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Jamie my 8th year old daughter kept asking me about her going back to school. I guess she really is soooo over with summer! Who would not be? She had been into a lot of activities already, from our trip to Maryland and Virginia to her dance recital to swimming in our local beaches to [...]

Uncovering what a Tire Pressure Warning Light is!

I made a quick trip to the drugstore and used my daughter’s car when I noticed that a U shape icon with an exclamation point is lighted in the dashboard aligned with the other reading meters in the car. This was the very first time that I encountered it so I was clueless as to [...]

Found My Lucky Lights in the Sky on Friday the 13th

I wonder if anyone of you believes that Friday 13th brings bad luck. Because I do, there haven’t been any major catastrophe that happened to me as far as I can remember but I was made to  believe that if the 13th day of the month falls on a Friday I should expect that something [...]

5 Tools That Can Record Your Computer Screen (Screencast/Screen Capture/Screen Grabbing)

Adobe Acrobat Connect To make video presentations of what you are doing on your screen, there are several ways to do this. Currently at my day job, we like using Adobe Acrobat Connect. It is a good software platform that can run on any operating since it is an application service that runs on an [...]

Best and Cheapest Way to Call the Philippines

Being a Filipino, with many friends and relatives in the Philippines, I sometimes need to call someone in the Philippines to their landline of mobile phone. And in some cases, the person I need to contact may not be near a computer or may not even know how to use the computer well like my [...]

Geeks Ergonomic Female Breast Mouse Pad

if your work seems a little boring, for geeky the dudes out there, this might spice up your excitement a bit, knowing your hand will go all over it everyday, take a look at these mouse pad designs: Related PostsKVM2USB gets rid of the monitor, keyboard and mouse in administering server racksIs your line of [...]

Why Learn Drupal?

I have heard about Drupal as being one of the best CMS’ since early 2006. I remember first hearing it on SEO Rockstars mentioned by Greg Boser as he once said they are “looking into Drupal” and that was more than a year ago already. Then I noticed companies like SEOPosition and Apogee Search are [...]

Opening files with the .docx, .xlsx, .pptx filename extension

If ever you had trouble opening the following file types: .docx .xlsx .pptx This simply means you are not yet running Microsoft Office 2007 and is probably still running MS Office 2003 or lower. And isn’t in frustrating knowing that your old Office cannot open these files and you think you have to buy the [...]

Looking for the GoToMyPC alternative

Whenever I meet clients, I sometimes forget some important files in the office and I get frustrated about this because my clients might think that I am not well-prepared for the presentation and that could ruin my chances of getting the project. As we know, first impressions can make or break you. Sometimes, when I [...]

Getting the green light

This photo is NOT by actiononline.biz I drove to city hall today in a motorbike and noticed just how much time I spent waiting at red lighted but otherwise empty intersections. I tell you, it sucks that I have to wait so much until the light changes on its own or until a bigger car [...]