The BlackVue DR500GW-HD, from Pittasoft, is the Korean company’s latest model in their very popular line of in-car digital video recorders. This model packs top-end features like smooth 1080p 30fps full HD video recording, GPS, Wi-Fi and voice guidance into a small svelte body that will let it do its work without obstructing your view of the road. Why do you need a video recorder in your car? Insurance and accidents are expensive affairs in Singapore. In any accident, a…
It controls the TV, and it controls the cable TV set top box. It can show me programme listings in a very convenient timetable format. It can remind me about shows, and even recommend shows to me. Oh, that’s just the beginning. It has Wi-Fi, surfs the web, makes phone calls, and a whole lot more things. It’s a phone, it’s a smartphone, it’s the Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGS4). That was the WatchOn app. The universal remote app that controls…
This is the Spigen SGP Neo Hybrid case for the Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGS4). Spigen has made a name for itself designing and manufacturing great accessories for many flagship phones and other mobile products. The Neo Hybrid reviewed here is one of the many cases available for the SGS4. I don’t usually use a case for my phones. My last two smartphones did not have any cases. The SGS4 is not fragile than them. Rather, I thought some of these…
Many of us who own cameras will know a little about keeping our camera lens clean. Traditional tools include the use of air blower, lens tissue, and micro-fibre cloth. Another option to consider is the Lenspen lens cleaner. It’s been around for several years, and many photographers should already know about it. But if you’re a casual point-and-shoot photographer, perhaps this review might be interesting to you. The Lenspen MiniPro is shaped like a pen, and it even has a…
Many of us use screen protectors of some sort or other. They serve to protect the vulnerable and fragile display screens of our expensive gadgets. One of the challenges with using a screen protector is with installing it. How many of us have wasted a perfectly good screen protector because we couldn’t get it installed correctly? For me, I’d rather have someone install the screen protector for me. But such an option is not always available. The kind folks at…
I’ve had to hurry for my flight several times. Once, despite a three hour transit at Los Angeles, I only just barely made my connecting flight. Still, I didn’t have to run then. This would be my first time, flying Cathay Pacific from Singapore to Narita, when I actually had to run for my connecting flight at Hong Kong. My outbound flight out of Singapore arrived late. That led to a late departure. Late enough that the flight would have…
That panic moment came to us recently. It’s the sort of thing you hope will never happen. Butt you know, no matter how careful you are, it’s still quite likely to happen at some point or other. Our boy was missing. We were at a supermarket and realised Ian was missing only when we reached the basement car park. We knew where we had last seen Ian. He was sitting in the trolley at the supermarket checkout counter. He had…
I don’t know if it is because we’ve gotten a lot more experienced, or it really is that #3 is much easier to manage. He’s a lot more sociable than his elder siblings, the most ready to want to be cuddled by his grandfather (much to the latter’s delight). He doesn’t fuss a lot, easy to feed, and doesn’t leave drool all over the place. Isaac, the #3, makes it easy for me to bring out all three kids on…
The latest additions to Resort Worlds Sentosa are the S.E.A. Aquarium and Adventure Cove, two attractions of the Marine Life Park. The S.E.A. Aquarium boasts to be the world’s largest oceanarium. They boast over 100,000 marine animals of some 800 species in 45 million litres of water. They also have the world’s largest viewing panel (36m wide x 8.3m high). It’s something that we need to visit. Ian, my #2, was so awed by the aquarium at Ocean Park when…
I was attending a course on crisis management earlier this week. It’s great to know how much planning has gone into crisis and emergency management at my workplace. A big organisation such as where I work in would come under intense scrutiny and criticism if it were anywhere less than perfect in handling any emergency or crisis situation. Being an IT infrastructure person, my scope of emergency preparedness is largely focused in ensuring the continued delivery of IT services. This…
Today, MDA’s new requirement for news websites to be licensed takes effect. Today, we all woke up and found that pretty much everything online has stayed about the same. In particular, Yahoo News Singapore, one of the sites specifically named as qualifying under the new licensing requirements, is still around. Good, the sky has not crashed down on Singapore. The past week, netizens have protested strongly against MDA’s updated licensing framework. The concern centered primarily on censorship and limitation of…
The buzz in the Singapore Internet community this week is about MDA’s new licensing requirements for news websites. Many people were outraged by the move. Some people, such as bloggers, see the new updated licensing framework as an attempt to censor and clamp down on what they can write. However, with a few exceptions, the tweaked regulations don’t actually change anything for most bloggers. In fact, it is easy to circumvent the regulations too. Just to recap, MDA’s new requirements…
A recent anonymous post, on a certain social media website, lamented about the quality of our Computing graduates. The poster gave examples on how some are unable to create/code websites, and the poor quality of released apps. Not surprisingly, many people rose to defend Computing students, the school, and the profession in general. The OP has, of course, made some very broad generalisations. A fundamental assumption was that every Computing graduate should be able to write programs. Some respondents argue that…
