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It’s only been few days since I got my iPhone 4S and started using iOS 5. Yes, I am one of those guys who decided to wait until iOS 5 is released not as beta before using it. As a long time Apple user, I have mixed opinions about this new version. iOS 5, iPhone [...]

A Review on Google+

July 5th, 2011

As soon as Google’s newest product became the news in some of the RSS feed I subscribe in, I’ve been wanting to get my hands on this latest toy from Google. Unfortunately, as usual Google would not open this new product for everyone. We need an invitation to be able to sign up, and that’s [...]

Sony Reader vs iPad

February 5th, 2011

Finally bought an e-reader from Sony. Sony Reader PRS-650, 6″ screen with e-ink Pearl technology and memory card slot. The first question from my friends is “you already have an iPad, why would you still need an e-reader?” Well, maybe my friends were right, most people who doesn’t have an iPad will probably think that [...]

My Digital Life in 2010

December 31st, 2010

Last day in 2010, I feel like writing something like a recap of this extraordinary year. There are things happened in my life this year, the good ones and the sad ones. But it’s my policy not to share my personal life in my writings, so I’m going to write specifically on digital life. First, [...]

Most of us know that iPad is an excellent comic reader. Instead of keeping tons of comic books, the idea of carrying our whole comic collection everywhere has bring many people a new lifestyle. And so the next question would be, which app should we use to read our comic?

In 1998, when most of my friends were still using paper and envelope to send their mails, I made my first Hotmail email address. For more than 4 months, there are no emails other than junk mails there. Oh yes, plus one email I forced my friend to send me, titled “test” with content “okay, okay, here is an email for you”.

Later in the same year, I learnt HTML and made my first web page. I was so excited to have a simple HTML page with my scanned photo on it, my name with different colors each character, then a big font of “Welcome to My Homepage”. The next day, I went to university’s computer lab to create a Geocities account to upload my homepage. From all people that I know, I was the first to have a personal homepage on the net, even though it was just a single lame page.

Online Backup

January 28th, 2010

Imagine you have worked on a project for 6 months. Tomorrow is your final presentation, the big day that will decide the success or fail of all your hard work. You’ve been working all night to finish your presentation. In the morning when you wake up, your hard disk crashed. All data lost. How will you feel?

This review will compare some of the basic features of Personal Computer running Windows XP and Windows 7 (I hate Windows Vista) with Mac computers running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. While this review might indicate that one system is better than the other (for some aspects), the original intention was to help new learners to understand the differences, as well as strengths and weaknesses of the two systems.

After installing Google Analytics for about three months, I get to know which pages are the most popular and which pages were never even visited at all in this website. It is interesting to learn how our website is accessed, so I thought I’d like to share with you.

QR Code

June 27th, 2009

If you noticed, there is something new in this website today. Yes, I have implemented two dimensional barcodes called QR Code (Quick Response Code) here.

Created by a Japanese company named Denso-Wave in 2004, this special barcode format was designed to be decoded at high speed with great flexibility. It means, QR Code does not need any special scanner to read. It can be read by any simple camera installed in common mobile phones. Yes, mobile phone camera, probably like the one you have.