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July 1, 2011 Photography

I was told many times by my friends that … “I would take better pictures, if I had a better camera.”, or “I would take better pictures, if I had a more expensive lens”. And of course, many of them said “All I need is a newer camera.”. In the good old days, you know, [...]

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My Kindle-iPad experiment

June 13, 2011 Book

If you search “Kindle vs iPad” in Google and you will probably find over 6 millions results, in other words this topic has been discussed to death. And of course, Amazon thinks there are many good reasons why Kindle is a better ebook reader and I also blogged before that with certain settings, one can [...]

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Comparison of iPad news reading apps

June 11, 2011 Services & Products

I wrote about how to make the news comes to you, so the natural next step is find a good tool to read / consume the news. While iPhone is my everyday mobile device, but to read news, iPad is really better. So I installed 4 iPad apps – Flipboard, Zite, MobileRSS and Twitter to [...]

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Make the news comes to you

June 6, 2011 Services & Products

Working in a media company has one obvious advantage – we can get information and news first hand from around the world easily. For example, we could watch our own TV channels live and followed every bit of news of the Japan earthquake three months ago or the Osama Bin Laden raid last month. However, [...]

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Kindle for iPad survival guide

May 8, 2011 Book

I have to admit I did not pay much attention to Kindle for iPad as the tool to read eBooks, even the application “looks” good with iPad and iPad 2. Reason is simply that I have a Kindle and it’s a much better device for reading. However, in most trips I will bring both my [...]

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Hang on

April 28, 2011 Ashes of Time

One of my favorite quotes about achieving something great is from Thomas Edison – “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Indeed, I’ve seen many many smart, hardworking and capable people failed to achieve anything just because they decided to give up [...]

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Why is it not US$ 99 ?

April 21, 2011 Book

About 10 days ago, Amazon announced a new version of Kindle 3 – the same look, the same specification but US$ 25 cheaper (i.e. the new low price is US$ 114). But there is one catch – you can buy one at this low price as long as you allow Amazon to place “Special Offers” [...]

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Close encounters of the third kind

April 9, 2011 Book

According to the Hynek’s scale, first encounter is an event about sighting one or more unidentified flying objects (UFOs). And in my case, I encountered an unidentified computing objects (UCOs, i.e. computers) 30 years ago and it’s unidentified because those computers are housed in a large room, behind a thick wall and we could use [...]

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Kindle 3, iPad 2, I want 1

March 3, 2011 Services & Products

Actually I want both, as “I think” I need both. The new iPad 2 certainly is great as a mobile device to consume contents – it’s now faster, thinner, lighter, with two cameras and looks even better. While other companies think tablets are only an extension to their computers and TVs, Apple has turned it [...]

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iPad vs. Kindle Part 2

February 23, 2011 Book

Yes I was asked many times why I use Kindle to read eBooks but not iPad (even though I have both). I guess each of us has different reasons on why we pick one over the other, but apparently Amazon particularly likes to emphasize one point – One can read easily in bright sunlight. Granted, [...]

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