Last night, Death Cab For Cutie played at the Esplanade here in Singapore. I’m not really a very big fan of theirs but I just wanted to see them live since they were coming. And they sounded as good live as on record, might even be better. I guess it also helped that the Concert Hall’s acoustics are very good. Ben’s voice was consistent all throughout, it didn’t crackle or give up even with Transatlanticism as their finale. I’ve recorded some videos on my mobile phone, but I’m more interested in just ripping the audio (when I find software for doing so on OS X). Overall, I think it was a good concert. They did not disappoint.
My brother just passed the nursing board exams a couple of weeks ago. I wish I was there to congratulate him on his big day. He’s now a certified R. N.
I’ve been getting a lot of spam text messages on my Globe line. And it’s amazing how they’re starting to get creative with certain scams.
Just trying out the Wordpress app on the iPod Touch. Seems to be usable enough for basic blogging purposes. You get to tag and categorize your entries. No text formatting, or image uploads though. There’s only so much you can do on a mobile device. But I think it’s a good first effort for automattic.
I’ve posted some of our songs on TheSixtyOne, a relatively new music site which encourages users to listen to new music to move up the ranks. One of our songs have been steadily climbing the charts. It’s now on page 5 of the over all chart and page 2 of the rock chart. Woopee!
My band has a new song up on our MySpace page. It’s called “Warning Sign.” Please do check it out.
I think I’m pretty much bent on getting Apple’s MobileMe once I do get an iPhone. Hopefully all the launch glitches would be ironed out once the iPhone is available here in Singapore.
I’ve tried out the Push technology for mail, calendar and contacts with an iPod Touch and I’m satisfied with how it works seamlessly across platforms (deskop app, mobile app, web app). I won’t have to worry of syncing between devices since it’s synced at one central location. And it’s an added appeal that I’ll be using very similar interfaces across all three platforms.
For the moment, I’ll try testing this setup at least for my calendar and contacts until my MobileMe trial expires.
Yesterday, Adobe evangelists Rufus Deuchler, Greg Rewis and Jason Levine gave a talk about Adobe CS3 and its integrated workflow. It was a rather entlightening experience as I’ve always been a Macromedia user and now after its acquisition by Adobe, it’s great that it’s fully integrated with the Adobe products.
About a month ago, I’ve decided to make the switch from Windows to OS X. So far, I’m a happy camper. I’ve been enjoying a lot of the features on OS X that I don’t find in Windows XP. Every week, I hope I can post one thing I like about OS X.
One of those features is Exposé. I usually prefer using two monitors when doing web work since I need to have several open programs. For example, I would have three browser windows, a coding window, a terminal window and an SQL window. In Windows XP, unless you have a very very big monitor, transferring information from one window to another can be quite cumbersome. Somehow, when working on my Mac, I don’t feel a deep need to have 2 monitors since I can easily sift through open windows using Exposé. It just makes the simple task of copying info from one window to another easy and fast to do.
For the past couple of years, I’ve been using keystroke launchers a lot. Somehow I find it more convenient in launching applications or opening folders as compared to using the Start menu on Windows or the Dock on OS X.
You simply activate it using a hotkey (I use Ctrl-Space), then type what you want to launch or run and the launcher will search all available apps or folders that match the letters you just type. For eg. I type PS for Photoshop or DW for Dreamweaver. It saves me a lot of time specially when I need to do certain things in the littlest amount of time possible.
For Windows I use Launchy, for OS X I use Quicksilver.
