We covered many horror stories on SlashGear about battery exploding, swelling, and the aftermath of its explosion – but never do I experienced it myself until I received an OQO2. The battery was attached to the unit but I notice there is a small gap between the unit and the battery itself. Ignoring that thinking [...]

I’m not a clumsy person, but from time to time I would drop my shiny gadgets, that includes my new iPhone 3G. While cases probably won’t do much to protect the phone when dropping it into a pool, but at least it will give a little resistance to scratches. Belkin Slim-Fit is on the top [...]

After using it for a week, I have come to conclusion that the iPhone 3G is not quite what I expected to be (in not so great way). There are many shortcomings on it including battery life and lack of copy and paste functionality. While not all Apple’s fault, 3rd party applications need tighter quality [...]

The iPhone 3G is here and almost everyone on Aradius gets one. Vince, Chris, Scott, and me gets the black iPhone 3G while Satsuki gets the white one. We have posted an iPhone 3G review at SlashGear – Japanese readers can see the quick hands-on video on SlashGear Japan. We encountered problem activating the iPhone [...]

If you have not heard of miniBB, it’s a very lightweight forum web application – we use it on SlashGear discussion forums. Prior to WordPress 2.5, miniBB integration to WordPress was fairly straightforward and easy. WordPress 2.5 introduces new password hashes, phpass and it breaks many 3rd party application integration, including miniBB. While you can [...]

June has been a great month for us, aside from hiring new staff members, our revenue and traffic increased by over fifteen percent. Blogging professionally and running it as a business is no overnight task; We put so much effort, time, and sometimes burning both side of the candle to achieve where we are today. [...]