Pinolinks.com launched!

Sunday 26. of August 2007

Having inspired by a very popular and addictive site 'digg.com' , I have setup a clone site for Filipino visitors - pligg. It can now be visited in pinolinks.com , registration is FREE! have fun!

CDR-King Wireless optical mouse

Saturday 25. of August 2007

This little gadget could win over a lot of geeks for it's cute-ness and style. The receiver-thing attaches itself at a hole behind the mouse. At a press of a few buttons on top it could either reveal the innards (batteries and all) or release the wireless usb receiver. What I like about it is that i...

Subversion quick howto

Wednesday 08. of August 2007

This is a short tutorial I compiled after making it work at my first workplace, a web development environment where there is always a problem with people overwriting files of other programmers.

Organizing thoughts and ideas with kde basket

Thursday 19. of July 2007

I used to organize my ideas with simple text files and sometimes memo records from a pda. Soon I got a Moleskine organizer but the results were the same with both approaches, all of my stuff are still all over the place. Written ideas are great in a simple paper pad and pen/pencil but there are time...

Free screen recording software

Monday 25. of June 2007

These are a few free screencast applications for Linux and Windows. I highly recommend wink as it is cross platform, easy to use and can save to many different formats. RecordMyDesktop is also nice, but it saves only to open formats like theora for video and vorbis for audio. Camstudio is for window...

Ubuntu: if an application hangs or freezes

Friday 22. of June 2007

The easy gnome way: Right click on one of the panels, click 'add to panel' and then select 'force quit' under the Desktop and Windows category. Once that button is created you may now click on it and aim it to the right application you want to force close. OR The command line way: ...

Warcraft3 in Linux (Ubuntu Feisty + wine)

Friday 25. of May 2007

This is a very short tutorial on how to run Warcraft3 with Ubuntu (at least how I made it work): Prerequisite: - drivers for 3d acceleration (nvidia or ati's)

1. Install wine

open terminal (alt+f2, type in xterm) type in 'sudo apt-get install...