Category Archives: General

On this Earth Day

April 22 is designated as Earth Day, and if you use Google, you would have noticed that today, with their peculiar logo do-up. In the spirit of Earth Day, I just want to share a little known resource, which I think not many people are even aware exists, and that is none other than Google.org.… Read More »

How to quickly create a favicon

Favicons are small images that you can place in the URL bar in your Web browser, and these little icons will show up next to your URL whenever someone visits your site. If you have your own website, getting a favicon to display is pretty easy. I’ll show how it’s done in a few easy… Read More »

Website Grader

There seems to be a new interesting service called Website Grader which generates a report or “grade” based on certain established Web “criteria.” Although it is similar to a few other services that attempt to gauge website value, this one doesn’t put any dollar value to the result. So I tested my blog for fun,… Read More »

Stuck? Ask For Help And Zolve Your Problem

To err is technical and to fix is human. And the platform to fix it, is usually the good old Web. Whenever my computer starts behaving weirdly, and I do not have solutions to bring things back in control, then usually, I look for help on the Web. And it is always exciting to get… Read More »

An accurate definition of Web 2.0

Many people go around sprouting the term Web 2.0 without ever knowing the real definition of it. It’s a little funny, because it implies there was a Web 1.0, when in reality, there was never one. So how different is Web 2.0 from the older version? If I recall, 2007 was the year that Web… Read More »

New Year resolutions

My New Year resolutions? I have none. Not really. New Year resolutions never work, because unfortunately, no one really keeps them. If there is one resolution worth having though, it is becoming more time efficient. If you can accomplish more in 5 hours what would take someone 10 hours, you’d be miles ahead. But there’s… Read More »

OLPC for kids this Christmas

Imagine if each poor kid in the developing world had access to computers. That’s what the OLPC project hopes to achieve. For those who have not heard about it, OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) is a project to manufacture cheap laptops to be used by poor children in developing countries. They’ve come up with a… Read More »