Uniquely Singapore is an all around site for business visitors and tourists visiting Singapore, the site featurs places to stay and visit, tourist attractions, getting around and a business guide.

Streetdirectory.com is another all around site about living and spending time in Singapore. It features information about public transportation, driving directions, business finder, places to eat and more.

soshiok.com is the main directory for restaurants and food around Singapore. Find the newest, hottest or any other restaurant by cuisine, location etc.

International enterprise Singapore is a governmental site that is aimed to connect you with business resources in Singapore and abroad, with a business advisory, market spotlight and more.

Singapore Expats - though not intended for people only visiting for a short time, it does include restaurant directory, places of interests and lists good places to hang out at night.

If you have any additional resources you would like to share please let me know.

Tags: Singapore, travel

Hardware

• Panasonic Eyes 37-inch OLED TV - Panasonic is moving toward commercialization of OLED (organic light-emitting diode) panels and plans to put TVs with 37-inch OLED screens on sale in the next three years, according to a Japanese newspaper report.

Information

• 30+ Tools For Finding Cheap Travel Accommodations - With gas prices and airfare on the rise, you probably want to save money on every aspect of your trip. Cheap hotels are one idea, but vacation rentals, furnished apartments and even youth hostels can be lower cost alternatives.
• Diary of a Failed Startup - Postmortem - So, here’s the collection of lessons learned. I’m going to frame these as advice, but everyone should remember Buchheit’s Law: “Advice = Limited Life Experience + Overgeneralization”. This is one startup, and not even a successful one at that. There are many ways to succeed, and even more ways to fail, and so there will likely be exceptions to every single one of these rules.
• Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever - Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft’s success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world, collecting $100 per white-collar worker per year, and then directing one third of the proceeds to curing AIDS and malaria. That, effectively, is what Bill Gates has done.
• Optical illusion helps create fake speed bumps - The optical illusion is one of the latest innovations being tested around the country to discourage speeding.

Wed Development

• Why Disqus Is Winning the Web Comment Battles, and What’s Next - For a service that’s already got what I believe to the best solution with threaded conversations, a strong GUI and centralized activity, Disqus is continuing to work hard to maintain their lead.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.

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• Linksys-Cisco WRT54GL Wireless-G Broadband Router ($39.99).
• Canon Digital Rebel XT 8MP Digital SLR Camera with EF-S 18-55mm f3.5-5.6 Lens ($529.95).
• Canon Pixma iP4500 Photo Inkjet Printer ($83.49).
• Terastation Pro II Nas 3TB 4X750GB Sata Raid 5 Gbe USB 2.0 ($1199.99).

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Tags: bargains, bill+gates, OLED, startup, travel

Software and Services

• Laterloop - Read webpages later on your phone or anywhere.

Information

• Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief - “When I moved into my apartment three years ago, the first thing I did after I tipped the movers was sit down on a box, crack open my laptop and sniff the air for wi-fi signals. And I found them: my apartment was chock-full of delicious, invisible data, ripe for the plucking. You couldn’t say I made a conscious decision at that exact moment to become a criminal. But it definitely got a lot harder not to be a criminal.”
• Create Your Own Smart Bookmarks in Firefox 3 - There’s a good chance that you’ve played with things in other applications that are similar to Smart Bookmarks. For example, iTunes (and many other media players) have what are referred to as Smart Playlists. These are playlists that automatically assemble themselves based on specific criteria, such as the “most played” and “recently added” media. Smart Bookmarks are very similar since they can show you things like your most visited bookmarks or your recently added bookmarks.
• See How Often You Visit Web Sites in Firefox 3 - One of Firefox 3’s newest (and most revealing) backend features is its built-in usage tracking—it keeps a running tally of how often you visit a web page over a period of time, which informs the Smart Location Bar’s suggestions and creates things like smart bookmark lists of “Most Visited” sites. Smarter features informed by your behavior are great, but checking out the raw data can offer a whole lot of insight into where and how you spend your time online. Exactly what site have you visited the most since you installed Firefox 3 and how many times did you go there? Here’s how to find out.
• Delaying News in the Era of the Internet. - Television networks have a tradition of allowing a network suffering a death to make the announcement first. Other news outlets, including The New York Times and The New York Post, were about five minutes earlier in reporting Mr. Russert’s death for their Web sites.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.

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• Logitech QuickCam Pro for Notebooks ($56.49).
• Sandisk 4GB MicroSDHC Memory Card ($16.99).

Fun

• Puzzle Farter -An online game to those who can stand the smell.

