Digital Living

Mac OS X Snow Leopard - Available August 28!

Finally the operating system that everybody has been waiting-for will be released. The date is August 28. Upgrade price is $29 only. Check the Apple website for more!

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How to add Twitter feed inside Gmail ...

If you find Gmail and Twitter equally useful, and would like to integrate both together inside one interface so you can follow both feeds quickly and easily without the hassle of jumping from one application  to another, then Twitter Gadget for Gmail might be the solution you are looking for.

This gadget basically put a twitter feed "banner" inside your gmail interface (see picture). By having such, now you can quickly access your gmail account as normal, yet if you want to make a twitter update, or catch latest twitter feed quickly and easily, you can do such from inside gmail itself; no need to switch from one application to another.

Here's the URL where you can get the gadget: http://twittergadget.appspot.com/

And here's step by step help instruction, of how you can install the gadget into your gmail account: http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/10/how-to-add-gadgets-to-your-gmail.html

Hopefully you find it effective, and pretty useful too.

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What happened to Facebook these days?

I observe that Facebook increasingly getting slower to access, or quite often temporarily down these days.
I wonder what happened to it. Are they in the process of migrating their current 'heavier interface' into lighter friendfeed interface that they just recently acquire?
Would be interesting to see what kind of 'change' would happen in the next few months with the facebook user interface. My guess: It'd be influence alot by friendfeed and by -- who else -- other than twitter's feed concept; and twitter's user interface!

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This is how it all started ... now it's upon us all to make the nation truly great once more.

Mari bangun kembali Indonesia. Dirgahayu Republik Indonesia - 17 Agustus 2009

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Rumors said that International Kindle might be coming 'soon'!

While Amazon Kindle seem to be a perfect digital reading device, unfortunately -- until now -- it still can't be use outside of the US shore.

The reason is because Amazon is building its kindle to work with US-based wireless network, which is different from international network standards -- which makes it unable to work in international market.

But people and the world market might soon be able to experience a new international version of the Kindle.

Rumors said that -- since February this year -- some engineering work is being initiated, which -- speculatively -- might lead to the creation of Kindle device that might work in international shores.

We will still have to wait and see whether this 'rumors' is accurate or not. Nevertheless, the idea that soon we would be able to bring hundreds or thousands of our 'books' in the lightweight Kindles which work perfectly in international shores is not only truly exciting, it is also a totally breathtaking experience to expect.

We'll see how the future goes.

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Why I think Bill Gates is still the best strategist, promotor & leader for Microsoft back then, even today ...

If someone says Bill Gates is just a technical-nerd, they miss the whole point that he got clarity and depth in where he would like to bring Microsoft to, and why he entered into new groundbreaking initiative such as Apple Macintosh.
Microsoft rise into becoming the dominant player in the personal computing industry is no accident. They got a great leader that technically, visionary-ly and confidently exactly know what to do.

Beside Steve Jobs, I really believe Bill Gates is the other great strategist during the rise of the personal computer era.

Listen to what Bill Gates said in 1983 on Microsoft aim and goal on Apple Macintosh. And hear why I truly believe that beside Steve Jobs, he's the other key person that makes personal computer so wonderful, popular and useful.

I wish Microsoft current CEO is as clear -- and in someway -- as talented, both in technicality, excellence, ability to speak and express, as well as in its ability to resonate and influence people to their cause. In my view as of today: he's not. He turn Microsoft into an aura of becoming an 'arrogant evil empire'. What a pity. Hope this could change eventually. Bill Gates is definitely still the best strategist, promotor and leader for Microsoft back then, even today.

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Nokia & Microsoft announce that Office is coming to Symbian platform!

I have mixed feeling when I read this. I am not exactly sure whether this announcement shall be considered 'seriously cool' or actually shall be seen as 'pretty goofy'. My thoughts wonder around the fact that:

1. Compared to newer, fresh & more exciting mobile phone OS (iPhone, Palm, Google Android), Symbian OS' user interface and capabilities really show a serious sign of 'aging'.
2. Based on several years of self experience, reading multicolumn spreadsheet on a tiny mobile phone screen is not really practical nor easy. Creating office document on such 'tiny and crampy screen factor' is even worse.

While I (still) don't know what to say (yet) about such announcement, I know that my first respond to it will NOT be saying something such as: "Horrray!".

Strategically it seems the 'smart' thing to do -- considering Symbian customer base is really huge. But in reality: the symbian phone's form factor (as well as it's responsiveness and speed) seem too tiny, a bit too slow -- and often too awkward -- for such 'complex' office processing act to be conducted on top of it.

We'll see how the future goes with this 'mixed feel' initiative.

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Who says technical presentation suppose to be boring? It doesn't have to!

Who says technical presentation suppose to be boring? Bonnie Bassler proves it doesn't have to.

Take a look at her presentation at TED; study her slides, her sequence, her feel; watch her tone and gesture. What we sense is a sense of a truy great technical presentation being aired live ... alive!

On stage, Bonnie Bassler doesn't feel like a 'dead zombie' throwing out technical jargons that nobody understand. She didn't be there spraying boredom to her audience.
Instead: she is there presenting alive; with spirit, knowledge, wisdom that opens everybody's mind; with passion, story line and gesture that excite us even more!

For that style, Bonnie Bassler's presentation is remarkably awesome!

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Now things get even more interesting at Palm .... !!!

Recently it was announced that Palm had just hired Jeff Zerner -- an Apple veteran -- as their new SVP of Brand Design.

Looking at such appointment, it seems clear that Palm is not just going to sit idle with their current innovative product and design; instead seems they are readying themselves for the next battle stage where the greatest coolest product with the best brand design win!

While this movement seems to target Apple & its phenomenal iPhone, I tend to predict that the real impact of such assault might be more strongly felt in the Blackberry's & Nokia's segment, instead.

Unless Blackberry and Nokia re-innovate quickly and respond responsively and timely to the challenge, some tectonic shift eventually might happen in the smartphone market. Such impact could felt even stronger when Palm start introducing many versions of cheaper PalmOS devices to the marketplace!!

We'll see how the future goes.

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Too many tweets ??

Seems Twitter's "performance hickups" still occasionally persist. I really wonder why (and how) such could still happen, after all these years.

Go Twitter go. Make your body stronger!

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