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Thursday, October 9th, 2008
You may have already heard of / been to FOSS.in, which inspired the first FOSS.my.
Quoted from FOSS.my:
FOSS.my 2008 is Malaysia’s premier Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) event. Whilst this is our first go at it, we aim for this to be an annual event bringing together professionals and enthusiasts from Malaysia, Singapore, Asia and the rest of the world for a two day grassroots driven FOSS conference.
Check out the website and see how you can participate, either by presenting a talk, volunteer for them good folks, as an exhibitor, sponsor, or as a delegate! Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make it.
I would like to thank the organisers for making this possible 
The 2008 FOSS.my will be held on the 8th-9th of November 2008, from 9am to 6pm, at Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (venue details).
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
It was just 2 days ago when I spoke to nbliang (one of the founder of KuchingOSC), and he asked me whether there is any Open Source community in Kota Kinabalu (KK). I have no idea if there is any, because in my few years of exposure to Open Source, I have not heard of any related communities in KK. Of course, he asked me to start a community that is based in KK so we can promote FOSS. Unfortunately, I am unable to do so, due to the fact that I am currently not based in KK, so it will be a little harder for me.
So, I was reading through Google Reader, and stumbled across a post by drizad. He started Kota Kinabalu Linux User Group (KKLUG). Hopefully this effort can gather as many Linux / Open Source supporters in KK, and be one of the gateway to promote FOSS in the state. Thanks for that, drizad.
Maybe BarCamp KK? 
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Saturday, July 26th, 2008
At the time of writing, BarCamp Malaysia is going on now in KL. It’s a pity I am 8 hours flight away.
So what is a BarCamp you may ask? According to Wikipedia,
BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences - open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants - often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.
From my understanding, it is a user-generated conference, requires contributions from the participants to share ideas, knowledge and information. It is also known as an “unconference“.
If you have registered before-hand, have fun, and make sure you blog (or share in any way) whatever you have learned, or found interesting in the event. For those who have not registered, if I am not mistaken, they do allow walk-ins, but not sure about the capacity, go and have a look, who knows
July 26-27, 2008
Saturday 10:00 AM-6:00PM (official section)
Hangout time 6pm to Sunday morning
Sunday 10:00 AM-2:00PM
xTrain Sdn Bhd
Unit E-7-1, Block E
Megan Avenue 1
189 Jalan Tun Razak
50400 Kuala Lumpur
Also, have a look at the schedule, I sure find a lot of them interesting!
BarCamp Malaysia has a Twitter account, Facebook group, and Google group!
Alright guys (and girls), have fun, meet new friends and learn new stuff!
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Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Typing on my iPod Touch at the moment. I think this app is gonna rock.
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
When I was reading Rafif’s tweets earlier today, I found out that iTunes 7.7 is available through Software Update. Expecting AppStore to be available through this iTunes update, I downloaded and installed the new iTunes.
I have only browsed through the AppStore to look at applications that I might be interested in, and of course, I downloaded a few free ones.
Currently I am waiting for the iPod Software Update 2.0 to be available through iTunes. According to MacRumors [1], iPhone 2.0 Firmware is already available through a specific link. Please note that it is not for iPod Touch!
So without anything better to do at the moment, I am doing some “window shopping” on iTunes:
Facebook (Cost: Free)
Not overly excited with this one, since their mobile interface is pretty decent. I wanted to see what they are offering that beats the mobile interface.
Remote (Cost: Free)
I think Remote extended the ability of Apple Remote (which I have never really used). You can control iTunes or Apple TV, see the album artwork on Remote, and amazingly - it can be done over the Wi-Fi network!
Twitterrific (Cost: Free/$12.99)
The good people at Iconfactory offers two different versions of Twitterrific on AppStore. If you don’t know what’s Twitterrific, you don’t know what’s Twitter. Twitter is a micro-blogging social network. The free version of Twitterrific is free, that comes with advertisements; while the Premium version that has no advertisement costs $12.99.
Things (Cost: $12.99)
A task manager for your iPhone, or iPod Touch. I need this, I keep forgetting things.
Super Monkey Ball (Cost: $12.99)
If you followed Jobs’ keynote during WWDC, you might have seen this demo, and wet your pants (I did! I even got the game on Wii). Control the little monkeys using the accelerometer (if you don’t know what’s this, you don’t know iPhone/iPod Touch at all) through 5 worlds and 110 stages! Powerful use of the accelerometer!
Enigmo (Cost: $12.99)
This game was one of the demo during Jobs’ WWDC keynote. Your task is to direct the water droplets to where they are supposed to be.
Bomberman Touch “The Legend of Mystic Bomb” (Cost: $9.99)
The last time I played Bomberman was, many many years ago. This version of Bomberman on iPhone/iPod Touch makes me want to quickly find out how they implement the gameplay, with the features of the handheld devices.
So, about time to spend more money, don’t forget the 2.0 Firmware update for iPod Touch will cost you!
ref:
- iPhone 2.0 Firmware (5A347) Available Early
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