Yet Another Update
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Does anyone know if any of the codes below are no longer valid? I know this post gets a good bit of traffic from search engines, so I […]

I’ve been receiving a lot of 419 scam and phishing emails lately (I wonder about the sudden influx of such messages), and there are times I try to check out the sites linked to, just out of academic curiosity. Of course, I do always check target URLs on the status bar before clicking links, and […]

A lot of people love to speculate about upcoming services that the Internet bigwigs are planning. More so if that Internet bigwig’s name is “Google.”
Here are some interesting “discoveries” by Tony Ruscoe:

Google Events
Google Guess
Google Online Assessment
Google Real Estate Search
Mobile Marketplace
New Service (AKA Workplace)

Some of these may actually be part of the personal or experimental projects […]

Microsoft Research and the University of Washington have developed a tool that lets users convert their two-dimensional photos into a 3D tour. Called Photo Tourism, the software basically stitches together a large collection of photos taken using different angles via like points on the image. This is somewhat like the panorama-stitching software that comes with […]

I’ve been such a fan of laptop TrackPoints that I didn’t know you could have fun with the good ol’ trackpad, too. Since I got my Compaq Presario V2000 laptop, I’ve been looking for ways to get the most out of this sexy thing, leading me to look for tips, tricks and software I can […]

The ‘net is full of Web apps that can do almost anything from being a simple task list to managing projects. Having your applications and data on the Web sure is handy, especially if you work across different computers. I’m not sure we’re ready for Web-based operating systems, though, but it seems with the […]

Did you know Windows 3.2 was a Chinese only release? Or how about the fact that General Electric made their own Operating System?
Those are just a few of the interesting nuggets of information you will find in the Wikipedia’s List of operating systems.
Operating systems can be categorized by technology (Unix-like or others such as Windows), […]

Over at Techarp they have a nice long page with all kinds of video cards, and their specifications. The charts are really nice to look at and easy to use.
They go through things like GPU details, features, and performance for ATI and nVidia video cards.
A very interesting and impressive resource. Sadly, it also reminds […]

Better think twice before posting your favorite videos to YouTube. You might just be giving them a license to sell your soul. YouTube’s updated terms of use essentially allows them rights over your content, including selling it in any form or media.
From Wired,
The video site YouTube constitutes an equal or larger threat to small content […]

Design buffs would tell you that three-column themes usually don’t work well for blogs. However, WebJillion took a peek at how Technorati’s top 100 blogs are laid out and found out that blogs with three-column themes are almost as popular as those with two-columns (hey, why didn’t we think of doing this before?). Also, the […]

Silly me. Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about my preference for Yahoo! Widgets over Google Gadgets. Recently, however, I’ve decided to turn off Yahoo! Widgets and run Google Desktop alone as my widget/gadget/cluttered-thingies engine.
My primary reason would be simplicity and ease of access. Yes, I wrote before that Google Desktop had tacky […]

ExtremeTech reviews the new Core 2 Duo E6700 and Core 2 Extreme X6800 (codenamed Conroe), Intel’s new set of processors for the desktop market. Core 2 promises efficiency improvements over the previous iteration of Intel desktop processors. Looks like they’re no longer fighting the Megahertz wars. These days it’s a question of the efficiency of […]

Google Spreadsheets users have more reasons to smile, as the potential Excel-killer web app has had an update recently. It’s pretty minor, but perhaps a step towards becoming a web app package with full-fledged (or almost, at least) spreadsheet functionality.
Just wait ’til they get pivot tables, transpose, or matrix functionalities working. That’ll make Microsoft shudder.
There […]

Google Blogscoped has a great article up about Lulu, an online self-publishing shop that allows you to print your writing. I have always been interested in the idea of publishing a book, or even just a few of my longer writings as something bound nicely so I could hold onto it for a long time, […]

Laptops have overtaken desktops in terms of sales in the past few months, and we can credit that to cheaper and faster hardware, and people’s preference–sometimes need–to be mobile (working at a desk is so last year). However, the downside of equipment being mobile is that it’s easy to just grab and run off with. […]

The GIMP is “teh cool” in my book because it’s free, it’s powerful, and it’s just so geeky. A lot of designer friends of mine aren’t too comfortable with the GIMP, though, and would rather stick to Photoshop. Of course, I understand, as Photoshop is still today’s gold standard for image manipulation (and creation). But […]