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It's my 20th Birthday. I am no longer a teenager. I am no longer a kid. I am an adult now. My body may start to halt its physical growth processes. My sexual functions will mature. My face will start to have dark spots, open pores and fine wrinkles . My peak deepness of voice will come forth. My hairline may start to recede gradually. Yes, my body might stop changing. But my self will not stop changing. I will fast-track my career. I must finish my bachelor degree. Pronto . I must find a job. A decent job. I will find my love. In the perfect time. I will follow Christ more. More and more. His love never fails. Oh, I am twenty. No longer a teen. Twenty. Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life. - Robert Southey KENNETH

Here on Kenneth Porio | the blog , I want to help you get the most out of your daily computing. So I managed to accept this e-mail from an avid reader on this blog to share his tips on how to make a PC even faster. Here's an article from www.slow-computers.com 's author Jesse on how to overcome those slow-ups on your Windows PC. ( Spelling and grammar corrected for clarity, with emphasis added. ) No money wasted. Not a lot of applications downloaded. No more hours spent on learning complex operations how to speed up your system. Just thirteen simple tips anyone can perform!  1. Wallpapers that you use on your computer can make the whole system slower. Better use an essential plain one instead . 2. In the case of graphics cards, new drivers tend to increase system speed. So you also need to update your hardware drivers as soon as possible to speed up your pc. 3. Minimize a lot of programs at the same time reduce the overload on RAM. 4. For booting faster on your compu...

In today's current economic situation, many of this year's UPCAT passers would shun off the opportunity to study in the National University , the University of the Philippines . With the tuition fees that skyrocketed since 2007, it has been a struggle for the poor but deserving students to enter the University. With the continuing reduction of the education budget by the past and present government, the University's population has slowly becoming from those who are well-to-do and deserving. GMA News TV's State of The Nation files a report about a UPCAT passer who desired to enter UP Diliman, but unable to enter due to insufficient funds. <p><p>This page requires a higher version browser</p></p> For the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV This is a wake-up call to all University students to see the reality that many po...

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. ...

As I am on Practicum this summer, I should have something that will keep me busy during my downtime. For that I preferred reading books aside from fiddling with my aphrodisiac Dell laptop. Since knowledge in Software Development is the must-have for my career path, I scanned through stores and our home’s bookshelves to find the perfect ones for me. Here’s what I found: Assembler Inside and Out By Harley Hahn (McGraw-Hill) I’m eager to take the opportunity to study in advance Machine Language programming for a course CS131 (Computer Org and Machine Level Programming) next semester. This book was owned by my uncle when he was in college. Now that I am about to venture into assembly language, I want to be inspired in the beauty of machine language, the foundations of every function I command a computer to do so.   Dynamics of Software Development: “Don’t Flip the Bozo Bit” and 56 More Rules for Delivering Great Software on Time (2006 Edition) By Jim McCarthy and Michele ...