Owning a Café

Seeing Internet Access As Basic Human Right (0)

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More than three out of four (3/4) among the more than 27,000 adults in 26 countries across the world believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right. This result of a poll carried out for the BBC suggested strong support globally for access to the web. The findings come as efforts are stepped up across the world ...[more]

Recent Posts

The Broadband Connection In The Philippines (1)

3/07/10 •

I woke up this morning without Internet connection to my personal computer. Am I surprised? Definitely not. In our third world country, Internet disconnection is so frequent that having none of it in a day will be a surprise if not a gift to a subscriber by our service provider. What makes the normal situation unbearable is that ...[more]

Printing As Service In An I-Café (0)

3/05/10 •

Computer rental used to be enough for i-café to survive as a business. This is especially true for gaming i-cafés at the time when the rent charges range from PhP20.00 to 30.00 per hour. But sad to say, these days when the prevailing rates is between PhP10.00 to 15.00 per hour only, an i-café owner has to find ...[more]

Converting “.docx” Document to “.doc” File (0)

3/03/10 •

This is already an old issue that keeps recurring even to these days and some of us may not yet have the tool to handle the problem so I am blogging about it even at this late in time. Have you received documents with “.docx” extension which you want to read and/or print but cannot do so because ...[more]

The Power Outages And The I-Café Business (1)

3/01/10 •

The news about power supply shortage and brownout schedules is already reaching an alarming level especially to the i-café industry where the income stream completely stops when an outage occur. Power outages or rotating brownouts as they call it now are sure to wreck havoc on the income of the already marginalized i-café industry in the country. An ...[more]

Merging Several PDF Documents Into Single File (1)

2/26/10 •

Were you ever asked by a customer to merge several Portable Document Format (PDF) files into one because he need to either send it to someone or he has to have them combined into one (1) presentation? PDF is the best format for sharing documents because they are compact, formatting is preserved and most computers can easily handle ...[more]

Stopping The Per Pulse Call Charging (1)

2/24/10 •

This is an update on my various blogs about the implementation of NTC Memorandum Circular No. 05-07-2009 ordering the cellular phone companies to bill the phone calls made by their subscribers on per pulse (per six-second interval) basis and not on per minute charging that it used to be. The circular would have been effective since last December ...[more]