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Archive for September, 2007

27 Sep

Protect your PC with Power Surge Suppressor or UPS (part 1)

Desktop PC’s are running on alternate current. At times the current from the wall electrical outlet are not stable. Normally the power line supply slightly increases or decreases but we don’t notice this small deviations. But in some cases you could experience this flicker of the screen or your PC nearly powers out. This happens [...]

26 Sep

Making an Online Shopping Cart

Selling goods online has become a trend. Especially with globalization. Businesses regardless of size would like to have a way of reaching cross border markets. Moving goods which seems to be very limited and difficult for the past 10 years is now history. If the business is service then having a way to market your [...]

25 Sep

Processor Overclocking is it Good?

Inside the CPU is a built-in clock that controls the CPU when it executes instructions. There is also a system bus which uses also a clock to coordinate the flow of data from the CPU, RAM, BIOS and all other chips within the chipset. System bus normally runs at a slower speed compared to the [...]

24 Sep

Paid Blogging and Google’s Adsense which One?

I was doing a little experiment on ways of cashing in on a blog. I installed Google Adsense and run it on my site. Then I checked how much have I earned after two (2) months. To my surprise without doing anything I earned from Adsense. This is great I said to myself. Guess how [...]

24 Sep

Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi is Back

I worked mostly on Tracie an Acer TravelMate 3012WTMi. Tracie has been my working buddy for almost a year now. I like my laptop very much as it’s just right for my needs. Recently, I did a disastrous thing on Tracie. Two (2) weeks ago, I wiped its harddisk’s master boot record (MBR). tsk.. tsk.. [...]

22 Sep

A Win-win Situation for both Advertisers and Bloggers

People’s way of purchasing things changed a lot in the advent of the internet. More and more people are buying goods online today as compared before. Thus, companies in the information age are investing on web advertisements. They don’t want to be left behind in this trend. To reach as many clients as possible advertisers [...]

14 Sep

How Long is Windows System Running

A common practice for Windows system is to restart the system at least once a day. As programs are being opened errors may occur that result in resources used were not freed back for the system to use. When this happens the only way to recover those resources is to restart your system. To aid [...]

11 Sep

Saving Laptop Battery Power when on the Move

Having a laptop is handy especially when you are on the move. It’s a difficult to lose power while working on some important stuff. It’s also embarrassing when it happens in the middle of a meeting presentation. In my experience even 6 cell battery packs last for only like 2.5 hours at most in normal [...]

07 Sep

Playing MP3′s on Fedora

I have a desktop pc at home running Fedora 7 as OS. The normal question when a Windows user sits on it is where’s your sound or MP3 player? Since it’s something new to them they often look for the all familiar Windows Media Player. Fedora 7 as an open source OS does not ship [...]