With more than 200 new features and enhancements, Aperture 3 is the perfect choice if you’re ready to take your photography to the next level. Migrate your photos from iPhoto to Aperture seamlessly. Manage large photo libraries with ease. Use powerful new tools to refine your images. And present your work like a pro with beautiful prints, hardcover books, websites, and stunning multimedia slideshows.

Top new features in Aperture 3

• Organize photos by the people in them using Faces.
• Use Places to find photos based on where they were taken.
• Perfect images with nondestructive, edge-aware brushes.
• Use adjustment presets to apply imaging effects.
• Browse your entire library with the new full-screen Browser.
• Create stunning multimedia slideshows that weave together HD video, audio tracks, and custom titles.

Find more and get it today from Apple Official website [Thanks to Lim and Anthony]

MagicPrefs is a free menubar application which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse. With MagicPrefs you can pinch, drag, click(touch), tap to on and off. [Via Gizmodo and Apple]

PC Fair December 2009

Grab the latest gadget and computer with a “Durian Runtuh” price. Pikom PC Fair is coming to Kuala Lumpur.

• Date : 4 – 6 December 2009
• Location : Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (beside KLCC)

For more information regarding Pikom PC Fair on other places, please visit Pikom website

imac 21 and 27 inch spec

New iMAC come with the new snow leopard 10.6.1 version and iLife 09. Not to forget, new Wireless keyboard and the new Magic Mouse. It has 2 different size and 4 different specification. The size of 21.5” compare to the old 24” is almost the same. Yes, I said, it almost look same in terms of size but the 21.5″ is wider. iMAC stand is using the same Cinema 24” LED display which mean thinner then the old version of iMAC. As for the 27”, you can buy VESA Mount Adaptor Kit for 24-inch/27-inch iMac and 24-inch LED Cinema Display. To previous user who’s had the Rain i360 turntable, don’t worry you don’t need to get the new one because the old is compatible with the new 21” (use the 20”) and 27” (use the 27”) size.

21.5 vs 24 inch

Not to forget, with the screen size, it can support 1080HD view

Resolution

• 21.5-inch models: 1920 by 1080 pixels (support 1080HD)
• 27-inch models: 2560 by 1440 pixels (support beyond HD @.@ AWESOMEE!!!)

iMAC for 21.5” can be upgrade up to 8gig DDR3 1066Mhz (2 RAM slot) but for 27” you can upgrade it to 16gig DDR3 1066Mhz(4 RAM slot). As for default specification, 27” came with 2×2 RAM, so you can added another on 2 free slot. iMAC also come with SD card reader.

sd card and dvd rom

I’m impress with the new build-in speaker compare to the old one, it had enough power/loud to be use on Large bedroom. All you got to do is set the iTunes Equalizer (Command + 2 on iTunes) to spoken word. Even though you have other player like VLC, the sound is still awesome. Below are the benchmark chart comparison between all those new iMAC.

back panel

So, base on this chart, it advised to 3.06GHz instead of upgrading to 3.33Ghz. To people who need performance, get the new 27” with iCore7 instead iCore5, almost 35% different between them. For more info hit you local Apple store. For Malaysian, you visit EPICentre has ready stock.

21.5" with snow leopard

Magic Mouse by Apple

New Magic Mouse has arrived to Malaysia! Selling price at RM229. Allen Boey(one of my apple friend) reviewed the new Magic Mouse but he forgot to mention the bluetooth can distance can be rich up to 20-30 meter far. I’ve test it. More info visit Allen Boey website for the review [via Allen Boey]

Apple Black Friday 2009

According to Boy Genius Report, this may be Apple’s Black Friday deals. According to this image, they will be applicable only on November 27th. They seem too good to be true:

1. 25% discount off all Macs.
2. Up to 15% of all accessories, Apple software, and Apple hardware.
3. Up to 30% off all iPods.

The only catch: The discounts are not applicable to the iPhone or the iPod Shuffle.

Thus for the promotion, all the Apple store will have this kind of promotion globally, even the Premium Reseller and Authorized Reseller needed to follow this promotion globally. Don’t forget to hit up your local Apple Store / Premium Reseller store.

