Category Archives: Technology

The Great Instagram Explosion

April 21, 2012 – 2:00 am

I created my Instagram account on 10 December 2010 and then, only iPhone users were able to download and use the app. The things I like about Instagram is the caption of the picture, which enables me to tell a super short story of my picture and the different filters that has been developed to cater to the various effects of the pictures.

I’ve always enjoyed the photos posted by other fellow Instagram users but there was a point of time when Instagram seems alittle stagnant. Well one day, Instagram made itself available to Android users and that was the time when I see an explosion of followers for my account as I see many friends using Instagram and an explosion on the number of pictures posted, I see life on Instagram once again. These days, you will see that most of the pictures posted in this blog are in fact pictures from my Instagram account.

If you have an Instagram account, remember to add me. My username is patrickpang.

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Tweeting for 3 Years

March 20, 2012 – 11:20 am

19 March 2009, the year which I started tweeting. Embarking on a journey unknown, I was not quite sure what to tweet since it is a challenge to tweet – I have to tweet within 140 characters. Many of my friends were not tweeting at the time when I started and the next question was, “Who to follow?” The journey of tweeting has been a wonderful one. I’ve followed and met some wonderful people and learnt quite abit on social media from the people whom I’m following. 140 characters is no longer a challenge but something which I like, short, concise and informative, I guess this is what Twitter is all about. However, while Twitter is informative, it can also mean information overload, especially during a major event.

These days, I spend more time on Twitter as compared to Facebook. How do I know it? Take a look at my Twitter chart. If you are on Twitter, you can follow me @patrickpang.

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Technology – A love and hate relationship

March 17, 2012 – 1:50 pm

Technology brings us closer and leads us further apart. Its contradicting but its true. Whenever I’m on an overseas trip, I love technology, the convenience it brings us. For example, I could chat with my family member through video calls such as FaceTime or Skype at minimal cost as compared to the conventional IDD calls which can cost quite a considerable amount. Through social media platforms, I was able to find and stay connected with my long lost friends.

However, being able to stay connected online is not enough. Nothing beats meeting face to face and I always believe that technology is a compliment to whatever we are doing these days. It helps us to stay connected with people, but we cannot rely on technology to maintain that relationship. We have to meet and build up the bond. Regardless of where we are, whether we are maintaining relationship with our friends or bonding with our neighbours, technology will definitely be a way, but one of the way.

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Watertown engages Punggol residents on the go

February 2, 2012 – 11:56 pm

Since Watertown is one of the major development in Punggol, it will have to go online and mobile to engage the net savvy Punggol people.

Tapping on the popular social media network, Watertown is on Facebook. At the Facebook page itself, you will be able to find out the latest updates on Watertown, the tenancy mix at the shopping mall amongst others. At this current moment, its focusing more on its residential project and they are providing constant updates on their sales figures, which is pretty impressive. Progressively, as construction begins, I’m sure they will be providing more details of its shopping mall, Waterway Point. So if you have not LIKE the page, you might want to consider doing that now. They are currently running a competition on why you love Watertown (“I love Watertown because… ”. The entry with the most LIKE will win an iPad 2 (contest ends 29 February 2012).

Other than Facebook, Watertown has a mobile website. At the mobile site, you may find out more about the facilities in Punggol. It provides the description of the location as well as a map of where the facility is located. You will also be able to participate in Contests organized by the developer and even make an appointment with the sales team to find out more on the residential project. If you have an Android phone, you can also down the application from the MarketPlace. So remember to check them out.

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My iMessage was intercepted

November 23, 2011 – 11:18 pm

If you are using iMessage without any SIM Card, you got to be really careful. Last week, my cousin started to message me with her new iPhone. She did not have any SIM card and the messaging was done through WIFI connection. Somehow, when she used her WIFI connection, she was assigned to a mobile number. While we were chatting, I received a message from another person, this person was the owner of the mobile number that was assigned to my cousin. So it means I was chatting with 2 persons but to my cousin, she thought it was just between both of us.

