INFO: Metro Manila Traffic Navigator

Are you by any chance living or planning to live in the Philippines? Or do you plan to visit the Philippines? If you are, chances are you will visit or pass by Metro Manila. Traffic in Metro Manila is probably one of the worst in the world. Traffic will eat up much of your travel...

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TIP: Access All Control Panel Applets/Tools

From reading the features on PIMP-MY-RIG reloaded, you will have probably decuded that the we have this funny habbit of making things efficient. Some find it weird, but this unconventional behavior for us is the norm, it is after all more effective, useful and practical. Always,...

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FUN: System Administrator's Resignation Letter

While rummaging through old CDs today, I found a text file named resignation letter.txt. On impulse, I opened the file and here is what I found. Perusing through, I found it really hilarious. Read on, enjoy, and share the fun. (Credits to the author. Posted for humor ONLY, no pun intended.) Dear Mr. Baker: As an employee of an institution of higher...

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TWEAK: Improve Boot Time with Soluto

Frustrated by your sluggish and unresponsive PC? Soluto is bringing an end to PC user frustration with transparency, killer technology, and your help. The same statements can be found on the webpage of soluto. Soluto (anti-frustration software) will accomplish the above in...

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TIP: Archive Old Messages in Gmail Inbox

Previously, we outlined a tweak to view only unread mails in Gmail. As a supplement to that, let us discuss another tweak -- archiving old messages. If you have been a Gmail user since its infancy, chances are you have tons of emails in your inbox. We need to reduce the clutter...

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INFO: Install Angry Birds on Chrome Browser

The game popularized by its presence on most mobile devices and a recent animation movie -- Angry Birds (by Rovio) -- is now on the Google Chrome browser. And you don't have to pay for it. It's absolutely free! To install, browse to the chrome web store > Apps > Games...

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TWEAK: Tips to Improve Page Speed Performance

I was having a conversation with a fellow administrator (he is a webmaster on the side and wishes to remain anonymous) about blogs over coffee and I mentioned about having a blog. He told me a very valuable tip that I thought I would likewise share -- page loading performance....

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INFO: IT Graduates Not Well Trained

I didn't graduate from an IT course, nor is my degree IT related but my work is IT related. When I read this story, it definitely caught my attention. I can relate as most of my knowledge in IT, I didn't gain in school but rather from job experiences. But even though I graduated years ago, not much has changed.. or so it seems. More on the story as...

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INFO: IPMP or IP Multipathing to Improve Resiliency

High availability (HA) is a system design approach and associated service implementation that ensures a prearranged level of operational performance will be met during a contractual measurement period. (source: wikipedia). Tweaks about high availability are not taught in school. Either you learn it on the job or seek knowledge from sites on the net....

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INFO: AutoPatcher -- Install Windows Updates Offline

How many times did you have to leave your computer, after a format, to download the updates you had before it? How many times did you have to go do something else, leaving your friend’s computer download the load of updates with their poor little dial-up modem? How many times...

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INFO: npackd -- Package Manager for Windows

Most of the operating systems I'm familiar with come with a package manager to simplify installs, uninstalls, and updates. Maybe I'm just used to *nix way of doing things and its command line. However, these operating systems have provided sysads the easier job of administration...

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FAQ: uTorrent -- Stopped By User Activity

"There’s No Such Thing As A Silly Question" -- does the cliche sound familiar? In this part of pimp-my-rig reloaded, technical questions are answered. Mail them to me and I will post the answers here. If you have a better answer, by all means share it with us. FAQ. A friend...

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INFO: AIMP2 Music Player Review

I'm not an audiophile but I love listening to music. Famous playwright Shakespeare once said, "If music be the food of love; play on." Music touches our lives in strange and unique ways. Music can set the mood, make you relax and just take away the stress of everyday life, and...

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S/W: Mozilla Firefox 5.0 Just Out

Firefox is the award winning next generation browser from Mozilla. Firefox empowers you to browse faster, more safely, and more efficiently than with any other browser. Make the switch today - Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing...

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TWEAK: Adding Custom POI to your Garmin GPS

Now that the GPS has a map, let us maximize its potential by putting its features to good use. The feature we are aiming at is the custom points of interest (or POIs). This could be a very lengthy discussion but for now let's limit it to the basic use -- making it work on your...

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TWEAK: Using GmapTool to Create Finalized Mapset

In a previous post involving the upload of maps to a Garmin nuvi 255W, one of the methods used is to use mass storage mode. However, if you don't have a .img file to directly copy to your GPS unit, this method is practically futile. True, the method is useless but not entirely...

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TWEAK: Peer Squid Caching Proxy Server

Following up with the install and configuration with another squid proxy tweak.. Setting up your own squid caching proxy server on your very own Windows machine at home is very beneficial, but there are more of those that remain unstated. If you happen to have multiple caching...

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HOW-TO: Squid Caching Proxy Server in Windows

Having a caching proxy server even at home can have a lot of benefits. For one, having a caching proxy server can make browsing faster. Data frequently used can be served by the proxy instead of fetching them from the webserver itself. This is how a caching proxy server can...

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INFO: Garmin Mapsource Error Upon Install

When I first received my GPS, I was overwhelmed with excitement -- for one, over the fact that I got a very nice gift, and the overwhelming urge to use it the following day. But it took a bit more effort to upload a compatible and usable map to the Garmin nuvi 255W. For me to...

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ARTICLE: Flash Without Adobe Flash Player

Flash is making eye-candy on the web. It enabled some applications to interface with browsers. Even movies and clips are streamed online using flash. Dynamic contents are delivered via scripts to flash containers and displayed to the end user in a nice interface. But did you...

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HOW-TO: Uploading Map(s) to a Garmin nuvi 255W

I have lived in the Philippines almost my entire life. But I don't know my way around quite that well. And to be honest, I haven't been around to many of the tourist destinations either. Most of you may have visited far more places than I have been to. But thanks to technology,...

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INFO: What Exactly Happens in Facebook Every 20minutes

This demographic is really interesting. Click on thumbnail for a larger image. (credits to the owner)...

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HOW-TO: Install Windows 7 Using a USB Flash Drive

On an earlier how-to, was posted a tutorial on how to unify Windows 7 x86 and x64 installers into one DVD (or one DVD image). However, not all computer systems nowadays come with an optical drive -- like the DVDs or the more advanced Blurays -- but most computer systems have...

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FAQ: Execute WDidle3 via Virtual Floppy Drive

"There’s No Such Thing As A Silly Question" -- does the cliche sound familiar? In this part of pimp-my-rig reloaded, technical questions are answered. Mail them to me and I will post the answers here. If you have a better answer, by all means share it with us. FAQ. When I published...

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