750 words. That’s the challenge I have to face everyday for the next 30 days. If I were using a typewriter, that would be three pages worth. The 750 word challenge is not just for the month of November (which also coincides with NaNoWrimo) but is a monthly challenge that goes on throughout the whole [...]
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I’ve been using subversion for the past few years. Recently I have been using ProjectLocker as well. ProjectLocker is a web-based service that offers subversion, trac and git. Using subversion has been wonderful. The only drawback for me is when I can’t access ProjectLocker. When that happens, I’m not able to commit changes until the [...]
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Recently I got to read Anton Diaz’s post on his top blogging tools. So this got me thinking on what tools I use for blogging. Let’s take a look at the basics first: hosting and platform. My webhost is NearlyFreeSpeech.net. I came upon this from one of the LifeHacker posts back in 2007 and have [...]
Google will once again be going around the world to give you a day of product talks, coding, demos, and fun fun fun! This year, the DevFests will be happening at cities in Australia, Southeast Asia, and Latin America, Israel, and Spain. This is a time where people get to learn more about Google technologies [...]
I inherited a Huawei USB HSDPA modem last year. Since it was locked to a specific telecommunications company, I checked to see if I can have it unlocked. Apparently, for most Huawei modems, you can. When my best friend bought his new netbook last year, it came with a free Huawei USB HSDPA modem. Since [...]
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This post was originally published on February 4, 2008. There’s so much material on the internet that can be used in Philippine schools. So, how come the students feel short-changed with their education? Perhaps, it’s not the students that are wholly to blame for their lackluster performance. A few days ago, Rom Feria asked why [...]
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This post was originally published on March 21, 2008. I downloaded the latest release of VMWare Server 1.0 and found myself looking at the installation screen for about one second before it disappeared. I ran the installer several times and thought perhaps I got a corrupt copy. So I deleted the file and downloaded a [...]
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This post was originally published on May 28, 2009. I tried to get the Logitech Quickcam Messenger to work first. A few clicks led me to qc-usb, a Linux driver for Quickcam USB cameras. As it turns out though, this driver doesn’t support my particular webcam model. But it did tell me that there was [...]
Are you a student looking for something to do during your vacation? Perhaps you just need some extra cash. Whatever your reason, you may want to look at OpenOffice.org’s offer. It could mean 3,500 EUR (over 4,000 USD) for you! OpenOffice.org (OOo) is well-known as the free open source equivalent of MS Office. Recently they [...]
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This post was originally published on July 4, 2009. There are a lot of online storage providers nowadays. All of them taking advantage of cloud computing. I first started off with Dropbox and I’ve yet to try out Box.net. Sometime in May 2009 I signed up for yet another online storage provider. Ubuntu One is [...]
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