with this application.

THE PROBLEM arose when they decided to add funky features to WhatsApp, and as a result, some iPhone users around the world cannot connect to WhatsApp using 3G internet connection. Even when we connect to WiFi, after trying to connect to 3G, the program fails to work. The only work-around available on the internet at the moment is to uninstall and reinstall the program. You won’t be charged for installing a program that you have already previously owned, so don’t worry. However, this isn’t a permanent solution and it’s a bitch to keep having to reinstall the program.

Version 2.4 just came out yesterday, but I am still skeptical about whether the problems have truly been fixed. Also, I heard you cannot send messages to users using different versions of WhatsApp! I do hope that all these problems can be solved soon because I really love the application! I’ve got many friends that are residing overseas, as well as friends that have been traveling, so using the application allows me to SMS them for FREE!

Tags: iphone, iPhone app, Ping!, WhatsApp

Is there such a thing as “legal file sharing” ?! If there is, it sure sounds like an oxymoron.

Hi all,

Today is an important day in the history of Mininova. From now on, we are limiting Mininova.org to our Content Distribution service. By doing so, we comply with the ruling of the Court of Utrecht of last August.

Unfortunately the court ruling leaves us no other option than to take our platform offline, except for the Content Distribution service. According to the verdict (Dutch link) we have to prevent uploads of torrents to Mininova that refer to certain titles or to similar-looking titles. We’ve been testing some filtering systems the last couple of months, but we found that it’s neither technically nor operationally possible to implement a 100% working filter system. Therefore, we decided that the only option is to limit Mininova to Content Distribution torrents from now on. We are still considering an appeal at this moment.

Taken from Mininova’s blog

Well, I still don’t understand what that means… They’re going to share files that no one want to download or have better sources of getting? In other words, Mininova is NO MORE! Sigh! I’ve been using their services for a while now and I love the way all the torrents are organised and the search engine within the site and its navigation is really simple and straight forward.

You know, you can close down Mininova today, and tomorrow Not-So-Mini-Nova will pop up again. So good luck trying to sue them all. It’s not that I support piracy, I like buying original games and watching DVDs, but some things are better downloaded. Like subtitled animes and TV shows.

For now, these are some sites you can still grab your torrents in a safe and organized manner:

http://thepiratebay.org/

http://www.animesuki.com/

http://eztv.it/

Feel free to suggest more sites

Tags: internet, legal, mininova, torrent

Dear Blog,

I’m so sorry I’ve been neglecting you for a while now. You know I’ve been so swarmed lately that the only method I can be bothered to update random strangers about my life now is through Twitter and Facebook. I assure you that I have not forgotten about you completely.

Yes, I haven’t even had the time to post pictures and write about the Nuffnang Awards event nor about any mundane detail in my life. Well, I’ve got valid reasons for not updating you. Firstly, I sprained my ankle 3 weeks ago, then 2 weeks back I had sore eyes - neither have fully recovered as I am writing this apology letter. See how much I still care? Next, I’ve been rushing my assignments all LAST MINUTE and churning out 2000+ words essay every week and it is NOT EASY! Then, there’s Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) demo that just came out last week, at about the same time as the launch of Borderlands. You know what, I’ve been so busy, I’m only level 46 in Borderlands! I can’t finish the game (play through 2) and level to 50 before I go for my trip!

Speaking of which, I won’t be able to update you for 2 more weeks because I’ll be traveling to Shanghai and KL. I’m sure you understand that I have a life. I need a break like everyone else. I can’t promise I’ll update you with my trips really soon, but I promise I will TRY my very best to…

I hope my deepest, most sincere apology have touched you and you are willing to pardon my selfish request of abandoning you for a few more weeks. Let’s hope some readers might leave comments here to keep you company while I’m gone ok? *hugs*

XOXO

Priss

This is by far, the most ridiculous app I have came across for the iPhone. An application that measures how long you can throw your iPhone in the air and drop it for. Who the *beep* is so insane to throw their iPhones around like that?!

Hang Time measures how long your iPhone is in free fall by using its internal accelerometers. For $1, you can throw your phone up in the air, and when it lands, hopefully in your hand, it will tell you how much “hang time” your phone got. The makers of Hang Time have also set up a web page that keeps the statistics of people using the application. Check out a video of someone putting Hang Time to good (i.e., bad) use:

Taken from http://anyguey.guanabee.com/2009/11/iphone-apps/

Tags: app, iphone