Entries Tagged as ‘Tech’

19 June, 2008

Thoughts from Apple Sydney Store Opening Night

1. Treating customers like superstars - certainly one of the ingredients of the successful Apple Retail Strategy?

The actual action (I was receiving the free T-Shirt box during the clip) :
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_smfmNOCPhA

2. Genius Bar - full of geniuses

Apparently they may do Apple II Mac Portable (corrected by KenC) support, too… more here…

3. Always do the best for [...]

19 June, 2008

WTF - Apple II in Apple Sydney Store Opening Night

Fair dinkum, I just saw a guy bringing in his antique Apple II Mac Portable (corrected by OS11) to ask for technical support in the Genius Bar?

I do not major in History of Apple Evolution but I think it’s an Apple II Mac Portable?

Let’s start a Caption competition (no prize!). Here’s my crappy attempt:
Guy in [...]

14 September, 2007

Amazon Web Services Start-up Challenge

If you have a startup idea and you believe that you can build it on top of Amazon Web Services infrastructure, then maybe you should take a look at this new competition.
$50k cash + $50k AWS credits for top winner and $5k AWS credits for four second-place winners. Great way to bootstrap!
Two Amazon Web Services [...]

23 August, 2007

Locationbar2 Firefox Addon Quick Review - Great for Phishing Detection

I have been using Mozilla Firefox for a few years already. One of the best feature which Firefox excels in is that it allow developers to create “add-on”, a small software that add new features, and this leads to innovation in Firefox customization such that a lot of great useful add-ons are improving the Firefox [...]

21 August, 2007

Flash Player with H.264 Codec Support

Adobe has upped the ante in the competition between Silverlight and Flash - it will catch up in quality of video streaming by offering a beta version of Flash player that supports H.264 codec - the same one used in iPod and iTunes video today (or tomorrow, depending which timezone you are). The news are [...]