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by Michael Tan, Singapore

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Picasaweb update: Automatically find faces, tag faces

Sep 3, 2008 11:57

OK, Google's on a roll. Picasaweb's update of "aliens have landed and joined Google's variety. Now Picasaweb can actually find faces, you label them, and they automatically apply the tags throughout all your pictures.
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Google Chrome vs the world: PWNAGE

Sep 3, 2008 09:55

Sorry for using funny language, but there's no other word which describes it without the censors hitting on this post.

It's pwnage.

The slowest thing in our browsers today is the Javascript. It starts off slow and becomes clunkier as the browser session gets older. �

If you want it to get faster, just go to http://google.com/chrome and install that Google browser. It does not need any administrator permissions to install, to my surprise.�
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Google Chrome: Who's crapping in its pants now?

Sep 2, 2008 13:12

Google has announced its own browser will be released Tuesday US Pacific time. Comes a couple of days after Microsoft released its own beta for IE8.

Cool, I thought. But how cool it was, I was ASTOUNDED when I read the Google Chrome comic here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8UsqHohwwVYC&printsec=frontcover#PPA2,M1.

My God. Individual virtual machines for every tab for stability and independent tab manipulation. Compiled javascript� instead of interpreted javascript for Web apps for ultra-fast speeds--like FAR faster than FF 3.1 even. Sandboxed tabs for security. Crazy smart and intensive browser render testing. Ground up engineering and open source code available to anyone who cares. Multithreaded everything.�
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Universe at the brink of destruction: PS3 Games may now be pirated!

Aug 26, 2008 11:08

When everybody concentrated so much on protecting the Blu-ray media from being copied, maybe somebody missed out the harddisk drive.

Here it is. The PS3 copy and content protection system may have been hacked to a limited extent.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/25/ps3-backup-hack-kinda-clarified-still-kinda-sketchy/
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SingTel's iPhone 3G iFlexi plans sux!

Aug 20, 2008 12:35

You can actually ignore my blogpost and read the excellent analysis here. Too lazy to read? Here's my summary:

All right, here are the plans:

	Monthly fee (incl GST)	Bundled data (3.6 Mbps)	Bundled mins (outgoing)	Bundled SMS	iPhone 3G 8GB	iPhone 3G 16GB
iFlexi Value	S$56	1GB^�	200 mins	500 SMS	S$348	S$508
iFlexi Plus	S$95	2GB^�	500 mins	500 SMS	S$49	S$208
iFlexi Premium	S$205	3GB^�	1,500 mins	500 SMS	S$0	S$0

To get the iPhone 3G cheap, you gotta get these plans. You still can get your iPhone 3G to ride on other plans, but the pricing is steep:

8GB--S$568
16GB--S$728

Notice the most sucky thing about these iFlexi plans? Yeah, Stone Age data limits.�Data is the most important thing on the iPhone 3G unless one's buying it for poseur reasons. And if one is going to use the iPhone 3G like what I plan for it, I'm gonna get charged a few thousand bucks for overuse--half a cent per 2 kilobytes. Terrorizing charges, those, if you have such a low limit, and five times more than mobile broadband plans.

So the only people who can get an iPhone 3G with SingTel's iFlexi plans and still not get bankrupt are the people who'll get an iPhone 3G just to talk on it and show it off and to SMS, and those who're buying an iPhone 3G not to use it as an iPhone but as any S$50 phone, 'cept that you can't show off that S$50 phone.

Oh crap, I think I'll wait for the HTC G1 Android Phone and switch to StarHub, the only telco with a decent broadband mobile plan. It'll be more fun with all those firmware updates everyday.�

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About Michael Tan

Michael Tan is lucky enough not to have to choose between his job and his passion. He is the responsible for all aspects of developing new businesses and sourcing new productlines for a regional IT distribution company. He also oversees the company's legal affairs as General Counsel. In real life, he is a technology enthusiast, from both the fun and business viewpoint. The only choices he has to make are whether to play with his astro telescopes, his PC games, his Wii console, hit the track, tweak his car, or refine his biofilters, post his blogs, research for a new digicam, scour every forum to feed his habit further, play with his son� ALL BLOGPOSTS ONLY REFLECT MICHAEL'S OPINIONS AND NOBODY ELSES'.