Spore: great aesthetics, gameplay lacking
Concept and ambition: A. Design aesthetics: A+. Gameplay: C-. Four mini-games and a shallow end game do not a great game make. Don't get me wrong. Spore is not a…
Price drops on Netbooks – Asus Eee PC and more
Just returned from a trip down to the computer centre in Mongkok here in Hong Kong and found that the prices of many Netbooks have been slashed - and they…
Shiretoko’s cool
While the tech media were busy swooning over Google Chrome this past week, I've been busy trying out Firefox's newest browser version - Firefox 3.1, the curiously-dubbed Shiretoko. And I give…
Blackberry Bold’s coming here, but is it too late?
BlackBerry phones are cool. How they handle email is still the best in the market. BlackBerrys have fab qwerty keyboards, an intuitive interface and excellent battery life. And that free-spinning…
Building a no-compromise music player, part III
I've ditched iTunes, finally. Finally, I've found a media player application that is quicker and better than Apple's nice but increasingly bloated app to manage my 10k+ and growing song…
Can Google Chrome make people switch from Microsoft?
How do you refine a piece of software that everyone has been using since the Internet arrived on home computers in the mid 1990s? The answer, as Google will tell…
Last-minute bargains at Comex today
Traditionally, computer bazaars have the best deals for the last day, when retailers clear their stock at low, low prices. This is when the crowds rush in. When I went…
Centrino 2 laptops find their way to Comex
I had written just last week that some retailers were keeping their new Centrino 2 laptops for the Comex show, even though the faster, energy-saving portables were already ready to…
What’s hot at Comex 2008 part 3
Anyways, here the deals/gadgets that caught my eye at the show. (1) The Ultimate HP Student Offer (but they were willing to sell to this 39-year-old as well) at Booth…
What’s hot at Comex 2008 part 2
Visiting the big IT fairs today is very different from the experience 2-3 years ago. The last few tech shows (we have four every year, one every quarter, in Singapore which…
What’s hot at Comex 2008 part 1
The jam started from as far back as SCGS along Bukit Timah Road and by the time I hit Nicoll Highway at 2pm yesterday, loads of cars were queuing up…
History channel on StarHub HD soon
Good news for content-starved high-def TV (HDTV) fans. History Channel is going to be shown on HD for StarHub cable TV viewers from September 1, bringing with it programmes like…
A motherboard with *gasp* eight RAM slots
Yeah, you read that right. MSI has come up with a mobo that has twice as many slots for memory modules than the average mobo out there. Four slots on…
New Nokia N series phones and HTC Touch Pro launched
Nokia today launched a couple of new N series multimedia phones, including the candy-bar N79 (above right), which the company is holding up as the smallest N series model so…
Where are the Centrino 2 laptops?
It's been more than a month since Intel launched its Centrino 2 platform, which includes CPUs that are faster yet use up less battery. Yet, you'll probably be surprised that…
As the hoopla hits Singapore…
Apple is hit with a lawsuit in the United States, from a woman who is alleging that the iPhone 3G's performance and reliability has been subpar. (source: Ars Technica) According the widely…
Hype versus reality
There's a saying that the market corrects itself when the hype gets overboard. It's happened to dot.coms, bloated Big Media companies... and apparently it's happening to Apple's new-found status at…
Apple releases fix for iPhone 3G
Barely acknowledging a problem with its over-hyped iPhone 3G gizmos, Apple has released a fix that would "improve communications with 3G networks", according to the Associated Press. According to the…
4870×2 hits Sim Lim stores
Finally, after weeks of waiting for PC buffs, ATI's 4870x2 graphics cards are starting to appear in Sim Lim Square stores. Cybermind is selling a 2GB Powercolor version for S$799…
iPhone 3G woes mount
It's becoming a piece of bad news a week for Apple's over-hyped wonder-gizmo, as reports from around the world now claim that the 3G iPhone has poor 3G reception that…
