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Christina Sng retired after a long and illustrious career as a usability consultant, site producer, information architect, and web developer. Retirement, however, is boring! Join her here on her continuing adventures on the web.

Archive for August, 2008

Mobile Game Review: Stranded by glu

Monday, August 25th, 2008

I’ve been a fan of glu since I started playing mobile games back when. Now I can’t remember what game that was nor which ones they are famous for, but I remember they make great games.
Stranded, seems suspiciously reminiscent ofthe TV series Lost (same premise – people stranded on mysterious island) but when you start [...]

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Guild Wars: 2 Good, 2 Bad

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

THE GOOD
1. Hire Your Own Party
One of the perks of playing Guild Wars is you can hire (for shared xp and gold) NPCs to join you in a party and avoid the potential social nightmare of hiring bad players and are guaranteed a skilled player, albeit computer. Of course, you’ll miss the social interaction with [...]

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After using Flock for several months now, I realised something was awfully wrong. While using Firefox for the past few years, I had taken for granted the Google search engine bar on the top right and used it without a second thought.
Since switching to Flock, the Yahoo search results I got were just not what [...]

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DNS Attacks in Seconds

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Although this is apparently already fixed, it is worth being extra cautious when visiting any link. It may be redirected without your knowledge.
Read Gaping Internet security hole discovered
The gaping security hole enables a scam that targets ordinary people typing in a legitimate Web address. It happens because hackers are now able to manipulate the machines [...]

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SD Card Reader Down

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

So my SD card reader on my Lenovo v100 has taken its last breath and said farewell to this cruel world. But wait! I still need to download a whole bunch of photos!
While checking the SD Memory Card Properties under Device Manager in Control Panel, here’s the crap message I get:
Windows cannot load the device [...]

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How to Find a Great Web Host

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

In Part 2 of our Going Domain series, here’s some tips on finding great web hosting.
1. Fits Budget
First, decide how much you want to spend on hosting every month. It can be $5 or $50. However much you can spare, and however much you value your website or blog. With all wise decisions, setting a [...]

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