Category: Geek
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Paper or Pixels? Reading in the Digital Age
2015 marks the year where publishers finally see the sober reality of how traditional paper books have recovered sales. The eBook fad may be dying. But eBooks are not dead. At least not yet (I personally still read on my Kindle). There’s many a reason as to why eBooks will still thrive together with print.
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Answering the #BootLEGO Question
This post originally appeared on THE DORKSIDE. Click on the link below to read the full article. Is fake LEGO worth the money? It’s no joke: next to collecting Play Arts action figures, LEGO doesn’t come cheap. Although in recent years the Danish brick giant has come up with more affordable products like Mixels and…
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On ABL’s Responsive Design
About two years ago, I felt the urge this blog needed a design overhaul. First and foremost, responsive design played a huge factor in the call to upgrade as many of the existing WordPress plugins didn’t make the site too appealing on mobile. I called in the guys from PixelKit to do an overhaul. Responsive…
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Oppo R5 Video Review: Chop vegetables, run it over a car
In this Manila Bulletin TechNews special, we take a look at the toughness that is the Oppo R5. It’s not just a phone =- it’s practically a kitchen appliance. Specs include a 5.2″ AMOLED screen built with Corning Gorilla Glass 3, 16MB of internal memory and a 1.5GHz Octacore Snapdragon processor. For the full video,…
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The Dorkside: 3 Lifehacks I Learned as a Gamer and a New Parent
This is an excerpt of a piece I wrote for a new site I contribute to called The Dorkside with fellow dorks Jessica Mendoza, Gino Quillamor and Chico Garcia. Now that my son is 2, I look back to the first few days when he was a newborn and how he completely changed my life…
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A Brief History Behind 4K (and what lies beyond)
Ever since it was first witnessed in the Dalsa Origin, released in the year 2003 as the first commercial camera to be launched with 4k capabilities; the technology has been fancied by many. However, the high cost of ownership back then meant that the technology remained commercially non-viable for many professionals as well as aspiring…
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Is Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell more of the same?
I thoroughly enjoyed Saints Row IV. It was, in sum, a well-written commentary of the current state of video games and pop culture. It wasn’t just the slapstick humor, the puns and rim shot jokes that made this game interesting — it also had several highlights especially in the loyalty side quests that the President…
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Quick Pick: Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes
Huzzah! My first venture into the Metal Gear franchise. I bought this back in the holiday Steam sale because of its “enclosed sandbox” gameplay. You can literally speed run this game in less than 30 minutes but come back for more missions inside the concentration-camp like setting.
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Happy Hour SG: Making sense of the urban bar crawl in Singapore
Lately, Singapore and Hong Kong have been on my travel itinerary fairly often — mostly because of work and family. When let lose unto the urban sprawl, it took a while before I got completely comfortable walking the streets. My past trips to HK found me turning on Foursquare and grabbing the complimentary hotel room…
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The Steam 2014 Holiday Sale (The Haul Thus Far…)
Here we go. A couple of days into the Steam sale and here’s the damage so far: Bioshock Infinite Season Pass – Bought the main game on launch and after hearing great stuff about the Buried at Sea DLC’s, the Season Pass was a no-brainer buy for less than P300.00 X-Com Enemy Within – Same…
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