Month: April 2011
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Difference between HSPA+ and LTE
So over on Plurk I was trying to explain the difference between HSPA+ and LTE. There is a lot of confusion. Without naming who carries what, here’s a simple way of looking at it: HSPA+ is built on existing 3G technology. LTE is built on an entirely new network. Your iPhone 4 will work on…
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“I changed my number. Please update your phonebooks.”
It happens with some regularity where we have a friend who changes his or her mobile phone number and sends a big text blast to everyone on the list informing them to change this bit of information. More often than not, I forget to update and the past two days I’ve SMS-ed two friends who…
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Have you ever wanted to learn how to SCUBA dive?
A pink skunk clownfish (Amphipirion perideraion) hovers above its host anemone while scouting its surroundings. Photo by Jayvee Fernandez I’m taking a few friends out diving this weekend in Puerto Galera. We’re doing a DSD course, more commonly known as the Discover SCUBA Diving or “Introduction Dive.” It’s a short half-day course for those who…
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Unboxing the Nokia E7 smartphone … and wow! Nice box!
The E7, you could say is the “E” successor to the N97. What this means is that they took the first iteration N97, which many people loved and converted it into a business phone. Wow. No wonder it costs PHP32,000. The box is something you wouldn’t want to throw away. Pop it open and it’s…
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Enjoy our Tubbataha 2011 Video
Hi! This is a short, 3 minute video summarizing our 6 day, 15-dive trip to Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea. Mantas, eagle rays, turtles, schooling jacks and barracudas and a visit to the ranger station. video by Chie Clemente edited by Jayvee Fernandez music “Summer” by “Ike as in Dwight”
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A look into Plancast or what’s about to be called “Social Scheduling”
Nobody wants to watch Kenny Loggins with me 🙁 There’s a new web app I’m loving and it’s called Plancast. People who don a social media marketer hat call this thing “social scheduling” where users can share events they’re attending based on location and category. So I decided to try it out and I must…
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Earning from your blog: The Realities
As more and more people are taking on the role as bloggers to make money, a lot become misinformed about how EXACTLY you earn and what degree of commitment it takes on your end. How relevant is Adsense today? What are the consequences of paid posts and sponsorships? Does SEO still matter? What are the…
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Giant Manta in Tubbataha
A giant manta ray “flying” past our dive group from one of the walls in Tubbataha. Video by Chie Clemente. Taken with the JVC FM1.
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The No Bullsh*t Speed Test of SMART’s LTE (Warning: Video is 25 minutes long)
There is a satellite station for the LTE booth located near my hotel. I heard that they degraded the signal to “divert all power” to the central booths where Rico Blanco performed. I got a bright idea. I decided to do a real speed test. What would happen if we had a degraded LTE signal…
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Mbps is not Megabytes per second but “megabits” per second
N.B. If you’re knowledgeable about this subject, please leave a comment to refute or add to this post as we’re all trying to understand what makes good or crappy Internet. One of the biggest confusions of consumers when purchasing Internet plan subscriptions is that they think Mbps means megabytes per second when in fact it…
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