Changkhui: Changkhui

ฺBack in the first half of 2008, people would not have much of a choice in terms of selecting a smart phone, most, if not all, would have to pick iPhone. However, in the last quarter of 2009 and up until now, it ain' t that easy anymore. There are iPhone, Blackberry, Android and, yes, Nokia is still around. @ripmilla had direct experience in using all of them and was very happy with iPhone, while @FordAntitrust was content with his Blackberry. Sorry, I am still using my 2-year old Nokia N95 8GB. However, at the end of the conversation, we did not have any real conclusion on which was a winner but it should have some ideas to those who were interested in getting one.

This episode was recorded on January 6, 2010, a few weeks before the Apple announcement of iPad. Koson was in Bangkok for the Christmas break, we met briefly and still had to record this via Skype. He picked three topics to cover. Geocaching seemed to be his favourite game at the time that we spoke.

In 2007, I had an opportunity to attend the Apple Pro Day event in Bangkok. One of the talk I listened to to was khun Kakorn Bhirakit's session, he was talking about workflow in Adobe's InDesign. He pointed out about the Thai-character encoding standard that was missing and caused a few headaches among the Thai publishing industry; a simple txt file could potentially gave different display, depending on which operationg system and software you were using to open it. More than 2 years went by and I managed to have a chance to talk to him. We talked at my place and he patiently explained what went wrong at the beginning and some possible solutions in the future. You can follow him at twitter.com/Kajorn and ThaiAdobeUser.com

From http://www.ipattt.com/2010/thainosniff and various comments on Twitter, we decided to make an episode on the topic. This time we had 2 guests, @jiew, from Prachatai, from episode 118 and @TVchampion from episode 145.

After some begging and cheering from a few followers, he agreed to appear on the show. @ThaiShortNews, AKA Doctor Jimmy, was actually a medical doctor but decided to turn his back to hospitals and became programmers. He was in the industry since Windows 2.0. He was based in Chiangmai and still very much active in IT industry. The easiest way to contact him these days is via Twitter.

We were suggested and introduced by Guzzie Ang to Leong Wong-savuns, a Thai who worked in a CG production company in the USA. He was part of the post-production team for the movie Avatar. Because of our lack of depth for the topic, we invited a listener over to help, he was @NotJiam, who was an award winner for his animation during college years. This was one episode where we felt we should have prepared for the discussion, however, Loeng saved the day by sharing his working experience.

Seeing a referral from http://www.thaivisa.com, so we checked who the person was. Rikker Dockum turned out to be an American who could speak Thai very fluently. Too bad, he did not update his blog (Thai101.net) That often anymore. It took us sometime to schedule a recording session due to his hectic schedule, but anyway, when he came, he actually prepared the recording materials, so the episode was running on auto-pilot mode. He came with a few Thai books that he recommended to anyone interested in reading Thai materials, including Thai, of course. You can also follow him at Twitter.com/Thai101.

The 5th and final episode of this serie, this time we have a first-time guest, @muenue, we met her at Wawee and saw what she tweeted so we invited her over. There should be no introduction needed for old timers for @FordAntitrust and @9aum.

The 4th episode of this series, this time we had 2 long-time contributors to Changkhui; @meneeeee and @Phz

Having seen him performed on stage as a moderator in various events and TV show, it tempted us to get to know more about him. Supadej Sutthiphongkanasai, AKA @ripmilla on Twitter, was a Thai web celebrity, appearing regularly on a tech TV show on Nation Channel, Beartai Hitech, on Sunday 10pm. He also ran http://www.freeware.in.th. On this episode, we asked how he got to where he was at the moment.