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
7 August 2010 
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The Web ,Tips and Tutorials
26 September 2008
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General Gaming ,The Web
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
22 September 2008
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The Web
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
4 August 2008
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The Web
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
27 April 2008
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The Web
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
13 April 2008
sylv3rblade
The Web
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
27 February 2008
sylv3rblade
The Web
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
8 February 2008
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Blogging ,The Web
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
26 January 2008
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The Web
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
23 January 2008
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The Web
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
15 December 2007
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The Web
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.
5 December 2007
sylv3rblade
General Computing ,The Web
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,
19 November 2007
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The Web
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
10 November 2007
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The Web
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
10 November 2007
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The Web
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
7 November 2007
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The Web
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
2 November 2007
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The Web
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.
2 November 2007
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Software Development ,The Web
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
31 October 2007
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Software Development ,The Web
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
8 October 2007
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The Web
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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