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

I haven’t been blogging much this week. I was busy fixing things around the house (fixing the water pressure, “hacking the old satellite network, etc) and hadn’t had time to find stuffs to blog. So it has been six days since my last post.
Gosh was I shock when I saw my awaiting moderation comments just […]

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While its competitors languish, Google continues to rake in the money thanks to its hale advertising endeavors.
Yahoo is facing reorganization of virtually its entire business, while Microsoft is seeking aimlessly about trying to develop a cohesive plan of attack to conquer the online world.  Meanwhile, Google is sitting back […]

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Move away Second Life. Now, you can sell your “non-virtual life” for cash online! This includes everything that belongs to you (your entire life possession, friends, job, wife?) and it’s relatively easy! However, selling your life does not mean that you’ll be dead after the auction is over. Instead, it is meant for one who […]

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FRANKFURT–One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal emails or board-meeting minutes, according to a survey.
U.S. information security company Cyber-Ark surveyed 300 senior IT professionals, and found that one-third admitted to secretly snooping, while 47 percent said they had accessed information that was not […]

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“Never let go”
Yahoo is treading on dangerous waters. Amidst a hostile takeover attempt by Carl Icahn, CEO Jerry Yang and Yahoo’s board struggle with the ramifications of their campaign to keep their company from Microsoft at all costs. Their decisions may in the end have sealed their […]

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Firefox’s 3 much heralded launch campaign appears to have worked, with the company reporting that in the first few hours of release 14,000 people were downloading the software every minute.
With each copy of Firefox 3 clocking in at 7MB, that means the company’s servers were dealing with a staggering 13 gigabits of data every second. […]

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As you guys have already known, Google loves “dressing up” on particular occasions. For example, they had a Christmas Theme, Halloween themed search page and many more. This upcoming week will be Gay Pride Week. Hence, Google has already dressed up some of their pages to commemorate the occasion.
Try Google-ing “gay” and you’ll be greeted […]

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This is the basic of all “hacks”. Schaps AdvanceConfig and PHM Registry editor are the two basic tools you’ll need to tweak that sluggish smartphone of yours. Here’s a guide to install the two tools and use them to tweak your HTC Touch Diamond.
First, you’d need to download the files from the links I’d created.
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Google is apparently interested in buying Digg for around $200 million. Rumours of Digg’s imminent acquisition are nothing new, with everyone from Microsoft to Yahoo rumoured to have been interested in the company at some point. However, in a recent interview with The Guardian, Digg founder Kevin Rose admitted that he wasn’t necessarily […]

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Last heard from the PC Show that all the “Diamonds” offered from Starhub are snapped up this afternoon. I’m not sure whether will there be any replenishment of stocks later or even tomorrow.
Elsewhere, UK has already sold out all their HTC Touch Diamonds. It seems to me that Diamonds aren’t just “a girl’s best friend. […]

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