Category Archives: Tech

Useless gadgets to waste money on

The Long Tail and My Long Rant

If you follow any tech blog you would no doubt have heard of the term “The Long Tail” before. It’s not an entirely new concept but it’s gaining more and more media coverage in recent years due to the success … Continue reading

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Internet Explorer: The Fall of a Giant

I was looking at the visitor statistics for this site in Awstats yesterday when I noticed this… Note: August 2006 results taken on 20/08/2006. As you can see from the above rudimentary table that took all of 10 seconds to … Continue reading

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Lightbox JS and Firefox

The new loading image I changed the default loading.gif of Lightbox (as you may have noticed in the post below) and modified the CSS file as best as I could to fit the new dimensions and it seems to work … Continue reading

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Think your home is safe?

Well, maybe not anymore… We interrupt our regular anime rantage to bring you this public service announcement: you no longer need months of practice or hundreds of dollars worth of equipment to pick a lock. Any lock. All you need … Continue reading

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Status Report

I’m still alive. Yay. I just kept forgetting to blog. _|ï¿£|O Here’s what happened in the week that has passed since my last update… I watched Nana the movie finally. In fact I was writing quite a lengthy review on … Continue reading

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My New Laptop

I went to IT Show 2006 at Suntec City yesterday. Xbox 360 took up a huuuge booth. Meh. Nintendo took two for some reason. And they didn’t even have any DS Lites on display. Anyway, the main reason for my … Continue reading

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Overclock your PC with Cooking Oil

Feel free to try this at home. Common sense dictates that submerging your high-end PC in cooking oil is not a good idea. But, of course, engineering feats and science breakthroughs were made possible by those who dared to explore … Continue reading

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Blu-Ray Region Coding

According to PS3 Updates, America, Japan and East Asia will share the same region code for Blu-Ray. Here is some Christmas Day good news for you! IT Media has announced some details on the Blu-Ray region coding and it holds … Continue reading

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Gmail Mobile

Google has finally come up with an official mobile version of Gmail! Hurray! The normal version works okay in a phone browser, but it wastes too much bandwidth and some phones (like mine) can’t handle the weird javascript multiple redirects … Continue reading

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New PC and Desktop

I’ve been busy for the last few days. Wasted the better parts of yesterday and today buying and configuring my new PC. Spent more than expected as usual. It’s not particularly good, but at least the dual PCI-e slots allow … Continue reading

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Exclusive Invitation

Pffft. Who cares about Gmail invitations anymore. I received an commenter invitation after much begging for the Gawker Media network, which includes blogs like Lifehacker, Gizmodo and Kotaku. You’re invited to sign up for Gizmodo Comments. It’s as easy as … Continue reading

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Best Christmas Lights Ever

Just watch the video. From Engadget.

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