JaypeeOnline // Blogging News & Reviews

Guess Who’s Back?

Guess who's back, back again, Jaypee's back, Tell a friend, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back...hehe I know it's cheesy but anyways, I just wanted you guys to know that I'm back. Yes folks, I'm back! Being away from blogging and the blogosphere for almost 3 months seemed like an eternity. I'm sure most of you are wondering what happened to me or where I've been. Well its been really hectic these past couple of months for me. First, my parents came from the Philippines, then my in-laws from Maryland, then my sister-in-law and her family from Indonesia came too. It was a family reunion of sorts. Having guests, especially family means having to go out a lot like visit relatives and friends, eating out, seeing places and stuff. So the months of June and July was basically spent on those activities. Just when I was really looking forward to get back to blogging I had ano. Actually, I've been having minor problems or issues with it after I updated it to Windows Vista Service Pack 1. I started getting the dreaded BSOD (blue screen of death) everytime I restarted my computer or after it booted up from hibernate mode. At first, I was able to fix it by doing a System Restore but this time, even that failed. Even though I knew that the problem was caused by a conflict with one of the device drivers I couldn't do anything because I couldn't even boot in Safe Mode and try to update the device drivers.

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Weekend Roundup #24

Time flies so fast. Today is the last day of March and the first quarter of 2008 has just passed by. Anyways, here's the latest edition of the Weekend Roundup. Enjoy! Pinoy blogosphere Good news for Ubuntu fans! You can now install Ubuntu on any Windows machine without the need of a different partition or without having to worry about messing up the Windows installation. I'm sure a lot of WordPress theme authors especially those who have premium themes are not gonna like this one. A certain blogger has recently published a detailed article on how to rip a WordPress theme using Firefox and a Firefox extension called Firebug. via AJ's blog. Learn how to increase your Adsense earnings by increasing your pageviews with this post from Jehzlau. Very useful tip if you use lots of images on your blog posts. If you're having a hard time or simply don't have the time to create a Privacy Policy page for your blog, then you should try out the Privacy Policy WordPress plugin that lets you automatically create Adsense-compliant policies. via PinoyTek. This reminds me, I still have to create one for this blog.

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Weekend Roundup #9

Another week has gone and it’s time for another roundup of links around the blogosphere. Darren Rowse explains Google Sitelinks and how it works. Mythbuntu - Linux version of Windows Media Center. Discover how microblogging can help you become a better blogger. Wanna improve your brand recognition and grab customer’s attention? Try out the Make My Logo Bigger Cream! Shoemoney [...]

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HowTo: Update Gaim To Pidgin in Ubuntu

Whenever you want to update a certain program in Ubuntu, most of the time you do it via the Synaptic Package Manager. Unfortunately this is not possible for Gaim. For Ubuntu users who’d want to update Gaim to Pidgin, you’ll have to do it manually. In this post, I’ll show you the necessary steps in order [...]

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Ubuntu Studio

Ubuntu Studio is a new version of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution, released last May 10, 2007. It is based on Ubuntu Linux, and is optimized for general multimedia production. I’m sure a lot of graphic artists, enthusiasts and professionals would love this and would wanna try it out. Ubuntu Studio’s kernel was modified into a low-latency [...]

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Joining the Linux Bandwagon

Previously, I was running Windows XP Home Edition on my Compaq Presario notebook. I had to limit the number of applications running because if not, it would become annoyingly slow. You see, my laptop has only 256 MB of RAM and that is not quite enough to run those programs all at the same time. Just [...]

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