The New TweetDeck By Twitter Desktop App – Last year, TweetDeck was bought by Twitter and now finally Twitter has finally launched the official TweetDeck by Twitter app for the desktop on Windows and Mac. The old app that runs through Adobe AIR system still works.

It has a little redesign in the interface with the new TweetDeck logo, and a wider column, as well as new UI for posting status.

I like TweetDeck and have been a user for it for quite a long time because TweetDeck makes reading particular tweet easy. I can create column for tweets that I want to follow as well as manage several Twitter profiles, as well as Facebook profile.

You can download it for Windows here and Mac version on the Mac App Store.

I Am Using Mac OS X Lion – Apple released the latest update for the operating system of the Macintosh, the Mac OS X Lion few days ago. I didn’t download and buy on the first day but I downloaded it on the 2nd day. The price of the upgrade is US$29.90 which I think is pretty reasonable and it’s just available online as Apple is promoting a green environment.

The sad thing was it took me about 10 hours to finish downloading the file as you know, living in Malaysia, I have an Internet download speed of 150-200kbps which is slow when compare to other country.

Mission Control interface.

I think it’s a good upgrade as the new system always bring new features. I was from Leopard to Snow Leopard and now I am on Lion. They main feature of the Lion is the gesture that you can use with the multi-touch trackpad and also the Mission Control interface which shows all your app.

They also make it more user friendly and iOS like with the application Launchpad. These are some of the feature that I am proudly showing off, more to play and more to try. If you are on Snow Leopard, it’s time to upgrade to Lion and you will not regret on spending US$29.90.

The best part of all, it allow you to install up to 5 Macs with just a single purchase. I shared this copy with my brother. =)

Oh my god, battery on Mac is dying soon I think. I accidentally click on the battery icon only then I found about this. Hopefully the battery still can stand back until I get a MacBook Pro, probably during fall. How’s your battery on your Mac is doing?

Apple is surprisingly back again with another event next week on 20th October 2010. It’s an unexpected event because normal after the iPod event in September, the next Apple event would be the WWDC in January 2011. This time Apple will probably talk about the Mac OS and maybe will release a new OS, Mac 10.7 Lion according to rumors.

Don’t expect more thing on hardware part because I believe this would be a Macintosh dedicated event. Though there’s one rumor about hardware and that is a new MacBook Air both hardware and software will be revamp. Stay tune and hope that there will be surprises.

For all the time when Apple reintroduce the white plastic MacBook, I never put that in mind, I wouldn’t introduce friends to get a MacBook. But now with their latest revision, they’ve upgraded the processor and the GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) and promises a 10-hour battery life, it’s a good buy obviously for only US$999 (US$950 after education store discount).

It’s not very expensive and what I love the most is still the 10-hour battery. I am using a 2008 White MacBook and the battery life I got is like 4 hours only. It’s already better than my netbook and if it could be longer, it will be so damn awesome for me! Though, my next buy will of course go to the pro. =)

There’s some problem occur yesterday when buying RAM. MacBook couldn’t turn on after installing 2 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM and only 667 MHz works.

The person who help me insert the RAM was kinda un-tech conscious (n00b?) because he didn’t know where’s the RAM slot is. Maybe he works too much with PC and not the Mac. Took him sometimes to figure it out and insert the thing. Luckily I didn’t buy the RAM and insert it myself, else I would have to go back to change to 667 MHz again. A piece of 2GB RAM cost me RM180 (~56USD), not so cheap though.

After upgrading, the system is obviously faster, especially on the start-up and when running dual OS via VMWare. =)

I was in charge of some editing work for the school magazine and they got me a floppy disk and I didn’t know how am I gonna read it because I have not been using this for like many years. Moreover, I don’t have floppy drive.

I remembered brother has a USB floppy drive that comes with his Fujitsu laptop years ago. I dig everywhere in my cupboard and found it lying there covered with dust.

After connecting via the USB, I found out that it doesn’t work. “USB not recognized.” Oh my god, tried all ports and it still doesn’t work.

Gave up and I’m not going to work for it anymore. Will just ask them to transfer it to a flash drive or something.

This is not cool, that’s why Mac didn’t have a floppy drive last time, but yet it’s still so cool.

I am liking my desktop wallpaper right now because I am not a Mac user faking to use a Mac OSX Tiger wallpaper. I’m here to share with you my very simple and clean Vista desktop.

I uses a dual monitor setup, a Dell 24″ connected via DVI and a Dell 17″ in vertical position connected via VGA cable to my old Nvidia 6800 graphic card. The second monitor serves like a widget monitor displaying some Yahoo! Widgets. I don’t use Windows Sidebar because I just don’t like it.

I did not turn on any icon because I access all my frequently use program via the small icon on startbar. It makes my desktop simple and clean.

I like dual monitor setup, I am not use to one screen right now, it’s like once you go dual, you can’t go back. I did not purposerly go and buy a second monitor, it’s actually an old monitor but now it serves as my secondary screen for productivity, extra desktop space and also widgets.

Photo taken by “Scott Beale / Laughing Squid“.

It’s the beginning of a new year and there’s always a few tech events to follow up. 2 events that are happening in this week are the Macworld Conference and Expo and Consumer Electronic Show (widely known as CES 2009) are back with a lot of surprise I believe.

Talking about Macworld, this year will be the last year that Apple hosting this event and from then on, there will not be Macworld anymore. Another is Steve Jobs, Apple Computer’s won’t be delivering the keynote too. Rumor has been spread that this is related the health problem of Uncle Steve. Of course, there’s no official evidence and announcement shows that Steve is not well.

Anyway, geeks like me staying in the South East Asia will be staying up late to catch the live keynote of Macworld at 1am GMT+8 Malaysian Time, which will be happening at 9am PST there at San Francisco.

What I am expecting and hopefully to be announced are:

• new iPhone update (both software and hardware).
• new Mac Mini (powered by Nvidia chipset).
• new iMac (powered by Nvidia too like both the MacBook and Pros).
• Snow Leopard.
• a netbook by Apple.
• a media server or a new version of Apple TV.
• iLife 09 update and iWorks too.

It’s the last year and hopefully there’s some surprise for Apple fan like us.

Just to share with you the wallpaper I’m using on my AspireOne. I uses different desktop wallpaper on different computer. I love the Apple one but I don’t have a Mac, sadly. Anyway, if you are looking for the Mac Leopard’s wallpaper, here you go. [download] [2560x1600]