I’m at Nexus 2007, in the NTUC Business Centre at One Marina Boulevard. The turnout has been pretty good. We started a bit late as the registration booths were flooded. Similar to SXSW 2007, the organisers are getting us to join them on Twitter. In addition there is also a live Campfire chat among participants. …

I have two invitations to try Joost. Anyone interested? Let me know soon. [Update: The first invite’s been sent to Rohan since he was the first to ask. For all invites, I need your First name AND Last name as well as email address (sorry, just realised that as I was filling up the form). …

I am going through the vast range of SXSW Interactive Panels. Already, for the Saturday morning period I’m torn between a CSS panel with well-known coders, and another panel on ‘Emerging Social and Technology Trends’ from the folks at Yahoo!, Wired, Engadget. See, my affiliations with the Web Standards Group Singapore and the Social Media …

While waiting to watch a French movie at Orchard Cineleisure earlier this evening, I popped by the iShop run by Club 21, and picked up two accessories: A silicone cover for my new wired Apple keyboard, and the Griffin iKaraoke. The clear XSKN cover was a real pain to extricate from its tightly sealed, hard …

My Dell laptop has been behaving better the past week. However, one thing which has constantly annoyed me, has been the fact that as I type, my hand sweeps against the trackpad, accidentally selecting a body of text, and then wiping it out with my next keystroke. For most applications this can be easily remedied …

My G5 PowerMac’s been going on strong despite some hiccups. I can’t say the same for its peripherals. As the PowerMac sits in my little music studio at home, I bought the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse to cut down on wire tangle (they run on Bluetooth). The mouse required more frequent battery changes and …

Here are 10 reasons not to get Vista. Here’s a rebuttal with 10 reasons to get Vista (frankly they don’t sound like very strong reasons to me). And finally (?), here’s a rebuttal to the rebuttal. Technorati Tags: Microsoft, Vista

I think I’m going to like speaking to the HP Alumni this Friday. It started with my glorious Dell laptop hanging twice yesterday morning at work, while I was in a meeting. Nothing was being downloaded or installed and I wasn’t running any heavy-duty programs but my email, web browser and word processor. Fortunately, I …

powered by ODEO Listen to this podcast episode of me talking about my latest gadget acquisition, XTreme Mac’s Micromemo for 5th generation iPods. This episode was recorded, naturally, on the Micromemo, then downloaded to my Mac and converted to mp3 (128kbps). Apart from compression, no editing was done, so please excuse my ‘ums’ as it …

My new red iPod nano has arrived! The packaging was lurvely. Here are some shots: Installation was a snap. Didn’t need to install extra iPod software – all I needed was iTunes. My old 4G iPod died recently because I had connected it to a laptop which only had iTunes. Good that Apple is cutting …