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Traveling Light: Thoughts on using the iPad

In Personal, Technology on 5 August 2010 tagged iPad, travel, wordpress with no comments

Some quick thoughts on using the iPad as an alternative to a laptop when traveling for a press event: 1. Formatting your text using the WordPress client for iPad is not going to happen, no options available at all for that. 2. The lack of multitasking can be a pain, as you can only focus [...]

Traveling Light with Tech

In Personal, Technology, Travel on 4 August 2010 tagged desire, flip, iPad, travel with no comments

While I wait at the departure hall of Changi Terminal 2 for my flight to board, thought I mint give wordpress for iPad a whirl. The image you should see below is basically my entire complement of tech for this particular press junket, with the exception of my HTC Desire, which was used to shoot [...]

Getting 3G onto the Apple iPad Without Actually Buying a Microsim

In Geek Toys, Technology on 27 July 2010 tagged 3G, DIY, iPad, microsim, SingTel with no comments

My latest gadget purchase was the Apple iPad, the 16GB 3G version to be exact. While I already did have a data plan on my mobile, I wasn’t about to subscribe to one of the new microsim data plans from either SingTel, StarHub or M1, simply because those plans are a little too rich for [...]

Project 73: Day One

In Personal, Self Improvement, Sport on 4 May 2010 tagged Losing the Gut, Vertical Marathon with 2 comments

In typical blogger fashion, putting things down in writing in public is likely a good way to keep myself on the straight and narrow. In this case, keeping track of my progress at training up for the upcoming Vertical Marathon at Swissôtel The Stamford in November this year. It’s now May, and that gives me [...]

I’m back, and with something new

In Personal, Photography on 16 April 2010 tagged Canon, Film, Flickr, Fujica, Ixus, LX3, Panasonic, Pentax, SLR with 1 comment

Given that my last post was back in late 2009, it seemed high time that I actually made use of this blog. So here goes. The picture above shows a pair of film SLR cameras that belonged to my dad; a Fujica AX-1 and Asahi-Pentax ES II. I just picked up a Canon EOS 550D [...]