It all began with a request from a fellow teacher to teach him how to write a mathematical equation inside his paper. The effort of doing this using ‘normal’ word processor is equal to a session inside the dentist office – painful. So I started the quest to find more suitable tool to east the [...]

Even though I’m not much of a photo person, I do manage my photos. Mostly just collecting-grouping-tagging-retouching (using iPhoto), and resizing (using now not free anymore ImageWell) to be able to easily send to my friend or use the image for my blog. I also have a Flickr account but there was only 3 photos [...]

Call me the upgrade freak as I always have to have the latest versions of everything. But there was one exception: the WordPress installation on my blogs. The reason was that upgrading WordPress was not a walk in the park. If it’s just about downloading the latest version, then there wouldn’t be any problem. Unfortunately, [...]

There might be several reasons why a reader would want to be able to convert a web page to PDF, such as: to share with a non-online friend, to be able to email it or to put it into a PDF device to read later; while still retaining the original form of the page. That’s [...]

Free music is and always has been one of the top internet favorites. (Remember Napster?) While the trend is already shifting from that dark p2p-age to the more civilized crowd, netizens today are still craving for free music and it IS available legally if you know where to look for it. iTunes Freebies With millions [...]

From the perspective of a downloader, there are two species of files roaming around the virtual world: the easy ones and the difficult ones. While the members of the first set of species are easy to handle – ‘Right Click’ then ‘Save As’ and they are all yours, the members of the second set of [...]

As an “active media trader” (a polite term for someone who downloads and shares “lots of things” – wink-wink!), I have a list of applications that I use on a regular basis. One of them is Limewire which (almost) always gives me good file searching results. Recently, I came across an application which looks like, [...]

So, you have finished building your first WordPress blog. Then what? Besides posting, you’ll want to expand the capabilities of the blog by installing some plugins. Then comes the second question; which plugins exactly? There are literally thousands of WordPress plugins available out there. Too many options. Everybody has different preferences, different needs. Not to [...]