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Twitter is a very useful tool as I always mentioned. I used it to deliever instant tech news through my feed and also the iPhone edition. Unfortuantely, Twitter got lots of problems recently. I found that the downtime is frequent these days. By the time I write this blog, I cannot login to the site because of “over capacity”. Can Twitter handle more users in the future?

So, you think Macworld 2008 keynote is nothing special and not impressed. It may be. Since someone squeeze the whole 90 minutes in 60 seconds. Yes. within 1 minute, you will know what happen in this years Macworld. No need to waste your time.

Not everyone can go to US for Macworld Expo 2008. Although some of you will think this year’s Macworld is crap, it is still worth watching. It is free and you can find it from iTunes Store in iTunes. If you didn’t have the iTunes store account, you may wish to take look here.

Since iTunes movie rental is now official and available for US, the software now needs an update. iTunes now needs an update to 7.6 to US users to enjoy the movie rental now. QuickTime and Front Row also have an update. It should also be useful for those who needs to movie rental services.

Things are going fast. iPhone 1.1.3 is now available through your iTunes. If you have synced and click Check for update, you may see this thing. Notice if you are using AT&T and other official carrier of iPhone, and you didn’t install and use 3rd party native applications, you can go for upgrade now.

But, if iPhone is anySIM unlocked or jailbroken, you cannot go for upgrade. As early report confirmed this update will break and ruin all the unlocked iPhone. It will also break the 3rd party native applications. The worse thing is that some reports rumoured after updated to 1.1.3, you cannot go back to 1.1.2 and use the iPhone correctly. The iPhone will then turns to be iBrick.

This news is true unless someone found the way out to break Apple again. And it may also applied to iPod Touch update.

Note to those TurboSIM (and those who use hardware trick) users, since jailbreak may not be able in 1.1.3 right now, it may not work correctly after you updated 1.1.3.

Macworld Expo 2008 now comes to the end. Excited? Or disappointed? No matter what you feel, here is the 4 things discussed in Macworld Expo 2008.

1. Airport extreme with 500GB or 1TB harddisk

2. iPhone 1.1.3 update now official and will be delivered TODAY. Warning to those jailbroken and anySIM unlocked iPhones, don’t update.

3. iTunes movie rental with HD titles. Starting from $2.99.

4. Macbook Air is now official. This new product is thin and easy to carry at weight 2.36kg.

Seems everyone have too high expectation of Macworld expo 2008, Apple stock now drops well below $170 at the time it ends. It goes up a little bit when Macbook Air announced, but it drops again in the end. Looks like the fans is not that satisfied with Macbook Air specifications and the price. By the time I post this news wrap-up, the price is below $170.

Apple.com is now back and online. You can now explore the Macbook Air at home. Note Micro-DVI to DVI adapter and Micro-DVI to VGA adapter will be included. Pricing at US$1799 is not that impressive, but the design looks brilliant and cool. I don’t really impressed for the weight at 1.36kg. The whole thing is Macbook – superdrive = Macbook air.

If you don’t mind it is running Linux/Windows and looking for portable notebook, ASUS Eee PC seems a better choice and is affordable.

What would you think about it?

I thought Apple TV HD is considered to be the last thing of Macworld expo 2008. But, sorry, it is not. The last thing is the highly expected Macbook Air. Macbook Air is claimed to be the smallest notebook. It is just the size of paper envelope. The exciting thing is that it will comes with multi-touch mousepad. It features with small processor with Core 2 Duo at 1.6GHz. The faster version will comes with 1.8GHz.

The memory is 2GB RAM for the standard. And it is sure enough to run Mac OS X. It supports 802.11n and bluetooth with 1 USB 2.0 port. It also comes with Micro-DVI and Audio Out. There will be no superdrive in Macbook Air, but you can use Mac or PC’s superdrive if they are on the same network. You may also purchase the US$99 external superdrive.

Macbook air have battery life of 5 hours. It is priced at US$1799 and its available for pre-order now and shipping in 2 weeks.

[via Gizmodo and MacRumors]

Due to the high expectation of “Macbook Air”, everyone is looking for the lite and portable version of Macbook in this years Macworld expo 2008. Unfortuantely, there is no new Macbook. Apple stock is dropped with more than $7 just now. And now it is below $170 when the Macworld expo keynote nearly to the end.

And now the stock price goes up above $170 after MacBook Air is official. Stock is always exciting.

This is the power of Mac rumour sites. Don’t depress Apple fan boys.

Now the keynote is end, it still drops below $170. Looks like not all feel impressive with Macbook Air.

The fun and guess is now over. The 3rd thing are iTunes movie rental and HD Apple TV. I talked about iTunes movie rental in this post. And it will be launched in US today. The library titles will costs US$2.99 and the new release will costs US$3.99. The rules is 30 days watching. You can watch it on iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC.

There will be HD titles for users which costs US$4.99. The HD titles will be best of the upcoming new product, Apple TV. Note it is less than 10 minutes left for this years Macworld.