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 imminent availability of ESET Mobile Security for Android.

ESET isn’t a new anti-virus company. They have been in business since 1992. Their anti-virus product, NOD32, was created by two of their founders prior to that in 1987. That’s some 20 years and 25 years ago respectively. ESET is pretty proud to lay claim to be the only company to win an unbroken string of 47 Virus Bulletin’s VB100 awards, and their overall win of 71 VB100 awards is more than any other company. They have also received a variety of certifications from AV-Test, TUV, and West Coast Labs.

ESET’s Endpoint Solutions for enterprise customers come as two products: Endpoint Security and Endpoint Antivirus. Both products build upon their NOD32 anti-virus scanning technology to deliver a proactive approach to detect current and new malware and other Internet threats. They offer whitelisting of “safe files” that are cross-checked against their reputation database for optimized performance. As an enterprise solution, these products also feature enhanced ESET Remote Administrator, a control panel for centrally managing clients.

The Endpoint Security product offers additional features over Endpoint Antivirus, such as a firewall, web-control and spam-filter.

ESET’s enterprise-friendly licensing focuses on seat-count, regardless of the type of device being protected. If you are faced with an environment comprising Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems, you just need to buy licenses for that number of devices without having to work out how many of each type of operating systems you have, or worry about how that mix of operating systems might change in future.

For me, an important feature, but one that is often not talked about, is performance. ESET’s use of assembly language delivers the tightest performance with low CPU overheads, memory overheads and disk utilization. Anti-virus protection is important, but you wouldn’t want that to impact the performance of your computer.

The next thing is their Android product, ESET Mobile Security for Android. It’s set to become available in the Google Play store on 2 May 2012. Here’s a preview of their feature list:

• Remote Lock
• Remote Wipe
• GPS Localization
• SIM Matching
• Trusted Friend
• Call Blocking
• Uninstall Protection
• SMS/MMS Anti-spam
• Real-time Protection
• Security Audit
• On-access Scanning
• On-demand Scanning

A nice thing about the remote features (such as Remote Lock, Remote Wipe and GPS Localization) is that they are accessed and managed via SMS. There is no central server like MobileMe or iCloud in the case of Apple’s iOS.

I’m still quite undecided if I need anti-virus on my mobile phone. But if you’re the type who feel you can’t be too careful with security, checkout ESET Mobile Security for Android when it becomes available on Wednesday.

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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 has been there for quite a number of years.

Apart from their noodle fare, they also serve a variety of sides like fried crispy chicken wings, many types of fish/prawn/crabmeat/sotong balls, ngoh hiong, and beancurd rolls.

Have a look at the menu, if you’re interested to know all they have to offer. (Click on the image to view the full-sized photo in order to make out the words.)

My favourite is the laksa, followed closely by the minced pork noodles, both pictured below. They taste pretty good.

Yes, you get to choose to have “hum” (i.e. cockles) or not in your laksa. I’ll always have that; laksa is not complete without those cockles.

The crispy chicken wings are pretty good too, although I didn’t order it this time around to get a photo for this post.

EAT is a self-serve restaurant, so you just place your order at the counter, pay, collect your food, and sit yourself at the table. They are reasonably fast, just like what you’d expect from your neighbourhood hawker stall.

In case you’re wondering, EAT does stand for something – Endearing Authentic food with a traditional Taste.

Some of EAT’s outlets are 24 hours, like the one located at Rail Mall. So if it is past midnight and you’re hungry for some local noodle fare, this is one place you can head to.

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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 me then, and she somehow got terrified by the sheep and cow figures on the stairs down to the basement.  She was so upset about them that we could not have dinner at Marche.

If you’re not familiar with Marche, here’s how it works. At the entrance, they issue each diner a “credit card”. Once inside, you find yourself a table (or they might help you find one during peak hours). Then, you make your way around the “market place”, where stalls are lined up offering a variety of foods, desserts and drinks. It’s like you’re walking in a French street market. See something you like? “Buy” if with the card you got at the entrance. Bring your food back to your table and enjoy. You pay up as you leave the restaurant.

What’s nice about this street market concept is that you get to see all the foods being prepared at the stalls. You get to see and small the aromas of whatever other people are ordering. It sure beats reading from a menu or looking at pictures in it.

That’s a sampling of what we had! The cheese sausage was really nice, our kids love it so much we had to go back for a 2nd order. The chocolate mousse was also delicious (not pictured above), another item that we had a 2nd order.

Marche is now child-friendly too (at least for the 313@Somerset one), because there’s a nice children’s play area. Great fun for the kids, I’m sure. Better yet if there could be more seating around this area so that parents can dine and keep a watch on their kids at the same time.

