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PageFlip Cicada Review

// November 7th, 2012 // No Comments » // Reviews, Technology

Purchased the PageFlip Cicada from amazon.com for USD79.95 so that I can use it with my iPad for flipping of my sheet music with my left foot while both my hands are occupied playing the piano.

PageFlip Cicada wireless Bluetooth pedal

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Garmin Forerunner 610 Review

// October 27th, 2012 // No Comments » // Reviews, Technology

Bought the Garmin Forerunner 610 to replace my 1.5 years old Nike+ Sportwatch GPS which can no longer be detected by the Nike+ Connect software.

Garmin Forerunner 610

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Panda Chopper Review

// August 29th, 2012 // No Comments » // Reviews

Panda Chopper, my little kitchen helper is hailed from Korea, bought through Gmarket. This caught my eyes as it is compact, cheap and easy to operate – manually.

Panda Chopper

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Xiang Sheng USB DAC-01A Review

// August 15th, 2012 // 2 Comments » // Reviews, Technology

China is one of the up and coming of good quality but affordable high fidelity equipment. Case in point is the Xiang Sheng USB DAC-01A. Before we continue, for those who don’t know what is a DAC, its an acronym for Digital-Analog Converter. In this case, it converts the digital signal from the USB port to analog signal and passes to an amplifier. The Xiang Sheng USB DAC-01A is an affordable box, but packs a punch in features. I won’t attempt to go into every feature, but just the cool ones that made me throw down the cash to buy one.

Xiang Sheng USB DAC-01A

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Polar WearLink+ transmitter Nike+ Review

// February 19th, 2012 // No Comments » // Reviews, Technology

An overdue review of the Polar WearLink+ transmitter I bought from Amazon for the price of USD69.29 in September 2011 to use with my Nike+ SportWatch GPS

Polar WearLink+ transmitter Nike+

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Nike+ SportWatch GPS Review

// June 11th, 2011 // 20 Comments » // Reviews, Technology

Bought the Nike+ SportWatch GPS Powered by TomTom (USD$199) to replace my current pair of Nike+ Sportband watch.
The watch is currently not available in Singapore as I’m writing this short user review.

Nike+ SportWatch GPS

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Aztech HomePlug HL280E Review

// January 8th, 2011 // 2 Comments » // Reviews, Technology

I’m never a fan of wireless network even though I have a D-Link DIR-655 Wireless N router at home.
I’ll mainly be using the 4 ports Gigabit switch available on the DIR-655 for connections of my Mac mini server, MacBook Pro, NAS and Playstation 3.

The OpenNet’s Optical Fibre termination point is in the living where most of my servers, NAS, computers being in the bed room. Hence I’ve decided to try out the new Aztech HomePlug HL280E which enable network connection through the use of powerline up to 1000Mbps.

A pair of Aztech HL280E Adapter from Bizgram

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Tempered Glass Stand

// July 18th, 2010 // 2 Comments » // Reviews

Bought a Korean-manufactured tempered glass stand ($42.90 SGD) from hardwarezone.com forum member Theonestop and collected from him in Yio Chu Kang MRT Station. Dimension (Length, Width, Height: 57cm x 25 x 8cm. The glass has a thickness of 80mm. I like the glass stand very much as it’s light-weight yet sturdy and able to hold my Dell U2410 monitor.

Glass Stand compactly packed inside a slim rectangular box with Korean wording tapes sealing the box.

Fix Singtel mio TV gears and cross problems

// April 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Technology

mio TV died on me when I wanted to watch a “Live” Europa League Semi-finals match on Football Frenzy. Here’s a fix which works for me after calling helpdesk when after several power on and off of the modem and set top box which did not solve the problem. The display just simply shows 2 gears and a bar running below endlessly or a big red cross with both Link and Record lights on the set top box ON.

With the modem still connected, hold down POWER + OK + DOWN button on the front of the mio TV set top box for 5 seconds, release and wait up to 15minutes or more for the entire process to complete (Patience). Seems to me this helps to reset the set top box settings and restoring the STB firmware hence taking such a long time (I guess).

Single gear with incrementing progress bar

2 Gears with looping progress bar

Apple Magic Mouse Review

// November 1st, 2009 // No Comments » // Reviews, Technology

Apple Magic Mouse with Razer Pro|Pad

The world’s first Multi-Touch mouse is here! Is it really that good?

Pros

• Being an iPhone user, the use of gestures for the mouse is most welcome. The ability to do momentum scrolling like the iPhone and iPod Touch makes scrolling up and down a lengthy webpage effortlessly.
• No more irritating wheel sound doing up/down scrolling with normal mouse.
• The powerful laser tracking is higly sensitive and responsive.
• The design of the Magic Mouse makes it suitable for both left and right handed mouse users.
• Easy to clean as there’s no buttons or scroll ball found on the mighty mouse

Cons

• Tracking speed is still relatively slow even though tracking speed has been set to the maximum. My Razer Pro|Click 1.6 wired mouse with tracking speed set to 50% moves way faster.
• The mouse skates beneath the Magic Mouse do not move that smoothly on a smooth wooden surface table
• Gestures do not allow access to Expose

Overall rating: 6/10