Maybe it looks better this time… iTunes5 looks like shit… đ
UPDATE: it looks the same, only difference I can see after launching it was the Videos stuff…
downloading iTunes 6
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ok… it’s time…
60GB Black iPod coming my way, well, might take a couple of weeks to get it… my 40GB will be on eBay soon… unless one of you guys call dibs on it… I think I’ll let it go for aroud $250…
Apple – iMac G5 – Front Row
This Front Row BT remote is definitely cool! I might have to get an iMac for my bedroom as a media server and display… costs about the same as an LCD TV… đ
Introducing David Wong’s blog
David is an old friend from Hong Kong, genius in biology back in our “secondary school” days, he was also quite good in computer science and electronics. He went to medical school, and is now a general practice doctor in Hong Kong.
He turned his personal site into a blog recently. check out the site, or the RSS feed.
Katrina story and pics from my client
Dr. Frederickson is a client of mine, I helped him build quite a few osCommerce sites, and I must be hosting like 10 of his domains. He lives in NOLA and went back there as soon as he could to help the re-building process. He’s put up a site with some pics, and I’m sure he will be updating it… Check it out at scottfredrickson.com
BNIB Mark XII! that’s insane!
Too bad the price is kindda insane as well… If I pick up a Mark XII I would wear it often, so no reason paying more than twice for a BNIB one just to scratch it up in a couple of hours… If it had a display back though, heheh… (good thing that it doesn’t!)
Schneier on Security: Musicians tell Fans How to Beat Copy Protection
Schneier on Security: Musicians tell Fans How to Beat Copy Protection:
I’ve been a subscriber to Bruce Schneier’s Crypto-Gram since my CMU days, he turned it into a blog with RSS feed a while back, so I’m subscribed to it as long as I’ve been reading RSS feeds… the comments on his blog are usually very good.
Anyway, worried about not being able to rip your newly purchased CD so you can listen to it on your iPod? Use iTunes, I think in Windows, you can probably just disable auto-play, and rip it in iTunes. Or better yet, get a mac. For those with the skillz and the time, you can use your favorite *nix operating system, open source software usually don’t care about DRM. LOL…
What I’m trying to say is, this is another reason to stay away from Windoze… đ
Splashpower
Now this is cool!
Splashpower
Splashpower is a wireless power solution:
? It enables you to power up your mobile phone and other portable devices, simply by dropping them on a mouse-mat-sized pad, called a SplashPad?
? No physical connection is required between the SplashPad and the device ? power is transferred wirelesslyÂ
? Different devices can be charged on a single SplashPad at the same time
? Splashpower spells an end to hunting for the right charger, finding free socket spaces or fiddling with connectors and offers a solution to the charging problem of current and next generation portable productsÂ
Perforce sucks
I tried to do a `p4 edit somefile` and it’s been more than 10 minutes and it’s still trying to do it… WTF?! Why would anyone use this POS revision control system instead of Subversion is beyond me.
Sandhill Road VCs Face Great Wall Hurdles
Sandhill Road VCs Face Great Wall Hurdles:
In this week’s Red Herring issue, Jeremy Xue, the managing director of Beijing- based Tsinghua Science Park Venture Capital, an affiliate of China’s prestigious university knows that the domestic venture capitalists and even the foreign VCs are risk adverse and sums it by saying that when it comes to supporting entrepreneurs, “there is a lot of talk but no action.”
Xue goes on to indentify specific reasons why most Silicon Valley VCs are still misguided and often misinformed in their attempted China due diligence:
Kanbujian. VCs simply don’t see the deals because they are difficult to find.
Kanbuqi. VCs don’t take the deals seriously because they are often too small.
Kanbudong. Foreign VCs fail to understand the deals because they (the deals) are too Chinese.
As is often the typical American or rather Silicon Valley approach, the VC jets into the Middle Kingdom mid-week and expects to be flooded with deals before the end of the week. Additionally, the investors dismiss small tech deals because they cannot justify the extraordinary attorney fees.
The final excuse for not investing in Chinese tech companies is simply fear. Sandhill Road, home to the largest concentration of VCs don’t understand the language, culture and ultimately the level or role played by government influence.
In the Red Herring article, WI Harper’s David Zhang has this advice for Western-based venture capitalists who want to invest in China: “If you want to make money in China, you cannot take the short-term, fly-by commando approach and try to manage remotely. If you do, you will get burned and lose your money.”
Related entries:
Silicon Valley Bank Bridges Sandhill Road and Shanghai… – Aug 03, 2005
U.S. VCs Scaling China’s Great Investment Wall… – Jul 29, 2005
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