This is pretty much about the same Marche I first stepped into when they originally opened at Hereen. The children’s play area is a nice improvement. Food quality hasn’t deteriorated, and that’s the most important thing.

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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 with it myself, apart from their Swiss army knives. It’s a Swiss brand that makes a variety of products, including watches, footwear, outdoor gear, cutlery, drinking bottles and other accessories.

After taking the photo (above), I realized the chair on which the bag is set on makes the latter look larger than it actually is. This is a kid-sized chair. The sling bag’s height is no more than from my elbow to my palm.

There are three compartments to this bag. There is an organizer pocket in the front, a main compartment, and a rear storage compartment. The organizer pocket compartment is not very big, but there are some pockets to hold small items in place.

The main compartment is behind this organizer pocket compartment, and it is somewhat larger. You could easily hold 2 1-litre bottles in there, or perhaps a DSLR. The base is wide, and tapers off towards the top.

Finally, the rear compartment is, well, at the back. I actually didn’t realize it was there until I read the product tag which pointed out the bag had three compartments. The rear compartment is “flat”, so you probably can only use it to store flat-type of things, such as a notebook.

Other features of this sling bag includes an earphone outlet and a handphone pocket in the strap, though the typical smartphones nowadays with their large screen sizes won’t fit in this pocket. The material looks quite hardy, and will probably stand up to a bit of rough use. The product tag says the “M2 fabric” resists tearing and scuffing.

In case you’re wondering… will an iPad fit in it? Yes, but barely. I.e. the zip will close, but the corner will poke at the tapered top of the sling bag. It would have been nice if the bag was just a little big bigger. Or, the iPad was perhaps a little smaller.

If you intend to carry an iPad regularly, this is probably not the most ideal choice. But otherwise, it is a pretty good looking and robust sling bag.

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It looks like it’s popular with many other families too, including some folks who look like they came over after their morning walk at the Botanic Gardens nearby. There’s also Cedele in another part of the basement, but this La Tanglin Boulangeries cafe is usually more crowded.

The cafe serves breakfast sets, soups, and a variety of sandwiches and salads. They are quite reasonably priced too. The breakfast sets cost $6.90, which includes mains, sides, eggs and drinks. The sets are pretty yummy.

Another good option to try, which is rather value-for-money too, is their soups. At $4.90, you get to choose from a variety of soups (a few choices each day), and they come with free-flow bread. Try their mushroom soup.

The soup and bread combination can be quite filling! It’s a good alternative to the breakfast sets. There are a few choices of breads, and I usually ask for butter as well.

The coffee’s pretty good too! Sometimes, when I’m not hungry, but just need a place to sit and, well, keep myself occupied with my iPad, I’ll order a cup of coffee and settle down in one of their sofas.

The cafe sells breads, pastries, cakes and… doughnuts. The doughnuts are yummy. My kids’ favourites too.

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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 want to hazard how thick this adapter is?

It’s just 2mm thin!

Yeah, so much for 4mm thickness being passed off as being ultra-thin. With an adapter like this, you can just buy regular microSD cards. They are awfully cheap nowadays, coming down close to just a little over S$1 per GB.

I like these little microSD USB adapters because, well, they are so tiny you can just leave them on your keychain. It’s very handy to have some USB storage around. You don’t get microSD or even SD card readers everywhere, but USB has become pretty ubiquitous. Every computer will have a USB port. Pretty much like floppy disk drives from like a decade or so ago.

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For my next wallet, I ended up using what is really meant to be a cardholder. It’s genuine leather and reasonably compact too. It’s not thin because it was designed to be thin, but reasonably so simply because, well, cardholders are simple. How thick can it be even if it was made out of the usual wallet materials? The problem was that this wallet wasn’t quite big enough. Bigger currency notes like the S$50 denomination had to be folded because they could not fit into the money compartment, while the smaller denominations barely fit. I lived with the wallet for a while. I kept thinking there had to be a better solution.

Then, I chanced upon the Tyvek Mighty Wallets at a shop. Nice, paper thin. It’s made of paper. Well, actually, it’s High Density Polyethylene, the sort of material that express mail envelopes are made from. It’s promised to be lasting. But it still looks filmsy, and I didn’t like the designs. Then, a colleague bought the wallet, and after seeing its condition after a week or two, I decided that’s not what I want.

But the Tyvek wallets got me started again on my search for the perfect wallet. So to cut a long story short, I eventually zoomed in on Big Skinny. Big Skinny lays claim to the world’s thinnest wallets. At least that’s what I think they are saying, although they stop short of very explicitly declaring so. Perhaps for legal reasons. They are, after all, in the land where everyone can sue anyone for the most inane reasons.

