My first experience with an Apple computer was the Macintosh LCIII, one of the slickest piece of machinery I’ve ever seen (back then of course). I still remember my first tour to LIMKOKWING’s computer lab. Rows and rows of Apple Macintoshes… sweet! It was like being in computer heaven and being greeted happily by those smiley Mac logos.

My dad then bought me my first Apple Macintosh, the Powermac PPC. Spent a fortune on it but I it was worth it. I had a fair share of good and bad moments with that machine. With ‘blistering’ speed of 100 MHz processing power, 32MB RAM with 500MB harddisk space. The Powermac PPC was my best companion for the next 3 years.

When I started working, I managed to get my hands on some other Mac machines and many things change after that.

Look at the evolution of Apple computers from the image below. Click on it for larger view.

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Apple totally reinvent the mobile phone by introducing the iPhone. iPhone is sort of like an iPod with phone and internet-working capabilities but with lotsa FUN in it… really. If you don’t believe me, you can go to www.apple.com to read more about it or else you can just read on to what I have to say as a Mac fan.

First of all, iPhone is like this mega-huge widescreen iPod for you to listen to your favourite MP3 files and watch TV shows and movies wherever you go. With it’s 3.5-inch widescreen display, Jurassic Park lives inside this baby. With it’s touch control screen, you can easily access any application with a tap on the screen.

Making phone call is much more fun with iPhone. You can browse through address book with just a point of a finger, NO stylus needed! It also automatically syncs all your contacts from a PC, Mac, or Internet service.. cool eh?

Well, if you think you’ve seen it all, think again. iPhone comes with Safari, the most advanced web browser on a portable device. You can also check and send email with this baby too via Wi-Fi or EDGE.

We now live in a mutimedia world and phones are getting smarter. Besides playing movie and music files, iPhone also allows you to take photos with it’s 2 megapixel built-in camera. And with its built-in advanced sensor, the iPhone’s accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape, then automatically changes the contents of the display, so you immediately see the entire width of a web page or a photo in its proper landscape aspect ratio.

Ya ya… some of my friends told me you can get all the same features with a Dopod or even HP’s Ipaq but the question is… do they look as cool too? ….. NAHH!

The only downside to iPhone is the built-in camera. With a whopping 8GB built-in memory, I’m sure iPhone can afford a bigger resolution camera than the current 2 megapixel. I’m sure Apple will juice up the camera in no time. Nevertheless, iPhone may not be the smartest phone around, but it’s definitely the coolest!

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Here’s some of the iPhone features on YouTube

USELESS? Why are we so useless when there’s no Internet connection? Have we come to a stage where technology is no longer something that makes our life more convinient but instead something that burdens us more. Are we all so dependent on the Internet that we just can’t leave without it anymore?

Can a big corporation fall without technology? Yes, I found out that photohgraphy giant, Agfa filed for bankruptcy last year. Why? Because they fall victim of the growing switch to digital photography.

Can relationship be ruined without the Internet. No email, no messenger and no sms… now this is a scary thought. Imagine there’s no mobile phone. Will you still hang around the public phone for hours calling your girlfriend?

What will happened if there’s no Internet Relay Chat (IRC)? Can you still sleep at night without chatting with your Kristin Kreuk net girlfriend or maybe your Brad Pitt look alike boyfriend? No more alter-ego without IRC! Sad huh?

Sad to say this but we’ve all grown too dependent on the Internet. If you think I’m wrong, then tell me when was the last time you actually wrote a letter to anyone?

Sibeh headache!! Kanasai!

Tags: internet, technology, digital, photography, agfa, no internet

Finally, I’ve got a decent payback from my time spent on the Internet. Well, this is not my first cheque that I’ve received. I did received a cheque for USD4.85 long time ago but I never did bother to bank in. After conversion, it’s only less than RM20 and the bank will charge me for processing fee and that will cost me RM30 for overseas cheques which totally pointless. So I never did bank in that cheque and I don’t know what happened to it now.

This time, GOOGLE or GOODGLE INC. as I like to call it now, paid me USDXXX! (Yes, it’s a 3 digit figure. I just found out that it’s against Google’s policy to display my income. So too bad ) Which is quite a decent pay for almost a year effort.

I’m sure you have gotten your share from GOOGLE INC. as well and this is nothing new to some of you. Even though it’s a small amount, it’s definitely nice to get paid off for the effort you’ve put in.

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I’ve been an avid Mac user since back in the Power Macintosh days and I’ve fallen in love with it ever since. If you do know the history of Apple and Microsoft, you would know why I mentioned the word ‘steal’. This is probably a bias statement but I still strongly believe that Apple was the first to make GUI-based OS computing looks good in commercial computers back in the 80′s. Not Microsoft but Apple!

Can’t Microsoft come up with anything original? It is true that geeks like Bill can only innovate but can never create? If iPod were ever to be patented by Microsoft, the world is gonna be crazy.