Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The Game Developers Conference here at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center isn’t just a conference where bespectacled geeks gather and talk about video games. It’s a festival and celebration of technology, the visual arts, story telling, sound and music –
Funnily, I don’t usually have difficulties deciding what to pack for trips out of the country. I have a handy spreadsheet that lists the standard items that go into luggage and/or hand-carry. Thereafter, the only thing that needs to get
Continuation from my entry on phone ownership earlier.:) There’s been a bunch of phones I’ve been keeping an eye on since deciding to change my mobile last week. There’s quite a bewildering array of devices to suit every price and
More notes.:) Navigation: The SD20 has a small number of buttons and levers for triggering the record, shutter for still images, zooming, the built-in LED video light, power-on/off, battery release etc. But the rest of it is operated via a
The HDC-SD20 is Panasonic’s entry line of Full HD digital camcorders. It’s a pretty new release too; several stores including MSColor, Courts and Best Denki, haven’t received stock for it yet. And Amazon.com lists the item for sale only from
While I’ve had quite a few still image cameras, both of the digital and film sort, I haven’t been in video recording for quite nearly as long. Consumer-priced video recorders didn’t drop in price quite as quickly as photographic cameras
A post about handphones! In Cantonese, ‘Dai Goh’ means ‘Big Brother’. Dai Goh Dai means “Big Brother Carrying” I think, and the phrase was used in the 80s when mobile phones became available for consumer purchase. Those phones were like
Echoing a game review for the other blog I manage and write for. I wrote this one last year though. The Witcher No, this isn’t an educational game review. For a change, this one’s just a game review for an
I figured what the heck – I might as well just finish the series of posts with the last bunch of freeware.:) While there are a lot of file compression standards used online, the two most common ones by far
Continuation of my earlier post.:) The earlier incarnations of Windows kept their application settings in easily configurable .INI files, but have now packed them into a registry file. Most users don’t ever peak into the registry since it’s a cryptic
Follow-up on my post on operating systems a while ago. I actually wrote this post and the next several days ago, but it got queued up behind the recent oratorio posts. One of the nicest things about running on the
One thing about end user computing that’s taken some getting used to has been the transition from text-based to graphical operating systems. For the first initial years up till Windows 98 at least, I found I could get system-centric tasks
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