Archive for September 2008
Sep 26th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Personal
It is surprising how often we are passionate about one thing and go about our separate daily-lives the next day. Sometimes we simply forget. Other times, we are distracted by something less important. We hesitate. And soon, the same urge we had before is no where to be found.
Perhaps a reasonable [...]
Tags: motivation
Posted in Personal |
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Sep 25th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Device, Microsoft
When it comes to daily-using tools, because we use them everyday, we tend to overlook the necessities and possibilities for improvement. In most case, we are not even aware of the defects a product have, because we adept at using them. These factors simply show why it’s difficult to come up with an [...]
Tags: Microsoft, Mouse
Posted in Device, Microsoft |
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Sep 20th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Personal
As of yesterday, I’m officially exempt from all military reserve duties.
In other words, I only need to occasionally participate in so-called ‘civil defense training’, which consists no more than few hours of lecture on outdated military propaganda.
Hurray!
Although I’m glad that it’s over, can’t really tell which is better, the passive drowsiness-inducing lecture [...]
Tags: military
Posted in Personal |
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Sep 16th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: General Opinion, Notable Website
Tokbox.com is a flash-based video chat site that lets users set-up video-chat links in few seconds. It maximizes third-company Open-APIs providing plug-in interfaces to Facebook, etc. It even has its own API SDKs further expanding its potential. Desktop version, built on Adobe AIR Runtime, is also provided for users.
Personally, what’s most impressive is the [...]
Tags: AOL, iSight, Mac, MSN, tokbox
Posted in General Opinion, Notable Website |
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Sep 16th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Miscellaneous
â–²Palin(Tina Fey) an Clinton(Amy Poehler) on SNL
Politics is a topic I try to avoid on my blog as much as possible. Despite the complexity and controversies that most political issues have, we often make the mistake handling it too light or too seriously, in most case asserting one-sided viewpoints. Still, there’s no harm [...]
Tags: snl
Posted in Miscellaneous |
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Sep 10th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Apple, Device
The new iPod Touch has been revealed yesterday along with new iPod nanos. Unfortunately the new iPod touch does not have GPS as previous rumors suggested. Nor does it have a camera which I personally long for.
As usual, Apple has introduced a device that is not new, but merely a improved version of [...]
Tags: apple, iPod Touch
Posted in Apple, Device |
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Sep 6th, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Apple, General Opinion
Real Audio ‘Used to be’ the #1 in media player market. They gave away their place to Windows Media Player in 2004 and never regained its place nor its market share since. This year January, Real Audio fell further in the competition of the media players with iTunes rising up to take its [...]
Tags: antitrust, gom, realaudio, wmp
Posted in Apple, General Opinion |
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Sep 3rd, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: Softwares
Perhaps due to the hype of sudden appearance of Google Chrome, it seems new beta version of Google’s Picasa is neglected.
I’ve personally been fond of this program and been using it ever since. I currently use a Mac at home and haven’t found a satisfying substitute yet. Many Mac users are [...]
Tags: Face Recognition, Google, picasa
Posted in Softwares |
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Sep 2nd, 2008 |
By Won |
Category: General Opinion
Nowadays we see CAPTCHA all over the internet, that is ranging from Shopping malls to personal blog pages. The term CAPTCHA would not be familiar to most people. If you are a person who do own a blog, here’s a simple scenario using CAPTCHA. Most bloggers may have experienced their homepage being [...]
Tags: captcha, human computation
Posted in General Opinion |
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