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Digital Life by Chin Wong -- Observations on the Philippine IT scene@import "http://www.chinwong.com/index.php?css=site/site_css"; GS_googleAddAdSenseService("ca-pub-0573936622106542"); GS_googleEnableAllServices(); GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-0573936622106542", "RSM-Chinwong300"); GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-0573936622106542", "RSM-Chinwong468"); GA_googleAddSlot("ca-pub-0573936622106542", "RSM-Chinwong728"); GA_googleFetchAds(); Home About Archives Resources //= 0; i=i-1){ if (l[i].substring(0, 1) == ' ') document.write("&#"+unescape(l[i].substring(1))+";"); else document.write(unescape(l[i]));}//]]> Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Part of our historyMOST people who pass Manila City Hall every day hardly pay attention to the the old clock tower that rises above it. The beige structure with two red clock faces capped by a brick-red dome is a fixture, a decades-old landmark from another era. Fewer people, still, will realize that the clock tower was put there by a pioneer of the technology business—IBM.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 09/30 at 06:43 AMIT industry •Industry history •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, September 23, 2008 Apple of Mark’s eyeAS A Mac user for the last two years, I can understand why the company behind Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions, wants to be on par with Apple in terms of usability. It is a big hairy audacious goal that Mark Shuttleworth, chief executive of Canonical, laid down at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland last July. Free Linux desktops such as Ubuntu should have “a user experience that can compete with Apple in two years,” Shuttleworth said at the time, a point he drove home in an interview with Datamation.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 09/23 at 06:33 AMPersonal computing •Mac OS X •Ubuntu Linux •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, September 16, 2008 Easy online storage A fairly new entry, Dropbox (http://www.getdropbox.com) is quickly becoming my favorite online storage solution because of its ease of use and convenience. The service, which used to be limited to beta test users, was made publicly available on Sept. 12. Remarkably, the software that accesses Dropbox’s servers is available on Linux (Ubuntu 8.04 and 7.10 and Fedora Core 9) as well as Windows and Mac OS X and offers the same functionality on each platform. Google—this is the way you should have done it with Chrome. Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 09/16 at 10:24 AMPersonal computing •Mac OS X •Ubuntu Linux •Windows •Web resources •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Shiny new browser Google Chrome runs in a Windows XP virtual machine inside Ubuntu.LEAKED pages from a 38-page comic book tipped off most Google watchers that the Internet search giant was about to announce its new browser, Chrome, last week. “As you may have read in the blogosphere, we hit ‘send’ a bit early on a comic book introducing our new open source browser, Google Chrome,” wrote Sundar Pichai, vice president for product management, and Linus Upson, engineering director at Google in their company’s blog. As it turns out, the comic-book introduction was strangely appropriate for Google’s unconventional open-source browser that could shake up the market. The beta test version of Google Chrome for Windows is available as a free download (http://www.google.com/chrome) but Linux and Mac users will have to wait longer.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 09/09 at 10:35 PMIT industry •Open Source •Personal computing •Windows •Software •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, September 02, 2008 VirtualBox revisited Ubuntu Hardy Heron running in full-screen mode on a Macbook, courtesy of VirtualBox.WHILE looking for a way to run some Windows video software on my Linux PC last year, I stumbled upon VirtualBox, an open source program that enables you to install and use different operating systems on the same computer. Last week, I turned to VirtualBox again because I wanted to watch the speeches at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and the Web site that streamed the video used Microsoft’s Silverlight plug-in that works only with—surprise, surprise—Windows and Mac OS X. When I downloaded the latest version of VirtualBox, I found that it is now owned by Sun Microsystems, which bought Innotek in February. Fortunately, the program, a 27MB download from Sun’s Web site, is still free for personal use.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 09/02 at 11:39 AMOpen Source •Personal computing •Mac OS X •Ubuntu Linux •Windows •Software •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Can Seinfeld save Vista? THERE’S something a bit desperate about the way Microsoft is pushing Windows Vista. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft is spending $300 million on an advertising campaign featuring comedian Jerry Seinfeld as the key pitchman. Starting September, TV ads featuring Seinfeld and Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will seek to address what the company’s chief executive, Steve Ballmer, calls “lingering doubts” among its customers about Windows Vista. That such doubts persist even after Microsoft has spent $450 million to launch and market the product since its introduction more than a year ago can’t be too good.