Keep your MacBook alive with an SSD upgrade

If you really want a fast and responsive machine, instead of buying a new system, consider upgrading with an SSD storage. You will be surprise how responsive your MacBook can be just by using an SSD!

3+1 Reasons why Parallels 7 wins VS VMWare Fusion!

Just got that nice MacBook Air with the roaring Lion, then figured out that you need to run some Windows apps still? Fret not, here's how you can do just that and between the usual choice of Parallels vs VMWare, why I'd recommend you to put your money on Parallels instead.

To Mac, or to Windows? That’s your question, here’s my answer

Find out why I think Macs are a real compelling platform to consider as your next PC, even if you still need Windows to run some of your stuff.

How to access your files anywhere with SugarSync

Ever felt that even having a tablet, you still could never leave your notebook behind because you always have 'that' file that you might need. Well, here's how SugarSync, a cloud storage solution, can help you leave that notebook behind for good.

Parallels or VMWare Virtual Machines on an SSD: Is it worth it?

SSD is very expensive in terms of it's real estate and you simply do not want to put just about any junk you have that's not worth it's space there. Therefore, you would want to make sure if it's really worth plunking the tens of GBs worth of VM image onto your precious SSD storage. So, should you or should you not? Is there significant performance improvements that warrant the large chunk of the SSD dedicated to the VM image? Read on to find out!

Fixing Lion’s iCal’s CalDAV password problem

If you keep getting prompts to reenter the password for your CalDAV calendars on OS X Lion, here's a fix that might work for you.

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Manually downloading iOS 4.1 (or any other versions) for iTunes

September 10, 2010

by Ken Ng

iOS 4.1 is out and you want to immediately update your iPhone to get it updated with the latest iOS and patch all those bugs. So you fired up iTunes and click on the update button. Then iTunes tells you that it would take 3-4 hours to download the almost 400MB firmware update.

3 to 4 hours if you’re lucky that is. And on top of that, let’s hope your download don’t timeout!

Sounds familiar? Well, if you’re as unlucky as I am when it comes to More >

Fix: Parallels iPhone Service won’t start

August 4, 2010

by Ken Ng

Here’s a quick tip to fix for those of you Mac users who are using Parallels 5 as the virtualization solution.

Support came back to me with the following steps to fix the problem. First, quit Parallels if it’s already running. Then go through the steps noted below.

Go to /Library/Parallels/

Right-click on “Parallels Service.app” -> Show Package Contents

Go to /Contents/PlugIns/

Right-click on “Parallels Network Start.app” -> Show Package More >

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iPhone 4 Antennagate: A case of losing perspective

July 18, 2010

by Ken Ng

There’s seems to be a lot of rant, opinions, news, blogs and anything else you can think of on the iPhone 4 ‘Antennagate’ issue. Well, here’s my rant too.

To summarize the outcome of Apple’s press conference on this issue, all iPhone 4 users would be getting a free Bumper case. If you’re already bought the bumper, you’d get a refund. If you’re still not too happy with the iPhone 4, return it with no questions asked.

Seriously, what more can you More >

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Tip: Calibrating the MacBook and iPhone battery to maximize it’s life

July 1, 2010

by Ken Ng

Everyone knows that the battery on the new MacBooks and iPhone are built-in and non-replaceable. Therefore, it’s extra important to try and maintain the battery to maximize its lifetime.

And since both the MacBooks and iPhones uses a lithium-based battery, there are a few golden rules on how we can keep the batteries in tip-top conditions.

Firstly, lithium-based batteries likes their electrons to keep moving. That way, the battery stays ‘fresh’ More >

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Upgrading a Spirit-Jailbroken iPhone 3GS to iOS 4.0

June 21, 2010

by Ken Ng

It’s iOS 4.0 day today as I’m typing this blog. If you’re on an official iPhone OS 3.1.3 firmware, all you need to do to get iOS 4.0 loaded is to just wait for iTunes to prompt for the a new iPhone software update and just update it. If you can’t wait for the auto-checking, just click the Check for update button on iTunes over the next few hours.

But what if you’re currently have a jailbroken iPhone 3GS. Specifically, an iPhone 3GS on iPhone OS More >

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WWDC 2010 – Early thoughts on the iPhone 4 and iOS 4

June 8, 2010

by Ken Ng

It’s that time of the year again. Yup, WWDC 2010′s keynote has just started as I’m typing this blog post while following it at gdgt (photos posted courtesy of gdgt too!)

The beginning of the keynote was nothing too spectacular since all we wanted was the details of the new iPhone. However, there were some interesting statistics and points that was shared by Steve.

Firstly, there was quite a fair bit of focus on the iPad. We all know that ove More >

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5 Reasons Why I Jailbroke my iPhone

May 28, 2010

by Ken Ng

Yes. I finally took the plunge and jailbroke my phone. One reason why I took so long to do it was the fact that it’s quite an easy task to jailbreak an unlocked iPhone without the risk of losing anything existing on the phone. If you want to know how I got it done, just hop over to http://spiritjb.com/.

I’m actually known for my insistence of buying apps and games legitimately off App Store. And since don’t exactly own a tree that grows money, More >

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iPhone OS 4.0: An Elegant ‘Multi-tasking’ Approach

May 22, 2010

by Ken Ng

A friend of mine said to me on the night when OS 4.0 was announced, “The 4.0 changelist better be as long as 3.0′s changelist”. Well, we here at +8 GMT timezone would obviously not be able to attend the party at Cupertino, but thanks to the bunch at Gizmodo, I was getting updated on their live feed. I think there was a mention of close to 100 new features on iPhone OS 4.0.

But I think the top feature that’s gotten everyone excited is the More >

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