Digital Living

Merry X-Mas Dear Friends & Colleagues. Here's a "song" for you. And a wish for greatest holiday season too.

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Interesting Drawing + Animation + Presentation

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Exciting! USB Mode for iPad to Mac

iPad, iTouch or iPhone Disk Mode is made easy with Phone Disk. Using your standard USB cable, this tiny program runs in the menu bar or system tray of your Mac or PC. When it finds an iPod Touch or iPhone it seamlessly mounts it to your file system so you can directly access its files using Windows Explorer, Finder and every other program.

Phone Disk (Mac) - 1.674
Requires OSX 10.5 or 10.6.

Phone Disk (PC) - 1.101
Requires iTunes 9 or later.

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Apple dethrone Nokia as top smartphone in Australia & is now largest mobile PC vendor in US

If the iPad is considered a mobile PC, then Apple is now the top mobile PC vendor in the U.S. and the third largest in the world.
In Australia, it is now the top smartphone vendor, dethroning Nokia.
In China, its iPhone 4 is now the product that is most in demand, and long order delivery backlog happening due to high demand.

Awesome!

ps: Still can't believe that just a few years ago there could be interesting saying regarding the iPhone and its future. As history always shows, I guess, the best innovation wins.

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Google launches "Google Chrome OS" today -- Would it redefine the "new look" (& behaviour) of our "next PC" ?

The new browser-based OS will enable instant booting, faster web page loading and super fast javascript engine, secure computer sharing (among multi-user sharing the same computer), chrome apps (available from the google chrome store), and offline working capability.

We'll see how the market in general, and some of the leading PC manufacturers will respond to this new paradigm; whether they would embrace it, and adopt it, whether they would stick with the Windows path instead, or whether they would take "parallel path" (a.k.a embracing both Windows and Google Chrome OS) in defining "future-path" of "next generation" personal computer development.

First Chrome OS device will be available in 2011. While some PC manufacturers might be reluctant to commit to the new, still-to-be-tested viable alternatives, I predict perhaps the "non-PC players" (a.k.a tablet makers, smartphone makers, and even gadget/phone companies -- such as Samsung, China/Taiwan OEMs, and LG, and in some ways Dell) might be among the potential players that will embrace the Google concept, to enter the "next PC" arena.

After all, as Gartner and IDC recently also mentioned that within 18 months, they predict sales of smartphones + tablet will surpass PC. As such, many of "non-PC" players might jump-in into the possible opportunity, and enter these new era of "mobile computing" and "internet computing" innovation by embracing as well as redefining new "fresh look and behaviour" of a "new PC" which embraces the strength of "PC of the past", yet at the same time "redefine" the look of the "next PC" into the future. 

All and all, similar to what already happen with smartphone and tablet innovation, such "next PC" transformation probably one day would make making sticking permanently to the old PC concept eventually becomes "dinosauric", ... or in some way "obsolete".

New form factor for PC (or netbooks) might soon be redefined, or "reinvented". Many things still need to be tested. Yet still: exciting possible innovations ahead. 

Let's see how the "next PC" would look like and behave in the near future, and lets witness too whether such exciting "next PC" innovations would come from Mac great innovations, traditional Windows environment, emerging initiatives such as Chrome OS, or actually a mixture of them all.

I'm a (next) "PC". :-)

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If you often refer to PDF & e-books that resides on your iPad while typing on your laptop or iMac, this accessories might be useful ...

How would I use it? and how it could become useful ? 

Definitely I will not carry these things around. Instead, most likely I would put it permanently on my desk near my laptop, bigger screens, and iMac, hence it would become very easy and convenient for me to refer, read and browse digital documents that resides on my iPad, while composing and typing heavy stuff on my Macs.

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Twelve South Compass Portable Stand for iPad

Made from heavy-gauge steel, Compass is a single stand for holding your iPad in two different modes. Upright as an easel, it displays your iPad in portrait or landscape mode for viewing movies or iPhoto slideshows. Flip down the secondary leg and Compass becomes a handy workstation that angles iPad perfectly for typing. 

$39.95 / Rp 529,000 

Estimated Ship: Within 24hrs

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