<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403</id><updated>2012-01-30T15:02:21.168+08:00</updated><category term='announcement'/><category term='suntec'/><category term='photos'/><category term='geekterminal'/><category term='recap'/><title type='text'>Mac Meetup Singapore</title><subtitle type='html'>Mac addicts who meet up in Singapore. Powered by ME@N.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-261664722293495748</id><published>2012-01-30T15:02:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-30T15:02:21.233+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mac Meetup - a legacy display, on Wed 15 Feb 2011: 7pm - 10pm (Fall of
Singapore anniversary)</title><content type='html'>I've been telling Ivor I’d like to have an actual Mac meetup, since we do have notes to exchange about Mac software and hardware. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The MacLarkin meetups are great socials and during the last one, I didn't open my mac. Admittedly, some attention has shifted to the iPhone whose potential we have not exhausted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let me know in the comments if you are able to join us on Wed 15 Feb 2012: 7pm-10pm @ Habour Front Coffee Club. Confirmed so far: Ivor, Kevin, Kenneth, Airani, Puay Ann, Anand and Sivasothi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll see if this can bait some of the old regulars who say the HV meetups are out of the way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Come with laptops and iPhones charged. AND legacy items in working order to display for photography and bragging rights! I think I still have my first Apple ][ 5 1/4" floppy. I think someone will top that, just wonder with what!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-261664722293495748?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/261664722293495748/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=261664722293495748' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/261664722293495748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/261664722293495748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2012/01/mac-meetup-legacy-display-on-wed-15-feb.html' title='Mac Meetup - a legacy display, on Wed 15 Feb 2011: 7pm - 10pm (Fall of&#xA;Singapore anniversary)'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-4679825292778537618</id><published>2012-01-18T10:16:00.013+08:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T23:39:51.962+08:00</updated><title type='text'>“Eat cake and drink coffee!”</title><content type='html'>Another John Larkin induced mac meetup. Started with dinner at the usual hangout at Blk 40 and I took over the reins of making the orders in Alvin's absence.&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Topics covered in random order during the meetup:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Prisms (from a Physics open house)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-iOS5 (text expansion; instant camera; iMessage)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Attention span - John realised that his attention span was getting shorter lately with urges to crack jokes during class when the students are quietly working on their stuff. A result of the use of smart phones and tablets with information at your fingertips and over stimulation of the brain with apps? Perhaps.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Dropbox - How no one carries a thumbdrive anymore. But being the geeks we all are, we carry storage devices in one form or many others as demonstrated in the photos. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Stemming from the storage device mini showdown, “Legacy meetup” would be the theme for the next meet. The rule is to bring the oldest gadget you own and it only counts if you can show that it still works. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;So what do we expect to see? The following were promised:&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-First thumbdrive by Trek&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Walkman (the one using cassette)&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-5 ¼ “floppy disk with portable USB drive&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-3 ½ “ floppy disk and portable drive&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Iomega zip disks and portable drive&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Some hole punch card thing Siva says he has&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Apple 2 machine&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;-Apple &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Newton&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be inline with the legacy theme, the whole meetup would be shot with a 2mp digital camera (ya, the "vintage" Sony cybershot and it still works! I win!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pictures from the meetup from my camera and Kenneth's flickr:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YGg5SeAzX1w/TxwWiS5yaaI/AAAAAAAAAGc/W47NE4Hle80/s1600/Page_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YGg5SeAzX1w/TxwWiS5yaaI/AAAAAAAAAGc/W47NE4Hle80/s400/Page_2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700456006789786018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Cambria;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-de0gfi2BW4I/TxwWqKzgq2I/AAAAAAAAAGo/ArvhoEyHI-U/s1600/Page_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-de0gfi2BW4I/TxwWqKzgq2I/AAAAAAAAAGo/ArvhoEyHI-U/s400/Page_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700456142054927202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1BejZYwmIU8/TxwXAONEEqI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Q6ShqGV5bj8/s1600/Page_3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 283px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1BejZYwmIU8/TxwXAONEEqI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Q6ShqGV5bj8/s400/Page_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5700456520924533410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7003/6693896541_0509004b66.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float: left; 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margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 500px;" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7159/6693939859_0579e89250.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mini Storage Device showdown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--EndFragment--&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-4679825292778537618?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/4679825292778537618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=4679825292778537618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/4679825292778537618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/4679825292778537618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2012/01/eat-cake-and-drink-coffee.html' title='“Eat cake and drink coffee!”'/><author><name>Ruffie Bear</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04145557204734860793</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YGg5SeAzX1w/TxwWiS5yaaI/AAAAAAAAAGc/W47NE4Hle80/s72-c/Page_2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-4445819690313638937</id><published>2011-10-11T11:15:00.011+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-11T17:25:27.640+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Unfollow John Larkin on Twitter (See why in the Starbucks Photo)</title><content type='html'>Friday, 7.00 pm. It just stopped raining. At the last John Larkin meeting, it had been raining too. This rain thing seems awfully coincidental. I met early birds Alvin, Kenneth and Ivor at Block 40. Ivor bugged me again on the "vintage" Sony Cybershot (I'm NOT letting it go!).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We knew Kevin wasn't turning up because Kenneth said he saw Kevin's check-in at a clinic on Foursquare in the morning. Aahh...wonders of technology, you don't even need to inform people that you are sick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alvin as usual did a great job of ordering dinner and the dishes came at the same time as John's arrival. Siva reached last after his practical and polished off the rest of dinner :-) Conversations of Singapore elections and old neighborhoods were pretty enlightening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alvin parted ways after dinner and we trooped down to Starbucks at Holland Village. It was their first night to be opened for 24 hours and it seems pretty empty much to our amazement.