Author Archives: Junjie

Film bigots

Over at Anti Lomography, a group of film purists are attacking what they deemed as their inferior film counterparts—lomographers who use “old film cameras that are generally of extremely poor quality and overpriced”. They claim they aren’t anti-digital and support digital photography as one of the best ways to learn photography. But they would later [...]
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Thinktank Pixel Sunscreen

This is going to be very useful for those sunny outdoor shoots. Via deke.
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Hallelujah, tabs on top are gone!

The annoying Safari 4 beta tabs are gone!
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Thailand Reloaded

Back in Thailand again, a good break from all the nonsense that’s happening in Singapore. If you’re looking for prepaid SIM for your iPhone, Blackberry and Android in Thailand, TrueMove operator offers unlimited mobile broadband over EDGE for just 250 baht (S$11). Compared with the per-minute data plan offered by most operators (AIS, dtac), this [...]
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Safari 4′s tabs and the Wacom tablet

John Gruber’s complaint of the new Safari 4′s tabs is right on money: Consider: with the previous tab design, if you wanted to move a window you dragged the window, and if you wanted to move a tab, you dragged the tab. Now in Safari 4, if you want to move the window you drag [...]
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Ways to irritate someone without realising it

Many years ago, I read on a friend’s blog that she gets really irritated with people who asks “Are you sure?” right after she answers their question. Her problem: why bother asking in the first place if you don’t believe it? Lately I have a problem with someone telling me “that’s not very helpful”, or [...]
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Beggars flying private jets

Memo to U.S. companies seeking a bailout: When visiting Congress to ask for money, leave the private jets at home.
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Screenwriting notes for the uncreative mind

Writer for Sex and the City shares how she writes Pretty useful information, even for writing in general. Especially the portions on First Drafts, or Vomit Drafts. I found myself writing less because I spend too much time trying to get it right the first time round. Really zaps your energy away. Learning to write [...]
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Familiar notes…

So it’s quite amazing to see juniors walking around, carrying a stack of familiar notes that I posted almost a year ago. Sorry guys, no exams goodies for year 3 because I am too lazy to prepare them. Anyway, the courses this year aren’t exactly very academic as well. Anyway, here’s an important quiz you [...]
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Hands on the iPhone 3G

This article first appeared in the Nanyang Chronicle, Vol 15 No 3. For a smartphone, the iPhone is probably quite dumb by today’s standards. It doesn’t allow you to copy-and-paste text, forward text messages, search through emails, record video, share files via Bluetooth, send multimedia messages (MMS), edit Office documents, and the list goes on. [...]
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