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Liveblogging from iPhone 3GS launch at Apple Store, Regent Street (finished!)

[5:20am] Arrived at the store, and I'm 6th. The man before me arrived at just after 5am, and the one before - a trio of Vietnamese students studying A-Levels here - around 4:30am!! Haven't spoken to the guy at the …
iPhone 3GS spotted in the wild, kind of

I say kind of because the 3GS was actually spotted in an Apple Store, so technically not in the wild. But hey, it's shouldn't even be there for another four days, right? I was at the "Lights, Camera, Action" photography…
My new DIGISKIN on my iPhone!

The guys at DIGISKIN have once again done a fantastic job on my iPhone! This time round I've decided to whack on the iconic red Hong Kong $100 banknote (nickname "紅衫魚", literally "red snapper" because of their colour-lik…
Went through 3 new MacBooks in 4 days + Apple Store glass stair incident

Yes, you read the title alright: so the original MacBook had a dead pixel and Apple happily replaced it today. But when I opened the laptop on my way back on the bus, I noticed that the left edge of the hinge was chippe…
Dead pixel on MacBook, waiting for replacement.

Well well, the guy on the phone said that his senior staff were very surprised as I was the first UK customer to have reported a problem regarding the new MacBook (just three days after its launch). The MacBook is now i…
Just gave Regent Street Apple Store a ring...

Some guy on Uwants.com said that he phoned up a US Apple Store, and found out that apparently you will still be able to activate the new iPhone at home. So I decided to give our local store a ring, and here are the repli…
iPhone 3G - much cheaper than expected!

Well well, what have we got here: At the WWDC today, Steve Jobs announced the new iPhone 3G, available for an extremely affordable US$299 (HK$2,335) for the 16GB model, and just US$199 (HK$1554) for the 8GB one. Wow, …
Another Oxford Circus Day + Apple Store rant

After getting extremely frustrated with the FPGA project in the boiling-hot lab, I decided to skip the revision lecture and went to Tottenham Court Road to find something - since my laptop refused to open up its S-video …
DW 2008 and MacBook Air

On Monday I went to watch the finish line of the Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Race - a race I took part in four years ago. It was a shame that four boats from Dauntsey's School had to drop out of the race d…

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