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  • J.K. Rowling: TIME’s Person of the Year?

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    J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, is being considered, once again, by TIME Magazine as Person of the Year. If I know J.K. Rowling (yes, I probably don’t), it is almost inhumane to put up a fight against the likes of Al Gore. She can probably beat the lights out of Steve Jobs…

  • SMS Spamming 101 – What telcos should know about SMS spam

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    I read SMS spam. It doesn’t abhor me like email spam. Plus it gives me a chance to read something during those waiting times. That boring introduction is meant to bring a point across: It takes a lot to make me sick of SMS spam. But then again, I underestimated the power of the Philippine…

  • Cleaning your LCD

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    Are you surrounded by #$@%#^$& colleagues who insist on touching your LCD just to make a point? Fingerprints are facts of life for LCD users all over the world. Fortunately, cleaning LCDs aren’t too bad. Actually, it’s quite painless. Read on. The cloth Lint-free cloths work best. Try to have a 2nd one in handy…

  • Saying goodbye, finally: Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

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    Living in the Philippines has its perks – I get to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsearlier than most of the world (legally, that is). I am still in that delirious-mourning state that you usually get after reading Harry Potter, but nevertheless, there were a lot of questions answered. For one thing, I can…

  • My brand new Circa Junior Folio

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    After a few months, I realized that the letter-sized circa wasn’t the right one for me. I needed something smaller, and maybe something that will allow me to easily stash small scraps of paper without worrying about them slipping away. The answer, of course, is Levenger’s Circa Zip Folio in black. Other colors are available,…

  • I watched Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix … or “heard?”

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    Almost 8 hours have passed, & it is still not easy give a regular “thumbs up & down” on Harry Potter & the Order of Phoenix. Thankfully, this time around, I did not want to tear my hair out in disgust (as I did in Goblet of Fire). However, I also didn’t get that mild…

  • Joomla Template Tutorial (Part 3)

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    This is Part 3 of the Joomla Template Tutorial series. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here. By now, you should have entered all the necessary code for your Main Body & Module Positions. 8. Enter the code for the “header” tags We’re still not done yet with index.php. Make sure that this…

  • 4th GSM mobile operator in the Philippines?

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    We have Smart Communications, Globe Telecom, and Sun Cellular. Yesterday, a little mosquito told me that a 4th GSM mobile operator is going to be rolled out in a few months here in the Philippines. Clue: It starts with the letter “C.” No, that doesn’t stand for Chette. Although it will the greatest thing on…

  • Shorten a URL and find out how many clicked on it

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    Making URLs shorter have become very easy, thanks to services such as TinyURL, RubyURL, and urlTea. dwarfURL is another one of those services – and more. It has become a personal favorite, mainly because it has the ability to track how many people actually clicked on your link. For example, my dwarf URL is this:…

  • Disabling autoplay in Windows XP (without editing the registry)

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    Whenever you hook up your USB thumb drive to your PC, you usually see a load of crap asking you how you want Windows to open your files. This is called autoplay. In all my work with computers, I have only seen one person who actually used this, er, feature; which makes you wonder why…