Over the past couple of months, I have been following the relentless rise in energy prices (petrol is now $3.50/gallon). Seeking the cause of this, I unearthed some troubling news which is an epiphany of sorts.
“Peak oil” - a term used by some geologist who foresee the imminent peaking of world oil production. […]
In preparation for the baby, I purchased a Canon Elura 100 camcorder from Amazon last week.
I struggled with this decision to figure out whether I’d really want to deal with the hassle of using and editing home videos. I already have my hands full with regular photography, which keeps my busy with editing and […]
At last, a folder (or directory) synchronization tool that works! My contention is that simplest way to back up data to a secondary storage location is using a folder synchronization tool. A simple copy is often unsuitable for daily backups because of the sheer volume of data (my work and personal folders total […]
Free phone calls over the Internet! Yes, you’ve heard this before. With Skype, we now have great voice quality over the Internet, almost equal to those of traditional phone lines.
However, Voice-Over-IP companies continue to set new expectations. The latest is VOIPBuster, which promises free calls from the Internet to land lines in […]
After a month of usage, I have an update to my previous evaluation of this mobile phone. I have since gotten used to the new interface, and have overcome some of my Nokia habits. Still, the handphone operation does fall short in some ways.
No Immediate Shortcut to writing an SMS. The […]
Today, I made a dumb boo-boo with my Windows notebook. I was locked out without an administrator password - how dumb is that?
I was preparing for some demos and was frustrated by some of the bugs that I had hit. The bad thing was that the server and engineers were located in Singapore, […]
After many years of using mobile phones, I’ve not found much impetus to purchase new handsets in the recent five years or so. Colour screens didn’t do very much for me, nor did the ability to take low resolution photos, or to have a bulky PDA combo.
But last week, I found the new K750i […]
Just found out today that McDonalds outlets in Singapore offer free wireless broadband connections. It merely asks for your name and email address as the price for admission. I was at the McDonalds at Tampines bus interchange. Use the SSID “skynetglobal”.
I had previously believed that most “hot spots” were only available commercially, […]
It was a matter of time before they caved. Yahoo! started using redirects with their search results a couple of years ago, and today I noticed that Google had done the same. Previously, Google results was a hyperlink direct to the destination site. Today, the URLs lead to a Google redirect script […]
I’ve been using Google Desktop for two weeks now, and its nice. Like most of the other Google products, its simple to a fault. Yes, there’s almost nothing to configure and the interface is a single text field entry. A no-brainer. It indexes all local hard disks and email automatically, and […]