It was last February 20 of this year, Mark Shuttleworth announced to the offline and online community on the upgrade of its Ubuntu OS from 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). It focuses mainly on the improvements of its cloud computing using the Eucalyptus, boot times, improved audio and 3g connectivity, enhanced netbook remix and other related features.

As initially declared, this version is dedicated to the release of new theme but however, the project was just moved to 10.04 in which little improvement was observed in its default theme. Moreover, graphical enhancements, bootup and shutdown splash, login screen, and improved performance on intel graphics chipsets are just some of the added features. And oops, their Firefox is now in its 3.5 version, nice one!


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Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition is already available and is free of charge as confirmed by the Ubuntu team. Click HERE for the free Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition download.

I was just dismayed because there is no Philippines selection in its download location but i bet we can try some tricks.



Happy Ubuntu Day to all.

October 26 is the formal shut down of 15 years in service Yahoo Geocities. The announcement was made last April of the same year but is realized just today. After 26, lots of personal blog and student's project site are no longer available and users/owners can no longer access their files and sites.



For users who definitely love their websites, Yahoo has options and offers you a premium upgrade with their hosting service in just $4.99.

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Everybody remembered why Yahoo decided to do this move, "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways", the company explained.

I remembered my Web and HTML programming subject and my personal sites. Goodbye to you! ~sigh~

Microsoft offers students an option, instead buying the whole package of windows 7 in a box, they can have it download and upgrade their system in a website in just $ 29. The move was great but several students have reported lots of issues and error encountered upon downloading or with in the process of upgrading.



The most common issue that students encountered is the fact that they cannot easily upgrade a 32-bit version of Vista to 64-bit version of windows 7. At the end, it requires a clean installation thus deleting all previous installed components or simply reformatting and installed the new OS.

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These are some of the errors encountered:

Error “We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded.”

Error “This version of the file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.”

Error “An error has occurred. Unspecified error.”

Description of the above errors are being determined at Social Answers of Microsoft and in addition, there is an established thread for possible work arounds of the said errors and others.

This can be a very interesting post ever in my blog.

Speech Recognition is a feature already available in windows vista and is now in full blast in windows 7, the most talked OS online and offline. So how do Speech Recognition and Voice Commands work? As i did my report in Management and Information System, i learned a lot in the field of Artificial Intelligence most especially its most used subfield in business, the Expert Systems. But as of now, what captured my interest is the other subfield of AI, the NLP or Natural Language Processing in which Speech Recognition and Voice Commands are part of. Truly, technology is getting more and more complicated and oops!, of course, useful.



What is Natural Language Processing? This is a process in which human language will serve as input to NLP programs and translate it into a standard set of statements that a computer can execute. And one of most promising product of which is the Speech Recognition and Voice Commands of Microsoft Windows 7.

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And now, let us tackle more on the voice commands. But first, you need to have a high-quality microphone and i believe Microsoft recommends a USB headset model for wise and best performance. After then, we can start commanding our computer with some of below guides, words and/or phrase with their corresponding actions and outcome.

"Start" - Windows Speech Recognition will open and display the START menu
"All Programs" - Of course, this will display all programs installed in the system and after then, you may continue working with that specified program
"open (program)" - this command is applicable only if you already know the specified program and for that, you may skip that navigation part. Example of this is "OPEN MSPAINT"
"File", "Open" - this is applicable only to windows which has menus available
"Show Numbers" - windows speech recognition tags every clickable object with a number in your screen
"Click" or "Double Click" + NUMBER - this will accomplish the command

With individual Windows, you can work with:
"maximize" , "minimize" , "close" followed by the name of the program
To minimize all programs opened say "Show desktop"

These are some of the common Voice commands available in windows 7. I bet i now have 1 reason to grab that Operating System. What ya think?

It seems E-book reading device is the market target of some IT (software and hardware) related companies nowadays. As Amazon recently announced its Kindle to be available in Australia, Barnes and Noble unveiled its device on Tuesday called Nook which is a challenge to Amazon's Kindle.



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Nook is powered by Google's android software and has a black and white electronic ink display feature which is mainly for reading books and small color touchpad for navigation, storing books or making purchases online. The nice thing is, Nookers (Nook Users) will be given a privilege to lend other e-books to other users for free but up to 14 days only. These specified users must be utilizing the Apple iPhone, the iPod touch and certain BlackBerry and Motorola smartphones.



Aside from Nook, Plastic Logic, a Mountain View, California-based company, said on Monday that they will be introducing an e-reader for business professionals called the "QUE" at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. They will then give users the pricing of the said device and its final availability



In addition to this specified market, A US Company named Fremont, California-based Spring Design Inc. also said on Monday that they will soon be releasing a dual-screen e-reader initially known as "Alex" which is at the same time powered by Android.

The first challenger, Nook costs the same price with Amazon Kindle with 259 US dollars. As reported, this device will be available this coming November end.

Will these devices bring down Amazon Kindle and steal its market share?

After two years of waiting, Amazon Kindle will be available in Australia next week. This was confirmed by Amazon Kindle vice-president Steve Kessel. With the help of AT&T, the world's top phone service provider, in providing internet access outside the US, Kindle users can now browse the Kindle website with no cost of book downloading.

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As Mr Kessel said, its more than 200,000 books available for download from the Kindle online store for free. And for magazines and newspapers, Mr Kessel proudly presented that they will soon include Australian published books in the online store because of their tandem and connections to over 100,000 publishers.



Kindle gadget comes in two version, first is the Kindle 2.0 and the Kindle DX. Both come from Amazon, the number one provider of ebooks and online reading materials.

After experiencing a very bad mood due to losing of a 2 GB pst file of my outlook, I was able to receive a news about this online back-up and its not just an ordinary back-up but an unlimited online storage by McAfee which is powered by Mozy.

This service offers an automatic, unlimited storage and protection to all your digital files and memories.



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Protection - it has a feature of encrypting data files for security purposes. Private data will surely be safe
Unlimited - Because of its unlimited storage, users will not be confused of what files are more important to be saved --- "unlimited storage means all files saved"
Assurance - even if you forgot to save all your files but you left your PC idle, no worries - automatic backup will be triggered.
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With above specialized features of McAfee unlimited online storage, users will soon be worry-free. This service is already available in the US for the 30-day trial version and for a year subscription - it only costs $59.99. This is good for windows-type PC only and it will soon be available at 27 countries worldwide including Asia, Europe and others - this is targeted before the year ends.