If not clothing shopping would be this easy…

Still, decided that the way to go was to actually (and finally!) set up a budget. I went through a couple before succumbing upon this gem.. its called Toshl.

Toshl has one of the simplest user interface, and it not only comes for the iPhone, but a host of other mobile OSes as well. Furthermore, happily enough, it syncs rather effortlessly with the cloud to give you a breakdown of your spendings a month. I would say, give it a shot, so far (1 month), I pretty much give it 5 thumbs up! Check this out here.

I got my first iPod in 2005 in Cupertino, at the WWDC bash where it was still possible to get tickets as students, it was still held in the Cupertino campus and it wasn’t so rock star cool.

It was a pink iPod mini (Of course) and I bought under peer pressure of my equally fanatic Apple fans (Yes, I’m talking about you – Robert, Christina, Thomas and all you other WWDC student scholarship lets live in the HI hostel although it seems pretty dangy people – I seriously miss being a student then).

Apple has sold 500,000 units of iPad on its first week, 150 billion dollars on its first day. Seth Godin kind of labelled it as the greatest launch ever. Me? I kind of agree with him, the iPad falls into that very blue-ocean of I think we don’t need one but we want to have one, we always knew we had to have one, category.

Someone would probably ask, what is the thing with Apple, and what’s next? I think the underlying thing with Apple is probably pushing it to the corporate and business world. Consumers are nice, but enterprise would also be a whole lot better.

MacHeist has come with a new nanoBundle, which is absolutely unattractive with the exception of Tales of Monkey Island. Unfortunately, I played Monkey Island on the iPhone and was absolutely addicted to it until I finished. But I can’t fathom forking out money again for the game and having other apps which I’ll never use lying around…

On the 27th January, Steve Jobs announced the tech world’s worst kept secret, the Apple tablet PC, after Seth Godin, random publishers, leaked China replicas and every thing else pointed to the fact that Apple was indeed developing a tablet PC. On 28th January, I decided NOT to blog about it, didn’t have a clue on what I felt about it.

So here it is.

Do I need an iPad? No.

Do I want an iPad? Probably yes.

Why do I want an iPad? Probably need to think about it, maybe when my MacBook reaches a ripe old laptop age of 4 years, which in computer years means 100. Probably.

Ok. So here’s why I probably want an iPad. I have a feeling its going to be a love-love situation just after buying my iPhone, what I thought I didn’t need, I just felt in love with. Now nothing, even if you pay me 100 bucks to use a Nexus One for a year, would I give up my iPhone.

(1) Games. I hate the App Store. I really do. I’m spending money on Cluedo, GTA Chinatown Wars, and all sort of time wasting stuff because having the App Store with its 170K Apps is easy to download. So, what are the possibilities of the iPad? I used to bring my MacBook everywhere, now I’ll just bring the iPad everywhere.

(2) Home. I have a feeling somewhere deep inside me, I’m a control freak. I want to know how many calories I’m using. I want to know how much money I’m spending to the last dime. I imagine controlling my television, heating, lights and whatever using a tablet PC, just like what we used to envision. We would know how to regulate energy in the home, or if having the room at 3 degrees more would cause a great change in our electricity bill.

(3) Work. Its weird. iWork? I don’t know about this, but I rely on Keynote that much to give good presentations.

(4) Size. Is perfect. Giant iPod? Is great.

Why won’t I buy it now?

(1) Camera. I probably need one. Eventually.

(2) Price. 16GB on an iPhone is insufficient for me. I have too many photos and videos I want to bring around. I like the 64GB model with 3G. That’s going to be expensive. I might have to wait for my MacBook to literally start working like a snail first.

(3) iBooks. Has that tiny print to show that it is for the US market only. Along with downloading of movies and what have you not which we outsiders in the international market do not have. I would buy this over a Kindle though.

(4) Instability. Uh. I’m not going to be an early adopter of code adopted for the iPad.

I think that’s what I can think of for now. Ignore the name iPad, everyone hated the name MacBook Pro when it was first announced, but now MacBook eventually is well sort-of-okay. And even if it was called iHippo, iGraffic, iWhatever, you would have bought it anyway. Names are only important when establishing an entire product line, read: RAZR.

I am in Singapore! And I finally got my order of the Uncommon cases for iPhone as well. Well, it rocks – sort of. Well, I half anticipated a case which is non-generic and what nobody has, and apparently there it was, my black and white Sadoko like princess imprinted on my iPhone case. It fits to a tee and covers the edges of the iPhone which my previous case did not do – and hence the onslaught of ugly marks. I really like it.

However, the dock area is weird. Its protruding and didn’t let me dock properly on anything possible – including the Vestalife Ladybug II speakers which I really wanted to get. Oh well, there, I saved a bunch of money for my speakers now. At least for now.

PS: I can’t wait for the announcement of some sort of Apple tablet on the 27th January too!

Since I got my iPhone in April, so has my dad and b – both 16GB White! I seem to have some influencing prowress around here.

Anyway, just saw something which caught my eye, There’s a company called Uncommon which is offering customized iPhone cases etched with embedded 3D design – what better news could this get? It also offers a whole bunch of artwork by progressive artists, something like Moo.com but for the iPhone. Check out Getuncommon.com, I think this rocks, would be nice if someone had a real case to show how it is like.

Its just a whole host of under the hood upgrades, but all Mac OS X people should just get Snow Leopard upgrade anyway – just 29USD!

Wound magazine, which celebrates edginess and originality through works that inspire in art, fashion, architecture and design, officially unveils their summer issue across three different platforms. Wound Digital (online) and iWound (iPhone) receive their global premiere alongside the established print bible Wound Quarterly in a landmark launch.

Interested in a digital fashion magazine on the iPhone? Well, there is one right now. Check out iWound which is the iPhone app of Wound. For more details and a further review, you have to check it out here.