Thailand Street Map version 11 for Garmin GPS units is now available on the GPSSociety.com site maintained by ESRI Thailand. Original page is in Thai, follow this link to Google Translate it.

If the broken product bears Synnex warranty sticker or you know what the product was purchased through Synnex you can check the exact warranty expiration date here on Synnex website.

The best way to watch the World Cup with English commentary is the Malaysian Astro TV satellite provider with their SuperSport HD channel. Reception is very good in Phuket and the subscription is cheap. Please contact us if you want to know the installation details.

Recently a friend of mine asked me for help preparing his iPhone for long travels. He bought the Lonely Planet PDFs for the countries he planned to visit. But in these PDFs the facing pages were joined together, and it was not convenient to read them via Air Sharing iPhone App. We searched for an application capable of splitting the facing pages into the separate ones. Finally we stumbled upon A-PDF Page Cut, which did split the document like we wanted in a few clicks. You just need to add a vertical separating line to the first sheet, click “apply” once for the rest of the pages and save the result as a new file. Moreover, the program even has the batch mode allowing you to convert many files at once.

There was one caveat: A-PDF Page Cut did not keep the proper page numbers from the original file, and there are references to the certain page numbers in the text. You will need to use some other application to set a proper starting page number in the resulting PDF.

Ookla, the company behind speedtest.net, made it’s bandwidth statistics available. Here is the data for Thailand.

Discovered the concise article in Wikipedia about Internet in Thailand.

I was looking for a better way to rename more than 20000 recovered JPEG files where original file names and folders were lost. I used to do it with our homegrown Perl script. I finally found a nice free utility: AmoK EXIF Sorter. It can rename files and move them to the folders according to your naming schema, for example:

\Year-Month\Camera_name-day-hour-minute.jpg

Whose interested in the amount of the import duty on computers and computer parts can refer to this document from Thai Customs. Generally it is 40%.

Probably the only power bar with acceptable quality sold in Phuket. It firmly holds various kinds of plugs. Can be found in the Home Pro, Lotus.

Found a beautiful monospace font here:

Recommended to all programmers.