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Techno Updates

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Techno Updates

Sony officials said the company will quietly phase out all of its 17-inch and 19-inch CRT monitors by March 31, part of the industry’s shift away from CRTs to LCD panels. Fans of the popular Sony Trinitron line of monitors and its related aperture-grill technology will be forced instead to purchase Sony’s 21-inch and 24-inch CRT displays. Sony’s decision came as no surprise to those who have closely watched monitor manufacturers slowly shift away from CRT production to manufacturing of LCDs. [ Clicky for more ]

Game Boy Advance SP
Nintendo has announced a new handheld gaming system: the Game Boy Advance SP, shipping in North America on March 23, 2003. The most welcome improvement on the original Game Boy Advance (GBA) is the addition of a screen-illumination feature. Also new is the form factor: The GBA SP flips open for play, making for a sleeker machine and allowing protection of the screen when you’re not playing. This stylish design is expected to appeal to adult players as well as to the younger GBA contingent. The GBA SP will come with a built-in rechargeable lithium ion battery rated for 10 hours of game play with the light in use, 18 hours without. Estimated battery life is 3 years (roughly 500 charges). [ Clicky for more ]

Borging Video!

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Borging Video!

Started browsing through intervideo’s winproducer “getting started” file and I say, I will be trying my hands finally at DV editing quite soon. ( And a possible revival of the video section ) Kinda fed up with canopus’s EZDV video software, esp kinda messed up their capture tool, which left many hours wasted just trying to capture video from my camcorder. Well things are about to change now.. hopefully with intervideo’s software.

Videos in mind at the moment (planning script phase)

  • Class music video (Well, I’ve caught lots of cool footage from this)
  • Escape theme park video footage (this is real cool, esp bringing the camera on the rides)

Well, its a nice sunny sunday, unlike the last few, wet ones.. lolz

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Well, its a nice sunny sunday, unlike the last few, wet ones.. lolz

Anyway, Big Thanks all going out to those who sent in chinese new year greetings, from friends, relatives alike, in paper (physically) and digitally. They are all very nice, got to really find a place too actually store all of them for display.. 🙂
Also, on mail, received an unusual snail mail from NTU today, first time I am getting such a large post from them. Unlike NUS, (who always play hard to get) they are actually, kinda kind in including their latest university admissions and a nanyang scholarship form. Will be looking through it, (though I don’t fancy scholarships) *duh*

And oh yea, before I forget: Tei, Spunky_Wolf and Katanya, I’ve got your art requests (draw your character, draw a werewolf and a ninja respectively). Will be working on it quite soon.

Sleep deprivation

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Sleep deprivation

Well, this is one of the days where I get to wake up so early in the mornings… Yea gotta appreciate the mornings. Slept early last night (11pm), even coffee can’t keep me awake yesterday. Will be going for a nice sunny noon swim soon. Catcha back later.

Education scene

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Education scene

Had the SAT I reasoning test this morning.. and yup, it was relatively easy compared to the last time I took it. Didn’t studied for it as usual, partly because I don’t have the self control to sit down and actually make myself study. Moreover, partly too its a reasoning test- it is supposed to gauge your reasoning abilities, you can’t study for it! Well.. unlike most Kiasu (scared to lose) people in here which I obviously detest…. Anyway, for me, its the results in the end which have the final say.. coming in two weeks too *glup*

Talking bout this, many things had been going on the education system overseas. To end route learning, the SAT will too be revamped (as anticipated by many). And yea.. Britain is gonna scrap the ‘O’ and ‘A’ levels due to the complications and problems faced last, good they do so too. But Singapore is still kinda shortsighted and carrying on with the old system. If you’ve read today’s papers, the reason they gaveis “the lack of diversity the people here have” Man! Blame it on the people!

Anyway… yea. dude! If Singapore were to dump the Os and As… END with route learning and the dreaded Ten-Year-Series assessments, up and on to thinking & creativity- thats my kind of learning. *DUH!*

MTV asia awards

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MTV asia awards

Well, the MTV asia awards is on tomorrow. Good for those who managed to get hold of the tickets through those endless begging and calling through perfect 10 hotlines, you are sure a lucky few. And yes it will be BIG, with stars Robbie Williams, Jay Chou, together with Matchbox Twenty, Anggun, j.t.L, Kris Dayanti, Kyla, Siti Nurhaliza Aishwarya Rai, Atomic Kitten, Avril Lavigne, Blue, CoCo Lee, David Tao, D2B, Ella, F4, He Yao Sun, Linkin Park, Missy Elliott, Ogie Alcasid, Palmy, Parokya Ni Edgar, Regine Velasquez, Shaan, Shaggy, Silly Fools, Slapshock, Suede, and Urban Xchange. Lets rock baby!

