Atma Xplorer

Xploring Games, Computing, Photography

1 millionth iPhone sold

At the seventy fourth day after the iPhone’s launch, Apple has sold 1 million units. In a press release, Steve Jobs said that it took nearly two years to sell that many iPods. The


The Asus EEE

People seldom associate the term ultra, low cost with a laptop? With a desktop probably because you can shave off nearly 50% or more from building your own rig rather than going


AMD Unveils Barcelona

AMD Unveils Barcelona

Monday is the set launch date for AMD’s Barcelona CPU Architecture, branded K10. AMD is prepared to launch its next-generation Barcelona CPU architecture this Monday. Barcelona is the first K8-based product to feature a


Toshiba’s 200GB 2.5″ External Hard Drive

Toshiba’s 200GB 2.5″ External Hard Drive

Toshiba introduced the worlds first 200GB 2.5-inch USB 2.0 portable external hard drive today. It’s currently is the largest back up hard drive in the 2.5″ class, and I know some of you are


RF Online [Episode 2]: Updates Part 2

RF Online [Episode 2]: Updates Part 2

Continued from Part 1 The New Continent, the Elf Area [1]: Changes to the race leader system 1. Structure. ? 1 Patriarch, 2 sub-patriarchs, 6 officers ? 9 board members ? The race leader election will stay the same as


HP joins the Linux bandwagon

HP joins the Linux bandwagon

After months of speculations from the Open Source community, Hewlett-Packard will soon be selling RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Desktop 5 on its HP dx2250 PC. For now the deal is


Blog Engines (Part 2)

If you’ve noticed, Part 1 is limited to closed-source blogging engines. I opted to separate the open-source list to give everyone a perspective of what they’ll be getting on both sides and help


Blog Engines (Part 1)

After reading a friend’s post on Host and Standalone blogs, I decided to do some research (mainly because I couldn’t play RF) on some of the blog engines available today. When you decide to start


Top Firefox Extensions

There are hundreds of useful (and most of the time not) Firefox extensions to improve your browsing experience as well as bog down the browser’s performance. I choose 4 out of the


Stages of Software Development

Software development is a complicated process that requires careful planning and execution. Huge projects like games, operating systems and full fledge applications takes months if not years to develop. The reason why most of


Microsoft’s SideWinder Mouse

I’ve been using an A4Tech 3XFire mouse for about 2 years or so, give or take a few weeks and I’ve never thought I’d consider replacing it because it’s given me the features any


6 ways to become famous

6 ways to become famous

Everyone wants to be famous (or at least infamous). Admit it, you know you love the attention. But the problem is how to get it. If you’re just starting off on your road to


Portable Applications

I think its safe to say that when browsing the net away from home, we always want to use the software that we’ve grown used to. Say Firefox for browsing, Thunderbird for emails,


Living with 2 OS’s

I was introduced to Linux during my 2nd year in college, about the time I started my part time job at a small hosting company. We had 6 servers running Red Hat and


Streamline your blog to earn cash

Read this if you have a blog and want to squeeze more out of it. If you’re still new to the blogging community start off with this guide from Supernoobice. 1. Search Engine Optimization: Titles and URLS: The


5 reasons to avoid call centers for help

I’ve always been appalled by the call center system because non-technical people are supposed to filter and sort through our concerns so that the technical people, those in-charge of repair, maintenance, etc, won’t waste


Technorati Favorites Exchange

Technorati Favorites Exchange

Site promotion can be a pain sometimes and it’s one task that newbies to blogging like me find hard as hell to get good at. Luckily there’s quite a few people who want


J2EE, ASP.NET or PHP

Ever since I’ve decided on taking up freelance programming as my bread and butter to get through my college expenses, I have always been slapped with the choice of which language to take as


GXCon: Console Gaming

Finally a convention centered on gaming only: GX-Con is the first-ever console gaming convention in the Philippines presented by GamEX Magazine. Kindly mark your calendars on October 7, 2007 at the SM Megamall Mega Trade


Ways of Installing Ubuntu

With the general popularity of Ubuntu, even non-geeks are getting curious about the hype that this Linux distro has generated. With Dell now offering to sell PC’s and laptops with pre-installed Ubuntu, more


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