Read this article on NY Times. It reminded me of the book a book i read, “Why We Love” by Helen Fisher, who is a biological anthropologist that conducted extensive research and written five books on the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type [...]

The new iPad launched in Malaysia on 20th April 2012. According to my analysis on historical pricing, Malaysia’s iPad pricing is usually the cheapest, even cheaper than US itself. With the launch of the new iPad, i investigate the comparative pricing from four countries – Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and US. We are using the lowest [...]

Introduction The hosts file is a text file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. Upon typing a url address on the browser, the system will first check if there is a relevant entry on the hosts file and gets the corresponding IP address, else it resolves the IP via the active connection’s DNS servers. The [...]

With Apple deciding to forgo the numeric naming in their latest iPad, many people are finding it hard to make reference to “The New iPad”. It is not helped by the lack any distinct labeling on the box itself to differentiate it from the iPad 2. The only way to tell is by cross referencing [...]

French site nowhereelse.fr consolidates all the rumours floating around Apple’s new iPhone 5 in a graphical presentation. Looks like a bigger screen, iPad 2′s A5 processor and iOS 5 are quite possible. Personally, if 3 of these were true, it’s good enough a reason for me to upgrade. Let’s just hope iOS5 will bring us [...]

HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is the current de-facto connectivity for most AV equipment.  In the old days, when we were still using analog component or coaxial cables, manufacturers came up with various ways to improve the cables. In the more expensive cables, you will find gold plated connectors, or EM/RF shielding on the cabling. Coupled [...]

We primarily use our computer for web media that includes flash games, video streaming and various social networking sites. The system we build should be a low-cost box that would excel in all areas, and still allows for some casual gaming. Below is a budget PC that would be relatively quick for everything that you would [...]

I’ve recently just upgraded to the TP-Link TD-W8960N Wireless-N ADSL Gateway from my 2Wire 2700HGV-E Mio Box. When i first installed it, performance was good. The startup time was quick from first power on, taking only <60 secs to enable the wireless radio and establish DSL connection. Gone are also the random DSL line disconnection [...]

Windows natively has the NET USER command to perform a number of account related operations. For example, in order to effectively restrict access to your PC for a particular account based on timings, you can make use of NET USER command with the following syntax Excerpt from Microsoft KB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/251394 /times:{times | all} Is the [...]

With the annoucement of the iPhone 3GS, many of us wonder what changes the new iPhone brings us. Apple released the new iPhone mainly to address one issue: performance, hence the “S” connotation for Speed. Apple claims that the new iPhone 3GS would be up to 2X faster than the iPhone3G. Physically, you can’t tell [...]