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New attendance at Starbucks in chronological order: &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/bubblevicious"&gt;bubblevicious&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/aramc"&gt;aramc&lt;/a&gt; and airani. Laurence is Down Under but tried to Facetime a couple of times unsuccessfully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did we talk about mac stuff? I just recalled the long search for the "yellow camphor medicated oil with a silhouette of a man" that Siva was reminiscing about turned out to be &lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/jonas.dahlen/R8d64yBxT6I/AAAAAAAABUI/FMwO5K3ptTc/DSC00850%5B5%5D"&gt;Sloan's liniment&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many apologies to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/aramc"&gt;aramc&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/bubblevicious"&gt;bubblevicious&lt;/a&gt; for omitting your photos. I'm just a bad bad bad photographer so the photos ended up really blur.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See John Larkin's &lt;a href="http://www.larkin.net.au/blog/2011/10/10/singapore-meetups/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; for his post on the meetup and photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos from the meet up:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-voLps2TNwoM/TpO_qSUicwI/AAAAAAAAAFY/BEiGbA6vZzU/s1600/Meetup1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 322px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-voLps2TNwoM/TpO_qSUicwI/AAAAAAAAAFY/BEiGbA6vZzU/s400/Meetup1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662079889728238338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-13K8rEnX9ts/TpO_wSHSdoI/AAAAAAAAAFk/su2ESBVLoM4/s1600/Meetup2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-13K8rEnX9ts/TpO_wSHSdoI/AAAAAAAAAFk/su2ESBVLoM4/s400/Meetup2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5662079992751879810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-4445819690313638937?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/4445819690313638937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=4445819690313638937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/4445819690313638937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/4445819690313638937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2011/10/unfollow-john-larkin-on-twitter.html' title='Unfollow John Larkin on Twitter (See why in the Starbucks Photo)'/><author><name>Ruffie Bear</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04145557204734860793</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-voLps2TNwoM/TpO_qSUicwI/AAAAAAAAAFY/BEiGbA6vZzU/s72-c/Meetup1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-6717836215393033245</id><published>2011-10-06T09:14:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T09:18:40.580+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>Mac Meetup w/John Larkin this Friday at Holland Village</title><content type='html'>We meet again, with John Larkin in town, this Friday 7th October 2011: 7.00pm. We'll have dinner at Block 40 and then move on to Holland Village Starbucks at about 8.00pm. Let me know if you’re joining John, Airani, Ivor, Kenneth and myself.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-6717836215393033245?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/6717836215393033245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=6717836215393033245' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/6717836215393033245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/6717836215393033245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2011/10/mac-meetup-wjohn-larkin-this-friday-at.html' title='Mac Meetup w/John Larkin this Friday at Holland Village'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-921005579289973793</id><published>2011-10-06T08:52:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-10-06T09:06:35.684+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>Steve Jobs, RIP</title><content type='html'>Thanks for the wings, Steve! Never confined!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/162777/2011/10/a_look_at_steve_jobs_s_life_and_times.html"&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20111006-j269apnr5dkx1ugjfitugq4q2j.jpg" alt="Apple - Steve Jobs, RIP" /&gt;&lt;br&gt;MacWorld looks back, 06 Oct 2011&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-921005579289973793?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/921005579289973793/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=921005579289973793' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/921005579289973793'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/921005579289973793'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2011/10/steve-jobs-rip.html' title='Steve Jobs, RIP'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-7872042014999664039</id><published>2011-04-16T00:37:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T00:40:39.881+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><title type='text'>John has a couple of jugs...</title><content type='html'>Friday 15 Apr 2011: 7.00pm - it was a muggy evening and NEA had already reminded us about the prevalent inter-monsoon evening storms - it rains ALL the time, it seems. I intercepted &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/trilobitelarvae"&gt;Alvin&lt;/a&gt; at Block 40 Holland Drive and we secured a table out of the rain. Next &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/acroamatic"&gt;Kenneth&lt;/a&gt; plonked down to report the MRT line was suffering yet another hiccup again. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20110415-fjctejda88992w8n7hhif9rcxx.jpg" alt="05macmeetupsg-15apr2011.jpg-400" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/john_larkin"&gt;John Larkin&lt;/a&gt; appeared, he was radiant, even after battling a jam from the "ulu" west to reach our regular kopi tiam haunt. We can’t blame the beer at Block 40 for his euphoric mood John. He's just high on life, and even after complete newbies infiltrated his iPad class today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The conversation was colourful to say the least and food sumptious. I had wisely left dinner orders to Alvin. He handled the job with his famous expertise, that John wanted to postpone his return Down Under so that he'd have time to sample the local fare he relishes and knows so well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After evaluat&lt;br /&gt;ing John's fitness to visit Holland Village, we marched over, in an infantry section formation along the pedestrian walk until &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/ivorsg"&gt;Ivor&lt;/a&gt; appeared out of the night to report that Starbuck's Holland Village was any other Starbucks joint this time of the year - full of students. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happily &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/brainopera"&gt;Kevin&lt;/a&gt; had secured a seat and fought off marauding students before reinforcements arrived. And eventually the thesis-writing &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/aramc"&gt;Anand&lt;/a&gt; showed up to rant against a decadent system which was making him repeat his presentation. Since he's writing up, we dutifully ignored his rant. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think we did talk about some mac stuff at some point. And wondered if &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/teutoburg"&gt;Laurence&lt;/a&gt; would be back for the next meetup and what they would do with the mugs with the old Starbucks logo. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By the next session, we hope OS X Lion will be stalking prey!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157626379101575/with/5622290600/"&gt;Photos from the meetup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/01macmeetupsg-15apr2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/06macmeetupsg-15apr2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/07macmeetupsg-15apr2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/14macmeetupsg-15apr2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/04macmeetupsg-15apr2011.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-7872042014999664039?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/7872042014999664039/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=7872042014999664039' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/7872042014999664039'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/7872042014999664039'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-has-couple-of-jugs.html' title='John has a couple of jugs...'