Budget Accommodation, Hostels stays, Transport, Mobile plans and Mobile data in Singapore Many of you are coming to Singapore for the upcoming Barcamp Sg 5. Here are some basic stuff regarding transport, accommodation and connectivity. Accommodation A wide range of accommodation is available in Singapore. Check these hotel booking sites. Agoda.com,Wotif.com. Octopustravel seems to throw up the best rates for hotels in Singapore.  These are two budget places (from 15 to 50 S$ any they are close to the Arab Street and Bugis MRT) 1. Superb Hub Hostel, no website, email them at superbhub@yahoo.com.sg Some reviews of Superb hub here  2. ABC Backpackers Hostel (Around 18$ for dorms and upwards) A little further away is the  3. City Backpakers Another place that has received good reviews from travellers is the Mitraa  hostel near the Little India/Balestier road area. (Around 25$ for dorms and upwards) 4. Mitraa Hostel Check out this Google map search for hostels in Singapore   Mobile voice and data  Starhub Maxmobile Prepaid Card – Buy at 7/11 stores and mobie phone shopsSingtel also has a prepaid mobile data and voice SIM, you can buy them at Singtel kiosks.M1 - You can buy M1's pre-paid data sim from M1 shop at Bugis Junction. $18 for 3 days unlimited mobile internet usage. All three providers have a voice only SIM pre-paid SIM cards too. You need your passport for identification. Most mobile shops and kiosks will sell you these cards.  Singapore also has a free island-wide wireless network - wireless.sg but you will need a mobile phone with singapore number to receive the passwords once you register for this network.   Public Transport You can buy a Singapore Tourist Pass for use in Bus and the MRT service. The card is available in 1,2 and 3 days options. It costs 8$ per day. The pass is available at the Changi airport MRT station (terminal 2). The fastest way to reach the city is via the MRT (at terminal 2). Off the train hours, you will have to get a Taxi.  Cambodian Tech Girls at Hackerspace.sg Neararath and Kounila visited us late last week and spoke about the tech inCambodia. Presentations on Cambodia at Hackerspace.SG Our friend John Weeks was here from Phnom Penh. John has been studying and talking about Khmer comics. He brought some of these comics for us and spoke about Khmer comics history. Below, a Khmer folk tale that talks about a myth related to origin of some mountains. Below, a love/family story. A Khmer language horror comic John's Khmer Comics links John's account of the visit Global Voices Global Voices Online - Bringing the world to you via Translation View more presentations from Preetam Rai. Nokia N900 in Singapore Got a chance to try out Nokia's upcoming Maemo based N900 phone. Seems it will be launched in late March in Singapore and slightly later in South East Asia. No updates on the pricing yet. The phone feels solid with nice keyboard.  Bright screen. There is a stand at the back.  Geeks will love the fact that the phone allows you to open an unix terminal window and type away commands.   The phone can drive an external display or projector via a video out socket.   Personal Mobile Wi-Fi In Tokyo, many people use these little gadgets. It is a 3G data modem coupled with a little wi-fi router. You turn it on, put it in your pocket or bag. It creates a data connection via the 3G data sim card. Then it uses the built in wi-fi router to create a wi-fi network. Now you have your own personal wi-fi network that goes with you.  The battery lasts for 4 to 5 hours. It supports 5 computers/mobile devices. Many iPod Touch users like this device as they can connect to the internet from anywhere.    I got my own via Ebay. Similar device to the one I had seen in Japan. Both are made by Huawei and the model number is Huawei E5830.  I have been using it for last couple of days and it works fine.  Yangon Barcamp 2010 Yes, big thanks to the folks in Yangon. Had a great time at the Barcamp Yangon 2010 So many topics A talk on OpenOffice We had couple of thousand people joining in for the two days It was nice to see so many confident presenters talking about a wide variety of tech topics. And the local organisers and the volunteers did a great job keeping the event running smoothly. and the dinners    Shwedagon at night Magic Ball and Recycling Machine, Interesting Things in Japan Some things I found in Japan This magic ball opens up and changes colors Recycling used paper cups and getting back money Prepaid Mobile internet for Travelers to South East Asia I am often traveling in South East Asia so I keep a few SIM cards handy. Here is a lost of prepaid Mobile internet services offered by mobile telcos in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malayasia, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam Cambodia Cellcard offers a tourist 2.5 G SIM for short stay use. It costs 10$ and comes with 10$ worth of data usage. (The data rate is 1USD for 5 MB) Indonesia (thanks Rezwan) Indosat: A new IM3 brand SIM costs