Usually on a Friday, I’d have a Featured Album Friday blog post up, but because I’m apparently hitting the books hard, I haven’t had a minute to really check out new songs – regularly scheduled posts will be back soon time, I promise.
Anyway, while in the middle of studying today, I received a registered letter [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Jon Lim
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Welp, I was recently given the chance to try out a great little application called WorldCard Mobile for the iPhone that uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to read pictures of business cards and export the information into an address book entry.
Now, I haven’t heard of many applications like this for the iPhone because I’m [...]
Posted on December 27th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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In case you haven’t heard, ZoomPass opened its doors on June 15, 2009 for any and all users to sign up and join their service. If you haven’t heard of ZoomPass before, here is a description from their website:
Zoompass is a unique mobile payment service that offers a new way for you to send, receive, [...]
Posted on June 16th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Earlier today, I tweeted about my feelings regarding the status of Nokia as a cell phone brand and company, and how their smartphones were being disregarded for the most part. Keep in mind that I myself carry a Nokia E71 and for the most part have been pleased with it, but several issues have turned [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Considering that Rogers has more than 6 million postpaid wireless subscribers (Source) where a good number of them still pay their System Access Fees, why are we still paying an arm and a leg for complacency? Let’s crunch the numbers:
$6.95 – System Access Fee
6,451,000 – Approximate number of postpaid subscribers, as of December 31, 2008
ASSUMPTION: [...]
Posted on March 7th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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I’m going to preempt tonight’s Fifth Estate on CBC, which is entitled “Top Gun: When a video gaming obsession turns to addiction and tragedy”.
I can only guess, but I’m going to guess this is about that boy who ran away from home because his parents took away his Xbox. We’ve all heard the story, straight-A [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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Not sure how old this really is, but this is going to save me so much time and trouble, online surveys can now be created and distributed via Google Docs!
I had previously used Survey Monkey but it seems that Google Docs doesn’t have a 100-response limitation (As far as I know) so my new platform [...]
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by Jon Lim
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In my eyes, electric vehicles had always been the front runner in the race for alternative fuels to gasoline. It had an established distribution system, it was easy to understand, and the advancement of lithium ion batteries were making it very possible to drive longer without stopping to refill.
And here we are, Tesla is releasing [...]
Posted on December 17th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Here’s my official review (More like comparison!) of the Nokia E71 that came in for me today. Summary for the lazy: I am absolutely in love, and it’s an amazing phone!
You can read about tech specs and whatever features it has elsewhere, so I’m going to compare it to the Samsung Jack as well as [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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Let me introduce you to a very nifty idea that advances social networking – Poken.
Essentially, it’s a keychain that you carry around with you, and when you meet someone else who has a Poken, you hold them close together and your information is exchanged. Information being your LinkedIn or Facebook profile information, which you can [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2008 by Jon Lim
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