Long distance traveling is all about spending a large amount of time on the road. Once I had to sit for more than 24 hours on the bus on my land trip across the island of Java. The obvious question is: what should you do during those long sitting hours? You could sleep, read books, [...]

So you’ve come up with the million dollar idea when you took a shower one morning. You entertained your imagination with a scenario about cashing out on it and living the life of the rich and famous. Then you finished showering, continued your life with the 9 to 5 routine and totally forgot about that [...]

Time moves a lot faster in the virtual world. Less than a decade ago, embedding videos to websites was an absurd concept. Now it is exactly the opposite, videos are everywhere. People have no choice but to consume hundreds of megabytes of streaming video as their snacks. Unfortunately, unless you are living in Finland, a [...]

I guess it’s true that there’s a first time for everything. After years of watching people doing presentations, I finally got to create my own. I wanted my first time to be special, so I tried to find ways to make sure that mine was not going to be “just another boring presentation”. I noticed [...]

Just in case you didn’t know, our site is currently holding a T-Shirt Design Contest. There will be three winners and each will go home with $200 in their pocket. The basic requirement of the design is “something cool looking that people (techies) would WANT to wear”. I’m sure that many of our readers would [...]

In this article I’m going to describe how to dissect and assemble PDF files using Preview. As a writer, I search, filter, sort, collect and manage writing materials everyday. But my first time doing data gathering routines was back at elementary school. At that time, my teacher asked us the students to collect newspaper clippings [...]

I’m sure everybody is familiar with the terms “Love at first sight” and “First impression will last forever”. Those statements tell you the importance of first impression. There’s even a statement saying “You only have three seconds to make your first impression”. In the terms of web presence, the first thing that people will see [...]

One of the requirements to be a favorite movie player is the capability to play multiple video formats. There are tons of formats out there and no player could survive the harsh competition by supporting only one format. Every computer user has their own choices of free video player(s). Most Mac users prefers Apple’s own [...]

Ask any Mac user what torrent client that they use, and most of them will definitely answer Transmission. So far it’s arguably the best one out there. But that situation is about to change with the arrival of Folx. You can say that this app is a 2-in-1 suite: internet download manager and torrent client. [...]

In this article I’m going to cover a bit about how cloud file sharing works. No normal human can live alone and being social creatures means that we live and interact with others. We also share things with others, starting from small things like children’s pictures and cooking recipes to something grand like religious beliefs. [...]

There are two things that you can do to be more productive in using a computer: improving yourself as the user, and improving the computer itself – either by upgrading the hardware or by using additional applications to enhance the hardware. For laptop users, the Windows trackpad is one of the vital components that will [...]

Choosing a cool, special birthday present is always a problem for me (and most of the people I know). Price tag aside, the biggest headache is choosing the item that the birthday boy/girl would surely love. Vouchers are always a safe bet but they’re not personal. Luckily, I had this conversation with my buddies a [...]

I’m not afraid to admit it: I’m an amateur photographer who rarely gets excellent shots – maybe only less than 15% of all my shots are good. Most of my other photos are OK, but they could be better. I’m sure this happens to most amateur photographers. That’s why there are photo editing tools out [...]

In the previous article, we discussed how to set up your own self-hosted WordPress so the look can be edited live directly in the browser using a web service called Stiqr. And as promised, we’ll now look deeper at building web pages for free with the web editing tools from Stiqr in this article. I [...]

Ordinary self-hosted WordPress users know only too well that even though choosing and using thousands of available themes is a snap, creating one is an almost impossible task. You could use one of the customizable themes to modify the look to your liking, but that’s as far as you can go. Theme creating is not [...]