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Are the following scenarios familiar to you?Feeling angsty with a colleague, you immediately replied a rude email with equally hostile wordingsA private joke that was supposed to be .. private until the “To” includes the butt of the jokeReply all conveniently and include the whole school community, and conveniently making yourself look stupidEmailing to your ...
As promised: The takeaways from the trip (:The crux of “Business Study Mission (BSM) to Cambodia and Thailand” is in understanding both aforementioned countries’ business environments, chiefly through participant observation. Indeed, this BSM has not only provided key insights in the differences between both developing countries and ‘developing’ …
As promised: The takeaways from the trip (:The crux of “Business Study Mission (BSM) to Cambodia and Thailand” is in understanding both aforementioned countries’ business environments, chiefly through participant observation. Indeed, this BSM has not only provided key insights in the differences between both developing countries and ‘developing’ …
A supersized big apology for neglecting this space for 2 months! There is some good explanation I can offer though: Firstly, I was away for a Business Study Mission in Cambodia and Thailand for a good 2 weeks in December. I would later provide a link to some takeaways from this trip in the form ...
I found this very cool application on http://portableapps.com/. Features are as follow: “ConvenientNow you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind. OpenPortableApps.com provides a truly open platform that works with any ...
I found this very cool application on http://portableapps.com/. I have read about it before but it wasnt until today I finally found this application by chance. This program is especially useful if laptop/pc sharing is very prevalent in your organisation, or when you switch between machines very frequently. Speed is quite reasonable and you can ...
Out of curiosity and support for a fellow developer, I accepted Michael’s invitation and attended his baby event yesterday. I reached around 7.30pm and was pleasantly surprised to see Hazel coming along with Euquin too. And it was over subscribed too! (darn.. looks like my support wasnt so helpful). Michael started the party at ...
Recently in our shared office in SMUBIG, I had a chat with Leonard Lin, one of the key founders and drivers of Tyler Projects (already relocated elsewhere though!), who has brought us Battlestation in Facebook, and Mobile Weapons. Do check their very cool applications out! Anyhow, we discussed very briefly about the business of innovations ...
As analysts/consultants/students/marketers/startup wannabes, the one thing you often rely on for reports that are truly worth evaluating and reading is a credible source of database. Many companies and academic institutions subscribe to these important databases such as Economist, ThomsonOne and Factiva. However, a common problem associated with these collection of …
I quote the following from SMU knowledge Hub, which is an article which I posted earlier in the Voice Biometrics post featuring one of my projects and team. On closer look the writer, Low Shiping, had really articulated well whatever we were asked on during the interview (which we could not really translate well to ...
This was an assignment that was fulfilled by Yu Shuli and myself, and we were to give a review on Steve Papa’s “Faceted Navigation & Search Revolution” article. In a summary, faceted means having many “faces” Every matter or content in the world has a set of values - for e.g. you may have eyes ...
I am a self confessed EMAIL addict. Almost every time I have access to any PCs, I immediately log onto my web-based mails. And when I am using my IBM x41 at work, I frequently check my Outlook to make sure I do not miss out any mails. The first thing I do when I ...
I had the opportunity to work on a Voice Biometrics related project for almost a year in which my team had to evaluate the feasibility and usability, and to implement a work flow to incorporate the use of it in a banking environment. As it appears, there are several vendors from different parts of the ...
Its Friday and before I give a quick tip or two on creating PDF files, heres one of my fav strips from http://www.pbfcomics.com/ to end off a fine week. Its so BAD its funny Anyway, back to topic. Many of us create PDF files for different reasons: For that extra niche touch to your ...
This is the last of the “Down to Basics” series. The Average Professional is one whose life depends on IT literally - laptop or data loss counts among the worse tragedies, while personal friendster accounts being hacked into is something that I have experienced myself - reputations can be ruined to ashes when the friendly ...
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