Posted on March 21st, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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For anyone thinking of buying a Sanyo Xacti DMX-65, you should know that the software bundled with it is incompatible with older AMD processors. And possibly very old Intel processors. The software is Ulead’s MovieWriter 5 SE for Sanyo and is used to create DVDs from your videos.
I have […]

Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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An interesting platform is Habari which is aiming to be the next gen blogging platform of choice.  At first glance it is just another piece of blogging software in the world dominated by WordPress, Moveable Type and others.  I took one look at it and thought “nothing much to see here”.  BUT…
Upon hearing that […]

Posted on August 21st, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I never knew that ABS Plastic was a conductor until I had a tour of a sign maker’s factory where they plated signs made from ABS Plastic.  Not a very useful fact, but pretty interesting at least for me.

Posted on August 17th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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I wrote a quick guide on how to download YouTube videos with nothing but Firefox and a plugin called Ook? Video Ook!
I was tired of looking for ways that worked (all of the time), and hopefully it can help others. I am hoping to translate the guide to Japanese, Chinese and French soon. […]

Posted on April 30th, 2007 by Ian Cheung
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