Author Archives: Young Koh
Fixing Samsung LCD TV – follow up
I posted an article on how to repair the non-powering up Samsung LCD TV. Here’s the original post. Quite a few people have e-mailed me saying that they could not find the same capacitors at Radio Shack. Remember, as I stated in my original post, you’re NOT looking for the exact same capacitors at Radio [...]
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Which is longer? Facebook Privacy Policy or The U.S. Constitution
Here’s a nice graphic from the New York Times that charts the growth of Facebook’s privacy policy. How much does the entire Internet know about your personal life? Here is how much As a user you are not Facebook’s customer. You are its product. Facebook sells its product (your data) to the advertisers who are [...]
Choosing focal length for your DSLR
Choosing the right lens for your DSLR may turn out to be much more difficult – and more critical decision than buying the camera body itself. After all, a lens is a single most greatest factor that affects the picture quality. Lens selection usually starts with deciding on a focal length. There are lot of [...]
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Instructions vs. Usability.
There are things we do without thinking. For one, flushing the toilet. People usually don’t expect specific instructions before carrying out this relatively simple task.
Man with a Movie Camera (1929) – Dziga Vertov
Google Video Man with a Movie Camera (1929) – Dziga Vertov
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Aperture + Shutter Speed explained
Affordable DSLRs are spawning everyday, amateur photographers everywhere. More and more people are asking how to take a better photograph now that they’re equipped with more serious equipment then the ubiquitous pocket digital camera. I get asked questions such as “how many megapixel camera should I get?”, “what is the perfect shutter speed?”, “should I [...]
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Mega Wasted Pixels – The Digital Camera Myth
Digital camera market is full of advertising gibberish boasting high number of megapixel designed to lure consumer and beginner photographers into believing that more megapixel equals better picture and a better camera. Of course, this is complete nonsense. Higher number of megapixel does not equal to higher quality pictures. Higher number of megapixel in a [...]
Designing a Better Business Application
DESIGNING FOR VARIOUS STATES When designing a page that draws set of results from collection of data (i.e. database) the screen layout should be designed to serve three core states of the application; Normal, Empty, and Error. Normal State: is when system returns expected results. Normal state can be further broken down into two sub-states: [...]
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