Cope With Tech - by Eric John Emberda

Many of us will surely text many if not all of our friends, greeting them a happy new year. An SMS message will cost us P1.00. If we greet 100.00, we will be spending P100.00 (not counting those that are sent twice--network bug). Well this is the perfect time that we avail of those promos. What I will share is from Globe and Smart networks only. For Smart subscribers, you may want to avail of the all-text promos: ALLTEXT 20 P20 = 100 texts SMART to SMART / Talk 'N Text & 10 texts to other networks Text AT20 to 2827 Promo runs until March 31, 2009. Per DTI-NCR Permit No. 5310, Series of 2008. ALLTEXT 40 P40 = 200 texts SMART to SMART / Talk 'N Text & 20 texts to other networks Text AT40 to 2827 Promo runs until March 31, 2009. Per DTI-NCR Permit No. 5347, Series of 2008. ALLTEXT 50 P50 = 300 texts SMART to SMART / Talk 'N Text & 30 texts to other networks Text AT50 to 2827 ********************************************************************** For Globe Subscrib...

It's been a few days since I started using the Edimax BR-6204WLG wireless router. Features were great. I got the computers connected to the Internet with very less effort. I got my laptop connected wirelessly, and I got the security of the router tightened so that my neighbors won't be able to connect unless they had my permission. There was one problem though: PORT FORWARDING. I just can't get it to work. The setup was fairly simple. I specified the IP address of the local computer that serves as my web server, and specified port 80. I then tried to access it using the public ip address but I get a page load error: the server is taking too long to respond. I'm using Apache web server. I thought it was the firewall I had so I disabled it and tried to access the webserver again but with no luck. I then tried a different web server which was Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS). Dang! it still didn't work. I added this local ip to the router's demi...

TechRepublic just posted the 10 most influential leaders in business technology in 2008. Here is a summary: 10. Bill Gates, Microsoft 9. Mark Templeton, Citrix 8. Steve Jobs, Apple 7. Safra Catz, Oracle 6. Eric Schmidt, Google 5. Marc Benioff, Salesforce.com 4. Anne Mulcahy, Xerox 3. Craig Barrett, Intel 2. John Chambers, Cisco 1. Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard

Tools used in this example: 1. C# Express 2008 2. MS SQL Server Express 2005 3. Crystal Reports 10 I. Create the Report File 1. Click on File->New and select "As blank report" (The Database Expert wizard shows) 2. Expand the "Create New Connection" folder, and expand OLE DB (ADO). A window will appear. 3. On the Provider section, look for SQL Native Client. Select it and click Next. 4. On the Data Source combo box, type in the name of your server. (Mine is RIXX\SQLExpress) 5. Select the Integrated Security checkbox so that it uses your windows account for authentication. 6. Choose your database from the Database combo box and click finish. I have a database with the following attributes: Name: TestDB1 Tables: TestTable1 Columns: Id, Description Data: Id Description 1 aaa 2 bbb 3 ccc 4 ddd 5 eee 7. Add your tables to the Selected Tables section a...

I assume that readers of this post are new to C# and have basic knowledge in programming and software application installation in Windows. Download the C# Integrated Development Environment (IDE) (You can download the free express version ) After downloading the IDE, install it. The latest version of the C# IDE as of this writing is the C# express 2008 version. On the upper left corner, you can find a window-like box. Click on "Project..." next to the "Create" label. The following window will appear: the default project name is WindowsFormsApplication1. Change it to your desired project name. After clicking the Ok button, the following should appear: Program.cs is the main program file which calls the Form1.cs so that when you run the application, the form appears firsthand. On the Toolbox tab at the left side of the IDE, drag and drop a "Label" control to the form. The "Label" control has its own properties which can be accessed from the lo...

Got invited by one of my students to Ciao .It's a community site that is intended for the world's consumers (various products). What's interesting is that the site pays for your reviews from computer peripherals to kitchen appliances buying guide . Not only do they pay for reviews, they also pay for the comments you put on other users' reviews. Cool right? Well, if you're asking if they really pay or not, I cannot answer that yet as I have only made $4.21 as of today. They only allow payment requests when you reach $5. It's just a matter of time before I reach that amount and I verify if they really pay or not. I will be posting the results here. As far as I've heard, the site is really legit. Well, you'll never know unless you try. If you decide to join , then add me up. My user name is fiShBoN3.

Just another dull moment. Decided to take some pictures and a video from my colleagues macbook.