Archive for the ‘Personal Computing’ Category

Spice up your Chrome

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

No, I'm not talking about having a car fender for lunch. Google Chrome has become a favorite browser for many a couch surfer and continues to gain market share. As of June 2010, 7.24% of the pie has Google Chrome written all over it. For the Chrome users out there who ...

Microsoft Office Web Apps are Live

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

Initially advertised for a June 15 launching, Microsoft quietly enabled Office Web Apps on June 7. All you need is a Live account and any of the following browsers: Internet Explorer 7+, Firefox 3.5+, and Safari 4+. Just head on over to office.live.com and start creating new Word, Excel, Powerpoint ...

New MacBook Pros Launched

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

The new MacBook Pros, Apple's most powerful laptop offerings use Intel's Core i5 and i7 dual core processors. Despite these powerhouse CPUs you can expect up to 10 hours of battery life. They still offer 13-inch, 15-inch and 17-inch options with the 13-incher having neither an i5 nor i7 but ...

Resize Photos Automatically with Shrink Pic

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

For you chronic photo uploaders aching to share your Christmas and New Year pictures on Facebook and Multiply, this free tool is a delightful time saver. Simply named Shrink Pic, it runs in the background detecting whether you're about to upload a large photo to a website, through IM, or ...

WordPress 2.9 out the door

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

To all WordPress users it's time to do the update dance once again. WordPress Version 2.9 was released about a week ago with around 500 bugfixes and enhancements to make online publishing an even more seamless and customizable experience. From the user's standpoint, here are the newest enhancements based on the ...

Wirelessly Transfer Photos to your Computer

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine. I'm sure it's happened to you. Especially if you're the "official" photographer for the family outing or company party. No more than a day after, you start getting requests from people to upload the ...

Choice Tech Tools Part II

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

Keeping a personal computer safe from malware and hackers should be a priority for any responsible netizen. It may come as a surprise to some of you but  having a firewall and updated anti-virus/spyware software isn't necessarily enough to keep internet malcontents at bay. Aside from having a firewall and installing ...

Choice Tech Tools Part I

Sunday, November 15th, 2009

Today my geeky self enjoyed configuring two brand new laptops. They came without an operating system preinstalled so I had to install the OS, install an antivirus, run updates, and install applications on both. I came across two very helpful tools in the process. One of them simplifies and automates ...

Firefox at Five

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Everyone's favorite open-source browser, Firefox, turned five years old on November 9. When version 1.0 was launched, a good number of netizens migrated to it as the best alternative to Microsoft's problematic Internet Explorer 6. Probably one of the reasons for the rapid rise in Firefox's popularity was the lack of ...

The Future of Email

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

"What email would look like if it were invented today." That's how Google describes Google Wave, a new online real-time communication and collaboration tool currently under development. What does it do exactly? Well this is as exact as I can get it since Wave is still a work in progress and ...