My little side project under construction:

lyric.jonloh.net - Version 2

Currently in the process for transferring the songs and chords from the current lyric.jonloh.net to the revamped site.

The main features you will see in that site:

• Auto transpose key - This will definitely save a lot of your time in getting the correct key for the songs that you want to sing.
• Music video and tutorials - Several songs have their own YouTube videos, so that songleaders are able to listen to the song and musicians are also able to learn the tutorials that are available for the song.

This main purpose to establish this project is to save my time from doing song transpose for songleaders. Check it out ;)

And yes, I'm aware that I can end up like pwarchive.com; Copyright issue. If that happens, I would need to make it really private or obtain the copyright license.

If you are using a Content Management System, especially Drupal on Apache, PHP and MySQL in your Windows web server, you may realize that the page loading speed isn't as fast when you put it up on a Linux web server, even though your desktop has probably an i7.

Kah Thong found out that the loading page speed has to do with the database engine; In Windows, the engine storage type is default to INNODB while Linux's default storage engine type is MyISAM. You will find that the loading page will be much faster when you alter the tables from INNODB to MyISAM. Technically I do not know why, but I believe there are tons of explanations online.

So yeah, this is so much useful when it comes to coding a Drupal theme. Try it out :)

Yes, I have successfully updated my iPhone from 2.2 firmware to 3.0. It's quite a simple thing to do... All a big thank you to the awesome iPhone DevTeam! This is what I did on my Intel i7 with Windows Vista:

1. Back-up your SMS, Contacts, etc. using iTunes 8.2.
2. Click on your iPhone in iTunes, Shift + click on Restore and restore it with the ipsw 3.0.
3. Once that is done, get RedSn0w (Ask Google) and execute the program.
4. Just follow a bunch of simple steps, where you need Bootloader 3.9 and 4.6 also.
5. And then, you're done!

See, told you it's quite simple. For those who are having trouble with their updates being stucked at 'Downloading jailbreak data' with the loading icon moving, I believe it is because you are still on the old firmware. To me, I solved this problem by upgrading to 3.0 using the iTunes restore first, and then perform the update.

Try it, and goodluck to you if you are attempting it :)

Finally my 3rd year of my uni life is over! Another year to go and I am not sure what to expect. The only thing I know for sure that I have to complete a final year project (FYP), where we will have a year to complete it. So I shall enjoy my 2 and a 1/2 months holiday first.

Also, the new iPhone 3.0 operating system is released. It's awesome that the Dev-Team manage to release the program to unlock/jailbreak the new OS. Time to try it out on my iPhone... Wish me luck!

As mentioned in the post's title, the new P1 10Mbps Wiggy is not compatible with Apple. This was confirmed when I asked one of the P1 promoter in Sunway Pyramid last week.

I would have really consider in trying out Wiggy if it is for Mac. But still, you would have to pay the monthly subscription for a year (More like a contract based) upfront in order to use it. That will be another huge consideration that needs to be done. What if Wiggy isn't good at all after paying for it? No worries, the promoter told me that if you are not happy with Wiggy, you can have a refund, which I believe it will be very difficult to get your money back once you give in.

Sigh...

Edited: Oh wait, good news! P1 Wiggy can be used with Apple Mac! But you need to have a Virtual PC with Windows in order to achieve it. More details here: http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2009/05/07/p1-w1max-wiggy-using-vmware-to-get-it-working-on-a-mac

I got my early birthday present from my parents and I am allowed to open it on the day itself! :)

And walla...

It's a MacBook Pro! Well actually I knew it few days before it arrived. My parents were so sweet that they wanted to surprise me with this before, but something happened. Still, I am glad that I am still able to get an Apple!

About an hour ago, my dad and I headed off to 1U to get this special promotion from Mac City...

Adobe CS4 Design Premium Student Edition for only RM400! The best part is that this pack has the same features as the Adobe CS4 Premium Design (Non-student edition) which cost about RM7k+. Nyahaha!

If you want to find out why I didn't get to be surprised by my parents for this MacBook, read more on this post.Read more...

For those who have not get an iPhone and thinking about getting one, I really suggest that you do so! What more, you can officially get an iPhone from Maxis, or if you are geek enough, you can buy one from any PDA shop that sells it and unlock the phone.

Today I was just looking through the App Store from my iPhone to check out what new applications they have for iPhone. While looking through the Free applications category, I saw an official Skype application for iPhone! I quickly download it and tested it out.Read more...

Gosh, I am really surprise when iPhone announce their new release on the new iPhone OS 3.0 Software this summer, with 1,000 new APIs for developers and another 100 great features for iPhone! Unfortunately I'm not an iPhone App Developer =(

It feels like my iPhone is a dinosaur iPhone, even though it is just 1 year old. Hoping this won't be too heavy for my first generation iPhone.

More info: http://www.apple.com/iphone/preview-iphone-os/

There were articles and chats going around previously, saying that iPhone will be brought in and sold officially here by Maxis when the new version is released. It was quite disappointing that Malaysia wasn't in the list when it was released.

Today my bro informed me a good news, especially to tech g33ks, that Maxis had finally took the action to bring in and sell iPhone 3G officially. The official launch of this cool and powerful iPhone will be on the 20th-22nd of March.

So my bro gave me this link where you can book your iPhone now! By booking your iPhone before 17th March 2009 (11:59pm), you will have the chance to get an exclusive invitation for the official launch event. I took the opportunity to check out the prices, but unfortunately the prices isn't as cheap as what US telco offer. In fact, the iPhone 3G 16GB is just about RM700+ cheaper when you buy from Maxis. Still, it is a good news for those who have not got your iPhone yet :)

If you guys want to check out the prices for the iPhones and rate plans, and more info about it, you can visit the Maxis iPhone 3G section.

Support Apple!

Apple released the Beta version of Safari 4, which they claim it is the world’s fastest browser.

I'm gonna check it out later tonight and see how good it is!