Colorstax

InstaChum has been replaced by "Colorstax" as apple rejected the name related to "insta" this word. But somehow I found a lot of app name started with INSTA yet they are doing well in app store. Not trying to whining here but I am glad that they did it on me. And I happened to found the name of "STAX" in the near future for all my product line.

Let take a look of the version 3 of Colorstax

• New easy to navigate UI
• Moveable picture view
• New Background Colors
• New Background images
• More share options
• Auto load last photo in your phone library

Up coming enhancement will be include special Background images that follow the seasons. And shuffle button for image position and background choice.

Ravenna

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all? Ravenna's isn't like any ordinary pocket mirror application, it transforms you into that ravishing queen you ever dreamed of becoming. Who needs a man to tell her she's beautiful? You can be the fairest of all, be your own Queen today! 

What's more? It's FREE!

InstaChum

This is the project that I am working on. Which is able to resize your picture to fit into Instagram.

When you have a portrait picture which took from your camera and wanted to put in Instagram. And you found out that the size cannot be fit. Either it show the top or the bottom. You will need instaChum to help you. Easy to use application and direct you straight into Instagram once you finished resizing.

This is the ICON

User Interface

Instagram not able to fit in the whole picture 

After Adjustment... NICE

New color coding has been inserted into it. Will update it this few days to app store

This is how it look like for the new interface

iMac in room

This 21.5" baby is sitting right in front of me. I am so happy with it performance and the whole package. First time to own a desktop. Kind of joy and I will work hard for the iPhone apps as well as all those APPLE scripting.

iMac

New iMac out and I am so wanted to have it in my room right now. The upgrade and new price tag were nice enough for me to get it. I will have to dump my 3+ years old MacBook to the corner.

iPad 2

First times to write about my feeling toward new product here. iPad 2 will be out soon. But I am not happy about SINGAPORE is missing in the 2nd Shipment list. I will have to wait till APRIL for it to come.

Anyway, let start the topic about "THE YEAR OF iPAD 2" from Steve Job. Being a so called "Fans BOY" or "APPLE's product just work". I would like to say APPLE has given me a lot of time to do my own things instead of troubleshoot every single problem that happen during the installation.

I will think this year is really "iPad 2" year. Not because I am a fans boy but with all the APPS that work on iPad. The development teams behind it. The new features that support in iOS 4.3. The hardware that syncing with the device. No other competitor will able to meet it basic functions.

APPS - Apple has a great team that work with developer. Provide feedback and technical support to help developer on their new apps. WIth 65k of apps that are working with iPad. Competitors are far behind from this number. Which company will able to catch up when developer are able to gain back 70% of the sales? The strategy worked so well that no one able to compete with.

APPLE - Every gadget just worked so well with one and others. For example, you may stream video from your iPhone to your APPLE TV to enjoy show on a bigger screen. You may stream your music to Airport Express's speaker to enjoy music on a HiFi system instead of the small speaker on your iPhone. That is something which separate APPLE from others. I do know that majority of People out here still using Microsoft Product. But being an APPLE user for 3 years and I would like to say once you into it. You have no choice but to stick with it as nothing else you are going to fancy about.

The price of the software, the way the gadgets worked together, the seamless setting on both hardware and software side, the impact that given to the world of human race... everything that made me LOVE APPLE more and more. And I am not able to imagine a day without Steve around. He is the GOD... cos GOD is a human but doing some extraordinary things. I do hope that he will recover soon and make this world a better place to live.

Use Time Machine to restore setting on New Mac

How to restore a hard drive using Time Machine

by James Galbraith, Macworld.com   Feb 12, 2011 1:01 am

When Apple introduced Time Machine with OS X 10.5 Leopard, it became easier than ever to prepare for a data disaster—the only serious effort Mac owners running Leopard or Snow Leopard need to make is to plug in a hard drive. While we hope your hard drive never goes south, if it does actually fail, you'll thank Time Machine for backing up your data.

Time Machine backs up your system settings, documents, and applications, making it easy to not only recover from a failed hard disk, but also to migrate these files to a new computer, or to a hard drive that's faster or has more capacity. Here's how to restore your data from Time Machine.

Step one: Prepare your drive

Unlike some utilities that simply make a bootable clone of your hard drive, Time Machine saves your files, applications, and system settings in a format that can be used to restore this data to a formatted hard drive with OS X already installed.

If you have a new hard drive, or had to erase and repair your old drive, you first need to install Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6 on the drive, using the discs that came with your computer or a retail version of Mac OS X that supports different types of Macs. When the OS installation is done, the system restarts and you're treated to a little tune.

If instead, you've purchased a new Mac and want to transfer your data from an old Mac to the new one, it's a piece of cake. Since the new Mac has a fresh installation of Mac OS X, simply start up the system and the music will start playing.

Step two: Select Time Machine restore

When you've booted off your new installation of Mac OS X (whether on the new computer, new hard drive, or an erased and repaired old hard drive), you'll be guided through the steps to set up your Mac. You'll see a screen titled," Do You Already Own A Mac?" asking if you'd like to transfer your information.

Choose the third option, From a Time Machine Backup. Click Continue.

 

 

 

 

 

Step three: Specify a Time Machine backup

Connect the hard drive containing your Time Machine backup via USB or FireWire. The Time Machine backup will show up in a list called Select a Backup Volume. You can also find and restore from a Time Machine backup on your local AirPort network. Select your backup and click Continue.

 

 

 

 

Step four: Select the information you want to transfer

This screen asks you to choose what data you'd like to restore. It calculates the size of your User folders, Applications, Documents and other files, which can take quite a bit of time, depending on how much data you have. All of the choices are selected by default. Uncheck the boxes of any file types you'd rather not bring over. Click Transfer when you are ready.

 

 

 

Step five: Wait

That's it. Your files will transfer over and when finished, your computer will restart. If you chose to copy over all file types, your desktop picture, dock settings and everything else will appear just as they did on your old hard drive.