tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-119848962012-01-17T14:15:58.651+08:00About Uncle Plastic - Reviewer at Mac Users Group Singapore and the Singapore Palm User Group will be sharing articles on gadgets in here. All articles are written in the Asian consumer's perspective.Uncle Plastic's Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13081323863035813503noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11984896.post-1136145053691287402006-01-02T03:10:00.000+08:002006-01-02T03:50:53.716+08:00

Finally, I have found some time to sit down and start writing this review of what I feel about these "made in Hong Kong" custom ear moulds for the Westone UM-2. Firstly, Widex is an audiologist company situated in Central, Hong Kong. They mainly make hearing aids for those hearing impaired and also industrial strength hearing protection for the potentially high risk groups like those in concert

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Happy New Year! Its now 2006, so quickly has 6 years gone by since the y2k bug (remember that one?).Thank you, to all the support from you readers who have supported this blog. Your kind emails are deeply appreciated. I am looking forward to getting more reviews and articles written for the new year, and I thank you in advance for the continuous support and friendship. Have a blessed new year.

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If you are a Christian and used to frown at the British synth pop/ dark industrial band Depeche Mode (DM), its time you want to reconsider doing that. Because their latest studio album "Playing The Angel" will set you thinking more about Jesus than you ever think possible. I am grinning from ear to ear and getting down on my knees and talking to God more after listening to this album. No, DM has

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I hardly want to write about album reviews in the past because I feel that my tastes for music is pretty niche and that they are not really tastes shared by the masses, but what the heck, this is my blog and I think its good to be able to share what I feel about music sometimes. How it touches me and what makes an album stand out. Honestly speaking, hardly any new artistes impresses me these days

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Maybe mine was a pre-production unit, but whatever it was, the Albino Razer Diamondback Mouse is true letdown and one of the things that Logitech has an edge over many competition and also a reputation that they have built for themselves over the years is RELIABILITY**. While Razer is feature packed and leading the technology race for mousing, they lack the stability and reliability of a mouse

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Someone emailed me about the Razer review, and I had replied telling them that there were a few bugs not fixed and therefore the review will be pushed back until I get a new mouse or someone can fix the firmware issue or drivers issue. But there is another gadget that I will be writing about soon, and that is a China made (what is not made in China these days anyway?) KEL KH-1/Audio Technica

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I was supposed to be writing the review for the Razer "Albino" Diamondback right now, but somehow the mouse still does not feel very right and I am hoping to get someone who can help me by lending me another to check if there is something wrong with my unit. The sensitivity is ok, the tracking is ok, but for some reasons, the mouse sometimes "hang itself" and get disconnected from the system (as

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Here are a few pictures that I have taken this evening (low resolution ones) of the Albino to whet your appetite. I am getting used to the utra fast but accurate tracking of the Razer Diamondback already. This is the standard 7 button version like her "tougher looking" brothers. Beneath this whitish and pretty albino skin, the powerful 1600dpi optical engine remains the same. That is 2-4 times

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This afternoon, I received a delivery from the courier, and it was a flatish, rectangular box... and I saw the company that sent it... RAZER! Yes! Razer sent me the test unit that I have requested, and at first I was kinda disappointed that it was not the Copperhead Lazer mouse, then as I opened the box, I was very very surprised that the "snake" that they sent me is an ALBINO!Yes, you read

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From Sonnet Technologies' Website - "Have you ever tried to plug in a new gadget to a USB port only to find it won’t fit because it’s too big, or because your computer’s USB ports are too close to each other? Don’t create clutter with a cable—simplify with a Sidekick! Sonnet’s Sidekick is the double-jointed USB 2.0 adapter that bends over backwards and sideways to connect flash drives, card

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Earphones Solutions, and online store that offers major brands of in ear monitors and canal phones is a place that I would recommend buyers who are looking for the best deals on the internet. They also offer accessories as well on their online store and brands they carry includes Shure, Etymotics and Westone. They also carry some iPod products as well so drop by and check them out.

