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Kindle for Mac NOW Available

by Vinko on March 18, 2010

Just now Amazon quietly launched the Kindle for Mac.

The new applicaiton is a very basic that fucntions exactly what you expects a Kindle application on the Mac does. It downloads your purchased Kindle books from Amazon, so you can read them on your Mac. The application also use Whispersync to synchronize the spot in the book where you left off when you last read the book. The functionality is not that much different than the Kindle for iPhone app. The only major addition is the Mac version’s ability to resize the screen displaying the book.

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Twitter.com New Feature

by Vinko on March 17, 2010

It appears that the features that Twitter staff had hinted about is appearing on the Twitter.com web site slowly.

I noticed now you can row your cursor over someone’s @reply reference, a tip box showing the individual’s profile will appear.

There is also a “more” link where you can expand the individual’s profile information to review his biography, number of tweets, followers and following.

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Twestival Hong Kong on March 25, 2010

March 16, 2010 Announcement

On March 25 a group of Twitter users will join over 200 cities/countries around the world for Twestival. An excuse to get together and network in person with all the people you have exchanged tweets with over the years. While at the same time have chance to win great prices and raise money for Concern Worldwide.
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Should non-US Residence Pre-order iPad WiFi+3G?

March 12, 2010 Apple Inc.

Apple began taking pre-orders for their iPad today via their USA online store for delivery to US addresses or in-store pickup.
There are two ways to reserve your iPad for the April 3, 2010 launch date, you can pre-order it and have it delivered to your US address, or you can reserve one for in-store pick [...]

Google Street View for Hong Kong Now Live

March 12, 2010 Google

The long awaited Google Street View feature within Google Maps is finally available in Hong Kong. This feature had been available in USA, Canada, UK, Japan, Taiwan and many other countries for years. Taiwan only received this capability last year (September 2009).
Over a year ago others in Hong Kong and myself reported seeing the Google Street [...]

Foursquare 1.7 for iPhone Available NOW

March 11, 2010 iPhone

The much talked about new version of Foursquare for iPhone 1.6 was accidentally made available in the Apple iTunes App Store over the weekend and then pulled immediately, with Foursquare saying that their system was not ready. As a result all versions of Foursquare for iPhone were removed from the App Store until Tuesday when [...]

Movie Review: Alice in Wonderland (2010)

March 6, 2010 Movie Review

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This evening I saw the movie Alice in Wonderland in 3D at AMC Cinemas, Pacific Place, Admiralty, Hong Kong. One of the movies from my Must See Movies list.
This Tim Burton sequel to the original Alice in Wonderland movie from 1903, began the story with a 19 years old Alice Kingsleigh who just lost her [...]

iPad Ships on April 3rd (USA only?)

March 5, 2010 Apple Inc.

Apple has announced the ship date to be April 3, 2010 for iPad in the USA, and begins to take pre-orders on March 12, 2010.
According to Apple’s January 28th announcement, they will released the iPad in stages. The WiFi only versions are expected to release 60 days from the announcement date (approx. March 30th), then [...]

Simplest Way to Access iPhone from Finder

March 5, 2010 Apple Inc.

Every iPod released by Apple since October 2001 had the feature to allow user to mount the iPod on the desktop of the host computer (running either OS X, Windows or Linux). Unfortunately, Apple removed this feature from the iPod Touch (September 2007), and when Apple released the iPhone, it inherited this “deficiencies” from the [...]

Review: TimeSqueeze on iPhone

February 27, 2010 Review

I was made aware of InfoXenter’s recent released iPhone application called “TimeSqueeze”. It is a simple app; like any iPhone app should that focuses on performing one task and do it well, in this case the task is creating time-lapsed videos/photography on the iPhone 3G or 3GS running OS 3.1.2 or later. At the moment [...]

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