{"id":189,"date":"2010-12-11T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-12-11T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T06:02:44","slug":"tech-stuff-that-i-use-a-lot-and-stuff-that-i-want-to-make-my-life-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/tech-stuff-that-i-use-a-lot-and-stuff-that-i-want-to-make-my-life-easier\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech stuff that I use a lot and stuff that I want to make my life easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday, I carry my iPhone with me everywhere I go.  Not really for the phone\/texting part but for the e-mail part.  As a Krannert MBA student, I get a lot of e-mails about group work, events, job stuff, etc.  Therefore, that little beeping sound my phone makes when I get an e-mail has become a large part of my life since there are a lot of important e-mails I need to go through everyday.  Also, the ability to check stocks, listen to music, surf the internet, make international calls through Skype, and other stuff is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>At school, I bring my laptop with me everyday.  I have a Dell 700M (12&#8243; monitor, 1.7 GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 40 GB HD, 855GM Chipset), yes, it&#8217;s old, but it&#8217;s so reliable and it still has about 4-5 hours of battery life even with wi-fi on.  I have a MacBook that I purchased February 2008 but it turned out to be a big bust in terms of battery life.  I refuse to carry around a laptop that I need to plug into an outlet within an hour of using it.  So basically, my MacBook has become a $1,200 digital photo frame because iPhoto is amazing.  I also use it for iTunes which seems to work a lot better on a Mac than on a PC.<\/p>\n<p>My Garmin Forerunner watch is amazing and I love it.  It has changed my running ability and I love the graphs that are shown that tell me where during a run did I slow down or speed up.<\/p>\n<p><b>Stuff I want<\/b><br \/>\n-I want an E-Reader similar to the Kindle but more versatile.  The iPad is nice but there are still some features that it is lacking that I&#8217;m really hoping the iPad 2.0 will have.  I like the Kindle&#8217;s e-ink though and the lack of glare.  I also want more textbooks on the E-Readers and the ability to use your finger to highlight stuff (You may be able to do this already, but I&#8217;m not sure).<br \/>\n-I want a portable external monitor that&#8217;s tiny and can somehow expand or something.  I use 2 monitors at home right now and the benefit is priceless.  I wish I could have something compact that I could attach to my laptop.<br \/>\n-I want a phone thats digital camera is similar to a real digital camera&#8230;  I love taking pictures but I don&#8217;t like bringing my camera with me.  Essentially, I want a lot of features to be consolidated into the phone.  In an ideal world, my phone would have the ability to expand into a laptop and the ability to be compacted to a standard iPhone size.  Then I won&#8217;t have to carry my laptop with me anymore and my phone can do anything.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/blog\/700m.jpg\" alt=\"Dell 700M\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/blog\/iphone3gs.png\" alt=\"iPhone 3GS\" width=\"300\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyday, I carry my iPhone with me everywhere I go. Not really for the phone\/texting part but for the e-mail part. As a Krannert MBA student, I get a lot of e-mails about group work, events, job stuff, etc. Therefore, that little beeping sound my phone makes when I get an e-mail has become a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/tech-stuff-that-i-use-a-lot-and-stuff-that-i-want-to-make-my-life-easier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tech stuff that I use a lot and stuff that I want to make my life easier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-random","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinkuok.com\/life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}