In another post, I told of my troubles with LibreOffice and Outline Numbering and how it stopped me from setting a table of contents in a...

I love Google Drive. Specifically, I love Google Docs. It gives me what I always wanted. A word processor on demand, whenever, wherever I n...

I few weeks back I faced a problem with PDFs . I needed to combine several PDFs into a single PDF . The solution was to use Ghoscript. (I l...

Update: I've given up on the proprietary ATI drivers. Read on to find out how to remove the ATI proprietary drivers. In my previous p...

I received a comment after my recent post on how to combine PDFs . The result was that I was reminded of another PDF tool called pdftk ....

Update: By all accounts, the pageview count has been restored. No official explanation from Blogger yet.  I loaded my Blogger dashboard t...

Recently, I had to figure out how to join pdfs files into one. This used to be something non-trivial. Nowadays, you can use SimpleScan t...

Warning: this is a rant over 10 years in the making. I don't know why it doesn't bother other people so much. Maybe because they ha...

I was listening to the Linux Outlaws podcast . Well catching up more likely. My time has been quite filled up lately and I'm behind on ...

A friend of mine asked me to install Linux for him. Now, I get that request a lot but this friend of mine isn't your typical PC user. I...

There is still life for the Linux desktop. No matter what the Mac guys say or the Windows guys thumb about, Linux on the desktop will not g...

The OpenWebOS project announced recently the beta release of the storied OS. In a surprising twist, there were two build releases announc...

Linux gaming can be a contentious subject. For a long time, the question was what is Linux gaming. Hardcore gamers were defining it as some...

I read this on a dumb terminal '92. It is Linus's post on comp.os.minix inviting other users to suggest features for an OS he was...

Click on image to see larger version ..at least in Malaysia. Is Dell hedging it's bet in the face of a possible future where Micro...

Although I an writing a piece on the Apple vs Samsung decision last week, I found myself having to take breaks from writing. Not for la...

It's hard to really gauge the value of money between countries. I don't mean currency exchange. Since they can be traded, they ...

A admin friend of mine asked me some time ago whether I knew how to prevent a user from burning a DVD on their office PC. I told him that...

I hate my Blackberry. It represents to me the most intrusive Microsoft-soaked influence on my life. My Blackberry Bold is temperamental, ...

I am a writer at heart. Just look at the number of blogs I contribute to (listed as the Techsplatter network at the bottom of this page)....