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Media

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Netflix for magazines

Maghound is an interesting service that lets you choose from a modest catalogue of magazines that get delivered to your door every month for one flat fee. The kicker is that you can change your magazines or try new ones whenever you like. The downside is that they only deal with US customers. A fact that is mentioned nowhere on their site. So if you are an American expat. in Singapore this isn't for you but if you live in the US and love Netflix this is worth a try.

Maghound. Via Uncrate.

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Thinking for a Living

Thinking for a Living is a collection of recommended readings and online links put together by Duane Kin. It's expansive and could keep you busy reading for ages. While the design of the site is quite lovely it suffers from that old fashioned problem of tiny type. Enjoy but be prepared to bump up the font size a couple of times.

Thinking for a Living

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Creative Critics

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88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day

Being mobile and leading a truly portable lifestyle requires that you at least try to cut out some of the inefficiencies in your life. Increased productivity gives you the time to focus on the things that truly matter - would rather be working in your hotel room staring at the beach or relaxing on the beach after completing your days tasks in record time? This book presents 88 of the best life hacks from the Lifehacker.com web site archive. A website indispensible to finding new ways to refine personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. Order Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day from Amazon ($16.49US).

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Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel Photos

I have considered the Landmark Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Hong Kong for a weekend city getaway on a number of occaisions. Though it is possible to find some reasonably priced package deals, at an often quoted price of ~$500.00US a night this hotel is not for the budget traveller. Like many people whenever I am choosing a hotel, especially when I am paying for it myself, I want to see as many photos of the room as I can. It can help me make a choice between a few hotels. Most hotels it seems either share too little or share a view that exists only in the photographers mind so it's great when people share there photos like user Beeze has on Flickr.

See her photos here (1, 2, 3, 4, 5.)

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Free WiFi in Bangkok

It's pretty hard these days to not stay in touch when you are traveling. Even the most remote places in Asia will have some kind of Internet café where you can send off an email or write an entry in your journal. Taking your own laptop and expecting city wide connectivity is another matter all together. Most upscale hotels will have some kind of broadband but who the heck wants to experience Asia from the sterility of a Hilton? Get out to a café and meet people.

When I was spending allot of time in Bangkok I relied on the Siam Center's wifi outside the Apple Center and a open wifi hotspot close to the Starbucks near Soi Nana. Stickman, a long time expat in Thailand, has created a list of wifi hotspots that will help you keep connected when visiting the sin city. There are many more complete sources but I always like to rely on those "on the ground" vs. some anonymous database. More to come later.

Free Wi-Fi hot spots In Thailand

Bangkok Hotels

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