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When i pre-ordered my Wii Fit, i as told it will cost me rm599. Yesterday, the fler called me up again and said it now cost rm680 worr. Wei, that’s a big difference leh. Hubby also a bit pissed when he heard about the price and asked me to go buy used Wii Fit instead. [...]

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[Seems like I'm doing a lot of news reporting lately. Well, "press-release-regurgitating", anyway. Don't worry, there are more "gear and gadgets" topics in the offing.] So we wrote about this last week, you may recall. And it turns out it worked out OK for everybody, including the commercial operators. Anyway, here’s the press [...]

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That was a line I recently read in a book and it immediately brought to mind my little area of food paradise. Would one refer to it as “Not a cook’s kitchen”? There is nothing so energizing about cleaning a kitchen as pointing a camera into its dark places. A critical eye will notice I [...]

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The TechCrunch team is on site at the Facebook Developer conference, and we’ll be live blogging the news. Mark Zuckerberg’s Keynote starts at 1:30 pm PST. Facebook’s press release is here. Live Coverage In a press briefing after the keynote, Zuckerberg stated “I wish I knew” when asked when the anticipated payments [...]

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Facebook just issued the press release for today’s F8 conference. The release is below, with the most important points bolded.: SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Facebook f8 Conference, July 23, 2008 – Facebook today introduced the latest advancements to Facebook Platform during its annual f8 developer conference, calling on its more than 400,000 developers [...]

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PETA is upset with the new Batman movie. As many of you saw, since the film has done so much business, The Dark Knight had some “unfriendly” dog scenes in the pic. Particularly the scene where Batman “was punching out dogs left and right.” In self-defense of course. But some PETA [...]

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Steve Coast from Open Street Map came by a little before 2 yesterday with the sad news that the airline had misplaced his luggage containing all of his gps devices and handouts. Luckily, among us all, there were a few gps gadgets to use, so Jason and Steve were able to amble around all the [...]

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One caveat to progress and technology and gadgets is the way one’s habits need to change and adjust to conform to the gadget’s purpose or build. Some of my most satisfying purchases, however, are gadgets which are suited to my already-existing habits. Received my new toy this week, a Cowon A3 80GB portable [...]

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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe haven’t seen all that many OLED lighting options, but a group of researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton University say they could be on the verge of changing that situation, with them now boasting of a new breakthrough that could greatly increase the efficiency of OLEDs. The key to [...]

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Once you have bought your laptop it is well worth spending a little bit extra to buy a decent spare adaptor/charger, just in case. A spare means that you will never find yourself in the awkward position of not being able to finish off that important document because you’ve left your laptop adaptor plugged in [...]

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