Atma Xplorer

Xploring Games, Computing, Photography

Online Etiquette 101 – Social Networking Sites

I didn’t expect my earlier post, Online Etiquette 101 – Forums to be an interesting hit. I’ve seen several forums linking to it in order to educate some of the still newbies to


What is SecuROM?

What is SecuROM?  Doing a query on Google with “What is SecuROM?” gives will give you a general idea of what SecuROM is, but not what it actually does.  So in an effort to


Dial Up to Broadband: A big thanks to Globelines

It’s hard to imagine that a few years back, we accomplished everything over a 56K line.  Chatting via IRC, sending emails, collecting pictures, going crazy over IMs and chain emails, doing business etc.  I’d


Read your favorite magazine online for free (and legit)

Click to enlarge While the computer industry argues that Paper (and print on the meduim) is dead, a lot of people still want their information from magazines.  Enter  Mygazines, a community driven site that allows


Need free file sharing? Look at ADrive

If you’re looking for a place to store files to share online, the usual suspects are Megaupload, Rapidshare, Sendspace and Yousendit. While useful, most of these services are a burden to the uploader


Web services I can’t live without

Web services have gone quite a long way from just being desktop-bound substitutes to full fledged, independent applications that we can’t do without. While they may not look as aesthetic or integrate well


Look out: Spam from Gmail is coming

CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart—is an both an annoyance and a safety net for netizens. A large number of web services (blogger, gmail, yahoo mail, live hotmail


My first WP-Theme: Another project of a Sleepless Night

My first WP-Theme: Another project of a Sleepless Night

CSS for Dummies was a lot of help for this one as well as 2 bags of Roti Mum Coffee Buns. If you want to see how’s the progress on this one, you


Paypal withdrawals to Philippine Banks

Yes it’s finally here. Paypal finally opens it’s doors (fully) to the Philippines, banks and citizens alike. No more lost checks in the mail, no more application for specialized credit cards. Just fork


Ginger: the new Netvibes

Netvibes is prepping up a new, fully overhauled release of it’s latest version, Ginger, which will be out to every user of the service by mid-February. I was lucky enough to


A FREE PS3 for Xmas

That title is no joke. One of the few blogs in “Most Read” tabe in Netvibes is having giving away a FREE PS3 unit. Sounds too good to be true? Nah.


Protect yourself from malware

Malware vulnerability is on of the few reasons I stay away from my Windows PC when surfing the net. While some of these can be just common annoyances like tracking cookies or keyloggers,


Browsershots: A great web design tool

Interested on how your site looks on a different browser and OS? If you were to do it the old way you need multiple browsers in your PC (say Opera, Firebox, IE and


YouTube gets upgrades

If you’re a frequent YouTube uploader, you’d notice that the Google company increased file size limit from 100 MB to 1 GB. Length for videos still remain at 10 minutes though so while


Gmail 2.0

After the release of Gmail’s IMAP support, the free email service began rolling out Gmail 2.0 for its users. The change wasn’t global (I think it’s per area) and the change for my


More Google Updates

There’s a bit of buzz going on around the Google Complex as well the Google blogsphere (yes, some sites are dedicated to blogging about google and google alone.) so I’ll round things


Google Ads on Feedburner Feeds

I was thinking of tinkering with my Feedburner settings when I noticed something odd with the Monetize Tab. Apparently, advertisement on RSS feeds doesn’t just come to people with high feed traffic.


I want to ___ with Meebo

Meebo, the onlineIM service just launched the Meebo Development Platform. Interested developers can use Meebo’s API to create multi user applications that can interact with Meebo and allow Meebo users to connect


OpenSocial: Google’s SNS portal

Google’s latest launch, OpenSocial (this url goes live on Thursday) is set on November 1, 2007 (tomorrow if you’re in range of our timezone). LinkedIn, hi5, Plaxo, SixApart (read their statement here) and


MSNBC acquires Newsvine

MSNBC acquires Newsvine

I was new to the service (newsvine) so I was a bit surprised to see a post on digg about the issue as well as the new logo. MSNBC has acquired Newsvine, a socially driven


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