Blogs by Andrew Sin

I’m always on the lookout for something reliable to help me enter text quickly on mobile phones. I have high hopes for voice-recognition software but I personally can’t see it happening here any time soon.
Given their diminutive screen and keyboard size, a tool to aid text input on mobile phones would be really useful, [...]

The tablet computer, which is generally defined as a computer format with wireless capability and a touch screen, is not a new idea.  Arguably conceived from science-fiction television shows, often seen in Battlestar Galactica for instance, these computers are seen as lifestyle tools.

So when the design savvi, hugely successful, technology company Apple Corporation recently announced [...]

I really like augmented reality. What is augmented reality? Well I’ll let Wiki define it here. If you don’t like that explanation, let me try to put it in my words; it’s a term coined up by somebody, used to describe any technology that superimposes digital information and graphics over the real world.

If [...]

I’m hearing a lot of good things about Windows 7 right now. After taking advantage of the early adopter scheme, and ordering a copy of the Home Premium edition, I’m feeling a little twang of excitement about the October official release. Am I suckered into some kind of Microsoft hype right now? [...]

IE8, the latest Microsoft internet browser, hit the download sites recently.  According to Information Week, the initial feedback from the public has been bad.
With complaints ranging from slow boot times, buggy search functionality and a ridiculous computer physical disk space requirement along the line of 4Gb, there’s little surprise that early users have voted negatively [...]

Another first for technology comes from Fujitsu this time. The company has put the first colour eBook reader to market in Japan in the first quarter of 2009.
Called flepia the device uses sunlight-visible e-ink. The screen is capable of displaying 260,000 colours on it’s 8inch, 768 x 1,024 screen. Amazingly, the screen only draws power [...]

Frustrated and tired of using slow smart phones?  Well Qualcomm announces release of 1GHz chip in 2009 at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona recently.  The chip called Snapdragon is 50% faster than any current mobile processors in the market, making videos run smoother, games run hi-res graphics, internet browsing a richer experience.  The first [...]

Tired of having multiple Putty session windows cluttering up your Windows pc?
It amazes me that such a popular ssh client program doesn’t support tabs for managing multiple putty sessions.
Well, as an interim solution, try Putty Connection Manger.
It’s a handy little tool to help you manage your putty sessions within a single workspace.
Although a stable version [...]

According to Wikipedia, the Thinkprogress website is “a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all.”.  It is funded and run by the Centre for American Progress, which is a liberal political policy research and advocacy organisation.
 

Checking the website for myself, I found blogs [...]

Ebay saves me money, so it has to be one of my
favourite sites.  For those very few people who have never heard of them
before, they are an internet auction site. For me, I get a cheap thrill from bargain hunting cheap computer cables
and memory.  I also use this site for more than just
shopping to satisfy [...]