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Alvin Poh - who has written 353 posts on Alvin Poh’s Blog.
Alvin Poh lives in Singapore, and is interested in marketing, techy stuff, and likes to just figure out how the two can work with each other. He can also be found on Google+.
The Best AAA/AA Battery Charger – The La Crosse BC-700 Review
Tweet Four months ago when I got my AA battery-powered Razer Orochi bluetooth mouse, I didn’t know a thing about rechargeable batteries. That being the case, I went on eBay and got myself the cheapest combo pack – a charger with 8 AA batteries. What the heck I thought, the charger even had an auto-shut-off [...]
Continue reading...How To Convert .m4a .mka .mp4 to .mp3 (And other formats) With FLV Crunch On The Mac OS
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Tweet I like listening to audio books and presentations while I’m driving, but the problem is, most of the files that I find online are usually in the form of a video. That makes it unplayable on my music player. I skipped over a few files before I finally prodded myself to go search for [...]
Continue reading...How To Create a DIY Moleskine Pen Holder
Friday, September 21, 2012
Tweet It’s rare because I’m usually dull as dishwater, but I surprise myself with feats of sudden creativity that stem from necessity. Case in point: my Moleskine pen holder. I got a Moleskine notebook from Discovery recently, and one of the things that you notice when you bring it about for meetings is: How on [...]
Continue reading...How To Use Home and End Keys in Gmail in Firefox on the Mac OS
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Tweet While I love my MacBook Pro, I have issues with certain things in the usability department. For instance, after all that talk about a controlled User Interface and cross-application consistency, we still get hit with some pretty annoying bugs. Just like trying to use the Home and End keys in Gmail in Firefox – [...]
Continue reading...Download Free Color Scheme or Themes For TextWrangler and BBEdit
Friday, September 7, 2012
Tweet I’ve switched to TextWrangler as my text editor of choice on the Mac, and I’m loving it. It’s fast, powerful, and very easy to use. One pet peeve though, is that the default color scheme is a boring black-on-white, and so off I went around to look for others. It didn’t take too long [...]
Continue reading...How to disable User Account Control (UAC) for startup programs on my Windows computer?
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Tweet User Account Control (UAC) is a security feature found in Windows Vista and Windows 7. UAC helps prevent unauthorized changes to your computer, but may get very annoying, especially if you try to launch certain programs on startup. There’s a quick workaround for this though. Go to Start Menu > All Programs > Accessories [...]
Continue reading...SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB Mini/Micro/Nano Flash Drive Review
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Tweet I have an in-car audio system that comes with a USB port, and so I wanted to check if there was a thumb drive or flash drive on the market that had a smaller profile. Lo and behold, there was such a flash drive, and it was the SanDisk Cruzer Fit USB Flash Drive. [...]
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
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