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Quite a cool idea, that you can dock your phone and be using it like a desktop… Although it should have quite a few issues as it is the first generation of it. But the idea itself is cool, as you can actually use 1 device throughout, files and contacts don’t really need to be sync from phone, to your laptop to your desktop to your phone again. Haha!

Here is hands on video on Atrix, it is already working, will be release by the first quarter of 2011:

It is quite cool right, but I think the media center dock is quite “stupid”. If I have AirPlay like iPhone, I don’t really need to dock my phone to play my videos on phone. What is worse is you will have to run to your phone if you get a phone call or text message? If I’m doing AirPlay I can just answer it… anywhere in the house.

Nevertheless Atrix seems like a quick glance to the future of what we will be having. Dummy Terminals like the laptop dock, and we just need to bring around our smartphones. Motorola, please add a video cam on your laptop dock, else how do you do video calls?

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This is my first ever wishlist, I was never really into blogging previously. I started blogging just late 2009, started UsingApple.com as a hobby blog for Apple products as I got in love with Apple. Of course, i gotten the hang of blogging, and started tobiascai.com as my personal blog, blogging on tech stuff that aren’t really related to Apple and my life.

So now let’s list down my wishlist for 2011!

1. NAS – I need it, this is one my confirm buy list, as I really need more space, so NAS should be the way to go, less cables.

2. iPhone 5 – No doubt about it, iPhone 5 will be in my list, so will iPhone 6 the next year.

3. Entry Level DSLR – I love my HD Video Cam given to me from my girlfriend, video is really the only way to help you remember those happy moments during tours and events. But taking good photos is an art. I wants to learn how to take good picture, thus entry level DSLR is what I want for 2011 too!

4. Airport Extreme Base Station – My linksys router served me for almost 8 years… still going strong, but I want an Airport!

5. Macbook Air 11inch – I think it is a wonder, a very cool and thin laptop, which I think is the way all laptop should be.

6. Mac Mini Server – Always wanted to test out Snow Leopard Server OS, of course if Lion Server will be on Mac Mini Server, I will prefer it! :X

7. iPad 2 – I have blogged about why I don’t want to buy iPad, but after almost 1 yr, I still don’t see any tablet as good as iPad, maybe iPad 2 will have features that make me change my mind about buying iPad?

8. iMac 27inch  - iMac have the nicest screen I have ever seen, large screen is always cool, but I think the next refresh will be the one that I will buy even more. Hopefully SSD will be cheaper and I think SSD as primary HDD is the way to go for desktop too!

Haha, this my list of wishlist, they are numbered, according what I feel I need it most. Although all of the above is what I want, but what I need is actually just NAS. The rest are really just plain wishlist. My Macbook Pro 13″ is serving me like a king, just that I’m running out of HDD, thus NAS is cool.

What’s your wishlist for 2011? How different is it to mine? Leave a me a comment. if you are feeling rich, and wish to give me any items on my wishlist, please feel very free to contact me! Haha!

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I have never really set any New Year’s Resolutions before, thus I wanna start it this year. Let’s review it next year and see if I did those in my list!

  1. Get my Driving License
  2. Set up a new blog on music
  3. Try podcasting
  4. Build iPhone App
  5. Settle my personal issue
  6. Generate more ideas and put ideas into actions
  7. Put words into actions
  8. To have a better temper
  9. Blog more
  10. Have a better time management!
  11. Love her more, do more fun stuff together
  12. New blog theme!

ok… i cheated for the last one, I just changed my WordPress theme! :X haha

Let’s hope I can do what I aim for!

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Not alot of male artist can attract me, but Anthony Neely,倪安東 is someone who! The above video is his new song which he released on 18/11/2010. He participated in 超級星光大道5as someone who PK the existing competitor, so he is not really in the competition, but he scored super high marks everytime when PK. Check out his video and you will understand why I feel that he sings with feelings, although he’s primary language is not chinese.

Below are a few of his video when he PK a year ago:

The Blower’s Daughter -

如果沒有你 -

好久不見 -

He’s a pro yeah? No, he did not undergo any training when he join the show, cool yah?

