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By hayami.wai, July 10, 2009 8:52 am

Silverlight 3 is now official. Intended to be a direct competitor of Adobe Flash (or Flash killer), Silverlight til date has yet to command the majority market share, putting aside killing Flash.

With the new HTML5 in the horizon, i wonder what is to become of Flash and Silverlight.

download: Microsoft Silverlight Homepage

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By hayami.wai,

Office 2010 The Movie

No. your eye’s aren’t playing trick on you. With the intention of having a share in the multi-billion dollar movie industry, Microsoft has created a new film based on Office 2010, possibly the blockbuster movie for the season (maybe not).

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By hayami.wai, July 7, 2009 9:31 pm

Find out more about Windows 7 Upgrade Option here

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By hayami.wai, June 30, 2009 11:40 pm

Windows Easy Transfer allows user to copy account settings, personal folders, E-mails and various personalize items from one computer to another. It is a good tool if you want to retain the same user experience when you change computer.

Windows Easy Transfer is also a great tool should you want to change the folder name in the Users folder (C:\Users\”account”) as it is not advisable to rename the folder and change registry settings.

To use Windows Easy Transfer for Windows 7

1. Click on Start and type Windows Easy Transfer in the search box and press Enter.
2. On the Windows Easy Transfer window, Click on Next on the Welcome screen
3. Select An external hard disk or USB flash drive followed by This is my old computer.
4. Wait for scanning to complete, select the user account that you wish to transfer and click Next
5. Click on Save and navigate to the location to save your Easy Transfer file. Your account settings and files will then be copied into the Easy Transfer file.
6. Click on Next when the transfer has completed. Click on Next again and Close.

   Note: Till this step, what Windows Easy Transfer has done is to make a copy of your current user account and store them to the Easy Transfer file. In the next few steps, you will be able to create a new account and extract the files into it.

7. Launch Windows Easy Transfer again and click on Next on the Welcome screen.
8. Select An external hard disk or USB flash drive followed by This is my new computer.
9. Select Yes and navigate to the location of the Easy Transfer file that was created earlier.
10. Select the user accounts to be transfered and click on Advanced Options.
11. Select an existing user account on the computer or select Create User from the drop-down list to create a new account for the files to be transfered to.
12. Click on Save and then Transfer. The settings and files will then be transfered to the specified user account.
13. Click on Close on the Complete screen.
14. Logon to your new account.

To use Windows Easy Transfer for Windows Vista

1. Click on Start and type Windows Easy Transfer in the search box and press Enter.
2. On the Windows Easy Transfer window, click on Next on the Welcome screen.
3. Select Start a new transfer, folloed by My old computer, Use a CD, DVD, or other removable media and then External hard disk or to a network location.
4. In the Choose a network location screen, type in the location you want to save the Easy Transfer file and click Next.
5. Select My user account, files, and settings only and click on Transfer on the next screen.
6. The transfer will start immedietely and you will be prompted to close Windows Easy Transfer when the transfer is done.

   Note: Till this step, what Windows Easy Transfer has done is to make a copy of your current user account and store them to the Easy Transfer file. In the next few steps, you will be able to create a new account and extract the files into it.

7. Again, launch Windows Easy Transfer and click Next on the welcome screen.
8. Select Continue a transfer in progress, followed by My new computer and then On an external hard disk or network location.
9. Browse and locate the Easy Transfer file that you had created earlier and click Next.
10. Select the user account you want to copy the files to, or alternatively you can provide a new user account name. Click on Next, then Transfer on the next screen.
11. The account data will then be copied to the specified new user account. You will be prompted to close Windows Easy Transfer when the whole process has completed
12. Logon to your new account.

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By hayami.wai, June 26, 2009 12:25 am

iSuppli has once again dissected the iPhone and analysed the BOM and manufacturing cost. At a cost price of US$178.96 and the retail price at US$199, it seems that the margin for the phone is extremely low. But do note that US$199 is what consumers pay to the mobile carriers. Behind the scene, mobile carriers had actually absorbed much of the cost, but made their earning thru monthly subscriptions.

source: iSuppli

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By hayami.wai,

The initial much speculated price for Windows 7 retail box has been put to an end as Microsoft had revealed the estimated price for both the full and upgrade box.

The estimated price for upgrade packaged retail box are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Upgrade): US$119.99 (SG$174.79)
• Windows 7 Professional (Upgrade): US$199.99 (SG$291.34)
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Upgrade): US$219.99 (SG$320.47)

And the estimated price for full packaged retail box are:

• Windows 7 Home Premium (Full): $199.99 (SG$291.34)
• Windows 7 Professional (Full): $299.99 (SG$437.01)
• Windows 7 Ultimate (Full): $319.99 (SG$466.15)

A program for people to pre-order Windows 7 at 50% discount had been made available for selected countries, unfortunately Singapore is not on the list. The few countries are US, Japan, France, UK and Germany.

source: The Windows Blog

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By hayami.wai, June 24, 2009 9:02 am

Windows 7 beta (pre 7100 builds) will begin shutting down every 2 hours starting 1st July. On top of that, desktop wallpaper will changed to black color every hour. Users will still be able to change the wallpaper, although the black wallpaper will be forced changed the next hour.

Beta users are advised to obtain and install the RC version of Windows 7 here before 15 August.

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By hayami.wai,

The free public download of Windows 7 will be available until 15 Aug. You can get the free RC product key and ISO here.

In addition, the RTM date is projected to be 13 July. Meaning that there will be a code freeze to Windows 7 source code and subsequent modifications will be released as patches.

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By hayami.wai, June 19, 2009 8:43 am

Windows 7 to Windows XP downgrade will be available till April 2011 or until Windows 7 SP1 is released, as according to the latest unofficial statement from Microsoft. Prior to this, the downgrade was only available for 6 months after Win7 launch (April 2010), where OEMs can still sell PCs installed with WinXP. After the expiry date, OEMs can only sell Win7 PCs.

It is also worth nothing the Windows XP is now in the extended support phase.

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By hayami.wai, June 17, 2009 8:54 am

The team responsible for the jailbreaking of the iPhone OS has cracked the latest iPhone OS 3.0 (which has yet to be released to the general public), enabling it to be installed on non AT&T cells.

On Tuesday evening (just before the big Apple release) we’ll do a live demo of the yellowsn0w carrier unlock working on official 3.0 firmware. The actual link for the feed will be twittered by @MuscleNerd and also placed here when the feed starts. The demo should answer everything you need to know about the new yellowsn0w. But it’s good news for iPhone 3G unlockers everywhere.

source: Dev-Team Blog

PS: iPhones sold in Singapore are already factory unlocked due to anti-competition laws.