I started a new job with messaliberty (will post more about this later) and it is a mostly OSX shop.  So I upgraded my mac mini and brought it in to use.
Some things I’ve noted.  OSX works well at 1920×1200.  My previous experiences at 1024×768 (iBook) and 1280×1024 (on a 17″ monitor) felt cramped and [...]

Posted on November 13th, 2008 by Ian Cheung
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My current system is starting to show its age so before it totally falls apart, I am building a replacement system.  It’s going to be a quad-core system with 8GB of ram so that it has a chance to last 5 years or so my current system has.

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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