Benton Pena @ technology + culture + life and everything in between
Hello and welcome to my personal website. Here you'll find some information related to my interests. Please note that views expressed here are my personal views. Some news and articles from friends and family are posted. Some Articles and News are in Spanish. Web Hosting provided by: Dreamhost
Post Affiliate Pro, Virtuemart and Paypal
Post Affiliate Pro and Paypal integration in VirtueMart. This information is very useful if you already have VirtueMart working in your Joomla site. I may say you have to configure Paypal to return after a purchase. To do this:
Login to your Paypal account –> Profile –> Website Payment Preferences Turn on Auto [...]
How to open a Bottle of Wine with Your Shoe
Got a bottle of wine on hand but no corkscrew to get it open? You can argue all you want about whether or not the guy in this video really needs more wine, but you can’t argue with the results.
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Xerox’s silver ink
Xerox researchers have invented a kind of ink that can conduct electricity and be used to put electronic circuits on top of plastics, film, and textiles. That means in the coming years we’ll be able to wear or bend our electronics. You could even print out your electronic gadget on plastic sheets, as if you [...]
GeoCities closes tomorrow!
My first personal website was hosted by GeoCities back in 1990s I don’t even remember the year but. I was free hosting limited in scripting but good enough on HTML. GeoCities was the place where many a modern-day internet nerd cut his or her teeth.
Now days hosting is fairly cheap and accessible, but was the [...]
Five Best Portable Apps Suites
Grab a USB and pimp it up with these apps…
Liberkey (Windows, Free)
PortableApps Suite (Windows, Free)
Portable Linux (Free)
Geek.Menu (Windows, Free)
Lupo PenSuite (Windows, Free)
Read the whole article http://lifehacker.com/5389421/five-best-portable-apps-suites
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In love with Miranda
Miranda IM is a smaller, faster, easier instant messenger with support for multiple protocols including AIM, Jabber, ICQ, IRC, MSN, Yahoo, and more. Miranda IM is designed to be resource efficient and easy to use while still providing many features including support for most popular IM protocols, even iChat or IRC. Miranda IM Portable [...]
Truphone and their CS are just great
I was moved by TMCNET article about Truphone, and decided to install it in my E61 but when activating the application, because I am in Dominican Republic, SMS for activation didn’t work. So I emailed Truphone about this issue… they fixed this, in a couple of weeks! Just great also I have free calls to [...]
My blog new design
After quite a while I have not posted anything… why? The design has some drawbacks, the theme I was using for my wordpress blog just was not practical. So I decided to change it to a more practical one but with some media links like twitter, facebook, flickr, etc.
After this change I will start posting [...]
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