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Live Special: iPhone 4 Singapore Launch FAQs with iMerlion.com

 
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Last night the Tech65 Crew and iMerlion.com came together and discussed some information that Singaporeans who are looking into purchasing the iPhone 4 tomorrow evening might be interested to know. We also tackled some frequently asked questions that were posed at the iMerlion iPhone 4 spreadsheet.
Special thanks to Jimmy Yap, editor at iMerlion.com, for his [...]

High-Level Analysis of iPhone OS 4.0 Multitasking

Apple recently announced iPhone OS 4.0 enabling “multitasking” of a sorts. I want to dig slightly deeper into understanding what they actually mean by this “multitasking”, without talking too much about the nitty gritty details.
There are 7 kinds of “services” they expose for multitasking:

Background Audio
Voice over IP
Background Location
Push Notifications
Local Notifications
Task Completion
Fast App Switching

Among all 7 [...]

Simply Geek #4: The iWhat?? The other side of the coin

 
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This is Simply Geek, and we’re coming to you from 3 (almost) separate locations with 3 (mostly) different topics each week! This week, well… we’re still under the… We are Apple. Lower your Shields and Prepare to Be Assimilated… Resistance is Futile… *ALL SHIPS FIRE PHASERS!! TORPEDOS AT MARK 3,2-56). Sorry got a bit carried [...]

65Bits #155: How can we not talk about the iPad?

 
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We promise we will not talk about the Apple iPad. OK, we just broke our promise. How can any tech podcast skip the iPad story? And boy do we have lots to say about the iPad. Apart from iPad, we also pray that the local Twitter trend will come to Singapore and wish that IE6 [...]

Join us as we watch Apple's announcement live!

Join us as we watch Apple’s announcement live!

Planning to follow the Apple announcement happening this Thursday morning (Singapore time)? Why not do it with us? We’re going to be hanging out at the video chat room located in www.Tech65.org/live where you can join us as we follow the announcements. We believe that this event will make quite an impact in the technology [...]

Simply Geek #2: The Future of Flight, Tablets and Games

 
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What better way to start the first SG of the year than to talk about the future? In a complete coincidence, all three of us brought up topics where we talked about things that are yet to come, and at the same time, learn something new. Plus, in a totally wise move, the guys decide [...]

65Bits Episode 146: Mayor of HackerSpace toilet

 
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After talking about HackerSpace for the past few episodes, we finally found ourselves doing our podcast there. This week, we talk about Mininova Going Legal-Only Torrent. Yes folks, there is such a thing call legal torrent. Daniel talks about Microsoft Office 2010 Beta and reveals that he is a office certified user. We also talk [...]

65Bits Episode 135: Time machine

 
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It’s Apple keynote week and as usual, the crew at Tech65 talk non-stop about Apple. We could go on for hours if not for the fact that we need to rush down to Twestival Singapore. This week is also a week of strange product names like Palm Pixi and MotoBlur. Perhaps they should just give [...]

65Bits Episode 133: Watch Gear65

 
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It’s me again! And this time I finally did it right by using the H2 mic. Today we have nice mix of news. First up, Opera 10 breaks loose setting the trend standards again in browsers. Price cuts from the 360 in response to PS3 Slim, with new models introduced and old models phased out. [...]

65Bits Episode 132: Shake it like a polaroid picture

 
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It’s a slow week today and nothing earth shattering, except for Jerrick shaking the house down. Samsung releases their TouchWiz SDK to developers allowing them to create custom widgets. Snow Leopard doesn’t exactly promise true 64-bit. Our very own Singaporean Tan Siok Siok (@sioksiok) starts a Twitter documentary called “Twittamentary”. After much persuasion, Sony has [...]