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-3319875158588372938</id><published>2011-04-05T09:14:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T09:31:47.584+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>Mac Meetup with John Larkin, Fri 15 Apr 2011: 7.00pm @ HV</title><content type='html'>It's been over &lt;a href="http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2010/07/mac-larkin-meetup-08-jul-2010.html"&gt;half a year&lt;/a&gt; since our last MacLarkin meetup with John who drops in to town every now and then. I'm especially looking forward to this one as we have a lot to catch up. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And yes, some of us will bring our macs to tinker with and exchange notes about apps and devices. It is a mac meetup afterall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laurence is Down Under still, so he sits this one out. &lt;br /&gt;We'll makan at the Block 40 coffee shop in Holland Drive and &lt;br /&gt;then we'll stroll over to Holland Village Starbucks at 8.30pm thereabouts. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's being held in the west again, since the regular are all staying or working here. We'll venture out in future meetups and we'll figure out where at this one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These days, arrangements get sorted out pretty quickly first in the twitterverse:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20110405-rs4htr4f2quj2ik46g33gscncq.jpg" alt="John Larkin meetup" /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20110405-rksjttjxp51wue8ppp4hyb8gib.jpg" alt="TweetDeck" /&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20110405-1bgyb25ja77xrjc3kise5hc3w1.jpg" alt="TweetDeck" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-3319875158588372938?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/3319875158588372938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=3319875158588372938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/3319875158588372938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/3319875158588372938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2011/04/meetup-with-john-larkin-fri-15-apr-2011.html' title='Mac Meetup with John Larkin, Fri 15 Apr 2011: 7.00pm @ HV'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-1802183662517687392</id><published>2010-12-28T22:37:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-29T10:36:52.120+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><title type='text'>End of year Mac Meetup @ HV Starbucks</title><content type='html'>It is not easy to spot newcomers when you stroll into a Starbucks for a mac meetup these days. Apple laptops are much more common. So no more secret nod and winks but a careful peek.However with the me@n meetups which limp along as quarterly meetups, well, I get to see mainly familiar faces who gather. The nine of this evening were mostly either recent regulars or decade-old veterans. &lt;strong&gt;Roll call:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Kenneth Pinto&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marcus Ng&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Loh Choon Chai&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Loh Kian Chai&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ivor Khong&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Airani S&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Yezdi D.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anggra&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;N. Sivasothi&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;With a brief accidental appearance by Khairil Anuar for some iWeb consultation!&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="https://img.skitch.com/20101228-bj5ibth5ur8kay5g1uxe9ssjd6.jpg" alt="Mac Meetup, 27 Dec 2010" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt; The iPhone fever is over and it was an OSX application heavy discussion.  Partly because I have been catching up with reading and have been trying out mac applications. I shared with the rest my current list of apps, listed at: &lt;a href="http://macapps.sivasothi.com/"&gt;macapps.sivasothi.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;Some of the apps I've downloaded recently to try out are: Art Text 2, Caffeine, Chicken of the VNC, Chronories, Deeper, Default Folder stuff, Desktop Curtain, DevonThink stuff, Droplr, Echofon, eMaps, EtreTask, F.lux, Fiwi, flickery, Flux, Maintenance, Mendeley Desktop, MenuEverywhere , MenuPop , MoveAddict Accessibility, moveAddict, OnyX, Papaya, PDF OCR X, PhotoBook, PhotoStickies, Remember , teleport, Tembo, VelOCRaptor, and WhatSize.&lt;p&gt;If these prove useful, I'll migrate them to the apps page above with a description and link.Well, it wasn't all mac-talk, there was a considerable diversion to the Hindi blockbuster "3 Idiots" which exhorts people to follow their passion, pursue excellence and assuage fears by a meaningless but reassuring phrase! &lt;p&gt;Befitting an end of year meetup, we reminisced our meetups which go back to 1999 - see the photos and links in &lt;a href="http://mac.sivasothi.com/"&gt;mac.sivasothi.com&lt;/a&gt; or at the sidebar on this blog.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-1802183662517687392?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/1802183662517687392/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=1802183662517687392' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/1802183662517687392'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/1802183662517687392'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-year-mac-meetup-hv-starbucks.html' title='End of year Mac Meetup @ HV Starbucks'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-5422430778217751021</id><published>2010-12-23T02:16:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-12-23T02:23:17.026+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>End-of-year Mac Meetup</title><content type='html'>Dear friends, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;we're meeting on Tuesday, 28th December 2010: 7.00 pm @ Holland Village Starbucks [&lt;a href="http://gothere.sg/maps#q:278983"&gt;map&lt;/a&gt;].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join us for a chit-chat about all things mac and to reflect on the past year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheerio!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sivasothi&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-5422430778217751021?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/5422430778217751021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=5422430778217751021' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/5422430778217751021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/5422430778217751021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-year-meetup.html' title='End-of-year Mac Meetup'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-2571048689539366896</id><published>2010-07-09T14:19:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2010-07-09T14:19:07.841+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><title type='text'>Mac-Larkin meetup, 08 Jul 2010</title><content type='html'>World Cup fever may infect the masses but we still had a meetup when John came to town once again for his web2.0 classes at NTU. Well, actually, this was spontaneous. Kenneth Pinto bailed on John and Kevin with a fever. I was at Starbucks with students when John said a cheery "hello, mate!". Kevin came later and we called Airani down.  We ate at Crystal Jade and had ice-cream at Swensen's. It was quite decadent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We missed Laurence of course who used to help me plan meetups. Now that Kevin is back he is urging me to get this going regularly again. WHile this was only the second meetup in 2010, we are on track on quarterly meetups. . We have the routine figured out so with Kevin's urging, I can see it happening.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you're interested in joining us, join the me@n list (see sidebar on right). It's a low traffic list (practically dead) but well stocked with the old crew and good friends and is where I post our meetup announcements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100709-7jtkh3g1fg81cjw3gp9dqrtem.jpg" alt="Mac Larkin meetup 08 Jul 2010"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-2571048689539366896?