Category: The Ingterneck
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Map woes
Streetdirectory.com is still grappling with some issues, and although I’ve been loathe to use it for navigational purposes, I’ve found it useful lately as a business directory when I’ve searched for businesses like furniture repairers and shit. Today, instead of a blank rectangle where the map usually appears after a painful wait of several seconds,…
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A good reason to localize: two killed over sms error
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Maybe rednano should try scare tactics. Localisation could have saved the lives of two people in Turkey (via Gizmodo): The surreal mistake happened because the ex-husband’s cellphone didn’t have an specific character from the Turkish alphabet: the letter “ı” or closed i. While “i” is available in all phones in Turkey—where…
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Skype sells unlimited international calls
For S$13.50 a month, you can now make unlimited Skype calls internationally. Now to find international friends and talk to them unlimitededly! Via ST.
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Khao Neow was the loser on the day
I.Z. Reloaded was incensed about AXN‘s The Contender Asia imposing a gag order on the press attending the final of the The Contender Asia event. If you don’t watch The Contender Asia or AXN, The Contender Asia is basically a “reality” program featuring a competition where competitors Muay Thai each other until they become Khao…
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Million Blog List
Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Lancerlord emailed to ask me to list this blog in the Million Blog List. It’s an experiment to see how long it would take to list 1 million blogs, given that it is said that there are 70 million blogs worldwide. So, if you have a blog, list it there. This…