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First, Sony announced firmware updates to their A6, A7r, A7s and a6000 mirrorless cameras. In particular, the a6000 received a significant feature enhancement. Then, Adobe also just announced Creative Cloud 2015. The update ...
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The last time I was in Phuket was before the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. We figured there isn’t much for our kids to do or experience, at least not until they’ve grown a little older. So after more than a decade, ...
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We browsed through Expedia for our holiday options to Phuket recently, and chanced upon a decently attractive accommodation at the Swissotel Resort Phuket. The Swissotel brand was itself an attraction, and what more we could get ...
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Sony’s RX100 (pictured on left) is amazing. From the original model launched in 2012, each successive generation every year after has made small but important improvements. Sony has just announced the fourth generation, ...
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I’m beginning to lose count the number of times I’ve reinstalled Office for Mac 2011, so it is becoming really annoying. Here I am a dutiful customer signed up with the cloud subscription of Office 365. Yet I’m ...
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I feel it’s particularly important that service standards at Changi Airport must be exemplary. It is, after all, going to form the first impressions that visitors to Singapore will get. However, my standards aren’t ...
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At some time or other, probably just about all drivers will find themselves enraged with some other driver. It could be reckless driving, idiotic parking, or a variety of other inconsiderate road behaviour. It’s fortunate, ...
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Five years ago, as Singapore hosted the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, I complained about how discourteous the organisers had portrayed themselves. First, it was about demanding that their buses be given the right-of-way, and ...
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Over a year ago, I put Tomato, an alternative router firmware, on my Cisco Linksys E3200 wireless broadband router. Several new versions have been released since then, but I’ve been procrastinating about upgrading. I ...
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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 ...
