I have been a big fan of The New Yorker Magazine. I started reading as a digital subscriber about three to four years ago and has never stopped since. Recently I decided to upgrade to a print and digital subscriber. As a reader from Singapore, shipping the magazine to my home all the way from... Continue Reading →
2017 is gonna be exciting
Now that I have written my new year's resolutions for 2017, I must say, 2017 is going to be exciting. I am starting school again, becoming a graduate student at NUS and working at the same time. It's going to be hectic, which means less TV, less video games, less everything. But I am going... Continue Reading →
A check on my online subscriptions. Are they worth it?
Over the years, as our lives have gone increasingly digital and many online services offer some form of paid subscription for a digital service, it can be quite difficult to keep track of all of them. I have a number of online subscriptions from Adobe Lightroom digital services, to magazine and news subscription, cloud storage... Continue Reading →
Resubscribing to The New Yorker
Sometime last year, I subscribed to The New Yorker, taking advantage of the 3 month subscription promotion for only $1 an issue for 12 issues. It was a good deal and I had not only access to the latest issue of the magazine, but also it's archive. I loved The New Yorker. Its long form... Continue Reading →
Apple Music vs Spotify. My Personal Take
It's been close to a month since I started using Apple Music, Apple's newest streaming service, out to compete directly with Spotify. As a Spotify user for 6 months prior to Apple Music's launch, there are distinct differences between the two services. Personally, I think Apple Music has a better music collection available for streaming.... Continue Reading →
Subscribed to The New York Times
While you can read any articles on The New York Times for free, you can only do so on a number of articles per month. This restriction is imposed to those who do not subscribe to The New York Times. I recently subscribed to The New York Times digital subscription with smartphone app access. The... Continue Reading →
Digital magazine subscriptions
I have been a National Geographic subscriber for more than a year now. The subscription I am talking about is the digital version of the magazine. It has all the contents of a regular physical magazine, but you read digitally, from your iPad or iPhone. Though you don’t have the physical copy, there are several advantages to subscribing to a digital... Continue Reading →
iTunes Match
A couple of months ago, iTunes Singapore went live. And with it, Singapore customers using iTunes now have access to a huge library of music, and movies in which they can buy legitimately through the iTunes store. Singapore customers also get to use their relatively new service called iTunes Match. I decided to try it... Continue Reading →