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Will I Believe…? Part 3

Posted on 3 Nov 200925 Jan 2024   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged Laptops   

Will I Believe…? Part 2

Posted on 1 Nov 200914 Jul 2018   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Will I Believe…? Part 1

Posted on 31 Oct 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops    1 Comment on Will I Believe…? Part 1   

“I was busy looking for a ‘explode macbook’ button.”

Posted on 30 Oct 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

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

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Ooooh. More netbooks!

Posted on 25 Oct 200919 Jan 2017   by CY

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

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Pedal Power

Posted on 26 Sep 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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Keeping An Eye

Posted on 13 Sep 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Laptops   

Son of a (flash) gun

Posted on 16 Aug 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Nikon D300   

Men and their bags

Posted on 10 Aug 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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“Package delivery for you sir”

Posted on 6 Aug 20095 Apr 2010   by CY

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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Posted in Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Nikon D300, Sigma 18-250mm   

Where be the monkeys?… Part 1

Posted on 1 Aug 200914 Mar 2018   by CY

Funnily, Matt and I don’t always enjoy the same kind of games. In a nutshell, he’s a much more discriminating gamer than I am, whereas I’m more temperamental when it comes to video games when I’m not saddled with the

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Posted in At Home, Entertainment, Toys & Technology   

16 kg lens

Posted on 31 Jul 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

Just for laughs; is this the heaviest lens available at consumer retail? And mind you; the lens above actually exists. It’s the Sigma 200-500 f/2.8 APO EX DG Ultra-Telephoto Zoom Lens, and retails for a very cool USD28,999.00. And Amazon

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