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Author: Wilhelm Jourdan

  • Team Philippines bags First Place in 2010 Imagine Cup Game Design Competition

    Team Philippines bags First Place in 2010 Imagine Cup Game Design Competition

    Team Philippines or By Implication (the group’s name) is comprised of students from Ateneo de Manila and University of the Philippines won First Place in Imagine Cup 2010 with a $25,000 Grand Prize! If converted to peso, it would amount to atleast P1,150,000. Wow right 🙂 The Imagine Cup is the world’s premiere student technology competition sponsored by Microsoft which gathers the best developers around the world and harnesses the creative minds of the youth to address problems faced by the world today using the power of information technology

  • 5 steps on how to make your video searchable on Google

    5 steps on how to make your video searchable on Google

    A short video by Nelson Lee, Product Manager at Google on How you can set you video to get searched at Google. Since many are uploading videos everyday it’s really hard to compete but with the right steps and info, you can be sure that you’re video will come up soon on Google’s Search Engine.

  • Apple is giving Free iPhone 4 Cases due to its Antenna Design Problem

    Apple plans to give iPhone 4 users a free case in hopes of satisfying concerns about the design of its antenna and signal problems. CEO Steve Jobs made the announcement (click here for the live blog) during a press conference at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., Friday morning in response to a public-relations crisis over signal issues reported with the iPhone 4, which was unveiled in June.

  • Free Alternative Project Management System to Basecamp using Joomla and ProjectFork

    Basecamp ushered in an era of simplistic, no-frills project management brought on by saturation of complicated project management software like Microsoft Project. Since then, many SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) project managers popped up in competition with Basecamp and it’s model. Another era began roughly around the same time. The era of Open-Source CMS software such as Joomla! and mass adoption by large and small businesses alike. More and more business are moving to Joomla! for its low associated cost and access to many powerful extensions. One such Joomla! extension is Projectfork, a free Open-Source project management solution.

  • Turning your Hoodie into a Laptop Bag

    Turning your Hoodie into a Laptop Bag

    This is a very nice and creative way on how you’ll can make your hoodie/sweater into a laptop bag. 9 steps and wolla! Your good to go 🙂

  • Firefox 4 Beta Launched! What’s New?

    Firefox 4 Beta Launched! What’s New?

    Firefox 4 Beta (version 1) considered to be stable and safe to use for daily web browsing, though the features and content may change before the final product release.

  • Gmail now has a Rich Text Editor for Signatures

    Well, that only took six years. After numerous unofficial Greasemonkey scripts and other workarounds,Google finally introduced its own rich text editor for Gmail this week.

  • Windows 7 Slates coming soon this year

    Although nay sayers still say that tablet/slate computers haven’t proven that they are actually needed in this world, a host of companies are moving forward with producing them. Each of those devices need an operating system to power them, and while there are quite a few going with Google’s open source Android under the hood, Microsoft isn’t going to let Windows 7 sit this fight out.

  • How to automatically shutdown your PC using the Command Prompt

    How to automatically shutdown your PC using the Command Prompt

    Many of us, have already experienced this, that we had to leave our computers but there are some running programs or task that still need to run and finish, maybe its your Anti-Virus running, you’re Downloading something or Defragmenting or any task your doing with PC wherein you can’t just leave the computer running all […]

  • Clients from the Weirderness – A collection of client funny weird stories from Designers

    Clients from the Weirderness – A collection of client funny weird stories from Designers

    Client: ”Can you make the ‘About Us’ link say ‘About Us – Everyone welcome’?” Me: “Sure, but…why?” Client: ”I’m afraid people might not know they’re allowed to click that link. They might think it’s private. We need them to know it’s okay for them to go there.” Me: ”But none of the links on your site are private. Why are you concerned with that specific one?” Client: “Good point. You’d better add ‘Everyone welcome’ to all the links on the site.”