I personally dread the lack of parking spaces in high traffic areas. You spend hours upon hours circling the block hoping to find a parking space only to find out your odometer raking up miles. Oh yeah, and those unscrupulous drivers who can’t seem to park their cars right – taking up a bit of [...]

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Google Apps for Your Domain is the collection of Google applications (already in circulation) that you can freely post on your domain. Much like this one: It really helps small organizations provide Google services for all its users. So far, it features: Custom Start Page Gmail Google Talk Google Calendar Google Page Creator Now news [...]

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I know it’s nearing the weekend and I’m (like you) looking forward to the two days of rest. But here I am still feeding this blog with a thing or two of either interest or help to give all of us juicy giblets of wisdom. So here’s a little something that you might like doing [...]

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I’ve been rally hyping on office suites for their use as free and quick (no set-up required) document manager and collaboration software. So far I’ve only really used Google Docs and Spreadsheets until I stumbled upon a few others that you might want to consider. Here they are: Google Docs and Spreadsheets Ajax 13 ThinkFree [...]

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One things that’s a bummer. Some of us keep two accounts in one e-mail provider. Like for example, some would have two or more Gmail accounts. However, more often than not, you can only open one account at a time in a browser. One quick way around this is to have two browsers open (usually [...]

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Heck, Valentine’s Day alert! Here’s some cheesy post on how people around the globe say “I love you.” Even in English alone, you can phrase it in a lot of ways but mostly you’ll end up sounding either like a poet or Star Wars geek/Master Yoda. Here are a few: You are loved by me. [...]

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I’ve recommended Google Docs and Spreadsheets as an effective (free!) collaborative online document manager before. I personally use it for most of our collaborative work. However, the chat-style interface doesn’t quite help when you’ve got a few people working on it once. For such work, me and my buddies have had better successes with Skype [...]

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Vodafone Group PLC has inked a deal to allow users to view and upload videos to YouTube. This is after Vodafone has also made strides in featuring other online content and services like MySpace and Ebay. This is all in the trend that everything will go mobile. With the increasing capacities for wireless broadband traffic [...]

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Now this is a way to discover music the Web 2.0 way. Pandora is an online music service that’s developed by a group of musicians (who knows better about music than musicians themselves) launched earlier this year. Many are saying that it is the best way to find music over the Web and the Net [...]

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News flash! To those who think that broadcast quality TV can be done online right now, you might be mistaken. Internet companies have said that they’ve been doing much work just to keep the data flowing from video sites like YouTube and Joost. Google, who has acquired YouTube last year has said that the Net [...]

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E-mailing is a skill that doesn’t only entail knowing how to actually send e-mails or use BCCs. E-mailing is a communication skill, which means you got to know what to writer and how to write it. Here are a few tips on writing power e-mails: Check your address – You can’t expect to be credible [...]

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With Vista rolled out for home use across the globe, Microsoft also rolls out it series of applications to support it. One of the latest ones hot off the grill is Windows Live Messenger 8.01. Here are what it has in store: Improved compatibility with Vista Vista interface with new emoticons and contacts display SMS [...]

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About two weeks ago, I wrote about companies investing on document management. It’s really disturbing how an employee could be so isolated in a cubicle. Lack of collaboration from within can really hurt a company. How much investment must a company make to start out with collaborative software? Not much. using freeware is definitely a [...]

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There’s a reason why polygraph results are not allowed as court evidence in most laws. And for good reason. So unless you have a potential in-law who’s like Robert de Niro’s character in Meet the Parents, then there’s no need to worry. In any case, you can always cheat your way through a polygraph test. [...]

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Okay, I’m a fan of board games especially those that help develop the brain. Well, Monopoly’s quite a scary game to teach to kids. I’m not for teaching kids how to go for the big bucks right of the bat. Those you learn later on in life. But one thing I think kids should learn [...]

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