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About 4 or 5 months ago my Samsung Galaxy 5 was stolen when I was ridding on a jeepney going home. I did not notice my phone taken from my pocket. My phone was only 2 weeks old from the day I bought it, sad to say that it was taken away from me in an instant. Samsung’s galaxy 5 was running an older version of android. I haven’t explored the market that much yet and I was not able [...]

Facebook has the largest population on the world wide web and it has a viral effect on distributing data. They have a lot of ways to pass data from one user to the other and one is by tagging pictures. When facebook started this feature it was so hard to tag friends because you need to tag them one by one and its a time consuming way of letting your friends know that they exist in a picture and now [...]

This morning I started updating ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04 and I was so excited what it feels like to be in this new release of ubuntu. The update took me 3 hours or more (yes my isp sucks, but its the cheapest so far). I was expecting a lot from it because every release of ubuntu something special is always there. The new version of ubuntu is more a like of the netbook version, the structure and placement of menus [...]

This post is intended for wordpress users. When you post a new article on your blog or website wordpress automatically informs/notify some update services to let them know that you have a new entry on your website. This way search engines will be notified for the entry. You can add the update services on your dashboard > General Settings > Writing and on the bottom part add this urls: Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via [...]

When updating to the latest version of virtualbox which is version 4.0.10 errors will appear when try to startup your virtual machine. This happens when you want USB2.0 support for your virtual machine. To fix the error you need to download the VirtualBox 4.0.10 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack, the file has an extension of .vbox-extpack which is a VirtualBox extension package. The extension pack is usable to all platform, I used the extension on windows 7 ultimate version. The [...]

  Simple howto’s when SWAT is not available after you install CentOS.  To start with here are some cli commands to use, [root@goldmine ~]# yum -y install xinetd [root@goldmine ~]#/etc/rc.d/init.d/xinetd start Starting xinetd:                                      [  OK  ] [root@goldmine ~]#chkconfig xinetd on [root@goldmine ~]#yum -y install samba-swat Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about [...]

Yesterday a friend of mine ask if I know how remove his windows 7 WAT so he could explore more with his windows 7 Operating System.  I told him that I have a tool to remove Windows XP Windows Genuine Advantage but I can help him find a tool for it and told him that he’d rather buy a genuine one because we can really never make sure that if we find one it will be permanent but he insisted [...]