Tips : Some of Premium Reseller Store skip this promotion, you need to ask them, if not, they will said nothing and sell it as normal price .. [via BoyGeniusReport, Gizmodo, Maclife]

Reset Mac OSX password

Most of the mac users  are in business level so they are not tech-savy users and make them too dumb to read the manual which already included in mac basic guide(inside the box of your laptop/mac). I got one customer came to customer service for resetting his Mac OSX password(he too dumb to remember 2 years password he been use LOL!), RM50 was charge for it. Now I’m going to teach how to make 3min work for RM50:

1. You must Installer DVD for mac (get color cd) or you can use new snow leopard CD
2. You must find a customer who forgot his Mac OSX password

After you have all the requirement, follow the step below:

1. Insert the DVD to the tray
2. Restart and press down the letter ‘C’. It will load the installer DVD
3. On the first screen, select Installer > Reset Password
4. Select your account and make up a new password.
5. Reboot
6. Ask your customer to pay you RM50 or more (better!)

Here you go, now go make your 3min job and get paid RM50.

Grooveshark

Grooveshark offering you listen to music without any 30sec demo shit like Imeem does now day. With user friendly web interface look it make listening to music and creating your playlist much more easier. Additionally, you can can embed songs you find on Grooveshark into web sites and social networking profiles, and share them with friends via email and instant messages. I guess now I can save-up my hard drive with a song that I didn’t even listen to. With Grooveshark, I can listen to my library or playlist anywhere, cause it’s online!

Website : Grooveshark (Web-base)

wall-e pc and mac

This how it would like if pc and mac in Wall-E movie.

Paralles Desktop 5 for Mac

To all windows 7 fans, now you can run it on Mac OSX virtually with multi-touch gesture support with Parallels Desktop 5. It also fully support Windows 7’s Aero desktop effects. Parallels said that the tests, conducted by Crimson Consulting Group, also found that the new Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac is up to 300 percent faster for virtual machine operations than its predecessor. In addition, 3Dmark 2006 Professional test scores perform up to 7 times better for 3D and graphics performance. The developer claiming the latest virtualization software runs 64-bit Windows 7 22 percent faster than its nearest competitor on a MacBook Pro. [via AppleInsider, MacRumors, and Lifehackers]

Website : Parallels Desktop 5 (Mac OSX only)

Here my magical finger! HAHAHA!

Ok! I’ve been thinking this blog kinda tech-savy, since my actual plan is to make it as multi-purpose website. I added category “Funny”, so all the funny picture and video will be posted here. This will be the first post for “Funny”. If you all have any suggestion or recommendation, feel free to email okay. Thanks !

Wibiya screenshot

Wibiya is awesome! I’ve just installed it on tu7uh network. Wibiya is a toolbar for your website and it embed on bottom of your website. It’s look just same as what Facebook toolbar on the bottom. If you thinking to increase your traffic for you website, Wibiya one of the tool. Wibiya also offer connection or intergrated API with other platform like twitter and facebook. Currently it’s in BETA version. A good thing about Wibiya, it doesn’t have to be a blogger, wordpress platform or any other CMS, Wibiya can be use also on a normal website. You can generate the code to embed it to your website.

With Wibiya, you can also can keep interact with your reader to your Facebook Fan site. Isn’t that cool? Now you can setup your own community with Facebook without any hassle to advertise it, wibiya will do all the work for you. To register Wibiya, it required the administrator to approve your account first.

Website : Wibiya (Free, Internet Service)

SnowChecker

We all know Snow Leopard have some software compatibility issue for some Mac software. Afraid no more, with SnowChecker is a tool to check and update your software for Snow Leopard compatible. SnowChecker will check either the update is work or not with Snow Leopard. Is a free download software. [Gizmodi and Downloadsquad]

Website : SnowChecker (Free, Mac OS X only)

Volery / ninite

If you are upgrading to Windows 7 from XP you will need to do a clean install, and installing your favorite apps again is time consuming and annoying. Today we look at a new service that will install your favorite applications while you walk away and do something more enjoyable.

Volery is a cool new service created by two programmers in San Francisco who believe that installing software shouldn’t require work. It’s simple to use and has a large selection of popular freeware and open source applications. Just pick the apps you want to install, download the Volery installer, then walk away and do something fun while it does all the work for you. The service installs the software with default settings and says “no” to any extra crapware (like browser toolbars) the installers might try to sneak in. Volery isn’t even installed on your system, you just use a stand alone executable to begin the install process. [via How-To Geek]

Website : Volery (Free, Windows only)

Updates : Volery has change name to ninite