|
I was a little intrigued when I saw an advertisement for an ultra-thin USB thumb drive. The advertisement boasted the thumb drive’s 4mm thickness (or, well, thinness). Sounds thin? Well, not quite. I’ve been using ...
Category: Technology
All technology things, computers, networking, IT security, etc.
|
The much anticipated Android 4.0.3 “Ice Cream Sandwich” (ICS) ROM for Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S II (SGS2) phone has just been officially released. This comes after over 3 months of “leaked” ROMs ...
|
Since the ideology of software freedom is still swirling in our heads, this being the week Richard Stallman gave two talks at NUS, let me talk about something at the opposite end. Embracing commercial, paid-for, non-free ...
|
The ICS ROM for SGS2 has been officially released!!! Download from your favourite haunts if you can’t wait for Samsung KIES to give you the ...
|
What a bummer. The new 3rd generation iPad will work in Singapore, of course. You can turn it on, use it, connect to the 3G network. But one of the features touted in this new iPad is the 4G LTE capability, and unfortunately, the ...
|
On the day everyone wants to talk about the new iPad, let me do something quite different. I’m going to talk about the Asus Transformer Prime instead. Asus launched its latest Android tablet last December with the most ...
|
This lonely place in the middle of nowhere (actually an industrial area) houses a data centre. Not a very big facility. A long time ago, it was fun to visit data centres. But I run and manage data centres myself as part of my ...
|
I don’t often write about “simple” applications (i.e. one with quite specific purpose), but this is an interesting one. I was trying to assemble a bunch of photos together. The only tool I had on my Mac was ...
|
From time to time, when I try to pretend to be a noob user, I find myself having to complain about Linux. The user experience, in my opinion, is just not there yet. Over a decade ago, when I was interviewed about whether Linux ...
|
My SGS2 is now back on Gingerbread, with the KL3 ROM released in December 2011. Suddenly realized it existed after having ICS on the phone for almost a week. KL3 has been pretty good so far. I can’t say yet the battery is ...