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Today, I just recieve a mail for uTorrent. Surprising, uTorrent for mac has arrived. Sadly, it is still a beta. I have tried this uTorrent, running in my macbook. It is indeed pretty lightweight client. There’s a couple of lack-down or lesser-feature on the windows uTorrent, no upload/download speed indicator at the dock icon, no remote access (web interface), no blocklist and etc.

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*By the way, I have my first crash after 5mins launching the app.

After playing my Touch for quite awhile, I’ve decided to write a review on this awesome & amazing app which works on iPod Touch/iPhone. Colors!

Colors! is a painting application for your iPod touch/iPhone. It is firstly developed for Nintendo DS. It is not so powerful as photoshop but it is better than your-one-and-only MS PAINT (default painting application on windows platform). Colors! is based on modern painting techniques originally developed for drawing-tablets, it allows to adjusting brush size, opacity, soft-edge, hard-edge and dynamic brush size/opacity via accelerometer (tilting left/right). And one cool feature of this app, it allows to play the whole drawing process.

I have draw a Red Apple. (Yeah, NOT too good piece of artwork). It’s a bit tough to draw since using your finger tip to draw. Need more practices. I’ve used roughly 30mins to complete it. As I’ve mentioned before, it allow to playback your artwork process. Below is the-speedy-video on my Red Apple.

Or you can go to Colors!-Red Apple to view the my Red Apple process. It is indeed a must app in your iPod Touch/iPhone, especially you are keen in ART. Colors! has two version, FREE and PAID. FREE version disable the save feature. 

Yesterday, the big ‘G’ or Google just released its first public beta browser, Chrome. Currently it creates tremendous news throughout the big INTERNET. Is it going to be replacement for ‘Firefox‘? Sadly, I doubt it can happen anytime sooner. Currently this beta is only for windows, mac and linux have to wait.

Google Chrome is open source browser and just like Mozilla Firefox. It is a WebKit, open source application framework, and just like Apple Safari browser.

First impression:

• It is pretty cool to have another browser on the INTERNET.
• It is definitely a pretty lightweight browser and with simplicity layout.
• It is easy and simple to search by typing in the URL bar.
• It is pretty fast to load the web pages.

• It has no add-on or plugins supports
• Some websites have problem rendering
• No ‘Home’ button for the keyboard shortcut

Google Chrome is indeed a rip-off browser for all main browsers out there, IE7/IE8, Firefox, Opera and Safari. All the good ‘ideas’ have been taken it out and put into Google Chrome. It is kinda like ‘rojak‘ browser. From the simplicity layout, it is actually based on IE7 abit. Chrome can allow user to drag out the tab to be independent windows or other way around, this is based on Apple Safari ‘idea’. Chrome has a feature to be able to track down your most view sites and can be reload at once in a single tab, that is based on Opera ‘idea’ which is speed-dials. There are a lot of similarities. 

What’s unique about Chrome? Each tab has its own process. So whenever ones tab crashes, Google Chrome will not crash its own. There’s no other browser works in such a way. But it is a bit annoyed, see the above image. It creates chrome-babies along the way under your windows task manager.

Lastly, it is still a very early stage to judge this Chrome. The official link won’t give you the full version of installer. That’s mean you have to online to download and install at the same time. Below is the offline installer that I have found.

Downloaded a total of 372 times

Apple has just released Mac OS X 10.5.4. It can be downloaded at Apple Support-Download section or Mac OS X Software Update. Other than that, it also included security patches and fixing the usual bugs. The combo update is rather big file size (561MB).

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Leopard had been updated again to 10.5.3. It fixed a few of bugs and some improvement. The setup size is rather big (420MB).

- Includes additional RAW image support for several cameras
- Addresses an issue with stuttering video and audio playback in certain USB devices
- Improves 802.1X (Wifi) behavior and reliability and when using Time Machine
- Includes fixes for Time Machine compatibility with Time Capsule

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