between 10000Rp-20000Rps (Apx 1-2 USDs) including 5000Rp balance. There is a Internet voucher which is sold in many outlets Internet charges – toll based or volume based: * Toll INTERNET = Rp 5000 voucher. Customers duration settings based & internet access for 45 seconds. So will be charged Rp 20, Toll INTERNET balance = Rp 4980. * The volume of customers change settings based & Internet Access 1 Mb. So will be charged Rp 1100 (1100 Kb x Rp 1.1), SHG balance of voucher Toll INTERNET = Rp 3880. http://www.indosat.com/Mentari/Mentari_Update/Voucher_Internet_Indosat Tariff of XL: http://www.xl.co.id/XLPascabayar/XLInternet/Tarifdanlayanan/PaketXLInternetInstan.aspx Malaysia Celcom Broadband Prepaid™ Pack at just RM25 with preloaded credit of RM20 and be among the 1st to enjoy: The widest and fastest Mobile Internet Service in Malaysia so you can get more done wherever you are.? Hassle free access, with no registration needed.? Affordability from only RM20 per week with no fixed monthly charges. Myanmar Prepaid SIM card is available for 20 USD from mobile shops in bigger cities but there is no data. The Phillipines Thans Mike Aquino for .Ph info The Philippines has two main prepaid line providers – Smart Buddy and Globe Prepaid. Both of them have data services, too. SIM data dongles like Smart Bro and Globe Tattoo are pretty cheap, and getting cheaper. Singapore Starhub Maxmobile Prepaid Card – Buy at 7/11 stores and mobie phone shops Singtel has a pre-paid mobile but their Flash laden site, makes it difficult to search M1 - You can buy M1's pre-paid data sim from M1 shop at Bugis Junction. $18 for 3 days unlimited mobile internet usage. Singapore also has a free island-wide wireless network - wireless.sg but you will need a mobile phone with singapore number to receive the passwords once you register for this network. Thailand I usually buy the 123Go Sim card from the 7/11 stores. Vietnam Most of the cafes and budget hotels offer wi-fi. Thanks to Dave A who posted the following in comments VIET NAM Vinaphone has 100mb for 50000vnd (about $3us)per 30 days you have to enable gprs by texting GPRS ON to 888 after recieving confirmation text M50 ON to 888 and the data plan is activated and will deduct this amount every month. there are other plans with other activation codes, including an unlimited plan for i think 300000vnd but i dont know those codes. i have been completely satisfied with the service, have had coverage everywhere in the mekong delta, even way out in the countryside, and quite often full 3G in cdecent sized towns. hope this helps! Should we update the Alphabet Chart? I heard a kid sing the Alphabet song the other day. I think we have not kept up with times when it comes to alphabets. Seriously, don't we type more compared to writing. My wrists start hurting if I try to write something more than two pages. And going forward I feel kids would be typing more. So here is what I have devised. We need to fill in some of the gaps. Also should it be Y for Yahoo! or YouTube. OR W for Wikipedia or Windows? And as June san says, we need a Qwerty song. F for Flickr or Firefox. Some twitter responses to this and my responses. natthefatcat: @preetamrai If we have to teach them in QWERTY order, that means we - the teachers- gotta learn in in QWERTY order as well. LAZYYYY. about 4 hours ago from web Preetam: Yes, so I made this chart above. ?theurbanrant: Qwerty was solvg a probm with manual typewriters RT @preetamrai: Why don't we teach kids alphabets in QWERTY order.no reason2 do ABC order. Preetam: Yes, but I think Qwerty is here to stay until the keyboard (both on screen and physical) are around. misscalamity: @preetamrai then what would become of the alphabet song?! Preetam: Lets make a Qwerty song ?kengggg: @preetamrai what about DVORAK? Preetam: I think Qwerty is the most popular one. nhklein: @preetamrai You mean those under the British imperial history & the USA? The French, Germans, Spanish & other ABC users to not use QWERTY Preetam: But don't the French and the Germans have their own alphabet charts anyway. The French can have an Azerty chart. Mozilla Drumbeat Presentation: Hat-Tip System for Free Content Hat Tip for Free Content View more presentations from Preetam Rai. Last weekend I was in Singapore for the Neotony-Mozilla event. Mozilla has this Drumbeat series of event where they are looking for ideas on making the web better. I presented an idea to reward free content producers. We want to build a system where we have a sort of currency that we can award to people who create freely accessible content. I consume a lot of creative commons licensed material (photos on Flickr, music on Jamendo). I learn things from the videos that people upload on YouTube. I wish I was able to buy them beer or coffee or tea or ice cream, but I can't as I am not in their city. We did build a similar system last year where we enabled one to buy drinks for friends and kind people who helped us out. The system died as we could not expand it beyond a city and various other reasons. It is something akin to Hatena's star system in Japan. You buy these starts and you can plug it on the content (one people's blog) you like. The stars are decorative only and provides no physical value for the recipient, which may not be a bad thing. Someone spent some money to give you a colored star. Our system is in the similar spirit. What we are trying to do is find a currency that does not translate to real cash but something yet may provide say some percentage of a Flickr pro account or some Skype credits. These things are universal and can be utilized by any internet user. Lets call them Free Content Dollars or FCDs. These FCDs can be bought by internet users from a FCD exchange. A part of these FCDs can be sponsored by internet companies say Yahoo! as Flickr pro credits. So how does it work. You find someone has written a good post on say shopping in Bangkok. I can give the FCDs to this person. We are still discussing the mechanism of how this can be done. Once the blogger has accumulated enough FCDs she can re-deem it for say a Flickr Pro account or some Skype credits.I will post more as the idea develops. Dragon Speech App on iPhone This is so accurate it's like science fiction. Sony's New Thin Notebook Pics Justin showed me this Sony Viao demo unit at Hackerspace.sg. Runs windows 7 and cost around 2000 SGD. Thin Has one more USB compared to Macbook Air. It is small and thin and very light with 64GB SSD drive The keys are small, the size of early eepcs. Otherwise looks like a nifty portable computer. Why I Feel that Other Guys Cannot Beat iPhone Nani sore!! This is you flagship phone for the season, with awesome screen and unique form factor. And you put up a plastic dummy for customers to play with?? Meanwhile, in another corner of the same shop iPhone is inviting people to play. In Hoi An Just started raining, most of the day was nice. Hoi An (Central Vietnam) is pretty at night. Some pictures Lantern Shops Shops in Hoi An Japanese Bridge, built by the Japanese residents 400 years back. More night shots of Hoi An are on my Flickr A panorama of the Japanese Bridge from earlier in the day Big Thanks to BarcampSG4 Participants and Sponsors Thanks everyone for making Barcamp Singapore 4 happen. The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) gave us the great venue, food and wonderful people to work with. Thanks to Yahoo! for the Hackerspace.sg party. And a big thank you to all who came and made the day. Check out BarcampSG4 pictures and presentations. We will be back soon with Barcamp Singapore 5. Educational Technology and related sites from China July and August, we are working with some schools in central China. I am demonstrating tech tools that can be used for learning. I asked Jacky to suggest some good Edu tech blogs in China. Here are his recommendations. These two are government portal which focus on edu tech.  http://www.edu.cn/ http://www.e-chinaedu.cn/ This one is edu translation.  It introduces a lot edu tech to china. http://fanyi.edu2do.com/ These are local education blog portal. quite famous. http://www.thjy.edu.cn/MyCore/MyIndex/thjy/List_04.aspx?id=B32000 http://blog.wxedu.net/index.html http://sysu.schoolblog.cn/ These are well known personal education blog http://www.being.org.cn/blog/ http://www.lifegrowing.com/danny/ http://www.lizunlong.com/ There are lots of edu tech sites on this home page http://www.being.org.cn I applied for this Virtual China Immersion Camp Once at a Japanese meetup, I demoed couple of Japan themed islands in Second Life urging Japanese language learners to explore these islands and make friends with the Japanese people there. One of the advantages of virtual worlds is that they provide an environment where you can interact with real people and objects. This morning I got an email from the Center for Applied Second Language Studies (CASLS) at the University of Oregon inviting people interested in Chinese language to participate in the Virtual China Immersion Camp. If you speak some Chinese, know how to use Second Life and have two hours to spare every weekday from August 3 to August 28, you can apply for this camp. You will be paired with a Chinese student to work on a virtual ecological park and in the process improve your Chinese skills. More details and application form at the CASLS MyChina Village Virtual Chinese Immersion Camp 2009 page. They will be selecting 15 participants from the applicants. Tethering iPhone 3.0 to connect to internet on the Mac (via USB cable) So now that OS 3.0 is publicly released, I can post some pictures of tethering and how it works. ACHTUNG, Xiao Xin, Abunai !!!! Please check your mobile company on data rates and your allowance before you use this feature. You don’t want to end up paying a huge data fee. PART A – On the iPhone Enable tethering on your iPhone (running os 3.0) 1. Go to Settings on your iPhone. tap on GENERAL button 2.Under General, tap on NETWORK button 3. tap on INTERNET