Updates

MacRyu.com site stats

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In a totally Mac-unrelated post, these are my stats for MacRyu.com. While the numbers are nowhere near anything I define as “high”, my Google Ads earnings of 3 USD for the whole of 2008 sounds really sad. I wonder if I did anything wrong, or if this is normal? Not looking to earn any decent money through the ads, but just wondering if this is normal. Anyone can help?

P.S. In case you are wondering, I only turned on the webalizer on 15th April 2008, thus the low count in April. I also accidentally turned OFF the webalizer on the 25th of August and turned it back on only on the 25th of October, which explains the missing September stats and the low count in October.

MacRyu.com is not dead

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Yes yes yes… I haven’t been posting in a while. Have been busy with work and my Japan trip which just ended. Lost my camera bag there, but luckily received the news this morning that it has been found. So am working hard at retrieving the thing.

When I get everything settled, I will be back again. Until then, ciaoz.

National University of Singapore Matriculation Fair Laptop Sales for Mac

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I will be selling Macs at the NUS Matriculation Fair from this friday, 25th July till 31st July, at the Multi-Purpose Sports Hall from 9 am till 5pm. Those of you entering NUS soon do look for me if you have any questions regarding Macs or if you want to purchase a MacBook/Air/Pro for your Uni life.

I’ll be easy to spot. I’ll be wearing white/blue hair color during that week.

Twitter me for details on the prices if you want to know.

The fair will end on the 31st1st, followed by another month of sales in Yusok Ishak House from the 4th, which I will be in charge of as well.

Edit: For those of you who came in here looking for information for the NUS Matriculation Fair 2009, read in these following posts, why I quit the sales after the first day;

Why school-based Mac User Groups are a terrible idea

Words of idiocy from idiots

Letter to Apple Singapore Educational Sale Dept

Short Hiatus

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I know I have not been posting for the past few weeks, so here is the announcement that MacRyu.com will be on a short hiatus until early May.

This is because I am working on something interesting.

You will know soon.

Long Hiatus and some updates

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Sorry for the long hiatus. There really hasn’t been much news-worthy Mac news to report, and I am also currently working on a new project that I hope will be ready soon.

On the international front, more news about our favorite Jesus phone. Besides the obvious Singtel news flooding the international Mac news headlines a while back, the latest news have been about the 3G iPhone. Speculation have been rife about Hon Hai, Apple’s biggest manufacturing partner, getting the contract to build the 3G iPhone. The second coming of the Jesus phone is expected in the 2nd half of 2008.

Great news, which I believed helped the stock price quite a bit. ^_^

Local front, really nothing much to report, or anything that I know of. The only significant event happening in April will be the submission of bids for the NUS/NTU Mac tender, which, as usual, I would not be surprised if the same people won.

One general comment though, about the current tender (which will expire in June 2008), no one really wants to buy a MacBook White priced at 2.7K SGD bundled with expensive software that most students either do not use, or if they do, will just pirate the damn thing. These are poor students you are talking about, and face it, most students are not going to pay 300 SGD for Microsoft Office for Mac.

And do not forget to include the Air in the bid. Or seriously the Mac tender this year will just be a big April’s Fool joke.

Updates

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Has been quite a while since I last posted here. Still waiting patiently for Macworld next week.

Oh by the way, Apple wants to give me an Xserve RAID.

Updates and more updates

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So 10.5.1 is finally out. Just installed on my iMac and am looking forward to see how it goes.

An update that the rest of the Mac sites have yet to report on so far is yet another firmware update for the 4th Gen Aluminum iMacs’ Ati Radeon HD2600 Pro Graphics. Installed it as well, and ran Openmark to see if there’s any diff in OpenGL performance.

Notch.

This sucks manz.

Here‘s the link for the update.