Apple is offering service called "Friend Bar" at Apple Store in the States where the high knowledgeable Apple employee can help them or have a conversation about their products. Make an appointment at a "Friend Bar" and people with Apple Care Warranty are free. You can also consult over phone for a 24 hour service and they will listen and continue the customers' conversations, even if it's Mac related or other tech related.


New Apple Friend Bar Gives Customers Someone To Talk At About Mac Products

Prezi - What did I do in the last 4 month

Prezi
this is what I learned in Computer Study 2 - Hypermedia

Hypermedia 2010 4/1~7/30 on Prezi

Lawsuit against Apple and At&T

There was a monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple Inc and AT&T Inc's mobile-phone recently!!! Well, many people suspected that iPhone possibly take over the market and it almost did...

Apple secretly made AT&T its exclusive iPhone partner in the US for five years now and the lawsuit includes any iPhone buyer with a two-year AT&T agreement since June 2007 is dampening competition and driving up prices. In order to stop this, AT&T announced that they are going to stop offering its unlimited pricing plan for new subscribers to its mobile data services in order to improve the speed of its network by cutting down on network-clogging downloads. at early in June of 2011. From June 2008, iPhones was in "locking"mode so that they can only be used on AT&T's network.

The lawsuit seeks an control Apple from selling locked iPhones in the U.S. and from determining what iPhone programs people can install.

Monopoly abuse lawsuit against Apple and AT&T

Google Me

Google Me?!?! Whay is that? Rumors says that "Google Me" service is in work

Is Google ready to compete with popular social network especially with Facebook? Apparently, Google is working on a Facebook competitor to be called Google Me. There’s been much debate since about what such a service might look like, with some think that it could be a combination of Google Buzz and Orkut and others are expecting it to be an improved Google Profiles, in which users could add Facebook-like features to their profile pages.

Although there is little evidence of a Google Me project, the idea that the search and advertising giant might be trying to build together a Facebook competitor is at least plausible. Could Google come up with a worthy competitor against Facebook? Anything is possible, but so far there’s little reason to believe that the search giant could come up with a service that represented a real threat. Orkut may be popular in South America and India, but has shown no signs of growing outside of those countries. Could Google use it as the basis for something that takes parts of Google Buzz, parts of Google Profiles, parts of Google Wave and parts of Blogger to construct a comprehensive social network? Theoretically, but that sounds more like a "old school" strategy than anything else, stitching together pieces of half-dead services and hoping they come alive.

Is 'Google Me'Ready to Challenge Facebook?

Prezi

Prezi is the new tool that I learned recently... it's basically a presentation similar to PowerPoint but a web-based tool that tells a story, presentation, or anything that you want to share on a single canvas instead of traditional slides.

Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are can be uploaded on a humongous canvas, which you can also grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations that you can't do in traditional slides, which means that the presenter can set zoom and zoom in and out just like Goolge map's visual map.

The presenter can also set a guide through different objects and frames anyway he or she wants it to be. Information can be in different places but automatically guide in the order of the information to be presented. The presentation can be developed in a browser window and then downloaded so that it is not necessary for a an internet connection when showing the presentation.

Crash in Russia

There is a new member of Mercedes called Mercedes SLS AMG. The Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG is a luxury grand tourer automobile developed by Mercedes-Benz AMG to replace the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren.The car is the first Mercedes automobile designed in-house by AMG and is described by Mercedes as a "spiritual successor to the 300SL Gullwing." The vehicle was unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show. Sales will begin in mid-2010 in Europe with MSRP of €177,310 (incl. taxes) and in the United States in mid-2011 for less than $200,000. The SLS AMG is featured as the cover car for the upcoming Playstation 3 racing game Gran Turismo 5, and is the safety car for the 2010 Formula 1 season.


However, the big topic is that one of the Mercedes SLS AMG in Russia was totaled in public, which isn't even on sale yet. It is revealed that a black Nissan Murano crossover was also somehow involved in the crash. Interestingly, the license plate number of the car tells us that the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG Gullwing was a press/demo car used in many photo shoots and videos in Russia.



AMG
TopGear: Mercedes SLS AMG

Studio Ghibli

Studio Ghibli is one of the most famous animation Companies in Japan and probably to many other countries, especially for the anime fans. Studio Ghibli produced 17 movies, 12 short films (TV, Ghibli Museum, and OVA), 6 music videos, 13 commercials, and 11 other works that does not fall into any categories that I mentioned previously. But 2 new movies are coming out, which one in in July 2010!!!

I'm not an anime fan, but I love Ghibli's work for it's art work, entertaining story lines, and plots for many movies and, for that reason, I've seen all of Ghibli's work that are made and I LOVE them all, but 3 of my favorites out of all Ghibli works are Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Grave of the Fireflies in this order.

Since I know that there was a museum, I decided to visit Ghibli Museum and I visited the museum so many times since I came to Japan! The museum is located in Mitaka and it's actually close to where I live now. Entry fee and souvenirs not expensive at all compared to other museum. Entry fee is 1,000 Yen but need to buy at least 1 week in advanced. (Ticket Information)


Studio Ghibli's works of the movies

• Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind - (March 11, 1984) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Castle in the Sky - (August 2, 1986) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Grave of the Fireflies - (April 16, 1988) directed by Isao Takahata
• My Neighbor Totoro - (April 16, 1988) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Kiki's Delivery Service -(July 29, 1989) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Only Yesterday - (July 20, 1991) directed by Isao Takahata
• Porco Roso - (July 18, 1992) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Ocean Wave - (May 3, 1993) directed by Tomomi Mochizuki
• Pom Poko - (July 16, 1994) directed by Isao Takahata
• Whisper in the Heart - (July 15, 1995) directed by Yoshifumi Kondo
• Princess Mononoke - (July 12, 1997) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• My Neighbor the Yamadas - (July 17, 1999) directed by Isao Takahata
• Spirited Away - (July 27, 2001) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Cat Returns - (July 19, 2002) directed by Hiroyuki Morita
• Howl's Moving Castle - (November 20, 2004) directed by Hayao Miyazaki
• Tales from Earthsea - (July 29, 2006) directed by Goro Miyazaki
• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea - (July 19, 2008) directed by Hayao Miyazaki

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New:

• The Borrower Arrietty (July 17, 2010) directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi
• The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter (unknown) directed by Isao Takahata

Ghibli Museum
Online Ghibli