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It seems quite surprising to me to learn about this. After all, didn’t Firefox try to market itself as the safer, more secure alternative to browse the web than Microsoft Internet Explorer? Furthermore, considering that ...
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There’re plenty of software updates this week. First up was for Snow Leopard which is updated to Mac OS X 10.6.2, which contains quite a number of fixes (58, apparently) including an important one that involves data loss. ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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We were recently at Astons Specialties for lunch. This is the branch at Cathay. We were there at about 12:30pm on a Sunday, and there was a moderately long queue formed up outside the restaurant. I was slightly surprised, because ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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In a recent lunch at Megabites Cafe in NUS, I noticed they had a promotion for Cheese Fries. It’s $2.50. I thought why not give it a try, order a portion to share. I was surprised that the portion turned out to be quite ...
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StarHub has announced that it will be starting to sell the Apple iPhone later this year. M1 already earlier announced their deal to sell the Apple iPhone, also slated to commence by year end. These sales will break ...
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I’ve just noticed that Shingz has become the top searched phrase that led to my blog, some 14 times more so than the next phrase. As a word on its own, it’s in number two place. In fact, if you just search for shingz ...
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Some time ago, a friend introduced me to this nice little cafe restaurant, Buddy Hoagies, located in a quiet shopping centre, Bukit Timah Shopping Centre. This is one of the kind of place that you’re never going to find on ...
| Lifestyle & Family
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This is my order of Caramel Frappuccinno, “no whip”, at Starbucks recently. That’s what they served, in the photo. It has whipped cream. Have you noticed, even though the coffee joints like Starbucks and Coffee ...
| Technology
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Cisco recently made available an interesting simulation game called myPlanNet. If you’ve played SimCity, as I’m sure most people are familiar with, you’d find some of the concepts similar. In myPlanNet, you are ...
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In a report from WFTV, a man in Daytona Beach, Florida, hit the jackpot of about US$166 million, or so the slot machine says, but was told he will not get a single cent because the machine had probably malfunctioned. It’s ...