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/2571048689539366896/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=2571048689539366896' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2571048689539366896'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2571048689539366896'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2010/07/mac-larkin-meetup-08-jul-2010.html' title='Mac-Larkin meetup, 08 Jul 2010'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-5998366981232078800</id><published>2010-01-15T01:03:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2010-05-01T01:15:51.913+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>Mac Meetup Jan 2010 - iPhones galore</title><content type='html'>14 Jan 2010 - After diner at Block 40 Holland Close, Macintosh and iPhone discussions with Airani, Ivor, Ann, Catherine, Mook Sum, Yezdi, Adrian and Laurence. Starbucks Coffee @ Holland Village after dinner for coffee and wireless. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157623209371150/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20100430-85smcn6axyp4fr8h5eq6xhyard.jpg" alt="MAc Meetup 14 Jan 2010"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157623209371150/"&gt;Album 1&lt;/a&gt; (Otterman's handphone)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157623442922096/"&gt;Album 2&lt;/a&gt; (Laurence's Canon Powershot G11)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-5998366981232078800?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/5998366981232078800/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=5998366981232078800' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/5998366981232078800'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/5998366981232078800'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2010/01/mac-meetup-jan-2010-iphones-galore.html' title='Mac Meetup Jan 2010 - iPhones galore'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-2512589589811338622</id><published>2009-10-25T05:35:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T05:59:23.189+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>Mac Larkin meetup, 16 Oct 2009</title><content type='html'>We met up on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/tags/20090717macmeetup/"&gt;17 Jul 2009&lt;/a&gt; at Thai Express and on 16 Oct 2009 at the cofeeshop at Block 40. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This recent session saw Kenneth, Airani, Laurence, Mook Sum, Ivor, John, Clay and Siva at the post-dinner coffee session at Holland Village Starbuck's.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos by Laurence:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157622526096973/"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20091024-xcy1f2qfgc8dbnm6yuh98qpcq5.jpg" alt="MacLarkin Meetup, Fri 16 October 2009 - a set on Flickr"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-2512589589811338622?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/2512589589811338622/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=2512589589811338622' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2512589589811338622'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2512589589811338622'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2009/10/mac-larkin-meetup-16-oct-2009.html' title='Mac Larkin meetup, 16 Oct 2009'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-840080717537377593</id><published>2009-05-30T19:26:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T19:35:33.520+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>Mac Larkin meetup - Fri 29 May 2009</title><content type='html'>At Holland Village again, this time dinner at Thai Express, then to Starbucks from coffee. Not so late this time as we all struggled to stay awake. By Friday evening, most of us are scuppered. Maybe we should try Monday, next time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157618969447748/"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20090623-f4na5utawirqq5thtfkiqju5mb.jpg" alt="skitched-20090623-192435.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We're meeting when John comes back to town and have considered calling these the Mac Larkin meetups!  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Macaddicts present: Laurence, Airani, &lt;a href="http://otterman.wordpress.com/?s=ben+godsall"&gt;Ben&lt;/a&gt; (pc-user from the UK, *shrugs*), Kenneth, Anand, Ivor,  John and Siva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/N78-385macmeetup-29may2009.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flickr photo set once again by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157618969447748/"&gt;Teutoburg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-840080717537377593?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/840080717537377593/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=840080717537377593' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/840080717537377593'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/840080717537377593'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2009/06/fri-29-may-2009.html' title='Mac Larkin meetup - Fri 29 May 2009'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-3757572125324827711</id><published>2009-04-18T19:05:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T19:18:38.725+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>Mac Meetup, Fri 17 April 2009 - westward ho!</title><content type='html'>At the last meetup in Marina, we realised EVERYONE was heading back west for home, so we relocated the meetups to Holland Village.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157616963220112/"&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20090623-kuaubr8ttsui3hu96ypfp617sx.jpg" alt="Flickr Photo Download: Mac Meetup, Fri 17 April 2009"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So we met at Block 40, Holland Drive, for dinner and then to Starbucks @ Holland Village for cofee and the like. MacAddicts who came were: Laurence, Ann, John, Anand, Airani, Ivor and Siva with an accidental drop-in by Roy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was a brief encore discussion at Crystal Jade after midnight; it was one of those days when we soldiered on with drooping eyelids!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157616963220112/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3334/3451922386_868b54cbfe.jpg?v=0"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;NTFS, Posterous, Audacity, Twitter, SG Wireless, Airport Express, wireless security and printing, multi-tiered and dual-band networks, photography and nail art were amongst the topics covered...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Flickr photo set by &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157616963220112/"&gt;Teutoburg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-3757572125324827711?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/3757572125324827711/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=3757572125324827711' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/3757572125324827711'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/3757572125324827711'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2009/04/mac-meetup-fri-17-april-2009-westward.html' title='Mac Meetup, Fri 17 April 2009 - westward ho!'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-804997784303306580</id><published>2008-10-12T11:52:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2009-06-23T19:18:11.537+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>9th October 2008 meetup</title><content type='html'>Laurence writes - &lt;blockquote&gt;Back at our usual haunt, a couple of Mac Happy Meals, hot chocolate, MacBook Pros and digital cameras, an iPhone, funky socks, seven tired people and refreshing banter. John, Siva, Ann, Ivor, Mook Sum, Colin and Laurence.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20081012-nun9ft3b9jcfa4fqahkjbn6uie.jpg" alt="Facebook | Photos of You"/&gt;&lt;br&gt;Photo by Puay Ann&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157607913632427/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-804997784303306580?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/804997784303306580/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=804997784303306580' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/804997784303306580'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/804997784303306580'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/10/9th-october-meetup.html' title='9th October 2008 meetup'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-2961826283447410884</id><published>2008-09-22T18:31:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T18:33:09.655+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suntec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>3rd Meetup for 2008 - Thu 09 Oct 2008: 7pm</title><content type='html'>We're meeting on &lt;strong&gt;Thursday 9th October 2008&lt;/strong&gt; at 7pm - McDonald's (McCafe) Suntec City. