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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Creative - watcha gonna do?
http://miketan.blogspot.com/2006/07/creative-watcha-gonna-do.html
Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Monday, July 24, 2006. Creative - watcha gonna do? Here's a best guess report on the new Microsoft Zune. Ipod killer. Seems to be a Microsoft branded product. While not detracting from the Ipod, it looks cool in a bland sort of way. It's boring, period. The only thing left to speak about, is - what about those guys who used Microsoft middleware and software to make their own Ipod killers? View my c...
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Vista Readyboost - FAT or NTFS, what flash drive to use ...
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Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Wednesday, September 13, 2006. Vista Readyboost - FAT or NTFS, what flash drive to use . Vista features a caching technology called Readyboost, where, small files which take the hard disk drive a lot of time to read, are cached in a USB flash drive since USB flash drives have a far faster seek-time compared to Hard disk drives - yes, even Raptors. 1) FAT or FAT32 or NTFS? 1) FAT or FAT32 or NTFS?
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Get More Bandwidth by using a better Cable splitter
http://miketan.blogspot.com/2006/09/get-more-bandwidth-by-using-better.html
Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Wednesday, September 13, 2006. Get More Bandwidth by using a better Cable splitter. Thanks to the thread in here. The threadstarter found that his cable splitter was rusty, and changed it with positive results - more bandwidth. That got a discussion going. And sent me shopping. Here's what I found. Most cable splitters have these attributes:. There is also a proper connection method: this post.
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Goosync syncs your cellphone with Google Calendar
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Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Wednesday, November 15, 2006. Goosync syncs your cellphone with Google Calendar. Has made me the happiest man in the world today. The happiest! How happy am I? Well, for the first time in my life, I've put an image at the centre of my blogpost! That's how happy I am. FORGET ALL THAT NOW! GOOSYNC ENABLES YOU TO SYNC YOUR CELLPHONE OVER THE AIR WITH GOOGLE CALENDAR! Here's how it does it. Now, Google...
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Soon: Synthetize a 3D environment using your pictures (and others')
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Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Monday, November 13, 2006. Soon: Synthetize a 3D environment using your pictures (and others'). And this would add a further dimension to your pictures, much more than GPS geotagging. It will augment reality, give you a much more powerful view, and from a human point of view, evoke more intimate emotions about your pictures. Check out the video here:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: 100Mbit will be reserved for the nerds - for it to reach the mainstream, DRM has to go!
http://miketan.blogspot.com/2007/02/100mbit-will-be-reserved-for-nerds-for.html
Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Monday, February 12, 2007. 100Mbit will be reserved for the nerds - for it to reach the mainstream, DRM has to go! Now that Starhub has given us the wonder of 100Mbit/s download, how many takers will there be. MANY, but not enough. The underground is fiercely `torrenting' terabytes of content every day and night. And this underground is so small compared to the total number of internet users. Let m...
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Vista RC1 Keys available from Microsoft
http://miketan.blogspot.com/2006/09/vista-rc1-keys-available-from-microsoft.html
Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Wednesday, September 13, 2006. Vista RC1 Keys available from Microsoft. Microsoft released Vista RC1 for public download, but did not give the keys. At this time, the official position was that only beta2 testers could get Vista RC1 working. After googling a bit, I found that Microsoft left a backdoor for us to get the keys even though we are not beta2 guys. Procedure to get beta2 keys:. Widgets, R...
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: Starhub changes HDTV programming
http://miketan.blogspot.com/2006/08/starhub-changes-hdtv-programming.html
Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Saturday, August 26, 2006. Starhub changes HDTV programming. After being subjected to months of old World Cup matches, finally Starhub is showing samples of DiscoveryHD and National Geographic HD. And they look BEAUTIFUL. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Widgets, RSS, etc. Starhub changes HDTV programming. Using the power of Blogger Beta. MichaelTan's Posts at HWZ. MichaelTan's Posts at Carma.
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: The Human Mind vs the mindless march of technology
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Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Friday, July 28, 2006. The Human Mind vs the mindless march of technology. Check out Cnet's special feature on the ten year old Apple Newton vs the brand new Samsung Q1 UMPC. The Apple Newton wins. Surprise. yeah. When is this mindlessness going to stop, Microsoft? I'm tired of it. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Widgets, RSS, etc. The Human Mind vs the mindless march of technology. Various int...
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A Tech-Biased Perspective: MDA has some HDTV-related events coming up soon
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Stuff I post once I have thoughts, time, and a computer in front of me, mostly related to tech and science. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. MDA has some HDTV-related events coming up soon. Just received an email from the MDA a few minutes ago. Here it is ad-verbatim. Keen to learn more about High Definition ( HD. Want to experiance HD. Ready LCD TV. Read on for details! 1 HDTV Mobile Exhibition. 8 Aug to 31 Aug. Level 1, Tampines Regional Library. 2 Evolution of TV: Getting You Ready for HD. 10 Aug to 31 Aug.
