01 Jan 09 Japanese Developer makes a Singapore Museum Guide for Iphone/ipod touch

It’s made by a company called Kataribe.tv. kataribe means storyteller. Currently only in Japanese.

01 Jan 09 Making Monja, Tokyo food

01 Jan 09 Ika bottle - the bottle made of squid

23 Dec 08 Netbook Tweaks 1: Rocketdock

So I have been traveling a bit over the last month or so. It was a good opportunity to try out some of the netbooks. There are couple of tweaks I tried on the netbooks to get a better user experience. Let me share them with you.

Being a long time Apple user, I like the dock at the bottom that allows you to select programs you want to start. In a typical netbook usage scenario, you would use maybe 3 or 4 programs most of the time and you would want fast access to them.

I found this free program called Rocketdock that lets you set up a dock on your windows vista or xp netbook.

Get the program at http://rocketdock.com, it is a free download.

Click on the settings to configure the position and behavior of the dock.

I set up the dock to stay on the top of the desktop.

You can set up the dock to Autohide. This makes the dock slide-in when the mouse moves away from the neighborhood.

Just drag the shortcuts of your frequently used programs and folder to the dock and they will stay there. To remove an icon from the dock, just click on the icon and drag it out.

Your minimized windows also appear on the dock giving you fast access between them.

BTW, I am doing these screenshots on a HP mini 1000 provided by HP via Edelman.

I also have a video demo of Rocketdock.

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26 Nov 08 Following Thailand News on Twitter

I was planning on going to Bangkok this or next weekend and have been following the news about the latest protests by PAD (People’s Alliance for Democracy) trying to get the current government to resign. I find following twitters of people in Thailand and people following the news in Thailand gives me the latest updates and more importantly views of people actually there. And also people are constantly putting up interesting links to blogs and other news sources on the topic.

The easiest way you can follow Tweets about the topic is via monitter

Just go to monitter.com and type in couple of keywords to follow. I typed in Thailand, Bangkok and PAD. The individual tweets on these keywords show up at the bottom.

Another tool I use is Tweetdeck. Its and Adobe Air application that acts as a desktop client for twitter.

You can use the search tool (the magnifying glass icon on top) to search for keywords and let the tweet on that keyword show up in the columns below..

Finally, you can just use the search page of Twitter itself.