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After months of work, Seb and I are proud to present the all new NaughtyBananas.com! For the uninitiated, NaughtyBananas.com is a small venture Seb and I started about 1 year ago.

Our aim is to provide the best, lowest cost (starts from S$38/year) and friendliest web-hosting services. We also do web-space sponsorship for your events. Interested parties please drop us an email at: sales @ naughtybananas.com. Know more about us here.

What’s new in the new NaughtyBananas:

• All new design - Greatly improved user-friendliness and user experience. Find things you want faster and easier!
• Re-worked backend coding - Thanks to our in-house coding genius (Seb), the backend is just swweeeet!
• Revised plans - Hosting packages now boast higher specs, at even lower prices!

…I shan’t bore you with the other more technical changes.

Have a go, check out the all new NaughtyBananas.com.

I love the iPhone, and these ring tones just made me love it a lot more!

Original(MacWorld 2007) iPhone ringtone - This is the one debuted by Steve Jobs.

Remixed iPhone ringtone by Chris Baker - I like this the most! It’s my default ring tone now.

Classical/Musical iPhone ringtone by Craig Reynolds - Stressed? Tune to this one and relax…

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Ringtone

Take a break from the iPhone frenzy, and for my boring Weekly Shorts.

Monday
Back to my 2nd home. Waits eagerly for Macworld San Francisco 2007.

Tuesday
Waits eagerly for Macworld San Francisco 2007.

Wednesday
Macworld is live!! It’s always a pleasure to see my favourite CEO speak on stage. He is charismatic, captivating and with a dash of magic. Steve Jobs is a master at delivering a keynote address, and has been documented as being having one of the most ideal form of presentation style. Interested people can have a look at this article. It’s a good read.

And what’s the first major news in Geek Land? iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone and more iPhone!

I so want one!

Thursday
iPhone hangover.

Friday
Underwater hockey! Couldn’t join the peeps at SMUX (SMU dive team) on the first time, I heeded Nyan’s call for the second time! Again, I was the only non-SMU dude in a SMU event. hahaha. Anyway, it was quite an experience for me.

Firstly, it was damn cold… It was raining. I was shivering like a mad cow. It was also my very first time swimming with fins on. Actually I did snorkeling at some island before but that was eons ago. So I had to re-accustom myself to using the snorkel and the fins. Had to learn duck dive on the spot. Duck dive is basically to go from the surface of the water to the bottom, quickly.

Underwater hockey is basically hockey, only that it’s played underwater and with a shorter stick. Here’s a video of it. Though it’s supposed to be a non-contact sport, there’s lotsa contact involved! Maybe we are too noobs. And if you have the lungs of a humpback whale, you could be the next world champion in this game. No Kidding!

Had a lot of fun, made a few new friends. Would definitely want to do it again!

Saturday
Went down with my Bro to collect our paycheck. Had a few bites on our way back and that’s it.

There you go! That’s my week!

Something has been on my mind for the past week. I kept thinking and asking myself, why did I do some of the things I did?

Is it because I’m forced to? Not really. Maybe it’s due to pure passion? Probably. Curiosity? Probably. World peace? Impossible. Love? Likely. Or as one of my friend says: “It’s about not losing”? Likely. Vested interest? Very likely.

Still pondering…

In an open letter to Apple Inc., Tomi T Ahonen highlighted that the killer app on the iPhone, voice calls, that Steve Jobs have been touting at Macworld 2007, is not really the killer app. Instead, SMS-text messaging is.

Here’s an excerpt:

There is only one killer application in current (2.5G/3G) mobile phones. It is not voice calls. It is not music. It is not the camera function. The only killer app is SMS text messaging. Ever since Nokia first released its global messaging survey in 2001, to operator studies from the UK and France in 2002, to customer surveys in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia in 2003, onto South Korea and Japan; to the university study of phone addiction by the Catholic University of Leuwen in Belgium; and even now proven by the first American survey of SMS usage by ComScore Media Metrix - every scientific survey on the topic verifies that SMS text messaging is addictive. And that heavy users of SMS prefer text messaging to voice calls. Already more than half of British total population prefer communicating via SMS than voice on their mobile phones.

According to him, the fact that iPhone has no physical keypad, would actually put many people off. I sort of agree with him. Read the article and decide for yourselves, quite an insightful read.

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Tags: Apple, iPhone

Back to the sexy, juicy, lickable, kissable, uber-cool, i-badly-want-one iPhone.

John Blackstone of CBS news with Phil Schiller, Apple’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing.
(if nothing appears, it’s Youtube’s fault)

Rex Crumb from MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal with Apple’s Vice President of iPod marketing, Greg Joswiak.

Tags: Apple, iPhone