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I don’t normally want to criticise websites, but I’ve heard so many complaints about our National Day Parade (NDP) website and I can’t help but agree with them. It’s almost a national embarrassment that a ...
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For the last three years, I’ve been hosting my website, ZitSeng.com, with BlueHost. They are a fine web hosting provider. My contract was expiring, and while there wasn’t really anything wrong with them, ...
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Motorola has launched a new budget smartphone, the Moto E. Priced at US$129, it’s even cheaper than last year’s Moto G, which was itself already quite affordable. The Moto E’s specifications are slightly dialled ...
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Singapore has one of the highest penetration of IPv6 users in the world, according to APNIC. We are ranked third, after Belgium and Switzerland, with an estimated 10.7% of our Internet user population on IPv6. This is quite ...
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I have high regard for Dr Ng Eng Hen. So I am a little disappointed by his remark that higher aspirations of Singaporeans is one reason for the high cost of living in Singapore. He cited an example of mobile phones almost ...
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Apple introduced the Retina display with the iPhone 4 in 2010. It was a very nice display. Other manufacturers soon adopted Retina resolution in their products. It’s no surprise, since everyone wants to compete with better ...
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Western Digital announced the world’s first Thunderbolt portable RAID storage drive a few weeks ago. It’s the My Passport Pro. I couldn’t wait to mention it too, so I wrote an early post even before I begun ...
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I’ve talked about the Raspberry Pi, and mentioned how it can be used to build a home theatre media centre. Let’s get down to business and build one. It’s relatively straight-forward, and it won’t cost much ...
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First, there was Google Docs. It was a Google app that allowed editing of text documents and spreadsheets. Then Google brought cloud storage, and eventually marketed the entire Docs and storage services as a new product known as ...
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We know how competitively priced Xiaomi’s smartphones are. They brought their Redmi and Mi 3 to Singapore, and they were both tremendously sought after by people here. Last week, Xiaomi also started selling their power ...