I’ve been dabbling with wikis for a while and so far I’ve found them to be useful for collaborative writing tasks. For instance, I’ve edited a document with a group of colleagues and I’ve also had students build up a knowledge base on characterisation using Wiki. The ability to share and edit text online, without the need for cumbersome emailing of a document to-and-fro is truly amazing! So, why isn’t everybody using them? Well, for one thing, installing a Wiki…
When my school started the rather ill-fated webpage-for-every-teacher drive a few years ago, I found myself with some webspace..but no MySQL support. Which meant that there was no way I’d be able to put up a site like this blog, much less a course management system like Moodle. Teachers were advised to export HTML pages from Microsoft Word, but I found it simply too clunky. And I didn’t really want to go through the hassle of editing HTML code every…
Thanks to this hilarious video review, I was inspired to finally catalogue my ever-growing DVD collection. Sure, it’s still small collection (I’m hardly rich after all..sadly), but it still is growing. Anyway, the software is called Delicious Library and it’s made by a company called…Delicious Monster! Yep, doesn’t sound like a stuffy company at all. And you can see why as soon as you launch the program. Truly Delicious indeed! Not into the wooden bookshelf look? No problem, there’re many…
Since I set up this website earlier this year, I hadn’t been satisfied with the software I was using for the photo gallery. Sure, Coppermine Gallery is nice and all, and in fact I’m using it over at my school’s website. But somehow, it was overkill for this blog. What I wanted was a simple, clean-looking gallery that could integrate easily into WordPress. It also has to have an admin interface so that I don’t have to FTP my photos…
Nope, this isn’t a “review” of the new iPod-with-video (especially not with some comprehensive reviews already done by Ars Technica and iLounge. In fact, personally I can’t see myself watching a movie or TV show while in the train or bus – especially since travelling time is usually so short here in Singapore. So the new iPod is not (yet?) a must-have for me. Though I must admit the gorgeous colour screens and especially the black iPod look so tempting…
Seems like we’ll be seeing Mac mini clones aplenty this Christmas. I suppose given all the buzz that came about after Apple’s launch of the Mac mini it was simply a matter of time before clones were being mass produced. The question though, is what took PC manufacturers so long to come up with something with this form factor? It took a few years after Apple first released the ill-fated Power Macintosh G4 Cube for PC makers to start refining…