When I started this blog a couple of months ago, my knowledge of blogging and the blogosphere was very limited. Over this short period I learned a lot about copywriting, SEO, SMO, Internet Marketing in general, and blog monetization. Heck, I even prepared a four days training on SEO (in Spanish) with very positive review […]
I was shopping at the grocery store today and a rhetorical question I made myself many times came back to me again:
Why do people buy disposable soda (coke) bottles?
I don’t know how the matter is treated in other countries, but here, a coke in a returnable bottle
is around 20% cheaper than the same amount […]
The wait is over! Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0 final release is available for download (be sure to select the language that best suits you)
As I said before, this is a great desktop e-mail client.
Expect upcoming 2.* maintenance releases to add even more functionality to a very robust piece of software that has far less bugs than […]
The rumors about Presently, Google’s Power Point competitor, first disclosed by the Google Operating System Blog are now proven to be true.
This step from Google was obvious for many geeks since the release of docs & spreadsheets, and we were all just expecting this news.
What Google officially annouced is that they are close to releasing […]
As a follow up on my little contribution to Firefox’s marketing stating that you are more likely to earn more and feel younger by using Firefox, I am promoting Thunderbird now.
Even though it is not the first time - and won’t be the last - I promote Thunderbird, some recent events are motivating me.
Thunderbird […]
A recent study shows that Firefox users are more likely to be male, earn more - over 75.000 US$ - and be younger.
Being a young - handsome - geek, and a car owner Firefox user, I have to say that the findings sound very reasonable.
Here is a summary chart taken from the study:
So what are […]
Read/Write Web (excellent site I forgot to mention on the March favourites post) announced the launch of yet another Online Office Suite. It now stands aside Zoho, ThinkFree, Zimbra and the much praised Google Docs.
Jim Lynch has a great article explaining why he switched from OpenOffice to Google Docs. He narrates almost my exact same […]
Following on the post arguing that Windows XP will still be the dominant OS for the year 2009, I am putting up a poll to let you input your predictions.
Vista Market Share for January 2009
Less than 20%
Between 20% & 30%
Between 30% & 50%
Over 50%
View Results
It is going to stay at the sidebar for future access.
You […]
Why make Windows XP checklists when Microsoft has already released Windows Vista, the XP successor?
Well, XP is going to stay around for a very, very long time. Much longer than Windows 98.
Lets see some of the evidence, and analyze some of the reasons.
Evidence of slow adoption of Vista
After two months of its worldwide release, there […]
After installing Windows XP, there are lots of features missing that you are going to need with a 99% chance.
My post installation checklist for Windows XP is as follows:
Office basic apps
Browse the Internet. Open and write documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Receive, send and check e-mail offline.
These are the basic applications for any Desktop PC.
Browser (Firefox)
Office […]
