One of the flagship Open Source projects that is actually useful in the real world is GIMP — Gnu Image Manipulation Program. This is a heavyweight photo editing program that rivals the functionality of the expensive Adobe Photoshop. However, mass adoption of GIMP is somewhat hindered by its rather complicated menu system. […]

When I first saw a report where Nicholas Negroponte, the founding chairman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Laboratory is promoting the idea of a $100 laptop (roughly worth around 5,700 pesos) for the developing world, my interest was immediately piqued. His idea is to distribute these $100 computer to the less privileged […]

I recently went window shopping at the Technology Market at Market! Market! and I’m surprised to see a vast array of no-name MP3 players being sold at the cellphone tiangge area. Most of these players are from OEM manufacturers in China and they are being sold at the price range between 2,000 Php to […]

Palm releases the Treo 700 running Windows Mobile!

As the cost of owning a computer continue to rise, people should start to seriously look at Open Source as a viable alternative to the usual applications/programs they run on them. People should consider the fact that the cost of owning a computer does not end with the actual cost paid to the computer […]

These past few months, we have witnessed the meteoric rise of Google. It started as a “second-rate, trying hard copycat” to Yahoo as a meta-search engine. But from its lowly beginnings, Google seems to be bent on taking over the world — and overtaking “The Monopoly” from Microsoft!
It started with the beta version […]

As I’ve written in my previous entry, I’m an avid reader and most of my reading materials are eBooks. On my PDA, my favorite application for reading is a nifty application called iSilo. There are a lot of reading materials on the internet that are already in iSilo format but sometimes I feel […]

The “Tingi” system of retail may not be cost effective since consumers pay more for those “tingi” items than when they buy in whole packages or in bulk. Anyway, this way of selling and buying has already encroached on the local technology and like it or not, it has vastly affected the way technology is used by the common “tao”.

Google is finally starting its bid to take over the world! Right after launching its revolutionary GMail, it is now starting to make a buzz in the IM (Instant Messaging) arena by launching Google Talk. Google Talk is an all-in-one client that enables existing GMail users to do Instant Messaging and VOIP (Voice-Over-IP). […]