Satellite TV (also known as Cable TV in the Philippines) is a great source of information not just entertainment but virtually all subjects for everyday life. My cable TV subscription is only PhP 300 per month but the package comes with 65 channels one of which is controlled by the provider where the subscribers can [...]
September 18th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
I haven’t been online for 3 days. After 10 months of blogging and publishing articles online, I am finally saying goodbye to blogging. Some of you reading this might feel sad. Some of you might find this a good news. In my alone time, I have realized that I should really be saying goodbye to [...]
September 5th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 27 Comments
I’ve been busy yesterday the whole day with my printing business. Just like my review assignments, some orders had to be rushed. After work, I turned to tweaking my new tech blog (Technology Talks) which up to now has not been promoted or entered in social networks. The domain name was puchased on the first [...]
July 25th, 2008 | Posted in Personal Thoughts | 12 Comments
Websites, especially blogs, have to be monitored for readership and/or web traffic. Webmasters and bloggers are by and large concerned with traffic monitoring (this blogger not exempted). The good news is, you can monitor your website traffic and gauge your readers for free. Online softwares (or scripts are abundant on the internet).
July 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging | No Comments
After discussing in brief what to expect in WordPress 2.6 in the article “WordPress 2.6 Stable Release: Will you Upgrade?” and some of the immediate problems encountered just after upgrading to WordPress 2.6 in relation to image alignment, here comes a possible fix to this error in WordPress programming. Yes, the developers of WordPress should [...]
July 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, WordPress | 20 Comments
After testing the WordPress 2.6 Beta 3 release, which caused problems with my TinyMCE, here comes WordPress 2.6 stable release ready for download. If you are still using either one of the Beta releases of WordPress 2.6 (Beta 1, Beta 2 or Beta 3), read these test results.
July 16th, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, WordPress | 12 Comments
For the past 3 days, I’ve been troubleshooting some server problems, specifically MySQL database errors. First of all, my web hosting plan hosts 10 sites, 5 of which are WordPress blogs. I have been observing the behavior of my WordPress blogs for the past two months. It’s not easy to troubleshoot 5 blogs [...]
July 10th, 2008 | Posted in Web Hosting & Web Development | 7 Comments
After the release of WordPress 2.5, the upgrades of WordPress have become more frequent lately. Version 2.5.1 was released shortly after 2.5. This time, WordPress 2.6 will be out soon. The scheduled release will be on July 7 or 14 2008. Isn’t the team of WordPress developers upgrading the software more [...]
July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Blogging, WordPress | 13 Comments
Many computer owners want to increase their computer’s Random Access Memory (RAM) to improve their PC’s overall performance. This is because RAM is responsible for storing data just like any other storage media like the hard disk. The only difference is that, RAM stores data temporarily and data are accessed at random (but [...]
July 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Technology | 8 Comments
The inaccuracy of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) is truly unbelievable. I was watching the news last night and their alleged satellite video of typhoon Frank shows that Ilocos Norte was flagged as Signal number 2 where in fact there’s no raindrop or morning dew in this province for [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Philippines | 8 Comments
My old hard disk problems are here again - my hard drive’s data are lost due to bursts of short power outages here in Ilocos Norte because of weather conditions. Now, it’s become my problem again to recover my hard drive data which will consume so much of my time and energy. Hard [...]
June 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Technology | 6 Comments
A while ago, I posted about the Firefox 3 download in progress and how I intend to test it for others’ benefit. Sad to say, the download speed of the English version is slow and it took me hours to download the file 5 times because the installer is corrupted. The release date [...]
June 17th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | 15 Comments
Firefox 3 release date is today (June 17) but up to this hour I am still seeing the release candidate (RC) version of Firefox. I thought the official release is the one going out today ready for download. I have been using Firefox for more than 5 years now and though I love [...]
June 17th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | No Comments
This is an article I have stumbled upon the internet a few year ago which I used as a guide in refilling ink cartridges of my Deskjet printers. I might as well share it with you, dear readers, since most of you are presumably deskjet/inkjet printer owners. You might try out the guidelines included in [...]
January 25th, 2008 | Posted in Technology | 6 Comments