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Pusoy Dos, ZZips and other Pinoy iPhone Apps

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 10 replies

posted: August 8th, 2009

The number of iPhone Apps for Filipinos (or the Philippines) are growing. Two of my recent favorites are Pusoy Dos (Big2 Poker) and ZZips.

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Firefox 3.5 out and ready for download

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 14 replies

posted: July 1st, 2009

Mozilla Firefox 3.5 is now officially out and ready for download. You can grab the full installer on the site or if you have an old version of Firefox, just go to Help -> Check for Updates.

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Do you ICQ?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 36 replies

posted: April 28th, 2009

ICQ was once the biggest instant messaging service back in the 90s. It used to be the default IM in most net cafes until it was slowly replaced by YM. Not sure what happened but it just faded away.

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Yahoo! and Skype App on the iPhone

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Yahoo. 12 replies

posted: April 2nd, 2009

Two top-notch apps are now available on the iPhone App Store — the Yahoo! App and the Skype App are ready for download to your iPhone for free.

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My wish list for Nokia’s Ovi Store

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Mobile. 9 replies

posted: February 22nd, 2009

So Nokia also announced its upcoming Ovi Store, a centralized content marketplace that will provide applications, games, videos, tones, graphics and more to most Nokia phone owners. It’s practically the same as the Android Marketplace, the Apple App Store and the BlackBerry Application Storefront.

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Google Latitude: Find Friends on Google Maps

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 18 replies

posted: February 4th, 2009

Google has just introduced Google Latitude on top of its mapping service. The new feature enables you to track friends on Google Maps via their GPS-capable mobile phone.

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Intel releases Moblin 2 Netbook OS

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 9 replies

posted: January 30th, 2009

It’s still an alpha version but Intel has already introduced the Moblin 2 Netbook OS.

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Chrome trumps Firefox on Google Pack

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 18 replies

posted: December 16th, 2008

Google Chrome recently got promoted to version 1.0 and dropping the beta label. At the same time, it also got another promotion on Google Pack, pushing back FireFox down as the default web browser.

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Pownce is shutting down

Published by: yuga under: Blogosphere , Freewares. 4 replies

posted: December 2nd, 2008

Another microblogging service bites the dust. Got an email just now announcing the shutdown of Pownce (similar to Jaiku, Twitter and Plurk).

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VLC tops our Media Player Survey

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 21 replies

posted: October 27th, 2008

More than a third of the respondents in the last poll agreed that VLC is the most preferred media player. Windows Media Player came in at a close second.

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Fennec M9: Firefox Mobile Browser Alpha Release

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 5 replies

posted: October 20th, 2008

The much-awaited Firefox Mobile browser (codenamed Fennec) is now out in Alpha 1 release. Problem though is that it’s only available for the Nokia N810 Internet tablet for the meantime.

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Poll: What’s your preferred video player?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Polls. 42 replies

posted: October 6th, 2008

I was watching the new TV series (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) on my MSI Wind and was trying out several video players I installed earlier just to check which one will efficiently play them.

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Is Linux failing the Netbooks?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Personal Computing. 15 replies

posted: October 5th, 2008

Several Linux flavors attempted to go mainstream when they were introduced pre-installed into netbooks. It was free, performs well and doesn’t take up a lot of space. It made sense and seemed like a perfect fit. Or not.

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Take the Mozilla Survey for the Philippines

Published by: yuga under: Freewares. 7 replies

posted: October 2nd, 2008

Got an email from a BizDev guy from Mozilla Corp. requesting if YugaTech readers could answer this really short survey about web browsers and Firefox. “Mozilla is considering doing some new actions in the Philippines in 2009 and having some feedback from Filipino Internet users would be really valuable for us.” Check out this 20-item survey.

Firefox runs to Yahoo for help?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Yahoo. 12 replies

posted: September 19th, 2008

After Google officially abandoned Firefox in favor of its own branded Chrome browser, it looks like Mozilla sought the help of Yahoo to continue to promote its open source browser.

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Nokia Sports Tracker

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Mobile , Web 2.0. 2 replies

posted: September 18th, 2008

Been beta-testing this new Nokia Sports Tracker service for about two weeks now and only recently I’ve been able to post some updates (photos & videos) on my tracker profile.

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Chrome +1, Firefox -1, IE undisturbed

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 9 replies

posted: September 5th, 2008

Google developed the Chrome browser in an attempt to grab a chunk of Internet Explorer’s market share. It was able to impressively get 1% share on day 1, not against Microsoft’s IE, but away Mozilla Firefox and Safari.

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Google Chrome: Thumbs Up or Down?

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 38 replies

posted: September 3rd, 2008

Now that most of us have downloaded and tried the new Google Chrome browser, what’s the verdict? Will Chrome become your primary web browser of will you stick with you favorite one?

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Mozilla not enough, Google develops own Chrome browser

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Gooooogle. 27 replies

posted: September 2nd, 2008

Google has been supporting the development of Mozilla browser for years now but it seems the effort is not enough to gain major market share. So, it has decided to create its own browser — Google Chrome.

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Uzzap extends free service ’til July 31

Published by: yuga under: Freewares , Mobile. 8 replies

posted: July 19th, 2008

Just got word the other day that Smart’s new Uzzap service will be extending its free roll-out until July 31. That means 10 free SMS via Uzzap until end of the month. So far, the most popular section being used is the Chatrooms with over 78 groups (with 20 max capacity each almost full). Anybody here been using it regularly?

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