The Samsung Galaxy S III (SGS3) was announced last week on May 3rd. There is usually a rush of excitement on Day Zero of any greatly anticipated product launch, and then a few days later, people start to get a more balanced view of the real pros and cons of the product. It seems to have worked the opposite for me. I was a little underwhelmed when I learnt of the SGS3 last week. But after digesting all the available information…
It might as well have been called the Galaxy S IIS. When Apple releases the next generation of iPhone that’s not a whole lot different from the current generation, they just add ‘S’ to the model name. For example, the iPhone 3GS is a small upgrade from the 3G, and the iPhone 4S is similarly a small upgrade from the 4. When I picked up on Samsung’s “The Next Galaxy” details this morning, I can’t help but feel that their…
Ian was down with HFMD the last week or so. To be safe, both him and Vanessa were grounded at home. We try to keep them apart as much as possible so that, hopefully, Vanessa does not get infected. She had a false alarm with HFMD previously. She doesn’t have any symptoms at all this time around. Vanessa and Ian have been quite miserable to be stuck at home all day. Last evening, Vanessa was bugging me to fix up her…
Can you replace your notebook with a tablet? This seems to be a common question. I came across this article on PhoneArena, and decided I’d share my thoughts on it too. I’ve been commuting to work with my MacBook Pro, and since I have an iPad, I’ve been asking myself if it will suffice to just bring my iPad along. In my office, I’ve a full desktop computer (Windows 7), and I can certainly leave my MacBook Pro at home….
Google launched their Drive cloud storage service last week. We all expected that to be coming. There had been speculations about it for a long time. We’re all a little surprised that Google came onboard so late. With Google Drive, you get a generous 5 GB of cloud storage free of charge. At the same time, Google also announced upgrading of the free Gmail storage, which is separate from Drive, from 7 GB to 10 GB. Wonderful. There are now several…
Let me guess. You might have heard of ESET, but you’re not very familiar with their products? Well, you could be forgiven, because they’ve got just 2% share of Singapore installations and 9% share of the global installations. But they have promising products and look set to grow from strength to strength. I attended their blogger engagement event a couple of days ago. They were announcing their new flagship product ESET Endpoint Solutions for enterprise customers. They also shared the…
The Wife was craving for some nice Dim Sum, and came across this Dim Sum a la carte buffet promotion at Hai Tien Lo. This is an award-winning fine-dining Cantonese cuisine restaurant located at Level 37 of the Pan Pacific Hotel. With breathtaking views of the Singapore skyline and the habour, this is the sort of place to go to impress business partners and clients. You’d probably think it will cost a lot to dine there. Yes, unless, of course,…
The New iPad launched in Singapore on 16 March 2012. That’s a good six weeks ago, a little too late for me to write yet-another-review of the most exciting iPad yet. But there’s always an opportunity to share personal experiences, even though, then again, I’m sure there are many others like me who are jumping from the 1st generation iPad to the 3rd generation iPad. So here I am, with the new 3rd generation iPad. Coming from the original iPad,…
Have you heard of EAT? Not about the verb concerning the consumption of food. But EAT, the eatery that has been opening outlets all over Singapore in recent years. They sell local noodle fares like fishball noodles, minced pork noodes, dumpling noodles and laksa. EAT is a mini restaurant concept brand owned by the Fei Siong Group. The first outlet I knew about was the one at Rail Mall. I’m not sure if that was their first, but this one…
You thought that would be it. An appeal for support to help him get into school. Then it got exposed by the Sunday Times article yesterday that Alvin Wang, the person seeking support for his appeal to get into NUS, actually did get into NUS. In fact, he was offered a place in the School of Computing’s Information Systems course. But he did not want Information Systems, he wants Computer Science. All the theatrics about the online call for support…
