ON the cork board in front of me, I pin all sorts of notes, reminders, receipts, photos and calling cards. While this analog system has a certain chaotic élan to it, it isn’t all that efficient, especially when the board gets filled up and notes start to cover each other. I ...
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WHEN creating digital art, my weapon of choice is usually Gimp, a free and open source image manipulation program that runs both on my Mac and Linux PC. This preference for cross-platform tools means I rarely use Adobe Photoshop because it doesn’t run natively on my Linux desktop. As powerful and ...
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MORE and more, Filipinos are turning to crowdfunding on the Internet to raise money for projects that might not otherwise see the light of day. A quick search through the top two crowdfunding websites, Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com) and Indiegogo (www.indiegogo.com) produces more than 100 such projects from the Philippines. Less than half ...
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OPEN Source advocate Matt Asay writes in ReadWrite.com a provocative piece entitled “Why the Linux Desktop Doesn’t Matter Anymore.” In the article, Asay says that Linux has “completely failed as a desktop operating system” because it was never easy enough or useful enough for people like his hairdresser, Valerie. Asay, who ...
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THERE’S been no better time than now to learn something new on the Internet. Today, anyone with a good Internet connection can visit YouTube and watch practical video tutorials on anything from how to troubleshoot car problems to how to cook a poached egg. If you’re more interested in academic learning, look ...
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THIS week, we’ll look at some useful websites that can make life easier. Most of these sites perform only one task, but do it well enough to save you a lot of trouble. So bookmark these sites for that extra touch of convenience. Is it down right now? This is a ...
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LINUX has bloomed over the last few years into a modern, stable, secure and user-friendly operating system that can go head-to-head with any of its commercial counterparts, but you wouldn’t know it from a visit to a typical PC retailer in the Philippines. Go to any mall with a computer arcade ...
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THE Summer of Snowden quickly came to dominate the entire year, making it the biggest technology story of 2013. Here is my list of year's top IT stories: 1. Big Brother. In June, The Guardian in the UK began a series of exposes based on 200,000 documents leaked by Edward Snowden, ...
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