The point is, however, Big Skinny’s wallets are really thin. Check out their website for the videos showing you how ultra-thin their wallets are. They are saying that, empty the contents of your current normally-fat wallet, put them all into the Big Skinny wallet, and see how it probably still isn’t thicker than your now empty original wallet. Wow!

Hey, I actually gotta to do a comparison of my own too! I took everything out of my existing wallet, 8 cards (or you could count as 9, because one of them is extra thick), plus some currency notes, and put them all into the new Big Skinny wallet. I know, that’s not plenty of things, but remember, I didn’t want my wallet to be thick. Look below, the new versus old wallet.

Is that impressive or what? Remember my old wallet isn’t very thick to begin with, since it is really meant to be a cardholder. I don’t know for sure if this is the thinnest wallet in the world, but it definitely the thinnest wallet I’ve ever owned!

The Big Skinny wallet you see above is the Tri-Fold wallet. A tri-fold, to begin with, is already disadvantaged in terms of thickness when compared with a bi-fold. But it still does a pretty good job keeping slim.

I had originally ordered the Compact Sports Wallet. The item arrived with a small pin-sized hole on the inside pocket. I also realized that Singapore currency notes do not fit very well inside the Compact Sports Wallet. The $50 denomination protrudes out the top. So when I returned the wallet for an exchange, I took the opportunity to upgrade to the Tri-Fold Wallet. No trouble at all with the exchange/upgrade.

I chose the black colour, not just because black was an “okay” colour, but more importantly because the black colour version does not have the Big Skinny rubber logo stitched on the front. Sorry, Big Skinny, I’m not a fan of your logo. I saw the logo stitched on the Compact Sports Wallet and I really didn’t like it. In this version of the Tri-Fold Wallet, the Big Skinny label is tucked away inconspicuously in the currency compartment.

As you can also see in the above photo, the S$50 denomination notes fit with ample room to spare. The currency compartment also has a divider so you can separate out the notes and/or receipts. It’s convenient, and the divider is so thin it doesn’t add any thickness to the wallet.

This wallet is made from nylon micro-fibre fabric. It is almost just like what I had on my old Project Shop wallet. It’s thin, soft, smooth, and nice to touch. It looks and feels different from the typical leather or synthetic leather wallets. This is nice if you’re looking for a wallet that is unique and different.

I do have a little issue with the stitching of the seams, particularly on the parts of the pockets that fold over the top edges. They don’t seem very neat and tidy (see bottom left pic in the grid of 9 photos above). Fortunately they are inside-facing and won’t be noticeable. Most importantly, of course, I hope they won’t tear. Only time will tell.

I’m really happy with this Tri-Fold Wallet. If you are looking for an ultra-thin wallet, you really must take a look at Big Skinny’s wallets (www.bigskinny.net)! They have quite a number of “form factors”, designs for both men and women, so you should be able to find something that works for you.

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I got my hands on a Transformer Prime yesterday. My workplace was going to get us tablets, and the main options were either to go for the Transformer Prime, or wait out for the iPad 3. I was undecided, but a colleague chose to go with the Transformer Prime, and the box had just arrived.

The Transformer Prime looks pretty nice. It’s not “nice” in the same way as an iPad is, but Asus has managed to establish its own styling. The back of the tablet is all metal, with a spun pattern finish. The front is not unlike an iPad: glass from edge to edge, with a sizable black margin surrounding the actual screen. There’s no home button, of course, on this Android tablet.

One feature of the Transformer Prime that caught my interest is the keyboard dock. It attaches to the tablet and turns it into a nifty looking netbook. Yes, you’d imagine that such detachable contraptions will look clumsy and ugly. But this one actually look quite sleek. The keyboard and “screen” opens and closes up just like you’d expect a netbook or notebook to do. The keyboard dock also packs an extra battery and a SD card reader, and weighs 537g (the tablet itself is 586g, bringing the total weight to 1.123kg).

The keyboard here is not quite something you can compare with that on a real notebook. It’s small, crammed, and maybe I’m just not yet used to it, but I don’t feel like I can type very productively. But of course, considering that most tablets don’t even have an option for a real keyboard, this is already infinitely better. A real keyboard makes it so much easier to compose emails, write blog posts, etc.

Considering that nowadays so many things are done “on the cloud”, it’s not like you really need to carry a compute powerhouse with you. A tablet with a keyboard dock can be a pretty attractive option. Can it replace my notebook at work?

