Friedbeef’s Tech

5 Free Tools to Make Your Digg Experience a Better One

30. July 2008

Digg is currently the most popular social media website (Yahoo Buzz doesn’t qualify because it is not open to smaller blogs), and over 60 stories are promoted to the front page and receive massive amounts of traffic. The users who submit such popular posts, are revered and are fondly called "power users". If you [...]

BarCampMalaysia Day 2: It’s all about sharing

27. July 2008

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Welcome to BarCampMalaysia coverage day 2. Noticeably fewer people today, but because the sessions were slightly smaller, I found that it really made for more personable, more interactive and less hectic talks. I also learnt my lesson about picking sessions in barcamp yesterday, as I found out the hard way that technical sessions in [...]

BarCampMalaysia Day 1 : Unconference of the Year

27. July 2008

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BarcampMalaysia certainly lived up to its promise of being an unconference to remember! Great people, open sharing, and a good amount of ideas bouncing around the room – and every auditorium for every session – packed to the brim. To give you a lowdown of the events, I won’t give you a full blow [...]

Friedbeef’s Tech @ Barcamp Malaysia!

24. July 2008

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The world’s most famous ‘unconference‘ will be coming to Kuala Lumpur this weekend! What is Barcamp? BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. BarCamp Malaysia is an ad-hoc conference and is part of the larger BarCamp movement. It will be a social melting pot [...]

Universal Document Converter : A Review

23. July 2008

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Universal Document Converter (UDC) is a piece of software that will allow you to convert documents of any type can be exported into Adobe PDF or graphical files in 7 popular formats: TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PCX, DCX, GIF or BMP. Once installed, UDC will be listed alongside your printers, so within any application, just [...]