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November 24, 2006
A good friend of mine who does not have Internet connectivity at home confessed a few weeks ago that whenever he wants to get on to the Internet, he g...
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October 26, 2006
Last Friday, I spent about an hour at a Government Department that shall remain nameless conducting a transaction which ordinarily should take a few m...
MP3, OGG, Vorbis, Flac… Eh?
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September 22, 2006
Ever since computers picked up the handy ability to play decent-sounding music, fans have overwhelmingly defaulted to the MP3 format for audio files b...
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August 25, 2006
E-Commerce is technically defined as a process where Financial Transactions like Shopping are carried out through Electronic Media like Television, Te...
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July 28, 2006
W ell Carnival is over, and you have all of those great shots of friends and family frolicking in the sun with your spiffy digital camera. Now what do...
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June 23, 2006
There are a couple areas in which speech recognition can be extremely useful. For one, there are physically challenged people who don’t have proper ...
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May 26, 2006
When technology works, it really works, and when it messes up, it can really turn your life upside down. We can identify with that here at Searchlight...
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April 28, 2006
For the non-texters among us, the caption of my article is translated: “Are you a texter?” “RU” is a term that is part of a new language spawn...
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March 31, 2006
As a school girl, whenever I was assigned a project, I would head to the school library or the Kingstown Public Library to conduct my research. These ...
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February 24, 2006
Next time you are at a loose end, try googling yourself. For those who do not know, you google yourself by searching for your own name on the Google s...
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January 27, 2006
I recently got a notice from my bank that as of December, 2005 personal savings account statements would only be provided twice per year instead of mo...
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September 23, 2005
Every now and then, our Prime Minister uses a word or phrase which catapults it from relative obscurity into a place of prominence in our Vincentian l...
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August 26, 2005
We are at the time of the year when many young persons are called upon to make choices that will eventually lead to a career. In chatting with some of...
Best kept secret of the education revolution
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July 22, 2005
The National Institute of Technology (NIT) is, to my mind, the best kept secret of what is being called the Education Revolution. I am not sure why th...
Blackberry gets two thumbs up
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June 24, 2005
For the past two weeks I have been walking around with my newest toy. To be honest, I was a little skeptical at first as to its usefulness and whether...