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Thinkpad Battery Recall

March 2, 2007 in Technology | Permalink

Lenovo has announced a recall for 205,000 laptop batteries worldwide. This appears to be smaller recall compared to the Sony laptop battery fiasco last year. According to the IHT report, “the batteries can overheat if the laptop is dropped a certain way, striking the battery on a corner edge.”

I submitted my battery barcode through Lenovo’s online support page.

Battery check

Dang. No free battery replacement.

Affected models are 9-cell batteries for the models below:

  • ThinkPad R60 and R60e Series
  • ThinkPad T60 and T60p Series
  • ThinkPad Z60m, Z61e, Z61m, and Z61p Series

More details can be found on the Lenovo recall announcement.

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Not quite Wireless@SG

February 22, 2007 in Technology | 5 comments

Trying out the Wireless@SG connection at the West Mall Burger King outlet. Still encountering the same problems I had the first time I tried out Wireless@SG, which was also at a BK outlet but different mall. I had 4 dropped connections in the last 15 minutes although the reconnect is quick. I’m typing this offline because I don’t think the auto-save feature in WordPress is going to save this post when the connection drops again.

I doubt it’s a problem with the wifi on the laptop. I’ve never had frequent disconnect problems except on Wireless@SG, even though the signal is at an acceptable strength of 60-65%. Google didn’t bring up anything conclusive, but the wifi works fine at home/work/friend’s place so I’m not convinced it’s just my problem.

Does anyone out there face the same problem? Leave a comment and let me know that I’m not alone!

Last count: 9 disconnects in 25 minutes. I give up!

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IMified

February 7, 2007 in Blog, Technology | Permalink

Trying this novel little service called IMified.
Will the html tags show up?
I guess it’s worth a try.

[Update from the Web]:
Seems like the a href tags were stripped but the p tags worked okay. No support for Categories though. Ideal for quick twitter-like blog posts, but probably not too suitable for full-blown blogging. IMified supports a bunch of other useful services like Google Notes, ToDo, Calendar, etc. Pretty useful if IM takes up a big part of your online life. Works with AIM, Yahoo, MSN, GoogleTalk/Jabber.

IMified Services

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Howfarisitometer

February 2, 2007 in Technology | Permalink

Howfarisitometer. I stumbled on this neat page where you can map out routes on Google Maps and also calculate the distance covered. It even generates a permalink which you can use to retrieve the same route again. Brillliant.

Howfarisitometer

The author has generously given permission for anyone to use the javascript file on their site, as long as you credit the author with a link. Trés cool.

[Update 2007.02.20]: I’ve mirrored a version of the original code with some small tweaks. I’m not entirely sure what I’ll be doing with it yet, but it’s still very cool. ;)

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