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 [...]

Mapping Development

I remember when Internet great Google went on to release Google Maps a few years ago. The service made the once geographic modelling tool stuck in the pages of the Atlas a regular internet fodder. Since then, there have been a lot of innovations contributing to the technology and now, UN’s Millenium Development Goals are [...]

Towards the Horizon Further

It seems there’s nothing wrong with how I did the previous semester. I’m now expecting at least decent grades to keep my status in the program safe. No worries unlike the previous semester in short.
Having IS295a as my only major subject this coming semester, I have to start thinking about the final project required of [...]

Alternative to an Alternative

I switched to Firefox way back mainly because of a lot of reasons adding up to my over-all discontent on Internet Explorer. I was glad I made the switch then. Enhanced usability, less pop-ups and faster loading of pages was all too good reasons to have me consider another browser for my needs.
Add the fact [...]

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 [...]

Download Day 2008

Leave it up to Mozilla to come up with the creativity for almost anything. This time, it has to be the record books–the Guiness Book of World Records to be exact. They intend to come up with a world record for “the most software downloads in 24 hours” on Firefox 3’s launch date. Not bad [...]

Juggling Javascript

I’ve been using Javascript for years now but it’s just recently when I’m starting to go from intermediate to the next echelon in terms of my level of expertise. Far back before the start of this millennium, common uses of the scripting language is on form validation and rollovers.
As early as a few years after [...]