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my inner geek unleashed…

Famous Singaporean Blogger Prefers Fake China iPhone, Thinks the Real Thing Sucks

At Gizmodo, there’s this Youtube post about this famous Sg blogger (Xiaxue) reviewing both the fake and real iPhone. She was initially tricked into thinking that the fake iPhone was actually real. What the f**k? How stupid can you get. The fake iPhone had a dodgy start-up music and it looked like a brick that can kill your neighbour’s dog.

Anyway, I actually thought the video was hilarious. I laughed a few times throughout the video. She actually had trouble using the on-screen keyboard, saying that iPhone sucks because she couldn’t use it with her long nails. I had the impression that she’s either too dumb to use her thumbs or she’s just trying to find every possible way to shit the Apple products (she stated that she hate Mac users).

Towards the end of the video, she concludes that the fake iPhone is “not bad for a shitass China phone” and the real iPhone is just “mediocre”.

Lame or funny? You decide.

April 9, 2008 Posted by tzechuen | funny, thoughts | , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments

Firefox 3 Beta 5 is Up

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Notable changes: Address bar filter thingy seems to be more responsive and less laggy + some cool fade effect for hovering over tab buttons.

Download (US English):

Windows

Mac

Other languages/OS

Adblock addon seems to be broken with this beta. Let’s hope an update is being released soon.

April 3, 2008 Posted by tzechuen | news, thoughts | , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Read Your Emails in Style with Gmail Redesigned (Firefox)

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Bored of the plain white Gmail theme? Then you should try Gmail Redesigned. With a black and stylish theme, Gmail will never be the same again.

Interested?

1) Install Stylish

2) Install Gmail Redesigned Stylish theme

3) ???????

4) Profit!

In other news, my Gmail account is celebrating its 666th spam mail. Hooray!

April 2, 2008 Posted by tzechuen | thoughts | , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Internode Reaffirms its Position as the Best ISP in Australia

Received an email from Internode:

Dear Internode customer,

We have substantial number of service improvements to tell you about.
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Please visit this web page on the Internode site for the full details:

http://www.internode.on.net/news/2008/04/81.php

This is a summary of the announcements you will find on the web page:

* The Launch of Internode Naked ADSL2+
* Single Service Migration Charge - Reduced
* Premium Usenet Returns! (better then ever before)
* Quota Upgrades to Home and SOHO plans at and above 20Gb, at no
additional cost!
* New Home-Extreme-Starter plan
* Two New Plans for Home ADSL1 (Home-1500-Power15 and Home-High-Power5)
* Three New Business ADSL1 plans - featuring UNLIMITED downloads
* Reduction in the Excess Data Rate on Business ADSL plans
* Changes to the ‘Maximum Price Caps’ on Business ADSL1 plans
* Simplification of NodePhone Pricing.
* New NodePhone Number Ranges
* NodePhone MultiLine Enhancements
* Internode Network to expands into Japan
* Boosting Our International Network capacity via Southern Cross
* National ATUG Award for Internode’s Regional WiMax Network

Best wishes,

The Internode Team
support@internode.on.net

Reading thru the new plans/pricing revealed that my current plan gets an additional 15gb. My ex-housemate would’ve been ecstatic bout this. Poor dude has his net capped already with 3 more weeks to go.

The quota increase will take effect 1st of April, regardless of your rollover date. Ironically, it’s the same day when Left Handed Whoppers were introduced 10 years ago.

And now, gotta find a way to waste my 30+gb quota in 2 weeks.

April 1, 2008 Posted by tzechuen | news, thoughts | , , , , , | 2 Comments

Adobe Joins the Web App Battle With Photoshop Express

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Photoshop is probably one of the most well known software for the computer. Almost everyone knows what’s it for. Heck, even my grandma has a retouched picture of herself hanging on her walls. She would tell you that the picture was taken 30 years ago. Obviously nobody believed her! ;)

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Adobe just launched a free web service called Photoshop Express. It gives you 2GB of free photo storage so you could store all your favorite Yua Aida pictures. Of course, that’s not what made Photoshop Express special, rather it is a web app that allows you to store and do simple edits to your photos. Tasks such as cropping only require a few clicks. If you frequently crop your pictures for your Facebook profile, then Photoshop Express is your best friend. Sure, you can probably do the same task with MS Paint, but Photoshop Express has integration with Facebook, PhotoBucket and Picasa. This means that you can edit your stored photos in any of those mentioned web services right from Photoshop Express!

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Here you can see cropping and rotate feature in action. It’s really simple.

Photoshop Express may not be for the expert users, but if you’re someone like me who needs to crop or touch up images every now and then, Photoshop Express is the perfect tool.

However, one thing I didn’t like about Photoshop Express was it didn’t accept PNG files. I mean, come on, how hard is it to support PNG files?

If you wanna try out Photoshop Express, click here.

P/S: Sorry about the poor quality screenshots, looks like I’ll never use Resize ‘Em All again.

March 27, 2008 Posted by tzechuen | thoughts | , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments