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After a series of dissapointment with its Vista performance, it was announced that Sony Vaio P Series soon to be (re)-launched in Japan with Windows XP Home edition as the chosen operating system.

I personally think this is great and excellent. My personal observation: quite many netbook has suffering performance due to using Vista as their default operating system.

Adopting Windows XP I think is a better option (at least for now). XP is fast, practical and meet most consumer's needs and requirement. I love XP for its speed and practicality. In the future, when Windows 7 is fully ready, perhaps Win 7 could be a better option. But for now Vista -- in my personal experience and opinion -- definitely better to be out of the consideration; at least for now. My personal view and based on my experience as a user: what is the real benefit of Vista, if our latest netbook computer's performance really suffer? Almost none. It just make the netbook look abit fancier, but awfully slow to even be able do anything really powerful/useful with it.

This is just my personal experience, personal view and observation. In some aspects I could be wrong though. You might have a different view and option. And that's fine and well accepted too. :-)

ps: The new Sony VAIO P Series with XP as the loaded operating system will start be available in Japan on June 6 -- the same day Palm Pre will be released to the marketplace! Two big launch on the 'same' day! What an exciting day!! :-P

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Here's another look at the Palm Pre. This time its excellent UI & UX design approach.
 
It is very very interesting to me that the Palm designers choose to design their screen layout to be be scrollable sideways -- left and right.
 
With this approach: at any time Palm user can see 'section' of the screen where their application 'card' resides. Yet if they want to see the 'remaining side of the screen' -- or the other 'application cards' that they have, they just simply need to flip the screen to the right or left, with quick simple scrolling gesture of their hand. The screen scrolls to the destination we intend to. It gives us a sense that the screen becomes 'flexibly wide' and seems almost 'have no boundary'.
 
Such approach and idea is a great breakthrough, and truly awesome too. It turns a tiny screen and its limited dimension to be come a huge flexible scrollable space that people can navigate around. Combined with the 'application card' approach, people no longer have to just take a look at application icons, instead they can interface and interact with the 'widgets' directly, on their tiny screen!
 
Such approach very similar with how we experience interactive games in the past. In interactive games, never we are limited by the screen boundary; instead the physical screen just become a 'frame' where we can navigate through a virtual space, freely, without boundary.
 
In a way, this approach also might be a great example of how a 'compiz' approach towards making virtual screen space wider and more spacious than its physical layout provide being adapted for limited sized mobile device.
 
It is truly awesome that Palm come up with such a great idea. I am so sure this 'application card' approach would become a great popular trend (or approach) for designing mobile user interface and user experience, today and in the very near future.

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Just a few minutes ago, Palm announced at CES, their new palm device!
Called Pre, it looks awesomely cool! It got tons of beautiful web-sync ideas too!!
 
Here's a peek as of tonight (Jan 9, 2009; 2:00am)

                 

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Heres_The_New_Palm_Device_--_Y.zip (2703 KB)

Slick curve design. Sleek vertical keyboard. Yikes!!
John Rubinstein rocks!!
 
Click here to follow the entire livecast: http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/live-from-palms-ces-press-conference/
 
Enjoy!

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Plurk is still a 'mystery' to me. While I do work, think and interact on the internet daily; seems plurk never been in my 'activity' picture anyday. It's purpose and cute function seems just easily (and too quickly) being forgotten.
 
Perhaps I shall try to integrate Plurk to Posterous, and see how the 'cute historical activity timeline map' that Plurk provide could/would become useful, or powerful?
 
Perhaps Plurk shall integrate with other sites that people update daily?
 
Suggestions welcomed.

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Among many campaigns that has been running for several years (and has been spread out across generations), the great 'Got Milk?' campaign is one that I really adore.
 
The choice of font used, the iconic 'mustache', the photo ambiance; the entire layout's position and texture, the elegant wordings, the chic/aesthetic design of the entire 'system' makes the entire campaign message's interesting, fascinating, eye catching, great, clear and awesome to watch.
 
This campaign ad is probably one of the best series of campaign ad ever created, after the excellent VW Beetle campaign ad (by Bernbach) and Apple/Mac Think Different campaign ad, in the past.
 
Here's a glance preview of how the "Got Milk' campaign ad feels, and looks like:

     

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Awesome!

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iPhone launch and events never ceased to excite me. From the way the product is being designed, prepared, and announced, it create and aura of excitement that people would never easily forgot.

Below is a series of photos, of the great exciting/staggering event that many people around the globe feel and experience, from the launch of iPhone, in 2008.
 
Amazing. Wonderful. Awesome.

                     

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Simple_Ad_That_Works.zip (137 KB)

It is fascinating to see that the phone that everybody is looking for, is always being presented and communicated in the simplest ad form possible.
 
Simplicity works!

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If the iPhone's icon based menu system and application interface seems so effective, appealing, simple, friendly and easy to use, do consider this:

I love simple, obvious, user friendly interfaces! It makes using the system so obvious, and so easy to use!

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The "Strong & Powerful" - Audi Q7

The "Beauty" - BMW X5 ("7" seaters)

The "Cute" - Mazda CX7

The "Handsome" - BMW X6

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