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Apple WWDC10

dewei — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:09:13 +0000

The annual keynote event of Apple Inc.

Live coverage:
gdgt.com
MacrumorsLive
Engadget

The Apple iPad

dewei — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:30:30 +0000

Steve Jobs announced the iPad today. First impressions for me are pretty okay. Don’t really like the thick bezel, though the purpose for it is for you to rest our fingers on and not blocking the screen. Well, I have until April before it arrives in Singapore; there’s still time to research and decide.

New Apple iMac

dewei — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:57:53 +0000

21.5” and 27” displays.

The new multi-touch Magic Mouse

27-inch display, Intel i5 Quad Core, 4GB memory, ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics with 512MB and Magic Mouse.

Simply gorgeous.

Visit: The New iMac

Backpack

dewei — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 03:55:51 +0000

Backpack is an adjustable shelf for the Mac. It is designed to attach to the back of iMac and Apple Cinema Displays. It is clips onto the back of new iMac and Apple Cinema Displays to create an instant shelf for holding hard drives, USB peripherals.

Useful!

Find out more.

Jonathan Paul Ive

dewei — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:41:22 +0000

Love or hate the company that brought us the iPod and the iPhone, there is no doubt that Apple has revolutionized the way consumer products are designed and manufactured. And you may begin to wonder why are there so much junk products in the market right now.

Just look around the next time you visit a electronics shop, you will realize that many products spot Apple’s design cues. And the man behind the design magic is none other than Apple’s Senior Vice President of Design, Jonathan Paul Ive CBE (casually called Jony Ive).

During Apple’s lowest point, the visually stunning iMac G3 was the product that brought Apple back to the center stage again. And from that point on, there was no stopping Jonathan and the Apple Design team. From the iBook to the PowerBook, all Apple’s products were met with universal acclaim and became instant masterpieces of product design, spawning countless imitations.

Many of the products Jonathan has created at Apple are directly influenced by natural objects, such as the sunflower-inspired iMac G4 and the Pro Mouse which was inspired by a droplet of water. Indeed an organic influence can be felt in all Apple products. It is what makes them friendly, understandable and tactile.

His design philosophy of less is more, combining form, function and beauty has been the inspiration and reference for many of my design related work, be it websites or application user interface.

He’s literally my idol (YES I AM A GEEK). So I decided to put together some of his works in photos and videos. So enjoy and be inspired!

iPod – First Generation

The music player that started it all. The player that redefined how an MP3 player should work and look. For many, this is the product that introduced them to Apple.

iMac G4

The iMac G4 was a computer that was produced by Apple from the beginning of 2002 to mid 2004. It’s design was inspired by sunflowers. During that time, the futuristic form factor was unlike anybody had seen before.

iMac G5

iPhone – First Generation

The phone that revolutionized the entire mobile phone industry. It is the first product that brought true multi-touch technology to the consumer market. It is also the phone that spun-off countless imitations and literally forcing other major mobile phone manufacturers to imitate its ease of use, gorgeous user interface and functionality.

Macbook – Aluminium (Unibody)

Instead of muliple parts, the bottom half of the new Macbook is fabricated from a single block of aluminium. Find out more about the Unibody design.

Sources: Jonathan Ive, Wikipedia, Apple.com, Youtube, Google Images.

Journey to 2.1

dewei — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:33:26 +0000

Pwn iPhone with Quickpwn 2.1 (Windows). [Guide]
After getting into DFU mode, everything is pretty much automated from here on.

Custom firmware is being downloaded.

Pwnage tool executing its magic

Bootneuter unlocking the phone.

iPhone 2.1 goodness!

iPhone and its Singapore Link

dewei — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:12:30 +0000

I was reading an article about how today’s china is reprising her role of copying branded luxury consumer products – Copying the latest in technology, from cars to mobile phones (iPhones).

Some where in the article, it was mentioned that the all-important touch screen on the iPhone was actually a Chinese technology. And so I did some further investigations and came up with some more interesting facts!

What made iPhone so awesome is primarily due to its multi-touch interface. And the hardware that made that possible, among is many other components was the touch sensitive screen. Apple had contracted a German company called Balda AG, which is famous for making wireless-phone components for companies such as Nokia, to make the touch screens for the iPhone. Balda did not have the technology to make touch sensitive screens until it acquired a Chinese company called TPK Holding. It was TPK Holding which had developed the innovative glass-surfaced touch screen.

So where’s the Singapore link? Well…As of July 14, 2006, TPK Holdings Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of Balda Investments Singapore Pte Ltd.

