Entries Tagged as 'PC'

Konfabulate your desktop

August 1st, 2005 · 3 Comments

Google was so good it became a verb for search. Will Konfabulator be next for enhancing your desktop?
I’ve gone widget-crazy since last week. Konfabulator widgets are small programs that run on your desktop to perform relatively simple tasks or retrieve bits of information. It’s similar to the widgets you see in Mac desktops using its [...]

Tags: PC

Managing e-mails, one message at a time

July 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

I have three personal e-mail accounts and one office-assigned address. I check my main personal e-mail with Gmail as soon as I wake up and upon reaching the office – from then, the browser isn’t closed until I leave the newsroom. When I get home, I check my mails again if I decide to go [...]

Tags: Highlights · LifeHacks · PC · Work

Turning a discarded PC into a newsroom intranet server

July 3rd, 2005 · 6 Comments

(Note: This is version .5 of the article. I estimate five more rewrites to finalize this.)
The newsroom recently upgraded computers used by its reporters. The computers, with clock speeds ranging from 166 Mhz to 500 MHZ, were early generation Pentiums and were primarily used for word processing.
I told our editor-in-chief I wanted to try to [...]

Tags: Highlights · Journalism · Newsroom tech · Open source · PC

“Mac and Media” orientation

June 18th, 2005 · 1 Comment

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“Mac and Media” orientation, originally uploaded by maxlimpag.

The Mac mini: finally, a CPU that is possible to misplace. I’ve seen photos of the Mac mini and I’ve read specifications of its dimensions but I was [...]

Tags: PC · Work

An easier way to write tutorials on how to use software

May 25th, 2005 · No Comments

Writing a tutorial on how to use a software or web script can be difficult. People understand instructions better if there are visual cues to follow – and there lies the difficulty, how to get screen captures to use for the illustration.
Recently, a group sought my help for their website. They wanted to have a [...]

Tags: PC · Work

Using your PC to manage your phone

May 11th, 2005 · 1 Comment

I have always been a fan of Ericsson phones but never of its bundled PC connectivity software. Previous versions of the software allow you to manage, to a certain extent, your phone data but not your messages.
When I bought a T630, I never bothered installing the software that came with it. Instead, I used the [...]

Tags: Mobile · PC