Posted on August 31st, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 44 times
Recently, I had to reformat my PC. I always partition my hard drive to separate system files with my data files. Unfortunately, for some reason, I mistakenly formatted and installed my OS on the data partition. Anyway, most of my usual installers are on that deleted partition so I was looking for a way to [...]
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Posted on August 27th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 107 times
Holy Crapoley! This free call to the US and Canada from Google Voice actually works! Google Voice has been around since last year but recently they announced that aside from integrating it to your Gmail, you can now make free calls to any landline or mobile numbers in the US and Canada. You can only [...]
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Posted on August 18th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 100 times
Doing a gadget review for a blog is something that would result to a nice amount of traffic especially if there’s not much stuff written about it over the net but people are looking for it (like cheap phones for instance). So you got this new toy, maybe a phone or a camera and you [...]
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Posted on August 17th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 146 times
Before when I heard of Chikka, it always reminds me of a service for people who text too much and don’t have enough budget to buy prepaid load anymore. As a mild texter, I don’t find the need to use this service. Well I just found out that Chikka was intentionally made for friends and [...]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 382 times
Composing a message on the number keypad is fast if you’re not particular with spelling. I tried a QWERTY keypad on the BlackBerry but you need two hands to type fast. Typing using touchscreen keyboards is nice but is very slow especially on iPhone’s native keyboard. T9 prediction takes a lot of getting used to. [...]
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Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 649 times
I had the pleasure to ask some questions regarding our highly irregular Bureau of Customs to our friendly licensed customs broker, Mr. Phillip. He was very helpful in helping me understand how Fedex and BOC was able to charge me an insane amount for an item I bought online and shipped from Singapore. Through that [...]
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Posted on July 15th, 2010 by Calvin | Viewed 90 times
So you’ve started your own blog and you want to populate your sidebars and footers with all kinds of widgets (gadgets in Blogger). You look at your friends’ blogs and you think to yourself “Hey, I want that one on my blog too”. By the time you know it, your front page already takes 4 [...]
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