Interesting Facts on Women
Amid all the doom and gloom, we can always fall back to these lame jokes. Sorry ladies……
Time to Upgrade Your RAM
If there’s an upgrade you really should do it yourself, it’s adding more ram. When I last checked, a DDR2 PC 6400/800 2GB ram cost less than $40. So what are you waiting for? “But I don’t know what type of ram to buy, whether it’s “compatible, how to change it”. Doesn’t that sound familiar? [...]
Time to Get a Gravatar
Gravatar stands for “Globally Recognized Avatar”, and are the small “squares” of “cool faces” you see in comment section all over the web. If you ever wondered how this is done, basically you head over to Gravatar to register for an account with an email address, and choose to associate a picture with that email, [...]
Update Your Applications with FileHippo
You installed countless programs on your PC, but are you running the latest version of each program? There are several benefits of running the latest version, most notably new features, performance enhancements, and plugging of security vulnerabilities, just to name a few. So how do you check whether a new version of the program on [...]
WinFF - Video Conversion Made Easy
WinFF is a GUI for the command line video converter, FFMPEG. It will convert almost any video file that FFmpeg will convert. WinFF does multiple files in multiple formats at one time. You can for example convert mpeg’s, flv’s, and mov’s, all into avi’s all at once. WinFF is available for Windows 95, 98 , [...]
Web Proxy for Dummies
Singapore has banned access to two pornographic websites in a “symbolic statement” of the country’s societal values, its media regulator said on Friday.The two sites, which the regulator declined to identify but local media named as YouPorn and RedTube, work in a similar fashion to popular video-sharing website YouTube.
TrueCrypt - Opensource Encryption
Encryption is something we know we need, but keep putting it off due to a lack of know-how, or the perceived inconvenience associated. With the prevalence of laptops and ultra mobile PCs in the market, data have become more “mobile”, so too have data theft. Can you imagine the implications of your personal data being [...]
Burn Easy with Starburn
The ability to burn a CD / DVD has gone mainstream, with the disc writing capability now a standard feature on even the most basic setup. However the process / experience of burning a disc differs largely among users as there are a host of paid and free burning software available in the market. For [...]
Portable Apps for Dummies
Have a crucial presentation but the video can’t play? Need to edit an image but no editor installed on your host machine? Need to edit your documents but no documents editor on hand? Worry no more. Whether you’re a student, stay home mum, working professional, or company CEO, make full use of the 16gb thumbdrive [...]
Introducing Social Bookmarking
One of the pioneers of Web2.0 is del.icio.us, and since then, they have been acquired by Yahoo. So what’s their business? To put it simply, they provide you a central repository to store your bookmarks, and offer a intuitive way to categorize them by “tagging”. The social element comes in when your bookmark are automatically [...]
A review of the Web 2.0 cycle
2008 will be remembered as the year of Web 2.0, but perhaps for the wrong reasons. Once again we’re entering the tail end of an economic cycle, however this time round, the culprit has noting to do with the Internet. Web 2.0 has indeed been a thrilling ride, and personally I have gained much, as [...]
Web’s Best Kept Secrets Revealed
Today I just thought of doing something really useful for my friend and families. I have come to realize that what comes naturally to me are actually valuable skills, resources, or practices which should be shared. I am not going for any Web 2.0 solutions or anything geeky. Just REAL and USEFUL solutions which will [...]
Why Bandwidth Will Become a Traded Commodity
Today’s oil prices have been hovering around USD130 a barrel, mainly due to demand and supply issues, although some may argue that oil futures trading is playing a major role in pushing the price of oil to new heights.
Truth about Multi Level Marketing - MLM
I have always tried to explain to my friends and relatives on why MLM is something you should avoid at all cost, not just because of monetary reasons, but it involves things that are invaluable. I have found the perfect way to illustrate the evils of MLM, through the M - C - M relationship [...]
The Money Nexus - What is money?
We all love money. So much so that every aspect of our lives revolves around it. Have you ever truly understood what is this “thing” which you’re spending most of your life after? I found Marx’s explanation of the evolutionary role of capitalism extremely “enlightening” in my understanding of what is money.
About Noel
Neowster is short for Noel's & Esther's Own World. This is a personal hobbyist site, maintained mainly for the purpose of honing my knowledge in WordPress, and sharing useful information or knowledge to make someone's life easier. To a smaller extend, I hope to propagate the ideology of Crowdsourcing, as I see it as the best mechanism in regulating our unregulated capitalistic world, overcoming humanity's trait of greed, self interest, and fear, in arriving at the best decision. 
