I GOT an e-mail from a regular visitor of aWonderfulBlog.com about a week ago. †She was distraught. †Apparently she learned about Netbooks from my blog. †Encouraged by my favorable assessment of the Netbook’s potential in a couple of blog posts I wrote some time ago, she bought herself a Netbook early this year, she...
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SUBMARINE CABLES have been in existence for perhaps half a century already but not until recently did I realize how much of these are already laid in and around Philippine waters. †I vaguely remember one of my ECE instructors in Saint Louis University — College of Engineering and Architecture discussing the theoretical frameworks behind...
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I FOUND this very intriguing and mega provocative article on CIO.com entitled, “You gotta choose: †Your Blackberry or Your Wife?”
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It is catchy, alright, and it sounds very funny, too. †The only problem is, for most people it is too close to reality for comfort. †And I know a lot of these people — young...
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SO FAR†we have unearthed the secrets on how some of the coolest gadgets and how our can’t-do-without PC operating systems got their names. †This time let’s sample some of the most popular services on the Web — a Browser, a Social Network, and an Online Encyclopedia.
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THESE MAY JUST be pets to the geeks who invented them but to the rest of us they may very well be demigods. †The iPod and the Blackberry are just two of the many tech gadgets that people of all ages all over the world can’t wait to get their hands on. These devices...
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ALTHOUGH DOWNLOADING WEB PAGES and saving them to a storage device is obviously the more practical way to get or copy online information, there are times when we really need to print materials from Websites.† Some Websites offer a printer-friendly way to copy their materials but most others donít.
The problem with printing non-printer-friendly Web...
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FOR THE LONGEST time I have relied on inquirer.net or inq7.net as my primary source of local news online.† At some point in the not-so-distant past it was the only option available.
Not anymore, philstar.com has finally caught on (Even the print version of PhilStar has caught on, overtaking PDI in terms of readership in...
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WWW.ALISON.COM†–>†thatís the site.† Go check it out.
I checked it out myself and it really offers free online training, from such basic courses as Introduction to Information Technology, to more technical stuff like Learning Microsoft Excel 2003, to not-at-all IT-related courses like Job Site Safety, and so on and so forth.
It promises more titles on...
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IT’S REALLY very plain and simple.† Ease of Texting.
With the Philippines sending out 600 million text messages a day, SMS or Texting remains to be the KILLER mobile application in the country. †It should be obvious that cellphone design, at least for the Philippine market, should take this into consideration and make Ease of...
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CHROME IS ALL OVER the place since last week. All the tech Websites, online forums and info tech sections of major newspapers are abuzz with the newest browser from Google. Even my CEO already asked my opinion on Chrome last week shortly after I read about it in CIO.com.
And why not?† It seems Google...
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IN MY BLOG ENTRY the other day I wondered about how many text messages are sent in the Philippines every single day.†† The daily average is 600 million, which translates to about 12 text messages per cellphone user per day.
My curiosity again got the better of me, as it always does, so I went...
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AND IT’S HERE, thank goodness.
I’ve already written so much about Netbooks (or sub-notebooks, or mini-laptops, whichever you choose to call ëem) because I’ve used quite a number of them since they were introduced in the Philippine Market in January 2008.† I’m an early adopter.
It comes with the territory.† CIO’s all over are more and...
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