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to get there&lt;/strong&gt; - If in a cab stop at Tower Two. The nearest MRT is at City Hall, an air-conditioned walk away. Taking a bus? Check SinGeo's mashup. The address is 3 Temasek Boulevard #B1-026, Suntec City Mall, S(038983).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.singeo.com.sg/singeo/maps/busstopallmap.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080402-gxtrtj6kk1esfhnaehg5gs7ys5.jpg" alt="Singapore Bus Stops - Suntec"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click for Singeo's mashup for bus stops&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All are invited!&lt;/strong&gt; - powered by Me@N but always open to Macaddicts interested in the free exchange of thoughts.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-2961826283447410884?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/2961826283447410884/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=2961826283447410884' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2961826283447410884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2961826283447410884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/09/3rd-meetup-for-2008-thu-09-oct-2008-7pm.html' title='3rd Meetup for 2008 - Thu 09 Oct 2008: 7pm'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-2578561560476655687</id><published>2008-09-18T00:55:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-18T00:55:18.593+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>List closure - me@n it is!</title><content type='html'>I am closing the mac-meetup singapore list and am suggesting to subscribers that they sign up with &lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/mean"&gt;mean&lt;/a&gt; instead.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This meetup list as setup in Jul 2005 after the peak of our meetups. Meetup.com suddenly decided to impose un-scaled charges which were silly so I had to get out and resorted to this blog and a mailing list.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since there were many other groups involved, I decided to setup a macmeetup-singapore list which was independent of me@n so they did not need to feel like they were crashing a private party. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well that was three years ago and the list is made up almost entirely of me@ners, as are the ones who physically show up for meetups. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I'm simplifying my administrative demands, by closing the list. The non-me@n members can either grab the RSS feed of this blog or shift over to &lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/subscribe/mean"&gt;me@n&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All are welcome! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-2578561560476655687?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/2578561560476655687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=2578561560476655687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2578561560476655687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2578561560476655687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/09/list-closure-men-it-is.html' title='List closure - me@n it is!'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-7751497090507639643</id><published>2008-07-18T00:05:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-07-21T10:19:16.650+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>OS9, OSS7 and Snow Leopard</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//20080717-darkknight.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still tingling from The Dark Knight, we trudged down to Suntec in high spirits. I scheduled this meetup to coincide with John Larkin's happy return to Singapore for his classes at NTU. John was one of our meetup stalwart's and he now looks forward to these when he's back to teach.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//06macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Despite the lack of any email flurry, I met up with Hanx, Yezdi, Laurence, Kenneth, Mook Sum, Lucian, Coleman, Airani Geraldine, Catherine and Wilfred. Thankfully we had some very patient neighbours at a fairly crowded Mc's. Airani thoughfully grabbed the camera for a shots of the group there tonight.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//15macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Geraldine (like Mook Sum) who has rejoined the living and attempted to solve the problem of Panther installation on her clamshell in situ. That involved parasitising some outlet which she did with her usual charm. Eventually Yezdi figured her 6GB hardisk ought to be upgraded. Of course we gave her a hard time about her "toilet seat" Mac and it reminded John about a photo in his camera of an NTU canteen ceiling. Guess what the design reminded him of? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//18macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Not to be outdone by the OS9 interface staring at him across the tables from Gerry's clamshell, John whipped out an emulation of System 7 to demonstrate the old MacPaint. Amidst all this was Airani with hew new office-supplied Lenovo ThinkPad. Despite its small size, its battery didn't give out so she's a happy camper. Afterall, she still comes back to her iBook!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//07macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was reminded by John's System 7 shenanigans that I actually want to run MacDraw on occasion for a screen grab. But first I have to send in my MBP for repair and clear out the hardisk in the process. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still it was not all retro - Snow Leopard and multi-processor laptops &lt;em&gt;were&lt;/em&gt; discussed and the Sep/Oct announcements were contemplated. I then got distracted with surfing on Catherine's iPod Touch. It had to be prised away from me eventually while I still was being wowed by its ease of use and consideration as a portable Mac!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I did talk about the ease of use of &lt;a href="http://otterman.posterous.com/"&gt;Posterous&lt;/a&gt; that Kenneth had first highlighted to me and quibbled with John facetiously over the pronounciation of its name. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I learnt Yezdi still has occasion to access my old post on &lt;a href="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/macintosh/bluetooth.html"&gt;bluetooth and GPRS&lt;/a&gt; - I was quite rabid about both M1 and Nokia lack of response at the time and it was solutions via the internet that saved the day for me. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lucian and Wilfred reminded of an old but unused trick - two finger trackpad scrolling on my MacBook Pro and I realise its because I am usually using an extended keyboard. Still, when I next use it on its one hour of battery life, I will remember this! Lucian brought out his work's MacBook Air (w/SSD) and we enjoyed its feel until not its battery, but little Ann gave up for the night. We prised eager fingers and stopped our fountain of unrelated questions (Flock, Coda etc) so that he could get her back to bed! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//08macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ivan had convened a GarageBand meetup at the same venue and they were the better behaved group of the two at Suntec's Mc's this night - they went on until 10pm as well, and we decamped just minutes later although we spent another quarter hour outside the venue as usual. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//15macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Once again the Heritage Fest exhibits beckoned at Suntec Tower Two and despite the face-tracking capability of the Fuji Finepix F50 I was using, Laurence wasn't able to provide one of his inspired poses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//29macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At least one of us is having sweet dreams tonight - Wilfred collects his pink IC back from the SAF tomorrow. Congratulations Wilfred! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images//20macmeetup-17jul2008.jpg" width="400" height="300" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the photos are up on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157606223089861/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See also Laurence's photos on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157606278374751/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-7751497090507639643?