Toys & Tech
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Ore w Maikeru – rapmushi
First of all, people who called Google+ a “killer app” the week it was launched are either Brinlickers, or just completely misusing the word. Second, rapmushi is truly a killer app for the iPhone. I fucking detest Apple and have refused to buy anything they made since Steve Jobs sent me an email demanding money for a previously free macdotcom email address ~12 years ago and declared that “the era of free is over.”* However, if I could overlook the kind of mindlessness and snobbery that that Apple culture perpetuates, I might buy an iPad just to play this app; it’s that good. The last time I was moved to…
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One ThaiPad Per Child
I took this photo a couple months ago out toward the local ostrich farm. The political party that put tons of these signs up on all the roads won Sunday’s elections, so I guess Max and Mina will be getting their ThaiPads soon…
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Gmail Dense Preview
I’m previewing the new look for Gmail and really liking it so far. You can access this setting through Gmail by clicking: Mail Settings –> Themes –> Preview (dense) The Google suite of online apps finally seems to have implemented something they’ve missed to this point: Sleek, pleasing design
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Soylent Brown is… Unkoburger?
And I thought Max’s coining of the term, “unko hot dog” was genius… This takes it to a whole new level.
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iPad 2 Camera vs. Kodak DC120 (2011 Apple tech vs. 1997 SOA tech)
The Kodak DC120 was the first megapixel camera I owned. I got it back in 1998 or so and maybe sprung for an enormous 4Mb compact flash card as well, to add to the industry-leading 2Mb internal memory in the camera (enough to store 2 whole photos in RAW mode, but they didn’t call it RAW yet, it was simply described as uncompressed). After I posted about the iPad 2 yesterday and decided against pitting its hapless camera against the one on my phone, I realized that I might have photos in my archives with which the iPad2’s test photo could be compared. My digicam archives go back to 1998,…
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Apple iPad 2 Camera Review
In a thousand words: The small size of this thumbnail hides the poor quality of the image at its true resolution. You can click the image above to see that, too, but just in case you’re too lazy: I was actually going to post a comparison photo from my HTC Desire HD, but I didn’t realize that the whole world already knows about this issue. The sad thing is, this is the higher spec camera of the two on the iPad2. And the best response I saw from a fanboy on an Apple forum said something about this device not being made for taking photos. It has two cameras that…
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Installing Thai fonts on a Samsung Galaxy 5 i5503 (custom Froyo ROM)
Notes: I am writing this guide from memory and it shouldn’t be considered definitive (or even accurate, ha ha). Also, I get this sort of stuff done with heavy googling and then lots of trial and error, an approach that often ends in tears. It happened to work for me this time, but only after trying several different approaches and tools. It might not work for you and I accept no responsibility for that or what it might entail: Worst case, you might brick your phone. That being said, it has made the Galaxy 5 one of the best values currently on the Thai smartphone market – cheap (about 5,000…
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Easy YouTube Video Embedding for WordPress
If you paste a YouTube link on a line by itself in a WordPress post, WordPress embeds the video automatically. That’s fuckin’ rad.
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The unbearable 1337n355 of being
I’m going to start incorporating this into my routine when someone asks for computer help: Hacker Typer
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Tiger Joker 120S
Since my Crown is being worked on for another month or so, I really needed to find a cheap motorcycle. It took some looking (thx Yon) and trying (thx Matt) and bargaining (thx Nam), but I finally found the perfect ride for my needs, for which there is a serious lack of information on the net. The ride I picked up was manufactured by Tiger Motor Company of Thailand (website is hosed as of writing this). The Model is the Joker 120S. I have no idea what the S stands for, or what the different grades were. It’s a 120cc carbureted 4-stroke, front disc – rear drum, four speed autoclutch, extremely ugly bike…
