A fun Thing to do on the train

I've noticed on my daily commute to work that the iPhone and iPod
touch have become among the most popular train buddies anyone could
have. Something fun my girlfriend and I started doing was trying to
count how many iPhones or iPod touches we could see on our train, or
if we were waiting near the entrance of a train station, the number of
people who walk past with such a device. It's the 21st century zinch
dog!

I can only see 6 others this morning but I've only scanned the door
area and the visible part of the upstairs compartment.

Sent from the gPhone!

iPad launches in America!! + The Apple Experience

After watching, it just makes me want the iPad that much more...=[

Wow...and I thought I was excited about Apple products. This girl is can't control her excitement and anticipation as she waits in line for her iPad on launch day. It's amazing also how enthusiastic all the Apple Store workers are about product launches and I guess that makes for one happy customer! Little things like this just keep re-affirming the fact that Apple looks after it's customers. I myself have had and heard a few stories.

Story #1:

I myself had a very substantial experience with Apple's over the phone customer support when I bought my original iMac 20 inch late 2008 refurbished model. It had some RAM problems and kept constantly restarting. I called up 2 days later and informed them of the problem and they said they'd pick it up the next day and give me a full refund.

Happy with my service and level of care, I decided to get the 24 inch model instead. Apple always does free shipping and uses TNT couriers so it usually arrives the next day, quick and painless. It could have easily ended up in tears for me and one unhappy customer for Apple, but the way they treat their customers is hard to find in any other computer company.

Everything was resolved very very quickly and I was extremely impressed. Shopping with Apple is as simple and convenient as their products.

Story #2

My girlfriend's iPod headsets died and she wanted to replace them so she went to the Apple Store...she walked out 2 minutes later with new earphones in hand, not needing to show any evidence of purchase. Lovely.

Story #3

My boss's iMac started blowing smoke one day and so he called up Apple support. His area is a bit prone to electrical surges as there has been a history of appliances dying (and even an electrical outlet blowing up). At the time, his iMac wasn't plugged into his electrical surge-proof power board, but he switched it around, because when the Apple technician came to inspect it, he frowned in puzzlement, and approved a replacement. Wonderful!

I wonder...

Has anyone had a bad or pleasant experience with Apple?

Is anyone eager for the iPad launch here in Australia?

UPDATE:

Here's another video from the same Apple Store's iPad launch covered by CNET's "The Apple Byte" featuring the hilarious host Brian Tong. Why oh why is Australia so slow!!!

[App Review] - Depict

Hi there! Today's review is based on a FREE app called depict! This is a neat little online enabled app which lets you hop right into a room full of random people from all over the world to play multiple choice pictionary.

What's fun is that you don't need to worry about typing in the exact word, but rather, guess the right one from out of 6 possible choices, like so:


Want to play with friends? That get's a bit more tricky.

Firstly, you can't play with a bunch of people on one single device.

The maximum supported amount of players is 5. To host a local game, every player must have access to wifi and an OpenFeint account with the host player as a friend (this took some time to figure out for me just to play with my bro)

However, once everything is set up, you'll be sure to have lots of fun with this nifty little free app! Get everyone you know to download it and have some fun!

The future of magazines on iPad

Wow...check out this video of some developers of ViV magazine doing an iPad rendition of an upcoming magazine. This is the future!!

VIV Mag Featurette: A Digital Magazine Motion Cover and Feature for the iPad from Alexx Henry on Vimeo.

I wish I could say that this was me...

Damn this guy types fast!! Just proof of how accurate the iPhone touch screen is! Who needs a physical keyboard anyway? =]

Fring on iPhone!

This is an amazing FREE app that's been around for awhile but has flown under my radar until today.

It's basically an instant messaging client which incorporates pretty much any kind of instant messaging type out there - MSN, Google Talk and Skype being the main and important ones to me. What it does is gather all your contacts from these services (your own phone contacts included) and puts them into one fat (but centralised) list.

The killer feature : voice calls over 3G!!! I was playing around with it this afternoon with my uncle, and grandpa, and it works really well!

For skype contacts, you can call to any iPhone or computer running skype.

For MSN contacts however, I noticed unless the other person is using Fring, you can't call them.

Another cool thing is that if you are on Skype on a computer with a webcam, then the person on the other side using Fring can see that webcam feed! The actual Skype app doesn't even support this!

Also when you close the app you will still be signed in so you will get notifications when people send you messages or try calling you.

The best thing about it: ITS FREE!!! So get it right now!

The worst thing: the annoying tone it makes whenever you get a message....but easily overlooked for its amazing features.

Street Fighter IV Released!!!!

Click here for a zippy download link! (while it lasts!) See the side-bar to get your iPhone up and running for jailbroken apps. For those of you who are on 3.1.3....tough nuts!

Mac Vs PC

So i was busy the other day moving me and my brother's desks downstairs. I had a Mac. He had a PC. Here's are 2 contrasting photos to what each desk looked like before I plugged everything in (just moved all the basic gear down)

Here is my bro's PC



As you can see, there are a bunch of cables everywhere, and a super fat (and pimped up) rig to go with it.

and here is my iMac:



Very elegant and tidy, no? =]

Everyone keeps telling me how the screen is so big! It's the first thing you see when you walk into the room...a beautiful 24 inch monitor. And that is the beauty of Apple! Simplicity and beauty.

Wonderful example of iPhone customization

People say everyone's got an iPhone. Well some iPhone owners like stepping up to the challenge to make their iPhone stand out!

Here are some pics of my girlfriends pimped up iPhone!

Here is the home screen with a pink chanel Winterboard Lock screen theme!

It matches her Silicone Devil case which I bought off ebay for about $3 AU. Cheap and cute!

Here is the springboard...again with a pinky Chanel theme to match the pink case.

This is just one of many of her iPhone looks....she actually has like 5 or 6 different iPhone cases so she can accessorise them as she pleases.

I'd like to see if anyone else has a nice iPhone theme/iPhone case customisation match up going around. Post a link in the comments!

The power of EveryDay Looper...

What do you get when you cross a French musician with the latest American iPhone recording technology?

The answer is too awesome for words...