Archive for the 'Internet & Tech' Category
Cool Typing Based Game In ImpactJS – Z-Type
This is a really cool word/typing based shoot-em up type game written on ImpactJS using HTML Canvas etc. I managed to get to about level 33, here’s my stats: If you can’t read it – Score 3649 and Accuracy 85.2%. Play it here: http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/z-type/
1 commentYou Are What You Tweet – Get Your Own Twitter Infographic From Visual.ly
Infographics are one of the super hipster in things in 2011, everyone is busting out mad infographics about everything. Today I found a cool tool which can generate a personalized/customized infographic based on your Twitter usage habits. I have written about about Twitter a few times before (like How To Secure Yourself Online – Twitter, [...]
3 commentsTurntable.fm – Awesome HTML5 Application – Social DJing
You might have seen me spamming what I’m spinning on Turntable.fm if you follow me on Twitter (which you should…obviously). Turntable.fm is basically a really cool HTML5 application using Canvas – it’s very simply but very addictive too. There’s 5 DJ spots and you can play anything you want, it’s not limited by what they [...]
No commentsThe History Of The Future & WebCamp KL
So a little while ago I gave a very dry and rather deeply technical talk about WordPress, scaling and so on titled High Performance WordPress at WordConf in KL. Shortly after that I found out the next WebCamp KL event was coming up webcamp:five – so I thought I’d like to attend. Right after that, [...]
6 commentsHigh Performance WordPress – Scaling, Tuning, Optimizing & More
So this past weekend I gave a (nearly) 2 hour talk on High Performance WordPress at Wordconf KL 2011 – it’s a commonly asked question and a lot of people run WordPress but are clueless when it comes to tuning or optimizing their setup. The talk I gave was pretty technical and in point form, [...]
1 commentHow To Secure Yourself Online – Twitter, Facebook, Google (Gmail) & WordPress
There’s been a lot of stories lately about fake accounts, hacking, viruses and all kinds of nasty things going on with social networks. Plus the fact that both Twitter and Facebook have recently introduced full time SSL – it’s time to get yourself secure online. If you aren’t familiar with Twitter you can check out [...]
2 commentsBroadband Download Rates – MB, GB, Kbps Huh?
It’s always tough to calculate between line speed and download speed without busting out the calculator, yah you can estimate roughly but it’s not really accurate. Generally you can say the download speed will be 100 times (in KB/s) the line speed (in MB) so a 1MB line like Streamyx should give you approximately a [...]
6 commentsThe UCLA Racist Blonde Alexandra Wallace Chinese Rant – Ching Chong Ting Tong
Most have you have probably already watched this video, it’s been creating a LOT of buzz online and there have been hundreds of news articles about it and response videos posted on Youtube. It sparked a lot of controversy because it’s racist, derogatory and especially offensive to the Asian community (even though they may agree [...]
10 commentsThe Unifi Installation – My Experience
One of the (many) reasons I’ve been excited about moving into the new place is because…it has Unifi! Thankfully my area has had it for quite some time. We had the internal wiring done way back so we could do the skimming and painting safe in the knowledge that we wouldn’t be disrupted again by [...]
30 commentsNetwork Attached Storage (NAS) – 2-Bay Storage Enclosure D-Link DNS-323 4TB
So it’s been a while since I’ve upgraded my storage situation, with the abundance of high bit rate music and HD content (TV Series and Movies) – it’s hard to keep pace. Back in March 2009 I got myself my first pretty heavy-duty storage device – Getting Serious About Backup — Western Digital My Book [...]
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