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I was recently looking for a smart gadget for one of my kids. A key criteria was that it had to be very budget friendly, so that I won’t be overtly concerned over loss or breakage. It should be pretty sturdy, so it ...
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A recent home renovation project presented an opportunity for me to get started on implementing some home automation features. A key component in a home automation setup is the controller. There are many of them around, with ...
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Logitech’s UE Boom 2 and UE Megaboom portable Bluetooth speakers have a new tick up their sleeves. You can now talk to them. No, I don’t mean as a speakerphone. You can give commands to the speakers, like, for ...
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When Leagoo sent me their new Shark 1 flagship last month, I was really intrigued. That the phablet was huge, with a 6-inch display, is one thing. That it packed a 6300 mAh battery, that was amazing. Then, all of that fit in a ...
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For most people, file systems are boring stuff. It’s about how stuff gets organised in a disk. It’s not about how you organise your stuff, but how your computer puts your stuff in a hard disk drive, SSD, flash drive ...
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WWDC 2016 keynote has come and gone, and there’s no hint of any new hardware. No new MacBook Pro. No new Macbook Air. No new MacBook. It’s not that we expect hardware announcements at WWDC, since the ...
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Bus operator Tower Transit has begun operations late last month. They are the first company to be awarded a tendered bus package under the Land Transport Authority’s (LTA) new bus contracting model. In a sweeping ...
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Of late, I’ve been struggling to fix an annoying anomaly on my blog. I had noticed that posts shared from my blog to Facebook were showing with the wrong post details. Instead of showing the specific title and content ...
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This has been hot news of late, that of the Singapore Government cutting off Internet access for the 100,000 or so desktop computers of its public servants. Since then, we’ve heard all sort of remarks about how our ...
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It sounds unreal, but it is real. Fortunately, it isn’t for the general populace. The Singapore government will ban the Internet from computers officially used by public servants from May next year. This will affect some ...