There you have it!

Back to the topic of China cloning technologies, I’m not all against them copying. All technologically developed nations like USA, Japan, South Korea copied from some where at some point in time. It’s part of the “learning” process.

In fact i think China has the capabilities to come out with inventions that would change the world. Case in point: The Chinese invented the wheel, paper and gun powder. Just imagine the world without the above 3 items.

Sources: China’s iClone, Apple’s Magic Touch Screen, Apple in touch with China

Tags: iPhone, China, touch-screen

Watch your videos anywhere

dewei — Sun, 18 May 2008 10:34:57 +0000

One of the many cool things you can do with the iPhone:

Record your favourite TV shows using EyeTV, and watch them anywhere as long as you have internet connection!

Tags: iPhone, EyeTV, Wireless Streaming

Apple new iMac

dewei — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:29:43 +0000

[flashvideo filename="/stream/apple_solar.flv" width="480" height="272" image="/stream/preview/apple_solar.jpg" /]

Thing of Beauty

Learn more.

Tags: Apple, iMac

So Close, Yet So Far

dewei — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:42:06 +0000

[See post to watch Flash video]

Today I was about 5 feet away from the iPhone. 5 feet! But I didn’t had the chance to touch it. It belonged to one of the managers at my workplace.

And so I could only admire it from 5 feet away. It’s a real beauty. Thinner than I imagined it would be. Sexier than I imagined it would be..

I WANT ONE!!!

ADC Student Kit Unpack

dewei — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:53:56 +0000

Yes, today I’ll be a little geeky – Unpacking my Apple Developer Connection (ADC) Student Kit!

The package from DHL

Bubble wrapped

The most geeky T-Shirt that I have now.. I swear

Nice box..

Yada..Yada

The inside

A bit of introduction to the kit

The Big X. Strangely they sent me OS X Tiger, shouldn’t I be getting Leopard instead?

Work, Start

dewei — Thu, 17 May 2007 14:59:20 +0000

Begin work today, and I took some pictures.

Super cool DJ rig setup.

Close-up shot.

In-house DJ spinning. The entire setup costs $10K and up!

My fav TV show 24 on Apple TV! Been meddling with it throughout the day, setup was real easy, just works and it’s beautiful.

Apple TV

On another note, I’ve been getting mixed comments about my “weight”.. Some say I gained weight, while some said I lost weight.. So? Did I lose or gain?

iPhone Ringtones

dewei — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:20:32 +0000

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

The killer App is not Voice nor Music

dewei — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:44:34 +0000

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.

Read Full Article

Tags: Apple, iPhone

iPhone Hands-on Videos

dewei — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:08 +0000

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

Apple iPhone Racks in $6.1 Billion

dewei — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:11:06 +0000

Although the iPhone still in the prototype stages, awaiting approval from the US FCC, Apple Inc. has already made US$6.1 Billion from it – Through the stock market, that is.

Meanwhile, Blackberry-maker Research in Motion losing nearly 8% on the NASDAQ and 7.7% on the Toronto exchange. Palm suffered nearly as badly, with Nokia and Motorola posting much smaller declines. For the homes of the Treo and the Pearl, “Black Tuesday” represented a total loss of market value approaching $2.2 billion dollars.

Source: Engadget | TUAW

Apple iPhone

dewei — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 19:07:01 +0000

Sweet, glorious specs:

115 x 61 x 11.6mm, weighs 135 grams
a 3.5-inch, 320 x 480-pixels wide touchscreen display at 160 PPI (pixel per inch) with multi-touch support
3 advance sensors
- proximity sensor to turn off the sensor when it’s close to your face
- acceleromoter
- Ambient light sensor
2 megapixel cam
4GB or 8 GB of storage
GSM Quad-band (MHz: 850, 900, 1800, 1900), EDGE
Bluetooth with EDR and A2DP, WiFi that automatically engages when in range
runs OS X with support for Widgets, Google Maps, and Safari, and iTunes (of course) with CoverFlow out of the gate.
Support IMAP and POP
Apple quotes 5 hours of battery life for talk or video, with a full 16 hours in music mode — no word on standby time yet.
The 4GB iPhone will go out the door in the US as a Cingular exclusive for $499 on a two-year contract, 8GB for $599. Ships Stateside in June, Europe in fourth quarter, Asia in 2008.

More photos from Engadget!

Apple iPhone Product Page

Tags: Apple, iPhone, Macworld 2007