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Personas for Firefox
Mozilla Labs released a prototype extension for Firefox that lets you use different background on top of your currently existing theme. At the moment, this prototype is compatible with the default theme of Firefox. I have tested other themes and they looked ugly at some parts so I want to see more customization option in [...]
E-book Reader Face-off
Gizmodo compares Amazon Kindle vs. Sony Reader. They have many differences and I don’t think none of them is the perfect e-book reader, for now. If I pattern this to my trend in buying gadgets, I won’t purchase any of these until a 2nd-generation model comes up or it has become terribly cheap. I like [...]
Yahoo! Messenger 9 Beta
I’m testing the new Yahoo! Messenger version 9.0 beta and it’s quite stable. It has not crashed on me yet or gave me any serious problem. Few things I noticed in this beta version is the ‘detailed’ listing of friends. You have an option to go back to classic ‘compact’ friends list if you don’t [...]
NFS Carbon
Need for Speed: Carbon is the recent installment of the popular Need for Speed game franchise. This year’s NFS Carbon mixed different features found in the previous Need for Speed games with some cool new additions, giving this arcade racing game a thrill that I have never experienced in Underground 1 and 2, and Most [...]
The Departed Infernal Affairs
I watched the movie “The Departed” this afternoon and I was really entertained. I didn’t expect much at the beginning because I knew from reviews that it is a remake of a Hong Kong 2002 movie “Infernal Affairs”. I haven’t watched the original so I did not have any idea how the remake would be. [...]
Lunch @ Kitchen
It was a great experience eating with 16 of my officemates. Yesterday, our team went out to Greenbelt to have our lunch at Kitchen. It was my first time eating there so I was a complete n00b at choosing what to eat. Someone suggested that the “recommended” dishes were marked with the red “inverted K”, [...]
Java in Manila ’06 Redux
Yesterday was Java in Manila 2006, the 3rd programmers conference organized by Sun Microsystems Philippines, Inc. It was fun and I believe that it is worth the money I spent. However, I have some disappointments. I’ll discuss it along the way. For now, I’m going to summarize what happened inside Rizal Ballroom, Makati Shangri La [...]