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 heard [...]
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 he [...]
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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 new [...]
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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 another [...]
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 similar [...]
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I’ve always wanted to make full use of Facebook Notes. I’ve seen some of my friends cross-post their blog entries into Facebook Notes and I wanted to do that too. But I didn’t want to keep on copying and pasting between the sites. Thankfully with a little research on Google I was able to find [...]
