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Ubuntu makes me work faster in Windows XP
My computing life has improved exponentially with Ubuntu that I try to spend as little time as possible in Windows XP in my office PC. My office PC needs to run Windows because the newsroom uses InDesign and Pagemaker to lay out pages. I now work faster on Windows XP—faster because I want to get…
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Showing Windows the door
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,…
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Mobile e-mail on the high seas
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…
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From Pigeon Rank to GMail Paper, you gotta love Google
Open GMail today and you’ll see a different front page. Google regularly posts updates to the GMail service, including the current storage space offered, on the front page. Today, the front page introduces what is purported to be a new product: GMail Paper. GMail Paper, according to their April Fool’s joke page, is a free…
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Winning in the Philippine Blog Awards
In 1997, someone told me I’ll never understand FTP. Last night, I won in the best technology blog category in the first-ever Philippine Blog Awards. What difference a decade makes, huh? The colleague who told me I won’t be able to grasp FTP probably never meant it as an insult. He was grumbling on being…