Finally got my hand on the Virtual Keyboard I mention two months back. The manual said it does not work with Mac/OS but I managed to get it to pair with my Mac anyway. Just go to the Bluetooth setup Assistant and instead of selecting “keyboard”, choose Other Device, and the proceed to pair them […]
Category: Random Musing
DualPhone, Taiwanese version
Remember DualPhone which I got so excited about? Several people also email me to ask me what I think about it. Sorry for the not replying but that’s because all I get from DualPhone is ‘Sorry, we don’t ship to Singapore’. Anyway, Taiwanese manufacturer Sysgration gave this new cool Skype device ASG-300. The way it […]
New technologies, new lens
Be afraid said Businessweek (via VoIP Watch) The big mistake many people make with new technologies, from personal computers to the World Wide Web and, most likely, VOIP, is to compare them with existing ways of doing things, and then–big surprise!–they don’t measure up. Yet already, more than 22 million people, plus 70,000 more every […]
Why China will rise to become a superpower in the world
or as according to Cheeky, a very funny Singapore blog. Unfortunately, most non-Singaporean won’t catch the local favour jokes but you probably get this one :-) From Germany From Russia From United Kingdom From United States of America And finally, from China
APAN Bangkok
I am in the airport lounge again, waiting to fly to Bangkok for APAN (Asia Pacific Advance Network). Most people probably never heard of APAN because it belongs to the world of academics but it is fairly similar to Internet2 in US. Anyway, I attend APAN once in a while when there is something going […]
Handicapping the Gap: China
In a discussion at APDIP Internet Governance mailing list, Suresh forwarded this interesting article by Thomas Barnett. The Chinese Communist Party is betting that wiring up the country is essential to unleashing the nation’s future economic potential, and they’re right. They’re also betting they can control the intellectual power enabled by all that connectivity, and […]
Not Milk
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Off to Bali
I am off to Bali for a quick trip. The purpose of the trip is to look at the proposed venue for APRICOT 2007 (yes, 2007 ;-). Speaking of APRICOT, 2005 will be held in Kyoto late next month. I haven’t been back to Kyoto since my honeymoon two years ago and I been looking […]
iPod Shuffle & Mac Mini
MacWorld just started and as usual, Steve announced two new product: iPod Shuffle and Mac Mini. iPod Shuffle, a even smaller version to iPod Mini which comes with 512Mb or 1Gb for your MP3. Sure, there are similar product out there (e.g. Creative MuVo), but hey, it is an Apple, with its ubercool design and […]
Linux on iPod
One of my guys, Arvind, took the 3rd Generation iPod I bought in US yesterday. Today, he return my iPod with a Penguin on it :- Linux on iPod :P What can it do? Well, other then playing MP3 (which strangely is bit slower), I can play some of the Linux games like tetris, pong, […]