the yauhuinator

Ever got annoyed by fake Facebook events?

Luckily, removing them is as simple as 1-2-3. Read on to find out how.

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Today I’d like to talk about blogs.

There are blogs, and then there are diary blogs. But what’s the difference?

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Above is the official logo and banner design of the Sri Garden International Food Fiesta 2010. Done entirely in Photoshop with vector masks, shapes and font.

Click on the little arrow above the sidebar to expand the post, or click on the image to view it in a lightbox. Alternatively, you can view it on DeviantART.

“Smartphone Antenna Performance” graced the headline of Apple’s page at apple.com/antenna. Below it, Apple says that not only their iPhone smartphone are susceptible to signal attenuation.

Apple made purported demonstrations of phones by rival companies such as RIM, HTC and Samsung, with video grabs showing a drop in signal strength on devices such as the iPhone 4, Bold 9700, Droid Eris and Omnia 2 when held in a particular manner.

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Spot the Nike logo in the beautiful morning sky!

My favourite pens are now joined by new offspring. It’s a big happy family in my stationery case

In late 2009, Google released their new goo.gl URL shortener service for use with Google products and services. On the goo.gl website, it is mentioned that URL shortener service is not available for “broader consumer use”.

However, a certain Matthew Flaschen has made it possible to use goo.gl for any URL through a convenient Javascript bookmarklet. All you need to do is drag this link into your Bookmarks: Goo.gl

To use it, just click on the bookmarklet when you’re on the page whose URL you’d like to shorten and a pop-up window will appear with the shortened link that you can select and copy.

Over the weekend, I’ve been taken away to Penang. What for? I don’t know.

But what I do know is that I’ll be indulging in an abundance of sunshine, a nice stretch of deserted beach along the Gurney Drive, plenty of mouth-watering food and, of course, enjoying the Wave.

But not just any Wave.

Wave hello to the Samsung Wave, the latest Bada-platform smartphone from Samsung.

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This blog is now powered by WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”!

Upgrade complete!

It was a smooth, seamless upgrade. Just a click and it’s done before I knew it.

Nostalgic old WordPress 2?

Yes, as you may have noticed, the admin panel now sports a simple and clean theme on WordPress 3.0. This is nice and not too distracting – I often found myself looking around the admin panel while trying to think of ideas for a blog post.

WordPress 3.0 is the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors. It now includes a sexy new default theme called Twenty Ten.

You can read up about WordPress 3.0 on the WordPress Blog, or find out how to upgrade your WordPress blog right away.