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/7751497090507639643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=7751497090507639643' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/7751497090507639643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/7751497090507639643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/07/os9-oss7-and-snow-leopard.html' title='OS9, OSS7 and Snow Leopard'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-8025493993219770213</id><published>2008-06-27T16:50:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-09-22T20:11:10.583+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suntec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>Second meetup this year - Thursday 17th July 2008</title><content type='html'>"Ello, 'ello, we're meeting up again - this time its &lt;strong&gt;Thursday, 17th July 2008&lt;/strong&gt; at 7pm - McDonald's (McCafe) Suntec City once again. Our man Down Under will be here was well, specially flying in for the occasion (yeah, right).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/Mac_Meetup.jpg" width="427" height="280" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drop by for the usual anarchic, agenda-free Mac Meetup  - introduce yourselves, come with questions or hardware and software that you want to show off, a hacked iPhone, exciting finds on &lt;a href="http://isingeo.com/"&gt;isingeo.com&lt;/a&gt;, how you have been finding Leopard and Firefox 3 and catch up with our lives and aspirations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to get there&lt;/strong&gt; - If in a cab stop at Tower Two. The nearest MRT is at City Hall, an air-conditioned walk away. Taking a bus? Check SinGeo's mashup. The address is 3 Temasek Boulevard #B1-026, Suntec City Mall, S(038983).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.singeo.com.sg/singeo/maps/busstopallmap.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080402-gxtrtj6kk1esfhnaehg5gs7ys5.jpg" alt="Singapore Bus Stops - Suntec"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click for Singeo's mashup for bus stops&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All are invited!&lt;/strong&gt; While these meetups are powered by Me@N, they have always been open to Macaddicts interested in a free exchange of thoughts. And most of the time, we are reasonably coherent.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-8025493993219770213?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/8025493993219770213/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=8025493993219770213' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/8025493993219770213'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/8025493993219770213'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/04/9th-anniversary-meetup-friday-18th.html' title='Second meetup this year - Thursday 17th July 2008'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-5419799263156963537</id><published>2008-04-19T01:24:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2008-04-24T19:08:39.256+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><title type='text'>We talked about anything under the sun</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/acroamatic/sets/72157604609366399/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080418-eqgu4yd21562acc7fdhytsinwd.jpg" alt="Mac Meetup, 19 Apr 2008"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roll call - Let's see there was Puay Ann, Ivor, Laurence, Kenneth, John (sg), Choon Chai, Kian Chai, Hanx, Yezdi, Colin, Kevin, Hamish, Julian, Jermyn, Marcus, Benson, John Larkin and Siva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://lekowala.wordpress.com/"&gt;Lekowala&lt;/a&gt; had sworn off our early morning Changi Village ride due to the flu so I  stayed until midnight when coherence was threatened and Mc's finally began turning off lights.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Larkin said he had a good time. Despite his rigorous schedule of workshops, he fought off fatigue as well because it was an invigorating evening.  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Photos:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/acroamatic/sets/72157604609366399/"&gt;Kenneth Pinto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.larkin.net.au/mac_meetup_2008_April/index.html"&gt;John Larkin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/teutoburg/sets/72157604620244059/"&gt;Laurence Gwee&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-5419799263156963537?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/5419799263156963537/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=5419799263156963537' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/5419799263156963537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/5419799263156963537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/04/lovely-session-we-talked-about-anything.html' title='We talked about anything under the sun'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-6162446009646517184</id><published>2008-04-02T04:51:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2008-06-27T16:55:28.344+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suntec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>9th Anniversary Meetup - 18th April 2007</title><content type='html'>Drop by for the usual anarchic, agenda-free Mac Meetup  - introduce yourselves, come with questions or hardware and software that you want to show off, how you have been finding Leopard  and catch up with our lives and aspirations!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080627-r3eydx2suecssr73q9j96m38d9.jpg" alt="Mac Meetup, 18th April 2008"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to get there&lt;/strong&gt; - If in a cab stop at Tower Two. The nearest MRT is at City Hall, an air-conditioned walk away. Taking a bus? Check SinGeo's mashup. The address is 3 Temasek Boulevard #B1-026, Suntec City Mall, S(038983).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.singeo.com.sg/singeo/maps/busstopallmap.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://img.skitch.com/20080402-gxtrtj6kk1esfhnaehg5gs7ys5.jpg" alt="Singapore Bus Stops - Suntec"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click for Singeo's mashup for bus stops&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;All are invited!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These meetups are powered by Me@N but have always been open to Macaddicts interested in a free exchange of thoughts. &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-6162446009646517184?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/6162446009646517184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=6162446009646517184' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/6162446009646517184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/6162446009646517184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2008/04/9th-anniversary-meetup-18th-april-2007.html' title='9th Anniversary Meetup - 18th April 2007'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-306017409938742656</id><published>2007-07-18T01:27:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-19T09:46:37.229+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recap'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photos'/><title type='text'>Thanks for the night out! (17 Jul 2007)</title><content type='html'>Thanks for the company and conversation, everyone, it was lovely!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157600872462235/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1382/838407323_897b3244a6_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roll call (apologies to Loose Brick) - Airani, Ann, Mook Sum, Laurence, Kevin, Ashwin, Hazman, Ivan, Julian, Jermaine, Tim, LooseBrick, Tim, Gayle, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See more photos on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157600872462235/"&gt;this Flickr album&lt;/a&gt; and more photos, tagged with &lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tags/macmeetupsg"&gt;macmeetupsg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ivan Chew's blogged about his first &lt;a href="http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2007/07/mac-meetup-17th-july-2007.html"&gt;Mac Meetup&lt;/a&gt;. Apparently, we're not half as geeky as he thought. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As Laurence, Kevin, Airani and myself headed for the Padang through Suntec City Mall, we stumbled upon &lt;a href="http://yesterday.sg/detail/heritage_fest_07_launch_preparations/"&gt;Heritage Fest 07 preparations&lt;/a&gt; and dropped in for a sneak preview.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1438/838203253_68b8470820_o.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-306017409938742656?