The free and open source Tellico does a great job of keeping track of your collections.
I KNOW it’s not true, but sometimes, it feels like I’m the only one left in the city that still buys audio CDs. Most people these days seem content with bringing their entire music collection—and listening to them—on their iPods. This situation has no doubt hastened the decline of local music stores, which were never very well-stocked, even in better days. Now, it seems, most of them survive by devoting half their display space to movies, and the other half to pop pap. Still, I have managed to amass several hundred audio CDs over the years—and I have long since given up trying to keep track of them on a spreadsheet. Entering data in this manner—especially individual track information—was simply too tedious.
How best then to manage my music library?
Steve Jobs announcing the end of the official clone program in 1997.
WHEN news surfaced last week that a company in Miami was selling an unauthorized $399 Mac clone, I was skeptical. We’ve been down this road before, and each time it led nowhere.
TWO years after I started writing it, Reporting on ICT is finally off the press. Published by the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University, the textbook is aimed at helping practicing journalists who want to report on technology. The 211-page volume includes a short history of the computer industry, an explanation of basic terms, and a discussion of major issues that affect the industry. Aside from the huge psychic reward that completing this project brought, Reporting on ICT also financed my first Mac, a G4 iBook that I eventually traded in, months before the book rolled off the press.
As affordable as hard disks and other media have become, there is an even cheaper way to store your data these days. In fact, if you know where to look, you can get your storage free. Online storage sites usually charge a certain amount per gigabyte of storage. A good number of them, however, offer free accounts, often as a come-on to paid services that include support, added security and more storage space. Other sites offer the online storage completely free and hope to earn from advertising.
WHAT’S your home page? One of the first things I do when I install a browser upgrade is to reset the first page that Firefox loads when it starts. The act, akin to changing the wallpaper on your desktop PC, reflects individual tastes and preferences as they apply to surfing the Web. It also forms a basis for efforts to sell online advertising on popular Web sites. At a press briefing in Singapore last week, Yahoo promoted its Web sites as the starting points for most users on the Internet. The business model that the company pursues should be familiar to traditional publishers: develop a loyal following by offering relevant and trusted content.
Digital Life is a blog that features a technology column by the same name that appears every Tuesday in Manila Standard Today, a national daily from the Philippines. This blog gives readers easy access to the column, which started in November 2002. Copyright 2009 Chin Wong.
The free and open source Tellico does a great job of keeping track of your collections.
TWO years after I started writing it, Reporting on ICT is finally off the press. Published by the Konrad Adenauer Center for Journalism at the Ateneo de Manila University, the textbook is aimed at helping practicing journalists who want to report on technology. The 211-page volume includes a short history of the computer industry, an explanation of basic terms, and a discussion of major issues that affect the industry. Aside from the huge psychic reward that completing this project brought, Reporting on ICT also financed my first Mac, a G4 iBook that I eventually traded in, months before the book rolled off the press.
