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I am twenty-seven today, firmly in my late twenties now! Li Xiang surprised me with two cakes from Pine Garden delivered to my office. My colleagues lit the candles and sang, embarrassingly letting the whole office in on it.
Mozilla has officially released Firefox 4.0! Highlights include performance up to six times faster than the previous version, with improved start-up, quicker page loads, speedy web-app handling and hardware acceleration. Take the video tour or watch the live download stats.
In today's press release announcing iPad 2 availability across 25 more countries this Friday, Apple confirmed Hong Kong, Korea and Singapore will get the second-generation tablet sometime in April 2011, a little after the initial wave of launches.
Li Xiang got me the Crumpler Herbas (L) Wide as a birthday present, thanks Dear! The bag is lightweight, slim and compact, fitting an 11-inch MacBook Air nicely. I'm using it as my iPad bag for now.
Attended LG Blogger Night at Black Coffee Dessert Bar in TripleOne Somerset, where they showed the Optimus 2X and Optimus Black. The 2X's headline feature is its dual-core 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, which made the phone feel genuinely snappy.
Samsung's Nexus S is now available from all leading mobile retailers at a recommended S$828, contract-free and inclusive of GST. The world's first handset with a contour display, it launches in Singapore on 18th March 2011.
Sometimes the site returns a blank page or null response, with curl reporting an empty reply from the server. I haven't pinned down the cause, but a simple Apache restart fixes it; with 2GB RAM, memory isn't the problem.
Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9, promoted on a new site called Beauty Of The Web whose URL honestly looked like a phishing page at first. The latest version of the world's most-used browser launched in 39 languages.
Hooted the A.C. Ryan Playon! HD Mini 2 at IT Show 2011 for S$189 after the CitiBank card discount off its S$199 RRP. This January-launched media player features USB 3.0, gigabit LAN connectivity and the brand-new GUI 2.0 interface.
Fancy an Angry Birds plush or SingTel Droid toy? Head to the SingTel booth at IT Show 2011, like their Facebook page, show your profile to staff, and grab one using the UFO catcher machine.
About time! By end July 2011, consumers will enjoy significantly faster smartphone surfing inside MRT tunnels. The Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts told Parliament that Singapore's three telcos must complete the network installation by then.
Invited to the blogger session of Canon's first product launch of 2011 at the brand-new Canon Imaging Academy beside their Keppel Bay Tower office. The academy develops curricula, courses and events to enhance participants' photography and imaging experience.
Here are Apple's own direct download links for iOS 4.3 across iDevices: iPhone 3GS and 4, iPod Touch 3G and 4G, and all three iPads. The iPhone 3G and iPod Touch 2G are deprecated and miss out.
After upgrading to the 50GB Dropbox plan for US$99 a year to sync all my photos across computers, several images in different Photos subfolders showed a red x and refused to sync. Here's how I forced a full resync.
mig33's creative team is hiring a full-time Webmaster reporting to the Director of Content and Creative Factory. They want at least five years of production web-development experience, plus knowledge of web design, GUI, mobile UI and information architecture.
Apple announced iPad 2 at yesterday's event, which I was too tired to follow live and only caught this morning. Most rumours proved true: FaceTime, dual cameras, Photo Booth, a dual-core A5 chip, and a white option alongside black.
Flickr first teased apps for Windows 7 and Windows Phone 7 back in January 2011, and they're finally available, something I'd been waiting for. The app shows your photos in high resolution and lets you browse photostreams and sets richly.
Invited to Norton's blogger session for the launch of Norton 360 Version 5.0, thanks to Text 100. Highlights include a perfect online-threat detection score from Dennis Technology Labs, a top PassMark performance ranking, and a new Norton Control Center.
Challenger at Funan goes 24 hours daily from tomorrow, 1st March 2011, at Funan DigitaLife Mall on North Bridge Road. Finally a computer store besides Mustafa keeps round-the-clock hours, handy whenever you urgently need IT supplies at odd times.
kaypo.me, an interesting service from fellow NUS School of Computing graduate Kent Nguyen, lets you update your Facebook status by SMS. Since not everyone has a data plan but almost everyone gets free SMSes, even feature phones work.
Apple has refreshed the MacBook Pro, bumping processor speeds while keeping the unibody design. The entry 13-inch gets a 2nd-gen Core i5, higher models a Core i7, all with Intel HD Graphics 3000 plus dedicated AMD Radeon graphics.
Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 is now available. Sizes vary widely: the 32-bit Windows Update is around 750MB and the 64-bit 1,050MB, while standalone downloads from Microsoft balloon to 4,100MB and 7,400MB respectively.