Many would remember singing this *ahem* (tribal sounding) *ahem* song during CHC weekend services over the weekend of 24-25 July. Lol. If you didn’t know, it’s part of Hillsong Live’s new album The Beautiful Exchange, which is nonetheless, beautiful.

Okay tribal sounding is just a random thought okay. Let your imagination run wild. But it’s a damn good song too!

Replaced blog song with it. Super awesome. Lyrics below. Chords even further below.

Lyrics

Chords

Verse C Am F G
Chorus C G Am G F G F G F
Bridge Am F C G

CHC’s 21st Anniversary is coming up!

Been busy with NDP 2010 Multimedia lately. Editing, exporting, rendering tons of files and footages for NDP 2010. Not to mention the overnight editing sessions that we’ve been having a couple of times. Shagged.

Wanted to update, a lot of overdue stuff like Asia Conference, but can’t seem to find the time to do it. Shall squeeze some in some time soon.

Anyhow, just something to put online for the time being. Been listening to this song for way too many times, did the lyrics for them. So it’s kinda hard coded into my brain right now.

Song for Singapore – Corrinne May (NDP song 2010)

Lyrics:

It’s a brand new day a brand new story
I remembered the way it used to be
We’ve come so far
You’re my history you’re my beginning
In all I’ve done I’ve been nurtured in your arms
And you carried me this far

Chorus:
I want to sing
Sing a song for Singapore
With every generation there’s more to be grateful for

So come and sing
Sing a song for Singapore
You’re my brother you’re my sister
I’m thankful for my Singapore
My Singapore
Singapore

Come together everybody
Fly the flag and share our story
Live our wildest dreams
Celebrate the red and white
The moon and stars in harmony unite
Let every colour every heart

Chorus:
I want to sing
Sing a song for Singapore
With every generation there’s more to be grateful for

So come and sing
Sing a song for Singapore
You’re my brother you’re my sister
I’m thankful for my Singapore
My Singapore
Singapore

Bridge:
We’ve had our ups and downs
Sometimes the best things are taken for granted
You’re my family you’re my home

Chorus:
I want to sing
Sing a song for Singapore
With every generation there’s more to be grateful for

So come and sing
Sing a song for Singapore
You’re my brother you’re my sister
I’m thankful for my Singapore
My Singapore
Singapore

So the iOS 4 is out. But before you upgrade, there’s a couple of things to take note before you do.

1) Ensure you have iTunes 9.2 on your computer. You need this version to upgrade and configure your iOS 4 device.
Just run the Apple Software Update program on either your Mac or PC.

2) Have at least an hour or two at hand before you do the upgrade. The iOS 4 file is a good 300-350MB. depending on your connection, it might take a while to download the upgrade to begin with.
Also, the amount of media that your iPhone has. The more media that’s being synced to your iPhone, the longer the process will take. Cos essentially, it needs to restore EVERYTHING back to your iPhone. My 32GB iPhone 3GS with about 17GB of data took a good half an hour to sync everything back, that’s minus the upgrade download time.

3) Check your device. If you’re using. A iPhone 2G or iPod Touch first gen, no go. The update won’t work a bit for you.
iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2nd gen will experience fewer features than that of the full iOS due to hardware limitations.

4) Don’t be surprised if your multitasking doesn’t exactly work when you try it out in your current apps. The apps itself has to ‘support’ multitasking for it to work. That being said, expect a LOT of individual updates for every app in your iPhone.

And last note, the iOS 4 that was just released a few hours ago, happens to be the exact same version that we developers got from Apple 2 weeks ago during WWDC. The build number is 8A293. So that probably means we can expect an update from Apple soon.

Though, this build version is definitely tons better than the first beta of iOS 4. That was just crap in terms of performance. Haha.

Meanwhile, enjoy your multitasking, folders, Home Screen backgrounds and spell checker among many other features of iOS 4.

Many would have probably seen this. How could they not. It’s like the talk of the town now.

Okay it’s quite old news. Though, it’s not like I just found out about it. I knew about it and the YouTube video and stuff, just didn’t have the time to blog something about it. Haha.

But I don’t understand what’s the big hoo ha over this work of art on the train. Sure it isn’t the best it brings out of graffiti, but it kinda brightens up the train doesn’t it?

No wonder the SMRT staff thought it was an advert. I mean, that was my first thought too, considering the fact that Singapore Post did something similar as well.

But seriously, when I first saw this online, with the headlines that an SMRT train got vandalized, I was like.

THIS IS BRILLIANT!

Really! It kinda spices up the train doesn’t it?? It’s really artistic for something that’s initially so plain.

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Too bad the authorities had to charge him with trespassing though. Sad case…

On the papers and stuff, with his mugshot and all.

That is some good looking mugshot man.. And guess from where.

