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By maskawaih, June 30, 2010 12:50 PM

Yep, Windows Live Messenger is now available on Apple iPhone. Launched a week ago, it took only 5 days to reach 1 million of downloads. As an ardent user of both iPhone and Messenger, I am delighted with this announcement and immediately downloaded and tried it. This is an engineered plan behind Hotmail, Messenger and Windows Live called Messenger Connect (Beta). Like any usual marketing hype, Messenger Connect is being told to us that it allows users to communicate, share, and connect with their Messenger friends on other websites with its flexible, yet prescriptive set of APIs to help create intuitive bla bla bla stuffs. Usual stuffs. In short, it’s just another form of Twitter or Facebook being attached along with internet messenger and email functions. With that being said, your statuses on your Messenger is now acting like Twitter statuses that will be updated on your Live page every time you changed it. It has been that way since before Twitter but nobody seemed to care about it until Twitter. To put it simply, Twitter is more accessible on universal browsers rather than limited availability of Windows Live Messenger application  on Windows operating systems. Well, there’s Messenger for Mac but it sucks badly that nobody bothers to use it. Exactly, what makes this Messenger is so awesome?

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By maskawaih, December 19, 2008 4:56 PM

I went to One Utama last night. Why? Because Mac City, the Apple Computer Reseller in Malaysia, is currently holding an event there, the ”Mac + iPod Discovery Week” from 17th to 21st December. As usual, a fair like this will exhibit several products from the reseller where people can have somewhat personal hands on with the products which eventually will make them purchase it (or simply tell others for show off like, “Hey, I get a hold of iPhone that day. It’s very cool lor”).

For last night, I was there along with Amin and Reza Fahmi, the Terato big boss, for attending the iPhone Development talk apart from having fun by testing those gadgets. Conducted by Chris Hong, he gave much of his experiences on developing applications for Mac especially iPhone/iPod. As some of you might already knew, iPhone still has a very small market in Malaysia as it’s not yet officially available. Though, iPod Touch is available and it’s functions are pretty much the same only without those GSM, GPS and camera functions. So far, there are only two applications officially from Malaysian developers (as what Chris said). One of the developers was there, Adrian, who created a simple but useful converter application. Actually, we are somewhat members of Malaysian Cocoaheads, local branch of the international Cocoa Programmers’ Group. Opposed from usual meeting which is 3rd Saturday of the month, we made the meeting earlier as of the iPhone Development talk was on Thursday.

It was a fun experience. Being an ardent gamer on Windows platform, I don’t have much reasoning to use Apple Macintosh much. Yet, as I am iPhone developer wannabe, developing stuffs on Apple platform is a must. For those who don’t know much, Xcode is a tool for programming in Cocoa. Despite it uses Objective-C for its programming language, it can understand other programming languages like C or C++ which also can be integrated into the Objective-C with some simple coding (just like Chris said, again). Oh, those two cats of mine are just additional spices added in this entry.

Well, that’s all for now. :3

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By maskawaih, December 7, 2008 2:25 PM

Last Friday, I’ve just started working at Terato Tech, a company established by my senior of my former school, to develop software. Supposed to be started on Thursday but we have no equipments in the office yet. We are focusing on the development of games for iPhone. It’s something new for me because I am not very familiar with Apple Macintosh. Apparently, so do my officemates. Well, at least we have an office where we can do our work and stuffs.

No furniture as of now. No worries as they will be there soon from IKEA (they’re postponing until after Hari Raya Korban if we want them to deliver to our office). The air conditioner has already been installed. Pretty cool and run at 2.5 HP. Carpets are there too though not shown at the picture above as that was taken before the carpets arrived. Well, there’s no internet yet because the TM operatives have some conflicting shit that is from their parts. As usual, TMnet rocks, meh. But that day, we’re discreetly stealing bandwidth from unprotected WiFi from nearby office. Quite funny because they didn’t put any kind of security and I can look into several computers’ shared folders and documents easily. Imagine if I delete any files they’re sharing there. Hehehe…

Oh, I just got myself an Apple Macbook :3 and it was given to me for the development tool for the iPhone project. Well, not entirely mine as it’s still a company property which contracted to me to take care of it.

Still playing around with this Macbook and I have to learn more on the use of iPhone SDK for the project. Oh, if you’re wondering where is my office, it’s just the other row further than the McDonald’s row in Diamond Complex behind Bintang Supermarket. Of course it’s near to my previous office for my internship which is Idwal Systems.

ttyl