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Fruity Taste

Posted on 9 Apr 200918 Sep 2011   by CY

I brought my D300 for sensor cleaning at the Nikon Service Center in today, then had my dental appointment, and picked up the overpriced fruit mobile phone. Let it not be said that I didn’t give the phone a try,

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More Onion

Posted on 7 Apr 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

The fun never stops! Hopefully even my friends who’re ardent buyers of Apple toys will laugh at this one.:) Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

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Photographic post-mortem

Posted on 31 Mar 2009   by CY

Every trip I make I get a more refined idea or perspective of what to do the next time. So, photographic post-mortem of the 8 day trip: Leave the Sigma 10-20mm UWA lens at home. I like the lens, but

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Posted in Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged San Francisco 2009    5 Comments on Photographic post-mortem   

Game Developers Conference

Posted on 26 Mar 2009   by CY

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 –

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Posted in Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged San Francisco 2009   

Getting packed

Posted on 21 Mar 200913 Jul 2018   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Toys & Technology, Traveling    Tagged Laptops, Nikon D300, San Francisco 2009   

Phone Ownages

Posted on 19 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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Panasonic HDC-SD20 – Notes II

Posted on 18 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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Panasonic HDC-SD20 – Notes I

Posted on 17 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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HD Toy

Posted on 15 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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Posted in At Home, Photography & Cameras, Toys & Technology    Tagged Panasonic HDC-SD20   

Dai Goh Dai

Posted on 11 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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Echoing: The Witcher

Posted on 2 Mar 2009   by CY

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

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Windows Utilities III

Posted on 1 Mar 200914 Jan 2010   by CY

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

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