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Last week, Apple announced their new iPhone 5. 2 million pieces were pre-ordered within 24 hours. 8 million were sold through the launch weekend. I’m not surprised. The numbers are impressive, but it is sort of expected ...
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Not all playgrounds are equal. Some are simple, some others are a little bigger and have more play features. Then, there are others like this one at West Coast Park that is really quite big, and fitted with much more than average ...
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HomePlug sounds like a clever solution to home networking. It’s wired networking, but instead of having to run UTP network cables, it uses the power lines in your home. If you’re trying to install a network in your ...
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You might already have heard about this tiny little embedded computer that runs Linux. It costs just US$35. When it was first announced, I was excited like many others and wanted to place an order. However, back in March, Element ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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On a recent public holiday, after breakfast and some playground time, I convinced my two elder kids to go on a tree-top walk. You know, the one at Alexandra Village. At least, that was what I thought it was called. I became ...
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I should know that secure network connectivity is just one part of IT security. But it seems a VPN to my home is a little bit of an overkill. I’ve now got an OpenVPN server setup at home so that I can connect back home. The ...
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I recently needed to work out of my notebook, away from office and home, quite a bit. I would usually wifi-tether from my phone. But extended 3G+Data+WiFi on the phone would surely drain its battery pretty quickly. If there is ...
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I’ve finally gotten onto the snazzy next generation all fibre national broadband network. I’ve been waiting very patiently for quite some time. It hadn’t seemed like my home would be fibre-ready for a very long ...
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I’m back in business producing nightly builds of my favourite ROM. This is CyanogenMod 10 (CM10) for the HTC One X (endeavoru). The ROM hasn’t actually gotten out of alpha yet, but it’s already working great as ...
| Miscellaneous
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I met four cyclists this morning. The first two cyclists were riding on the pedestrian path. The next one was riding right smack in the centre of a two-lane road. The light was red for him. The cyclist rode past all the vehicles ...
