Here’s a quick comparison chart for each telco’s plans for the iPhone 4 launch on 30th July 2010 in Singapore.

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For further information, please visit SingTel, M1, and StarHub.

SharePoint Conference is coming to SouthEast Asia, and it’s happening right here in Singapore. Here are the details:

Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference
Tuesday October 26 2010 – Wednesday October 27, 2010
Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore
**** Early Bird Discount for first 275 Registrations***

Running over two days, delegates will be able to visit exhibition and information booths, attend workshops, learn from motivational customer case studies and partake in educational seminars.  There is something for everyone from end users, administrators and developers to managers and CIOs. Become part of the SharePoint community, connect at the conference and enjoy on-going benefits, resources and idea sharing after the event.

Audience and Technologies
The SharePoint Conference is intended for a wide audience and has content to cover roles such as:

• Business Roles like End Users, Business Champions, Power Users and Business Managers
• Information Architects, Record and Information Managers, IT Managers, CIO and Decision Makers
• Technical Roles including Developers, IT Pro, Systems Administration and DBA’s

Microsoft Technologies covered during the conference include:

• SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Server 2010
• SharePoint Designer and Visual Studio
• Integration with other Microsoft Products including Office, InfoPath, Excel, Access and Visio
• Integration with 3rd Party products enhancing SharePoint functionality​

Best of Local and International Speakers and Experts
We have an exciting line up of regional and international speakers to help make this a great conference. Over the coming weeks we will highlight some of the world renowned SharePoint experts who are coming to Singapore to share their knowledge.

Pre and Post Conference Workshops
Take advantage of the additional training opportunities on Monday October 25^th and Thursday October 28^th, with intensive half day workshops with hands on labs – 12 in total to mix and match to suit your needs. These cover Business and Technical Content by top international experts. These include:

• SharePoint Governance
• Planning and Managing SharePoint Projects
• Spicing up your Site: SharePoint Designer
• Improving Business Processes with Workflow (InfoPath and SharePoint Designer)
• Upgrade to SharePoint 2010
• Business Intelligence in 2010
• Improving Document Management
• Power User 2010
• SharePoint 2010 Overview
• SharePoint Development

Full details at Get to the Point Workshops. These workshops are HIGHLY recommended. Note that workshop costs are additional to conference registration and places are limited.

Accommodation
Accommodation should be booked directly with the hotel. Full details on accommodation rates are available on the Conference Website. There are a number of other hotel and motel options in the area.

Registrations Available Now
Group Registrations for 5 or more participants are available and will receive a 20% discount
Early Bird Registrations of $SGD300.00 will apply to the first 275 delegates who register.
Regular Registration fee is $SGD400.00

Friday, 23rd July – iPad Wifi and iPad Wifi+3G

iPad 3G Micro-SIM cards available at all 3 Telcos – SingTel, StarHub, M1

Or you can cut your existing SIM card - From SIM to Micro-SIM by JustinNg.sg

Friday, 30th July – iPhone 4 (Black) and (White)

iPhone 4 will be available on all 3 Telcos – Register Interest at SingTel, StarHub, M1

Lately, I’ve been working on getting nice CSS3 features like rounded boxes, box shadows, and gradients into my HTML without using any images. This resulted in really fast loading websites because very few images were used. However, Internet Explorer (IE) 6, 7, 8 doesn’t support CSS3 at all, which really makes my life difficult when I need to support multiple browsers.

Never fear! CSS3 Progressive Internet Explorer (PIE) is an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties. That’s just amazing, and saved me lots of time trying to support IE.

News clips from Channel News Asia‘s nightly Singapore Tonight Bulletin will be made available (within 3 days of telecast) on MediaCorp’s newest foray into social media, a YouTube channel called “News in Singapore“. Sadly, they have disabled embedding the videos on websites. However, there are workarounds.

Here’s a sample of the latest video – “Look at fare changes over time to see real benefits“.

Introduction

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is SE’s first attempt into the Android platform. Customized with their own look-and-feel UI, Rachael, and the amazing pimped-out specifications, does it really rise up to the brand of Xperia and Sony Ericsson’s acclaimed Camera and Music (media) focused branding?

Specifications

As usual, only the unique and interesting specifications will be listed. For full specifications, go to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 website.

Love the powerful camera specifications. Don’t you?

Likes

The feel of the phone is great. With the slightly rubbery feel of the back similar to the Nexus One and the curves at the sides, it makes a great phone to hold and feel. The screen is a brilliant TFT touchscreen which is comparable, if not better, than most LED backlit and TFT touchscreens we see out there (excluding Samsung’s Super AMOLED).

Camera

The camera, running at 8.1 megapixels with LED flash is one of the better Android camera phones out in the market, even now. However, if it was Xenon Flash, it would have blown the competition away.

Take a look at the 2 photos taken by the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and the Nexus One and judge for yourself. Notice the slight blurry photo for the X10. That’s probably just me not setting it to the right macro settings, or my hand shaking too much. But the colours are closer to the actual colours than the Nexus One.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

Nexus One

However, it just ends there.

Dislikes

Android 1.6 is the biggest failing factor of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Given, this is Sony Ericsson’s first foray into the Android platform. As much as the good intentions and ideas that Sony Ericsson has put into the UI customizations, codename Rachael, it fails to impress.

