SingTel

• APN: e-ideas
  • Username: 65ideas
  • Password: 65ideas
• APN: internet
  • Username: LEAVE_BLANK
  • Password: LEAVE_BLANK

Starhub

• APN: shwapint
  • Username: LEAVE_BLANK
  • Password: LEAVE_BLANK
• APN: shwap
  • Username: LEAVE_BLANK
  • Password: LEAVE_BLANK
  • Proxy: 10.12.1.2
  • Port: 80

M1

• APN: sunsurf
  • Username: 65
  • Password: user123
• APN: miworld
  • Username: 65
  • Password: user123

Let me know whether if any of the above information is incorrect. I can only verify both SingTel APN is correct as I am a SingTel user.

Here are the direct links FROM APPLE itself to iOS 4.1 for various iDevices:

iPhone

• iPhone 3G (4.1/8B117)
• iPhone 3GS (4.1/8B117)
• iPhone 4 (4.1/8B117)

iPod Touch

• iPod Touch 2G (4.1/8B117)
• iPod Touch 3G (4.1/8B117)
• iPod Touch 4G (4.1/8B117)

Source: iPod, iPhone and iPad Firmware Download

While I was in Vietnam over the weekends, my brother offered to help me get the Western Digital Elements Desktop 1TB harddrive from Comex 2010 at Bizgram stall. I am going to use the HDD for my MacBook Pro Time Machine backup.

Western Digital Elements

Western Digital Elements Portable 320GB- SGD$69.90
Western Digital Elements Portable 500GB- SGD$89.90
Western Digital Elements Portable 750GB- SGD$129.90
Western Digital Elements Portable 1TB – SGD$169.90

Western Digital Elements Desktop 1TB – SGD$109.90
Western Digital Elements Desktop 1.6TB – SGD$139.90
Western Digital Elements Desktop 2TB – SGD$169.90

Source: Western Digital Elements Pricelist

Western Digital My Passport/Book

Western Digital My Passport Essential 500GB – SGD$99.90
Western Digital My Passport Essential 750GB – SGD$139.90
Western Digital My Passport Essential 1TB – SGD$179.90

Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB – SGD$119.90
Western Digital My Book Essential 2TB – SGD$179.90

Source: Western Digital Pricelist

I prefer the WD Elements than WD My Book Essential simply because WD Elements is a no nonsense HDD, it does not include all those crap software like SmartWare within the HDD . It is just the HDD and nothing else. Also it is SGD$10 cheaper than Western Digital My Book Essential. Check out the comparison chart. I also prefer the Matt Black finish of the WD Elements than the Piano Black of WD My Book Essential.

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Time Machine

SingTel has announced their price plans for OpenNet Fibre Internet connection. From tomorrow (1st September 2010), you can register your interest in the high-speed fibre services at www.singtel.com/exstream.

SingTel OpenNet Price Plans

If you ask me, it is still pretty expensive. I hope they will have a exPress 200 plan because exPress 150 plan is not really a huge jump from Starhub 100Mbps cable.

For more details, check out the press release:

Singapore, 31 August 2010 – Singapore Telecommunications Limited (SingTel) is pleased to announce today that it will be offering a comprehensive suite of affordable consumer and business applications on its high-speed fibre services to retail customers. SingTel will also offer carriage-based high-speed fibre services on a wholesale basis to retail service providers (RSPs).
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Leveraging the Next Generation National Broadband Network (NGNBN) deployed by OpenNet and SingTel’s own extensive fibre infrastructure, SingTel will provide unparalleled service quality and speeds to both retail customers and wholesale to RSPs. Customers can look forward to a range of high-speed fibre services with downlink speeds of up to 200Mbps, uplink speeds of up to 100Mbps and international bandwidth of up to 25Mbps. SingTel’s fibre network is scalable and capable of providing even higher speeds in the future to meet the needs of our retail and wholesale customers.
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SingTel will launch a high-speed fibre service, known as exStream, with downlink speeds of up to 200Mbps. Customers can choose from three new packages which are designed with relevant applications, and with consumers’ needs in mind to enhance their lifestyles at work, at home and at play.

With the exPress portal, customers can freely express their personalities as well as stay closer to their loved ones anytime, anywhere. They will enjoy features like unified messaging, online storage and sharing of multimedia content and high quality multi-party video chat.

With unified messaging, customers have single access to multiple social networking sites and enjoy chat aggregation. They can customise their exPress homescreen for easy access to their favourite multimedia content like news, videos, music etc – all on a single online web portal.

With the exCite service, customers can experience the world’s best video search engine allowing customers to find the widest range of online video content and stream them smoothly from sites like YouTube and Tudou. Customers can create their own entertainment channel and experience limitless internet content, right from their TV screen. exCite also gives customers access to Singapore’s first TV Apps Store, starting with a catalogue of over 30 TV games. The Store is based on an open TV platform enabling developers to easily create exciting applications. A gesture-based remote control and predictive text searches in English and Chinese offer easier navigation.

With exCite Home and exPlore Home bundled plans, customers will be the first in Singapore to watch pay TV programmes through fibre, while enjoying the benefits of the high-speed fibre services like the exPress portal. exPlore Home Sports also combines the best of mio TV Sports package, including the interactive applications with the high-speed fibre access as an integrated plan.

Full Press Release: SingTel launches comprehensive suite of entertainment, convergence and productivity applications on high-speed fibre services

After much hesitation, finally got a new graphics card to replace mine old Leadtek PX9800GX2 1GB DDR3 which gives me BSOD EVERY SINGLE TIME I run any 3D games. This problem occurred just after a year! RMA onced, but the problem came back to my RMAed set once my warranty is over! If I just use it normally (Programming/Internet/Work), it will work fine. But these task does not do justice to my Core 2 Quad with 8GB of RAM!

I thought that I am getting an iMac soon and will not need a graphics card, but after thinking for a few weeks, I think that is still a long way! I am guessing the iMac will be refreshed with a new design in September 2011 and that is the time I am going to get it!.

At first I wanted to get XFX Radeon HD 5830 1GB GDDR5 (SGD$299), but Fuewell at Sim Lim Square ran out of stock, so I ask the guy introduce me a graphics card with a budget of about SGD$300. He recommend me MSI N460GTX Cylone 768D5 (SGD$329) or Asus ENGTX460 TOP 768MD5 (SGD$319). Both come with 3 years warranty. In the end I chose MSI N460GTX Cylone 768D5 because the fan looks cooler! I paid by cash and I got SGD$4 off! So end up paying SGD$325. By the way, now you can pay NETS with no additional surcharge at Fuwell because they have manage to negotiate with NETS to keep the transaction fee low.

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MSI N460GTX Cylone 768D5