Stemming the Tide

With all the accounts of Phishing horrors and IT security advisories warning against it, FBI’s breakthrough against a US-Egypt Phishing scam is definitely a welcome in the war against identity theft.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said 33 people were arrested across the United States early Wednesday while authorities in Egypt charged 47 more people linked [...]

Straight from its Nest

I’ve been dabbling with Linux functionalities again these days so I found the inavailability of Pidgin since the previous weekend somewhat a hassle. I’m used to being available for relatives and friends using YM that’s why I took notice. I let a day pass thinking it could have been a temporary glitch.
I decided to look [...]

Over OCR

I’ve never given a thought on OCR stuff much before because I never thought of a situation I would end up actually needing it.
Just early this day, I actually needed to find a solution towards that direction.
More specifically, I have a PDF from school with lengthy code in it and I need to have both [...]

Oh Brother

I find it funny that, in some ways, life seems to mimic the blogging episode. That is, the absurdities you encounter in either bad apple is enough to get you hammering down on the odd one out. I’m talking about my recent difficulty in getting my printer to work yesterday and it definitely got me [...]

A Video and Cake Hence

It seems a lot of geeks can’t get enough of the firefox 3 download day gimmick and as a consequence of the social surplus getting more and more out of people’s time these days, a video at YouTube now presents a parody of microsoft’s supposed predicament on the mozilla phenomenon:

Not bad [...]

Diminishing the Slice

The Philippines ranks second to the last after Indonesia in terms of the average annual salary of IT professionals. That is if the ZDNet Asia IT Salary Benchmark Survey 2008 is to be believed.
Early this month, ZDNet Asia released an online article summarizing the results of the survey. There the Philippines ranked 6th among 7 [...]

7.5 Going 8.0

I’ve been using AVG Free for computer protection ever since I’ve had my own laptop at home. Back then, my primary consideration was cost. After doing a modest amount of research, I went for it. Right now, I have 2 notebooks here running the software for security and protection.
Since version 7.5 would be supported by [...]

The Digital Age in Green

In expressing my reluctance to jump into Vista’s ship a few posts ago, the main point raised there is that there’s nothing much new brought to the table at the expense of the number of computers going to the obsolescence mill. Also included is a mention of the concept paper I did for an environmental [...]

Flipside of More PC’s: Vista Factor

Here’s something I have written for more than a month now. Obviously it spent a lot of time in the heap of blogging todo stuff. Thankfully I can post a something substantial on the subject already.

A Technology Perspective
When there were noises about Microsoft Vista as early as 2 to 3 years ago, I knew it [...]

More Tech Trends

All PDI InfoTech articles for the week under way:
Low-Cost Laptops for Big Returns in Education
I first wrote about XO in this blog entry after having heard about it early this year. Apparently the laptop bannered as a serious economical alternative for students especially for those in third world countries will hit the U.S. and Canadian [...]