Category Archives: Tech

Useless gadgets to waste money on

iPod touch

Due to some strange twist of fate, I now have in my possession an 8GB iPod touch. (Basically a gimped iPhone without the Phone.) It’s a very, very awesome piece of technology, and yet it suffers from the same glaring … Continue reading

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Plug-and-Play SATA HDD Rack

I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time. This is something that will change lives forever. It’s a USB 2.0 rack for 2.5″ and 3.5″ SATA harddisk drives. Akihabara News uploaded a video of it in action. … Continue reading

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Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 1

Winamp 5.5 Beta (Build 1550) was released yesterday. The major changes in this update are album art support, a SingleUI skin and a new unified meta editor for all various file formats. Winamp 5.5 Beta Preview 1 (Bento Skin) I … Continue reading

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Japanese WikiScanner

If you’ve been keeping up with tech blogs or digg, you would have no doubt heard about WikiScanner, a project by computer hacker Virgil. Basically it’s a script that, using the freely-available copy of Wikipedia’s database that is regularly updated, … Continue reading

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I have fallen…

I am now the owner of an Xbox 360. I can hear you going “WTF?” just about…now. Rest assured that I, too, share your sentiments. Actually, I won it at an IT competition for schools along with a copy of … Continue reading

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The Great Digital Divide

Lain for President! Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of teenagers at a political rally and encouraged them to tell their friends to participate in the political process. (via Kotaku) “I want you to tell them, ‘It’s … Continue reading

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I am going blind soon…

And I’m not talking about the old masturbation joke either. Dell was having a sale over the New Year and I finally made the leap and ordered their 2407WFP 24″ wide screen monitor for a cool 1,099 SGD. (That’s about … Continue reading

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PSP now 721% more fun than before!

PSP just added about 2,000 games to its library of just under 300, making it just about 721% more fun than before. Yes, PSP can now fully emulate 99% of all the PS1 games out there and at full speed … Continue reading

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LG Digital Fine Contrast does magic for anime!

Were you rubbing your eyes in disbelief at episode 3 of Yoake Mae yori Ruri-iro na? Or were you stabbing them with blunt pencils to relieve them of their agony like I was? Does it bring you merciless flashbacks of … Continue reading

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I hate 3D Studio Max

Modelling a spaceship: 2 hours Figuring out how to texture a planet: 2 hours 3D Studio Max crashing: GAO DESU!!! Doing random little adjustments and wasting a lot time: 2 hours Can’t finish rendering a 4000-frame animation in time to … Continue reading

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Importing a Japanese mobile phone

Vodafone 903SH If you have been reading my blog since the b2 days, you would know that I own a Vodafone 903SH (the SH is for Sharp). At the time I got it, the phone was the latest 3G offering … Continue reading

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The Complete Otaku’s Guide to Tsundere Linux

The moé self-help books just don’t stop coming. It has been scientifically proven that anything with the word “moé” or “tsundere” in its title will sell like hotcakes. Image from Akiba-blog From Akiba-blog: Enter 「ツンデレ☆りなっくす」 or “Tsundere Linux”, a book … Continue reading

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