iMac 20" (MA200LL)

打算轉投Apple陣營已是很久的事，是十年夢想。十年前曾經看過Mac OS 7的說明書，其標榜的易用易明介面，真的比Windows 95好十倍百倍，看後又是妒忌又羨慕。今年夢想該要成真吧，好好享受一下電腦帶來的樂趣，不是煩惱。

從前考量實戰需要，加上經費緊絀，選擇IBM PC是無奈。每月一死，每季一鏟，每年加RAM，Windows之金科定律，不論是95還是XP。用於維護、重灌、升級的時間和金錢，其實並不能彌補其便宜的機價。單以重灌所需的時間，以最低時薪計，隨時可以買起一台專業級的Apple PC。

2003年尾因燒機要購入的EZ barebone機，自去年年中每三個多月就會傻下傻下，聽歌睇戲又會窒下窒下。今次是第四次，我忍夠了。

電腦畢竟只是一件工具，一件工具就該有工具的覺悟，不該帶給使用者諸多不便。電腦不該讓用家太累。

去年為了急速提升戰力而傾家盪產孤注一擲買入的IBM T42，或許終歸是IBM的專業機種，用起來蠻稱心，夠穩定。既然工作有T42平定，遊戲又有PS2這類從不需要升級的game console，那我的home pc只需要能夠好好地儲存和管理文件、電郵、相片、CD collection便足夠，我哪管它是電腦還是電筒、是XP還是Vista，總之，「簡單就是美」，一按即用、簡單、方便、不死，掂！


原本打算訂購iMac 17"，換1x1GB ram和500GB硬盤，連日後升級的事省掉不管，不過又聽說新的Mac OS X 10.5會於今年八月推出，所以還是要等吧。等著等著，我又心動，到時還是訂部iMac 20"吧，反正都是免息分期的。

未解決

你有壓力，我有壓力，仲乜返到屋企都仲會有壓力。電腦唔鏟鏟邊個呀？

尋日終於忍唔住，鏟左屋企部電腦，因為佢copy個file都可以咬死個CPU，唉。重新安裝XP同Office，裝埋XP SP2、Office Language Pack、iTunes、MSN Messenger、NOD32和Zone Alarm，其實並不是裝了很多東西，但係剛上網睇「巴士阿叔X煞科」時已經窒下窒下，原來個問題未解決未解決未解決未解決，情況令人憂慮，睇怕都係換部iMac好過。

尋日放工去左電腦城，見到部iMac 20"，真係好大，嘩。下次去皇室堡玩下ＯＳ Ｘ先。

明日又要開工，有壓力又未解決的事，何止一樣。

Ultimate Reset: Formatting on Mobile

These days I'm working on Recognizer and Document Handler. This time, however, I've no luck at all. The application has to be embedded and handle data probably. I couldn't find a complete example nor documentation. Most of the posts on the Web are debugging auto-start function, a deformed usage utilize the recognizer.

Tonight is the second night in a row I stayed late at office, trying to hunt down the right code. Yet, no gain, but pain. So frustrated.

How am I going to report to my boss tomorrow? Sigh...

Out of curiosity, I tried those auto-start codes from forums. I'm too lazy to copy the whole structure but the core piece. Anyway, after rebooting, the phone couldn't startup. Not even can I enter *#7370# to reset it. Luckily, there's still a way to format the device:
1. power off,
2. press and hold Green + * + 3,
3. power on and hold the above three keys until "Formatting..." appears.

Woops, that save my life. And this is my first time seeing this formatting screen on Symbian. So what the 3230 tried to tell me is, try everything on emulator first before deploying to real device.

Black Soul 黑魂

期待已久的黑魂版N70（外殼），今日終於到手了。 原廠的N70有銀黑配和米啡配，其中以銀黑配最漂亮，個人覺得，近期One2Free推的黑銀配比不上銀黑的，而大陸版官方配色就是這種黑銀，跟香港的對調。N70比起過往S60的機種，整體感覺比較扎實，換上這個全黑的外殼，就更加剛強。加上多得各大網絡商的努力，銀黑配的N70滿街都是，三至八十歲都有，坐一趟地鐵，最少見到十部。只可以說，感覺平凡。 純黑色，永遠給人一種神秘而專業的感覺，有沉實穩重的意味。就算周不時流行的銀灰色和全白色，也似無法與之抗衡，IBM的laptop更標榜其黑色外殼永不退色；似乎只有Steve Jobs才能使出白色的力量。電視機、遊戲機、手提電話，什麼顏色都曾有過，但最終都會推出全黑版本。 後記：某日返到公司，同事不斷指著我部N70要Mini-SD，說，部N80是否收埋張Mini-SD。哈，Mini-SD？對，我就是喜歡全黑色，貪佢似N80。 後記２：The memory card N70 using is RS-MMC.

Left: Black soul N70, feel like the N80 black version.
Right: Original sliver-black case of N70

Acer n300 v1.00.16

New ROM is out. But I'm not planning to flash. Just too lazy to reinstall all the softwares. (news)
Several hacks to Registry for WM5:

• To erase the battery icon from the Start Bar, create a DWORD with name ShowTitleBarClock and value 1
  [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell] "ShowTitleBarClock"=dword:00000001
  
• To change the format of date and time on Start Bar, create a binary value with name TBOpt and value 13 00 00 00
  [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell] "TBOpt"=hex:\13,00,00,00

(I will keep updating when more is found)

Smart Phone

To better organize my peronsal data, I synchronise my Nokia N70 with home PC once a while. Whenever it connected via the Nokia CA-53 USB data cable, the battery goes down quicker than in stand-by mode. Therefore, I must plug the charger to the phone while using the cable.

Nowadays many mobile phones are called smart phone. They've the basic PIM functions built in. In someway that they are like (pretend to be) a Palm or a Pocket PC. So, this is smart(?). I've been using Palm and Pocket PC for years. The data on device is synchronise (and backup) with Outlook. Month ago, I began to synchronise the phone with Outlook. Trying to eliminate the troubles when I wish to have same data on PDA and phone. Also, I could able to access to all contact I've, no matter I'm holding my PDA or phone. Yet, I

Nowadays mobile phones are called "smart phone". They implemented the basic function of PIM - Personal Information Management. In other way, they're very like a Palm or Pocket PC. And this is smart. I've been using Pocket PC for years and got lots of information on it. With Outlook I synchronise the device with computer daily. When my device malfunction and being hard resetted, or being replaced, I just connect it to computer and all data are back. Palm is even better because all programs and games will be restore automatically upon connected.