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/306017409938742656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=306017409938742656' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/306017409938742656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/306017409938742656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2007/07/thanks-for-night-out-17-jul-2007.html' title='Thanks for the night out! (17 Jul 2007)'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-2470288017302748263</id><published>2007-07-02T21:10:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-07-02T21:29:50.010+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='suntec'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='announcement'/><title type='text'>Tue 17 Jul 2007: 7pm - McDonald's Suntec City</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Welcome back folks!&lt;/b&gt; For the second session this year of an anarchic, agenda-free Mac Meetup Singapore. Drop by, introduce yourselves, come armed with questions or hardware and software that you want to show off, let your hair down and the cat out of the bag. &lt;table width="420" border="0" cellspacing="6" cellpadding="3"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td bgcolor="#FFFF99"&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;b&gt;Second Mac Meetup Singapore 2007&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, 17th July 2007: 7pm&lt;br&gt;McDonald's (McCafe) Suntec City&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://myskitch.com/sivasothi/skitched-2-20070702-211611.jpg" alt="skitched-2"/&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup you heard it right folks, we are meeting again. A Tuesday beckons as it used to, and we are back at our old haunt for we just missed this venue - the easy movement between seats, the bright lights, flat tables at just the right height, the good food nearby and free wireless when no one else offered *sob!* And despite that evil name (skynetglobal; think Terminator), we're grateful after a hair-tearing Wireless@SG experience. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;How to get there&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;If in a cab stop at Tower Two. The nearest MRT is at City Hall, an air-conditioned walk away. Taking a bus? Check &lt;a href="http://www.singeo.com.sg/singeo/maps/busstopallmap.html"&gt;SinGeo's mashup&lt;/a&gt;. If you really have to know, the address is 3 Temasek Boulevard #B1-026, Suntec City Mall, S(038983). &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;Who can come? Anyone!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;These meetups are powered by &lt;a href="http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/mean/"&gt;Me@N&lt;/a&gt; but have always been open to Macaddicts and anyone else interested in a free exchange of thoughts. We try to think different so will love the sight of Windows and Ubuntu installed Macs. Novices, geeks, activists, musicians and photgraphers, you never know who will turn up, so come long and find out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And we're not afraid to be seen eating ice-cream...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://myskitch.com/sivasothi/skitched-20070702-211230.jpg" alt="skitched-20070702-211230.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So who's coming?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-2470288017302748263?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/2470288017302748263/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=2470288017302748263' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2470288017302748263'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2470288017302748263'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2007/07/tue-17-jul-2007-7pm-mcdonald-suntec.html' title='Tue 17 Jul 2007: 7pm - McDonald&amp;#39;s Suntec City'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-4574452419931110621</id><published>2007-05-01T02:55:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-01T21:44:49.358+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Photos from the 8th anniversary meetup</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;Photos of the 8th anniversary, 30 Apr 2007 meetup&lt;/b&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/72157600161129950/"&gt;Otterman's photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/acroamatic/sets/72157600160814557/"&gt;Kenneth's photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/sets/72157600162859262"&gt;Kevin's photos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Conversation Continues...&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/20070501-outside_geek_terminal.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Conversations during the meetups always continue outside the venue! Here we are, having left Geek Terimal but still chatting away at 11.17pm.   Later Ivor, Teutoborg, Ladybug and I would carry on in Holland Village until 2am.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-4574452419931110621?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/4574452419931110621/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=4574452419931110621' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/4574452419931110621'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/4574452419931110621'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2007/05/conversation-continues.html' title='Photos from the 8th anniversary meetup'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-3470031139348452491</id><published>2007-04-30T21:01:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-05-08T23:44:42.108+08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geekterminal'/><title type='text'>Here tonight</title><content type='html'>Geek Terminal is turning out to be very interesting venue - we've been learning and talking about this place since we came!&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/20070501-18macmeetupsg-30apr2007.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Here tonight: Kenneth, Coleman, Kevin, Anggara, Choon Chai, Henry, Ivan, Kevin Guo, Roy, Pei Hua, Aik Harm, Mook Sum, Laurence, Airani, Hanx, Welly, Julian, Ivor and Siva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also present and chatting with us: The Geek Terminal crew!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/20070501-geek_terminal_crew.jpg"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;L to R:  Christopher (?CEO), Danny Pang (COO), Irene Kan (Tech Manager), Martin Tan (CFO)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Update&lt;/i&gt; - Kevin returned complete with his equipment for a detailed examination; see  &lt;a href="http://theory.isthereason.com/?p=1651"&gt;theorycast.20 :: The Geek Terminal Tour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Update&lt;/i&gt; - Alvin &lt;a href="http://alvinrobina.topcities.com/blogger/2007/05/long-lost-friend.html"&gt;recognises an old friend&lt;/a&gt;, Danny!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-3470031139348452491?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/3470031139348452491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=3470031139348452491' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/3470031139348452491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/3470031139348452491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2007/04/here-tonight.html' title='Here tonight'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-7343617377720325357</id><published>2007-04-29T10:50:00.001+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-29T10:50:49.214+08:00</updated><title type='text'>MacAddicts intending to come on Mon 30 Apr 2007: 7pm @ Geek Terminal</title><content type='html'>The latest update:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coming (12) - Julian, Laurence, Pei Huan, Jennifer, Kevin, Choon Chai, Kenneth, Hanx, Ashwin, Airani, Mook Sum, Siva.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Possibly, maybe, should be coming (7) - Hamish, Colin, Kevin Guo, MacBiff, BK, Wilfred, Paddy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unable (4) - VY Lee, Ivor, Van, Mossie&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-7343617377720325357?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/7343617377720325357/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=7343617377720325357' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/7343617377720325357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/7343617377720325357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2007/04/macaddicts-intending-to-come-on-mon-30.html' title='MacAddicts intending to come on Mon 30 Apr 2007: 7pm @ Geek Terminal'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-2006722936113227431</id><published>2007-04-21T21:53:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-25T13:06:51.696+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Meetups revived! Mon 30 Apr 2007: 7pm @ Geek Terminal</title><content type='html'>Our anarchic, agenda-free Mac Meetup Singapore series is being revived on &lt;b&gt;Monday, 30th April 2007: 7pm - 10pm, at Geek Terminal.