Monthly Archives: September 2009

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

01/09/2009
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The TNT deliver guy turned up yesterday after the mailing room staff have left. So my Snow Leopard parcel got returned to the depot and had to be re-delivered this morning. I got to the office around 3 in the afternoon, picked up the parcel then went straight to my partition, ready for the upgrade.

Since I’ve prepared my MacBook for the upgrade a few days ago, I slotted the installation disc in and Snow Leopard was being installed.

The installation took around an hour so I kept working on the work pc.

After almost an hour, it was done!

A really weird pop up window appeared upon the first start up.

Did know what this was about, so I tried to find it out online. Anyways, after a long search here and there, I gave up. Picked up the phone and rang Apple Support. The technician didn’t know why there’s such a pop up window but what he knew was that System Events.app is an application on the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Install Disc and he was very positive about it. So I decided to eject the DVD and reboot the system, just to see if this window pops up again. The answer was, no. So it’s all good now!

I’ve only been using my Snow Leopard MacBook for 2-3 hours to this point and I’ve already found a lot of enhancements! Here are some of the obvious ones!

  • Freed about 9GB of hard drive space
  • Much more user-friendly Exposé, dragging and dropping files across apps are so easy now with the improved Dock
  • Stacks are now GREAT with grid view, in fact I love using it
  • It’s now easier to tell when you’re moving between Spaces
  • I love the new Quicktime X (it now plays .avi files too)
  • The default Chinese font is different, I personally like it although I’m hearing a lot of negative feedbacks
  • Switching between different language inputs are easier now, especially if you use more than 2 languages. Like myself, I switch between English, Simplified & Traditional Chinese all the time. You can now hold the ‘command’ key, hit spacebar multiple times to switch between them (you may have different short cut keys).

Well, that’s it so far. It’s getting late and I’m super sleepy today. Will keep you guys updated when I find out more interesting features yet not publicised as much.

PK Lai

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Carrie & Linda from Shanghai

01/09/2009
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Met these 2 lovely ladies from Shanghai at Ibiza on Saturday night. They are friends of Gary, my colleague and friend.

We made plans late Monday afternoon to have dinner together but Gary was busy and couldn’t join us. After work around 7-ish, I went over to their hotel in Wanchai to meet up with them then we headed to the restaurant. I planned to take them to this Chinese restaurant where they serve a nice chicken dish, but as soon as we got there, Linda said that she tried this restaurant before and apart from the chicken, the other dishes weren’t very nice. So then, I asked if they are ok with ‘not so clean’ restaurants and they seem to be fine with it. So we headed over to this small restaurant near Wanchai markets and sat down.

It’s not a fancy restaurant, but a traditional one with nice food. We order a few dishes and not after long, the dishes were served.

It was a really enjoyable meal! Food was nice! We had fun! It was their last night in Hong Kong so we decided to hang out a bit longer. I suggested that we’d go have dessert at Lucky Dessert in Causeway Bay, in between World Trade and Sogo. Off we went! We kept chatting and chatting… and because we’re sitting on those wooden stools, it was really uncomfortable to stay too long. Then we went to Starbucks.

Carrie was setting up her facebook account while Linda and I started taking photos… haha… Here’s Linda on the left and Carrie on the right.

We stayed there till the staff asked us to leave coz they’re closing. Took them back to the hotel, chatted for a bit longer while watching tv then we said our goodbyes.

It was a pleasure knowing these 2 young, smart and pretty ladies! They are really fun to hang out with! Look forward to seeing you 2 again soon! Whether it’d be in Shanghai, Hong Kong or somewhere else! Take care for now!

PK Lai

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