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From YouTube to your phone, MP3 player
It was love at first note when I heard Amy Winehouse sing. Her voice exudes raw emotion unmatched in decades. I first played my copy of her Back to Black album in Rhythmbox in my Linux laptop, while I was struggling with getting a graphical interface to Subversion working. When I heard her sing, it…
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Sony Ericsson makes me sing the blues
Inside the junk food section of a downtown department store, I decided to stop listening to my jazz collection at home. Two weeks back, my family sought shelter in a Cebu City pension house from a scheduled overnight brownout in Lapu-Lapu City. We went to a downtown department store to stock on food and refreshments…
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Windows Live services coming to Nokia phones
Nokia has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to provide a suite of Windows Live services “specifically designed for Nokia devices.” Users of compatible S60 devices in selected countries can now download Windows Live Hotmail, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Live Contacts and Windows Live Spaces. Users of Nokia Series 40 devices will be able…
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Enhancing blog comments with avatars
I’ve just re-enabled Gravatar support for this blog. Gravatar, for globally-recognized avatar, is a service that publishes avatars or graphic representations of people who comment in your blog. Check out my previous posts to see gravatar in action. I used the service some time last year but stopped it after a few months when I…