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Made to Pay for Open Source Software

September 21, 2009September 21, 2009 | Technology | I recently bought a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Home and Student Edition. It carries a street price of about S$120 in Singapore, which is about the same as what you can get off from Amazon (US$84.99). I get to install it on up ...

Windows 7 to Launch at US$30

September 18, 2009September 20, 2009 | Technology | Apple’s Snow Leopard must really have put the pressure on Windows 7. Microsoft has announced a new educational pricing of just US$30. Yes, that matches Snow Leopard’s retail price of just US$29. But Microsoft’s ...

Monopoly City Streets

September 18, 2009September 20, 2009 | Technology | The current hot game on the Internet is Monopoly City Streets. So hot that it crashed on day one. So hot that it had to be reset. So hot that on the day it as reincarnated, it ran into trouble again. If you’ve not yet ...

Apple Launches New iPods

September 10, 2009May 22, 2016 | Technology | At Apple’s special media event yesterday, Apple announced the immediate availability of entirely refreshed family of iPod devices. The new generation of iPod nano received the biggest upgrade, which includes a new video ...

Keeping WordPress Secure

September 8, 2009September 13, 2009 | Technology | A hot topic going around in WordPress circles now is a worm making its rounds hijacking vulnerable WordPress installations, and how just a little effort on the part of administrators could have saved the trouble of cleaning up ...

iPhoto ’09

September 7, 2009 | Technology | I know I’m a little late talking about iPhoto ’09. But I just got my iLife ’09 box last week, installed it into my MacBook, and played with iPhoto ’09 for the first time after having read so much about its ...

iWork ’09 or Office 2008 for Mac

September 6, 2009 | Technology | Actually, the question I needed to answer was whether or not to get the Snow Leopard Mac Box Set. I want Snow Leopard, and I want iLife ’09. Do I get the Snow Leopard Upgrade and iLife ’09, or do I get the Snow ...

The Nokia N97 Mini

September 3, 2009June 2, 2023 | Technology | Nokia announced the new N97 Mini. It will look exactly like the original N97. It will practically have all the same features and specifications as the original N97. But it will be just a little smaller. How interesting. This is ...

Upcoming Nokia Products

August 30, 2009September 3, 2009 | Technology | There seems to be a lot going on with Nokia this year in terms of new and upcoming products. One of the highlights this year has to be the launch of their N97 flagship. There has also been a slew of follow-up models to their 5800 ...

Quantified Improvements in Snow Leopard

August 29, 2009August 29, 2009 | Technology | I’ve just finished upgrading to Snow Leopard. Apple claims it is faster. With most things turned 64-bits, one would expect to see some improvements. But how good is better? Well, I timed a selected bunch of events, just ...

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