Archive for June 2009

Dear Research In Motion

Jun 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured

About a month ago, I switched to a BlackBerry. I wonder why I only discovered it now.
But then I read this. And now I’m concerned.
I used to be a Palm user for the quite a long time. I owned a total of 4 Palm devices. The last one being the Sony Clie(which I eventually lost. [...]



Setting Up For BlackBerry Development: How to Add Simulators to the BB JDE

Jun 24th, 2009 | By | Category: Tech & Web

I was setting up my machine to start toying around with some BlackBerry development and soon I hit a problem. I didn’t know how to add additional simulators. Let me explain.
First I went over to the BlackBerry Developer’s page and downloaded a copy of the BB JDE(290MB). It might help for you to read up [...]



Thoughts on Kiva now lending to the US

Jun 23rd, 2009 | By | Category: Other People

As you might have noticed, I’m quite the supporter of Kiva these days. In fact, I even pitch Kiva to the non-profit reps who are on the street soliciting donations.
My pitch? “The same $5 lent to someone in a developing nation would probably make a larger impact than here in Singapore.”
But recently, Kiva’s extended their [...]



My Communications Setup

Jun 22nd, 2009 | By | Category: Featured

While it’s debatable if being contactable 24/7 is a good thing, it’s what I’m trying to do right now. So I just wanted to share with you how I’m making that happen.
But first, let me make it clear that just because i’m contactable 24/7 doesn’t mean I’ll get back to you immediately. If I’m doing [...]



Clay Shirky on Social Media

Jun 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Other Stuff

Caught this from TED. Unlike the very airy-fairy talks I often hear about that evil place called social media, Clay Shirky gives a pretty good talk about it.



Slow Saturday Morning…

Jun 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured

Woke up to my grandparents coming over to my place bringing nasi lemak and lontong. I think i’ve skipped so many breakfasts that eating such a heavy one feels odd. But I did enjoy it though especially because it’s rare that we all have breakfast together.
After a week of spending my days running around and [...]



Yahoo! Rolls out Improved Mobile Site

Jun 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Tech & Web

Watch Introduction to the new Yahoo! Mobile Part 1/2

Watch Introduction to the new Yahoo! Mobile Part 2/2 in Tech & Gaming

While making my pilgrimage to CommunicAsia 09, I had the luck to attend a session with the Yahoo! reps to learn more about the new mobile site they launched.
Accessible via any HTML-enabled mobile browser, they’re [...]



Post-Google Hackathon 09

Jun 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured

I spent an entire day at SMU on Tuesday with U-zyn, Kahwee and U-Fong to attend this year’s Google Hackathon co-organised with e27. I was expecting a sort of a re-run of last year’s programme. I mean, the programme did state that they were, again, going to show OpenSocial and Map stuff(which was the focus [...]



Google Hackathon@SMU

Jun 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured

Going to be heading down for the Google Hackathon later. Not sure what to expect because the last time they had one, it wasn’t really a hackathon but more of series of presentations on Maps and Opensocial.
….Maybe we’ll score some Wave invites ;p *crosses fingers*
Going to try out using ScribbleLive again but this time instead [...]



Ubertwitter – My Preferred BlackBerry Twitter App

Jun 14th, 2009 | By | Category: Tech & Web

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i’ve been on my BlackBerry Bold for about a month and I’m absolutely loving it. So I thought I’ll just share some of things I use on it.
Twitter. That was one of the first things I wanted on the phone [...]