Google office

Google has this new wordprocessing and spreadsheets function. Tried it out, was skeptical at first coz it’s online but turned out Google has truly lived up to the public’s expectation and the critic’s review of : “possible replacement for Microsoft Office suite”. Great interface, cool Google appearance throughout, functional shortcuts, and it can be shared [...]

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Superdrive woes

As a die-hard Apple fan, I was a bit disappointed when my hard disk failed last year. After spending hundreds of dollars for repair, I expected to use my Powerbook for at least another two years.
What did I know? My disappointment grew TODAY, when the superdrive failed to rotate… it simply threw up the DVD [...]

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dark secrets, blogging, and king midas

I've just read a post by Mena, the founder of Six Apart on weblogging and its intricacies, here. She wrote a truly long entry, which I honestly didn't really read carefully, but one thing DID catch my attention.
She wrote about her audience and her writing. How she reached more than 10,000 readership. She wrote about [...]

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Got hot laptops whoot whoot!

Hahaha I'm still heady from the hot deals…
This morning I browsed Fat Wallet (I forgot what I originally wanted to look up), and found a thread for Sony Vaio, 1.6GHz Centrino, for $612 at Office Depot. So I was hooked, but couldn't really find any justification to buy myself a brand new notebook coz my [...]

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keeping up with technology: yes or no

I considered myself quite knowledgeable in the area of technology. Especially if I tag myself with the categories that I belong to: female, Indonesian (generally the two sub-species don't bother with technology). Of course, I'm being stereotypical (people tend to look favourably towards stereotypes only when it benefits them); and I didn't add my other [...]

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