Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category

Singapore, are we open-sourced yet?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Colin Charles in his blog, posted a very interesting tidbit. He notices that the current ruling political party in Malaysia as well as an official website created to bolster communication between the Malaysian electorate and current PM Badawi, are running on proprietary software. I thought it was quite interesting to find ...

Monster Marketing

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Wil Shipley talks about Hype and how "Monster Market" your software, create hype, and possibly get laid in the process. Amazing speaker. Wil Shipley is a developer at Delicious Monster, famously known for creating Delicious Library, a software to keep track of all your movies, music, games and books.

Savit Micro HDD HDTV Mediaplayer

Friday, September 14th, 2007

http://www.savitmicro.co.kr/2006K/01_storage/cd26hd.php This is the thing I've been waiting for a bloody long time! A small, light HDD-based media player that supports native HDTV video. 120GB of BSG goodness! Dayum.

AT&T “You Will” 1993 Ads

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Like what jseng wrote, This is amazing! 14 years ago, A&T envisioned the future in their advertisments. 14 years later, almost all have come true. What will the future hold for us?

Sumatra PDF

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Been trying out Sumatra PDF, to replace Foxit Reader as my pdf reader. Sumatra's lean at 850kB and has a whole list of gmail-like shortcuts to boot. They're like the utorrent of PDF readers. Give it a shot. I love how its just one executable file that can be carried around ...

Ruby on Rails, Working!

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

With the help of the people from the Singapore Ruby Brigade, we've managed to get our Ruby on Rails VPS, to work. Our test system is running on Fedora Core 5 and lighttpd. With our VPS working, we'll be hosting one of my school's student project as part of our initiative ...

Lenovo Mobile?

Sunday, August 12th, 2007

Looks like Lenovo is expanding out to other consumer products other than personal computers. Their new mobile, the P768, looks slick with its red joystick that seems to be paying homage to the thinkpad series. At a reference price of 999 yuan or SGD$200, this phone is priced reasonably. Features include ...