Archive for February, 2009

Free ebooks on Philippine history

Posted on February 23, 2009 - Filed Under Freebies | 3 Comments

In my last entry, I outlined some steps to turn your netbook/laptop into an ebook reader. After writing that post, I did a bit of searching around Project Gutenberg, and I’m happy to say that I found lots of interesting ebooks for budding scholars and curious bookworms alike (in short, nerds like me). I didn’t [...]

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How to turn your netbook into an ebook reader

Posted on February 19, 2009 - Filed Under Netbooks | 1 Comment

Amazon has just released the Kindle 2 - a sleeker, better version of their original ebook reader. At $359 (PhP18K), however, it still feels impractical for a dedicated reading device. For the same amount of money, one can buy a decent netbook which can act as a fully-functional PC, and is sufficiently light to carry [...]

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Philippine anti-piracy drive to go after downloaders next

Posted on February 17, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

After all the raids on Quiapo and Greenhills shops, and even corporate offices in Makati, the anti-piracy suits are aiming squarely at end-users. The Inquirer has reported that the Pilipinas Anti-Piracy Team (PAPT) will be going after those individuals downloading music, movies and software over the Internet, even if they do so for personal use. [...]

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64GB SSD drive now available in CD-R King

Posted on February 15, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Early this morning, I saw this picture on the front page of CD-R King’s website: a re-branded external 64GB SDD drive, with SATA and USB 2.0 interfaces. It looks like they’re experimenting on putting out affordable solid state disk drives, which is a move I welcome. I haven’t even seen SSDs being offered on [...]

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Sun Cellular now offering unlimited 3G for as low as P799 per month

Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under News | 1 Comment

Sun is known for their budget-friendy mobile services, and with their entry into the 3G business, things were bound to get interesting. They have recently upgraded their wireless broadband network to reach speeds of up to 2Mbps, putting them on par with Smart and Globe. Better yet, they are now offering different unlimited 3G plans [...]

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Dutch study says that file sharing is good for the economy - no argument here

Posted on February 6, 2009 - Filed Under News | 2 Comments

Torrent users should find this research interesting. The Netherlands government commissioned a study of the social and economic effects of peer-to-peer downloading. The results were published in Ars Technica.
These are some of their findings:
- downloaders buy as much paid content as nondownloaders; for games, downloaders shell out even more
- for music, unpaid downloads can [...]

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Free Ebook: Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference

Posted on February 4, 2009 - Filed Under News | Leave a Comment

Why go pirated when you can have a great operating system for free?
For those who have been itching to try Linux, Ubuntu is probably your best bet. It’s a user-friendly Linux OS that doesn’t need any technical know-how to install, thanks to WUBI, which enables you to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows by installing [...]

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A list of my favorite free software

Posted on February 2, 2009 - Filed Under software | Leave a Comment

These are just some of the programs I use everyday. My rule when selecting programs is that they have to be free, stable, and light on resources since I’m using a low-powered laptop. For example, I switched to Paint.NET after I realized that Photoshop is an overkill for the kind of light editing I do [...]

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