How To Turn Your iPhone/iPod into Ultimate Portable Karaoke Machine
As many of my friends would know, I’m in love with singing Karaoke.
It’s a great way to destress, socialize and keep up with my Chinese.
So I’ve always want to be able to have a portable karaoke machine.
With my 16GB iPhone 3G and this nifty little app that I’m going to recommend, Karaoke nirvana has arrived for me.
1. First you will need to have an jailbroken iPhone.
2. Then you will need to go to Cydia.
3. And look for this app called MxTube. Check out this review. Essentially it is a super easy app that allows you to search for videos on Youtube and download them onto your iPhone for playback. It is a native app so it works with the in-built Youtube player. It also saves both the High-Res and Low-Res version of the video and allows you to stream preview before downloading.
4. Once you have that app, make sure to add the “KTV” word to your searches so that you will find the videos with the Lyrics and synchronized scrolling text color.
Good right? So now I’m progressively downloading all my favorite tunes and compiling a large portable system.
I’ve finally achieve Car-aoke capability too: being able to view the KTV song while driving and singing. 
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America’s Getting an Upgrade… Finally
Obama has a new plan to upgrade America.
Yes in the word’s of a Singaporean politician, America’s getting an upgrade.
What’s in the works?
Roads, Rails, Broadband… blah blah.
I personally think that even though some detractors think that it doesn’t create the right kind of jobs and it’s not going to be that bad. Afterall to create new stuff you need good engineers. But also a lot of low-cost labour to do the construction work. Nevertheless the spinoffs should be pretty good.
I think it’s high time for America to upgrade.
Seriously it has terrible infrastructure. For all its greatness I’d rather live in Singapore because the infrastructure here is just much better.
And the biggest push factor is how much China is investing in infrastructure. China already has fantastic infrastructure in the major cities and in a few decades it should be pretty easy to just go anywhere in China either on a rail or road network. China also has a pretty good broadband infrastructure which has given it its own Internet economy.
So yeah even though America’s down for now, we all want to see it lead the way because at the end of the day it is still the most developed country in the world. Not it only has to match up its infrastructure and make America even as there are really big discrepancies between big towns and the countryside areas. Even within big towns there are a lot of urban slums.
