Ede Road

  

 

 

 

We visited a place that we in our own family call “Ede Road”. Actually Ede Road is just a road name in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. There in the apartments on this road I have lived with my brothers and sister for few years. There is a children’s playground just across the road where the apartments stand and we have great memories with this playground. I have played there when I was at my son Abdullah’s age. And now after about 30 years I can see my son playing in the same park giving almost the same smile I have in one of my childhood snaps.

You can enjoy more pictures in my flicker account.

I will post two pictures sometime later, one of my childhood and one of Abdullah, here and you’ll see 30 years in between them.

Orange in more iPhone deals

Orange today announced that they have signed a deal with Apple to release iPhone in ten more countries other than France. Here is the official press release:-

Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and Orange’s African markets later this year.

So this brings the total number of countries to about 40 where iPhone will be available within this year and it continues to grow up every week with more announcements. 

 

Wait continues….

The wait for the iPhone being delivered continues. There was no sign of postman or courier till yesterday. Today might be the day but I am not that optimist. 

Will keep you updated.

Net Browsing / Habits

I used to browse many websites in my spare time but for sometime I hardly find any site worth stopping longer than 30 sec. I am “confined” to few websites regularly and most of them are forums of which I am member. Perhaps the quality of the content on the net has decreased, a lot.

I do agree that blogging is the most wonderful thing that has happened after perhaps World Wide Web itself. And Forums, well, you can learn almost anything from there. It is like free school. And you sometime get amazed the quick and personal service you get at some forums. My own experience relates to AppleNova and Hackint0sh forums.

And who can forget RSS feeds. In fact RSS has decreased the number of sites i used to visit regularly. Now all of their news just coma via RSS.

So here are my net habits these days:-

• Read RSS feeds. I am subscribed no less than 25 of them.
• Visit AppleNova and Hackint0sh forums

And my free time is over by the time I finish these :) 

Google Reader (for iPhone)

I am a user of NetNEwsWire for last couple of years. It is a greate app to read and manage all of your news feeds. I have subscribed to about 25 feeds, most of them which are related to Apple and Tech news. 

Lots of people have mentioned the Google Reader for this purpose but I never liked the idea that every time I have got to read the feed I have to visit Google website. Also, NetNewsWire has a nice way to tell how many unread messages are there to read. I can not find this in Google Reader though. 

Anyway, as I am expecting the iPhone so I definitely wanted to find a way to read my feeds on the move, hence Google Reader which co-incidentally also released the Google Reader for iPhone optimized version.

I am still exploring the Google Reader but I guess I can live with it, especially thinking that the feeds will always be available on my iPhone. 

PwnageTool

I have been following hackint0sh.org website and its section related to iPhone. Though, I have read a lot about how to unlock the 1.1.4 OTB iPhone with PwnageTool, yet I am feel nervous about it as I have never done it before. The process itself seems very easy to understand and it is the risk that is involved. 

There are lots and lots of successful stories but then are there failures as well with issues which need to be fixed later. 

I hope all goes fine with my iPhone when I pwn it.

Preparations for the iPhone

I have setup almost all of the data on my PowerBook so it can be synced with iPhone in a clean manner. Here is a short list of the things I have done.

1. Cleaned up the Address Book by removing old contacts which were not required and giving it a consistent format
2. Moved my work mail from Entourage to Mail.app
3. Created a smart album in iPhoto to transfer pictures from it to iPhone. I have set the last 1 years data to be synced but I might change this to 6 months or 3 months when I have seen it how much space it takes.
4. Created some smart playlists in iTunes beginning with letter “i”. Only these playlists will be synced because of space limitation. I am giving about 4GB for music and 1 to 1.5GB to videos.
5. Cleaned up Safari bookmarks.
6. Downloaded the app to unlock the iPhone.

I am still not decided about the iCal. Right now I use Google Calendar and it is working great for me. I currently “subscribe” t my Google Calendar which then I sync to my Nokia 6300.

Video of Victoria Park visit

Here is a video of my son shot on Sony CyberShot V1.

iPhone on the way

In a surprise Yahoo! messenger message pop-up, I got the message from my friend Atif that he has got the iPhone for me and he was asking my address so he could send it to me. I was for a while in a state of disbelief. Is it true? Am I going to have an iPhone finally? These were the questions which were popping up in my mind.

Not sure how will he send it to me. I requested him to let know the postage method he is going to use before he sends it out.

Now another wait for the courier/postman begins.

Victoria Park

     

 

 

 

Went to see Victoria Park on Hong Kong Island. It is first time I visited too. A nice place with lots of trees and greenery. It is a bit far from Tsuen Wan. We had to change few trains to get there.

My son liked a lot swinging on these swings. He can not find these baby sings in Tsuen Wan.

And yes, be prepared to be injected quite frequently by mosquitos.

Check the complete photo album at my flicker account.