Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead (Scottish proverb)
Looking to replace my stupid iPhone and found some useful sites to compare phone specifications
www.phonearena.com/phones: can quickly search and compare multiple phones with good details. The best tool so far. www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3: not as good as phoneArena.com (can only compare 2 phones at a time, removing current phones are not as easy as the first), but pretty [...]
Marketers are spying on Internet users — observing and remembering people’s clicks, and building and selling detailed dossiers of their activities and interests. The Wall Street Journal’s What They Know series documents the new, cutting-edge uses of this Internet-tracking technology. The Journal analyzed the tracking files installed on people’s computers by the 50 most popular [...]
2011-03-07, Lenovo X220T: 1.8kg, 12.5″ (1366×768) multi-touch IPS screen & pen, Windows 7 Home/Professional, Intel Core i7-2620M 2.7GHz, 8GB RAM, 160-320GB disk, 4-160GB SSD, built-in Wi-Fi b/g/n, EV-DO/HSPA WWAN, Bluetooth 3.0, 3 USB 2.0, 9h 6-cell battery (18h with 6-cell & external battery pack). Available in April. 2011-01-05, Motorola Xoom: 0.73kg, 10.1″ touch screen (1280×800), Android 3.0 Honeycomb, [...]
As Apple instructs here, you need only 4 following steps to update your iPhone with iOS4
Make sure you are using the latest version of iTunes. Connect your iPhone to your computer. When iTunes opens, select your iPhone under Devices in the Source List on the left. In the iPhone Summary pane, click Check for Update. Click Download and [...]
Got some free time last weekend and decided to change my boring standard iPhone ringtone.
iTunes Help was not very helpful: “You can create ringtones (the sound your iPhone makes when someone calls you) from many songs purchased from the iTunes Store. You pay a fee for each custom ringtone.” then a list of steps. Very [...]
Essential
Adblock Plus (Firefox, Chrome): Block ads. Effective. Download status bar (Firefox) FastestFox (Firefox, Chrome): Make browsing really fast on Firefox. Must have. Firebug (Chrome, Firefox): Inspect, edit, debug CSS, HTML, JavaScript, monitor network activity live in any web page GetYouTube (Chrome): Download YouTube videos directly from YouTube by adding button on right side of the videos. Much faster than savetube.com Google Translate [...]
I’m not an Apple’s fan or anti-Apple extremist, so here are some rational reasons to buy or not to buy an Apple iPad.
3 not-to-buy reasons
iPad is not a mobile phone. If you have an iPhone, you won’t need an iPad, since it does not bring anything better, except a larger screen and iBooks function (which [...]
I’m thinking of changing from Nokia to iPhone, since it has lot more applications and is much easier to read web and documents on iPhone (with zoom gestures) than on Nokia. Besides, StarHub and M1 just launched the iPhone 3GS yesterday (plan comparison) with pretty good data plan (10-12GB/month, capped at S$30)
Now, iPhone poor security [...]
Besides Yahoo! Pipes – currently the best free tool to “aggregate, manipulate, and mashup” web content - Ad Interest Manager (mentioned in this article from AP) is another interesting product from Yahoo this year. Google and Microsoft probably will launch their offerings soon.
…The new tool allows consumers to see a summary of their online activities, including a list of [...]
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