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Version control
I can be extremely disorganized with computer files. My bare desktop hides a labyrinthine hard drive that contains files in sub-folders upon illogically named sub-folders that at times, I actually have to search for files. I’m dependent on online drives for the centralized storage of files I’m working on. For so long, I used my…
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Don’t just take their word for it, go web host shopping, here’s how to do it
How to compare webhosting plans and check uptime guarantees with the mon.itor.us external web server monitor.
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Database down; spirits up
I woke up to a WordPress database error yesterday. The error wasn’t caused by any changes I did to the site but something to do with the server. I spent hours the night before working on this, a demo of using WordPress to manage a news portal. With time to kill while waiting for the…
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Back to basics
I started working before the word processor as we know it today and the graphical desktop became mainstream. In fact, in my first few weeks on the job, I used a typewriter. When I joined The Freeman, a Cebu City-based community newspaper, in 1996, its newsroom was using networked PCs running DOS. It took me…
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Get a second desktop and access it anywhere
I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of an online desktop, a workspace that is accessible on any computer with an Internet connection. Last year, I tried to set one up for myself using a variety of free services: from free online file storage to online notes and to-do lists. I ended up with a…