Techstuff
Search me
Monday, October 20th, 2008It’s amazing how intuitive search engines have become. Or have they always been like that and I was just living in a cave. We used to enter keywords, now you can enter entire phrases and even actual questions into search engine boxes. While preparing my movie list for the upcoming end of the month holidays [...]
CSI: Miami: Resurrection
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008They’re BACK!
EZTV’s got it on Mininova so if you know torrents, you know what to do. More about this later. Here’s a teaser. But my favorite CSI team is back and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. They’re flashy they’re beautiful and their episodes go over the top and that’s just the way I [...]
My SmartBro
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Frankly, there are a lot of bad SmartBro reviews out there, some of them so bad that a potential client would say “never mind” or “no way”. But we have been on SmartBro’s Plan 999 (Canopy) for more than a year now and let me say first off that some of the horror stories you [...]
My Favorite Firefox Add-ons
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Now that Firefox 3.01 has more or less stabilized quite a few of my favorite add-ons and plugins have been updated to run in this latest version. I love Firefox because it enables me to work my browsing to the fullest, and with Firefox the browser is not just a browser. It is an indispensable [...]
Busy Weekend
Sunday, August 24th, 2008I maintain a few websites for friends sometimes for small gratuities (money for snacks) and once a year as they renew their domain registrations and hosting services I sit down and jazz them up with new templates and layouts.
This weekend I did my sister-in-law Dr. Faith Mesa-Gaerlan’s org site Philippine Society of Emergency Care Physicians [...]
Bookmarks not saved - Firefox 3
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Was all very happy with my Firefox 3 upgrade, and had also installed Mozbackup to make sure I retained my bookmarks from the previous version.
But as days went on I slowly realized something was wrong. My bookmarks were not saving.
Oh they’d still go to the bookmarks dropdown, viewable when I check right after I bookmark [...]
More memory, please
Saturday, June 28th, 2008When I was a computer hardware noob I used to think that any memory module would fit into any motherboard. This was the time when a 2gb memory Upgrade was unheard of. Servers had 512 MB of RAM and things would be running smoothly. Back then I had been totally unschooled in matters of computer [...]
Stop that spam
Saturday, June 28th, 2008One of the perennial problems that are reported to me by my clients is that they have, all of a sudden, lost the ability to send email over their office internet connection. Some of them even report that they cannot send email at all, that bounce messages come into their inboxes as undelivered mail due [...]
Restore Missing Bookmarks after Upgrading to Firefox 3
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Finally got to install Firefox version 3, but got a scare when I realized all my bookmarks were gone!
But I remembered that Google is my friend and a quick search for “missing bookmarks after firefox 3 upgrade” led me to a few sites that taught me how to get my bookmarks back on this Windows [...]
Get Firefox 3!
Sunday, June 15th, 2008My Google analytics say that Firefox is the preferred browser by visitors to this site. There have been 1660 visits to this blog within the month by people using Firefox, as compared to 617 Internet Explorer users. I’ve pledged to be part of the movement that aims to make Firefox the most downloaded software [...]
Left behind
Friday, June 13th, 2008The awful thing about life is that it’s not fair.
I mean really, here I am, Internet denizen, gadget freak and esrtwhile gamer (though I must admit it’s been a while since I’ve sat down with Kenji in Battle Realms) but without the wherewithal to satisfy my techie cravings.
Case in point. My Sony Ericsson P910i, bought [...]
Know your HDMI
Friday, June 13th, 2008This YouTube video from C|Net pretty much covers the basic information about HDMI, heretofore unknown to me, accidental geek still living in a cave when it comes to High Definition appliances.
I do get to download my favorite TV shows in HD5 but I watch them on either a regular flat screen tv after I’ve burnt [...]
Uninterruptible Power
Sunday, June 8th, 2008No, this is not a post about the Manila Electric Company, although I do have something to say about the latest Juday fiasco in my other blog Press this Button. It’s not a post about GMA’s purported plans of staying on till past 2010 (and we’re not surprised about that either).
No this is about the [...]
Work it out
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008What is the best mp3 player for working out? One that is small and lightweight but with headphones that pack a punch so that your joints crack with every stretch you make.
My husband Sam has an iPod Shuffle, a little super duper advanced happy father’s day gift from moi. Around once every three days he [...]
Entrecard Ablaze
Sunday, June 1st, 2008Entrecard is hosted with ThePlanet, and this fire has effected over 9000 websites, as many of the world’s most popualar websites are hosted with ThePlanet. They are working around the clock to get their data center back online, and we are hoping that they get it back online fast.
Networking and Connectivity in the Third World
Saturday, May 31st, 2008As small and medium scale offices slowly work their way towards connectivity and security, the main concern still is and for a long time will be, cost. A start-up office can have two or more computers, but only one of them will have an internet connection, for want of a router and switch. Those that [...]
Lusting for laptop speakers
Friday, May 30th, 2008Hardly anyone these days would be content on just relying on their laptop speakers especially if they watch movies on these laptops. I for one use a pair of USB ones, convenient because they don’t need an extra power supply outlet. The ones I currently use are generic give-aways from a supplier from the time [...]
Banking by mouseclicks
Monday, May 26th, 2008The Internet, to which I owe most of my bread and butter and which has kept me gainfully employed for more than a decade has stretched so far into one’s way of life. This to the point that one can actually have money—not in one’s pocket—but on Internet-based savings accounts. Not having coins and bills [...]