This is a very interesting article I read yesterday. Using psychology to design for persuasion. One section that got me thinking was “The paradox of choice”. The Opensource Initiative and the Free Software Foundation advocates the freedom of choice and competition within the technological world, among the freedom to share, study and modify software. With [...]

The Windows 7 Training Kit for Developers includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos designed to help you learn how to build applications that are compatible with and shine on Windows 7 by utilizing key Windows 7 features such as: Taskbar Libraries Multi Touch Sensors and Location Ribbon Trigger Start Services Instrumentation and ETW Application Compatability And [...]

I really love this episode because it captures the essence of digression. In this episode, we talk about Mario brothers, Starhub’s customer service, and lots of random chatter all around. I hope you enjoy this episode of DigressCast. Remember, this is Digression. Enjoy. DigressCast Episode 2: Hello? Anyone there? It’s Mario!

This is a very interesting advertisement for the Windows Mobile Marketplace. Taking a shot at Apple’s rejected app developers.

After the keynote at the World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2009 on June 8 when they announced the 13” MacBook Pro, I decided to take the plunge and buy it. For almost 2 weeks I stalked various Apple fan sites, like macrumors, to find out what I’m actually getting myself into. There were various problems [...]

Bryan Lunduke did a great presentation why Linux sucks, and taking a very pragmatic approach to describing specifically and what steps Linux should take to fix them. I’m so impressed with this presentation that I might just do a “Mac OS Sucks!” or “Windows 7 Sucks!” presentation on the same, hopefully non-threatening, approach. Anyway, here’s [...]

Finally, after a week of production (actually I finished it on Saturday), and various other “setting up” to be done, I’ve finally produced and released our very own Digression Podcast called DigressCast. It is very raw, very unpolished, and just the way it is meant to be. There is no script, no topic of discussion, [...]

My article is finally up! We went to talk to the guys at Creative about the Zii EGG on 5th August, and we had a great time talking about the whole Stemcell Computing, Zii, Zii EGG, and Shan Zhai. Special thanks to Jaryl Sim for editing my post. Anyway here it is. CodeAndroid early look [...]

Finally episode 130 is out. We recorded this episode with my new H2 voice recorder. Sounds pretty good doesn’t it? Check it out! 65Bits Episode 130

Welcome to my new blog site! Yes. I’ve bought a domain, set up my DNS, and now I’ve moved on to wordpress. I’m very impressed with it. So first up, can anyone recommend me a few wordpress themes and plugins. I’m a noob with wordpress. Expect me to start migrating all my old blog post [...]