Practical Gadgets

Wednesday 16. of August 2006

The quest for the ideal budget electronic devices, have I found it?

Downgrading is good

Thursday 13. of July 2006

I've been selling stuff now ... like my SD 1gig card to replace with ... well, another SD 1gig card.

I'm now thinking of downgrading my Sony Ericsson k700i to a flimsy nokia 1100 + maybe a sim card reader. Reason? I never use all the features there ... the camera's great but .. I've already got a ...

IT Blunders

Thursday 13. of July 2006

I've just read that article on some IT guy telling stories about his "IT blunders".

I remember having a blunder of my own ... It's the broconsult site we're working on. We've been tasked to import the current existing bridge management system and port it over to a new typo3 extension.

While stud...

New Gallery

Wednesday 12. of July 2006

BAHAG extension for image galleries ... the name is weird ... but I guess it's some kind of German name or something. Nothing else to say here ;-)

The extension, I've used for the gallery page to replace that flickr random image htmls.

I may still use flickr in the future so for now I'll just ta...

Quiapo, Hidalgo Street. Camera Bargains!

Tuesday 11. of July 2006

Why is it I kept hearing about these shops in Hidalgo street ... yesterday I found out. The cameras there are super cheap! I just bought myself a Canon PowerShot A430 with a retail price of 11,950 on malls for only 7,800. I even managed to haggle the price from 8,000 down to 7.8k. Having so much sav...

VNC

Wednesday 28. of June 2006

One of the most irritating problems in web development is making the actual site work on IE. Almost all of us work on firefox, so after we're through with the work we then fix up the css for Internet Explorer.

The problem now is... only 3 developers here are working in Windows XP Home, the rest (i...

Solutions

Thursday 22. of June 2006

It feels really good upon knowing you're very close to successfully finishing a task. The problems occuring from applications not working for sftp is very troublesome for me, so I decided to use smbfs & mount it directly with a specific user to preserve permissions. I've used a script I found on the...