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Daily SG: 12 Jan 2009

Posted by singaporedaily on 12th January 2009

MP burnt
- Simply Jean: Singapore MP set on fire
- i have succumbed to peer pressure: The ‘why’ and not the ‘what’
- Kaffein-nated: No joke, I’d rather have a shoe or two thrown at me

Do We Have Strong Leaders?
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: a distrusting government, suspicious of its employees and its customers
- Feed Me To The Fish: Are We Having A Real Dose of Bad Government?
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: SInce Independence Day, independence aplenty…
- Kaffein-nated: Chambermaid vs foreign maid - got difference meh?

We Don’t Need No Regulation
- Everyday’s Life in a Snapshot: one step forward, another step back?
- Sgpolitics.net: Has the PAP Internet Brigade lost its teeth?
- Mathia Lee: Mission (Im)possible: State regulation of the Internet
- Wayang Party: Lame response to AIMS recommendations shows how behind times the PAP is
- Yawning Bread: Singapore government rejects AIMS’ key recommendations
- My sketchbook: Short illustrated guide on government’s response to AIMS
- Sgpolitics.net: Government retains the same old climate of administrative discretion with regards to political films
- Only “objective” and “factual” political films please, we’re Singaporeans: Singapore Goverment still fearful of political films

Recession
- The Singapore Enquirer: Govt will do its part during recession, but community urged to help too

Strangers in a Strange Land

- TOC: Sent home with S$600
- TOC: Mega development projects and labour supply chains – whose responsibility is it?

Re education
- Bernard Aw’s Blog: Can Singaporeans analyse and express themselves clearly?

The Day The Singapore Flyer Stood Still
- The Void Deck: What Others Are Saying: Sg Ferris Wheel GM tio Sacked..Err Paiseh…Resign!

Daily Discourse
- Gerald Giam: “One-eyed Dragon” hanged
- Singapore Life and Times: Genocide in our midst
- Just Stuff: Ah Kong & Ah Ma Are Going Back To Work? - The Great Singaporean Work Fest
- Information Read By Me: Elderly As Cash Cows [Thanks Daniel]
- The Singapore Enquirer: Don’t negate the social roles of elderly Singaporeans
- A Singaporean: Uniquely Singapore - The Real Deal?
- Cavalierio: History | First wor(l)ds, final Singapores
- Information Read By Me: Born, Study, Work, Die. Average, Typical SGean Life [Thanks Daniel]

Life, the universe and everything
- Angry Angmo: Singapore Just Got Hacked (On Wikipedia.org)

Books and Papercuts
- Jacob’s Weblog: Reclaiming our (’not-the-PAP’ version) history

Infoblogaramous
- Random Thoughts Of A Free Thinker: Fund-raising for humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza
- Endoh’s Dungeon: A Walk Through Broken Relationships
- Otterman speaks: NTU Bike Rally - 15 March 2009

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Daily Tech: Windows 7 Public Beta Released

Posted by singaporedaily on 12th January 2009

Micro$oft publicly released a beta of Windows 7 over the weekend. Go here for the official download page, or right-click and save-as the following links:
Windows 7 32-bit Public Release [DVD ISO]
Windows 7 64-bit Public Release [DVD ISO]

If you get the product keys (by going through the official download process), your beta will run till 1 Aug 2009. If you dont get the keys, you have 30 days to test it. Have fun!

Tech News
- OverclockersClub: CES 2009 Coverage
- Futurelooks: CES 2009 - Gadget Hunting at Digital Experience
- BCCHardware: CES 2009 Daily Coverage
- VR-Zone: The Zii Mystery Is Unravelled - Creative’s Nano-Sized Supercomputer
- Fudzilla: DirectX 11 cards in late 2009
- Hardware-Infos: AMD RV790 and RV740 in 40nm from March 2009
- TG Daily: AMD: Netbooks? No, thanks.
- Engadget: Buffalo debuts stylish new MiniStation hard drives, NAS device
- PC World: Toshiba Unveils 500GB Portable External Hard Drive
- XFastest: Shuttle X50 All-In-One [Pics]
- The Inquirer: Nvidia gives 3D porn the horn
- VentureBeat: Google hacks the Wii Balance Board to surf Google Earth — literally

Reviews | Guides
- HWZ: The Comeback Kid - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 Full Review
- Bit-tech: Games to Watch in 2009
- Digital Trends: Technology for Women and Girls
- Techgage: Audio Archiving Guide: Part 2 CD Ripping, Part 1 Music Formats
- TrustedReviews: Sony VGC-JS1E All-In-One PC
- Tbreak: Microsoft Desktop 8000
- Tech Arkade: Razer Lycosa

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