The UI customization is a glassy/dreamy feel that looks good on screen, but fails in usability. The dreamy and blurry look-and-feel might appeal to many visually, but after using for long periods, it becomes tiring to your eyes. Many of the widgets that comes preloaded with the phone takes up too much unnecessary white-space.

Not forgetting, their 2 applications that come with the phone, TimeScape and MediaScape, falls flat on its face trying to bring similar experience as HTC’s Sense UI or Motorola’s MotoBlur.

TimeScape aggregates all your communications, from twitter to SMSes to phone calls, all in one application. The idea is good, but the execution is badly done. For a person with too much information overload, it is difficult to consume these information quickly and efficiently with the Stacked-Tiled view.

MediaScape is a great application. That’s one interface I think works well with your albums. You can purchase songs directly from the PlayNow store. However, previewing a song takes so long to load your screen time-outs and locks your phone. When you unlock your phone, it simply cancels the preview and you have to start all over again.

Conclusion

Sony Ericsson has always been branded as a great media device phone, and the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has upheld that branding; offering one of the best android media device phone in the market, both great as a camera and a music player. However, because of the lack of an updated OS and the overly bluish “glow” theme which makes the phone very “dreamy”, it isn’t suited for a person who uses their mobile phone heavily as their multi-source communication device. Good first attempt into the Android space, but there is still a lot of room for improvement to become the best Android phone.

+ Love the camera and hardware (screen, audio, and everything else)
+ Mediascape brings music to your phone with PlayNow
- Timescape needs a more effective way of displaying information
- Android 1.6

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You heard it from me. It’s finally out. Check it out! We talk about Farinelli’s nuts. That is right, Farinelli’s nuts. Enjoy.

DigressCast #11: Farinelli’s Nuts

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Windows Live Essentials Beta is finally out after months of waiting. Download it here.

Microsoft just unveiled the new Windows Live Essentials and the role it plays in completing the Windows experience. Essentials is a suite of free software and services which includes Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, and Movie Maker – as well as Sync and Family Safety.

We all take a lot of photos and videos that we love to share. Windows Live Photo Gallery and Movie Maker now comes with intuitive tools for organizing photos and movies, in addition to providing consumers with the tools to polish and then share their content online. Some of my favorites include:

• Photo Fuse. Allowing you to take the best parts of similar photos and fuse them together into one “perfect” photo
• Retouch. A great new feature which allows you to get rid of blemishes, scratches, bruises and stains on photos in a few clicks
• Precision Video and Audio Editing. Make it so simple for you to find the sweet spot for each video or audio clip
• High-Definition Formats (720p and 1080p). Now you can make your movies look even more polished and professional

Finally, a new tool introduced in the Windows Live Essentials family, Windows Live Sync. With Sync, you can access your files and folders on the web – even if your PC is offline.

Learn more about what’s new with Windows Live Essentials.

My previous post, Compiling Android Source on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, is outdated and doesn’t work with the new source code, so I thought I’ll update this for eclair.

Here are the steps.

1. Install XCode, Macports, repo, etc.

I assume everyone knows how to do this. Follow the instructions from the Get Android Source Code page. Just remember to create a new partition that is a case-sensitive partition if you’re using a non case-sensitive primary partition. I’ll start off after you’ve gotten the source from git.

2. Get the following patches.

Since there is only 1 patch to grab, I used repo for this.

Patch 12074 - Change Ic4caeff0: Enable building on java 1.6 without conflicts.

This patch will allow you to use Java 1.6 that comes with Snow Leopard instead of Java 1.5.

repo download platform/build 12074/5

The rest of the patches seems to have made it into the trunk, so it isn’t required to patch them anymore.

3. Edit the files.

However, there is 1 extra step you need to do in order to get a clean build. I can’t find the patch for this yet, so if anyone knows, please comment the patch number. You have to edit the following file:

system/core/libacc/acc.cpp

In a gist, change all the (int) to (size_t). Change the following lines:

Line 4557:

pGen->leaR0((int) glo, mkpCharPtr, ET_RVALUE);

to

pGen->leaR0((size_t) glo, mkpCharPtr, ET_RVALUE);

Line 4637:

pGen->loadFloat((int) glo, mkpFloat);

to

pGen->loadFloat((size_t) glo, mkpFloat);

Line 4643:

pGen->loadFloat((int) glo, mkpDouble);

to

pGen->loadFloat((size_t) glo, mkpDouble);

Line 4730-4731:

pVI->pForward = (void*) pGen->leaForward(
    (int) pVI->pForward, pVal);

to

pVI->pForward = (void*) pGen->leaForward(
    (size_t) pVI->pForward, pVal);

Line 5740:

pGen->resolveForward((int) name->pForward);

to

pGen->resolveForward((size_t) name->pForward);

4. Build and watch it fly.

make

Wait for an hour or two for the build to be completed and you’ll have a nice Android 2.1 build in the “out” directory.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

The SE Xperia X8 is similar to the Xperia X10 mini with a 3 inch screen. Here are the specifications:

Sony Ericsson Yendo

Sony Ericsson Yendo is a Sony Ericsson Walkman phone that uses the same User Interface as the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 but with their own proprietary OS. Here are the specifications:

Sony Ericsson Cedar

Sony Ericsson Cedar is a candy bar low-end GreenHeart phone that has social network applications – Facebook, Twitter, MySpace – and a Widget Manager 2.0 that allows easy access to your favourite social network and applications. Here are the specifications:

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