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May 14th, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, My Life & Thoughts
I was looking through my trello account and noticed the date today and only just realised that we’re hitting the middle of the month. And when we come to the end of it, we’re actually going to be hitting the middle of the year!
And so here I am reviewing my resolutions for the year and [...]
Tags: 2012, resolutions Posted in Featured, My Life & Thoughts |
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May 6th, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
Bringing together fitness and music into a wristband, the MOTOACTV is a lightweight, wearable fitness performance tracker and smart music player rolled into one. They’ve been made available since 5th May (yesterday) from Newstead outlets at a recommended retail price of SGD$399.
The MOTOACTV syncs with your PC allowing you to track which pieces of music [...]
Tags: fitness, motorola mobility Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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May 6th, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, My Life & Thoughts
Gushcloud that is.
After almost 6 years of being self employed running various product and services based outfits, I made the decision to work for someone else. The exact reasons for it I’ll keep for a separate post but it’s as much about learning something new as it is about making sure Senseless Labs can move [...]
Tags: gushcloud, hackerspacesg, senseless labs, streetegy Posted in Featured, My Life & Thoughts |
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Mar 21st, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
It seems the much awaited magazine/newspaper app, Zinio, has come to the BlackBerry PlayBook. Already available on Android, iOS and desktop, Zinio now brings the same flavour of goodness to the PlayBook. Some of these things include:
Access to your magazines while on the move.
Read while online or download them for ease of use when not [...]
Tags: apps, blackberry, magazines, playbook, zinio Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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Mar 2nd, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
Made available today exclusively at SingTel, M1 and Newstead at a recommended retail price of SGD$699 (including GST), the Motorola Atrix 2 is an update of the Atrix and comes powered with a 1GHz dual-core processor, an 8MP camera capable of full 1080p HD video capture and a 4.3-inch qHD screen that’s great for advanced [...]
Tags: announcement, atrix 2, availability & pricing, motorola, smartphone Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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Mar 2nd, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
The time has come for an overall review of the Dell XPS 15z. The story the technical specifications of a product tell is often not the same after you actually use it for an extended period of time – that seemingly fast machine starts to crawl after installing a few more applications and opening up [...]
Tags: 15z, dell, laptop, review, the review, xps Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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Mar 1st, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
Being based in HackerspaceSG these days, I get to see my fellow Hackerspacers (is this what they’re called?) work on really cool things. Recently, some folks tried installing a giant red button to unlock the main door without having to actually go to the door and that process produced several very simple circuit diagrams on [...]
Tags: circuit design, electronics, engineering, pcb, tools Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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Feb 29th, 2012 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
One week into using the Dell XPS 15z, and a problem that has surfaced is the inability to turn off the trackpad despite having your own USB mouse. This becomes a bit of a problem as I’m typing because my palm tends to brush against the trackpad and that causes the cursor to either shift [...]
Tags: 15z, a week, dell, laptop, review, xps Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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Dec 15th, 2011 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
On the 7th December, Huawei announced the availability of the Huawei Honor (U8860) in Singapore, running the Android OS 2.3 and features a 16M 16:9 true color HD 4 inch Full Wide VGA capacitive touch screen.
The Honor is powered by a 1900 mAh battery and is expected last 3 days on a single charge – [...]
Tags: announcement, availability & pricing, honor, huawei, u8860 Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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Dec 15th, 2011 |
By Ridz |
Category: Featured, Tech & Web
Out of the box, the colour and make of the body immediately gives me a macbook sort of feel that’s not quite there. That said, I really like the ash-gray interior that Dell decided to use. It reminds me of a mug that Starbucks was trying to roll out many years ago at selected stores [...]
Tags: dell, first impressions, review, xps 15z Posted in Featured, Tech & Web |
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