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Create your own canvas
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 21/05/2014
» With YouTube very much a part of everyday life for many people, some netizens attain fleeting fame by uploading self-made videos to the popular website. A few have gone further and mastered the skills necessary to make variety programmes to entertain online viewers.
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Turning trash into treasure
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 23/04/2014
» Since yard and car-boot sales are still not very common in this country, it had never occurred to Bangkok businessman Veerapong that he could sell all the junk cluttering up his house, items which he hadn’t used for years and probably never would again. Until the day his daughter pointed to a set of golf clubs that had been leaning against the wall in one room, untouched, for ages and suggested that he should try to flog them online at a website called OLX.
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Developing real-world solutions
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 30/04/2014
» Mobile applications are now associated with people’s daily life and their popularity is not limited to the camps of Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. The Windows Phone from Microsoft is now offering users a larger variety of apps in a bid to catch up with its rivals. The number of apps at Windows Store is on the rise, boosted in part, at least locally, by Imagine Cup Thailand 2014, the national round of the world’s student technology competition.
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App-cessible
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 07/05/2014
» The universe of apps has made life more convenient, more fun and more distracting. From calling a cab to buying stocks, from measuring your heart rate to singing lullabies to your baby, from finding friends to finding lovers, the plethora of apps available for electronic devices has spoiled us. But in truth, most apps are designed for those whose life is already convenient.
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Hatching plans
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 07/05/2014
» When it comes to Thai start-ups, developers are encouraged to think big. Instead of focusing solely on applications or computer programs catering solely to Thai users, creators should expand and look at the regional market, too.
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Brainstorming for better results
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/02/2014
» While the government’s free-tablets-for-students scheme has encountered a long series of frustrating setbacks, several schools in Bangkok and the provinces are participating in a pilot project called Braincloud which is already demonstrating that the use of tablets coupled with a proper learning methodology can enable kids to acquire much better English-language skills.
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The future of chat
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 26/02/2014
» Although WeChat, China’s top social media app, has yet to garner much popularity in Thailand, it has expanded its features in recent years and started to gain ground in several other Asian countries including Malaysia and Singapore.
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Technology-driven learning
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 05/03/2014
» Learning English has never been easy and convenient especially in schools in Thailand’s remote areas where the lack of facilities is common. But Khadiyah Amanakun, an English teacher from a school in the southernmost province of Thailand, has proven that with a creative engagement in technology, students can be encouraged to learn the language no matter where they are and either with or without the internet.
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What a fabulous find!
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 12/03/2014
» Travelling by road in a city as notorious for its gridlock as Bangkok, commuters need all the help they can get. Listening to traffic-situation reports on radio stations can be useful, as can rolling down the window to ask for directions from locals in the know like motorcycle-taxi drivers, but both of those options are necessarily limited.
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Building up Mo-Meme-Tum
Life, Sasiwimon Boonruang, Published on 19/02/2014
» Among foreign users, Chuck Norris, with his easily mocked appearance and familiar macho postures, is one the most popular internet memes globally. Here in Thailand, caretaker Transport Minister Chadchart Sittipunt has emerged as an unlikely top meme, possibly due to his cartoonish personality and seeming willingness not to take himself too seriously. Photos of the senior politician have gone viral and Chadchart meme stickers have been downloaded on a massive scale even though some users apparently have no idea who he is.
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