The Full-Touch Mobile Experience …
February 17, 2009 by mhisham · 3 Comments
… or so it goes, according to Samsung when describing their latest flagship product, the Samsung UltraTOUCH S8300.
At just 12.7mm, boasted the AMOLED 2.8″ screen with Samsung’s upgraded Touchwiz making the interface a breeze to use and within its compact encasement, a whole host of multimedia features stands out from the rest of the crowd.
It is packed with an 8 megapixel camera with dual power LED flash; with capabilities to record 30fps VGA video recording and Samsung’s patented smile shot mode and full support for GPS geo tagging; while the versatile multimedia player allows for the following media types:
- MP3
- AAC
- AAC+
- WMA
- DivX
- Xvid
- H.263
- H.264
- WMV9
- Mpeg4
It is one of the latest phone to feature the 7.2Mbps HSDPA network, with the usual EDGE/GPRS & UMTS networks. It has an internal memory of 80MB with support for additional external memory going up 16GB microSDHC. Battery is expected to last almost 2 hours on a 3G connection with a standby time of 185 hours.
Getting a Stethoscope to the Pulse of Social Media
February 11, 2009 by mhisham · Leave a Comment
Image from Wikipedia - search for stethoscope
Since reading The eOK posting with regards to using the freely available tool from Google, Google Alerts, I have customised that tool for my own use.
And my use of the tool, has not just restricted me to just using it for social media, I have developed alerts to see if anyone is talking about me (yes, this is particularly effective to know if any of my outreach is working! and also, particularly ego-boosting when it does come in). I have also added in useful keywords like “retrenchment +Singapore”; which has proven very good at pointing out blogs that have actually dedicated themselves to blog about the state of employment/retrenchment in Singapore. These blogs include, but not limited to,
http://retrenchment-blog.breaking.sg/ http://layofftracker.blogspot.com/ http://sg-jobs-salary-education.blogspot.com/ http://heresthenews.blogspot.com/ http://singaporeenquirer.sg/ http://informationreadbyme.blogspot.com/Google Alerts send me daily feeds via email; that I can read leisurely. It’s an effective form of RSS feed. With the usual RSS feed, you have to refer to the reader regularly to see if you have missed out anything. With the alerts, the longest delay you will get, is 1 day.
And not just retrenchment, as a personal guide, I have used it to track the world over for people who write about suffering from gout or working on having a low purine diet to prevent gout attack. The possibilities are limitless. I have to thank Ben again for putting that up. Here’s a few more stethoscope you can use if you think you can manage the information overflow.
http://smartblogs.com/socialmedia/ (from http://fabrikade.sg/ who commented on Ben’s post) http://whostalkin.com/ http://www.ask.com/?tool=ans&o=0&l=dir http://boardreader.com/ http://search.twitter.com/ http://www.icerocket.com/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ http://daymix.com/ (Ben highlighted when he found it on Pat Law’s post) http://www.samepoint.com/ http://socialmention.com/For now, I’m pretty contented with Google Alerts. 
Of SAF “fixing” Social Application Personnels
January 7, 2009 by mhisham · 2 Comments
Two bloggers recently posted, about SAF’s heavy-handed approach for service personnels who are active in the social network scene. Brennan argued for for personnels to be tacit & discreet when posting matters related to their units, while SingaporeCitizen espouses freedom of speech as the best weapon to uncover abuses and mismanagement.
