Recently, our company launched a digital magazine app on Apple AppStore.

For me, it is like getting a student report card when we saw the release on the public.  It is amazing that the first day of release, it already hit to the platform top app list with over 8K people download.

http://blog.muecs.com/our-team-great-result-for-all-the-hard-work

http://blog.muecs.com/maggames-ios-app-hit-apstore-top-list-in-firs

http://blog.muecs.com/it-is-out-on-this-weekend-maggames-new-ios-ap

國外黑客發現了iOS 4.1新版中的一個嚴重漏洞，iPhone在處理緊急呼叫時再次出現可繞過鎖屏PIN的問題，實現方法如下：

1.在PIN輸入屏幕點擊緊急呼叫按鈕。

2.隨意輸入一些號碼，例如#1337並撥打。

3.當您看見紅色的“結束通話”按鈕後，按下右上角鎖屏鍵。

4.撥號盤出現，您還可以閱讀本機的所有聯繫人，並相應打開郵件等信息。

該漏洞測試已經通過，蘋果的技術部門在24-48小時內估計會對此有所反應。

It really exciting that it have a good feedback from the subcribers.

Within 2 days of release in AppStore, our first magazine went up to Top 10 in Books category.

If you haven't download it, go do it now! 

http://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/id397596742?mt=8

Why do startups fail? There's a number of reasons. Sometimes its the wrong person at the wrong time.

Sometimes though, the problem is just too big too tackle.

Sometimes there's a reason nobody has been able to solve the problem a startup is tackling.

What follows is a list of such ideas, culled from a question on Quora: "What are some startup ideas that persistently fail?"

People in that thread pointed out that many ideas failed time and time again until someone figured it out. Groupon is one such company.

Tackling a problem that has regularly vexed most startups is just the sort of hubristic move we'd expect from a startup. We fully expect people to keep trying to make it work. It's the just that sort of hubris that makes entrepreneurs.

1. Semantic Search/Any search company that's not Google
2. Social recommendations as a standalone don't work
3. Local news sites
4. Micropayments just don't work.
5. Stop trying to kill email.
6. You can't build a better car company
7. Music startups can't get enough paying customers.
8. Marrying the web and the TV hasn't worked out
   
9. RSS Readers are not businesses.
10. A startup focused on kids or making life easier for parents
    
    

Via: Business Insider

Formula 1 cars are marvels of engineering and, to our eye, stunning works of art. Any single part on a car like the Red Bull RB6 would look right at home in the MoMA, and now you can put one in your living room.

Red Bull racing and Racing Gold are offering a limited-edition run of objets d’art crafted from components taken straight from the team’s F1 cars. Like everything else in Formula 1, everything in the “Part of the Team” collection is ridiculously expensive, but the proceeds benefit the Wings for Life spinal cord research foundation.

All of the parts were used by the team at some  point, though it’s not clear if the parts come from this season’s cars. The artwork is hand-crafted and numbered.

“At the very heart of Formula One is the art of creating the perfect racing car,” said Christian Horner, Red Bull Racing team principal. “The Part of the Team collection reveals elements of the car which are vital, often unseen, but actually quite stunning. These pieces are extremely special, highly desirable and would be a fascinating talking point in any room.”

Our favorite is the floor lamp fashioned from an exhaust system (pictured above). It’d be on its way to San Francisco right now if we had 19 grand lying around. Expensive, yes, but it includes a visit to the Red Bull Racing factory in England.

The lamp is one of just one of 13 custom pieces available for F1 fans with deep enough pockets. More pics below.

Photos: Art Direction Realise Creative / Photography Thomas Butler

Don’t need a floor lamp? How about an LED desk lamp made from suspension pushrods. All that carbon fiber and alloy goodness can be yours for just $4,800.

This exhaust header coffee table would be front and center in our living room if we had $6,200.

Now this is just bad-ass: A coat rack fashioned from the wheel and brake assembly. The brown bit is the wood upright you hang your stuff on. Using the axle would have been far cooler. The $11,600 price tag includes a trip the factory.

We have no idea what these were before becoming a salt and pepper shaker set, but they sure look cool. They’re yours for $2,500.

