After a disappointing N97, now is the time to show something great for the loyal Nokia supporters.

This is a very interesting video and it shows a lot of possible futuristic technologies like electronic paper, handset and so on. This is brought to us by Microsoft Office Lab.

Last time I was talked about the monitor calibration. This time, let talk about the color saturation.

Most of the time, people will feel LCD is better than Plasma from many aspect, such as color, performance, clarity and so on. But do you know, the worst amount of color that can be reproduced by the monitor is LCD?? Does this answer surprise you?? But it is true, LCD is the worst monitor that can reproduced the amount of type of colors.

So, How they trick your eyes?? Before I go to a little bit detail, let the wikipedia show you what is Gamuts about:

Gamuts are commonly represented as areas as shown at above, with the curved edge representing the monochromatic colors. Gamut areas typically have triangular shapes because most color reproduction is done with three primaries.

A typical CRT gamut.
The grayed-out horseshoe shape is the entire range of possible chromaticties. The colored triangle is the gamut available to a typical computer monitor; it does not cover the entire space. The corners of the triangle are the primary colors for this gamut; in the case of a CRT, they depend on the colors of the phosphors of the monitor. At each point, the brightest possible RGB color of that chromaticity is displayed, resulting in the bright Mach band stripes corresponding to the edges of the RGB color cube.

Source from WIKIPEDIA

Here shows the gamuts for normal LCD monitor:
Source from Display Daily

Since the LCD monitor has the smallest gamuts among all of kinds of monitor. So how can they trick our eyes? The theory behind is just simple. Color Saturation can easily done the job nicely and without notice by most of the users.

Here I show an example to explain why.

(original of the picture)

(After enhancing the color saturation, the pink was became more pinkish... )

(This shows the low amount of color saturation. When the color saturation is 0, the picture will become black and white only.)

So, LCD monitor actually is much suitable to watch cartoons and animes then movies. Because of its saturated color can make the anime and cartoons looks much more nicer but for the nature color like movie, thing will easily get wrong.

For the future, when you looking at those LCD panels with a very 'nice' looking color, BEWARE. Maybe you will become the next victim? Actually, overall for LCD is still good. What I want to deliver through this post is, don't just simply been cheated by those electronic retailer. You can try to ask them to show the video test pattern to let you do the comparison between different LCD monitors if can, which is like this:


But I don't really think the retailer will show you this, or even don't dare to show.

Nowadays, LCD, Plasma, CRT, Projector, more and more kinds of display is around the market. I am sure that everyone was dealing with different kinds of display before. BUT, different kind of display, or even different display from different company will have the different setting for the monitor. Brightness, Contrast, Color, Tint, Color temperature and even Backlight for laptop display. So how we know which setting is the proper setting to show the right colour from the monitor?

Well, 2 ways can determine this issue. First, simplest and easiest... our eyes but the problem will occur also. Different people has different judgment about the color. Something that you think it is in yellow but others may not to feel the same as you feel. So, to overcome this problem, calibration tool was came in to solve this problem.

But, thing is hardly to get perfect. Although the monitor calibration tool is based on the engineering concept to adjust the monitor setting to the best setting but machine is always not more than a machine. In the end of calibration, we still need our eyes to give a final touch to adjust the monitor to reach the so called ' best setting' for the monitor owner. Like our human eyes, the different tool also can give a very different adjustment, some will change your monitor setting become better but some will not.

I did my laptop monitor calibration few days ago because of my photography module. It is very important for us to do the editing in order to mix the color properly and take care of the color printing.

So, here I shows a sample about the before calibrating and after calibrating monitor performance:

Before calibrating....

After calibrating....

(I don't you can really notice any different from these pictures, but in fact the result of after the calibrating will slightly darker and not as yellowish than the before version. If you can't see any difference, it maybe caused by the web browser because of the color configuration maybe difference for different browser.)

Although the result of after calibrating cannot fully convince everyone, but it still very important for Visual engineer in order to get the right setting for the monitor, especially for photography to do the final color mixing before the printing process. It will make your photo go haywire if the monitor doesn't calibrate properly. Same go for the video industry.

Wooow.... First, congratulation to Apple to come out such an excellent product to bring a whole new experience to us.

The whole engineer and designer team was really done a really good job on exploring a new way to make MacBook become so attractive, engineered done, more powerful and most important is, it is start getting cheaper and affordable to every user around the world.

