Try Messages App From OS X Mountain Lion Now – The new version of OS X is coming, and it’s called the Mac OS X Mountain Lion. Apple is now calling the OS X instead of Mac OS X. Sounds cool, they are trying to differentiate betweet Mac hardware and OS X software.

One of the feature in the coming OS X Mountain Lion is the Messages app which eliminates iChat and bring iMessage and several other chat service like AIM, Yahoo! Google Talk and Jabber accounts under one app to Mac computer.

- Send unlimited iMessages to any Mac, iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
- Start an iMessage conversation on your Mac and continue it on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.
- Send photos, videos, attachments, contacts, locations, and more.
- Launch a FaceTime video call and bring the conversation face-to-face.
- Messages supports iMessage, AIM, Yahoo!, Google Talk, and Jabber accounts.

I am trying it now and it’s kinda cool and fast. I can now iMessage with my iPhone friend and FaceTime video under one app. Download the Messages app here to try out now.

How To Reformat & Reinstall Mac – People who are using Windows PC are always familiar with the term – reformat. Everytime the computer run slows or crash oftenly, they will reformat their PC to reinstall a fresh copy of Windows OS. We seldom hear about this on the Mac.

I have a old MacBook White that is 4 years old, it’s running very slow right now, the whole HDD is a mess, all the documents are so messy that it’s so hard to organize and my Windows partition is corrupted. The only thing I can do to clear thing up is to reformat and reinstall a fresh copy of Mac.

So here’s how to reformat and reinstall Mac OS on your MacBook, iMac, Mac Mini or Mac Pro. It’s very easy, you do not need to go into the boot menu.

1. Insert Mac OS X disc that comes with your Mac.
2. Backup important documents.
3. Turn off your Mac. (Restart)
4. Hold the ‘C’ key while turning on your Mac.
5. Wait for the installation screen of Mac OS X.
6. Follow the on-screen instruction.
7. Grab a coffee, drinks, or do something and wait. It will takes about half an hour or more.
8. Done.

Good luck and enjoy reformating your Mac.

How To Set Keyboard Shortcut For Language Input On Mac OSX – When using Windows, switching language input is just pressing ALT + SHIFT. It’s so easy. After moving to Mac OSX, I couldn’t find the default method to change language input via keyboard shortcut. Last time I had to click on the flag symbol (language input) on the menu bar to change language.

Here’s a guide that you can set up a keyboard shortcut to change language easily.

1. Go to System Preferences.
2. Keyboard.
3. Keyboard Shortcuts.
4. Keyboard & Text Input.
5. Scroll down and find “Select the previous input source, Select next source in Input menu”
6. Double click and setup this new shortcut – Control + Command + (Arrow Up/Down)

I am using this keyboard shortcut to change language from English to Chinese.

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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. =)

Yesterday, I went to the mall to shop for RAM. My MacBook originally comes with x2 1GB RAM in total of 2GB. Now I am running more stuff inside like VMWare and multitask a lot so I need the RAM to go to the max. Wonder why Apple don’t want to put in 1 2GB instead of 2 1GB. I have to extract the 2 1GB and throw it aside not using it and get 2 2GB RAM.

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 have almost forgotten diskette is called floppy disk and the floopy disk is called the diskette. Thanks to Google, it reminded myself. I want to say, oh god, there’s still people on earth using floppy disk as a data saving tool and it’s my school.

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.