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Netgear Centria WNDR 4500: Fast WiFi, Slow NAS

admin — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 12:55:15 +0000

I recently bought a heavily discounted Netgear Centria WNDR 4500 for a family member’s household; they were still using an ancient 802.11g router, so I thought it’d make a good upgrade. Their old router was acting as a huge bottleneck. As they’re on fibre internet, which can easily exceed 54mbps, every wireless connection in their [...]

The iPad 3 Will Disappoint You

admin — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:03:58 +0000

The iPad 3 will disappoint you. ***UPDATE*** Now that the new iPad has been outed, I’ve added some post-unveiling comments along with my original statements below. I don’t know how exactly, but it will. Upcoming Apple products, surrounded by this much hype, inevitably come up short on some spec or design. A single product can’t [...]

iPhone 4S VS iPhone 4: Camera Noise and Dynamic Range

admin — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:30:42 +0000

I finally got around to comparing the camera on the iPhone 4S to the camera on the older iPhone 4. In the above shot, can you guess which is which? The first thing that stands out on these 100% crops is the level of noise with each shot; it’s quite obvious that the iPhone 4S [...]

Malware Downloads Via Flash Ads on IGN

admin — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:00:35 +0000

I hate it when I come across Flash-based malware ‘ads’. In the screen capture above, you can see the well established lure: interact with the ad, and something — god knows what — will happen. In the case of this ad, a click will immediately initiate a file transfer without any warning or prompts from [...]

Galaxy Nexus Review: Web Browsing Performance, Camera Test And More

admin — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:36:27 +0000

Here’s my Samsung Galaxy Nexus review on YouTube. I don’t go into every aspect of the phone — in fact, I only cover a few of the core apps and general functions. But I do take a rather critical approach in reviewing this device, and attempt to expose some of its performance shortcomings. I will [...]

Battlefield 3 Tips: What I learned From The Beta

admin — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 03:09:49 +0000

Here’s what I’ve learnt over the past week from playing Battlefield 3 beta on the PC: Recon Class Sniping is much more difficult in BF3 than in Bad Company 2. The bright glint from the scope is a huge deterrent that will force you to take your shots as quickly as possible. I see this [...]

Beware of The Online Marketing (MMO) Niche

admin — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 02:07:46 +0000

The make money online niche (MMO) is one of the most bizarre and saddest communities I have ever come across on the entire internet. It is a group of people that blog and market to other people that blog and market. It can be described as a pyramid scheme, a parasitic relationship, a circle-jerk, or [...]

Apple Fail!? The iPhone 3GS on iOS 5

admin — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 05:15:29 +0000

I still use the oldest phone that Apple currently sells, the iPhone 3GS, but I’ve now upgraded to iOS 5 GM. To my surprise, the golden master runs much faster than previous beta versions of iOS 5. Of course, speed is a relative thing — it’s possible that the phone is no faster than it [...]

Siri: It’s More Than Just Voice Commands

admin — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:17:21 +0000

After reading reactions to Siri in the comments section of various tech blogs, it seems to me that a significant portion of commenters believe that the feature is little more than voice recognition technology re-packaged by Apple. True, it performs speech-to-text rather brilliantly (like all Nuance-based solutions), but surely Apple didn’t pay $200 million for [...]

This Blog Uses CommentLuv Premium For DoFollow Back Links

admin — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:01:28 +0000

Want a “do follow”, keyword-loaded backlink from Aibal.com? Read on. I’ve just installed CommentLuv premium on Aibal.com. I hope it will strike a balance between offering bloggers a potentially valuable backlink and keeping my site high-quality and spam-free. Here are the rules I’ve tentatively set: Comments are now instantly approved, so long as you don’t [...]