Building a no-compromise music player, part II
Step 3 The journey continues... After buying an external hard drive, the next thing to do is to hook that up to a laptop or PC. Do you have an…
2.5G iPhones now cost more!
Went by Mongkok so had a look at the cellphone shops. As per Alfred's post and the postings on local Mac lists, the 16GB 3G iPhones were indeed out in…
What the DS can do (besides games), Part I
Being a huge DS fan, I've been tinkering with my device ever since I got it last year. With the right mods, the Nintendo DS Lite can be far more…
Want a 3G iPhone? Buy one for S$1,700 to S$2,000 in HK
So, you can't wait for SingTel to bring the hyped-to-the-heavens 3G iPhone? Well, since the red camp missed the July 11 launch, you can get one from places where the…
Zen X-Fi: finally, something promising from Creative
On the face of it - a rather "thin" face of it - Creative seems to have finally come up with a solid MP3 player with its Zen X-Fi. This…
Building a no-compromise music player, part I
The talk about digital music stores and online downloads by Steph in a previous post led to this: I have decided to tell all about my home-built digital front end…
It’s confirmed – Singapore has incomplete number portability
Further to Alfred's post on number portability in Singapore ... ST Forum has published IDA's response to my original letter. The reason they provided for not mandating true number portability…
Bands encouraging online music downloads
What with the surge in the number of bands trying to cut their teeth in the music realm, the battle of selling CDs to music junkies seem to be intensified…
Massive price drops for Nvidia cards
The anticipated price wars have begun! Reports everywhere are suggesting that Nvidia are finally lowering ther crazy S$999 prices for their GTX 280s. If you go to Newegg.com, you' see that…
When will ATI HD4870x2 cards be here?
According to local distributors, it will be in end of this month (July), when these power-packed graphics cards will make their way to shops here. What we have now are…
No 3G iPhones from HK to SG … yet
Hutchinson/3 here in Hong Kong recently announced their iPhone prices and their mandatory subscription plans here. To cut to the chase, it seems like if you're thinking of getting an…
Firefox 3 gets world record
It's official - the Guinness World Records has bestowed Firefox 3 as the most downloaded software in 24 hours! From June 17 to 18, the browser was downloaded over 8…
Use your breasts
Yeah, you can do a striptease in Age Of Conan. I tried to see if the barbarians would stop to have a chat but i think they were too busy…
The benefits of number portability -free calls, free phones!
The street battles for mobile users are intensifying here, and these days, with cellphone operators fighing tooth and nail for customers, you can not only get a phone for free, but even free…
Welcome to the new Techgoondu
We thought we'd not do it so fast, but since we've been getting some traffic - mostly from frens and colleagues in the industry - here we are at the…
Back up yer vinyl records
Here's the latest in bit-perfect, lossless music encoding: vinyl-to-plastic audio backup. Now, being a vinyl record nut, I was naturally excited but also aghast to find this backup-yer-vinyl-record tip in…
Samsung Omnia vs HTC Touch Diamond – fight!
As the hype from the 3G iPhone rests a little, the spotlight has now been trained on two "iPhone killers" these past two weeks - the Samsung Omnia and HTC's…
Please port my number to pfingo
In this week's Digital Life, I ran a story about how VOIP services like pfingo, Skype and mediaring are now moving to the mobile phone. The value proposition is simple…
Need for “fuller” number portability?
As a letter writer in the ST Forum mentioned today, full number portability in Singapore does not mean you can switch from a post-paid to a pre-paid plan when you…
Go, Singapore game developers!
Scrawl Studio's Bunny Bounty, a game for bunny lovers - not! Can Singapore be a buzzing computer game developer city? I was at a Media Development Authority's (MDA) news conference…
