I takes ages to import all my files back from iDisk. It’s only 45mb pictures folder for god’s sake and it’s been HOURS! I always had to turn off the Airport connection to stop the loading window.  I am definitely leaving mobileme for good. I have been a good customer for over 5 years and this is what I get. The damn iDisk is freaking SLOW. Mobileme is the worst Apple product ever! 

It doesn’t even allow me to sync my files anymore, too much glitch and problems for $99 USD. The transition from dotmac to mobileme is really a disaster. Heck, even dotmac wasn’t that good either but at least is didn’t give me tons of trouble sync my files. The point is,  I spent $495 USD for 5 years just for what? Only for email address and storing my 45mb pictures with tons of glitch? And now it’s getting far worst than I thought, I can’t get my files back!

Anyway, end of rant.

I need to focus, I still have 45 days to move all my files and backup my emails before my account expire. I have to start looking for mobileme alternative. Although I found many choices but not sure which one I like, yet/

For iDisk alternative : Sugarsync, Funambol,  Bingodisk, dropbox,  AmazonS3, Google service or just rent one server and work it out.

For gallery, Sugarsync, google picasa and flickr works but I have to admit the mobileme gallery looks much better but well it doesn’t matter to me.

Ugh, my head is still aching.  I’ll keep looking until I find the one I like.

To be honest I didn’t plan to get any new phone at the moment, at least not until next year but because I lost my cellphone and I couldn’t freaking find it I thought maybe I could get a new one but this time changing my long time cellphone provider from NTT Docomo to Softbank and get the new iPhone.

After I played with it again for a few minutes or so at the store today, I felt dissapointed, actually it was kind of big disspointment from iPhone.

There are many features from my cellphone that I loved and iPhone doesn’t have them, including the iPhone camera. 

Even my two years old cellphone  take a least 3mp picture, but iPhone only 2mp.

Second, it doesn’t have the built-in video/movie record. I believe I’m going to need to install some app for the feature.

Other minus thing would be :

* Softbank limited signal area.  I could use my Docomo cell almost anywhere in Japan even when I’m passing the tunnel on express highway. But NOT with Softbank provider, they still limited to some areas.

*Problem showing emoji on emails but I’m not so sure about that because I didn’t try that today. I only read people reviews about it on internet. 

*Not even sure it has the bar reading feature, which I used a lot in my previous old cellphones.

*Need to get another gear in order to watch TV from iPhone and that’s just sucks because most Japanese cellphone  already has the built-in feature. 

* I need to bring my Passport to get the iPhone, which is surprised me because Docomo only asked for my Alien card identity to purchase their cellphone.

* No wallet feature, which I also used that feature a lot  in my old cellphone.

And I think there are more to mention but they aren’t really necessary to me.

The only features that I love from iPhone is the cheaper full browsing option, except for flash sites and the music storage.

So buying iPhone would save me some extra without getting another gear for music storage. I won’t be needing any iPod/touch if I get the iPhone.

But anyway,  I placed my reservation today but I’m not really sure whether or not I should get the iPhone.

The iPhone will cost me at least $500-700 and I’m not really impressed with it but I need a new freaking cellphone. I better make a wise decision for this.

I also need to consider that I still have my $100 points value on my Docomo provider. If I switch to Softbank I will lose $100  USD points value and spend another $500-700 to get the iPhone with less features but with better/cheaper internet browsing option.

This is tough, but we’ll see tomorrow.

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I placed my order for the new macbook pro 15 inch 2.53 ghz last week and  finally got it yesterday. I was so worry about the imperfection of my new computer and thank goodness everything looks perfect so far. No dead pixel, scratch or lousy noise. It’s sooo beautiful, this one is my second computer I have ever purchased. I remember I purchased my first computer 5 years ago. My best buddy  G5 first generation and it was awesome but I got one big problem on the memory and Apple couldn’t figure out what was the problem, they almost send me  a new machine for the replacement but lucky to them I was able to figured it out quickly.

I think I deserved to get  a new computer because I have used and still using my G5 for 5 years and it still going strong. G5 is my best friend ever

Anyway, the new macbook pro is another beauty of Mac product and as I expected the glossy didn’t bother me at all. I also love the keyboard backlit because I like my room darker and the backlit helps  a lot :p (talk about energy save and queen of typos haha).

Now I need the perfect case for my perfect macbook pro . I’m still searching  online but couldn’t find any that will fit the new macbook pro. Most of the cases are made for the previous released macbook pro(s) so I guess I have to wait for a few weeks. 

