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Category Archives: Technology
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 [...]
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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. It has [...]
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Webmailer 1.0
Ever click on a mailto: link, only to scream in frustration as Apple Mail opens yet again?
Then check out Webmailer 1.0. I use Mail.app with Gmail on IMAP. Still, I suppose this is tremendously useful for those who don’t.
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iPhone to launch in Singapore on August 22nd?
Chief operating officer of Apple, Tim Cook, said at the Apple’s quarterly financial conference call:
Confident enough in production ramp, that will be launching 20 additional countries on August 22nd, bringing total to over 40, and still expect to be selling in over 70 countries by end of year.
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SingTel Optus iPhone 3G plans and pricing
SingTel Optus, one of the three Australian telcos that will be offering the iPhone come July 11th, has revealed its pricing for post-paid and pre-paid plans.
The pricing details for the plans and iPhone do a great job of confusing everybody, but we can gather that the bundled data usage with the post-paid plans are anaemic, [...]
Hong Kong’s iPhone pricing
The 8GB iPhone to be sold by Hong Kong’s telco, 3, will range from free to S$513 depending on the plan you sign up for. The 16GB iPhone will go for S$24 to S$653. Comparatively a HTC Touch Cruise offered by the same network goes for S$765 with a 18-month contract, while the Nokia N95 [...]
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There it finally is!
Eight years after Diablo 2 was released, Diablo 3 has finally been announced! But as with all Blizzard games, it’s going to be another long wait till we get our hands on it. But seriously, what’s another year or two compared to eight years of wait right.
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Fixing slow Samsung printing over AirPort Extreme/Express
Printing with Bonjour over AirPort Express was painfully slow, apparently because of a bug with Leopard and Bonjour. Here’s the not-so-glam fix from solo4675 on Apple discussion:
Open Print & Fax Preferences.
Click on + to add printer.
Select IP at the top of the page. Select HP JetDirect – [...]
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iPhones sold by SingTel will not be carrier-locked
Chua Hian Hou wrote, according to an interview with a SingTel boss:
Buyers, though, will have to sign up for a SingTel subscription, although the phone can be used on any mobile network in Singapore, unlike in the United States where iPhones are ‘locked’ to only work with one operator.
Does this mean those who [...]
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