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Category: Tech

Testing PicApp

AC Milan 2 Manchester United 3 Pretty amazed that PicApp offers high-quality creative and editorial stock photographs for bloggers to use. For free. And in other news, United beat Milan early this morning. I am still boycotting Mio, so I didn’t get to watch the game.

Digitised and searchable Straits Times archives (1845-1982)

I have used the National Library’s microfilm collection a few times. They have issues going back to to the beginning of the Straits Times. If you are searching for an article with microfilm, you have to know roughly when the article was published. The microfilms have a number of issues on each reel. You load [...]

Tweet about the weather

Twitter is really gaining traction. Once it was the domain of geeks and geekettes. Now, it seems non-techies are getting in on the tweet too. They are either signing up for accounts or asking about it. Ironically, Twitter is a difficult thing to summarize. My attempt, within Twitter’s word limit: Twitter is microblogging. A post [...]