The official partner sponsors of 2003 MTV Asia Awards are MasterCard, Nokia, Panasonic and TOYOTA

Singapore Frag Fest ’03

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Singapore Frag Fest ’03

Ok guys, here comes some good stuffs, the Singapore Frag Fest ’03.
Here are the details, courtesy of Mr t3mp3st, our networking Guru.

March 21st – 23rd are the current dates for the event. They may change as much as 1 day but no more (eg, 20th – 22nd).

If you wish to be invited, read below as it is invitational only.

1) First make sure you meet these basic requirements.
– You have a PC or Laptop that you can bring to the party.
– The computer must be Network equipped
– Its recommended that windows 2000 or XP be used. Windows 98 users will be allowed but will not be supported (you will have no access to the file servers).
– You are at least 16 years of age (for legal reasons) unless a guardian is accompanying you.

2) Make sure your payment of 15 dollars is made at least 2 weeks in advance to the party. This money is for payment of the location, tables, chairs, and other basic needs such as electricity and air-conditioning.

3) Pizza will be ordered and McDonalds and Hawkers are nearby. The location will be at either the Woodlands Woodgrove or Nearby Borders bookshop @ orchard (if at orchard price will increase).

No money is required until we have declared the party 100% go (meaning 20 people or more).

Prizes
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There will be prizes. We may have hardware prizes, or a cash purse. Depends on the turnout and situation. We will be having a donation session towards the prize purse. There is the possibility of a raffle.

Cash Prize Currently: S$100

Games to be played
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Pretty much anything goes thats multiplayer. There are no restrictions. There will only be dedicated servers for Counter-Strike and Quake III. Possibly a few other FPS’s. However all games are invited, welcomed, or what-not.

Contacts
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If you are interested and can meet the requirements above. Then further details will be given.
To contact t3mp3st about this event, do one of the following. They are listed in order of priority…

1. Contact t3mp3st via SGFF Forums ( http://sgac.blue-fox.net )
2. Email t3mp3st @ sgfragfest@hotmail.com
3. Or email me (Shaun) and I will PM to t3mp3st.

Please take note, that the SGFF crew takes no responsibility for hardware problems during or after the LAN party. Your equipment is your own responsibility.

Boring day

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Boring day

Its a boring day today, spent most of my day in singnet counter-strike servers, met some of my usual “cs” buddies there. Also updated the stylesheet for few of the site’s pages.

Doddled abit on a request sent to me for some were rabbit morph-piece, done with the sketch, will most probably be scanning and coloring it tomorrow. Its gonna be one of my first realistic/evil/nasty pieces, and my first few tries at it too. 😀

Shout People!

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Shout People!

Lookie left! O_o a shoutbox! yea that a new edtion to the site, feel free to SHOUT anytime you want on the site, you can start a ‘live chat’ right here!

Also, fixed: resolution resize problems, the page stretches to fit all resolutions now. Also please take note that the site is best viewed at 1024×768 resolution minimum

CS 1.6 Out

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CS 1.6 Out

Counter strike 1.6 Beta is out already, but heck! the downloads are all put off in the official sites due to overwhelming bandwidth demand. You are required to download steam 2.0, a valve’s graphic user interface (V-GUI) to get CS1.6, TFC1.6 and the other mods. o-_-o

…. But, hey, what to *shunk* about? Heres another link for you guys to get hold of it, type search “steam” @ this site to get at filemirrors.com

Chaos and have fun, the Famas rifle rocks!

Superpet hardware BBQ gathering

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Superpet hardware BBQ gathering

Lolz, the photos of yesterday’s superpet hardware BBQ gathering are up!, check out Superpet’s Website for some of them.

Code up & running

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Code up & running

Finally! got the news section code and comments system settled, reset it and cleared all previous entries. Thanks to GamerZ pointing out the problem to me. Now its time to focus my attention to other parts of the site.

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