Archive for May, 2007


Should AdSense Be Displayed on FHM Philippines?

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

I posted about this on my blog way back almost two years ago, but it seems FHM Philippines is still publishing AdSense ads on their homepage (screenshot after the jump). If you refer to the Google AdSense policies, it’s clearly stated that sites displaying mature content may not use Google AdSense.

Firefox takes 25% market share

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

According to the latest stats from W3Counter’s Globe Web Stats, Firefox has now carved a fourth of the total browser market closing in the gap with Internet Explorer which is still at a comfortable 66%. Here is the breakdown of the browser usage based on a May 20, 2007 report:
Web Browsers
1. Internet Explorer 6.0 49.54%
2. [...]

Fixing Firefox’s Voracious Appetite for Memory

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Ok, so its not really a fix… more like a work around. But so far this seems to have worked to help throttle back the Firefox browser’s design to cache pages in memory:

Take the Blogger Usability Test and Earn $100

Sunday, May 27th, 2007

Every once and a while, Google would do usability tests on some of its products to help improve a service both existing and ones still in development. Today, they’re asking for volunteers to test Blogger:

You can help us out and make money just by using Blogger! From time to time at Blogger we run usability [...]

Yahoo Mail to Start Giving out Unlimited Storage

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

On the 10th year of Yahoo Mail (formerly Rocketmail), Yahoo promised to offer unlimited email to its subscribers beginning May 2007. John Kremer, Vice President of Yahoo! Mail, announced on the Yahoo blog the fulfillment of that promise. Starting this Month there will be an incremental roll out of unlimited storage to Yahoo [...]

Digital Filipino’s Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs for 2007 Contest

Monday, May 14th, 2007

Digital Filipino’s Janette Toral is running a contest which seeks to identify the new and promising blogs for 2007. Aside from promoting new blogs, another benefit to the participants according to Janette is to boost link love. Beginning May 19, Janette will list the blogs that were chosen for the top ten as [...]

When is a spam not a spam?

Friday, May 11th, 2007

A few days ago I watched a rerun of Seinfeld at Star World, wherein Jerry Seinfeld lifted a woman’s phone number—a woman he had long wanted to date—from an AIDS charity event. I guess during those days (late 90s, I believe) the concept of customer privacy was still vague to many people. Technically [...]

Check your Election Precinct Online Before Election Day

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Folks, beat the rush and the possible bandwidth limitations the COMELEC website will encounter come election day.
I suggest you check your name with the online COMELEC Precinct Finder as soon as you can so you’ll know if you’re still a registered after the purge and if you still are, your precinct number and place of [...]

Apple MacBook and MacBook Pro Battery Issues

Friday, May 4th, 2007

If you bought a MacBook or a MacBook Pro between February 2006 and April 2007 (like me), watch your battery’s performance more closely.
Apple has recently discovered that some batteries used in its MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks purchased between those dates may have battery performance issues. Apple offers a software update that is designed to [...]

Cool Iris for Firefox, Safari, IE, and Flock

Friday, May 4th, 2007

Snap has come up with different Snap Shots like PreviewShot (screenshot of a URL), WikiShot (text summary of a Wikipedia entry), MovieShot (pictures, bios, and recent projects from IMDB pages), StockShot (stock market information), VideoShot (incorporate videos from video sharing websites), PhotoShot (online album in a shot), ProductShot (Amazon listing of a product) and AudioShot [...]

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