Quoted from ST: “From November, recruits doing Basic Military Training (BMT) will be armed with one more ‘weapon’ – a handheld touchscreen device such as an iPad – to sharpen their fighting skills. Responding to queries from The Straits Times, the Defence Ministry said the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) plans to issue about 8,000 sets, [...]
Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
iPads For SAF Soldiers
Tuesday, 28 June, 2011
Instagram?
Friday, 18 February, 2011
Why are so many people starting to use instagram on Facebook lately? I still don’t really get what it’s all about. I’m curious to know why it’s so popular, and what makes it so special. I’m not a photos person, and neither am I an iPhone user, so I guess that’s probably why I’m still [...]
“Why Don’t You Get An iPhone?”
Friday, 19 November, 2010
I’ve had this question posed to me a number of times before. My answer to that is usually “I refuse to succumb”. Not that I think it’s really cool of me to deliberately not get an iPhone. (I’m perfectly happy with my Nokia whatever-it-is model.) Not that I think the iPhone is a bad product [...]
10 Thoughts On Facebook
Wednesday, 30 January, 2008
Ok, it’s been about one month since I joined Facebook and here are some of my thoughts: 1. I’m getting bored of it. Fast. I’m not logging on as much as I used to. There’s only so many “friends” you can add to your list. And some of them aren’t exactly your “friends” either. As [...]
Hitchoo In The Sunday Times
Monday, 11 June, 2007
(NB: I wrote an entry on Hitchoo a few days back.) So I was catching up on my newspaper reading and I discovered that there was an almost full-page article of Hitchoo.com on page 40 of yesterday’s Sunday Times (complete with a huge picture of the founder Hu Yinghan holding up a large heart-shaped pillow with [...]
Hitchoo! (Bless You)
Sunday, 3 June, 2007
One of the things I like to do is keep abreast of the latest developments in Web 2.0. So it was quite cool reading about this entry in Tomorrow.sg written by Kevin entitled “Hitchoo: Reversing the online dating game…”. The actual article is written by Kevin from the theory.isthereason blog (which I gather is a pretty popular [...]
