FULL VERSION: McDonald’s Commercial with LeBron James and Dwight Howard

Some nice moves there by Lebron and Dwight, enjoy.

Source – McDonald’s All American

Total Breakdown of 3HK 3G Data Network

[Update: 11:24am] Finally it’s back up, at least in Wanchai area.

Since yesterday afternoon, I have been experiencing problems accessing my emails and surfing the net with my iPhone 3Gs with the 3HK 3G data network except for a brief two hours or so from 9:00pm to 11:24pm.  It was still dead this morning and I’m getting really frustrated.

At first I thought either my iPhone 3Gs went cuckoo or something’s wrong with my SIM card but not until I start searching through the local forums where I noted that the whole 3HK 3G data network was indeed paralyzed.

3HK, get your act together please, this is getting really annoying and it ain’t funny.

Worst thing is, you cannot even dial into 3HK’s hotline.

The following are just some related forum posts -

“我由尋日（18號）下午三點左右開始已經上唔到 ~ 我都以為電腦 / 手指壞 …. 因為我用電話都仲上到 ~ USB 手指一直試到而家都仲未上到 ! 電話都有一段時間死左 …. 大約係五、六點左右死左一陣 ! 點搞呀 ?! 我鋪頭有時上網做野要靠佢 !! 而家死得啦 !!” ~ PhontHK forum

“極火滾!!到底個死人3台發生咩事!!hotline直情打唔通!!” ~ Discuss Forum

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – Google Learned to say NO, Just Like Conan O’Brien

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “Google Learned to say NO, Just Like Conan O’Brien”. Click here for the full read.

Kindle DX Available for PreOrder in 100+ Countries

This just out…..

SEATTLE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that Amazon Kindle DX, the purpose-built reading device that offers Kindle’s revolutionary wireless delivery and massive selection of content with a large 9.7-inch electronic paper display, is available for the first time to customers around the world. With 2.5 times the surface area of Kindle’s 6-inch display, Kindle DX’s larger electronic paper display with 16 shades of gray has more area for graphic-rich content, such as professional and personal documents, newspapers, magazines and textbooks. Kindle DX with Global Wireless is available for pre-order starting today for $489 at www.amazon.com/kindledx and ships Jan. 19.

For more details, go to www.amazon.com/kindledx

Avatar Makeup Tutorial – NOT

This is absolutely hilarious.

Source – glowpinkstah

Web Wednesday v.32 @ Backstage Live Restaurant – 6 January 2010 – How to become an eBay millionaire?

The next Web Wednesday meet is this coming Wednesday,  6th January at a Backstage Live Restaurant, 1/F Somptueux Central, 52-54 Wellington Street, Central.

The topic is “how to become an eBay millionaire?” with Benjamin Mark Wee, also known as “That eBay Guy”, the Singaporean entrepreneur who successfully broke down barriers between online and offline retail, and made wads of money from doing so..

The night kicks off at 6:30pm and ends around 9:30pm, there’s a HK$100 entrance fee, including one complimentary drink. Receipts will issue if you need one. (For students, you can get in for HK$50 without free booze). Thereafter, all standard drinks will be charged at a special discount of HK$40 each. 10% of the entrance fees will be donated to Oxfam’s Unwrapped Gift Campaign, providing sheep and goats to poor farmers in China. Send your own goat here: http://oxfamunwrapped.oxfam.org.hk/

Source : Web Wednesday Hong Kong

Barnes & Nobles Nook Firmware 1.1 Speeds Up Things & Fixes Couple Bugs

The Barnes & Nobles Nook Firmware 1.1 seems to be speeding things up in turns of page flipping and navigation but I still find it slow and laggy compared to my Kindle 2.  Check out the firmware in this video from Matthew Miller from ZDNet.

Source: ZDNet

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – The Best Food Site on Hong Kong Restaurants

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “The Best Food Site on Hong Kong Restaurants”. Click here for the full read.

Adobe Launches Lightroom 2.6 and ACR 5.6

Adobe has launched Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6, Lightroom 2.6 and DNG Converter 5.6 for immediate download. Release candidates of all three had already been available from the Adobe’s Labs site. The updates fix minor issues and provide additional Raw support for 20 more DSLRs, including the Canon EOS 7D and Nikon D3S, with additional DNG support for the Leica M9 and Ricoh GXR.

From Adobe:

Pricing and Availability
Lightroom 2.6 is available as a free download for existing Lightroom 2 customers, and Photoshop Camera Raw 5.6 is available as a free download for existing customers of Photoshop CS4, Photoshop Elements 8 (Win/Mac) and Premiere Elements 8. DNG Converter 5.6 is also available as a free download for all customers. Click here for more information and to download the updates:

Click here to find out more and download Adobe Camera Raw 5.6 or Lightroom 2.6.

Newly Supported Camera Models

• Canon EOS 1D Mark IV
• Canon EOS 7D
• Canon PowerShot G11
• Canon PowerShot S90
• Leaf Aptus II 5
• Mamiya DM22, DM28, DM33, DM56, M18, M22, M31
• Nikon D3s
• Olympus E-P2
• Pentax K-x
• Panasonic FZ38
• Sigma DP1s
• Sony A500
• Sony A550
• Sony A850

Source – dpreview

Geeky Holiday Gift–the Gboard

[Extracted from my weekly post at CNET Asia Community Blog]

With Thanksgiving gone and Christmas coming in less than three weeks, what is the ultimate geeky gadget you can get at an affordable price for those gadget lovers? Well, check out the Gboard which was launched earlier this week.

The Gboard is the ultimate gift for Gmail lovers or should I say, addicts. This keypad features 19 different colored keys, each pre-programmed with a keyboard shortcut for functions such as replying, forwarding, deleting, starring, and archiving messages and keys to allow users to navigate by message or discussion, select messages, search, and flag messages as spam and so on. Although the Gboard limits the shortcuts to 19 out of the 65 Gmail shortcuts, it is still a nifty gadget to have around.

The Gboard is easy to setup, just plug in via the USB and tweak the settings in Gmail and you’re done. It is compatible with the Mac and PC. Another attractive factor is the pricing, only US$19.99. Check it out over at Gboard’s Web site. For more on the Gboard, take a look at the video below.

When Canon Boy Meets Nikon Girl

Source – JoeyLawrence

CNET Asia Community Blog Entry – My Tech Predictions for 2010

My new entry over at CNET Asia Community Blog is up. This week’s entry, “My Tech Predictions for 2010″. Click here for the full read.

Video Review – HTC HD2

If you haven’t seen the phone in action, check out the reviews above.  My initial thoughts -

• HUGE screen
• LARGE phone
• new Sense interface still as sluggish as the old TouchFLO interface (not better with Windows Mobile 6.5)

Would I want to buy one? nah, not now.  Check out this review from Engadget if you want to know more about the HTC HD2.

Street price: HK$5,680 (US$728) from www.JipJipMobile.com

Source – mobileburn, Engadget

Street Price Update – Nokia N97, Canon S90, Canon G11

Local Hong Kong street price for the following gadgets as requested from users.

Nokia N97 – HK$4,270 (US$548) from http://astglobalshop.com

Canon PowerShot S90 – HK$3,180 (US$408) from AV Life (tel: 25093398)

Canon PowerShot G11 – HK$3,930 (US$504) from www.vivaphoto.com