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Yes, it is just like what I have stated in the title, Life is Busy. Will do a update of this post asap.. else I will never blog about it! Haha! Sorry for the place holder! Haha

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Hi All,

If you are a reader of my blog, you should have notice my blogs has been going up and down for close to 2 months. Yes, There is something wrong with my previous webhost, iPage after I upgraded my WordPress to 3.0. My Blogs are redirected to the WordPress installation page from time to time.

iPage Issue

I tried reinstalling both UsingApple.com and Tobiascai.com’s wordpress, deleted all the folders. Repaired mySQL Tables and even seeked support for countless times. But it did not help, I try searching through the web and realise there are same issue encountered with some of iPage users. Thus it decided to switch host, because I know it is a problem not just a one off issue.

Exabytes

Coincidently, Exabytes has been very active in Twitter and caught my attention. They have been following me, and have some promotion. They promoted domains name at just SGD$1.99, so I registered both tobiascai.com and miyousic.com from them. Next they even have the Be Cool Promotion where they give out free hosting if you post a picture of theirs and tag 5 of your friends, I tried and got a free hosting.

Overall it was quite good, fast response from their support, and as their servers are in Malaysia, it serve pages very fast to both Singapore and Malaysia Readers. So I’m Loving it.

Turning point, Switched to Exabytes

Thus last week, I have decided to cancel my iPage and moved to Exabytes.sg and got their business hosting for 2 years. I am enjoying Exabytes quick Support Responses and fast server speed!

Check out Exabytes here, and don’t forget to get a free hosting and give it a try for 1 year!

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We all know that Batterstar Galactica Roll-Coaster is one of the main attraction of Universal Studio, Singapore. But it was shut down for close to 5 months, and still not re-open.

Today we finally know the real reason why it is shut down for so long, One of the seat in the ride, flew off and hit the ground during testing. It was reported that the seat gave way due to the repeated stress of high speed motion.

This is a very shocking news to me, imagine they were not testing and actual visitor are on the ride, it will be a tragic. Lucky Universal Studio Singapore found out the issue before anything bad happened.

Additional safety measures will now be added to the ride with the use of a single seat post instead of a welded piece. This will eliminate the need for a relatively weaker joint at the welding to hold the seat and chassis together.

Words from Genting CEO

Genting’s chief executive Lim Kok Thay said a “flaw in the design” of a car caused it to be grounded for more than four months.

“The ride is under a major re-design. Not the track itself. It’s a flaw in the design of the car that would not perform to the standards that we wish for it to perform,” he said.

He added that it was their policy to shut down the ride on “grounds of safety, not that there was any mishap or accident”, when signs showed it could have been unsafe after rigorous testing.

Hopefully Genting and Universal Studio will get it sorted out quick, We all love crazy roll-coaster, but news like this… really scares the hell out of me! :X [yahoo]

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Remember I previous blogged about why I’m not getting iPad when it launch in Singapore. I am still not planning to get one even after i played with one, even though I don’t mind to have one(anyone?).

Rumors are stating that Google is going to launch a new Tablet running on Google Chrome OS, and I feel that it might be the tablet I’m waiting for. According to Download Squad‘s report:

So what will the Google tablet pack for hardware? It’ll likely be based on NVidia’s Tegra 2 platform and sport a 1280×720 multitouch display, 2GB of RAM, minimum 32GB SSD, WiFi/Bluetooth/3G connectivity, GPS, webcam, and possibly expandable storage via a multi-card reader. Expect it to be every bit as geek-tastic as the Nexus One — Google won’t want to disappoint its early adopters.

It seems to be a very good device to replace your laptop, if the weight, battery life and senstivity of the touch screen is as good as iPad, I will be considering to get one, because I love Chrome, and I feel that a laptop replacement cannot be as restrictive as iPad.

Anyway, I’m loving my experience with iPhone 4. :)

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Was browsing Gizmodo, when I saw this… Parallel Port! Long time no see yeah? I still don’t believe anyone is using this port. They were once used for Printers, scanners and modem. Now to connect to a USB Thumb Drive, we need 3 more extra adapter to use! Haha!

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NSIEIS – PaintBall from tobias cai on Vimeo.

Yesterday I went for Paintball for the first time, and I have to say it is very interesting, fun and PAIN! Haha! Most of us got hit, in different spot, and one of my friend bleed due to a shot on his hand! Haha.. but nevertheless it is still very fun and I don’t mind playing it again!

We played the PaintBall Game at Bottle Tree Park in Yishun, the place is call Redynasty Paintball, you can find them @ http://www.weplaypaintball.com/

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Target Buy List

Airport Extreme
Canon 50mm 1.8 Lens
1TB HDD for MBP
Macbook Air
iMac