The future of reading
Amazon recently released the second generation Kindle ebook reader that offers more storage and a slimmer design. There's a text-to-speech feature that reads out books, magazines and newspapers to you,…
A smaller Rampage II board from Asus
Want the power of Intel's Core i7 CPUs in a small "shoebox-sized" PC chassis? One new motherboard to consider may be Asus' Rampage II GENE, a "small brother" of the…
Phokki: turn photos into pictures
Ever wanted to turn your photos into pop art? As a personalized gift to be printed on a T-shirt or mug? Singaporean start-up Phokki allows you to do just that.…
Techgoondu is off Creative Commons
We hate to eat our own words. Unfortunately, in this case, we have to. Techgoondu is off creative commons, an initiative I pushed for a few months back. Even though…
S$238 to S$438 for SingTel HTC Dream
The first Google Android phone will go sale in Singapore tomorrow with prices ranging from S$238 to S$448, and will be tied to SingTel's cellphone plans just like the iPhone…
E71 gets bigger and smaller sibling
My beloved and well-worn Nokia E71 now has a pair of bigger and smaller siblings. The Finnish phone maker yesterday did a glitzy catwalk launch of the E75 (left in…
StarHub pay-TV goes fully digital
The writing's been on the wall, but StarHub is finally going to turn off its analog cable TV channels and go fully digital from June 30, 2009. Already, 96 per…
Whipping up a BlackBerry Storm in Hong Kong
The BlackBerry Curve 8900 was launched in Hong Kong earlier this week. So it's touted as the "thinnest and lightest full-QWERTY BlackBerry". OK, next. What's really whipping up a bigger…
Are ads killing good journalism?
Journalism is dying. Or to be more precise, old-school newspapers and traditional media is dying. Venerable newspapers like the Chicago Tribune have filed for bankruptcy protection, and even the New…
HTC Android phone comes to Singapore and Australia
After months of waiting, phone lovers in Asia will finally get their hands on the HTC Dream, the first gadget to use Google's Android operating system. The phone will be…
‘Tis the season to go pink
This Valentine's Day, one way to impress your girlfriend or wife (or maybe even a guy friend) is to buy a pink gadget. Going by the press releases we've got…
Gothere.sg: now with Streetlevel views
I'm really glad that the Gothere.sg folks got their 90 seconds of fame when Minister of Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam mentioned them in the recent unveiling of the Singapore budget. Gothere…
ATI’s not idling, comes up with new Catalyst 9.1 drivers
The latest AMD Phenom IIs, while closing the performance gap on Intel's new dual-core chips, are no benchmark-busting CPUs. Fortunately, the perennial challenger and alternative CPU maker is doing much…
Want to win a tech grant of S$50K from MDA?
Start-up@ Singapore 2009, a national business plan competition with a 10-year pedigree, is giving away this to potential winners, amongst other goodies like S$200,000 cash prizes. The initial executive summary…
How to convert YouTube music to mp3
A friend asked me about this, so I thought it's good to share in a post. You'll need an audio editor/recorder. One that I highly recommend is the open source…
Happy Chinese New Year!
The goondus at Techgoondu wish one and all a Happy Chinese New Year... may the year of the ox not bring us more hard work and toil! Here's to a…
Presenting Machinegun v4 – my own Dream PC
Right after I wrote the annual Dream PC article for Digital Life in Dec 2008, I felt an itch to upgrade my existing PC, which was actually doing well as…
Biggest Windows crash screen you’ll see
Unless you have a bigger screen at home, this is probably the biggest screen on which you'll see a Windows error on. Spotted this screwup at the big display ad…
LotusLive: a cloud-based social network for businesses
Cloud computing and social media are big themes this year. Every major software vendor – from Microsoft to Google – is talking it up and jumping on the bandwagon. IBM…
Sony Ericsson launches music kiosks with DRM-free songs
You can now buy DRM-free songs for your Sony Ericsson phone at a kiosk situated at its stores islandwide. With the phone maker's PlayNow Kiosk service launched across the island…