Here, I am going to introduce the new machine that make me feel that, A computer is not just a computer. The new MacBook and MacBook Pro.

It is not just a product that want to convince you to buy. It is a product that shows their passion and sincerity to create a better product for people to explore a whole new experience on MacBook or even a Laptop. The engineer crews are really put their heart into this 2008 most powerful, fashion product. You can feel this on every single part of it.

The body is made by aluminium. It is not as simple as you think. It is started from a piece of solid metal. After the process, it has been done become a Unibody Enclosure to make the whole MacBook lighter, thiner, and even more solid. You can feel the effort from the engineers to create a new machine that no one ever done it before.

The new MacBook is improved a lot, especially on its design and hardware performance.

About the design, the designer is used aluminiun to decrease the weight and thickness. The thumbscoop is also well designed for you to use your finger to open the MacBook. The whole body part just built into one piece.

The most important and great improvement is, this time the trackpad don't have the button. Why? Because the whole trackpad is the button. You can just simply to click anywhere you like and feel comfortable. Multi-touch trackpad is also bring a new experience to you to control your machine. Scroll up and down is not just side bar on the trackpad, zoom in and zoom out can be just simple. The new multi-touch trackpad can let you to scroll up, down, left and right easily with your 2 fingers. Zoom in and out can be done by pinching your 2 fingers on the trackpad. Do you think this is the everything about this? You are just wrong. You also can swipe, rotate and 4 fingers swipe to complete certain command for you with more convenient way. Guess what? The engineers even spend their time on considering how much sensetivity and feedback for this trackpad? No one really create a laptop like them, they even consider what does the click sound like. They just take care of every single of details.

Why Apple laptop can be such a good product among the other companies? Another reason is about the LCD screen. This time, Apple just make the screen even better and slimmer. About the thickness of the screen, without a doubt, Apple can be considered has the slimmest screen in the world. But they don't satisfied on what they have so far, so the engineers decided to create a better quality and power efficient, which is the LED-backlit glossy widescreen display. This can give a you a instantly greeted by glorious full screen brightness.

This time, Apple finally put a dedicated graphic card on MacBook. Previously, only MacBook Pro will come with dedicated graphic card. Not ATi, this time Apple collaborated with NVDIA and they used GeForce 9400M and 9400 GT for the new MacBook and 9600M GT for the MacBook Pro. Call of Duty? Need for Speed Carbon? Spore? or even Red Alert 3? Not a worry on this powerful machince. You can just play the game you like. You will forget that it is just a laptop, a portable machine can just like your home PC.

This is not only a machine, it is about the soul of engineering and designing. You can miss this out. Price? Will it be more expensive than the previous? Guess what, the price is almost the same as the previous MacBook or it can be considered cheaper because although the price still maintaining almost the same but the specification is so much improve than the previous version. The NVDIA graphic card, faster intel core 2 duo processor (2.0GHz or 2.4GHz for MacBook, 2.4 to 2.53GHz for MacBook Pro), bigger hard disk memory space and many more aspects improved.

So what are you waiting for? Looking for a new laptop? Don't worry, you also can run windows OS on MacBook. So dual OS in a beautifully engineered machine, can you defy about it?

For more information about the NEW MacBook and MacBook Pro, can logon to Apple Website

Once again, cheers from Apple. They did a Great Job once again.

Finally, I was upgraded my Mac OS X Tiger into the latest Mac OS, Mac OS X Leopard...

It has a lot of new features that quite useful to me and they inprove the OS interface become more and more professional...

Here is some snapshot of my Leopard...

Desktop... with my favorite wallpaper....

Dashboard... cant miss my Sudoku.... and the traslator also very useful to me....

This is one of the new features in Leopard.... Spaces... It can help you to group certain task and programs in one space... From this picture we can see that...
I grouped web broswer, downloader and Msn messenger (mac) in space 1.
Multimedia viewers and players are grouped into space 2.
Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Logic pro..... I grouped these all working software into space 3.
The last space i was used it to run my XP (VMware Fusion).
This feature can help me to categorize my task properly and all these programs won't squeeze together in the same place....

Mac? Win XP? is it confusing you? This is because of VMware Fusion. It is a software that enable mac user can run other OS like Window and Linux together without reboot the computer...