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Tags: Bargains, Firefox, Wi-Fi

Hardware

• Samsung Announces Mass Production of Highest Capacity Hard Drive for Laptops - The Spinpoint M6 fits the industry’s standard 9.5mm height dimension and is armed with a massive 500GB capacity consisting of three 167GB platters, notebook PC manufacturers can integrate the Spinpoint M6 into the tens of millions of notebook PCs that ship every quarter as well as slim form factor PCs and high density mobile applications.
• Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 review - With a 800×480 VGA screen, you can’t really go wrong right? Right. We’ve got to say off the top that this is the best-looking screen we’ve ever seen on a Windows Mobile device. It puts all the others to shame. It’s not just that the screen has an amazing resolution, it’s that the screen is vibrant and clear as day.

Information

• Keeping Google honest; The power of not being defensive - The problem is that I can’t “prove” that Google believes in its “Don’t be evil” mantra. I personally believe in it, and have seen it in action on a daily basis, but you may not have. How could you just take my word? What I can do is ask you to look at our actions, both in the past, and in the future.
• Who Blogs Now? Blogging has gone mainstream. What was once a quirky hobby based on sharing intimate details with the world has morphed into something used by major corporations and media outlets.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• Sanyo Xacti HD700 7MP MPEG-4 High Definition 720p Camcorder ($400.40).
• Philips 10.2-inch Digital Photo Frame with 9.4-Inch Viewable LCD Display ($329.99).
• Logitech Z-4I 2.1 Speaker System ($48.81).
• Onkyo TX-SR805 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver ($599.90).

Fun

• Why GTA IV Was the Beginning of the End - I think it’s safe to say that the era of next-gen gaming as a driving force is over. Why? As of the week ending June 7th (the most recent tally available), just over 9 million copies of the highly touted Grand Theft Auto IV had been sold worldwide for the Xbox 360 and Sony PS3 combined.
• The biggest drawing in the world - Great idea, Fictional work.

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Tags: Bargains, Xperia, Blogging, Google

Software and Services

• cvSpot is a all-in-one resume maker that makes life easier and will help you land the job you want. How does it help you land the killer job? By allowing you to create your own beautiful resume within minutes to show to your new employer online.
• Lookybook allows you to browse through children and picture books. Every book on the site can be reviewed, rated and shared by members. Whenever you browse through a book, LookyBook will suggest a other relevant books.

Hardware

• Support Grows for Universal Power Adapter - A technology that could help the environment by eliminating the need to ship a power adapter with every electronics device got a vote of confidence Friday from consumer electronics maker Westinghouse Digital Electronics.

Information

• 8 cool Google Reader features which you might have missed - Some you know about and some you don’t.
• Linux in education: Open Source provides a better solution for schools -

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• HP Officejet 4315 All-in-One Printer/Fax/Scanner/Copier ($61.95).
• Samsung LNT5271F 52-inch 1080p 120Hz LCD HDTV ($1899.98).

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Tags: cvSpot, Lookybook, UPA, Bargains

SoundCloud is a new online audio platform/social network for music professionals and enthusiasts. Any original music track can be shared with friends or everyone on the network.

SoundCloud is a community for music makers, people in the music industry or everyone looking for fresh music made by other members of the community. It’s a comfortable setup for sending around demo copies of a new album you just finished mastering, or sharing the yet to be hit single. The SoundCloud platform allows it’s members to share, promote and distribute their own original music while allowing all members to comment and review the tracks as they listen to them. The commenting system allows anyone to drop a note at any specific spot along the track and voice their opinion on that specific sound or on the track in general.

After uploading tracks, you can follow your stats closely to see how many people are listening to your music. But your music is not jailed in the SoundCloud universe, the platform allows you to embed your tracks on any other website and maintain your own look & feel (as much as possible) and customize it’s playlist to auto update.

Anyone looking for a SoundCloud invite, your welcome to contact me

Tags: SoundCloud, music

Software and Services

• glassdoor.com - An inside look at companies from those who know them best.
• Banshee 1.0 Final - Major performance improvements make this the fastest Banshee ever. The entire program has been re-written with an emphasis on speed and size. Search, browse and manage even the largest music libraries without batting an eye. The Banshee 1.0 also has greatly improved memory usage, better start-up time, and a more responsive interface that scales impressively with large music collections.

