New Toys for iPhone!

I guess everybody got or going to get their iPhones updated with the new iOS4.0!  Finally, its out and some features are really great, I wonder why didn't they thought of it sooner... 

Highlighted some need to know features.  I extracted this from [lifehacker], please click the link to view the full article.

New to the Bar

Hold then drag-and-drop to create app folders: You can now create folders to store and organize the apps on your iPhone's home screen, particularly handy if you're a bit of an app junkie. To create a folder, tap and hold any icon on the home screen until they all start wiggling. Then drag and drop any application on top of another to create a folder with those apps together.

 
 





Double-tap home for quick app switching: The quick app switching shortcut pulls up your most recently opened applications whenever you double-tap the home button. Then just tap on any app you want to quickly switch to it without going back to the home screen.  

Note: You'll need at least an iPhone 3GS or later generation iPod touch to use multitasking.





Unified inbox: If you access multiple email accounts from your phone but you'd prefer to be able to read through them in one unified stream, Mobile Mail now has a unified "All Inboxes" feature that does just that.
  









Change your home screen wallpaper: Okay, this one's mostly for eye candy, but if you always ached for some personality in your home screen background, fire up Settings -> Wallpaper, pick an image you want to use, and set it as your home screen wallpaper.  

Note: We can't really imagine what possible reason there is for this one, but you can't set a wallpaper for the home screen on 3G or first generation iPhones.





So What's New? for the occasional average joe...

• Make folders for great organization.  No more excuses to slide the through the pages for fun :P 
• New shortcut for recently used apps/functions.
• Multi-app support! Yay! I can do more! and Yay! My battery life is shorter!
• Kill running apps.  A must have with Multi-app support.
• One mailbox button to bind them all feature.  All mails from all your mailboxes will be consolidated into one.
• Built in spelling checker.  No more excuses for typos!
• Dates and Times in emails can be set into your Event Calendar.
• Threaded emails.
• Wallpaper!  Bye-bye Black Screen!
• Alphanumeric lock for those paranoid buds!
• Turn off cell data, so your cellular network provider won't suck you dry without you knowing.

Have fun! :)

Pulau Ketam

 

My parents were down in KL for the long Wesak weekend, and yes! I know this is an overdue post :P Since I was the guide, I decided to get out from the city and head to Pulau Ketam!  Something different, gigantic skyscrapers and windowed displays weren't that appealing.

 

Pulau Ketam is located near Port Klang, about 35 minutes via boat ride.  You may head to Port Klang via car or the KTM commuter, and catch a boat for RM7 (one-way) at the newly constructed jetty.  FYI, the jetty is very near to the Port Klang KTM commuter station, and don't take the boat at the aged jetty (if you don't want to find yourself in Indonesia).

 

There are 2 types of boats available - the plane like speed boat (look at pic), and the open ones.  The open boats might be slower but you can soak up the sun and with the air in your hair, and take some magnificent shots of the surroundings.

 

Once we reached the jetty and with our stomachs growling in hunger, we patronized the first restaurant we saw after disembarking.  Ordered a shocking number of dishes until the waitress stopped us :P  It wasn't too expensive, just around RM23 per pax.

 

 

After having a great meal, we walked around the tiny fishing village of Pulau Ketam.  Mind you to take a cap or umbrella or some sun block, the Sun can be quite unforgiving!  You might take note of the many stalls selling Calm Omelette aka 'La La Jien', do try the inner stalls :)  Heading back to the mainland is also RM7.