I can run my favorite game on MAC.... It is a mahjong game... Ming Xing 3 Que 1... It was running quite smoothly, atleast better than Parallel Desktop...

Well, beside the upgrading of my OS (Software), I also upgraded my hardware of my laptop...

I went to Sim Lim Square yesterday and bought 2 pieces of Corsair 1GB 667Mhz Ram to increase my laptop ram from 1GB to 2GB...

I was spent SGD $64 on that... T.T

As the result, I spent total SGD $134 for the ram and the Leopard. Although it is quite a lot of money to me, but fortunately I have some saving and its enough to cover this. My MacBook is quite a important stuff to me so as a master to my lappy, I need to do some upgrading to let it function much more better, faster, nicer, and smoother... Its worth to spend this amount of money to make my MacBook become better... It just worth it...

eToday, 19th June, we went to broadcast exhibition, it is a part of the whole exhibition. The whole exhibition including CommunicAsia '08, EntrepriseIT '08 and InteractiveDME. More than 70 major companies for every part of this world. Some of famous companies are LG ELECTRONIC, FLUKE NETWORKS, HARRIS STRATEX NETWORKS (S) PTE LTD, SANDISK , HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO LTD,HITACHI CABLE ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD, TELEKOM MALAYSIA BERHAD (TM), YAHOO, ZTE CORPORATION, ZYXEL SINGAPORE PTE LTD and still have a lot more....

This is a 4 days event that started at 17th June 08 to 20th June 08. Actually we was planned to go to this large event on 18th June, which is yesterday but due to certain reason, student group only allow on the third day of the event so we only can go on today and tomorrow although some of us did the pre-register online...

Here I posts some of the pictures that when we are inside the exhibition, although the camera is not allowed in this event...

Canon booth is shown their HD video camera for broadcasting purpose.

This booth is belonged to Panasonic. Its also shown their HD camcorder to record a program...
They simulated the situation of recording.

On the Panasonic booth, they also shown the world's largest HD Plasma TV, which is 103 inch.

This booth is under Sony company to display their product mainly for broadcasting purpose, such as latest product in HD camcorder, some video editing softwares, and also their LCD and Plasma TV.

This is one of the big company on internet devices, handphones and other communication devices. It is come from China, ZTE Zhong Xing.

HuaWei, also come from China. This company is providing mobile broadband device to Singtel so maybe you will feel more familiar with this brand if you are Singtel user...

Zxyel booth and the Yahoo booth is just beside of it...

Guess what? This booth is belonged to Sennheiser. They shown their Audio products and their wireless microphone system, with its software that can be use together with the digital microphone receiver. The consultant was very patience to tell us about the features of their wireless mic and the advantage of the digital microphone receiver.

About this company, maybe many of you didn't know about it but if you have a chance to go to MediaCorp to have a look their transmission department, actually they are using this brand for his HD channel transmission, which is HD5. This brand, Miranda provide a lot of very professional devices for HD broadcasting, HD channel monitoring and so on.

And because of this event, I had the opportunity to watch the largest resolution of TV panel, Super Hi Vision TV, also called Ultra High Definition TV (7680 x 4320 pixels, which is equal to 32MP). It is developed by NHK Science & Technical Research Laboratories. The world's first 22.2 multichannel sound system has been developed to the UHDTV2 (UHDTV only come with 3840 x 2160 pixels). I was experienced it just now, it was just awesome. When the TV shows the scene of the center of tokyo city, what I feel is I really wanted to go in to have a shopping at there... the detail of the picture is as clear as you can see at the exact place. It is a very good experience for me...

As I mention, we need to do a pre-register online before 30th May and I did it before the due date. Once you did the registeration, you can get a badge for this exhibition, which is this...

The only thing that i can gain from this exhibition beside knowledge, is these...
A lot of brochures for the latest product from many companies. I don't think read through these all... but I will try to do so when I'm free...

Overall about this exhibition, I feel that was very useful to me to enhance my knowledge for many products for broadcasting, networking, and some of the AV products. Well, this is a international event so the thing is there and you won't disappointed about this event. I really hope i can have the chance to go this kind of event at the future and my classmate is going to introduce some to us. So? Let see how is the plan going...

Nowadays, core 2 duo is become a standard requirement of a PC for good performance...

When people start to ask for more...

