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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 the 'Gadgetry' Category

Scan and Retrieve Text via iPhone

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

So I have this problem.  I have over 200 poems published in the last 10 years and no way of properly cataloging them. The thought of typing them all out is extremely daunting (soft copies were lost in the crash of 2004 – back up your computer NOW!).
Enter the brilliant idea of scanning and copying [...]

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How to Sell your iPhone App

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

So you’ve got an amazing app all ready to be posted to Apple for approval. How do you present it so that people will buy them?
Simple.
Include as many meaningful screenshots as you can.
Show screens which users actually use.
I don’t read the text, to be honest. With so many apps in the App Store, [...]

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iPhone Shot of Night Sky

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

A snap of the night sky just past dusk using Ultimate Camera.

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Best iPhone Camera Apps

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

There are enough camera apps out there to make your head spin. Many just don’t do the job but really, all you need is one camera, one fun cam, and one photo editor.
Best Camera:
Ultimate Camera – Sharp images, easy to use, love that you can choose to delete before saving to your camera roll. (Photo [...]

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iFrogz Customer Service Sucks

Saturday, January 9th, 2010

I emailed iFrogz to ask if their LuxeOriginal iPhone case is made of polycarbonate (BPA) and if their screen protector made of PVC (phthalates) since really, plastic + heat = seriously bad stuff, considering the toxicity from PVC can be transmitted through contact and my baby likes to grab and chew my phone so consumption [...]

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The iPhone 3GS Screen CAN be Scratched

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

Perhaps because it goes everywhere with me or perhaps both my kids love to play or eat it, the screen has a series of shallow scratches – most likely from Jade dropping it from her high chair – on a corner.
So if you are wondering definitively whether to get a screen protector and case, [...]

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Another Month on WoW

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

So I have to say, WoW hooked me good this time.
Patch 3.3 really made soloing much easier with their new quest tracking system with in-built map and for some reason, my rogue seems more powerful as a solo character (either that or playing it for the past 4 years has made me a better [...]

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Computer Spy Mama

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

I reckon 15 years down the road, the kids would be sitting at their computers (networked and setup by me unless they take such an interest in computing like me… but I digress), chatting with their friends and having a whole world open to them that I don’t know about.
Or do I? Aha! Enter Computer [...]

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Funny Vent Smell in Lenovo v100

Friday, September 18th, 2009

There was a best-I-can-describe-it portable heater smell emanating from the vent of my Lenovo v100 a few days ago. I’d been leaving the laptop on and leaving my glass a tad too close to the vent and caused 2 auto shutdowns due to overheating (this is from retrospect).
The most likely possibility was that perhaps some [...]

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My First Car

Friday, September 11th, 2009

One of the few skills I do not possess is driving. To most people’s surprise I never took my licence. Well, that’s incorrect. I did take my basic and passed, but failed my advanced theory. Never took it again.
Actually I have a licence to ride a motorcycle up to 200cc and had owned a Kawasaki [...]

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