Category: Mostly Everything
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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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A look into SMART’s prototype LTE Dongle by HUAWEI and my first speed test
Greetings from Boracay! I was able to borrow a special LTE USB dongle from HUAWEI. There are only 5 of these in the world made especially for the event and from what I heard HUAWEI really had to rush these to SMART. I have one of the four (oh wait I think Jen Juan also…
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Two weeks with the HTC Desire S
About two weeks ago I was able to nab the HTC Desire S running on Android 2.3 more popularly called Gingerbread. As far as I know, this and the Sony Ericsson Arc are the first two Gingerbread devices that are available in the Philippines running on the latest version of the Android OS. What’s the…
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By the way if you still don’t have it, it’s Nathan Azarcon on the cover this month!
UNO rocks out this month with our very special Music Issue, featuring one of the country’s biggest rock stars on the cover: Nathan Azarcon. (This is, by the way, only the second time in the magazine’s nine-year history that we’ve put a solo male on the cover; the very first one was Manny Pangilinan.) Inside,…
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SMART Communications launches LTE
By the time you read this post, I’m still in the middle of the ocean, finishing our last day of diving Tubbataha Reef. When I get back, I fly, almost immediately to Boracay. I’m there with my partner-in-crime Andi9 so we’ll be streaming live soon! SMART is launching LTE technology and doing the entire demo…
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My epiphany about smartphones and data services
So I had an epiphany a couple of days ago. And this began with me coming home from a business trip racking up a bill of PHP30k worth of roaming charges. And that was just for 2 days of use. Of course the cost is charged to the company but waiting for the bill to…
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