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HowTo: Disable Windows XP Startup Sound

Thursday, January 7, 2010

As the in-house desktop support among my family and friends, I get a lot of questions regarding computer and technical stuff. Most of these questions fall under basic computer configuration, setup and/or tweaks. One of the questions I often get is “how to disable or turn off the startup sound on Windows XP”. I’m sure [...]

Weekend Roundup #37

Sunday, March 1, 2009

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Hey folks! How are you all doing? Hope everyone’s having/had a great weekend. Its already March and this is the first edition of the Weekend Roundup for this month. This weekend’s schedule isn’t hectic for me so I’m able to publish this one early. Actually, I was planning on doing this last night, (Saturday) but [...]

HowTo: Easiest Way to Install/Dual Boot Ubuntu on Windows

Friday, February 20, 2009

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HowTo: Easiest Way to Install/Dual Boot Ubuntu on Windows

Previously, if you wanted to try or install/dual boot Ubuntu you’d have to use the live CD or create a partition on your computer with the latter being a daunting task for most users, especially those who don’t have much technical knowledge. Now, with the help of the Wubi installer, you can try or install Ubuntu [...]

Free Antivirus Software

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

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With the largely growing number and rampant spread of trojans, malware, spyware and other computer viruses, it’s very important to always have an updated antivirus software installed on your computer. Some people take it for granted or don’t install it because they can’t afford Norton or McAfee. What most people don’t know is there are [...]

Sectera Edge aka The BarackBerry

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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We all know how President Barack Obama is addicted to his BlackBerry which is now dubbed as BarackBerry. When he became the 44th President of the United States, one of the things he’s required to do is turn over his BlackBerry to the White House Staff. This is because of concerns with email security and [...]

HowTo: Recover Windows Vista Drive Icons

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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HowTo: Recover Windows Vista Drive Icons

I got the idea to create this tutorial when my cousin asked me to help him restore the drive icons on his laptop. He explained to me that he recently installed a tweaking program that changed the default driver icons and after uninstalling the program, the default drive icons went missing and he couldn’t restore [...]

Guess Who’s Back?

Thursday, September 4, 2008

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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.

Weekend Roundup #24

Monday, March 31, 2008

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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 blogosphereGood 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.

KidZui: Browser For Kids

Thursday, March 20, 2008

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As a parent I was happy to read about this new browser for kids called KidZui. Although my kid is still too little to browse the Internet or even use the computer, it's good to know that there's technology such as this that makes browsing the Internet safe for kids.So what is KidZui? KidZui is basically a browser based on Internet Explorer (if you use Windows) and Safari (if you use a Mac) that "whitelists" websites, photos and videos that are suitable for children. 200 teachers and parents across the US were hired to scan the world wide web to look for appropriate content that would be included in the whitelist. As of now, KidZui has 500,000 whitelisted websites, pictures and videos. All content gathered by KidZui are manually reviewed by humans before they get included in the whitelist to make sure nothing inappropriate gets thru.Screenshots:Start PageCreate Zui Page

Weekend Roundup #20

Monday, February 18, 2008

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Hope everyone had a good weekend. I know this is kinda late but better late than never right? Plus, I don't wanna disappoint the people who are waiting for this weekly feature, right? I started this draft last Saturday night but was too sleepy to finish it and Sunday was just too busy. Anyways, here's this week's roundup. Enjoy!Pinoy BlogospherePinoyBlogero has made a list of all blog contests in the Pinoy Blogosphere for the month of February. All but one contest has already ended so if you're interested, you can still join and get a chance to win those cool prizes. Prerequisite updates for the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 are causing problems to some users. Installing the prerequisite updates have either caused an endless reboot on some systems or the computer doesn't boot at all. I'm running Windows Vista here on my laptop and fortunately, I didn't experience any of these issues. Lost your printer's install CD or need to update your printer drivers? Jhay share some tips on how to install and where to get the latest drivers for your printer. Sonnie Santos shares his experiences withdrawing PayPal funds from Banco De Oro, EON and Xoom. It seems like PayPal users in the Philippines are still having a hard time to access or withdraw their funds. I hope that PayPal and the local banks would work together, do something about it and make some improvements. Be careful with spammers stealing your online identity. Silkenhut, shares a recent experience with a comment spammer who stole the identity of one of his regular readers/commenters - Jehzeel Laurente. It's a good reminder to be more careful when moderating comments on your blog.

FeedDemon and NetNewsWire now FREE!

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

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Earlier today, the folks at NewsGator announced that FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and all other RSS reader products are now available for FREE! Aside from that, all NewsGator products include free web-based synchronization to other services. With synchronization, users will be able to view their RSS content the same way no matter where or when they read [...]