Quad core is come out for people who ask for more...

But....

Now Apple is come out a 8 cores Mac Pro PC....

How fast can it be???

Its equipped with Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors

Here is some of the details about it:

• Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors
• 2GB memory (800MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
• ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics with 256MB memory
• 320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive¹
  
• 16x double-layer SuperDrive

Price: $4588 without monitor.... (almost RM10000)
What I can say is.... the price is just worth for it...

(optional = can upgrade up to 4 TB hard drive)

You want something fast... This is the one which can satisfied you...

You can logon to http://store.apple.com/1800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/singaporestore.woa/
wa/RSLID?nnmm=browse&node=home/shop_mac/family/mac_pro&sf
=wPKD9A7FKXYJ2PCKF to see more details...

Which notebook is thinnest in the world???Size and weight

Height:

0.4-1.94 cm (0.16-0.76 inch)

Width:

32.4 cm (12.74 inches)

Depth:

22.7 cm (8.9 inches)

Weight:

1.36 kg (3.0 pounds)

Without a doubt, This is the world's thinnest notebook - MacBook Air

Just now i went to the apple store at Wheelock Place, in Orchard Road there...

Its come with 2 specifications :

$2988
- 13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy widescreen TFT LED backlit display
- Mac OS X Leopard
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.6 GHz processor
- 2 GB RAM memory
- 80 GB 4200-rpm PATA Hard Drive
- Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

$5088
- 13.3-inch (diagonal) glossy widescreen TFT LED backlit display
- Mac OS X Leopard
- Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz processor
- 2 GB RAM memory
- 64 GB solid-state Drive
- Built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

The price is... exp like usual because it is APPLE...

Practically, If you want to get a better notebook for ur study or work...
MacBook Pro will be better for you to get...

Its because MacBook Air only come with...
- one USB port
- Built-in Hard Drive just can go up to 80 GB so far
- Integrated graphic card (Intel GMA X3100 graphics processor with 144MB of DDR2 SDRAM shared with main memory)
- don have any CD/DVD drive

For me i think that is not so convenience for me to use... (but the size of it is good for portable use)

However, I feel very impressive on its battery because you can access the web wirelessly for 5 hours... my MacBook cant do that...

MacBook Air....
What I suggest is...
If you have too much money and don know how to spend it...
then you can spend some of your money to get one...

But for MacBook Air,
Actually you can just use a envelope as a case for it...
Cool, isnt it?

Now you can logon to http://www.apple.com.sg/macbookair/ to see more details about it...

This is call side-sliding handphone.... another concept idea from Nokia...
Another useless idea again...

Obviously, if this concept apply onto the real handphone, properly the thickness will be increase a lot... Its just make the handphone become more complicating...

maybe nokia can learn from HTC handphone which was came out a lot of handphone model with side-sliding...
This is just simple, easy to use, not so thick as well... I should say this is a very good example for side-sliding handphone...

Well, I hope Nokia can work harder for generate a better and more creative idea than this...

Nokia is thinking about the triple slider...


I just wondering how many problems will happen on this concept handphone because nokia still haven make the 2 way slider very well like N95....

But it looks like not very hard to be done with Nokia technologies...

How hard could it be?

I just don like it... absolutely rubbish....

You can imagine how thick of this phone is going to be because of its 2 layers for keyboard and 1 layer for display screen... it just like a sandwich or a hamburger...

Hope Nokia will come out a better concept for our next handphone generation...

A new Nokia handphone is coming soon to compete with Apple Iphone...

This is it...

The Nokia 5800 Xpress Media Tube

This is what I am looking for Nokia handphone...

Fully touch screen interface, stylish, slim and the size is acceptable...

BUT, there always have a but....

I didnt quite satisfied with its camera spec because it just come with 3.2 MP with autofocus...

If it can come with 5 MP with be much more better...

Beside this, the rest I think is acceptable for me...

Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth equipped like N-series handphone... it sounds great...

A 3.2" 16M colour touch screen display with 640 x 360 resolution is pretty well...

I just wondering how much for this handphone going to sell...

And is it good enough to compete with Apple Iphone with a very nice interface...

But I believe nokia handphone will much more user friendly if compare with Iphone...

Connecting people, isnt it?

Look forward to launch it at Malaysia and Singapore...

Keep it up, Nokia...