Information

• Managing “Unproductive” Meetings - 6 tips to minimize unproductive meeting times.
• Is Google making us stupid? I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the memory.
• How to pick indexes for order by and group by queries - A good discussion of the topic.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• OCZ USB 2.0 32GB Dual Channel Rally2 Pen Drive ($111.98).
• Brother IntelliFax-4100e High Speed Business-Class Laser Fax ($219.99).
• Brother IntelliFax-1960c Color Inkjet Fax with 5.8 GHz Cordless Handset ($119.99).

Fun

• Play TAKI online - A famous Israeli card game.

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Tags: glassdoor, Banshee, TAKI

Software and Services

• JavaRa 1.06 - JavaRa is a simple tool that does a simple job: it removes old and redundant versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).
• CPU Speed Professional 3.0.2.1 - Use CPU Speed Professional to test your Intel or AMD processor speed. This application will tell you the real speed of your Central Processing Unit (CPU). You can also submit your speed results to the CPU Speed online WORLD ranking tables and see how your computer compares with others - around the world and in your own country.
• Cleanmem 1.0 - An unobtrusive way of freeing up memory your processes use on a timed basis.

Hardware

• The revolution will not be televised, it will be downloaded an update at a time - Buying Sony’s console instead of a standalone player also gives you an added insurance policy: with its media processing muscle, hard drive, and Ethernet port, the PS3 is one of the only completely future-proof Blu-ray players on the market. No matter how the spec changes, the PS3 will be able to play it.
• IBM demonstrates water-cooling for 3D processors - Three-dimensional processors took a baby step towards commercial reality today, thanks to IBM’s water-cooling research. Big Blue and the Fraunhofer Institute have successfully tested a multistack CPU prototype that’s cooled by pumping water directly through the separate layers of the processor. If you aren’t used to thinking of processors in terms of layers, you may need to check Jon Stokes’ “Dagwood Sandwich” analogy before continuing on.

Information

• Geotag Your Photos - But getting latitude and longitude data into your pictures — aka ‘geotagging’ them — has, until now, been a pain. If you are within range of a supported Wi-Fi hotspot the job might be a whole lot easier.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• Navman F15 Touchscreen GPS ($99.99) - Until 6.14.08.
• Logitech V100 Optical Mouse ($9.99).
• iRobot Roomba Intelligent Floorvac Robotic Vacuum ($168.99).
• Onkyo TX-SR705 7.1 Channel Home Theater Receiver ($491.01).
• Uniden SOLARA 25 Watt Full-Featured VHF Marine Radio ($86.99).
• Buffalo LS500GL LinkStation Pro 500 GB Shared Network Storage ($176.99).
• SanDisk 4 GB Cruzer Titanium USB Flash Drive with U3 ($21.00).

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Tags: Bargains, PS3, JavaRa

Software and Services

• IOzone is a filesystem benchmark tool. The benchmark generates and measures a variety of file operations.
• JAlbum 8.0 makes web albums of your digital images. No extra software is needed to view the albums, just your web browser. Unlike “server side” album scripts, the albums can be served from a plain web server without scripting support.

Hardware

• Via set to fight Intel in microprocessor arena - Several years ago, a tiny Taiwanese chipmaker created a family of microprocessors that could run Windows software using less electricity than it takes to light a compact fluorescent bulb. Now, Via Technologies of Taipei must defend its beachhead against Intel Corp., which is about to release its own energy-efficient processor, called Atom.

Information

• Xen + Ubuntu 8.04 Howto - Setup Xen on Ubuntu 8.04, step by step.
• Tips on Long Term Emacs Productivity - Here are 7 general emacs tips i felt that’s the most important in emacs productivity, among all other emacs tips and tricks of my decade-long experience.

Development

• Write high performance, Java data access applications - pureQuery is a high-performance Java data access platform focused on simplifying the tasks of developing and managing applications that access data. It consists of tools, APIs and a runtime.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• Panasonic KX-TG5776S 5.8 GHz FHSS ($85.36).
• Olympus S711BLUE Microcassette Voice Recorder ($23.94).
• Terastation Pro II Nas 3TB 4X750GB Sata Raid 5 Gbe USB 2.0 ($1199.99).
• Logitech diNovo Edge (967685-0403) ($119.99).

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Tags: pureQuery, IOzone, Xen, Ubuntu, Java

Software and Services

• FileTypesMan 1.06 - FileTypesMan is an alternative to the ‘File Types’ tab in the ‘Folder Options’ of Windows. It displays the list of all file extensions and types registered on your computer. For each file type, the following information is displayed: Type Name, Description, MIME Type, Perceived Type, Flags, Browser Flags, and more.
• Quicksys RegDefrag 1.2 - Quicksys RegDefrag is a freeware utility to defrag registry. It optimizes registry by removing gaps, fragments and wasted space in Windows registry files.

