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Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web

Wired magazine has the lowdown on how Google Chrome came to be. Titled “Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web,” the story offers an inside view of Chrome’s genesis and why Google has just re-ignited the browser wars.

9/04/08 06:58 AM   Full Story
12 Reasons Why Chrome, Google’s First Web Browser, Rocks

All in all, Chrome is a very promising browser. The key to its success, I think, is the availability of plugins and add-ons that would extend its functionality. (Chrome was released only today so there aren’t any plugins or add-ons yet.) Google Chrome should give Firefox and IE a run for their money.

9/03/08 12:59 PM   Full Story
iPhone to Invade Philippines Through Globe

iPhone will soon be available in the Philippines, thanks to Globe Telecom and its partner, SingTel. In a short statement on Monday, Globe said “Globe, SingTel, Bharti Airtel and Optus today announced that they have signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to the Philippines, Singapore, India, and Australia later this year. More information will be released at a later date.”

This, of course, is great news to Filipinos who’ve been holding their breaths since iPhone’s launch.

5/14/08 09:20 PM   Full Story
Tech Addiction: When Is It Time to Unplug?

LOS ANGELES - Sharon Sarmiento knew it was time to unplug when she realized she was blogging in her dreams and hearing imaginary instant messages.
For Ariel Meadow Stallings, it was the hours lost while surfing the Internet that left her feeling like she had been in a drunken blackout.
Both women are part of a new [...]

4/21/08 04:41 AM   Full Story
Why Facebook Is Really REALLY Creepy

As it turns out, when you deactivate your Facebook account, Facebook does not delete your account, as other social-networking sites do. As this article in the New York Times points out, once you sign up with Facebook, you may have a lifetime contract with it. Creepy.
I deactivated my Facebook account months ago. After reading the [...]

2/11/08 10:27 AM   Full Story
More on Why Facebook Is Creepy

One of my favorite tech bloggers, Jeremy Wagstaff, has this interesting take on Facebook, specifically why anyone who values his or her privacy should stay away from the popular social-networking site.

In my previous post, I laid out my reasons for abandoning Facebook, no matter that I have more friends there than in the other social-networking [...]

1/25/08 12:16 PM   Full Story
Die, Facebook, Die!

About two months ago, I tried Facebook, the extremely popular social-networking site. At first, I was thrilled: many of my friends were there, and you can dress up your page/account with lots of cool stuff and engage your friends in virtual mischief.
But less than a week after I signed on, I canceled my Facebook account.

I [...]

1/23/08 05:03 AM   Full Story
Save Windows XP

I’m a long-time Windows user and I usually upgrade to its newest version. But when Microsoft launched Vista last year, I resisted the urge to change the Windows XP operating that’s running my laptop. Two reasons.

First, I always (and you should, too) wait a few months, probably a year at most, before I do something [...]

1/19/08 06:32 AM   Full Story
New Trojan Unleashed, Intercepts Online Banking Info

PC World reports that a new Trojan program called Trojan.Silentbanker has been unleashed. In its story yesterday, the magazine offers this terrifying bit on how the Trojan works: “During a banking transaction, Silentbanker will change the user’s bank account details over to the attacker’s account, all the while mimicking what the user would expect to [...]

1/15/08 09:45 PM   Full Story
6 Ways to Tell If Your Nokia Phone Is Fake

Nokia Philippines warned consumers last week that fake Nokia phones are proliferating in the market. These fake phones — Nokia N81, Nokia 5310, Nokia N95, Nokia N82, Nokia 6120, to name some — are usually sold in sidewalks or stalls, those that sell “GSM” (Galing sa Magnanakaw) phones.
Nokia Philippines enumerates ways to tell if the [...]

1/14/08 12:01 PM   Full Story
LATEST PLUGGED POSTS | September 05, 2008
Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and Remake the Web 06:58 am
12 Reasons Why Chrome, Google’s First Web Browser, Rocks 12:59 pm
iPhone to Invade Philippines Through Globe 09:20 pm
Tech Addiction: When Is It Time to Unplug? 04:41 am
Why Facebook Is Really REALLY Creepy 10:27 am
More on Why Facebook Is Creepy 12:16 pm
Die, Facebook, Die! 05:03 am
Save Windows XP 06:32 am
New Trojan Unleashed, Intercepts Online Banking Info 09:45 pm
6 Ways to Tell If Your Nokia Phone Is Fake 12:01 pm

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