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Beam me up to the mothership!

Beam me up to the mothership!

I’ve been itching to get my hands on Alienware’s M11x notebook since its introduction to the world earlier this year in CES 2010. I needed a new laptop, similar in weight to my current Lenovo X300 but powerful enough for gaming on-the-go. The thing that hold me back was the CPU which was only slightly [...]

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Manually updated Nexus One to Froyo

Manually updated Nexus One to Froyo

I’ve successfully updated my Nexus One to the latest android version, hello Froyo! It may seem a bit daunting to those of you who have never done it before but if you follow the instructions carefully it’s actually quite easy. The below instructions was copied from several websites so I take no credit for it. [...]

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Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED AF-S DX Lens

Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED AF-S DX Lens

Broke the bank last night with the purchase of Nikon’s wide-angle lens, the Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G IF-ED AF-S DX, for a wallet wrenching US$1,000. Funny thing is while most of the merchandise in the streets of Saigon goes for much higher (original stuff that is) their digital cameras and accessories goes for slightly lower than [...]

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Fun with domain hack

Fun with domain hack

Not the exploiting kind, domain hack refers to the use of top-level (TLD) domain to spell out a name or text. Most of us have gotten used to the conventional domain extensions such as .com, .net, .org, your country’s domain extension, and unfortunately spammed to death by .info and .us domains. Some of you might [...]

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