Hardware

• Samsung ultra-fast, cheap 256GB SSD due this year - Samsung late on Sunday promised what it says is a breakthrough in solid-state drives with the launch of its first 256GB SSD.
• Treo 850 has WiFi, full specs leaked - It can be regarded as the evolution of the 750 line of devices. The unit is a little wider, but much slimmer than the Centro, it’s 175 MB for user), 32 MB SDRAM and Windows Mobile Pro 6.1.

Information

• Find out what the Switch is all about - A few months ago, word of Switch’s apparently fantastic operations started to reach my in-box. Most of the people who visited the Switch facility were bound by non-disclosure agreements, but that failed to stop them from leaking out a few choice details. “This is the most advanced computing center in the world,” I was told. “It’s like the internet superhighway wrapped up in one package. All the heavies are there.”
• Devil May Cry Creator Doesn’t See 3D Action Game Evolution - 3D action games haven’t evolved? Hideki Kamiya, the brains behind defining 3D action game Devil May Cry doesn’t really seem to think so.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ7K 7.2MP Digital Camera ($149.01).
• Logitech diNovo Edge ($119.99).
• Sennheiser PXC 300 Noise Cancelling Headphones ($179.99).
• Sony CRX230AE/U 52X/32X/52X ATAPI EIDE CD-RW Drive ($39.99).
• Panasonic KX-TG5776S 5.8 GHz FHSS GigaRange ($51.95).

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Tags: bargains, FileTypesMan, Treo, Switch

Software and Services

• TwitterBerry 0.6 launches - The TwitterBerry application for BlackBerry is built to send Tweets from BlackBerry devices.
• Pictomio is a software application for managing, categorizing, searching, and archiving photos and other media files, and allows you to generate animated 2D and 3D slideshows. The extensive capabilities of the latest programmable 3D graphic cards are utilized for image decoding and displaying slideshows

Information

• The RIAA Explains How It Catches Alleged Music Pirates - To catch college students trading copyrighted songs online, the Recording Industry Association of America uses the same file-sharing software that online pirates love, an RIAA representative told The Chronicle at the organization’s offices during a private demonstration of how it catches alleged music pirates. He also said the group does not single out specific colleges in its investigations.
• A Day Without Twitter - Chris Brogan tells about his day without Twitter.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• SanDisk 4 GB Extreme III SDHC Card with Reader ($38.01).
• Samsung WEP410 Bluetooth Wireless headset ($37.99).
• Canon HV20 3MP High Definition MiniDV Camcorder ($956.44).
• Franklin SCD-1890 Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, 11th Edition ($69.75).

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Tags: bargains, twitter, pictomio

Who Should you follow on Twitter? Send tweets by dialing a local number and speaking your message, get 6 Firefox extensions made to save you time, turn your point-and-shoot into a super-camera, find out how much Linden Lab is making from Second Life, find great bargains and much more in today’s edition of the Daily Friction.

Software and Services

• Who should I Follow? - Whether you’re new on Twitter or an early adopter, there are likely people you should be following, but aren’t. Which begs the question, “Who should I follow?”.
• TwitterFone - Send Tweets by dialing a local number and speaking your message to TwitterFone.
• 6 Excellent Firefox Extensions Made To Save You Time - If you are a die-hard Firefox user then I am sure you are always on the look-out for tips and tweaks to get more out of Firefox in less time and hence be more productive.

Hardware

• Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera - If you’re using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you’ve got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK, you can get features like RAW shooting mode, live RGB histograms, motion-detection, time-lapse, and even games on your existing camera. Let’s transform your point-and-shoot into a super camera just by adding a little special sauce to its firmware.

Information

• How Much Is Linden Lab Making From Second Life, Anyway? For a rough guess, how’s somewhere in the range of $40-50 million this year sound?
• How Much File Sharing Traffic Travels the Net? - Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the ISPs and backbone providers in the middle, and they aren’t telling or sharing raw data).
• Microsoft resumes XP, Vista updates - Microsoft on Tuesday said it is resuming two major Windows updates that had been halted because of a conflict with one of its own software products.

Bargains

• Remember: Many of these bargains may be discontinued hours or less after they are announced, check the specified price to see if you arrived on time.
• Zune 30 GB Digital Media Player ($194.99).
• Atlantic 77305018 Satellite Speaker Stands ($21.08).
• Kenwood KCA-BT200 Bluetooth interface ($113.00).

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Tags: Twitter, Camera, Second+Life, Bargains