Unfortunately, not. I tried to picture myself carrying the Transformer Prime, arriving at work, putting it down on my desk and start working on it. The screen is not big enough. The screen has not enough pixels. I can’t multitask with multiple applications side-by-side. I can’t view multiple websites at once. I can’t connect a second monitor. It is not a work computer replacement, even if you don’t need a powerful work computer.

But I think it’s pretty handy to bring for meetings, whole-day-out-of-office events, or other such occasions where you want to get some work done, but don’t need to do heavy work.

The extra battery on the keyboard dock extends the Transformer Prime’s total run time to 18 hours (the tablet on its own runs for 10 hours). That’s pretty good for non-stop work well beyond any normal work day. I imagine battery is never going to be a concern on this tablet. It’s a clever thing to put the battery there too, since it weights down the keyboard to give it some stability when holding up the tablet.

The keyboard dock doesn’t come that cheap though. It’s about US$150, or S$200.

A few weeks ago, when I got excited about getting a tablet from my work, I was quite impressed with the Transformer Prime’s specifications. Then, I discovered a little problem. It was lacking one feature – there is no 3G built-in. It’s not a problem when you have Wifi. But you don’t get Wifi everywhere, and it’s troublesome to figure out if there is working Wifi. I always use the 3G on my phone and on my current iPad. I don’t care about Wifi anymore. The lack of 3G on the Transformer Prime is a little of a let down. Sure, I can tether from my phone, but I don’t consider that an idea solution. Maybe for some others this does not bother them too much.

The good news is that a 3G-enabled Transformer Prime will come up in the near future.

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So, I got about Googling, and kept coming up with ShapeCollage. It’s $40 (or free, if you don’t mind a watermark on your collage. Now, if it had been just $1.99, I would have given it some consideration. But hey, iPhoto costs only $19.99, and ShapeCollage wanted $40?

Next, I got onto the Mac App Store and searched. Tada… TurboCollage. Not the prettiest name. It does seem like it will do what I need it to do. Then, more importantly, it’s free for today. So if not for any other reason, just go grab it just because it is free now. Checking Google result cache shows that TurboCollage could have cost $3.99, which is not at all unreasonable either.

TurboCollage does just what I need. Give it a bunch of photos, drag and place it wherever you want. There are a few basic layout options, not quite so ambitious as ShapeCollage, but it’s just the kind of layouts I’m looking for. Simple collages where the original photos are still largely viewable, not lost in complex creative layouts.

There are options to add shadows, rounded corners, and type of borders. You can also add text and style them with shadows and rotations. You can share your creation directly to Facebook, if you so wish to.

It’s a pretty useful app that fills a need for me: assemble and style a bunch of photos for posting on my blog.

It’s free for now, but even at $3.99, I think I’ll still recommend it.

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I’ve been very excited to review the K3003. I shared my first impressions much earlier on, but subsequently decided to review the Q350, K518LE, and Q460 first, saving the flagship K3003 for the last. If your experiences with headphones have been limited to the free earbuds included with your mobile phone, music player or other mobile gadget, be prepared to be totally awed. You’ve probably never heard music so real, so present, so engaging, so pure.

The K3003 is packaged inside a premium gray box which features a magnetic closure on the lid. Nothing fancy, just simple and functional. Open the box, remove the cleaning cloth, and the exquisite gems are revealed.

In the box, apart from the K3003 itself, there is also a premium genuine leather carrying pouch, two pairs of acoustic filters (in addition to the pair already on the K3003), 6 pairs of ear sleeves (2 pairs each for small, medium and large sizes), a flight adapter, and a TRRS-to-TRS audio adapter cable.

The K3003 is individually handmade, and each one bears a serial number. The brushed stainless steel shells are chiselled out of a single block of stainless steel metal. The skin of the cables from the headphones leading down to the Y-junction are made from a silicone material. The cables from the Y-junction to the 3.5 mm plug are covered in a fabric material.

The iPhone-compatible inline mic and remote are found down the right-side earpiece. It is steel-skinned, and together with the similar skinned Y-junction and stainless steel plug, complete the exquisite bling-bling look of the K3003.

The leather carrying pouch is a nice touch. There are cutouts to hold the K3003 and the flight adapter, and the cables of the K3003 can be wound around the edge of the case. It provides the necessary protection for a gadget as prized as the K3003.

Comfort and Fit

The K3003 is very small. At 10 g, it is also very light, considering that the shell is made out of stainless steel. Not aluminum, mind you, but stainless steel. The material and manufacturing method gives it a very robust and solid feel. Being both small and light means that the K3003 fits into your ear almost as if it wasn’t even there.

