Month: January 2009

Pelicola.tv

if you’re spending too much time in front of your PC that you often miss your favorite telenovelas (duh!), fret no more as Pelicola.tv has arrived! Pelicola.tv is simply put – television made online. however, unlike your local tv shows, with Pelicola.tv you can watch the episodes anytime. you can also freely download select videos […]

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is friendship stronger than whopper?

social networks such as facebook is so huge nowadays that different companies/products are trying unique ways to get themselves noticed in these sites. burger king has recently created a “whopper sacrifice” application that you only need to install in your facebook profile. now here’s the twist – delete 10 of your friends from your facebook […]

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DR. DOBB's JOURNAL IS DEAD?!!!

it came as a surprise and a wonder when i found out about this news today from DevTopics. effective jan ’09, dr. dobb’s journal (DDJ) is changing to dr. dobb’s report and will be delivered as a new monthly section in the InformationWeek magazine. DDJ’s editor-in-chief Jonathan Erickson however put it this way, “Dr. Dobb’s […]

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Green PC for IT PINOYs!

has it been too cold lately or too hot during the summer? well us – IT PINOYs too have a share why this is happening. the IT industry has answered the call to help put a stop to global warming with various organizations clamoring for “greener” PC’s. in fact apple and dell are but a […]

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cybergeddon!

US experts and the FBI recently released a warning of a “Cybergeddon,” wherein nations whose advanced economy is highly dependent on controlled computers – if and when they fall prey to hackers might lead to catastrophic results (hmmm reminds me of Die Hard 4)! Shawn Henry, assistant director of the FBI’s cyber division, stated that […]

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"I'm Linux" video contest

i once read somewhere that “it takes two to tango, but three to tangle!” not satisfied with all those pc-mac tussle (e.g. pc vs mac transformers)? well expect it to be a brawl, linux has recently launched it’s own “I’m Linux” video contest. open to anyone above 18 and in 60secs all you got to […]

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tinyurl – not so tiny?

do you often send out links that are too long? turn this URL: http://www.pinoyto.com/gap/gapmd?iv=1&gapap.x=50&gap.y=75&gdata=%2dkdfmmsp%sdsSDSDSDSjfgpskfovmj%dgap into this tinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/2 TinyURL is a web service created by Kevin Gilbertson that provides short aliases to redirect long urls. it has a simple api that allows applications to automatically create short URLs. the issue i see with these tinyurls […]

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top social networking site of 08

comscore c/o techcrunch reported the top social/blogging platforms for 2008. Blogger (222 million) Facebook (200 million) MySpace (126 million) WordPress (114 million) Windows Live Spaces (87 million) Yahoo Geocities (69 million) Flickr (64 million) hi5 (58 million) Orkut (46 million) Six Apart (46 million) Baidu Space (40 million) Friendster (31 million) 56.com (29 million) Webs.com […]

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Microsoft to lay off 15,000?

i just read this from tech.blorge, it seems that the redmont software company – Microsoft too is just as volatile as the others. there is a “substantial” rumor that the company may be laying off as many as 15,000 employees worldwide (this is around 17% of their workforce) and that the cuts will begin on […]

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top online security threats for 09

would you believe this? every 4.5secs, a new web page is infected with a virus/worm! (remember my recent post re: Philippine DTI site hacked) readwriteweb recently listed the top security threats that we all have to look out for this year. sql injection – if your web page has input fields like those login forms, […]

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