&lt;/b&gt; This is a new F&amp;B joint at &lt;b&gt;55 Market Street, opposite Golden Shoe Carpark and next to Raffles Place MRT.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href="http://tinyurl.com/2y85vt"&gt;Click for map&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who can come - anyone! These meetups are powered by Me@N but it has always been open to anyone who is interested in a free exchange of thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since we didn't meetup in 2006, it's going to be really interesting. Web2.0 has exploded and OS X Leopard draws near. Many of us are equipped with gmail accounts and our Macs now bear Intel chips, an apparent heresy that was well embraced by most of us - we just want a mac that dazzles us with its abilities! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remember when we were peering at a preview of the Black Cat? Ivor took a lovely photo then (click to see the gallery):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/galleries/mac/macmeetup-14oct2003/source/27macmeetup-14oct2003%5Bivor.html"&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/27macmeetup-14oct2003%5Bivor%5D-400.jpg"&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I met the friendly Geek Terminal staff at &lt;a href="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/index.php?entry=/mac%20and%20the%20internet/20070327-nexus2007again.txt"&gt;Nexus 2007&lt;/a&gt; and its supposed to be geek-friendly place, e.g. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free power supply at every table for laptops and phones,&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Free faster high speed wireless (2Mbit) all day&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Opens daily until 10pm.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently Apple will be launching iPhone and AppleTV there in upcoming months.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It'll be symbolic to restart in April because Me@Ners first met in Marche (Hereen) in April 1999. Yup, 8 years ago! &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-2006722936113227431?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/2006722936113227431/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=2006722936113227431' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2006722936113227431'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/2006722936113227431'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2007/04/next-meetup-30th-apr-2007-7pm-10pm.html' title='Meetups revived! Mon 30 Apr 2007: 7pm @ Geek Terminal'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-113455445168367562</id><published>2005-12-14T18:00:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2007-04-21T21:29:54.299+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thu 22 Dec 2005: 7.30pm - MacMeetup @ Applecentre Bukit Timah</title><content type='html'>Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yezdi has invited us to AppleCentre @ Bukit Timah on Thursday 22 Dec: 7.30pm.  Just confirmed it and Julian, Laurence, Yezdi and myself will be there for sure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's at Tan Chong Motor Centre (913 Bukit Timah Road), and close to some pretty decent makan places. Buses:  Bus : SBS - 151, 154, 157, 170, 170X, 174, 174M, 66, 74 TIB - 171, 67, 852, 961, 961C, 970.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seeya!&lt;br /&gt;Otterman&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Update - thanks for coming; we had fun! All the best for 2006!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/20051222-macmeetup400.jpg"&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-113455445168367562?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/113455445168367562/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=113455445168367562' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/113455445168367562'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/113455445168367562'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2005/12/thu-22-dec-205-730pm-macmeetup.html' title='Thu 22 Dec 2005: 7.30pm - MacMeetup @ Applecentre Bukit Timah'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-112834788593497154</id><published>2005-10-03T21:58:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-10-06T23:20:20.846+08:00</updated><title type='text'>PineGrove Clubhouse on Thu, 6th Oct 2005 at 7pm</title><content type='html'>Mac-meetup on Thursday, 6th October 2005: 7pm&lt;br/&gt;Venue: PineGrove Clubhouse (host: Laurence Gwee) &lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We'll call for pizza.&lt;br/&gt;Drinks available at a convenience shop nearby.&lt;br/&gt;Wireless available.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Came: Laurence (host), John Larkin, Ashwin, Airani, Julian, Yezdi, Roy and Otterman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/1084446/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://static.flickr.com/27/49959400_31e9124a27_m.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More photos on &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sivasothi/sets/1084446/"&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-112834788593497154?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/112834788593497154/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=112834788593497154' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/112834788593497154'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/112834788593497154'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2005/10/pinegrove-clubhouse-on-thu-6th-oct.html' title='PineGrove Clubhouse on Thu, 6th Oct 2005 at 7pm'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-112294779378776161</id><published>2005-08-02T09:56:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-08-04T12:50:22.346+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Meetup on Monday, 8th August 2005, NUS (note new date)</title><content type='html'>'Julian and Laurence will be meeting up at the LKY School of Public Policy for a mac chit-chat session. Julian will be giving the tour of the building and there&amp;#8217;ll be wireless (NUS users only?) too.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When: Mon 8th Aug 2005, 6PM&lt;br /&gt;Where: Heng Mui Kheng Terrace, Pasir Panjang - &lt;a href="http://www.street-directory.com/nus/campus2.cgi?faculty=PP"&gt;See map&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They will be having pizza dinner there too. There are a lot of nice places to sit around, both indoor and outdoor.'&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-112294779378776161?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/112294779378776161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=112294779378776161' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/112294779378776161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/112294779378776161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2005/08/meetup-on-10-aug-2005-nus.html' title='Meetup on Monday, 8th August 2005, NUS (note new date)'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13680403.post-111879872910406815</id><published>2005-06-15T09:22:00.000+08:00</published><updated>2005-06-15T09:28:52.086+08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mac Meetup Singapore migration begins</title><content type='html'>To receive notifications of Mac meetups, sign up at this webpage: &lt;a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macmeetup-singapore/"&gt;Mac Meetup Singapore&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13680403-111879872910406815?l=macmeetupsg.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/feeds/111879872910406815/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13680403&amp;postID=111879872910406815' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/111879872910406815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13680403/posts/default/111879872910406815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://macmeetupsg.blogspot.com/2005/06/mac-meetup-singapore-migration-begins.html' title='Mac Meetup Singapore migration begins'/><author><name>Sivasothi</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/15602079103603710402</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~sivasothi/blog/images/ss_face.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
