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  • “The page one pope”

    Sun.Star Cebu‘s page one story on the death of Pope John Paul II is included in a book reprinting the front pages of newspapers from around the world. The collection, according to Amazon‘s book description edited by Poynter, “includes 144 reproductions of front pages from newspapers in the United States plus major newspapers from around…

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  • Throw away those index cards, use your own wiki page

    Do you still organize your notes using index cards? I used to do this in college and I’d have a bunch of cards for each subject I took. I can’t recall using index cards regularly for my reporting. I did use the cards for at least one special report I wrote for The Freeman. Through…

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  • Using your PC to manage your phone

    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…

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  • Installing a WordPress-powered site

    I was finally able to install WordPress for a site I help manage – PFMCPI — The Philippine Federation of Married Catholic Priests, Inc. The site used to run on a Serendipity installation. I think Serendipity is the better blog script. My previous Cybercafe Experiments site used Serendipity. In PFMCPI’s case, however, WordPress seemed the…

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  • Yahoo 360 test run

    I’m trying out Yahoo 360, the Internet pioneer’s social networking (think Friendster) and blogging service. Yahoo 360, still in beta or testing phase, looks great but it isn’t compelling enough to draw away current users of Blogger, Friendster or Multiply. Yahoo 360 is similar to Multiply.com, a social networking site with ability to create blogs,…

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