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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 'Software' Category

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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I had this same problem the last time I tried the direct online upgrading to The Burning Crusade and just gave up. The irony was that Blizzard had accepted the same credit card for my monthly subscription.
This time I had more at stake. I just hit level 60 and could not earn any more XP [...]

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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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Playing WoW again!

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009

Well, trying to. At this rate, I might probably squeeze in another hour before my 10 day free trial is up.
Day 1: By the time everything was patched it was 3am. I logged on, admired my dragon whelpling, dismayed at having to redo my talent tree, gawked at my inventory and quest list, and logged [...]

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Patching WoW in Vista and Back to WoW!

Sunday, December 6th, 2009

The free 7 days game time Blizzard sent me for WoW lured me back and my old WoW pal (and RL friend) was thrilled to see me log on today. It’s WoW’s 5th anniversary and everyone’s celebrating.
But first came the patches. I wasn’t too far off since I last played in 2008, but still it [...]

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Video Games in the New Millennium

Friday, September 11th, 2009

I must confess it has been years since I have gamed on anything other than a PC (and now iPod Touch). Video games have come a long way since I was a kid some 30 years ago. I was one of the earliest players of GameBoy, well, when it was just GameBoy.
To me, the epitome [...]

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Death by Spam

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

I finally bade farewell to my Yahoo email, setting it into its grave. It was a long and fruitful relationship but spammers got to it.

I had used it as my website contact years ago but quickly switched to typing the various spam avoidance configurations such as emailaddress[at]yahoo.com, emailaddress[at]yahoo dot com, and even emailaddressNOSPAM[at]yahoo dot [...]

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Best iPhone Apps for Toddlers Part 2

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Here are the funnest, most educational apps to date for toddlers and childlike adults since our last review in February 2009.
1. Elephant Song
Wonderfully interactive, beautifully simple pictures, and a lovely song. When my son first played it, it was my morning anthem for a few weeks. After a while, I couldn’t get the [...]

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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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Shop.Com Now

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Since I am one month to go before popping out another human, I have been doing most of my shopping online. I can’t quite carry my son in a carrier anymore (he prefers to run and explore, and my pregnant beer belly is in the way). Plus I like getting stuff in the mail. So [...]

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