According to this unknown user, this is a common problem that Apple users faced and the solution is to restart iMessage and re-login with Apple ID. I’m not too sure if anyone else has encountered this problem before but you got to be careful the next time you use your iMessage.

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Tweeting away…

September 11, 2011 – 11:37 pm

I started tweeting 2.5 years ago and then I was wondering what Twitter was all about and was exploring how special Twitter was and how long will I be using it. I find Twitter especially challenging – since it has a 140 character limit but well that’s also what I like about Twitter, keeping everything short, sweet and simple.

Over the past 2.5 years, Twitter had given me quite a number of opportunities and meeting many great people who had enriched my social media life. Just this week, I’ve made my 20000th tweet, something that I had never thought about simply because I didn’t expect myself to be tweeting so long.

Whatever it is, I guess, I’ll be tweeting for quite a while more, exactly when will I stop tweeting… For now, I do not have any answer yet. But if you have not start tweeting, probably you might want to start creating a Twitter account and start exploring it. You can follow me on Twitter, @patrickpang.

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1 way to save your iPhone battery life

June 12, 2011 – 1:23 am

We learn a new thing everyday and being an avid Apple fan, I know I’m alittle too late to learn something that is “important” – to save the battery life of my iPhone.

During one of my lunch, I was chatting with my friends when I realised that one way to save my iPhone battery life is to clear the apps, which presumably is still running. Double tap on the menu button and start clearing your app as its believed that these apps are still running since iOS now supports multi-tasking. It took me awhile to clear them since I’ve got quite a number of apps.

If you are like me, start deleting your multi-tasking apps now. Happy deleting.

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The Twitter Outage on Mobile

May 27, 2011 – 2:40 am

It seems like Twitter experience some problems this morning – it just didn’t load any new tweets from the people I’m following. Initially, I thought it was a problem on my Twitter App, Echofon and so I decided to switch to my backup Twitter App and I was shocked when I saw this.

So I decided to ask around on Twitter, tweeted and realised that I was not the only one who face the problem. But, its pretty weird to see no update except mine on the timeline.

Somehow, I was not used to seeing no updates and felt alittle disconnected to the world since there isn’t any updates. The entire outage lasted for about 2 hours and I seem to suffer from some Tweet Withdrawal Symptom. Well, I hope this will not happen again.

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iPad 2 is here.

May 21, 2011 – 12:11 am

It has been 3 weeks since iPad 2 was launched and unlike iPad 1, I was not able to get mine on the day when it was launched. I had wanted to buy a 32gb 3G Wifi iPad 2 but it went out of stock. I’ve told many people that if possible, I will not want to get it online because I always feel that to be a true Apple fan, you got to get it physically from the store, to get that sense of satisfaction.

I’m glad that Starhub finally launched it and I finally got my 32gb 3G Wifi iPad 2. Its white (which I like), its slimmer and lighter (which is an advantage for the children) and the camera is really HUGE! Anyway, I’m going to enjoy my new iPad 2.

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Engaging residents through new media

April 20, 2011 – 12:43 am

I’ve attended a new media sharing dinner on how new media are used to engaged residents to participate in community events. By now, new media is not something new to you and me, but rather, what new media tools do you use to connect and be kept updated with your friends and neighbours.

Over the past 5 years, I’ve learnt that there is no one platform suitable for all and there is not one platform be successful in engaging resident. It is a collective effort and how each of them is able to complement each other. In Punggol, residents are engaged through 3 platforms, Forum, Facebook and Twitter. Through the process of setting up and maintaining these platforms, I’m glad that I’ve met fellow residents who have helped me along the way and provided guidance, suggestions and support to improve and keep these portals running.

I wouldn’t dare say that we’ve been successful in engaging residents, but, I thought we’ve made progress thus far, though the road ahead is a challenging and difficult one. I’ve always been asked, “What keeps you going?” I will always think that its the increase membership/ followers and the participation of the residents that keeps me going. I’m not too sure how long can I keep this going, but as long as there is the support, I guess, it will be the motivation to keep me going.