Thursday, January 28, 2010

Mac's App --- Bumptop 3D Desktop Organizer

Today, I read a article from 9to5mac and found a cool application in Mac (or Windows). That is Bumptop 3D Desktop, it makes your desktop become a "Room" which you have three walls in front of you. So that can post photos/notes on your "wall" .
Besides, there is a special feature call "pile". You can "make a pile" by selecting several files or folders which make the files place as a "pile"
It is free for Mac but a Pro version which support for multi-touch trackpads and quick file search is available for $29. For more details, please go to here.



Saturday, January 23, 2010

Boogie Board tablet ---- Things I want to buy

It is called Boogie Board!
It is LCD writing tablet by sensing pressure. I think it is a cool stuff that a hardware can replacing the memo pad. It will save trees if people really use it seriously.
It is light (only 4.2 ounces), thin and no need to charge (but don't know the products life time). According to the feature introduction, you can create different textures and patterns on the LCD by using any suitable instruments --- even fingers.
I really want to buy it but it is out of stock in Amazon, unluckily so I can tell you the price right now.
You can reach the official web site of Boogie Board here and buy it from here.

Monday, January 11, 2010

My New E-reader ----- Sony PRS600BC

I used the reader for a few days. It is quite good although the response/page turning is not smooth as I expect. But the overall comment is not bad.

However, there are some points that I need to point out.

  1. I am using the Mac as you know ;p, and the library program is suck! It kept quitting when I tried to connect the reader with the program. The situation improved after fell back to 32 kernel. However, the program quitted recently again !!! I don't know how to fix it. It really upset me !!
  2. It is quite difficult for me to go a particular page. You may not have this problem when you reading a novel or fiction but if you use it to read the book of tools or something like referencing books. You will have headache.
  3. The resizing of the text in the pdf ebook is not so good as you will find the paragraph and the graph will be in a irrational position if you try to zoom in.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

iPhone Apps -- TweetDeck For iPhone

It is a application in your mobile for you to keep staying in touch with what is happening now on Twitter from your iPhone. Besides, it can also support Facebook so that you can keep knowing your friends status in Facebook from one application.

Before that I am using "Echofon" for Twitter updates but now I changed to "TweetDeck for iPhone". Because the interface is cool and you can update your status of Facebook too ! And it is free !!!!
Here is the web site of TweetDeck.
In this web site, there is a desktop software called "TweekDeck" for you to manage Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn in one application. It looks good and I will try it !

Monday, December 28, 2009

PPTV Solution on Mac

If you want to watch online TV or P2P TV , may football matches.......
There are only two ways to do it on Mac (as I know).

1) Download TVUPlayer
http://www.tvunetworks.com/
I tried this and it is quite good. Although there are lots of area need to be improved, it is the only way that I can find for Mac.
Go here to download.

2) Go to http://www.veetle.com/ to watch the P2P TV via the web browser. From my experience, it is now not support the 64bit Safari, you need to use Firefox (I am sure this must work :p) or other browsers .

If you know any other ways, please let me know !

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Sony Reader Touch Edition --- PRS600BC

Finally, I decided to buy the e-reader from Sony --> PRS600BC black in color.
The reason that I choose SONY because I found that Kindle from Amazon gets a good point that I can buy e-book easily from Amazon . However, it is the weak point for me to have Kindle also. This is because it doesn't support the PDF very much. If you want to read the PDF in your Kindle, you need to send it to Amazon to convert for you. Which means if I don't buy the e-books from Amazon, then I can hardly read the PDF (books) from my mobile reader.
Besides, I like the "pen" to mark something on my reading. SONY reader can provide this but Kindle can't. Although Kindle get a better display (e-ink, 16 Gray), I finally choose to buy SONY PRS600BC.

I asked my friend to buy it for me from US and I will update the photos after I get it . :)
Looking forward ---- SONY PRS600BC !

Saturday, December 19, 2009

iPhone Apps -- Sleep Cycle


Recently, I bought a very good apps from apps store. I can't stand to share with you.
This is "Sleep Cycle" .....
First of all, it is still on sale. It only costs you US$0.99 !
Secondly, it use the iPhone's accelerometer to monitor your sleeping movement to determine which sleep phase you are in.
And "Sleep Cycle" will wake you up in your lightest sleep phase.
For details, please go to developers web site.

This is one of my sleeping graph :P .