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Real resourceful Straits Times…

Disclaimer: News gathered here are from a variety of sources.

This year’s WWDC starts with a massive crowd, the majority of whom are using iPads. And some enthusiastic people raised iPads spelling out “WWDC”. Cool.

Okay, on to the major updates. I’ll try to keep it as short as possible.

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As usual, Steve Jobs comes on stage, greeted by a standing ovation.

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1) iBooks (on iPad)

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-New in-line notes that look like post-it notes.

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-New control to add bookmarks which shows as a red ribbon, which is also displayed in the content menu.

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-Now you can view PDFs in iBooks as well, functions just like the normal books you buy off the iBookStore.

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Moving on, Jobs also talked about HTML5. Basically, any developer who writes in HTML5 will have their content on ALL Apple systems, iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone and Mac. Apple is clearly behind HTML5 100%

Jobs also addressed the issue about why certain Apps get rejected from the App Store. Most of the time, reason being their private APIs, which will pose and issue when the iPhone OS gets updated cos it’ll break the APIs.

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Steve Jobs continue to highlight and demonstrate certain Apps.

eBay

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Netflix. Ya, it’s finally coming to iPhone. No word on 3G support though.

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And of course, Farmville.

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Guitar Hero. Yeah man… Available for only $2.99

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And remember Apple mentioned about the revenue sharing thing on the App Store? Apple has since paid out $1 billion. Cool figure.

Continued to share about the US Smartphone Market Share

Poor Andriod with only 9%. BB still going strong at 35%.

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And now, the major announcement we’ve all been waiting for. iPhone 4. Here’s a look at the history of the iPhone.

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Complete with an all new design, which unfortunately, most of us has probably seen it. But not in detail though!

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Glass on the front and back, and steel around the sides. 9.3mm thick, 24% thinner than current iPhone. There’s a LED flash at the back with the camera.

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Some have commented about a weird black line alone both sides of the iPhone 4.

Well, basically, just the band antennas. Illustrated below.

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iPhone 4′s summary.

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Also, the screen got a new upgrade too. 4 times as many pixels in that small tiny space. Resulting in amazingly sharp text.

326 ppi.. Mad…

Basically, 300ppi is the limit of the human eye retina when reading stuff at 10-12 inches away. Clearly this beats it.

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See the difference between the old and new screens..

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Now moving to testing the webpage load speeds on both iPhone, one 3GS and one 4.

Apparently, they had a network glitch with their WiFi network? Someone’s gonna go down for this… And they switched to AT&T’s 3G network, but that didn’t work either, popping up all sorts of error messages about “not being able to connect to the Internet”. Nice..

And someone shouted “Try Verizon!” I like that. Hahaha…

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Concluding about the iPhone 4.

And of course, powered by the Apple A4 chip.

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Components of the entire iPhone 4. Look at the size of the A4 chip.

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Bigger battery, plus A4 chip.

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New also on the iPhone 4, 3-axis gyro. Meaning, complete with the accelerometer, it can now detect motion velocity in 6 axises. Jobs then proceeds to demo it on the iPhone 4, turning around and the graphic of a block of wood on the iPhone, moves as well.

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Jobs goes on to talk about the new camera system.

New 5MP camera with a 1.75 micron pixel sized backside illuminated sensor for better low light photography.

Now shoots video in 720p at 30FPS. Hmms. What about if I want in 25FPS? Bummer.

LED light can stay on throughout the video recording though, so ain’t that bad. Haha.

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And something really new.

iMovie for iPhone!!

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Workflow is very similar to that of the iMovie for desktop Macs. But the UI for the iPhone seems much more intuitive, possibly cos it’s touch screen. Can you imagine editing HD videos on FCP on a large touch screen? That’s my dream…

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And you can even export in different sizes, 720p, 540p and 360p. Meaning, now you can shoot, edit and export your movie, entirely on an iPhone. Amazing.

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At this point, Jobs starts to turn off the WiFi, and asks the audience to set their laptops on the floor, so as not to disrupt the demos. Apparently, 570 WiFi base stations were responsible for the network jam.

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Moving on, iPhone OS 4 is now iOS 4.

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Going through some of the features like multitasking, folders, unified Inbox in Mail, etc etc.

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Overall of iOS4.

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Apple is also apparently, adding “bing” support for it’s search in Safari.

A comparison of all 3 search engines. Yahoo, Google and bing.

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Also new to iOS4, iBooks! Now you can sync your iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone iBooks together! Wirelessly!

And once again, Jobs demos it on the book “Winnie The Pooh”

And btw, it’s free with every iBook App.

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PDF viewer in iBooks as well, as previously mentioned.

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Going on to show iAds. Basically an advertising platform on the iPhone, throughout Apps, that allows developers to earn money by advertising on the iPhone. (This is clearly not the proper explanation, but you get the idea.)

