KENNETH PORIO | the blog

I happened to pass through the shelves of the newly-opened branch of  CD-R King , a local consumer electronic goods store and one of the country's biggest supplier of optical media and related products, at the new  Abreeza (an Ayala mall) in my hometown Davao City. YugaTech has recently blogged about this new product they are selling and Netbooks.ph have been spreading this rumour about this since the end of 2010. Now I wonder how this new gadget, the CD-R King Fastbook ultraportable laptop ,  would click to the "budget-conscious" masses with its price of PhP 15,500.00 (about US$ 355.95). Let's investigate after the jump. I went in for a peek on this gadget and I mistaken this computer for a netbook, due to its small size and weight. But with its 11.6-inch LED-backlit LCD screen, I already assumed to be an ultraportable. But processor-wise is this really an ultraportable? As I looked into the box and the laptop itself, in it was a sticker that let me confirm tha...

Pros : Easily adjusts the power consumption of your PC's processor. Works in the background, without you thinking of it. Simple, no-nonsense interface. Lets you monitor your electric cost savings. Can extend battery life for 30 to 60 minutes more. Cons : Needs PC to be at least 6 to 7 years old. May conflict with battery-monitoring software. Needs administrator access to view electric savings. May crash on Windows XP. Summary : Granola has been on my PC (a Dell Latitude D420 running Windows XP SP3) for at least 5 months now, and I am very satisfied with its performance. I found this program over the Web while finding a program that would make my laptop battery last even longer. When I installed the program, all I saw was a simple, unobtrusive dialog box calculating the savings I would get from using this program, including cost savings, energy savings and carbon savings. As of this writing, I will save about US $ 38.00 for a year. That's enough to pay 1 month of my famil...

Hi there, friends! While I'm doing my study with Flash for my Practicum, I took a break and scoured through the Web to find some interesting things. And with that something from my memory bank flashed: my first Windows experience . Before Linux came out in the open, I've been acquainted with computers since I was just a little toddler. I can really remember how my Papa told me how to type MS-DOS commands like cd , dir , rd , date , and  many others. I was interested on how that command line can do many wonderful things: type text, play games, add numbers, everything . But my knowledge ever increased more when I experienced a GUI-based operating system... Windows. And that version: Windows 3.1 Windows 3.1 came to us when my dad had some computers from his previous work being fixed. He had those stack of Win 3.1 installation floppy disks that fill an entire floppy case (those were those 5-1/2" disks then!). What I remember about 3.1 was the very simplistic UI. ...