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Dear friends, some of you wrote to me to check why there has not been any updating for the past two weeks on these blogs, and well, this is because I have been traveling non stop for the past two weeks. Things will settle down a little more next week when I get back to Hong Kong. But at the meantime, please bear with the lack of reviews and gadgets updates while I finish the "final leg" of my

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I did not confirm this review earlier because I was wondering if Westone would be replying to my email at all, not knowing that they had a distributor over in Hong Kong. Dale Douglass from Westone Laboratories Inc sent me an email telling me that they are interested in getting their products reviewed and also a shoot out between the Westone UM2 and the Shure E5c which I have been using for a few

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iPods. Every Tom, Dick, Harry, Sally, Suzy, Lily, owns one today... a few years back, people would have envied someone who walks around town with a brand new, shining iPod in his hands and head-banging away on the subway train. Now almost everyone I know has one... so now what? How to be "different"?Accessories... yes... accessories. Everyone wants to buy that something different to personalize

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Dear readers, Just a note to let you know that while I am planning to catch up on the reviews writing, I have been overwhelmed by work and some personal stuff so you guys (and gals) have to wait a while more before any new reviews will be completed. But at the meantime, here are some updates that I find pretty exciting to share. - Custom ear moulds for canal earphones. I have contacted a company

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You have read both my recent reviews and experiences with SendStation's PocketDocks as well as my wonderful experience with the Sonnet SG4-1700 (G4 1.7GHz processor) upgrade... here is what's coming to this blog soon... - Comparison between the Shure E2c and E3cThis is to answer questions that I have been asked once too many times... "is it worth moving to the E3c (or E5c)?" I will write about

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Ok, I am feeling reeaalllyyy tired today, since I spent the whole of last night until the wee hours this morning to complete not one but two reviews (and loads of typo mistakes, apologies)... well... "rant and review!" They say... Here is my review at Mac Users Group Singapore's forums on the SendStation PocketDock : - - -Here is a short review for the Sendstation PocketDocks. There is another

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Don't be silly, of course a G4 1.7GHz Quicksilver 2005 does not exist... PowerMacs are Gee-Five these days, and they come in an industrial looking all aluminum enclosure.But hey, don't start planning how to scrap your Quicksilver as yet (or any G4 PowerMacs for that matter)... Sonnet has these awesome upgrade kits that give a new life to your PowerMacs... and you should check out their website

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It has been a crazy fortnight for me. Work has been totally insane, with my wife and I, together with her junior designer having to spend a couple of nights over at the office to meet equally insane deadlines. That leaves me with no time to tend to the new gadgets that I was supposed to write a review for. It turned out to be a good thing... since with the list of stuff coming in centred around

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The upgrading from an aging Quicksilver 2001 to a Quicksilver 2005! I cannot believe that after all this time, I can actually forget where is the Programmer's Button on my Quicksilver! Am I getting senile at 34? I had such a laugh when I wrote to Patrick from SimplyMac telling him about the embarrassing moment... I was like... "is there a button underneath that reset button on the front of the

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5 minutes ago, a delivery person came to the office and delivered the Sonnet Processor Upgrade Kit. Looking forward to installing it tonight and running Live 4 to see what kind of improvements there is with this kit, and whether will it be faster than the 1.4GHz 2MB L2 cache version.Cannot wait to go back home now... why can't they send it in the evening?

