Archive for the 'Gadgets' Category

MMS on iPhone OS 3.0

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

For reasons beyond my control (and laziness), I only managed to update my iPhone to OS 3.0 last weekend. However, I found out that I was still unable to MMS, so I turned to Singtel’s haphazard website to dig around. Although the default setting seems to be correct, I could not send or receive pictures.
I [...]

Project Natal Video

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

If you’re a gamer who haven’t heard the name Johnny Lee, you have to come out from under that rock you’re in.
Johnny Lee become famous for his youtube video on turning Nintendo Wii remote controller into a head-tracking device. Apparently, that one video sealed his reputation for making incredible innovative devices out of everyday objects, [...]

New LCD TV: Panasonic Viera TX-32LX800M!!

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Boy, oh boy!
I was scouting around for an LCD TV for my love nest bedroom and after a few days of scouting, I immediately fell in love with this: a Panasonic Viera TX-32LX800M.

The price was a nice S$799. A tad high for a 32-incher with a 1,366 x 768 resolution; even the salesman at Best [...]

Trying Out Copy-Paste On The iPhone

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Clippy has been mentioned in popular sites now that I just had to try it out. It is currently in beta, only version 0.9 now, so it may not be properly stable. It adds two additional buttons to the virtual keyboard in the “numbers” section. You highlight the text to be copied by dragging your [...]

Portable Apps Junkie

Monday, January 12th, 2009

I had recently purchased a Corsair Flash Voyager 8GB from newegg.com. A friend of mine was recently transferred back from the US, so I took advantage of Black Friday.

I had knew about portable apps for a long time now, but didn’t really go into it much. I didn’t have a USB thumb drive before, so [...]

Revamping The iPhone

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

This is an amazing mock up of one man’s dream iPhone.

What Mat Brady has wanted was to give the iPhone 60GB memory size, a slide-out keyboard, a 16:9 640×360 screen, a front-facing camera and a rear 5MP camera with 3x optical zoom. All in a pretty slick package.
I have my own reservations on the improvements [...]

I Don’t Celebrate Christmas, But…

Monday, December 22nd, 2008

…but that doesn’t mean I can’t buy myself stuff! Time to show off my recent major purchases!

Fallout 3 PC Collector’s Edition
Fallout 3 kept getting delayed in Singapore for some reason. Made me go “Enough!” and I bought the collector’s edition off amazon.com. Lucky me, a friend of mine was moving back from the US to [...]

Nokia N97 Announced: My Take

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Image source: http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/02/nokia-unveils-flagship-n97-phone/
One word: orgasmic.
This flagship device from Nokia has been a long time coming, since the iPhone sparked off the touch-screen smartphone wars. Sure, it was revolutionary, but it wasn’t perfect. Others have tried it, but as with all touch-capable devices, the interface is very important. A lot, if not all, of other touch-screen [...]

Another Reason For Liking iPhone 2.2 Update

Thursday, November 27th, 2008

I no longer get the stupid “Unknown Error: 0xE800002E” when I update my iPhone apps!
Previously, on iTunes, if I try to update any app with the newer version, I am unable to, unless I delete the app from my “Applications” tab in itunes, sync and remove app in iPhone, redownload the app from the store, [...]

Just Realised Bejeweled 2 Is In SG App Store

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

I didn’t know Bejeweled 2 got released in the SG App Store. Previously when I looked for it, I only saw it on the US Store, and for US$9.99 to boot!
Now, it’s a nice US$2.99 for some reason. Hopefully, it’ll stay that way. There goes my sad, sad life.