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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Looking Back: 'The Conscience of A Hacker' by The Mentor

"The Conscience of A Hacker", also known as "The Hacker Manifesto", is a short essay written by The Mentor on January 8, 1986 at the age of 21. It was written after he was arrested due to being caught playing with a computer, or 'hacking it' so to speak. This essay has been passed on to this date, inspiring a lot on the hacking community especially those who are often miscategorized as a 'someone who does bad things'.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

doc2PDF: A free and versatile document-to-PDF converter

Hey readers! This is a quick blog post about this online converter tool that had helped me for years. This is a feature post about doc2PDF, a free online tool that lets you convert Microsoft Word documents (.doc or .docx) to PDF (.pdf) documents. I also used this to convert OpenOffice (.odt) documents to PDFs. As I say, it's versatile. Since doc2PDF has been a great help, I want to return the favor by featuring them here at L-I.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Plagiarism Over The Internet: Awareness and Prevention

Photo by JLP/Deimos/Corbis

Plagiarism is a serious offense. But still, many commits on doing it. Whether they know that they are stealing other's works, or they are not aware of the seriousness of the act - still, plagiarism is plagiarism. In this digital era where texts are easy to copy and paste and publish to the world via the Internet, plagiarism can easily be done compared to other types of theft like shoplifting.

Monday, February 14, 2011

Creative ways to make use of those defective CDs and DVDs

Prompt: Insert a blank disc. *inserts a blank disc*

Error: Cannot write to this disc. Make sure you inserted a proper disc.
Error: Cannot read disc. Try with another one.
Error: The disc inserted on your cd drive is unwritable.

Okay... So what am I going to do with this now?

It's either your CDs have gone mad and won't work OR you just prefer the cloud for storage and wants get rid of those so-called 'outdated' technology. If you think all you could do is to throw them away and help the environment suffer more, think again.

Sunday, February 13, 2011

Emptying your Recycle Bin Won't Erase your Data

Haven't you got curious why emptying the recycle bin, however large your files are, just took one second to get done?

It has been a great misinformation to Windows users that emptying your recycle bin will permanently remove the files from your computer. Some of us may be aware of this but most users (especially non-techie folks) don't have any idea that emptying a recycle bin won't really remove the deleted files from your hard disk.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Tumblr: Up In The Sky and Continues To Soar

Tumblr, a light blogging platform, was founded on 2007 by the New York-based entrepreneur David Karp. Since then, many bloggers have switched from Wordpress, Blogger, and Typepad to this easy-to-use blogging tool. As of Febuary 2011, Tumblr ranks 60th on Alexa and has an average of 140 million daily page views with 21 million daily visitors. The sudden boom of Tumblr was witnessed by many these last two years. What's their secret?

Friday, February 11, 2011

Huge Solar Storm on 2013 and Its Possible Impact to our Tech-driven life

Photo by NASA/REUTERS

Systems will fail to operate. Electronic devices will stop working.

Five years ago, NASA released a warning that a huge space storm is coming. A solar storm, to be exact. And October last year, they confirmed they are expecting it to happen on 2013.

"The Sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss."

- Richard Fischer, Head of NASA's Heliophysics section.

Thursday, February 10, 2011

CAPTCHAs: Do we really have to suffer?

Photo from CAPTCHArt.com

We are humans, not bots. asfgasfasdsaf

Recently, my sister tried to log in to her Yahoo! mail account. But she was not successful. She tried entering another password, again, a wrong one. She tried another, and another one...

Then suddenly, it seemed like the system was notified of her continuous attempts of logging in. Here comes the CAPTCHAs.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

A Big Change: Update v.04

I've made a major revision here at Loading-Info. I have decided to focus mainly on technology. Yes, you read it right. Loading-Info is now a tech blog. That's why I've hidden my previous posts that are not related to technology. I actually transferred them to my other blog, which is Technopoly (http://technopoly.posterous.com) I figured out that it would be much easier to focus on one niche. So eventually, you will only see tech-related stuff in here from now on, mostly about web technologies and programming stuff. But don't worry, I wouldn't post something that an average person wouldn't understand. (I hate jargons, too!) And if ever I need to post some terminologies, I'll see to it that they'll be properly elaborated. So that's it. See you around. ☺