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The postal service in Singapore is bloody slow... argghh... I am dying to test out the Sonnet processor to see how much fast the new chip will boost the Quicksilver and Quicksilver 2002. And see how much faster Final Cut Pro would be with the new chip... I really hate this waiting thing...While waiting for the Sonnet to arrive, I wrote a new review on a Bluetooth headset and published that at the

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Patrick from SimplyMac is really efficient. It was only late last week when we spoke on the phone about my order for the Sonnet CPU upgrade and last night I got an email from him saying that the kit has arrived in Singapore (what...they teleport stuff these days?) and will be sending them out to HK today...This is what I call speedy delivery (service at its best). Thanks Patrick. You rock!I am

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I was sitting in my studio a few days back working on some new tracks using Ableton Live 4 and I got myself pretty frustrated. Why? Because the aging Quicksilver 733 is driving me nuts. Its too slow for today's new apps. And this was the same question asked by another client of mine who is running Final Cut Pro on a similar machine. Our machines have GBs-load of RAM. And we are running multiple

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The saga continues. This is becoming a norm these days on the Mac User Singapore's Forums.Kid saved hard for iPod. Kid breaks piggy bank and gets money out to Apple Centre to buy iPod. Kid pays for iPod. Kid holds nice packing and box and rush home to open box to enjoy every moment of owning an iPod. Kid reaches home with iPod in box. Kid rushed into room and turn on table lamp grinning ear to

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Sigh... Hong Kong. They say this country has got good customer service. I believe that person was smoking hash when he said that. I wanted to give a new life to an old Quicksilver 733 G4 running ProTools LE by upgrading the processor to a Sonnet SG-1700 1.7Ghz processor, and to see if this would be a good solution for all those people among the local Mac community/ ProTools Digi001 users/

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The amp has arrived, and I have listened to it through both Grado SR-60 and the Shure E2c (I will not be reviewing the PA2 with higher end cans like Grado RS-1 or Shure E5c because these are not something that everyone has and my purpose of reviews is always for the masses). If you can already afford the RS-1 or Shure E5, you should be shopping for high end portable amps but unfortunately, I

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There is always something magical about things built by hand.Poets will call that "perfection within imperfection".I have run out of praises for what Gary has built.Its a very nice piece of gadget. Very nice sounding. I wish that he could have silkscreened the panel but of course we know that would have been very difficult for him to achieve. Andwhen you use the amp long enough, all the controls

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Gadgets... we all love gadgets. And with today's portable music players, from flash based to hard disk based, everyone has this one complaint. The preamp on these things are pathetic. You are not getting the best of sound quality through their players' built in preamp and therefore they cannot enjoy their music on their higher end cans like they were SUPPOSED to. Music is all about enjoyment,

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Seems like Apple is no longer a company that I can totally trust (in terms of build quality) when it comes to buying stuff from them. They used to be, mind you. In the pre-G3 days, Apple products were built like a tank and the quality control standard was one up against the best out there. But this is sadly, no longer the case. With cheaper manufacturing plants, Apple's quality control is now the

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I have been a Mac user for a long time, and have always been impressed with the hardware and the amazing operating system. From OS 8 till OS 9, we saw amazing development and how iMac Bondi turned things around and the world started paying attention to my favourite fruit company again. Lombard and PIsmo Powerbooks took the centrestage soon after and everyone wanted to buy one! Then it was G4

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I have decided to separate my Blogs into two places. One for all the gadgets and tech-talk and the other for my personal things. Everyone is more than welcome to read at both places. So here we have... Uncle Plastic's Gadgets Blog. Hope you like reading my blogs as much as I enjoy writing them.

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Here are some pics that I have taken on my Treo 650 recently that I want to share with everyone... sort of like a photo journal... hope you like them as much as I have enjoyed snapping them... The bucket of water that Cannis has been using to mop the floor at the new house.Road sign leading the way to the house from the exit of Tai Lam Tunnel. (Drivers note this!)View from the balcony of the new

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There was a call to shoot some iPod pics in the Mac Users Group Singapore forums, and I shot this lot of my 3G iPod... My iPod's version of Bruce Springsteen's "Dancing In The Dark"...A very cheap and nice iPod case I found with Reuben Png in Hong Kong... we were digging for stuff in Kwun Tong industrial estate...Guess everyone knows which band I am into these days... yes... its Placebo!

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