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Much Ado Over EMF Levels

September 18, 2010September 18, 2010 | Technology | Some folks at work have become somewhat paranoid over the EMF levels in their workspace. Apparently, they have found levels to be “unsafe” for prolonged continuous exposure, according to some literature that ...

The Day Facebook Banned Me for 24 Hours

September 8, 2010August 17, 2016 | Technology | It happened to me. “Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available within a few hours.” The “suspension” started early in the morning, and didn’t go back to ...

Android Outnumbers iPhone

September 5, 2010December 19, 2018 | Technology | I was running a network workshop yesterday. During the break, I spotted someone with a HTC Desire phone. So, I thought to conduct an impromptu poll of Android and iPhone users. There were, surprisingly, 3 HTC Desire users, as ...

Preview of CyanogenMod 6

August 28, 2010April 23, 2023 | Technology | I was preparing to write a preview of CyanogenMod 6 (CM6) before it became officially released. But alas, by the time I got around to it, CM6 is now officially released. The pre-release alphas, release candidates and nightly ...

Installing Windows XP

August 7, 2010April 17, 2014 | Technology | I have unintentionally become an expert at installing and reinstalling Windows. It’s Windows XP this time. This is my third Windows XP installation in two days, before I finally got a problematic program running ...

Who Owns My Phone?

August 5, 2010August 5, 2010 | Technology | It’s a tussle between individuals and the wishes of business organizations wanting to protect their data. The “problem”, is that phones nowadays are so powerful, so ubiquitous, and used so much for personal and ...

Inertia Scrolling Comes to the MBP

July 28, 2010July 29, 2010 | Technology | Apple’s just-released Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Update 1.0 finally brings inertia scrolling to recent models of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks. Inertia scrolling, if you don’t know about it, is the feature ...

Google’s Confused About Where I Am

July 21, 2010June 9, 2015 | Technology | For about a week now, Google Maps has been rather confused about where I am. It fixes me at a specific spot in Bukit Batok, when in reality I’m like 10km away, in an area also wrongly labeled as Pulau Bukom in the zoomed ...

PCs and Viruses

July 20, 2010 | Technology | Sometimes, I think we’re doomed. Our IT, our cyberspace, they all belong to hackers. Hackers of the bad sort. The world is at their mercy. It’s one thing for the layman to be lost and give up in defeat. But it’s ...

Building an Android ROM

July 18, 2010August 18, 2016 | Technology | I’ve been struggling to build CyanogenMod ROM from source for my Nexus One. It’s actually not very difficult once you’ve figured out how to do it. That’s the biggest hurdle: figuring out how to do it, ...

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