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IT show 2005

Dropped by the IT show at suntec yesterday & man was it FREAKING crowded. 1st time the shopping area got so packed, there was a stationary human jam lasting 5-10mins at times around the Yes! Eyewear store area leading to the exhitbition & convention center. Link upped with John at the sony booth there where we started inching our...
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Singnet boardband 256kps unlimited is now 512kps?

Hey if you are a previous singnet boardband 256kps user, you may notice download speeds going up to 50-60KB/s from 20-30KB/s. Possibly a typical computer reporting error? I don't think so, especially with my downloads getting relatively faster. Not to mention surfing speeds. Strangely though this is not reflected to the public or so, as singtel always try to...
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Completed Half-Life 2

Ahha, the skill of juggling 3 games & trying to complete them has shown its power! (or so). Finally managed to find the time to eventually finish HL2 & experience its so sucky ending for myself! yea! Not to complete tribes vengence & HFS underground 2!
Gaming

OMG the power of piak piak

Enjoyed a leisure game of counter-strike source last week & man do online play do seem rather "uncompetitive" these days. Namely because of some overly powerful gun or superpower entities. For the eye candy here I am to share some of the rather interesting experiences, such as the invincible cupboards in de_prodigy & the power of the semi-auto sniper...
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Ordered Dell Axim x50v

😀 Came back today anticipating a good deal from dell & yes finally a dell axim x50v deal less than $800, infact $681. They are having 25% off PDAs, far much better than last month's deals (which I had been following up), offering a free 5-in-1 deal: 1100mah spare battery, screen protector sheets (non-lasting types) , free delivery, 64mb...
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Digital Cable

💡 The cable guy came by to install the new digital set-top box this evening as my sis wanted some new additional animax cable channel, only supported by digital cable. So starhub offered to swap our old cable box for a digital one. Spotting a contemporary silver/black look in place of our old cable set top box, which had...
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So much for the friday, well better than nothing!

💡 Ok, PC game check with nitro family aside, the games I have left to complete are need for speed: underground I (80% complete) & II (10% complete). The thing now I better complete those games I've brought, so ah games won't be so much of such a "collector's toy" for me but some serious play toy, maybe to...
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Completed Ntiro family!

whee hee completed the game finally today.. at the expense of my whole friday afternoon.. lol anyway haha time to get some rest while I am at it... half-life 2 is next!
Computers

Assembling an external harddrive storage enclosure

There will be times at a go where you will start to outgrow the harddisk capacity on your computer, that is where the magic of externally storage devices come in, not only allowing you to expand your storage capacity on your current setup but adds a degree of flexibility by allowing the content to be accessed to any computer...
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btye for thought

Installed my thermaltake fan controller, now my PC casing looks piffy together with my 5.25" bay overclocker's kr L.I.S LCD indicator with red backlight, man does it look cool! Now I can work with lower fan noise, not to mention possible lower electrical bills for pops with those fans spin slower & consume lower amps. Spent about 2hours in the...
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TAXI

Caught the movie taxi at GV PS today with my bmt friends dominic & qingrui. Met up early at the box office around 12.30 for some chit chat, catching up on times. Dom wanted to tickets for the movie taxi, but qingrui wanted to watch shark's tale. Personally, I haven't watched shark's tale it yet, but dom did. In...
Computers

Need for speed underground 2

Man what a cool game this is.. so good, well I guess I almost forgot to blog! hehheh been playing it for 2 days now, after completeing the c&c generals zero hour 3 races campaigns in the afternoon. Anyway this new edition to the NFS universe is both a mix of GTA & street car racing found on the...
Gadgets

Short week ahead

wee ho hay! its time of the umm year? again where I just can't stop bitchin' bout holidays ahead. Yup you got that right its gonna be a short week ahead of me with work days monday, tueday & wednesday. Thursday & friday aren't exactly free days but stay out days, as I have a wits leader course to...
Gadgets

New handheld Dell Axim x50v

Dell had released their new series of Axims, the x50 range. I 've always been looking for a good vga PDA, with the $1199 hp ipaq hx4700 currently in mind, but with the similarly loaded $800 Axim x50v I think its reconsidering time... Some reviews I dug on the net regarding the x50v: Axim Site Geek.com BargainPDA PDA buyer guide ...
Gaming

Completed frozen throne

Well, guess this is not the very of latest news. But hey I finally managed to complete Warcraft III Frozen Throne today, well after (counts fingers) 7 months or so. Guess my time in the army really takes away lots of your gaming time at home. Now lemme see, now I have C&C generals zero hour, Commanche 4, IGI...
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Gmail

Got an invitation for a gmail account. With 1GB of storage space, how can I resist? haha. The week ended quite ok with me as DI on the last day (fri) started the week with a much needed slow start with wos duty, allowing me to recover from my fever last sunday. I've got an ATTB status for 3 days...
Computers

DIY your own home theater personal computer – Installing drives and booting up

Article table of contents First impressions, Installing RAM & the addon cards About the heatsink. installing the CPU Installing CD-ROM & Harddrive. Wrapping & booting up Installing CD media drives and harddrive Whether you intend to use your HTPC as a universal player for DVD or Blue-ray movies, you can always purchase a Blu-ray writer or combo drive for use in the PC as...
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DIY your own home theater personal computer – Installing the CPU

Article table of contents First impressions, Installing RAM & the addon cards About the heatsink. installing the CPU Installing CD-ROM & Harddrive. Wrapping & booting up Installing the CPU, some interesting parts A small confined case requires some careful space management for components, also considering that regular parts do not fit well in such a small case. One of the most interesting and unique...
Computers

Tutorial – Build your own DIY home theater personal computer

A home theater PC is very much alike a regular home PC, only that it is used mainly more for media and visual needs. Also given the increasing adoption of alternative medias such as digital content sold over the internet, as well as soft-copy video, music files over conventional mediums such as DVDs or CDs. A home theater PC...
Computers

Clean new system

& there I am back typing my blog from my own computer again. Formatted, installed win XP on my system. Now everything's so fresh clean & fast, just finished installing all the needed drivers & applications. Now whats left are GAMES GAMES & GAMES, would be running 3D mark to benchmark my new hardware, would be posting updates maybe tomorrow...
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