As an in-ear headphone, the K3003, with the attached ear sleeves, fit directly into your ear canals. Earbud headphones just sit in your outer ear. In-ear headphones go into your ear canals, while the sleeves provide the seal and isolation between the hard parts of the headphone itself and the walls of your ear canal. The seal is important because it blocks out external noises so that you can hear your pure music without distraction from unwanted sounds. The sound isolation also means you don’t have to push up your music volume to overcome the external noises, ultimately saving your own ears from damage.

The sound isolation on the K3003, however, was not superb. Sure, it did mute out external sounds, just not as much as I’d have expected.

The ear sleeves are made from hypoallergenic latex-free materials. They are available in three sizes to so that you can choose the best fit for your ears. I would personally have preferred Comply-type foams, and the good news is that you can buy the T-400 or TX-400 foams for the K3003 as well. I tried those on too, like you see below.

The K3003 is easy to fit on. With the silicone sleeves, you just push the headphones into your ears. No need to fiddle around. Since the cables are designed to run straight down (as opposed to over your ears), there’s no inconvenience to position the cables.

The cable length, at 1.2 m, is what I’d consider to be just right to connect the K3003 to a gadget in your pant’s pocket. The cable is somewhat free from microphonics, and it is largely tangle-free. Unfortunately, the cable is not replaceable. This is always a concern with expensive headphones.

Sound Quality

I’m quite particular about comfort and fit. But ultimately, how good the comfort and fit becomes completely irrelevant if a pair of headphones cannot deliver quality sound. I’m pleased to say that the K3003 does not disappoint.

First, a few words on the technical aspects. The K3003 is a three-way three driver headphone. One dynamic driver delivers the bass frequencies, two balanced armature drivers deliver each of the mid and high frequencies. This hybrid driver design draws on the best qualities of dynamic and balanced armature drivers to deliver the reference quality sound of the K3003.

To suit individual preferences, because everyone is different, the K3003 has three types of acoustic filters. The standard reference filter gives you the most natural sounds. The other two filters are the bass-boost and high-boost filters.

So, finally, what about sound quality?

The thing that hits me immediately is the immense clarity and detail in the mid and high frequencies. When you play your favourite music, the K3003 could almost review new parts that you’ve not heard before.

I was originally not terribly impressed with the bass performance of the K3003. I had, at that time, been driving the K3003 from a Cowon J3. The bass extension was clearly evident, but there just wasn’t enough punch. It seemed like the K3003 lost steam going down to the lowest frequencies.

Later, I paired the K3003 with the Fiio E10 DAC/amplifier, and the sound was quite noticeably improved. I’m quite surprised, because the K3003 isn’t, at least according to the specifications, supposed to be difficult to drive. So going on forward with the E10, I found the bass neither too tight nor boomy. It is about the right balance to suit most genres of music. I would still have preferred more punch, more tightness, and more articulation.

The mids and highs, are simply amazing in their clarity, detail and transparency. It’s almost like pure sweetness was pouring out of the K3003. Vocals come across with outstanding realism. While there is no discernable sibilance, I found the highs to be a little too bright.

The soundstage of the K3003 is decent. Not as good as I’d like to have, but certainly acceptable for an in-ear headphone.

I was curious if the bass boost filter would help with my preference for a punchier bass. It didn’t. All the bass boost filter did was to cloud the music. I’d say, just stick to the standard reference filter.

Conclusion

Is the K3003 worth its price? That’s not a simple question to answer. Is an Aston Martin worth its price? At $1599, the K3003 is going to be out of reach of some listeners. For others seeking the ultimate in listening experience, the K3003 is certainly a very worth consideration.

My review of the K3003 may have been a little more critical than average. That’s because of the price category that the K3003 has put itself in. You’d certainly expect a whole lot more from the K3003 than a pair of headphones that cost under $100.

With that in mind, I’d still say the K3003 is plenty good. Its sound is about the best you’d ever get from any pair of universal in-ear headphone. The overall sound quality is outstanding, and if you’re coming from free headphones or others that cost under $100, the K3003 will open your ears to the world of luxury listening and hear music from headphones like you’ve never heard before.

Words can only describe so much. The ultimate test is for you to listen to the headphones for yourself. You can audition the K3003 at Stereo, located at Plaza Singapura (#04-06) and Ion Orchard (B4-23/24). Technical specifications are available here.

Pros:

• Overall astounding balanced sound
• Very detailed, very good clarity through the mids and highs
• Very good build
• Small, lightweight, easy to fit on

Cons:

• Non-replaceable cable
• Sound isolation could be better

This post was originally written as part of my participation in Omy.sg’s K3003 / The Sound of Luxury blog. I’m now reposting some of those posts, with some minor edits, on my own blog.

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