Free up space on Mac OS X

If like me, you like to trim unnecessary stuff of your Mac, this is a useful and educational site on how you can free up precious space on your system. Just be careful when you start your process and not remove important files.

Travel with only one bag

Packing a travel is actually an art, or is it science? Regardless, it's much more convenient to travel with one bag than be weighed down by tons of your luggage. Onebag.com is a wonderful to explore if you want to check out how you can travel light, telling what you need to take on your trip, what to take them in, and how to pack your stuff. Great for smart travellers.

SXSW 2006 Music torrent downloads

If you're looking for free, legal music to fill up your iPod, check out the collection of MP3s for this year's South By South West conference in the link below. Featuring music from the Showcasing bands playing at the event, there are two separate torrent files that you can grab. In total, there should be about 900++ MP3s in these torrent files which will probably add up to more than 2.5GB of music. Enough to fill up your iPod, or at least if your's is a 4GB nano.

In case you think that the MP3 files are fillers or throwaway music, think again. You'll be able to find gems and some interesting bands in this collection. A great way to discover new music.

Birthday Lunch

Lunch with my wife @ the Soup Resturant during her birthday recently.

Mother of all Lists

Lists. They're a great way to put down useful information. You can have a list of useful stuff, or you can have a list of not so useful stuff. Whatever the case, we have made one or more list during our lifetime. Now, how about sharing those lists that are useful to other folks? Well, Listible is a web resource that puts together various useful lists. On the site, there're things like a list of "Top Free Anti-Virus Software", "Creative Commons Music", and even "Sites to download free and legal MP3s". Really quite a nifty little resource.
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The System of the World @ The Tower of London

Neal Stephenson is one of my fave writers and his trilogy called the Baroque Cycle is certainly a most interesting romp through the age of enlightenment. To provide readers with visuals of some of the locations found in the volume called "The System of the World, notlikecalvin has posted a Flickr photoset of locations in the Tower of London where some of the action takes place. So if you want to see the real life locations where the actions in the book take place, go take a look.

Custom LEGO creations

Saber-Scorpion's Lair has some really great looking custom made LEGO creations. There's a series for HALO, Metal Gear Solid, and even Lord of The Rings. I don't think that we will be seeing offical Master Chief Minifigs from LEGO any time soon, but it is certainly great to see fans taking the initiative to create sets of their own. Nice.

Classic Apple

Classic Apple
Originally uploaded by Gremlink.

It is strange how some things that you kept for years become items with historical significance. My wife found this classic Apple logo in her box of memories. To have a classic logo in one's hand is like holding on to a piece of computing history. Seeing where Apple is now and also the fact that the Mac has replaced the original Apple line, I can only say "wow" to how far tech has brought us.

LEGOd Video Games

Skinny Coder has posted a series of video games scenes recreated using LEGO bricks on Flickr as a series of photos. Some of the games that were "LEGOed" include NES classics like Metal Gear, Duck Hunt and Bionic Commando. For those who are more attuned to current games, there's a version of Katamari Damacy, or is it Blockacy... Impressive.
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Apple and Nintendo - long lost connection?

Okay, take this link with a pinch of humour. The Go Nintendo site has a series of images that shows the curious and coincidental connection between Apple and Nintendo products. Who knows? Will there one day be a product that brings the two cult brands together?

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A moment of light & shadow

A moment of light & shadow
Originally uploaded by Gremlink.

Caught this interesting image this morning. The sun was shining into the dinning room and cast an interesting image onto one of the chairs.

Instantly upload screenshots to Flickr

This is a useful tool with a clumsy name. Flickr and WEBIMAGER is a freeware that lets you capture screenies and quickly send them to your Flickr account for the world to see. Great if you don't want to manually go through the process of logging into Flickr, touch up the image, upload the image... by which time you may have fallen asleep.

Exhaustive list of Freeware Alternatives from Neowin.net

I've mentioned one too many times that freeware is great. There have been a number of freeware lists that I've featured on this blog, but this is suppose to one exhaustive list. It's actually pretty good until you find out that it's more Windows-centric. Mac folks will have to dig further in other places for a similar list.

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Soft-mod your Xbox

Here is a step-by-step guide (complete with pictures) on how you can turn your gaming machine into a media streamer. Well, if you didn't know that pimping out your Xbox can be that easy, now you do. All you need are just some free software, a Mech Assault game, a Datel Xbox Action Replay, and some patience.

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RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use

Oh my goodness... has the RIAA gone bonkers? Actually, they've been that way for some time. Anyway, it seems that now the RIAA is arguing in a DMCA rule-making filing that copying for personal use ( such as copying to an iPod) is not fair-use. Read this link on Electronic Frontier Foundation to find out what RIAA is doing to you and your music.

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Search Amazon and NLB at once

This fellow has come up with a really, really useful Web 2.0-type service called Book Jetty for book lovers in Singapore. What it does is that you can search for a book on Amazon, and it'll also simultanously look for it in the National Library catalogue. Essentially, you can look for a book that you want and then see if it's available in the library. Or if you want a book from the library, you can at the same time find more info on the book in Amazon.

Useful eh? Absolute time-saver, I'd say. It's still in BETA so there may be some bugs and it may not be optimised in terms of speed. Still, it's a terribly useful application. Two thumbs up! Just hope that Amazon or NLB won't shut it down with silly reasons like "copyright".

Playing with Sand is fun

There's this thing on the web called the Falling Sand game and it's really a dirt-free way to play with falling sand. Running on Java code, some have called this game really "zen"-like. It's so popular that there's a "Hell of Sand" version with not only falling sand, but stick figures.

Now, Owen Piette has taken this whole sand box fun to a new level by coding a version with C/C++ so that you don't need a web browser to enjoy the calming effects of falling sand. It's amazing and certainly a therapeutic way to waste your time and experience Zen too.

IPTV box?

Is this the IPTV box that will be in our homes soon? It'll be great to have a media center box where you can have access to thousands of movies on demand.

LEGO Star Wars The Original Trilogy

Following the success of the prequel Star Wars LEGO game, LucasArts is going to bring those cute brickhead minifigs to the original trilogy. It's cure great news for LEGO Star Wars fans. But we will have to wait till 2007 to play these games if the release date is any indication. Also, it'll be available on seven platforms. Won't GBA and Xbox be really at the tailend of their product life cycle in 2007? Still, it's good news that new games will still be available for these "aging" platforms.

Old times

Spotted these old school records at the food court in Wisma. Totally retro. Since they are displayed out in the open, hope no one will nick them. Hmmm... I wonder what the record sounds like.