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Nike+ SportWatch GPS Review

// June 11th, 2011 // 12 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 // No 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

Nike+ SportBand with SwitchEasy RunAway Review

// October 19th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Reviews, Technology

Bought the Nike+ Sportband (available in Pink & Yellow) from Nike Wheellock Place in Singapore and the SwitchEasy RunAway Adapter from Epicentre which is just opposite the same Nike store.

Test setup:
iMac 24″ (Snow Leopard)
Asics Gel-Kayano 14
Nike+ Sportband
Nike+ iPod Sensor
SwitchEasy RunAway Adapter

After installing the Nike+ Utility. Connect the Nike+ SportBand Link to the USB Port on the iMac to customize settings as well as charging the battery.

Charge the Nike+ SportBand Link by connecting it to a USB port

Shi Ning RM668 HDMI Full HD Media Player Review

// October 4th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Reviews, Technology

Shi Ning RM668 HDMI is a multi video file format HDMI player that supports full HD playback.
Currently Bizgram is selling it at a stock clearance price of $139 SGD with a free HDMI cable.

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Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 (10A432)

// August 15th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Technology

Performing an upgrade from Mac OS X 10.5.8 to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Build 10A432 on a MacBook Unibody 2.0GHz. Overall Snow Leopard looks exactly the same as Leopard.

However, the disk capacity clearly benefited with an improved filesystem.
Users will have close to the disk capacity they paid for.

Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6 (10A432)

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PhotoForge for iPhone

// August 11th, 2009 // No Comments » // Reviews

The Photoshop equivalent on the iPhone. PhotoForge provides most of the essential tools you will need to fine tune/edit photos on your iPhone. Available at the App Store for USD$2.99.

Opening an existing photo, choose the required filters.

Adjusting the Curves to improve the highlights & exposure.

Go-Vibe USB DAC Review

// July 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // Reviews, Technology

Bought the Go-Vibe USB DAC from jaben today and give it a try on my Apple iMac with Etymotic Research ER6.
It’s plug-n-play, detecting the USB device as “Burr-Brown Japan PCM2702″.
Sound output through the DAC sounds much crisp and cleaner compared to using the default iMac audio jack output.