Tadaa! The Gorillapod for Compact Camera!

The Gorillapod holds up compact cameras weighing up to 325g comfortably. Use your imagination to twist and twirl its flexible, wrappable legs to cling your camera to virtually any surface!

Bought it recently after I toyed with it at Cathay Photos. It comes with a quick release clip. The clip stays on your camera while the Gorillapod stays in your bag when it is not needed. When attached, a lock ring ensures that your camera is securely attached to the pod.

The rubberized rings and footgrips provides extra stability when it is on uneven ground / wrapped onto poles. More details can be found from Joby.

My iPod Touch and iPhone used to be on 2.0 firmware and it works great with my third party video out cable which I got for 10 bucks online. The video cable ceased to work after I upgraded to 3.0 and subsequently 3.1.2 as it keeps prompting “This accessory is not made to work with iPhone” whenever I try to play a video file.

Good news if your iPod Touch or iPhone is jailbroken – a patched iapd file solves the problem. Backup-ed the original iapd file in /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/IAP.framework/Support. Put in the patched iapd, set its permission to 755 and reboot. Viola! Cheap 3rd party cable is working again!

Red packet lantern made by Serene’s mummy

Happy Chinese New Year to you and your family members! Went house visiting the past few days and relatives popped the standard questions – “do you have girlfriend?”, “is your girlfriend the same one? The vegetarian one is it?”, “when are you all getting married?”. Seems like one would get these questions once they reach their twenties.

House visiting aside. Mummy decorated the house this time round! She bought quite a fair bit of deco cos it is cheap! $1 a piece according to her. She bought like 6 to 8 pieces? Serene’s mummy made 2 nice lanterns out of red packets for us! Very cool right? Got to learn from her one of these days/next year.

Time to pack my bag for work tomorrow.

Navigation system working perfectly on the iPod Touch (2nd Generation)

Managed to get the GPS (Global Positioning System) working on my iPod Touch 2nd Generation. Took the above picture while traveling back home from Serene’s place. Yeah, I know it is kind of dumb to take a screen shot when I am on PIE but hey, at least it is working as it should – detecting the vehicle speed, distance to destination, estimated arrival time. Too bad the application isn’t smart enough to check the traffic status and include it in it routing algorithm.

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Met up with Ken and Seen Yee to shop for their house warming gift! Ricky, Daniel! This is where our money went into. Haha!

First time stepping into a Nespresso outlet. First time being offered a cup of coffee. Think they offered me a cup cos Ken and Seen Yee were around. Told them earlier that all Nespresso booth (Tangs@Vivo) and outlet (Taka) didn’t even bothered to entertain me while I was shopping for their coffee machine previously.

Ken! When can I go over to your place and play the machine? Can figure out how to make iced latte?

Picked up the hobby of kite flying recently after attending a kite making and flying event by company. I found kite flying to be an enjoyable process and at the same time, I am able to spend time with my love ones without burning a hole in my pocket. Of course, there are some upfront costs – kite, extra kite line, shades, etc.

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