I went to MacWorld this afternoon (No, I didn’t sneak out from work. Work actually gave me the pass to go!), checked out some cool gadgets and saw a lot of interesting vendors. I must say The Macbook Air is &%$#ing ill. See the pictures I took with my iPhone below:

Dude, look! It’s the old school Super Mario. I was hanging out in my friend Eddie’s house and he bust out this “gaming console” NO, not Nintendo, it’s called “Super JoyStick” some crazy remote looking console that contains a few famous old-school games ripped from the Nintendo. The console is the remote itself. The funny thing is, you can hook up the 2nd remote (Sold separately, according to Eddie) simply by plugin the 2nd remote into the “console”. Besides Super Mario, I also played Contra. It feels kinda good playing these games on his 40 sum’n inch flat panel. But the hardwood floor that I sat on was kinda cold…

Finally, we’re able to use IMAP protocol on Gmail. Many of us are not familiar with IMAP, most of the time, people prefer or used to the term “POP3″. What are the difference? Which is better?

POP3 is a very popular email protocol used today, it connects to the email server via email client and download new/unread messages into your hard drive. You have the option to tell your email client (Outlook, Thunder Bird)  to keep a copy on the server. But on most email services (Gmail, Yahoo Mail Plus) will still keep the email in unread condition for the web mail interface, which means when login to the web mail, you have some extra work to do (Check All, Mark as read.) if you already read these messages in your email client that is. And, this made it kinda hard to tell which message you’ve read and which you didn’t. Heck, I have couple hundred messages every time I login to Gmail web. Thanks to Google for filtering all (almost all) of the junk mails.

IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) does it differently, when reading messages by email clients (Outlook. Thunderbird, iPhone ETC,.) via IMAP, it constantly connects to the email server, and tells the server “Hey, I read this message already. Now, mark it as read!” Bamm… The messages gets marked and no matter which computer or device you check your email with, again, will show that the messages has been read. Even when you login to the web mail interface.

For more information on IMAP, IMAP4 and/or POP3; Please visit WIKI.

You dig? Clearly, IMAP is much cooler! Okay fine, it’s up to you to judge.

This kick-ass real superhero is for sale on ebay. It’s a Optimus Prime Peterbilt 1:1 Scale Replica! How cool is this? I remember watching Transformers at 6:00 PM sharp on CCTV (China Central TV) right after home work. I would have to finish all my elementary school home works before my mom would let me turn on the TV. It was everyone of my classmate’s favorite. But I never thought there would be something realistic like this! This beautiful truck is going for $55,000 right now, but I think it can easily go wayyyy more than that. Do you have some extra cash laying around? Would be so cool driving it around on highway 880!