Microsoft Surface Tablet

I felt that I should add my 2 cents to the discussion about Microsoft’s Surface Tablet. I think it’s promising, and if anything should spur some competition. Hopefully. Otherwise I wouldn’t hold my breath. I remember when Windows 7 was so long delayed that I ended up not caring, and just enduring Windows Vista.  Continue Reading

Sturdy and good-looking standing desk for USD22 with IKEA parts

Colin Nederkoorn used stock IKEA parts to build his standing desk for only USD22. He used a LACK table, Viktor Shelf, and 2 Ekby Valter brackets. This solution though, requires that you put the assembled thingy on top of a regular desk. I had considered doing this myself before but the genius here is the shelf that goes on the front of the LACK table. Great job Colin!

via Lifehacker

WTOTW: Automatically post selected Instagram photos to your blog with ifttt

My Instagram yesterday got a lot of likes and apparently people are really interested to do this, so here’s a quick tutorial how.

This tutorial will show you how to post *selected* Instagram photos to your WordPress blog, automatically. All you need to do is to tag your Instagram with a hashtag for it to work.

ifttt

The key to doing this is a service called ifttt, which is short for “if this then that”. Basically you tell it to watch for a trigger (if this) and do something in response (then that). See the quick one-page guide on their site. Tip: ifttt is pronounced like ‘lift’ without the ‘l’. Continue Reading

Attempting to automatically post selected instagrams to my blog.. #instablog

via Instagram http://instagr.am/p/L-GAXwkNt6/

My super cool Father’s Day greeting

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Check out what Pei Chyi made for me. Makes me feel bad i didn’t do as much for her for Mother’s Day

Win a place to IKEA’s Swedecook class with the Pretty Smart Kitchens contest

I was pleasantly surprised at how much fun I had at the Swedecook cooking class, despite not being able to cook

Pei Chyi and I attended the class last Thursday along with other IKEA Malaysia brand ambassadors, which was held at at19Culinary studio in Damansara Heights. Our instructor was Chef Khai, an award winning chef and lecturer at Taylors School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts.

at19 Culinary studio
IKEA Ambassadors
Chef Khai conducting the class
Ooh look! Anchovies
Class in progress
Learning recipes
Trying our hand at cooking
Lots of fun moments
Jansson's Temptation (instagram-ed)
Poached salmon
Crepe with honeyed apple and ice cream
One for the album!

at19 Culinary studio

IKEA Ambassadors

Chef Khai conducting the class

Ooh look! Anchovies

Class in progress

Learning recipes

Trying our hand at cooking

Lots of fun moments

Jansson's Temptation (instagram-ed)

Poached salmon

Crepe with honeyed apple and ice cream

One for the album!

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Rob the Robot sketch #madewithpaper

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Rob the Robot is one of Zack’s favorite cartoons. He’s always asking me to “Draw robot. Draw robot!” I’ve been drawing it enough that I can sketch the characters freehand with Paper, the cool, whimsical iPad drawing app by 53. What do you think?

Check out our new design! And a review of the Minblr WordPress tumblog theme by Themify

blogjunkie.net is sporting a new theme! What do you think?

The new theme is Minblr by Themify. Despite the somewhat awkward name, I’m very pleased with the theme.

Although there’s no shortage of great-looking WordPress themes, it’s tough finding ones that are high quality and have excellent support as well. I’m glad to say that Themify got things right with Minblr.

First, a quick overview of its headline features. Continue Reading

Ya feeling lucky today, punk?

We’re all enjoying my Nerf

Re-send an unread iMessage as a SMS

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I really like Apple’s iMessage feature in iOS. Unfortunately it’s not as reliable as I would like it to be. Luckily for the times you need to make sure your message gets sent through, you can re-send it as a text message. Here’s how.

Send your iMessage. If its unread you can tap on it and a popover menu will appear with the option to Send as Text Message. Note that this only works when sending to mobile numbers, from your iMessage-enabled mobile number.

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