Image courtesy of DPREVIEW.COM. The NEX series will initially comprise two cameras - the NEX-5 and NEX-3. In terms of specifications, both cameras are essentially identical - the NEX-5 gets a slightly smaller magnesium alloy body and 1080i AVCHD movie recording but in ever other respect they're the same. A mount adapter will be available, giving the ability to use Sony and Minolta Alpha-mount lenses. The LA-EA1 adapter will have a motor to control the lens aperture but nothing to driving the autofocus (they can't currently focus SSM and SAM lenses with built-in focus motors either). We have no pricing for the ...
It looks like the Micro-Four-Thirds (MFT) cameras are now becoming a trend amongst the amateur photographer. Compact in size with the option of interchangeable lenses, not only is this light on your shoulders but lighter on your wallet too. The camera will come as part of a kit, with the newly announced LUMIX G VARIO 14-42mm/F3.5-5.6 ASPH/MEGA O.I.S. (that's a mouthful) lens. Pricing and availability have yet to be announced. Read the press-release here.
Blizzard Entertainment is finally releasing the second installation of their popular RTS game, Starcraft II. Although it has taken them 10 long years (A little overdue...) I'm quite excited! Next, when is Diablo 3 going to be released? Another 10 years :P Visit the official Starcraft II website: http://us.starcraft2.com/
Looks like the Andriod phones will see Froyo soon :) And judging from the highlights given by Google, it looks really good! Plus it also supports Flash 10.1. The Android 2.2 platform introduces many new and exciting features for users and developers. This document provides a glimpse at some of the new user features and technologies in Android 2.2. Hit the jump to view the introductory video, highlights and more!
BlackBerry Bold 9650 - un-boxing done by CrackBerry.com. The new Bold 9650 comes with pre-'installed' with a 512MB internal memory and expandable to 32GB via a microSD card. The Bold 9650 will probably only hit Singapore's shores in the next couple of months later. You can view and read more about the specifications of the new BlackBerry Bold 9650, here, http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/blackberrybold/bold_specifications.jsp Hit the jump to view the video of the un-boxing and its performance. :)
So you're on a shoe-string budget but love taking macro shots of insects, grains of rice, flowers or just about anything that is blown up 0.5 times larger than what it exactly is to the human eye? I only found this out after purchasing my Tamron AF 90mm f/2.8 Macro lens, to be honest, on a personal level, I find this setup a little daunting. It takes patience and well, even more patience to get the setup correct. If you're game for it, read the rest of the DIY project at the following site: http://www.diyphotography.net/macro-on-a-budget-or-back-to-back-couplers
HTC Desire is now available in Singapore come end of May 2010. The superphone (read: No longer known as smart phones.) will be priced at with a RRP tag of S$898. Running a 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor makes the phone incredibly responsive while the instinctive HTC Sense experience lets you wield the power of the HTC Desire with the greatest of ease. Read the press release at http://www.htc.com/sea/press.aspx?id=129702&lang=1033 Overview of the superphone: http://www.htc.com/sea/product/desire/overview.html
24 days after the rescape, my hemianthus callitrichoides “Cuba” has soon been reduced to branches, without the leaves.
I’ve purchased four new pearl pigeons, loosely-labelled as a “baby face” discus strain. by the shop’s owner. Their body shapes are not of the conventional discus, sporting a higher fin and a more oval shape to the body.
Although not champion breeds costing a bomb, these were rather nice and thought they’ll add more variety to the current lot that I have.
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The O2 Zinc is finally mine! Yippe! 
Sorry for the lack of updates during the past few days. Been out celebrating the Chinese New Year holidays with lots of food, gambling and giving out of red-packets.
Wednesday blues are hitting me today as it is the first day back to work after a long holiday break. I’m still so sleepy.
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Before I forget, wishing all my asian readers a Happy Chinese New Year! May this year bring you more wealth and prosperity. 
I’ve decided NOT to get the MH lights for now. I’ll only get one when I move into my new place.
I’ll be able to hang the MH too which is the plus point Well until then.
*hehe I might get the Zinc then* 
Let’s start with the happy news first. O2 has launched the latest installment of its PDA series, the O2 Zinc. The Zinc comes with a a qwerty slidable keyboard, 3G, a really fast Intel XScale PXA 270 Processor at 520MHz + Intel Hermon, 2 mega-pixel camera, Wifi and more.
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12 days since my major rescape. The hemianthus callitrichoides (H.C) is spreading but my red noses are starting to take a liking to the taste of the young leaves/shoots. It’s a little disappointing as I have always wanted to have the H.C lawn.
