Top Stories published by racoma.org in August of 2005

Crisp on-screen text with ClearType

There’s one thing a PC user would never fail to notice when

switching to or using a Mac
: the crisp, clear typeface. You

always get a beautiful rendering of text on-screen. It’s almost

like reading printed word on paper. As Apple CEO Steve Jobs would point out…


Offshoring? Better think twice

I was listening to this August 14 episode of the Chris Pirillo show

during my train ride home last Thursday. Chris and his S.O.,

Ponzi, were just talking about telemarketers calling in during live

airings (or streamings) of the show when a telemarketer selling cable…


AdSense Adlinks: Any Good?

I blogged about ditching the AdSense Adwords at the J Spotter. Seemed like it was not such a good idea to keep the adlinks as a header banner after all.

I got dismal clickthrough rates (as in zarro clicks!), even though it was one of the highest in page…


Cheap thrills: my first review on pinoy.tech.blog

Just posted my first article on pinoy.tech.blog. If you haven’t read about it, pinoy.tech.blog is basically

… an experiment at group blogging with the purpose of

consolidating

locally-relevant reviews of technology…

MacOS X on any PC

I needed a

MacOS-based machine at work. And being the penny-pincher I am, I tried

to avoid having to buy another Mac. Getting a Mac Mini


was an option, with units retailing only for about PhP 40,000. But PhP 40k is PhP

40k, and a cheaper alternative would be definitely welcome.


Dvorak’s Blog Primer

John C. Dvorak (blog, wikipedia), veteran tech columnist and pundit, has a blog primer. 

He must have had this primer up for some time now, but I just haven’t

had enough time before to navigate through his blog to find it.

These were the top 10 stories published by racoma.org in August of 2005. You can also dive into daily archives for August of 2005 by using the calendar at the top of this page.