Computer
My Computers
| Home, office, cafe, everywhere | Mac OS X 10.5.4 on MacBook Pro 15" 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 200GB HD and SuperDrive. |
| Recycled | Windows XP on AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM, 40G HD - who still need a Windows PC? Yes, my sister. It finally broke down and only the hard drive is kept in the new Pentium Celeron D 2.4GHz PC. |
Operating Systems
| Windows | The first computer in my home was an IBM compatible 8086/XT, then a 286. But I wasn’t quite interested to play with these machines until my dad bought a 386 running Windows 3.1 with a GUI. So basically I have "grown up" with Windows: 3.1, 95, 98, 2000…but not going to XP because of the emergence of Mac OS X! |
| Macintosh | Long before I saw the first DOS machine, I had a chance to play with an Apple II owned by my cousin in the 80’s. In 2002, I made a switch to Mac. This proves to be the OS I love most. |
| Linux | Say hello to Open Source! I got a couple of Linux servers running in my office and in a data centre, serving as web, file, mail and ftp servers. |
Applications
| Mac | Windows (the bad old days) | |
| Communications | iChat, Adium (runs ICQ, MSN, YIM … all-in-one), Mail, iChat (do you have an iSight?) | ICQ, MSN Messnger, Outlook Express |
| Web Design | Dreamweaver, CSSEdit (Mac only) Fireworks Flash on both platform |
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| Graphics | PhotoShop, Illustrator, Freehand | Paint Shop Pro 7 |
| Productivity | Transmit - the best FTP client iWork - replacement for M$ Office iGTD - productivity organizer iCal - calendar app Keynote - you can’t go back to PowerPoint after trying this Jing Project - capture image/video of desktop |
CuteFTP, PuTTy (telnet/SSH), WinZip, Nero Burning Rom, Norton AntiVirus, Norton Ghost, FlashGet, MS Office XP |
| Entertainment | iTunes, DVD Player, VLC Media Player | Crashing Windows |
| Browsers | Firefox, Safari, Camino | Internet Explorer (oops, was there a choice?) |
Peripherals
| External Monitor | Samsung 20" Wide Screen LCD |
| Digital Video Camera | Sony DCR-TRV19E |
| Digital Camera | Fujifilm FinePix F50fd, Canon PowerShot G7, Canon Digital IXUS 50 |
| External Storage | LaCie 250GB |
| MP3 Players | Apple iPhone 3G 16GB White, Apple 15G classic iPod, Apple 1G iPod Shuffle |
| Others | Wii, Sony PlayStation Portable with 512MB memory stick duo, Siemens SK65 mobile phone (BlackBerry built-in), Samsung ML-1710, Canon CanoScan LiDE 80, Wacom Intuos 2 Tablet |
Skills
| Operating Systems | Windows 3.1, 9X, 2000, XP / Mac OS 9.x~10.x, Linux |
| Others |
Advanced: XHTML, CSS, Dreamweaver, Fireworks |