Archive for April, 2006
April 22, 2006 at 10:36 pm · Filed under computers, web
After spending much of my time surfing the internet and helping friends and family on fixing their computers, network and spyware removals, I decided to why not offer it to others in the community. Some people can’t afford to pay somebody $25 or more per hour to fix their PC. I am offering my service for free. Yes, FREE, only via email for now. I can help them with their computer problems via email, chat or phone or even remote control. In the future, I might do this as a full time job and get an my own office and not my house.
I posted an ad on our local paper and hopefully emails will start coming in. Why am I excited about this? I want to know how to be the tech support of the community and knowing that I am helping other people on their digital experience is a big accomplishment to me. It is priceless.
April 15, 2006 at 10:53 pm · Filed under web
I was looking for a good backup or sync-ing app that will organize all my files across the network and I stumble upon this service. It is called FolderShare which got acquired by Microsoft. I heard this before on command-N but for some reasons I did not install it. It could have been still not publicly available. I love SyncToy but one of my PC cannot run it –go figure. I load it, run it, shared with some friends, it ROCKS!! File sharing within your group, legally. I don’t see any slow down on the server side as of now with only two users logged in to my folder.
This could be a killer of orb if not for java. It requires java to run the web access. My phone does not support java, even orb do not work well because some webpages has huge file and will not load properly. My rants with orb will be discussed next time.
April 11, 2006 at 8:15 pm · Filed under music, web
If you have heard of Peerflix already, you’ll love this new CD trading service by Lala. Lala works by YOU trading your own CD library and for every CD you trade you get one from your WANT LIST. It is the same as Peerflix but you just cannot buy your trading points (peerbux on Peerflix). Lala still on beta so invite only guys. But tell you what, I signed up to get the invite and after 3 days I received the invite and I’m in!!
The selection is good and the user interface is neat. It also shows users who also listen to that album. It has better user interaction compared to Netflix. You can say any blurbs to that user, turn it into conversation or request any CDs as well. When you view the album, like any other music store, you can preview a 30-sec audio clip.
I’ll definitely list some of my CDs I want to trade here. I hope Filipinos will see this service and trade some OPM (Original Pilipino Music). I have been longing to have this service and to see OPM albums… oh my, that will be AWESOME!! My username on Lala is kycz if you want to check out my collection. If it’s empty, that means I am being lazy. I have not listed but 2 on my list when I wrote this entry.
