BD30 - Front, originally uploaded by .d.i.n..

But it came with a shitty cable… anyway, ain’t gonna use it.

So what I have to do now, is to spend more. I need a new amp that supports HD-dts, an HDMI cable of higher quality…

sob

OK, I have been using the simple Wordpress blogging interface to write my blogs and I never bother to find something easier to write my blog… which is why I seldom update this little piece of crap.

I finally came across with this little useful app - MacJournal, which allows you to write whatever you want and selectively share onto your blog. The wonderful thing is, it supports Wordpress, and even self-hosted wordpress! You know how many of these Wordpress softwares only work with blogs hosted with www.wordpress.com :p

Anyway, this is my first post using this app.

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Sorry… just couldn’t resist.

p.s. it’s the monitor for my M$ desktop on the left :p

Transferring data from my MacBook to the new iMac	Since I now have 2 wireless Mighty Mouse (although I use my MBPro mainly at lab…) and so I have to paint the little Apple logo pink (sorrie!) in order to distinguish themp.s. my MBP’s in shocking pink (i know…)

As I have to measure something rather large (larger than 1mm) and therefore could not be measured using a micrometer under the microscope… I found the following software (by Google search for sure :p) - Screen Calipers!

All you have to do is to take pictures of stuff that you want to measure (together with a ruler or something similar), then calibrate the calipers… and measure the size by dragging the caliper arms. Wow

This software saves me from using transparencies to do on screen measurement (it was quite a troublesome method anyway). Hee

See it in action:

Finally got it done properly shown up with GMail’s messages… (it took quite a while to have itarranged…).

This is the result (screen capture):

OK, i got a bit sick of not having a proper looking sinature with my GMail (yes, i’ve forwarded all my dindin.net emails to my GMail). Therefore I spent some time in having some fun with ASCII images, WITHOUT realising that GMail does not support HTML NOR rich text in the signature option… anyway, i did have some fun:

Here's the original pic:

Bought the Xbox 360’s HDMI cable finally. Be frank, the price of HKD328 is fairly reasonable: it allows you to have analogue or digital audio out (optical), although the optical out is also available on the component cable that comes with the console… the best bit is, the quality. I could finally select the 1080p output option and it made a total difference with Halo3.

I was amazed (”wow, wow, wow” most of the time). The pity thing is, my optical cable isn’t long enough and so I’m still using the red-white analogue cables…

Therefore, I’m going to get a longer optical cable this Saturday - so that I can enjoy hearing the bullets flying around!

p.s. Playing Halo3 on my Panasonic TH-42PY700H plasma is truely amazing, especially with the lights out :p
p.p.s. the Tannoy speakers helped alot too
p.p.p.s. and the Infinity sub-woofer… and the bose center/rear speakers helped too ;P

Rumors?

Or Apple’s really gonna release a 23″ HDTV with video input support? If that’s the case, I would definitely go for one. As I am currently saving up a 24″ new iMac (for my room) and a HDTV for my new flat…. :p

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Update:
Oppps! Sony has one all-in-one HDTV/PC system, even with Blur-Ray (opps, Blue-Ray!) and it IS wall-mountable! See here

i am now switching back to litestep. First started using it in 1998… dropped it last year after major upgrade with my pc, and after switching to Mac. Therefore, i am re-developing my pingu theme :p

Trying to find a proper way to force kill an application on Mac… I always use the kill -9 or sudo kill -9 command, but 80% of the time that they dont work. So i goggle a bit and found the following… (remarks: that still doesnt kill my stupid applications - itunes >_<)
Quoted from QSXFAQ:

by Adrian Mayo - Editor, OSXFAQ

Tuesday - Force-Quit

Use ‘kill’ or ‘killall’ to force-quit errant applications.

The ‘kill’ command requires a process ID, not an application name. Discover it with:

$ ps xc | grep -iw ical  6577  ??  S      0:41.67 iCal

(Put the application name in quotes if it contains spaces or characters special to the shell.)

Quit it with:

$ kill -QUIT 6577Force-quit it with:

$ kill -KILL 6577Do it on one line by creating a bash function:

$ function killer () { kill -KILL $(ps xc | grep -wi “$*” | awk ‘{print $1}’); }

$ killer icalKill applications belonging to other users. Add option ‘a’ to the ‘ps’ command so it lists processes owned by other users too. You must either be root or use ’sudo’ to issue the ‘kill’ command.

Kill a process by name. Use the ‘killall’ command.

$ killall ical
No matching processes belonging to you were found

$ killall iCal(Killall is case-sensitive.)

Killall can match process names by regular expressions too - check out the man page.

To shut down the computer from the command line:

$ sudo shutdown -r now