t e c h i e - t a l k s ::: technology at its best

When Fedora Core 6 (FC6) was released, it came with an earlier version of Mozilla Firefox and decided to skip version 2.0 altogether. Hence, if you’ve just gotten yourself a fresh installation of FC6, you’d probably be using Mozilla Firefox version 1.5.x instead of the latest version.
Taken from FC6 wiki:
For a variety […]

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It has been years since Microsoft’s Internet Explorer first step onto the throne of web browsers. Ever since it’s been incorporated in the old days of Windows 95, it has been warming the throne without much competition to overthrow the balance of web browser popularity. The closest ever competition came from the already defunct, Netscape […]

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I’m taking a break today from all the techie talks and what nots. Today I shall spread the word that beauty is not just what we see on the surface.
I always believe that beauty comes from within oneself. Personally, no matter how attractive you are on the surface, real beauty is determined by how you […]

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Sources from F-Secure, a Finnish data security centre, have warned users that there is a fast spreading computer virus (worm variant) nicknamed “Storm Worm” that is spreading like wild fire to computers world wide. The common mode of transmission is by an e-mail attachment. Taken from their website, these e-mails have common headings and look […]

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The reign of the AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) slots is almost over. Not too long ago, a new standard of I/O had emerged, boasting greater scalability and performance, far superior than the former, which then overturned the tables and became the standard I/O technology on every personal computers today. The long 9 years of being […]

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If you had read the article I wrote on the new iPhone a week ago (here), you might have went, “Oh yeah, that looks neat!” However, there is still that feeling of uncertainty for the people who are precautious. Today, I won’t be blabbering too much on the details (because I’ve already written one long […]

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After troubleshooting many PCs, I was thinking to myself; Why not share what I know in troubleshooting PCs to everyone?! It’s much cheaper if you could troubleshoot yourself rather than brining it to a PC clinic. It generally costs a minimum of $40 for a single visit to the doc to just troubleshoot a PC. […]

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    Newton Peripherals, the developer of the MoGo Mouse, has revealed the MoGo Dapter. This tiny device acts as a bluetooth adapter that enables computers without an in-built bluetooth technology to enjoy that wireless freedom. Truely the smallest ever bluetooth designed adapter, it sits nicely into your USB port without anything much protruding out of […]

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Apple launches their long awaited iPhone at Macworld 2007 and it was one hell of a uber sleek phone, which is always the trademark of Apple products. Steve Jobs touted that the iPhone is a revolutionary phone that is going to change industrial standards. What are changes that he was talking about, you might ask. […]

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Most notebooks these days are equipped with WiFi connectivity. WiFi allows us to connect to the internet minus the hassle of carrying around “Cat. e” cables and the agony of finding sockets to plug in those cables. WiFi is great but its range of coverage is limited to the building equipped with WiFi routers or […]

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