Category: Geek
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I ended up with an Oppo A9 2020 Edition and have no regrets
A quick review. But more photos. Phones. I used to review a lot of these back in the day. Then I took a hiatus after covering Mobile World Congress. That was back in 2011. Barcelona was the summit. I stopped. Fell in love with other things. Mobile phones took a backseat – not from the…
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Did Facebook replace Frame Studio for Spark AR?
EDIT: August 2021 — Apparently there’s a new thing in FB where you can still do it but you need to do it from a PAGE and not a Profile. Oh well. ——————————————————————— Actually, no. The link is just broken. If you’re like me — someone who wants to create a custom Facebook profile photo…
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10 Interesting facts about domain names across the world
It is a well known fact that you won’t require to be domain expert to know that the internet is growing exponentially and with each and every second somebody is registering a domain somewhere around the world. The internet provides a lot of information when it comes to finding out interesting and amazing facts about…
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Elias Wicked Ales opens a proper craft beer tap room in BF Homes with brewery behind it
Finally, a proper craft beer tap house right beside the Aguirre Ave gate. The history of BF Homes’ drinking culture goes back a decade and a half with affordable bars like Central and Tides selling cheap cocktails and mixers by the tumbler (Blue Illusion for P120 for a tumbler — why not?!). Fast forward to…
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Throwback Review: Siemens SX1
Note: This post originally appeared in PDA Buyer’s Guide in 2004. PDA Buyer’s Guide was a tech review site that had a technical slant to reviews, which were mostly above 1,000 words. This was a challenge I was willing to take since I was one of the first to handle this phone in South East…
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Startup Nation: how Israel is rebranding itself as the friendliest nation for technology
There’s a special place in the world for startups and we aren’t talking about Silicon Valley. Viber. Wix. ICQ. Waze. What do all of these companies have in common? These popular apps all have their roots in Israel, a melting pot of culture, religion and yes we aren’t sugar coating it — conflict. But in…
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How to Restore Deleted Data from Hard Drive
Not everybody has the same opinion about the importance of data backup. Keeping the exact same data in two or more different devices is a form redundancy indeed, but a necessary one. In this case, redundancy is more than being superfluous because it does serve a useful purpose. A computer, or more specifically a hard…
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Tronsmart: Because not all fast chargers are created equal
I’ve been traveling this past month for work. Media trips allow for a lot of refreshers especially in the tech scene. October found me immersed with the next generation of bloggers in BKK for Cherry Mobile while November flew me across the pond to Israel for an immersion with the local startup scene. The BKK…
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I can’t believe this piece is 11 years old. Oh how the world has changed.
Me: “Mobile Internet.” USD 140 laptops. HSDPA. Oh how the world has changed. 2006 was the wild west of mobile — the iPhone was new and Internet on your phone was a novelty. Oh the places we will go… Publication: Mobile Philippines August 2006 Section: Columns Column title: The prodigal screen protector and other bedtime…
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My new normal with the Fitbit Charge 2
All I really wanted was a watch. But the more I kept this thing strapped on my wrist, I got sucked into that all too familiar trap of seeing my life as a series of numbers and charts, and the inevitable competitive sport of “social walking.â€
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