Facebook

I signed up to Facebook quite a long time ago and initially spent a bit of time there looking around. Mainly when I was still in my previous job. Quite quickly though I lost interest and never used it again, I still get tons of crap email though like “fun”wall writing, hot potatos, drinks, purchase […]

Trading Hardware Setup

I finally went the multi-monitors way and bought some hardware today. I got two 20.1″ Samsung Syncmaster 204B LCDs with UXGA (1600 x 1200) giving a total screen resolution of 3200 x 1200 over a diagonal size of 34.4″, slightly more than the previous screen space I had of 1440 x 900 over 15″ ;-). […]

Firefox 3 Beta 3

I’ve installed the new Firefox 3 Beta 3 today on my Mac, basically it’s a play area for me, I wasn’t going to risk my main FF on the PC. So far though it went reasonably smoothly. Profile was ported over successfully without any loss. Most extensions were disabled by the compatibility check however the […]

Geekery Time: Vista-ish look and Backups

It’s been a long time since I posted anything techie here. I had some time to play around with my laptop end of last week and set up a few things, all a la cheap, i.e. only using free stuff. Maybe this will be useful to someone.
1. Visual - I had a chance to use […]

Broadband internet in Thailand

If there was one thing I could change in Thailand, guess what it would be? Language barrier? Nope. Some cultural difference? No. The number one on my list would be: the internet. I get asked quite often by different people, how’s the internet here. I usually describe some of the problems I’m facing, and then […]

Apple’s iPhone Outsells All Other Smartphones

Interesting statistic on the iPhone. If it was available in Asia I’d have a really, really hard time resisting buying it.
Mac Rumors: Apple’s iPhone Outsells All Other Smartphones in July
Apple’s iPhone outsold all smartphones in the United States in July. This represents its first full month of sales and accounted for 1.8% of […]

OS X - Another take 1 week later

As Richard mentioned, it takes time to get used to OS X, but now I quite like it :-) I toned down the font smoothing and disabled it for small fonts so things are more readable while still looking very pretty. I’ve customized a lot of the top bar to show all the stats I […]

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