Eats N Gadgets

I read an article by Jolie O’Dell over at Mashable about Displax marketing this new product called Skin. Skin is a flexible transparent electronic polymer overlay that you can apply to any non-metallic surface.  That means you can stick it on the wall, or even on a plane of glass or acrylic.  It comes in [...]

I posted just this morning how I figured out the DHCP no address issue on the macbook’s Airport adaptor for a new BGN wireless router I bought and installed the day before. Well, as I went about my daily routine, I noticed that the speed of that new “El Cheapo” N router I bought was [...]

I just installed a BGN wireless router to replace my sturdy BG router. I used the standard setting for the router.  My Lenovo laptop connected easily. Great! My problem was that my friend’s macbook couldn’t connect, even if all the passwords, etc. were correct.  Airport actually indicated a connection, but under advanced settings / TCPIP [...]

After around 3 incredibly frustrating months of grappling with this drag-drop problem I encountered with my primary work laptop, it’s finally fixed! Symptom: Drag-Drop a file from one place to another, and I’d lose access to that file. I wouldn’t be able to open, preview, or even delete it. Copy-Paste of the original file would [...]

I’ve been searching and searching for a portable scanner for ages!  None available in the Philippines … until NOW!  Every now and then I go to CD-R King over at Greenbelt 1 just to see what new items they have for sale.  Prior to yesterday’s trip, all they had were the 4×6 photo scanners that [...]

I’ve been wanting to triple boot my AAO.  It came with XP Home ULCPC installed on it.  I was successfully able to get Ubuntu’s UNR 9.04 on there as a dual boot and was using that for a while. Then, when I tried to install Kaly 10.5.2, I hit an error on the install and [...]

LDP can mean different things in different situations… In corporate executive education programs, LDP = Leadership Development Program. In the Philippine political arena, LDP = Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (a political party). Today, however, LDP stands for The Linux Documentation Project, a useful site.  Their Manifesto states, “The goal of the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) [...]

If you’ve ever been without power and in an emergency situation for an extended period of time (i.e. over 4 hours or so) and you’ve experienced your phone’s battery dying in the midst of that situation, then you will definitely know and appreciate this lil gadget. I found this at Wind&Weather.com priced at $54.95.  It’s [...]

With the surge of open source software, and the general acceptance and proliferation of this mode of software development, many have come to accept certain truths … free open source software can be great, and even challenge commercial applications, given enough time and enthusiasm of its community of developers and users.  And, as these applications [...]

After almost 2 weeks of tweaking and research and forum posting, I finally gave in.  I realized that I had wasted so much valuable time in trying to fix everything from networking to https logins on firefox … it just seemed like the problems were one after another … and like many things in life, [...]