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Posted 3 years ago at 11:58 am. 3 comments
I received my first and second mail from the Apple Student Developer Program yesterday. Here’s what I get monthly for the $99 USD membership (on top of the hardware discount I used to buy my iMac).
The startup package was a big box…
…with a smaller box in it.
A XL t-shirt.
An issue of the MacTech magazine, a OS X 10.4 DVD, a DVD of the October edition of Developer Series, and a CD of the November edition.
Inside the magazine, are some coding tutorials.
Received on the same day was the stuff for December. The latest beta of OS X 10.4.3 (the first revision with Intel traces, as they call it) and the DVD for December.
Today is my last day of school, officially. :tongue_kao: Finals are coming in two weeks, but I am only worried about JLPT (this Sunday) for now.
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Posted 3 years ago at 10:59 am. 0 comments
Found on MacCast and JoyTech.
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Posted 3 years ago at 10:17 pm. 3 comments
This is a continuation of the last post. I spent the last few days organizing my gigabytes of files, and here are some old videos re-encoded into MP4 (smaller size, better quality). These are not new and I have posted them in other places before, so you might have seen them already (skip to the end). Quicktime or VLC required.
“Chashu mo nai” (No more roasted pork) starred by Steve, John and me. This video is about the first day of our trip to Hokkaido back in March, 2004. We went to a red light district and spent 50mins(?) waiting in line for some famous ramen. We were told that the Chashu ramen was sold out and hence the title. [4 min 50 sec, 13.5 MB MP4]
Chicken won’t stop singing and my mom says, “Eat your dinner!”. We tried to teach him “Shalala lala”, but he only caught onto the “lalala” part. [30 sec, 1.3 MB MP4]
Paragliding in Kyushu, to be honest I had no idea what the coach was saying. I could never remember left/right in Japanese, not even now. [27 sec, 1.2 MB MP4]
For more interesting and better produced videos, go to macTV Videocast and subscribe to their feed. They have lots of vintage Apple commercials, as well as parodies and animations.
iMac Love Story: A CG clip about an interracial and romantic relationship.
A really old Apple II commercial.
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Posted 3 years ago at 3:48 pm. 3 comments
Having taken an user interface course, worked at a Macintosh lab and dreamed about using Apple Aperture, I finally bought my first mac using the Apple Student Developer discount.
Frontrow and the iMac remote are the most fabulous tools for podcast and vidcast addicts. I can now get my *fix* every night before I go to sleep, and I wake up happily in the morning with the remote in my hand.
Movie trailers: (It was interesting to see Chinese actresses starring in Memoirs of a Geisha, speaking English with fake Japanese accent.)
What is better than managing photos using iPhoto on a 20-inch widescreen? It sure feels good to switch from a 12-inch milky laptop monitor to a 20-inch widescreen. Be happy for me .:tongue_kao:
