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I’ve got a new printer! It’s brand new, but I bought it off the hands of a member on the VR-Zone forums. Seems like he got it free after buying a PC or laptop during Comex.

The good thing about this printer compared to my Epson All-in-one is, that you can still print even if one of the cartridges is dry!

The other good thing is that it looks really slick! Here’s a picture:

This picture doesn’t do it enough justice, it’s sleek shiny and reflective. =P Anyway, I didn’t test the colour print quality as I’m using this mainly for notes - like the first thing I printed, the cheatsheets I mentioned earlier.

Here’re some tips of maintaining your printer which I found out after my Epson died.

Tip 1:
Never put your printer directly under an airconditioning unit. The print head will be clogged with the ink, after the low temperatures make the ink solid. That’s a rough description of what happens. And if a print head is gone, it’s really pointless to send your printer for repair because it’s the most costly part in the printer.

Tip 2:
Try to print something every 2 weeks. Same reason as above. It will let the ink in the print head flow instead of being stuck in it. By printing every once in a while, you ensure that the ink in the print head always changes.

Hope these 2 tips will give your printer a longer life! Adios.

Here I am showing why I’m a Singaporean:

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?p=4220416#post4220416
http://forums.hardwarezone.com/showthread.php?p=25596022#post25596022
http://sg.auctions.yahoo.com/sg/i::235206933
http://www.phing.com/post.php?ad=72536

Let’s see which of these 4 places will get me the best deal. lol. I don’t have high hopes for VR-Zone since there are so many people with much better gear there. =P

There’s nothing to post about since I’m literally doing nothing all day. My freelance has a NDA so I can’t talk about it. I play C&C at night.

Ah, how about telling you guys about my new table? =D

As they say, a picture says a thousand words, so here’s a thousand word. ( Can use this excuse for your essays in future, lol)

I CAN’T WAIT FOR THIS GAME MAN!

This is damn cool.

I’ve recently found a few online tech stores that feature free shipping, and have prices competitive to Sim Lim Square hardware.

The first one, which I bought a graphics card at:

PotterHouse
Excellent service and next day free shipping. Confirms order via SMS. Cash on Delivery.

The next one, is XRavage. Although I haven’t tried this one, I think it is safe to say they provide good service as well. Prices are okay… But their choice of products are limited.

XRavage.com
Products: External Storage, Hard Drives, Memory, Sound Cards, Video Cards and more !
Mode(s) of payment: Cash-on-delivery,Mastercard,Visa

Lastly, it’s Phing.com. This one isn’t a online store, but an alternative to eBay. I tried to sell my old graphics card, and got enquiries within the first hour. The whole site is fast, and easy to use, with intuitive menus and a clean interface.

Phing.com

I joined a Pixel2Life Link exchange thingy. Hope my tutorials can reach out to more peeps.

Hope you guys can click on it every now and then so that it will go up higher in the TopList in the Pixel2Life website.

Also, to update you guys on the Google ads thing, so far, I’ve got $0.00! lol. I guess it’s a looong way till I get my first cent.

I’m out of ideas to write tutorials for, so please give a reply in the comment on what kind of tutorial you would like, or any kind of function, or prototype that you want to do. I’ll post it if I know how, otherwise I’ll go learn it, then post it.

Oh, I’m using this XML2Object thing for a freelance flash game I’m doing right now and I think I’ll post a tutorial on that soon.

In other news, the Fusion 2007 website - which I programmed and also did some graphics for, won a Silver and a Bronze in Crowbar 2007. What a surprise.

QwertyDesign.net, my portfolio website, a BETA won a Bronze. Time to finish it up before I go protect the country!

I’ve placed some ads on the blog in the sidebar.

This is just an experiment. I don’t expect to get any money. lol.

Feel free to click on the links if it interests you though.

You guys should check this out.

This site has tutorials on how to do tile based game programming. Really interesting stuff.

I’ve recently started collecting toys!

While out shopping at China Square then Sunshine Plaza, I saw this really uber cool and super nice but super expensive Square Enix Master Arms collection - Sephir’s Gunblade!!!

Alas, it’s out of my budget for now… I gotta find freelance soon, instead of doing changes for free.

Anyway, here is a very long and nice list of toy shops in Singapore.

http://www.sgcollect.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=376&Itemid=43

If you guys know of any good and cheap place to get toys for Final Fantasy, please let me know!