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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 1 comment

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 [...]

Nokia World 09: How the N97 Mini breaks my heart

In Geek Toys, Opinion, Technology on 3 September 2009 tagged N97, N97 Mini, Nokia, Nokia World with no comments

First day here at Nokia World 09, and it’s been quite an interesting past couple of hours. While i’m still digesting the loads of information shoveled my way, along with finalizing coverage for both HWM and HardwareZone.com, I realized that somehow, large scale events like these always find a way to slap me in the [...]

CrunchPad Specs Revealed

In Geek Toys, Technology on 31 July 2009 tagged Crunchpad, Fusion Garage, Tablet with 46 comments

Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad appears in today’s Singapore Straits Times. The Straits Time team apparently interviewed the Fusion Garage chaps last week. In short, the specifications as revealed by ST is as below: Dimensions: 12.77 x 7.83 x 0.74″ Weight: 1.2kg Screen: 12″ Hardware: 1.6GHz Atom & 1GB RAM Software: Webkit browser/operating system, developed by the [...]