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August 2008

Clutter free downloads : Firefox

August 27, 2008

Download with Mozilla Firefox internet browser, and you will have your downloaded files scattered in the download folder. Unlike Firefox, other browsers weaknesses is the inability to save the file in specific folder based to its extension, but there’s something we could do to solve this problem if we’re using Firefox. The method is to [...]

Searching MP3s through Search Engines

August 27, 2008

Searching MP3 files using search engine is no longer a hard thing to do especially when people have found various ways to search for the MP3 files. Why we choose the audio format is also another long topic to speak about, but the main reason is the mass availability of that type of file in [...]

Recycling Mobile Phones

August 27, 2008

With half a billion cell phones retired last year, it’s comforting to know that a good portion of them actually got recycled instead of ending up in landfills. But, as I’ve written about many times in this blog, “recycling” has lots of different meanings. How does one really “recycle” a cell phone? Technology Review has [...]

R.I.P CRTs : Kiss your CRT's goodbye

August 23, 2008

When you bought that nice, new flat panel TV, you dutifully recycled your old, giant CRT to keep all that lead out of the landfill. But what happened to it? Most CRTs aren’t disassembled and carefully broken down into parts for reuse, they meet another fate: A cargo container for shipping overseas. Old CRTs get [...]

Lab Mojave : Saving Vista

August 9, 2008

Microsoft in a bid to regain faith among its Windows users, has come out with a new marketing initiative : The Mojave Experiment. After Windows Vista’s fiasco, it is trying hard to reposition Vista as a stable, reliable, visually appealing OS as the rightful successor of XP. The test was simple, it disguised Vista under [...]

Surf the net within seconds of turning on the PC

August 5, 2008

Update : Splashtop is a software which doesn’t work from Windows or any OS. It is a small OS in itself! You dont need to start windows, Splashtop makes your computer ready within seconds for internet as it doesn’t need to load any OS into the memory to work. It runs all by itself. So [...]

Is the iPhone 3G cracking?

August 2, 2008

iPhone 3G users on Apple’s discussion boards and MacRumors forums are reporting the appearance of hairline cracks surfacing on the new iPhone’s plastic shell. The white models seem to be the most affected, but that could be due to the fact that cracks are more visible on the white model. One commenter says these tiny [...]