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If you have a couple of hours to kill, and remember what it is supposed to look like, you can now watch the ‘remix’ version of Star Wars, containing 100s of different clips sent in my fans of the film.

I couldn’t think of a better translation, but you get the general idea from above what’s going on here. On Youtube, where you can find just about anything, there are quite a few guys in Japan who have filmed incredibly complex train crashes involving toy PLARAIL trains.  These are plastic battery-powered Japanese toy trains that [...]

They love their Apple gear in Hong Kong, and they also love to line up to get it.  In fact, this line of about 150-200 people outside the Hong Kong Apple Store isn’t even “official”–it’s just people milling about waiting to get into the official line that will start “soon” according to some in the [...]

The folks at Engadget did us a big favor this week writing about our new project, the “Phaser Tape”. Hopefully the added coverage will start to bring in some more orders at Makible.com http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/26/insert-coin-phasertape-turns-your-smartphone-into-a-rangefinder/

I’ve been busy here in Hong Kong coming up with some new gadgets, and the first one is now ready through Makible.com. An iPhone / Android laser range finder attachment.  Simply place this against the wall, snap a picture, and the app will tell you the distance.  Pretty cool stuff. Available Now       [...]

When OS 10.7 came out, a number of digital photographers and filmmakers were aghast.  Terabytes of data stored on Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices were no longer visible as option in many common Mac programs.  Of course, to be fair, things like iMovie were never design for NAS units, but some enterprising hackers found a [...]

In the early days of PenguinRadio, I noticed my business partner was often listening to BBC London in the office pretty much throughout the day.  It wasn’t that he necessarily liked what was being played he said, it’s just that he enjoyed hearing the traffic news as it made him feel a bit like “he [...]

Just a few pictures from tonight’s vigil at the Apple store.  That’s @hypercasey on the ladder, graciously provided to us by the IFC Security Team (who were also handing out post-it notes).  @angiewong is there giving interviews as she was the coordinator of tonight’s event.

This was the scene at the Hong Kong Apple Store in IFC Mall.  First flowers arrived (with the subsequent media mobbing the mourner).  Tonight there will be an iVigil at 7:00PM where Apple fans will pay their respects.

The video I made this morning at the Apple Store Launch. (note: Youtube still processing high quality HD video version).

I’ll have video up shortly.  

Spent the morning with the Apple fans and media checking out the new Apple Store in Hong Kong.  Basically it’s an Apple Store, but with a few tweaks here and there for the Asian market, such as a slightly different POS payment system, and more iPads on the floor than you’ll see pretty much at [...]

They took the curtains off the Apple Store and are doing some staff training by the looks of things.  Still on target for an opening this Saturday. The store is going to be very ‘bright’.  Huge windows opening to Hong Kong’s skyline and lots of light will make this a very sunny experience.  Hope they [...]

Freddy Mercury would have turned 65 today had he not been tragically taken away too early.  I have no doubt he’d still be playing, or at least having fun trying. For those too younger to remember Queen, let me just add this clip from their performance at the Live Aid festival in the 1980s. And [...]

One of the first conflicts I noticed after install Mac OSX 10.7 was the total failure of the popular cloud storage program Evernote.  I got a message saying Missing Plug-In when trying to view PDFs in Evernote. The solution, published by Evernote’s support staff, involved reseting the Java preferences or drilling down into the library [...]