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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.

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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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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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Best iPhone Games

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

After months with my iTouch now, I feel I know it as well as the back of my hand. So does Jack, my almost-3 year-old, hence more apps have been downloaded for him than myself and I daresay he spends more time on it than me. Educational games of course, and here are the best, [...]

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Things I wish I knew before I bought the iTouch. (Sorry, it is just so much easier to say than iPod Touch so I’m going to regress.
1. No wall charger!
After years of buying non-Apple stuff, I never knew the iTouch would come WITHOUT a wall charger. It comes with a USB charger to hook up [...]

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Why I Bought the iPod Touch

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Yep, I betrayed my PC geek self and bought myself an Apple product. Why? Lack of substitutes, really. There’s nothing prettier or sleeker than the iPod Touch and though I still like to annoy my friends loyal to Apple by calling it the iTouch, I shall be PC (excuse the pun) and call it the [...]

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Find a New Search Engine

Wednesday, September 17th, 2008

Tired of Google, MSN, Yahoo, and that other new one no one seems to remember, something “cool”, launched by 2 ex-Googlers? Here’s something that will stick. Find.com – catchy and memorable no? I won’t forget this in a hurry.
The most important marketing tool for any website is its name. No matter how great the product, [...]

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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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Flock Rocks

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

I’ve been using Flock for a while now and I have to say it rocks better than any other, even Firefox 3.0, which I find a vast improvement over Firefox 2 but its drop-down address bar just annoys me too much and I can’t be bothered to change it now that I have Flock.
Its green [...]

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1. Amazing Graphics
While World of Warcraft boasts a vivid landscape, let’s face it: the graphics are blocky and past the starter levels, most of the regions look depressing and dark (save for Stranglethorn Vale and Feralas – which is simply gloomy really).
Alliance got most of the pretty characters but when I started out, I played [...]

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