Wherever I May Roam…

Can you imagine how annoying it is to stumble upon handful of cracked Philippine-based government websites? At this day and age where information dissemination is critical to your constituents, we need competent system administrators, sturdy operating systems, and smart users. Oh, and by operating systems, I mean free operating systems such as BSDs and Linux. [...]

After using Thunderbird for years, I’ve finally decided to move on to Evolution. It’s a lighter and responsive alternative to Thunderbird. Besides, the desktop and Empathy integration’s awesome, not to mention Contacts sync via Ubuntu One.

I was at work during the Ubuntu Developer Week, but that didn’t stop me from attending this event via irssi. I was, however, disappointed when I found out that Lernid doesn’t work (yet) from behind a proxy server. And I didn’t get to experience the full potential of Lernid – you know, with the presentation [...]

I’ve recently upgraded to Thunderbird 3 and boy, did my jaw drop. The interface is sleek and reminds me of Google Chrome. There’s also a noticeable performance increase (remember, I’m on a slower netbook) and the search is quicker as compared to 2.x. It also handled my data well (read: no missing email) which was [...]

Gwibber 2.0 is here and available in the PPA. The newly redesigned app is intuitive and the feature to filter out tweets, dents, DMs’, and feeds is a long-awaited addition. Powered by ScribeFire.