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 08/26 at 01:53 PMIT industry •Personal computing •Windows •(2) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, August 19, 2008 Digital newsstand WHY would anyone want to emulate the iPhone on his desktop computer? That question crossed my mind when I heard that some people were using a Firefox add-on called User Agent Switcher to do just that. You’d think the only people who would want to shrink a beautiful wide-screen display to a fraction of its size would be developers who were writing software for the iPhone. Think again. The Phone’s popularity has created so much content designed specifically for it that even PC users want a piece of the action. The digital newsstand Zinio (http://www.zinio.com), for example, lets iPhone users browse many of its best-selling magazine titles for free. Don’t have an iPhone? Then pretend you’re using one.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 08/19 at 11:48 PMEntertainment •File sharing •IPR issues •Web resources •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, August 12, 2008 Ubuntu netbookACER’s Aspire One is a solid netbook, but it can be much more. In the last two weeks, I’ve been using it as a full notebook, running office applications, editing digital photos, surfing the Web and watching videos on a robust, full-featured system. The remarkable thing is, I’m doing it on a such a small, lightweight computer (less than a kilo) that has only 8 gigabytes (GB) of storage and 1GB of memory. The key to unlocking the Aspire One’s power was to replace the Linpus Lite Linux operating system that comes installed with the netbook with Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron).Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 08/12 at 09:31 AMHardware •Gadgets •Open Source •Personal computing •Ubuntu Linux •(1) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, August 05, 2008 More than search Zimbra Desktop accommodates multiple e-mail accounts on one screen, using Prism, an open source, site-specific browser for Web applications. IN the kerfuffle over the failed Microsoft takeover bid, people tend to forget that Yahoo is about much more than online search. Sure, Google is far ahead of Yahoo and Microsoft in search, but those who believe putting No. 2 and No.3 together will miraculously change the equation are ignoring some inconvenient facts. For example, shareholders who simply want a quick way to bump up Yahoo’s declining stock price are turning a blind eye to—or simply don’t care about—the likelihood that selling the company to Microsoft would hurt, not help the company’s long-term prospects. The reason is simple: Microsoft has no record of turning a profit online. The folks at Yahoo do.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 08/05 at 10:57 AMIT industry •Web resources •(0) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, July 29, 2008 Ace in the hole IT’S difficult to write about the Aspire One from Acer without gushing. Out of the box, this mini-notebook is the perfect traveling companion for anyone who simply needs to surf the Web, send e-mail and perform typical office tasks such as typing up documents, working on spreadsheets or giving a presentation. Its compact size—6.7”x9.8” and less than an inch thick—and weight—less than a kilo—make the Aspire One extremely easy to bring along anywhere. The netbook is slightly longer than the pioneering Asus Eee PC, but Acer has put that extra space to good use by building in a larger keyboard that most touch typists will appreciate (about 85 percent of a full-sized one) and a glossy black frame around the LCD screen that makes it look brighter.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 07/29 at 09:48 AMHardware •Gadgets •Open Source •Linux •Personal computing •(3) Comments •Permalink Tuesday, July 22, 2008 Ubuntu for business Ubuntu on a mobile Internet deviceAt this point, whether you’re running a small company with a few PCs or a large corporation with thousands of computers running Windows, it makes sense to consider shifting some of them over to Linux. Ubuntu, because of its ease of use, growing user base and a large, active and helpful community, is a particularly attractive option. What follows are answers to questions you might have before considering such a shift.Read the full story.Posted by Chin on 07/22 at 11:37 PMOpen Source •Linux •Personal computing •Ubuntu Linux •Windows •(4) Comments •PermalinkPage 1 of 35 pages 1 2 3 > Last »WebThis Site Grab this adorable penguin now!Want to tell the world you're a Linux user? Feel free to grab this logo and stick it anywhere on your Web site or blog.AboutDigital Life is a blog that features a technology column by the same name that appears every Tuesday in Manila Standard Today, a national daily from the Philippines. This blog gives readers easy access to the column, which started in November 2002. Copyright 2007 Chin Wong.Subscribe to This SiteAtomRSS 2.0Enter your EmailPreview | Powered by FeedBlitz Made the switch to Linux? Tell me about it here and get your own penguin! 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