Digital Life by Chin Wong
Tyranny of data caps — Part 1
COMPETITION is supposed to give consumers a choice. This is why the growing trend among telcos to impose data caps...
Privacy tools
IT seems almost old fashioned these days to speak of online privacy, when most people carelessly share so much of...
Your digital shadow
AN issue that took centerstage at last month’s RightsCon Southeast Asia summit was digital security, an increasingly important consideration in...
Defending our rights online
THE widespread use of the Internet and social media has done much to promote personal and political freedoms, but our...
Brave GNU world
WHEN I wrote about free software guru Richard Stallman last week, I didn’t realize I would have the opportunity to...
Software freedom
IT all started in 1980 with a paper jam. Richard Stallman, a 27-year-old programmer at the time with MIT’s Artificial...
Do more with Dropbox
MORE than 100 million users today keep their files synchronized across several computers, tablets and smart phones, simply by using...
Cut the crapware
The recent scandal over spyware that came installed on millions of new Lenovo laptops reminds me why I’m so happy...
The grandma experiment
HOW do you set up a computer that’s so easy that even your grandma can use it? This was the...
Mac keyboard shortcuts
FOR most people, using a mouse or a trackpad is the easiest way to get things done on a Mac....
Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.