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…
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…
Marche has been around in Singapore for a long time. First at Hereen, then at Suntec. It’s current restaurants at 313@Somerset and Vivocity aren’t exactly new either. But I haven’t visited any of them since the Suntec one. So finally, I got around to patronizing the restaurant at 313@Somerset. This is actually the 2nd time I stepped into the 313@Somerset restaurant. The first time I went there, I didn’t actually eat anything. You see, my little baby Vanessa was with…
I’ve been trying to find a small compact little bag. Something that I can use as an alternative to a waist pouch. Particularly if I wanted to carry a bit more things than will fit in a waist pouch. Or a little heavier than can be comfortably held in a waist pouch. I finally found something. It’s this nice looking sling bag from Wenger, cost about S$42 from OG. Have you heard of the Wenger brand? I’m not very familiar…
The La Tanglin Boulangerie is a cozy little cafe located in the basement of Tanglin Mall. Yes, that’s the mall in the corner of Tanglin Road and Grange Road that became flooded from torrential rain last year. It’s a place I go from time to time, on Sundays (and coincidentally not that Sunday when it flooded), while the kids attend classes at a music play school in the mall. It looks like it’s popular with many other families too, including…
I was a little intrigued when I saw an advertisement for an ultra-thin USB thumb drive. The advertisement boasted the thumb drive’s 4mm thickness (or, well, thinness). Sounds thin? Well, not quite. I’ve been using this neat little microSD USB adapter. See how small it is? Yup, it’s just that thin piece of flat plastic with the gold contacts on one side. It doesn’t even have the metal jacket that forms the outside of the typical USB connector. Do you…
I don’t like thick wallets. Never did. About a decade ago, some friends gave me a wallet from Project Shop. It was made from some sort of micro-fibre like material that was thin, smooth, and nice to touch. Although it was not designed specifically to be ultra-thin, it was overall a pretty compact wallet. I liked the wallet very much. Alas, it had become worn out, and the colour had faded. I had to find a new wallet. Project Shop didn’t…
On the day everyone wants to talk about the new iPad, let me do something quite different. I’m going to talk about the Asus Transformer Prime instead. Asus launched its latest Android tablet last December with the most awesome hardware specifications the Android platform has seen. Perhaps even the best of all tablets out there. It’s the first tablet with a quad-core CPU. The new iPad announced today still sports a dual-core CPU (with quad-core graphics, whatever that means…). I…
I don’t often write about “simple” applications (i.e. one with quite specific purpose), but this is an interesting one. I was trying to assemble a bunch of photos together. The only tool I had on my Mac was Photoshop. Photoshop can definitely get the job done, but it was overkill. It was just too much work for a simple task. There has got to be some simple application that was built just to do these sort of things. So, I…
AKG’s latest flagship headphone, the K3003, clearly sets a new standard in ultimate headphone listening experience. Launched at IFA 2011, AKG describes the K3003 as the world’s smallest true three-way reference-quality in-ear headphones. It’s really an absolutely astounding headphone, not least because of its price tag, at $1599, which will almost certainly be out of reach of most except the most discerning music listeners who are willing to pay for premium quality. The K3003 has quickly become a much talked…