Only different from the normal ads we see in our iPhones now, is that iAds doesn’t close your app to take you to another page. It keeps you within the app itself. Something like, an app, within an app?

It has really cool features, check it out when Jobs first introduced it when he announced iOS4′s SDK.

And many companies have signed up for the iAds too.

Nissan, Citi, Unilever, AT&T, Chanel, GE, Liberty Mutual, State Farm, Geico, Campbells, Sears, JC Penny, Target, Best Buy, Direct TV, TBS, and Disney, just to name a few.

iAds will be turned on, on 1st July for all iOS4 devices.

That wraps up iPhone 4 and iOS4.

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And Apple did their thing again. Their “one more thing” thing.

Video call! Apple calls it FaceTime, though it’s a really weird name if you ask me.

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See that FaceTime icon at the bottom? Hmm. What happened to the “hold” button?

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However, it’s only available over WiFi, citing reasons to collaborate with cellular providers on this. And only from iPhone 4 to iPhone 4.

Now doesn’t that sound a bit like skype? Or perhaps the quality is better?

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Standards wise…

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So that’s wrapping up the iPhone 4.

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iPhone 4 comes in black and white. $199 for the 16GB model, $299 for the 32GB model.

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iPhone 4 will be available in US, UK, France, Germany and Japan on June 25th. Coming to another 18 more countries in July.

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iOS 4 will be free for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G (not all features supported), and iPod Touch, excluding the 1st generation. Apparently they’ve found a way to make iOS free on iPod Touch too.

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Jobs goes on to show a video about the iPhone 4. Very similar to those of the MacBook Pro Unibody Video and the iPad video too.

View the video here!!

After which, Jobs takes the stage again.

Talks about Apple not just being a tech company, but integrating liberal arts as well. So developers don’t need to mess over integration.

Ends off with “This is our new baby, I hope you love it as much as we do. Thank you very much.”

Awesome.

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So… Last thoughts.

Is Starhub or any of the telcos going to offer some nice package for customers to upgrade to iPhone 4? Come on, you know you want that business going…

Also, the new iPhone 4 uses the new micro-SIM card too. Same ones that you’ll find on the iPad.

No Mac Pro news, no basic MobileMe package too. Oh wells. Quite bummed about the lack of Mac Pro updates though.. Lets see if they’ll announce it at the end of the month.

In exactly 8 hours from the time of this post, Apple’s WorldWide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2010 will commence in San Francisco. And as usual, starts off with a keynote from Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs. Here’s what you can possibly expect from the world of Apple.

Check out the new blog banner above for WWDC. Nice.

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1) iPhone OS 4

Pretty much guaranteed that Steve Jobs will spend quite a fair bit of time on this. Though it’s not confirmed when the final version will be released to the public. But Apple has been making a fair bit of effort in seeding new versions of the Software Development Kit (SDKs) to their developers. As it is, I’m also running the beta version of iPhone OS 4 Beta 3 on my own iPhone. Looks pretty awesome. In fact, using my friend’s iPhone and staring at a black background on the Home Screen looks so odd now.

Surely, there’ll be more features that will be revealed at WWDC keynote iteslf too.

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2) Mac Pro / 27″ Display

Considering that the last major update was in March 2009, the Mac Pro line is indeed quite overdue for updates. Possibly, some nice Intel Xeon 5600 6-core processor would be nice, seeing that their shipment dates had been delayed till June.

And also, a new 27″ Cinema Display that resembles the display on the current 27″ iMac too.

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3) Cloud-based iTunes / MobileMe

Both are unconfirmed, though there have been rumors going around that Apple is working on a wireless syncing option for the iPhone, (hence the disapproval of the recent 3rd party wireless sync App on the App Store). There could also be a free version of MobileMe being launched together with it.

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4) Apple TV

Rumors has it that Apple is working on a completely revamped Apple TV. Also said that the new device could be based on the iPhone OS 4, which would make perfect sense for them to launch it at the WWDC together with the iPhone OS 4.

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5) Mac OS 10.7

Reports has it that Mac OS 10.7 has been in use since October last year. Though, it seems quite unlikely that it’ll be announced during this year’s WWDC. Perhaps in Jan 2010?

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Other things include a possible Mac Mini refresh, and new features for Safari 5, including HTML 5 and stuff like that.

This is seriously quite fail.

So many posts and pictures. So little time.
Didn’t even have time to update the blog banner or music. Time to change those first.

Guess I’ve gotta refer back to having “Delayed Posts” for a while. But will definitely find time to post things up!

Was browsing through CNN, came across this.

Sure it’s real and stuff. But it also looks like a direct ripoff from the movie Fantastic Four – Rise of The Silver Surfer doesn’t it? Kinda brings the chills…