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HP Pavilion Laptops Suck

May 22, 2009 Gadgets by Flisha 8 Comments

So. My HP Pavilion DV2000 (DV2315nr to be exact) is finally unresponsive. Again. After a full year since its motherboard was fully replaced by HP after I brought it in for repair because the video display would freeze or my computer would hang or it would not boot up –...

Label Feeds in Blogger

February 4, 2009 Blogging, Tutorial by Flisha 2 Comments

I am sure many Blogger users out there admire the myriad plugins and functionalities of WordPress. I am one of those admirers. I especially like that there’s a WordPress plugin for category feeds, or label feeds. It’s not immediately apparent that the same is available in Blogger, since it’s never...

Philippine Proposal Requires License of Bloggers (Full Text)

January 22, 2009 Blogging by Flisha 4 Comments

Is the Philippine government trying to tax bloggers? That seems to be the case, judging from an inconspicuous proposal posted on the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) website. Here is the crux of the matter. They want everyone on the Internet to register through them… Contents, Information, Applications and/or Electronic...

AVG Solve Error "Invalid Update Control CTF File" in Vista

January 17, 2009 Tutorial by Flisha Leave a Comment

AVG has been bugging me for an update the last few days. But whenever I would try to update it, it would always give me the error “Invalid Update Control CTF File.” I hadn’t tweaked any of my settings except regularly cleaning my cookies and caches with CCCleaner. (Speaking of...

A Netbook for Travelers

December 21, 2008 Gadgets by Flisha 1 Comment

Nanobook, netbook, UMPC, it goes by many names. I call it a mini laptop. My mom just bought an Astone UMPC laptop for herself for Christmas and it’s soooo tiny! She’s not a geek like me (or anything remotely close!) and she only wants the thing so she can bring...

Read Ebooks, SaveTrees

December 11, 2008 Apps by Flisha 3 Comments

Backpackers, bookworms and hybrids rejoice. Books don’t have to weigh you down when you travel, and you get to preserve nature all at the same time. Yay for ebooks! The four most popular formats for ebooks are PRC (Palm open format), LIT (Microsoft reader format, download app here), HTML...