Truth be told, there’s nothing in this collection we can afford. This set of napkin rings — fashioned from what appear to be bearings, or maybe transmission components — is the least expensive item in the collection, but it’ll still set you back about $1,100.

Via : Wired

It is really exciting that Muecs next production brand are building another tech. stuff for consumers.  This is Magseed - 種誌, an  eMagazines digital contents network.  The name are really straight forward, the magazines we develop are growth with passion.  It just like planting a seed and grow with heart.

The first series of topic are MagGames, this will be focus on all hit gaming platform, such as Xbox 360, PS3, iOS games, and PC.  The first volume of this magazine was published on Apple AppStore, the language of it is in traditional Chinese.  Because we mainly serve Hong Kong, and South China users first, hopefully there will be more languages soon.

It is free for download in iTune now until Nov, 2010.

iTune Download :
http://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/id397350186?mt=8#

One of the funny thing in my office recently are the new iPhone app made by my co-worker Johny.

The app is called 香港時鐘酒店 Guide.  Which is simply showing all the love hotel in Hong Kong, with detail information of the place and telephone number. He claim that some young adult in Hong Kong are willing to pay for amount of money with their partner(s) to spend 2 - 3 hours in the hotel.  (You know what they do inside... haha) 

He said the problem right now are that, people want to book the hotel room before they arrive.  So the chance of waiting, or find it is full booking will be none.  Cause when arrive the the hotel, they know it's full booking or no room available, then bad mood and gone.  

So I said, well fine, make this app and I help you submit on AppStore give it a try.

At the moment, I believe he didn't expect so much download in AppStore, and feedback from those forums in HK or other iPhone communities.  After 4 days of released, the app went to Top Free app list, and the 5th day it was in Top 2 under OpenRice in HK AppStore Lifestyle section.

I am not a guy that go to love hotel in usual.  I don't know how it can help people in that way.

But I see many people on the Internet are talking about this app that is useful for finding hotel.

Well, if you like to go love hotel with your girlfriend or boyfriend, you can give it a try.  

This app is free, and Johny said he will be continue update the app features, and hotel information.

Download for free :

http://itunes.apple.com/hk/app/id395134189?mt=8

There are really busy in work last week. All the sudden fewe things came together at the same time. Although we have some much idea and such many things we want to do, but as a startup, we don't have that much manpower to handle all the stuff. 
So as an entrepreneur, I started to learn how to manage better our time in day and night time. Cause we need to be productive to finish things in a short time.

What is the most of my time spending on right now? well, meeting people should be one of the biggest things in my timeline.  I can't believe I did have 4 meeting in a row in the same day.

I can't tell all the detail about things that we are doing right now.

But in briefly, Muecs keep following up with the beta users of Mulaboration. It will be going to release a ver 2 of it in May with a official pricing and plans for enterprise. The main web site Muecs.com are having re-designing right now, all I can say is, there's going to be so fun in the next version of Muecs.com.

Also I was doing angel for a startup in Hong Kong, and that company was doing something really excites me.

Anyway, these are something that I'm working on right now. So, stay tune folks!

When you feel overwhelmed in the world of Web 2.0, sometimes leaning on the help of a virtual assistant can make life a lot easier. Check out these thirty useful—and relatively unknown—web apps.

Pandora—No list of webapps is complete without everyone’s favorite internet radio service, Pandora. Pandora allows users to create radio stations based on their favorite artists, and generates playlists comprised of similar sounding artists. Like Hot Chip? You can start with Over and Over, and Pandora will follow with someone like The Whitest Boy Alive. If you don’t like them, you can skip to another one of Pandora’s suggestion. It’s the easiest way to find new artists based on your already superb tastes.

Remember the Milk—Remember The Milk is an online to-do list app, with a remarkably convenient interface. You just sign up for an account, then type in a task, such as “saturday 2pm get car smogged” and it will automatically file a to-do entry for “get car smogged” into your schedule at 2pm on Saturday. You can further organize your to-do tasks with priority levels, locations, and tags.

See all thirty at Maximum PC.

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