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HP Ink Cartridges are Expensive! The last thing you want for your HP printer experience is to be rip-offed by unknowingly buying re-manufactured or refilled ink cartridges. Just so you know, re-filled or re-manufactured hp ink cartridges yields lower quality printouts and may actually damage your printer, it prints out less number of pages, it can also void your warranty and most importantly it does not cost as much as an original/genuine HP ink cartridge. How to Check if your HP Ink Read More

How to Create a Network Folder in Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7

Posted by Nikolai On November - 6 - 2011

Setting up a share network folder in Windows is easy.  This tutorial will show you in detail how to setup a network folder in windows. This post is divided according to your operating system. Please scroll down through the sections below according to your appropriate operating system. Windows 7 To share a folder in Windows 7, all you need to do is right click on the folder that you need to share and click on “Properties“. Once you are on the properties window, click on the Read More

Wireless Printer Problems and How to Resolve Them

Posted by Nikolai On March - 25 - 2011

Having a perfectly setup wireless printer can very convenient however it’s not always the case to some. Wireless printer manufacturers like Hewlett-Packard, Brother, Lexmark, Canon, Epson, Kodak and many more always have prioritized in providing consumers easy-setup wireless printers however, there are always those unfortunate cases wherein setting up a wireless printer can be very frustrating and sometimes cause you valuable time and money! I have worked with wireless printers for Read More

I was watching Philippine News today when a Filipino-developed website called SpellDial was featured. The News was all praises to the site and I thought, this site must be good to get featured on the news and even got compared to facebook! So I checked out their website right away and decided to make a full review out of it. What is SpellDial? Well, according to their FAQs: SpellDial is a technology that allows you to dial names instead of numbers. This is applicable only for those who have Read More

MAC Filtering for Improved Security – Why is it Useless?

Posted by Nikolai On January - 23 - 2011

I have heard so many techs saying, “You should enable MAC Filtering for more security on your Network.” Sometimes I wonder if they really know what they are doing. Let me briefly talk about how one could easily bypass MAC filtering. What is MAC? MAC  (Media Access Control) addresses are uniquely assigned to each network card, so using MAC filtering on a network permits or denies network access to specific devices through the use of blacklists and whitelists. By definition alone Read More