The whole of the Malaysian Twitter scene is abuzz with the official launch of the iPhone 3G by Maxis in Malaysia. Now, you can see the i-Value Plan with a 12 month contract, i-Value Plan with a 24 month contract, and the more sensible Value Plus Plans with a 6 month contract. Such is life, where Max...

Two weekends ago, for Valentine’s Day, Sara and I decided to spend it up in the mountains, and the closest one we found, with enough fun, was Genting Highlands (going down to 18°C is good for us living near the Equator). Besides the trip being absolutely fun, we had intentions of visiting ...

Filed under: Friday Favorite R-Name is a simple, single-purpose application that takes the names of files and folders on your Mac and renames them one at a time or in batches. I use it almost every day. Yes, there are a dozen ways to batch rename files. I like R-Name for a few reasons: It's fast, bo...

Question: how do you not want to start an unseasonably cold Northern Virginia winter morning? Answer: have some chill down the spine when you fire up Eclipse on your Mac Book Pro Toy(tm), only to get hit by this mysterious error message: _NSJVMLoadLibrary: NSAddLibrary failed for /System/Library/Fra...

How do I move around 2000 messages from Apple's Mail.app (10.4) to a Google Apps (Premier) GMail account quickly and efficiently? Maintaining the received dates and any miscellaneous attachments is a must. I'm helping a company move their 35 employees with traditional POP download-it-to-your-hard-dr...

Help me get my OSX back! Ubuntu/Mac questions inside. Ok, so I did one of those very stupid things that is probably fairly easily fixable but is still a major pain in the butt, especially to someone who knows nothing about Mac OS. I was playing around with the Ubuntu LiveCD and wanted to try the USB...

Filed under: How-tos, Graphic Design If you've always wondered how to draw a "ball of nodes" as featured in a variety of Mac OS X icons, wonder no more: Mike Rundle of flyosity.com has written a tutorial to show you how using Photoshop. Rundle discusses "spheric realism," the process of understandin...

On the 24th of December 2008, I came back from my little hiatus in Georgetown, Penang (in where I discovered the heritage and history of the city), and immediately started ringing up Apple Authorised Resellers to find out where in the blue hell, the new MacBook Air was. (Emphasis on the new, because...

Regular readers will know that one of the things that I’ve been getting more into this year is video editing (see the page that I’ve just added as a teaser for things to come in 2009). This has been driven by the increasing ease-of-use of online services, the capabilities of the machines...

I decided to install the Google Android SDK this evening as part of my personal 20% coding time. Upon building my traditional HelloWorld app I launched the simulator and was met immediately with a crash. Thread 3 Crashed: 0 emulator 0x00036c20 audioInDeviceIOProc + 80 (coreaudio.c:691) This crash is...