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Dinosaurs are in town. It’s not just Jurassic World, or the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at NUS. There’s a bunch of them at United Square Shopping Mall. In fact, there’s also two of them at Plaza ...
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Singapore’s been talking about smart homes for some time. In the news earlier this week was about the first smart Housing Board homes, which will be launched this month. Just how smart are these smart homes? Not very. In ...
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3D printers are really nice. The troublesome thing about them is that you need to create your 3D design model in a computer, saved into STL format and then sent to the printer. What if you just wanted to sketch something ...
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At work, yesterday, we were clearing out some stores from various secret network locations, and something unusual caught my eye. A picture of raspberries. Among the stacks of various boring manuals, disclaimer sheets, warranty ...
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One of the benefits of using an community developed open source software for smartphones is that I don’t need to wait for someone’s blessings before I get to use it on my phone. Like on my OnePlus One right now, I ...
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A decade ago, there was probably no such category of death. These days, some people seem to be taking irrational risks in order to seek some sort of self-glorification. Deaths by selfies are getting common enough that I wonder ...
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The Jabra Move Wireless is an on-ear Bluetooth headset with a hint of stylish sportiness in its design. Previously available in red, blue and black, Jabra this month announced a new gold colour which I have here for ...
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I recently attended a course, about coaching, and learnt among other things the definition of coaching, as opposed to similar activities such as training, mentoring, and counselling. We are always learning, in every stage of our ...
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This is the part two continuation of my last post on Fixing A Slow Website. I was writing about how websites are often slow because of their design, not so much because of the network or servers, as are most commonly blamed ...
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From time to time, I get asked this question: Why is my website so slow? How can I make my website faster? At one time, a faster website meant faster networks, faster servers, faster databases and faster web apps. But ...