November 2005

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Happy 20th Birthday Windows

Yesterday, (November 20) Microsoft celebrated its 20th birthday. Twenty years after the initial release of Windows™ 1.0, we have witnessed how Windows transformed from one version to another. My first encounter with Windows was Windows 95. I was able to play with computers running Windows™ 3.1 back in elementary school days and it was too dull to [...]

What’s the Best PHP Editor?

All the best PHP Editors reviewed; with voting. (At the time of my posting, I seems that the site is down because it got hammered with a lot of users coming from Digg) read more | digg story

The New Java IDE

Sun Java Studio Creator 2 is so cool. I had the privilege to download it because I registered at Sun’s Early Access program. It seems that Sun is aiming at Visual Studio. Take note, this IDE is free! This Java IDE functions like Visual Studio with drag and drop feature and automated code generation. It [...]

NFS Most Wanted

Need for Speed: Most Wanted is the best NFS game I have played so far. I downloaded and played the demo, and it’s stuck in my head. In this game, cars are like weapons; they can be lethal. As the title suggests, this is a speedy car-chase driving simulation game which is more than a [...]

UNIX in Your Browser

This scaled down version of UNIX was written using JavaScript. It’s very cool! The terminal feels like and looks like a real UNIX command line interface, except that it is in your browser. Link: http://www.masswerk.at/jsuix/ Can you guess what the root password is?

IT Salary Guide in USA

I was digging for news when I found this at Digg.com. Salary is one of the motivating factor in pursuing career — but not always. Anyway, here’s the guide so that you can figure out what’s the trend in America. The statistics are quite different in the Philippines because there are some gap between the [...]

The Spoke

I opened an account in The Spoke yesterday just to try it out. The first reason why I really don’t like adopting hosted blogs is the limitation of its look and feel. It’s hard to modify or it is not customizable at all. I still prefer customizing my own blog and writing anything under the [...]