UAAP champions

A sign from the La Salle crowd read: the championship is back to Taft

Hehe. Congratulations to the Green Archers! You are the championship!

Song for Mary

All Ateneo graduates should know the school hymn by heart. If you need practice, check out the lyrics here.

With regard to that other post

My grammar was recently corrected regarding the use of "with regards to" instead of "with regard to". I must admit, it was the first time I realized that there shouldn't be an S in that phrase. (Now I'm so paranoid I feel like everything in this post has grammatical errors. Hehe.)

Well, I searched the net to confirm the correct usage and felt relieved that it is a common mistake after all. Interestingly, my two excerpts are from newspapers. Here's one from the Manila Times and another from news24.

Essential Downloads

I've always been an internet privacy/safety advocate. Be sure to have the following installed on your computer (and know how to use them):

• Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Personal Edition - This is the most downloaded (therefore most trusted) adware/spyware remover on the net to date. Get it here.
• Spybot : Search & Destroy - A preffered tag team partner of Ad-Aware. (Actually the second most downloaded aw/sw remover on the net. Get it here.
  
• AVG Anti-Virus - One of the best FREE and reliable anti-virus software. Get it here.
  
• Avast! 4 Home Edition- If AVG isn't the best, this is. #1 is really a toss between the two. Get it here. (Check the bottom of the page)
  
• Zone Lab's ZoneAlarm Personal Edition - For me, the easiest (yet still very reliable) FREE third party firewall for your computer. Get it here.
• Mozilla Firefox Pre-Release - As mentioned in an earlier post, I've switched to Mozilla. Has pop-up blocking without the hidden aw/sw. Get it here.
  

Of course, XP users should always have their auto-update turned on and their updates installed.

With all of these software fully functional on your computer (using just one anti-virus software will do) I guarantee more peace of mind with regard to the safety of your computer and its precious data.

Browsers: Mozilla and Google

After the Google IPO and Gmail, it looks like a Google browser is next in line. Ooohh, I wonder what that's going to be like. It's reported that they'll be building on the open source Mozilla browser.

I am a recent convert to Firefox. I install it on any computer I touch. (so most of the office computers already have Firefox) As far as I'm concerned, it's less buggy than Internet Explorer. I have also grown to love the tabs feature. The only scary thing about it is that its default setting is to accept all cookies. I don't know why. It also wants to remember all my passwords, which is weird. Wouldn't computer nerds (the people who live and die using open source software esp. Linux, OpenOffice, Mozilla) be concerned about privacy issues?

Back to the Google Browser, I wonder what it will be able to do. Knowing Google, I am hoping for the best.