I have always loved to see how Apple describes itself in their PR documents, this is their latest version: Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the [...]

Nikon may relocate some production from Sendai to Malaysia [rumour] Yes, we are making the lens mounts and barrels. No high-tech Nano coatings or R&D yet.

Things were happening so fast it was almost impossible to respond to the changes caused by the Sendai Earthquakes and the Tsunami. My team put together this book for sale on iTunes Store, and hopefully our dear friends at Apple can approve the book as soon as possible, proceeds for sales of the book will [...]

Folks, I will be off to Japan to cover this incident, chat soon. Japan is exceptionally well-prepared to deal with natural disasters: it has spent more on the problem than any other nation, largely as a result of frequently experiencing them. (Have you ever wondered why you use Japanese for “tsunamis” and “typhoons”?) All levels [...]

Have you ever wonder why you get that familiar blank stare of ignorance whenever you visited a local computing hardware store? No, I’d refuse to call those shops “IT outlets” or “Apple Store” because that will be flattering them. My recent visit to an “Authorised Reseller” in Mid Valley (and don’t get me started on [...]

Read this in a promotional copy from a photography tutor’s website (his portfolio here, and you decide if you want to learn from him through his work): I see many people in Tokyo with great DSLR cameras shooting in AUTO or other creative modes. It saddens me to see so much photographic power go to [...]

If you want more traffic, it seems, bashing any Apple product is the highway to web traffic wonderland. Now, here’s another one: Just How Bad is the iPad 2 Camera? WIRED asks via CNN: It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone, and despite many hopes, both cameras [...]

If YouTube adds its own original content to the video file sharing/broadcasting platform, does that turn the company into a television network? Video host YouTube today announced that it has acquired Web video production company Next New Networks. YouTube says the newly bought production team will be on the forefront of testing new YouTube technologies, [...]

The Nikon D70 was arguably one of Nikon’s best-selling cropped-sensor DSLR that succeeded it’s semi-pro cousin the D100 back in the early twenty tens. It’s 7x series body size was slightly smaller than the three-digit models but still larger than the 4x, 5x, 8x and 9x series of the Nikon family, though I am still [...]

Depending on what you do, the following equation should meet your mobile computing needs in almost any situation: iPhone4 with iOS4.3 upwards + 13in MacBook Pro upwards + iPad2wifi/3G 64GB + Lacie 2TB Thunderbolt Drive. And they are all from Apple, a closed, and comfortable computing ecosystem. If you are just a mobile user and [...]