Anyways, should that fail, I will convert the lawn to a hairgrass lawn. The current batch of hairgrass is spreading very quickly now with the E.I regime I am following. I’ll just need to fluff up its surroundings to siphon up the bits of gunk/pieces of moss/etc trapped inbetween the blades. Read the rest of this entry »
As a follow-up on my MH lighting search, I’ve received a response from Razali from DeLightings on the price of the MH pendants with the customised metal rack.
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I’ve added in a white paper downloads segment (located on the right). The segment will hold PDF & word document files for different manuals and read-ups and of course can be downloaded for your personal use.
Take note that the content for the PDF files are copyrights of its respective owners.
After a week of fertilization, I have done the first water-change. Siphoned up loose moss and junk. The hemianthus callitrichoides “cuba” (H.C) is started to spread out, also the eleocharis ”parvula” is beginning to spread out and the damaged plants, recovering.
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ADA – Aqua Design Amano, Mr. Amano’s work is well-renowed amongst the aquascaping community and now, he shares his scaping tips through an online (PDF) book that the public can download.
Mr. Amano’s work will make one either drool or you’ll just want to mimic one of his works.
AQ will be coming up with their very own T-shirt, it’ll be really nice for the community to have their own shirt and wear it proudly.
I’ve come up with some designs of the decals and posted them on the forums, you can check out the thread by clicking here.
It’s already a nuisance to me to receive spam e-mails, what’s worse is a combination of spam comments that I have to moderate on the blog prior to its migration. Now, to combat ‘comment-spam’ on wordpress, I’ve installed a captcha! verification module for wordpress. What this does is that it prevents ‘non-humans’ from leaving comments down, A.K.A spam-bots. This is also to removes the un-neccessary moderation mode of the comments.
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I’m thinking of getting some malayan & cherry shrimps for my tank.
Currently I have some yamato shrimps, however I wonder if I should buy some cherry & malayans, will they end up becoming discus food because of their size. 
7 days after the rescape, the water has cleared up significantly. Here are the photos. I’ve also added the additional shots into the SNAPS! gallery for your viewing pleasure. Not the best photos because its taken with my Sony Ericsson P990i.
You can visit the SNAPS! gallery by clicking either the link at the top right of this site or by clicking here.
Just take note, its 56K intensive.
I’m very interested to purchase some MH lighting sets from delightings.com. The fact that these lights consume lesser wattage but are much brighter than my current T5 lightings is a plus point.
I’ll need to firstly, work out the cost and to also find out if 2 x 150W MH sets are sufficient for my five footer. I’ll post more details on the specifications soon.
The transfer of the entire blog’s contents from my server is a complete success. All content/photos & data files are now on the hosting server that aquastuff.org is on. I currently have, 35GB of diskspace and unmetered bandwidth!
The only problem I had with the transfer was the deletion of all the spam comments, a total of 17MB of text data (try saving a text file with a few paragraphs, that’ll probably equate to 30KB, imagine 17MB worth of text)
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I’ve decided to give aquastuff its own permanent home. I’ve signed up for a domain name and hosting package and will be transferring everything to its new home.
*Although I have my own hosting server(s), I’ve decided to host this elsewhere instead, there are a few reasons behind this.
I was browsing AQ’s forums and found this thread for a mass order of the ADA Suikei Vol. 3.
Ecoculture is selling this book at S$38 through its mass-order instead of the retail price of S$44. I might just get it.
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I’m using my P990i to write this post..I took several other photos of the tank. I’ll post it up when my wife is done with her work.
EDIT: Can’t post the photos, too grainy. Posted photos below. Had to reduce the size. Both photos have 2 x T5HOs switched on only.
I just purchased four six ten yamato shrimps. I’m currently acclimatizing them to the tank’s temperature. That’ll probably take a good 45 to 60 minutes.
I’ll update with photos of them soon.
After a gruelling 12 hours of back breaking work (which lasted from Friday till the wee-hours of Saturday morning), my major overhaul is done and completed. My arms, legs, back and all the different major muscle groups are aching pretty badly.
I’ll post more details when I can, my arms are still aching, the fact that I am going for my R.T (Army Remedial Training for the physical fitness test) isn’t helping me recover from all the aches and pains that I am currently facing.
TANK PHOTO UPDATE
Sorry for the poor photo quality, I’m using my Sony Ericsson P990i as my camera now. 
P/S: By the way, I’ve been chosen to be a moderator of Aquatic Quotient. I feel that this is an achievement
**I have the following items up for sale after my rescape. If you are interested, you can head down to AquaticQuotient’s forum to show your interest for my sale! All the plants are algae-free and very healthy.
