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So, went to Broadway in Hong Kong. Broadway is one of Hong Kong's biggest electrical retailers. There I asked for a razor, I was shown a Motorola RAZR phone. I then asked for a beard trimmer and in return I was show a camera. I kind of can
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So I had written the following post re what NAS box to get: Netgear ReadNAS Ultra 2 Plus or Synology DS212+? Which NAS? I had got a bunch of useful information, including one of my buddies, Marco, posting the following on his blog:Response I'm writing partly in
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At present I have an HTPC which as a 1TB hard drive in it. This is, however starting to fill up very quickly. As a result I am looking at buying a NAS box to deal with more data. In coming to my decision to get a NAS device I
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Here is how it works. Go to AmazonLocal. Its Amazon's new daily deal site. Pick a random city (I picked LA). Link it to your Amazon.com account. First deal of the day is $10 Amazon.com credit for $5. Works with a HK credit card, just tried
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I wonder if people have got any suggestions for my quest below. I've got my music scattered over various different sources over the years. The majority of it I still have on CD and the rest is on my HTPC. The problem is when I transferred my music
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Seems Box are offering free 50GB data for Android users who sign up to their updated app: http://www.androidcentral.com/box-an...-free-everyone Market link: https://market.android.com/details?i....android&hl=en Seems this is a limited time offer ending on 23 March. I haven't
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I've just recently moved home (yet again) in Hong Kong. This time the move was quite a big job as furniture (beds, wardrobes, TVs, sofas) needed to be moved. By moving I mean these items needed to be dis-assembled and then re-assembled at the new place. I had
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I know we love knocking HK and moaning etc about it (I am very guilty of doing this). However at least the operations side of things are very efficient. So the IRD's etax service only works up to Firefox 7 (and the latest version is 9.0.1)
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My 3HK contract is finally coming to an end shortly and I'm going to shift network. I am after a SIM only all you can eat data plan (or one which offers a generous cap). At present the options I am considering are SmarTone, One2Free and 1010, and
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Well, 2011 was an eventful year! The crazy travelling continued with my partner in crime, but we took our journey to the next level with our biggest challenge to date. We survived, learnt lots about each other through the process, but came out stronger. While, at times, we were in
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I own a Suunto Mosquito dive computer. Its not the most advanced dive computer in the world, but it does the job. Recently I was having problems opening the battery casing and in any case thought the computer needed a servicing, as I had owned it for about 6 years
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My ISP, Hong Kong Broadband Network ("HKBN") offers me, a dedicated fibre internet connection with a guaranteed speed of 100Mbps. This sounds great, but that guaranteed speed is for connections to the Hong Kong Internet eXchange ("HKIX")! For foreign connections HKBN claim its on a best