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By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my UNLESS you’ve been living under a rock, you would probably have heard of Diablo 3, and your Facebook wall spammed with your friends’ escapades from Tristram to heaven and back. Well, if you have been living under a rock, you’re in a spot of luck because this article will get you […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my THE 3rd generation iPad has finally hit Malaysian shores, and despite early criticism and then waning hype over it’s “small” list of improvements, it’s time to actually put the “resolutionary” device to the test. After all, this was the first major product to be launched after the passing of Apple CEO […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my I AM a sucker for shiny new social networks that require a special invitation to get in. So, when news of something called Pinterest started going around, I knew that I had to get on it. Now, you’re probably thinking: “Ugh, not another social network!”. Well, you do have a point, […]
WITH no small amount of glee, I happily informed students who were late handing in their assignments that Wikipedia was going to be “blacked out” for a day. That was last Wednesday, the day where Internet giants like Wikipedia, Google, Facebook and Reddit decided to “black out” their sites in protest against the “Stop Online […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my The holiday season is just around the corner, and for many people, this also means crazy sale, traffic jams and a gift-buying frenzy. But even before you head down to the nearest traffic jam, errr, I mean, shopping centre, your main challenge is figuring out what your friends want! Fear not, […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Played a game on Facebook or Google+ recently? Casual gaming seems to have taken the market by storm in the past year or so, with people on iPads and iPhones playing Zombie Cafe or Japan Life. I was never a big fan of “free” and “casual” games online, especially those that […]
FACEBOOK has been busy rolling out changes to its site this past month, the biggest of which was revealed at the annual F8 conference in San Francisco, California, last week. The new changes seem to have divided the social network’s userbase – while many users threaten to jump ship, there are a few who praise […]
By DAVID LIAN alltherage@thestar.com.my Recently at a dinner, I observed what’s become a pretty common sight these days – a boy of 12 or 13 kept playing with his iPhone throughout dinner. Now that probably isn’t such a bad thing for some people except that everyone at the table was doing it, too! This scenario […]
GROWING up in Kuala Lumpur, one of the most important parts of my teenage years was the time I spent “hanging out” with my friends. This was during the heydays of the lepak culture, which was considered such a big problem that there were actually advertising campaigns and signs designed to discourage young people from […]
I WAS nine when I was first exposed to Spider-Man. It was the issue where the web-slinger faced off with The Rhino, a classic Spidey villain that had the powers of a rhinoceros. The comic was a tattered RM5, “old-stock” copy my mum purchased from a nearby provision shop to keep me quiet while she […]