Year in Review – 2009 – Part 1
It’s come to that time in the year again where I get to look back at some of the most major decisions this year and and with the benefit of a mite bit of hindsight look at how they went.
Category: Toys & Technology
IDD No More
I first got into network chatting in 1992 during my first year in NTU. All students were given network accounts and Internet email address. Back then though those network accounts weren’t normallyused for studies. We used them mostly for leisure
Will I Believe…? Part 3
Well, I’ve already posted about niggling annoyances with my new MacBook. So, to balance things up a bit, here’s part 3 of my series of posts on whether I’m falling in with the crowd of Apple Faithful – or not
Will I Believe…? Part 2
Day 2 of using the MacBook. I spent all of last night installing my productivity software and also Vista Ultimate on a Boot Camp partition. And the little irritating nuances are already showing. The first couple of applications I installed
Will I Believe…? Part 1
The MacBook arrived by DHL Express late yesterday afternoon. I’d placed the order on late Thurs night, and the unit had taken a day to bounce from Apple’s warehouse to DHL’s one, and then finally arriving at the latter’s delivery
“I was busy looking for a ‘explode macbook’ button.”
Well, no one can now say – hopefully – that I didn’t give MacBooks a chance. My NEC Versa E6310 has undergone abuse. It’s switched on at least 10 hours a day, everyday at work for 2 years now, it
Ooooh. More netbooks!
There’s a large wave of netbooks showing up in preorder listings off Amazon and flyers here since Windows 7’s release last Thursday, and boy do they look tempting LOL. Many of them have somewhat similar specifications – they possess 11.6
Pedal Power
Does your notebook run out of power too quickly? 3 hours of battery life not enough for you? Well, YoGen Max has a solution… use foot pedaling to charge your notebook battery! Easily the most interesting device I’ve seen this
Keeping An Eye
When I’m at home rarely a day goes by where I don’t visit technology related sites at least several times a day. There’re a couple of identical sites that I’ve got on my Bookmark Menu on each of my desktops
Son of a (flash) gun
The two most significant contributing factors that account for the large image quality difference between a compact camera and a DSLR is in the size of the sensor relative to the number of pixels the camera is rated at, and
Men and their bags
Women have their fascination with the Chanel and Gucci bags; men who’re photography enthusiasts have the same with their camera bags LOL. There’s actually a web site that’s about the epitome of this love, and simultaneously serving also as a
“Package delivery for you sir”
One of the nicest things about being in a technology-enabled generation is that your purchasing options opens up a lot. I remember my first online purchase was in 1996, back during the days when Secure payment modes were still a
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