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Google Launches New Social Networking Platform – Google Buzz

Google launched Google Buzz, a social networking platform. This is cool, because I’m an avid user of Google. But I’m wondering at the same time, what’s going to happen to Google Wave? The functions seems to overlap, although Wave seems to be more cutting edge.
Right now Google Buzz is only available on Gmail. I wished [...]

IPhone Tethering – Use and Abuse!

This is the geeky sequel to my last Linux to IPhone tethering episode where we used and abused the IPhone tethering function.
Some background, I’m one of those people who contracted (and got stuck) with the 50G SingTel Mobile Broadband Plan before the days of 12GB IPhone plan. My usage was about 4G per month, so [...]

Linux to IPhone Tethering In 5 Mins

Tethering from a mobile phone is not new to me. I started from the days of having to script the ppp chat scripts to wvdial to finally having Network Manager recognizing my mobile phone as a 3G modem.
IPhone is new. I have been reading about tethering on Linux as soon as I bought it. Painful [...]

Certificate Error When Building Your First IPhone App?

You probably ended up here while searching for the following error message in XCode when trying to build and run your first IPhone app :
Code Sign error: The identity ‘iPhone Developer’ doesn’t match any valid certificate/private key pair in the default keychain
Before you start googling and attempt to move certificates all over, or spend $99 [...]

Getting The Wii Motion Plus? Hold Your Horses!

Wii Motion Plus replacement coming soon in March! A new device that combines the Motion Plus and WiiMote into 1 single controller.

Update – Cost of Nexus One For Singapore Buyers

The actual cost for shipping the brand new Google Phone / Nexus One to Singapore

Nexus One – Some Figures For Singapore

The Google Nexus One is finally out, after half a month of rave rumours (which are surprisingly accurate). Here’s some figures for potential buyers in Singapore.
Cost of the phone $529
Cost of shipping: Approximately $26.65 by DHL
Import taxes and duty at Custom: 7% GST on Cost of phone + Shipping inclusive
The whole cost would come up [...]

SCIM in Debian Lenny for Chinese Input

I have to struggle with this whenever I had a new Debian installation. SCIM does not work out of the box in Debian, so there’s some minor configurations to do. But I failed to note it down anywhere, just happily relying on Google.
So yet again, I have a new Debian Lenny installation on my new [...]

New Bluetooth Kernel Module Doesn’t Play Well

Recently got a mini usb bluetooth dongle. Sad thing is that I found that it doesn’t play well in the latest version of Ubuntu. Did a quick search on Google and found that it’s because of the new btusb kernel module in the latest kernels. The old kernels were using hci_usb.
I booted up Debian with [...]

Virtualbox – When 1 CPU is better than 2

The need for speed is never satiable. I was running Windows XP in Virtualbox with 1 VCPU all these while. Speed was acceptable for me to do my office related stuff like Exchange and Office.
My CPU was a Core2Duo with HyperThread. So technically, I have 4 VCPU to play with. So I decided I could [...]