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The current MRT disruption on the East-West Line is probably going to be the defining service disruption incident of 2024. Barring any further delays, we’re looking at just one day shy of a whole week of significant travel ...
Zit Seng's Blog
A Singaporean's technology and lifestyle blog
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Great gaming performance in an ultralight compact laptop. | Gaming laptops are often chunky and heavy, but ASUS’ new TUF Gaming A14 is set to change that perception. This laptop is not only compact and ...
Technology
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The iconic Dell XPS 13 with an invisible touchpad now packs a Snapdragon X processor. | The Dell XPS 13 9345 is among the several new Windows on ARM laptops and convertible devices that launched in June 2024. If ...
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The ultimate MacBook Air of Windows laptops is here. | If you took a MacBook Air, make some design improvements, maybe even add some features, and then run Windows on it, you would make Windows laptop users really ...
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New AI PCs powered by AMD’s brand-new series of Ryzen AI processors were just announced in July. I have one of ASUS’ new AI PC, the Zenbook S 16 UM56056, and I’m excited to find out how it performs, and ...
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What is an AI PC? | AI is now in more things than we can care about. You might already have heard of the AI PC. Maybe also the Copilot+ PC. The AI CPU? What the heck are all these AI things about? If you feel like ...
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It's your job to protect your own data | Last month, there was the CrowdStrike incident that rendered 8.5 million PCs unusable, though Microsoft said this was just a subset of affected computers. Last week, a Mobile ...
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A tiny powerful gaming-oriented PC for the minimalist desk setup. | I really like Intel’s tiny small-form-factor NUC PC. I use the NUC 11 Performance Kit myself. So while I was disappointed when Intel gave up ...
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The showdown between Giga's and GOMO's 5G | With the recent debut of yet another virtual telco, Eight, I got caught up in the frenzy of new promotions from all the other telcos. Well, mainly the virtual ones, MVNOs, ...
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A very formidable Wi-Fi 7 router for those who must have the absolute best. | The ASUS GT-BE98 is a beast of a router, even amongst the latest in the realm of Wi-Fi 7 routers. It’s designed to cater to the most ...
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Guess the language. | To most programmers, 0 means false. This is the case in most programming languages. But, did you know, that somewhere “0 but true” is a thing? Can you guess what language that is? ...
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This is the PLD to get for school | I’ve reviewed quite a lot of laptop computers, often those in the higher-end tiers. The time came that I needed to choose a laptop for one of my school-going kids. Which PLD, ...
Other Posts
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Redefining success is less like a choice and more like a necessity. | Our new prime minister, Lawrence Wong, called on Singapore to embrace a wider definition of success. Netizens were quick to note, he probably meant ...
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With all the bad press that LTA has been getting over their multitude of failed, failing, or destined to fail projects, this piece of news must have brought some cheers from motorists. They are stepping up their game to catch ...
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Struggles with WordPress evolution over 20 years. | WordPress will be 21 years old this year. This blog, which originally existed as a hand-coded website, moved to WordPress just over 20 years ago. I’ve been ...
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The gadget you need for a cinema-at-home experience. | Fancy a big-screen cinema experience at home? Get ready to be thrilled by LUMOS’ new AURO V2 home cinema projector. It’s a powerful, compact, ...
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The detachable boom microphone is really awesome. | All the headphones and earbuds you’ve seen out there? They all seem to look somewhat the same. Until now. JLAB’s Work Buds manages to bring something ...
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Two banks got taken offline because an aircon broke. | On Saturday, 14th Oct 2023, the aircon in a somewhat innocuous building in an unpretentious locality in Singapore broke down. It shouldn’t be a big deal. ...
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Google didn’t announce a brand new Pixel Buds alongside the Pixel 8 smartphones last week. But they did announce a new colourway, as well as some cool new software features. It’s almost like we’re getting a ...
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The tiniest true wireless earbuds, no ANC, but otherwise quite capable. | These tiny JLAB JBuds Mini earbuds came by recently for this review. It’s a true wireless earphones that’s so small that with its ...
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Always ready, what come may. | The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) celebrates its 55th anniversary this year. The public open house held over this weekend begun with a heavy downpour, but instead of dampening ...
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This isn’t a political blog. However, in this current run up to the Presidential Election 2023, I cannot resist sharing some rants.
The first time ever our Elected Presidency ever had a legitimate competition was in ...