We all have our own ways of teaching our friends and family how to switch from Windows to Linux. Mine goes like this - are you planning to get a new hardware? If so, can you afford a Mac? If......
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
Who among us does not want to have a faster browsing experience? We all want our data to download as soon as possible but it can only be as fast as we can afford it to be. Unfortunately, bandwidth...
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Filed in archive Devices
by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
We all know that Apple's iPhone's claim to fame is its multi-touch technology (among other things but this one takes the cake). Mobile phone manufacturers are now trying to get the same user...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
First it was Linksys, with their WRT54G routers that came with Linux installed as its firmware. Frankly, I had a grand time flashing, re-flashing, tweaking and even bricking my router. I have...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
I just wrote about the Crunchbag.com article on how to remotely control your bittorrent downloads. Whilst I have mentioned using Azureus with web interface plug-in as my current method of accessing...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
Virtualization is one of the IN thing this year and Linux is no stranger to the technology. As companies provide various virtualization solutions, all their products attempt to provide the most...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
A Crunchbag.com article on "Remote Torrent Downloads Via SSH" just hit me right on the spot. I have been looking for a way to do this for the exact same reason as stated in the article,...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
I admit that I am not brave enough to run Linux natively on my Macbook Pro, I run it as a guest OS. However, just like any other OS, it is possible to run Ubuntu natively on your Macbook. [image......
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
Speaking of Apple's new Mac OS X 10.5 aka Leopard, why is it that people give a big deal when Microsoft or Apple releases a feature that has been in Linux for so long already? I mean, take the...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
Last week, Apple finally released Leopard, Mac OS X 10.5, to the public. One of the main features that makes it a bit attractive is Time Machine, an easy to use, user-friendly way to manage your...
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by Rom Feria on October 27, 2007
IN this day and age when data can easily be stolen, thanks to the internet, it is often necessary to secure data by encrypting it. However, if you have multiple encrypted files, subdirectories, disk...
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Filed in archive Tips & Tricks
by mateusz on October 23, 2007
Hello, my name is Mateusz and I am one of the IT guys behind Creative Weblogging. I will start a new mini-series here on this blog writing once in a while about interesting "hacks" or...
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by Rom Feria on October 19, 2007
Google just updated its Google Desktop for Linux a few days ago. The new version packs a few improvements over the old one such as support for new file types. Google Desktop automatically indexes and...
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by Rom Feria on October 19, 2007
To those who are fond of using different fonts for their typesetting and publishing tasks, it pays to have a huge collection of fonts available. Ubuntu provides several fonts built-in but here's...
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by Rom Feria on October 19, 2007
This cute little gadget was brought to my attention by my wife a few weeks ago. It was not until Linux.com's Lisa Hoover's review of this critter that I decided to take a second look. No, it...
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by Rom Feria on October 19, 2007
This is the first time I have seen lockergnome.com feature a video with Linux. I know that they do have a section about Linux but this one is different. Maybe I have missed it before but hey, just...
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by Rom Feria on October 19, 2007
Not until recently that we start getting laptop manufacturers to start bundling Linux instead of Microsoft Windows as its pre-installed OS, the laptop with pre-installed Linux market is dominated by a...
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Last Thursday, Ubuntu released their Gutsy Gibbon version of their popular Linux distribution. Accurately labeled as version 7.10, this new Ubuntu release boasts of a lot of new features and...
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by Rom Feria on October 19, 2007
Internet devices seem to be the next cool stocking stuffer this Christmas. Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch seem to have revived this segment of the mobile devices industry. Nokia, who was the first...
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by Rom Feria on October 12, 2007
For those of you who are more than 30 years old, I am sure that you can still remember the old DOS. Anyway, there are still plenty of freeware or abandonware DOS applications out there that are...
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by Rom Feria on October 11, 2007
If you are managing several computers in a school setting, you know how complicated it gets after a quarter or semester. More often than not, it is better to do a complete re-install of the OS in each...
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by Rom Feria on October 11, 2007
This comes in rather in a more opportune time when I received two printers in the office. Unfortunately, these printers, one from Kyocera and another from some other less-known name brands, are not as...
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