Swordie Bloggie

Happy Chinese New  Year to everyone… may the great Rabbit brings Good Health, Wealth, Happiness, Success, Joyful, Harmony, Longevity, Good Fortune and Good Feng Shui to all of us… 😀

Yea, the sound of fireworks are deafening the midnight right now… it’s like war out there… well, the sound is like war in the movie… not really sure how war is coz never experience any… and I’m not wishing for one… please, no war… glad the peace are always with us here 😀

So what do I expect for this rabbit year?… well, other than all those I mentioned above… I just want one more thing… during the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 last month… it’s undeniable that android dominated the show!!! Yea… everything was about android phones… android tablets… all are about Google!!!…Even Apple was not dare this time to showcase their iPad and iPhone…

But I don’t fancy all these android thingy… I do own one android tablet… the CSL Spice MI700… but that’s all about it… just an oversize smart phone. What I really want is the HP Slate… yea, the Windows 7 Pro tablet from HP… the SLATE!!!… It was launched in US late last year… I really wish it to be available here soon… with higher spec!!! What so great about this slate?… Well as you can see, it’s running on Windows 7… that’s mean it’s a pc… a smaller pc… a tablet pc… or whatever you like to call it… campared to adroid tablet or iPad, slate is a fully functional tab like a desktop pc… you can do almost anything you have on your desktop… flash… Photoshop… almost anything that runs on Windows 7… I really hope it will reach here soon… I want SLATE!!! I HATE iPAD!!!

A week ago, 23rd November, I attended a one day workshop on mobile content development at Sekolah Pengajian Seni, University Sabah Malaysia (UMS). At first, I was reluctant to attend the workshop coz it’s about developing apps for iPhone… i hate apple… 😛 but lucky I attended it, coz it did change my perception on iPhone as far as about selling apps at Apple Store 😛

I thought the workshop start at 8.30am… and I left home at about 7.45am… and it is more than 30KM away… you see, to reach my office which is about 10KM away, will take me 12 minutes without traffic jam… and it will take about 30 minutes when there is traffic jam… and to reach UMS I need to go through all the major traffic jam areas in the city… 😛

With all the super manoeuvres, short-cuts and zig zagging… I reach and park just in time… about 8.32am… but I still have to find the room… when I found the room, the room is almost empty… it seems that I was the second participant there… 😛 and it turn out the course start at 9am :O

The course went well… first, with the intro about iPhone apps development by the Mr. Azizi, the lawyer turned iPhone technologist lecturer… iPad/iPhone development tools… which I forgot what was the name at the moment… will dig it out later… and lastly group project… we have to propose an iPhone apps… there are 4 in my group, me and two colleagues, Celestine and Erwati, and another student, Aaron, from Mukah Politech. Aaron proposed we develop  a medical information apps… apps that helps you to identify medicine… it will tell you what is the medicine for, contents, etc… I guess our proposal is OK… and I want to do it… as my first real project… seriously… 😛

OK, how am I going to do that???… i hate apple… i don’t have apple… i don’t want to waste money for apple…

Well, I’m going to virtualized the Mac OS X… yea… virtualized the Snowy Leopard… I want to use vmware to virtualized the Snowy Leopard on my Windows 7… and I have been trying since last week… the furthest I did was to get the Apple logo on my vmware… dammm… why can’t someone put a proper tutorials, tools… and of course a working copy of the Snowy Leopard on the net??? 😛

So, for the past one week, I have been searching the web directories for tutorials, tools and a working Mac OS X. I even started using the bit torrent… the uTorrent version… which I never use before… never used bit torrent before… well, I did use something similar long long time ago… eMule is the name… Aaron pointed out a probable working OS X out there in the bit torrent cyber space… I’ve already downloaded almost 10GB from rapidshare… and now trying the bit torrent for another 5GB… hope this is the one… 😛 wow… wat a long posting… 😛

Suddenly tablet and netbooks got buried somewhere…

Out of nowhere, the name iPad came into the picture… who have expected they gonna called it iPad?… although it is just a tablet… the same tablet we have been talking many years…

Well, it’s Apple’s tradition… iPod, iPhone, iMac… and now iPad… 😛  and frankly I’m not a fan of Apple’s products… although they are great for graphics thingy…

I’m hoping more from Windows thingy… but Windows thingy are very slow to evolve… they seem to be not growing up… and now, they got eaten by iPad… and soon they might get eaten by iWin… and who knows they might only able to come out with iLoose iLost after that 😛

Anyway, I don’t think iPad gonna make a great hit… mainly because of timing… and economy are bad at the moment… so, hopefully Windows thingy will evolved at the mean time… and come out with something spectacular…