Category Archives: Technology

Aperture 3: I’ll Pass

By Junjie | Published: February 13, 2010
No tethering support for Canon 5D2, or for that matter, any Canon cameras newer than the 350D. Even the inelegant workaround, the Hot Folder Import Script doesn’t work. And even when it does, it is still more clumsy than Lightroom 2 or Lightroom 3’s implementation of Auto Import, requiring an additional script to work. As much as [...]
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What Google’s Nexus One and Custom Made PCs have in common

By Junjie | Published: February 10, 2010
The other reason why I stop buying PCs custom made from Sim Lim is because no one wants to honour the warranty when things go wrong. It’s pretty much the same deal with Google’s Nexus One. Oh, it’s a hardware problem, go to HTC; HTC says no it’s a software problem, go to Google.
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Safari: Open all “new window” links in tabs, and other tips to replace Saft

By Junjie | Published: September 6, 2009
Predictably, my Leopard copy of Saft no longer works on Snow Leopard. A new version was released today but it does not support native 64-bit mode Safari under Snow Leopard. There’s currently no upgrade option for Leopard users to Snow Leopard versions of Saft, and I’m not keen on paying the full US$15 for a [...]
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Signs of bad Mac software

By Junjie | Published: July 22, 2009
Follow up to my previous post on tell-tale signs of bad Mac software before you even use it. Five minutes into using Canon Digital Photo Professional (DPP), converting some RAW files into JPEGs and TIFFs, I saw this dialog that I had no idea how to close. On most sane Mac software, I could have just clicked [...]
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Signs of bad Mac software (before you even use it)

By Junjie | Published: July 21, 2009
I’ve been avoiding the Canon provided software suite, including the Digital Photo Professional (DPP), like a plague. I’ve seen how my friend struggled with the interface, and It always seem like a piece of unpolished software. Today I decided to install it to compare the RAW outputs with Lightroom. True enough, even before I get [...]
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Thinktank Pixel Sunscreen

By Junjie | Published: July 15, 2009
This is going to be very useful for those sunny outdoor shoots. Via deke.
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Hallelujah, tabs on top are gone!

By Junjie | Published: June 9, 2009
The annoying Safari 4 beta tabs are gone!
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Thailand Reloaded

By Junjie | Published: April 5, 2009
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 is [...]
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Safari 4’s tabs and the Wacom tablet

By Junjie | Published: March 8, 2009
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 [...]
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Hands on the iPhone 3G

By Junjie | Published: September 20, 2008
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. It has [...]
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