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LG Electronics is conducting a holiday survey. The participants stand a change to win LG mobile phones.

The LG holiday survey contains only 8 questions cover topics such as which person would you most likely to spend the holidays with and what would be the ultimate gift you’d like to receive.

Other questions probe are what you dream as a perfect holiday and what creates the most stress during the holiday season.

LG is offering the hottest and most attractive trio of mobile phones launched in 2008 to 3 lucky Malaysians as prizes: the stylish LG Secret, the ultimate 8-megapixel LG Renoir camera phone and the just-released LG Cookie.

Take LG holiday survey. The survey result will be released at the end of November 2008.

[hat tip: Cheryl Yab]

I was hoping to see Apple version of netbook. But it is not available, at least not in 2008. Someone installed OSX on MSI Wind and mod it to look like Apple MacBook Nano.

(image: Mickphoto/flickr)

It looks good, I must say! The fake MacBook Nano has the same glowing Apple logo as other Apple notebooks. It has 320GB hardisk space with hacked OSX installation.

The photos of the fake Apple MacBook Nano can be found on Flickr, as well as the process to mod MSI Wind to Apple MacBook Nano.

Will you buy the official Apple MacBook Nano, if available? I will. I wanted to get a MSI Wind netbook but a Apple version would be much better!

Of course, have to take the price tag into consideration too.

More Information:

• "ASUS Eee PC 901 8.9-Inch Netbook listing at Amazon.com
• "MSI Wind U100-016US 10-Inch Mini Laptop listing at Amazon.com

I have a new interest — Photography. I am gonna buy a DSLR camera and it will be the Canon EOS 450D. My first DSLR lens will be Canon EF 24-105mm F/4 L IS USM lens. It is a great (and expensive) general purpose lens. As a beginner, I also ordered a few of photography books on Amazon.com.

The photography dream of a kid

I remember when I was a kid, I “played” with my dad’s SLR camera and lens when parents were out. I enjoyed the view of the world from the small viewfinder.

However, it is impossible for a kid to own a camera at that time. I own my first camera only at 2 years ago, when I was 26 year old.

I bought another digital camera, Canon IXUS 860IS, earlier this year. Now, I am gonna get my first DSLR — Canon EOS 450D.

Why Canon EOS 450D?

I like Canon. My previous 2 compact digital cameras are Canon. The images produced are high quality. Canon is also one of the top brands of DSLR.

Canon EOS 450D (dpreview review) is the entry level DSLR with an affordable price, yet produces pro-like image quality. It is suitable for beginner and amateur photographer.

The suggested retail price of Canon Malaysia is RM2,699 (body only) but you can get 450D at less than RM2,500.

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Last year, I showed you my blogging workspace with Apple iBook and 24-inch LCD monitor. My workspace has been changed slightly after I got my Apple iMac 24-inch.

Here is my new blogging workspace with Apple iMac 24-inch next to Dell 24-inch Ultrasharp LCD monitor. Means, I have 2 x 24-inch monitor which make up a total of 3840×1200 pixels screen resolution!

Blogging workspace of LiewCF (2008)

Here are list of gadgets you see in the picture:

• Apple iMac 24-inch 2.8GHz
• Dell 2407WFP 24-inch UltraSharp LCD monitor
• Western Digital My Book Studio (500GB), as backup disk used by Apple Time Machine.
• Creative Inspire A200 speaker, free gift of buying iMac
• Nokia N95
• Cheap Microsoft mouse I used several years. The Apple mighty mouse (comes with iMac) is not as good as you might think…

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I bought an Apple iMAc 24-inch 2.8GHz desktop computer during the PC Fair 2008 (II) from Machines. I had unboxed the iMac in the night of the day I bought it.

It is HUGE! I didn’t know how to get the iMac out of the box. At the end, I turned the box upside down to get it out. (dangerous movement!)

Here are the photos taken (uploaded to Flickr):

There are only a few items contained in the iMac box: Apple iMac, Apple slim keyboard, Apple mighty mouse and Apple remote.

There is no Mac OS X beginner guide like Apple iBook box, only a small “Everything Mac” booklet which tells you the features of your iMac and the problem troubleshooting.

Apple isn’t trouble free. I experienced iMac screen “burn”/blackout and system hang problems in just a few days.

It seems the iMac’s heat caused the various problems. I installed a freeware called smcFanControl and everything become all right!