While setting up a Wi-Fi network for the PLDT myDSL connection at home earlier this week, I got a timely warning from a press release. Anti-virus company Sophos said many people now use someone else’s wireless Internet connection without their permission.
Sophos said 54 percent of 560 respondents who took their online survey admitted to using [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Internet'
Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns
November 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: Highlights · Internet · Mobile · WebTech · linux
Zooomr Mark III now live: Get unlimited photo storage; sell images
June 5th, 2007 · 3 Comments
My favorite photo sharing website, Zooomr, is now live after weeks of being down. The two-man website had upgraded its services to Mark III, a new version that had been months in the planning and contains a lot of new features.
Among the features of Mark III is the ability of users to sell their photos [...]
Tags: Free services · Internet · Photography
Ghost in the machine
May 12th, 2007 · 36 Comments
I found the Sun.Star Cebu newsroom abuzz yesterday over a website that seemed to know a lot of details, even intimate ones, about people and things. When I entered the newsroom, I found reporters, editors, librarians, and newsroom assistants gathered around TV host Jude Bacalso, the paper’s lifestyle editor, who was entering questions and getting [...]
Tags: Free services · Internet · Personal · Wiki
Spamming Charles Krauthammer
April 23rd, 2007 · 1 Comment
Last year I got a curious e-mail buried in the pile of auto-responses that clogged my inbox. Someone using a forged @limpag.com address not only sent spam to scores of poor souls all over the world, he or she also spammed Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer.
That spurred me into action. I use my limpag.com domain [...]
Tags: Free services · Highlights · Internet · WebTech
Showing Windows the door
April 8th, 2007 · 12 Comments
I’m now running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn beta on my main blogging gear – an MSI S260 laptop - and I haven’t stopped saying “wow” since when I finished installing it late Monday night.
I’ve used Ubuntu before, but mainly as a local server and the experience can be summarized as: boot CD, choose server setup, follow [...]
Tags: Highlights · Internet · Open source · WebTech · free software
Mobile e-mail on the high seas
April 6th, 2007 · 5 Comments
There’s probably room enough for only 10 people on this islet of six trees (or shrubs) and a single hut.
Yet on this islet near Olango Island and for several kilometers near it, you can still connect to telecoms networks and send and receive text messages, make calls, and browse the mobile Internet. It boggles my [...]
Tags: Highlights · Internet · Mobile · Personal

