Member savings collections of the Home Development Mutual Fund, commonly known as Pag-IBIG, reached almost P100 billion as of the third quarter, allowing the agency to finance the higher demand for home loans.

Earnings of Cosco Capital Inc., the listed retail holding firm of tycoon Lucio Co, increased by 10 percent in the nine months ending September on the back of strong operating performance across all its business segments.

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas has launched an investigation into G-Xchange Inc., the operator of GCash, following numerous complaints from users reporting unauthorized deductions on their e-wallet accounts.

Celebrity couple Tom Holland and Zendaya are the highlight names in the cast for Academy Award-winning director Christopher Nolan's next movie.

Actress Lovi Poe launched her debut makeup collection under local cosmetics line Ready Set Glow.

This is my usual Christmas/New Year reminder to never trust Google’s answers (or Bing’s) on opening times of shops over the holiday season, especially if you are thinking of visiting small, local, independent shops. I was contemplating going to our True Food Co-operative but suspected that it might still be shut. A search on my … Continue reading Seasonal opening times – never trust Google’s answers (or Bing’s) →

Search Engine Roundtable reports today that Google is advising against using the link operator in search. It seems that there have been complaints on Twitter and elsewhere that it is returning some odd results. I have never been a fan of the command; it only ever returned a small sample of pages that link to … Continue reading Google link command gone – never much good anyway! →

Locating images that can be re-used, modified and incorporated into commercial or non-commercial projects is always a hot topic on my search workshops.  As soon as we start looking at tools that identify Creative Commons and public domain images the delegates start scribbling. Yes, Google and Bing both have tools that allow you to specify … Continue reading New Creative Commons image search – back to the drawing board I’m afraid →

This posting is for those of you who receive articles from this blog by email, and I am sure that many of you within the EU will have received similar notices from other organisations. On the 25th May the General Data Protection Regulation comes into force and as part of that we need to know … Continue reading Receiving blog postings by email – GDPR →

XnView MP is a cross-platform image viewer used to view, convert, organize, and edit graphical & video files. It is popular with users as it provides many features normally found in commercial image viewers and it supports many image file formats that other powerful image organizers such as ACDSee do not. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8|7|Android|Linux|macOS | Size: 42-92 MB ]

Intel Arc Graphics Driver for Windows is a driver specifically for Windows 10 and 11 with support for the 12th Gen Intel Core processor family and Intel Arc A-Series Graphics.... [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10 | Size: 1 GB ]

Steam Inventory Helper is meant to help improve your Steam market and inventory experience. The Steam Inventory Helper extension is designed to rectify some of the flaws present in the Steam web UI allowing you to focus on buying and selling items. Using it will additionally help find the lowest prices for games. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8|7|Linux|macOS | Size: Size Varies ]

ProgDVB is a universal multimedia program for watching digital TV and listening to your favorite radio channels. It includes the convenience of PiP (up to eight channels simultaneously) while watching your favorite TV content enabling you to keep up-to-date on another program (like a football game for instance) at the same time. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8|7 | Size: 44 MB ]

Dell OS Recovery Tool is a freeware app that can be used to create a USB recovery drive to reinstall the Windows or Linux that came with your PC. Dell OS Recovery Tool is easy enough for anyone to use following the simple four steps in order. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8 | Size: 25 MB ]

Avast Clear (Avast Software Uninstall Utility) can completely remove Avast when the Add/Remove programs option does not work properly. [License: Freeware | Requires: 11|10|8|7 | Size: 13 MB ]

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Frustrating Xbox owners around the globe, reports are flooding in across the web that Xbox Live is currently down. Whether you're looking to jump into a game, stream your favorite shows, or navigate the dashboard, users are finding themselves locked out of any functionality. Users from Reddit to Twitter to my own living rooms are reporting that accessing any service is impossible. This includes playing games, accessing cloud saves, using apps, or even browsing the Xbox Store. The crux of the problem seems to be tied to the Xbox Live login. X...

Hey Geeks! Some big news hitting the wires today. A massive tech outage has thrown a wrench into major services worldwide, messing with everything from public transport to hospitals and banks. Here's the scoop: What's Causing the Outage? The chaos seems to be linked to a software update from Crowdstrike, a well-known player in cybersecurity, providing services to Fortune 500 companies and government agencies, that affected Microsoft cloud systems. This update caused a glitch in Falcon; their cloud file protection system effectively blocke...

In its recently released mobile device best practices guide, the National Security Agency (NSA) goes old-school geek and advises people to turn their phones off and on again....

We're doing it again! 10 lucky geeks and Gamers will receive $100 Amazon Gift cards just for looking around between now and the end of the month. ...

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