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I got a shock arriving home from school today: a package from Adobe Singapore containing Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. I was shocked and overjoyed beyond words; Adobe's online shop lists it at a whopping US$3,200.
I caught L: Change The World at Cineleisure last Friday, a spin-off featuring L from the Death Note films. After writing his own name in the Death Note, L has 23 days left, and the movie follows those final days.
My old Sitoca table has lasted over five years and is still excellent, so I'm passing it to Li Xiang, whose table is collapsing. I went to Ikea for a new desk, a table top on Vika Grevsta legs.
DotAsia has put .asia domain names up for sale, with premium names ranging from US$4,000 to US$21,000 per their auctions page. The so-called landrush for the latest suffix has begun, and DotAsia expects huge demand for the new namespace.
The format war is finally over and Blu-ray has won. I'm quite happy, as I always preferred it over HD-DVD. Consumers benefit greatly from a single standard, just like DVD and CD; Toshiba today announced it's ceasing HD-DVD production.
Apple iPod Touch 8GB for S$498, or Asus Eee 4G for S$598? Two very different gadgets at a similar price, one a sleek media player, the other a tiny netbook. Any suggestions or comments to help me decide?
Nseries WOM World has chosen me to help Nokia beta-test N-Gage, even sending a Nokia N81 8GB from the UK to Singapore by DHL. Per the agreement the phone's on loan for two weeks; hopefully they extend it.
After a seven-year hiatus, Electronic Arts has announced the return of Red Alert, one of the most beloved and best-selling real-time strategy series of all time. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 is coming to PC, Xbox 360 and more.
I went to Adobe's Singapore office at Suntec City Tower Three for an hour of Photoshop CS3 tips. The workshop, Exploit Photoshop CS3, was run by Shirley Tan, an Adobe Evangelist, and covered six handy tips in total.
I caught What Is Man? at the Esplanade Theatre yesterday; it runs just two days. The performance started at 8pm and ended around 11.30pm, including a 20-minute intermission, across 28 scenes, fifteen of them before the break.
Nokia has made the N78 and N96 official. There are now official sites, press photo galleries, full specifications and press releases for both the N78 and N96. Plenty of fresh material to pore over.
Chinese New Year. I find it getting more boring each year, as my cousins grow older with their own families and our gathering time keeps shrinking. As kids we'd play late into the night; now it's all far briefer.
Nokia N96 specifications have leaked: HSDPA and quad-band GSM, measuring 103 by 55 by 18-20mm and weighing 125g. It packs WLAN with UPnP/DLNA, 16GB internal flash plus microSD, 256MB memory and a 2.8-inch QVGA display.
It's the year of the rat, which is my year, since I was born in 1984, some 24 years ago, and I turn 24 next month. I hereby wish all Chinese a happy and prosperous Lunar New Year. Huat ah!
Product information for the Nokia N82 in black, courtesy of Engadget. A sleek dark take on Nokia's photography-focused Nseries flagship, pairing its 5-megapixel Carl Zeiss camera and Xenon flash with an understated, fingerprint-prone finish that suits the device rather nicely.
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I'm so swamped with school, with assignments and tutorials coming non-stop. With Chinese New Year next week, I've one CS3216 assignment and four tutorials, two CS2301, one MA1312 and one CS2106, all due Tuesday. So stressful!
If you enjoy my WordPress plugins, perhaps consider becoming a fan of my Lester Chan's WordPress Plugins page on Facebook. It's a handy place for updates and discussion, and your support would mean a lot to me. Thanks!
Update: the image below turned out to be fake; please see my August 2014 post for the real Singapore future MRT/LRT map. This was the latest track system map, including the newly announced Thomson and Eastern Region MRT lines.
HTML 5 is the first major update to HTML in ten years, since HTML 4 in December 1997, and I'm looking forward to it. It adds APIs for drawing 2D graphics, embedding and controlling multimedia, and managing client-side storage.
Here are some post-install details on Windows 7 M1, originally posted by Kenipnet in Neowin's forums. Over the weekend he finally tried the build but was disappointed, as his primary machine asked for a SATA driver.
I found this poem, My Spelling Checker, rather amusing during my CS2301 lecture today, so I thought I'd share it. The wrong version still passes the spell check: Eye halve a spelling chequer, it came with my pea sea.