TETHERING 4.Turn it ON 5.Select BLUETOOTH or USB. I am using the USB as the phone gets charged too while you are using it. PART B (using USB cable) Just connect the iPhone to your Mac via the USB cable. And you should be able to use the internet. Online workshop on using Creative Commons Resources for Education and Non-Profit Uses I have seen a lot of interest in the recent years among educators to be more aware of copyright laws. Many teachers are also looking at getting their students exposed to the good practices of using pictures and music created by others in their own projects. I have been running some online and offline workshops for educators and non-profits on Creative Commons. Creative Commons is an organization that supports people who are interested in allowing people to use their content. A bit about Creative Commons licensing Lets say, I have a picture of durian, its not that important to me as I live in South East Asia and I can take pictures of Durian everyday if I want. Say a student in Iceland wants an image of durian for her presentation. She googles and find the image, ideally she would have to write to me to get permission. Luckily for her I use a Creative Commons License and my license clearly states that anyone can use the image as long as they attribute me. She can download and use the image and all she needs to do is mention that the image came from me. I have the flexibility to specify what kind of usage I allow – for example I can say that my pictures can only be used in non-profit projects. Thanks to services such as Flickr, that lets its users tag their images with a Creative Commons license, it has become easier to find images and use them. Free Online Class on Using Creative Commons Resources If you are interested in learning more about using Creative Commons resources for your students, please join me Date: Sun, Jun 21 2009 10:00 PM Malay Peninsula/China/Singapore/HongKong Standard Time (2PM UTC) Venue: Online (as long as you have a computer with internet connection you can join) Coverage: 1. Copyright laws relating to online media 2. Where to find creative commons licensed images and sounds 3. How to use and properly cite the source 4. What else should we be aware of while using Creative Commons licensed images. How about the privacy rights of people featured in the images. I will be making this online class interactive, you will be doing stuff with me and not just listening to me talk. Click on this address to join http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/149310-Creative-Commons-Licensing-for-Educators About Samsung’s Lapfit LD190G LCD Monitor Lately, I have been doing more video and an additional monitor makes the work so much easier. A lot of my work also involves scanning through hundreds of feeds mining for information. An additional screen makes this task easier. Earlier this year I was in the Singapore Blogout event and they had Samsung’s Lapfit LD190G monitor on display. I wanted to buy it but it was not available for sale yet. I need additional screen space so bad that I ended up buying a mini-USB monitor in Tokyo last month. Last week, Samsung contacted me and they sent me a LD190G for review. I have been using for the last couple of days and I will probably end up buying it from them. My Observations 1. The profile of the monitor and the box that it comes in is compact and portable. I like this as I keep moving often and want to have as little worldly possessions as possible. 2. My previous secondary monitor was also a Samsung and I was happy with the colors etc. This one is good too and more importantly it has the wider dimensions – means good for video playback. Here I am working on my assignment for a course I am attending in Second Life. I can watch the tutorial on YouTube and build in Second Life at the same time. 3. The flexible stand at the back has a nice feel and can support the monitor at two angles. 4. The overall design is cool. I like the buttons. 5. Mac drivers for the LD190G and LD220G are can be download online from their support site. It is in .rar format. You will need the free UnRarX utility to expand it. Thanks to Lester Chan for pointing to the drivers. Please check out Lester’s web for an excellent review of the LD190G. Pricing and Special Offer at Singapore PC Show There are two models – The LD190G(18.5 inches, Resolution : 1,360×768) and the LD220G (21.5 inches Resolution : 1,920×1,080) and the Singapore prices are LD190G at $239 and the LD220G at $339. They are offering promotional prices at Singapore PC Show (11 to 14 June at SUNTEC), LD190G at $229 and the LD220G at $309 respectively. Additionally, if you print this coupon and show them at the PC show you will get a free 20$ Takashimaya Voucher. Eucalyptus makes me nostalgic A restful repast was taken in this fine establishment in the Arabic quarter of Singapore. And now with a fine polynesian brew at the ready, I think about pleasant distractions of the week past. If you wonder, why my vocabulary seems different, I have been reading classic books from a century back on this new ebook reader on iPhone called Eucalyptus. Looking to pass the time on the flight from Thailand, I had downloaded Eucalyptus. it is a e-book reader that at the moment only reads the ebooks available on the Gutenberg project.   I ended up downloading classics such as Around the World in 80 days by Jules Verne and some texts on China by Herbert Allen Giles. Let me show you how the page flip looks like on Eucalyptus. This app costs 10$ on the iTunes app store. It is a thing of beauty, worth the price. The rendered text is so crisp, so close to print. Thanks to Eucalyptus, now I am enjoying these old books and remembering the innocent years on my childhood when I first read these, dozens of summers back, in a land far away, with Mayflowers blooming and the scent from eucalyptus trees all around. Eye-Fi SD card, Upload images to your Flickr and other sites directly from your digital camera I would love all cameras to have built in wi-fi so that we can upload the pictures to Flickr or other sites without having to download the images to a computer first. I know now there are couple of cameras that do this but mine is an older camera and I am not looking to upgrade camera anytime soon. I had heard about these Eye-Fi cards and when I saw one at a electronic store in Tokyo, I decided to get one and try it out. It looks like a regular SD card that goes into your camera but this one has a wi-fi antenna built in. Where? you will ask, the card is so thin. Yes that’s what I thought too. But it really is there - such wonders of science and technology these days. First you must configure the card by plugging it into your computer via an USB card reader (supplied in the box). There is software inside the SD card that installs the software drivers and a manager utility. With the manager utility, you can tell the Eye-Fi cards 1)What wi-fi networks you want to use and 2) What services (Flickr etc.) you would like to use to upload pictures. Once you have configured the card, just slot it in to your camera. Now as you take pictures, the Eye-Fi will keep uploading them to your online photo storage. Some pictures we were taking in a pub in Bangkok and seeing them come up on Flickr instantly. I am often at events and meet live bloggers or twitterers who are frantically trying to post text, picture and videos of the happenings. This eye-fi card could be useful to them. Mobie and Web Tech in Africa Some links here from the “Tech in Africa” sessions I presented at the recent Bangkok and Tokyo barcamps. http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/03/db.malawicellphones/index.html Text service provides more than a Band-Aid for rural health service - CNN.com http://afrigator.com/ African Blogs, Videos, Photos & Social Media - Afrigator http://www.naijapals.com/nigerian-music Nigerian music online | Free Naija music | Nigerian tracks http://www.ushahidi.com/ Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS) http://votereport.in/ Vote Report India http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1815 Deploying OhmSMS in Uganda - Appfrica http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1828 Status.ug: A Local Mobile Portal for Facebook - Appfrica http://appfrica.net/blog/archives/1774 Appfricast 8 - Appfrica http://www.kazi560.co.ke/ Kazi560 | Kenya’s Biggest Job Alerts Service http://www.iccwbo.org/uploadedImages/WBA/Safaricom%201%20-%20Kenya.jpg Mobile payments in Kenya http://www.afrigadget.com/ AfriGadget http://www.flickr.com/photos/niyyie/sets/72157617672371068/ BarCamp Nigeria 2009 - a set on Flickr http://whiteafrican.com/2009/02/09/30-great-african-tech-blogs/ 30 Great African Tech Blogs | White African http://www.netvibes.com/preetamrai#Africa_Tech A netvibes page containing most of the blogs from above and some others. Playing with Nokia’s new N97 Felt nice to hold is what I would say first and I got to hold it courtesy of Nokia and Text 100 who oranized a preview. Let me show you some pictures There is a slide out keyboard that is at an nice angle. Also stays put well on a desk. 5 megapix camera, 30 something gig memory, has the Ovi store to buy music and apps. Touch screen - so you can tap on the icons and scroll though web pages. Double tap enlarges the web page. Home screen can be populated by widgets. Its going to come with widgets for popular social networking sites and local news. My facebook. No details on price yet. Launching soon. Check out Mohd. Hisham’s take on N97 Small USB Secondary Display for your Notebook Let me show you the latest gadget I got from Bic Camera at Yurakucho. Its a small 7 inch external LCD display on the left. You can use it on a Mac or a Windows notebook. It connects to your computer via an USB cable. You don’t need external power. This makes it compact and portable. There is a little stand at the back that can be swiveled to position the display vertically or horizontally. Its made by IO-data and I have not seen this product outside Japan. Its useful in situation such as one in this image where I am editing a video on my notebook display and monitoring YouTube upload on the secondary. I also use the secondary display for my Skype and other IM windows. It might also come in handy for netbook users. On my macbook, it works great even when I am connected to the projector. I can mirror my Macbook screen and the projector screen. The secondary display, I use as a secret window to keep my browsers with search, skype, twitters etc. that I don’t want the audience to see. It costs about 14,000 Yen or around 145 USD. To Ghana for the Maker Faire Africa Figuring out getting to Ghana for this interesting event happening in Accra at the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT. The events brings together inventors and unique innovations from around African continent. Make Faire Africa Website I am very much interested in lost cost hacks that gets things done. There are lots of such interesting ideas world over and a lot of these ideas will work in some other region too. Let me introduce Afrigadget. This site aggregates examples of African ingenuity in solving day to day problems. Let me show you another co-incidence. Just earlier (previous post) I was thinking of Suriname and now I am thinking of Ghana. Check out their national flags. Flags of Suriname and Ghana Want to go to Suriname Heard this song after something like 15 years. The original was back in the early 90s by Pakistani singer Zohaib Hassan. This version is by Bryan Lotulung. Now I miss Suriname. Happy with Creative Vado HD I have intermittently posted video on my blogs and YouTube etc. I went through couple of inexpensive no-name cameras and tried Sanyo’s Xacti too. The trouble is that though some of these cameras are good, they are still too bulky and don’t work well in situations when you just want to shoot something interesting in a hurry. I have been tried to get compact video cameras made by FLip but they don’t sell here in Asia. In November last year, I saw famous podcaster Mr. Brown using Vado HD. Earlier this month I too bought a Vado HD, a camera clearly inspired by Flip’s feature set and design. I am happy with Vado HD. It shoots high-defination video. The colour are good in daylight and acceptable at night. You can shoot 2 hours of high quality video on the built-in 8GB of memory. The audio quality is good too. I don’t have the other similar cameras (Flip HD, Kodak Zi6, Sony Webby HD) to compare it with, but whatever demo footage I have seen on the internet from these other cameras, I think Vado HD captures better videos and has a better lens. The controls are simple. Just press the middle button to record. You can zoom in and out with the buttons on top and bottom of the record button. The two buttons on the right lets you play or delete a pre-recorded video clip. I am happy that Creative has resisted building in a MP3 in this device and kept is very simple - just does what it is supposed to do. There is a little USB connecter that you can pull out and plug it into your computer and transfer the clips. Video editing software for Windows is already pre-loaded on the Vado. You can do some simple editing and post the video to YouTube. For the Mac though you need to download the Perian plug-in as the Quiktime player on Mac does not recognize the video. Also, iMovie09 cannot import the video files crated by Vado HD. You will need to download the free Mpeg Streamclip video convertor utility and batch convert your files to a format iMovie can understand. As a Mac user, it is a bit irritating that Vado HD does not work out of the box (with Mac) but the ease of use the camera and the quality of video makes up for it. I wish Creative had a more descriptive web page for the product with instructions on how to download the Perian plug-in and using Mpeg Streamclip. UPDATE: Creative guys left a message with the link to instructions for using Vado HD with a Mac The price listed by Creative is around 300 Singapore dollars but there are some places in Singapore you can get it for slightly lesser. Here is a slightly higher resolution sample clip that I took with Vado HD. Some sample videos. They appear squished as I did not put the proper dimensions while exporting it. Here is a sample of low light indoor shoot. My favorite Korean restaurant in Singapore, WooriNara on Lorong Kilat. Has great fried chicken. Daytime video Close up Come to Barcamp Bangkok 3 I have had so much fun and met so many interesting people in previous Thailand Barcamps that I will surely be there for the next one in Bangkok (May 23 to 24). Hotels and airfares are at all time low. And you will get to meet people from Cambodia, Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and hopefully from Indonesia and the Philippines too. One special feature of Bangkok Barcamp is decent numbers of non-IT sessions. I am myself thinking of doing some DIY sessions on green living. Bangkok Barcamp homepage