Aside from the accessory finding. There’s still one more thing I need to check out, the full high performance usage and I need to install my Photoshop and Aperture on this machine. Unfortunately, I have all of my tools installed on G5 so I’m not sure what I’m going to do about it now. But I probably will get another license for Aperture because I’ll be using this computer for my photography work. 

I’m still feeling so excited and  overwhelming because my new computer is just simply beautiful and precious! Haha. Not worry I’m not forgetting my G5 .

My precioussssss! hahahahaha

Edited: Here’s the pic taken from my old cellphone.

macbook

As I mentioned on my previous post about getting a laptop, so I’ve been  browsing around looking for some details and comments for the new Macbook reviews since last night. But, I only found a few good links but only this one with a lot of user comments,  engadget.com.

It’s a blog with 224 comments. 

I noticed most of people complaint about the glossiness. Well as for me, I did try out the new macbook at the store yesterday and I didn’t find the glossiness bothered me at all. But, I agree with colour accuracy on glossy display.

Anyway if I decided to buy the macbook (pro or plain one), I won’t be using it as my main machine as I’m stilll using my old Power Mac G5 as my main machine. The macbook will be only for travel notebook and storages for my photography, browsing, checking emails and other fun stuff. But I won’t be using it for photo post processing or graphic editing.

I need to wait another few weeks and then get the notebook, I’ll be browsing around Apple forum again for weeks to get more on info and reviews.

UPDATED Links for the new macbook bugs info and reviews.

macrumors.com

apple support 

At first, we wanted to use glamsquad instead of glmsquad but we couldn’t get the glamsquad one because it wasn’t available, so instead I came up with the idea by just skip one letter and turned it into one unique domain name. 

The forum only got a couple of active users. I know getting trafficts to site is not easy. I completely aware of that but we’re not really looking for high trafficts, we just need some more members so we can share more informations we have about beauty and all the girls stuff, skincare and health stuff and create more friends. It is not the quantity we look here, it’s a quality of the community we intended to build.  It’s better to be in small community and get to know each other more instead of being in a big community without having the feeling on wanting to know more about the all users because they’re simply just too many. 

I met a couple of good friend in one community I joined, the the community were great back then but not great now I guess.

Hopefully glmsquad.com will get more members. It will takes  awhile but it’s worth to try, besides I have my server and I don’t really use it at all, it’s a wasted if I don’t contribute to use it.

Currently there many things I need to finish though:

Moving my old blog and my photography site to this domain, cleaning up the sites, and promote glmsquad.com.

Ohh so much to want to do! I just wish I don’t have to sleep! lol

Microsoft officially ends support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31, 2005

Sunday, December 18, 2005 – 09:37 PM EST

Microsoft has posted “Important Information For Microsoft Internet Explorer for Mac Users” on their “Mactopia” website:

In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft will end support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and will provide no further security or performance updates.

Additionally, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac will no longer be available for download from Mactopia. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple’s Safari.

Source

Who needs IE anyway, blah!

It has 10.2 effective megapixel Nikon DX Format CCD image sensor with the power to capture exceptional sharpness and faithful color at 3,872 x 2,592 pixels size! Here’s the Specifications details of this New Digital SLR Camera.

Oh no, I have to get this camera

Thank you for all the comments on my previous post everyone.

But Sony Corp.’s (6758.T) Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. has yet to agree on contract terms with Apple, it said. The price for downloading a song in Japan is expected to be set at around 150 yen ($1.40). Read more

OK, my comment about Japan Itunes store. I’m not about purchasing music from Japan Itunes store for ¥150 per song (not if it’s full album CD). I have my reason for that.

In Japan, in any CD/DVD store, not only that the store sells CD/DVD or rent DVD/VHS, but we can also rent a not-so-new full album CD for a week or three days. So, compare to rent a full album for around ¥200(1 week rent) – ¥300(3 days rent), I find it cheaper than purchasing one song (¥150) from Japan iTunes store.

But actually, it depends on consumer needs. Whether it’s new release or not, some people (including me) may only want to get one or a few songs from one full album CD, then Itunes store will be a good option for them in Japan. But, if you want to get a full album, then renting the CD will be a better choice.

Japan unveils “robot suit” that enhances human power

It can also move on its own accord, enabling it to help elderly or handicapped people walk, developers said. Read more

This one, is pretty interesting news.

WOW. I could get one for myself, incase if my in-laws start annoy me again.

It will be quite useful for me ha ha!