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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, 2009

After scouring the ads for 2 weeks, I’ve concluded that the 3 mobile service providers here simply concentrate on customer acquisition (ok, to be fair to Starhub, they do give their customers $50-200 vouchers depending on their plan every year, but their customer service person on the phone admitted that sometimes customers have to call [...]

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The Annual Backup Extravaganza

Friday, August 28th, 2009

Okay, I really should do this more often but with the 2 kids, all my time online is spent enjoying my time, not staring at stuff being transferred from my laptop to HD, etc etc… So one afternoon on some year, I’ll distract the kids and get everything on my computer backed up on various [...]

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Nokia N82 vs N86 – The Xenon Flash Issue

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

I’ve been trying to give myself a reason NOT to buy the N86 because I really only bought the N82 last year.
What is important to me is capturing my kids on camera and video and having a functional (ok, pretty helps too) phone. Since I use my iPod Touch to surf these days, I really [...]

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The Glorious Nokia N86

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

No, it is not mine yet.
But I tested it out at the Nokia shop today and it was absolutely beautiful.
The slider is smooth, even for the display model, and the buttons easy to press. There was concern about the slider being too loose on one of the forums but the consensus was that that was [...]

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That FFmpeg Problem on Vista

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Words cannot express how much I *loathe* Vista. Those of you who have followed my blogs back when must recall .
Anyway… this one is like a mosquito buzzing around your head. You try to ignore it, hoping it will go away. Then get annoyed and try to slap it but it fail. Finally, like today, [...]

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