Tag: Philippines
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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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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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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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BlackBerry Torch 9800: You want one. No, really you do! Buy it. Buy it. Buy it.
EDIT: Here’s a post from my friend Eric on his BB6 experience. Wow. Talk about delayed. The BlackBerry Torch you see here was released in the middle of 2010. It’s only now I’m reviewing it. To be fair, I haven’t seen a lot of people using this phone as it arrived late in the Philippines.…
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Geek Orgasm Trifecta: Sandy Bridge. Portal 2. Sixense Motion Sticks
Sandy Bridge. Portal 2. Sixense motion controllers. Several months ago, a friend showed me some benchmark tests for the new Sandy Bridge video cards. You see, about two years ago, desktops — and even laptops would be equipped with what I would call “poor excuses” for video cards. They sucked. And this would always require…
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Suggestions for Tonyo and Janette
Hi Tonyo and Janette, I am in favor of what the National Bloggers Association aspires for but I don’t believe that you need a new association to do this. Here are some of my thoughts and I hope you consider them. Thanks! 🙂 ——————- MAJOR ADDITION (March 7 2011): Late last night on Twitter I…
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This is THE Book =)
THE BOOK 30 Pages (15 spreads) of my Underwater Photo Collection (Volume 1) 10 x 20 inches per spread www.thebook.ph
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HP TouchPad tablet and HP Pre 3 and Veer smartphones on webOS environment
The HP Veer is definitely going to sell. Long hair na long hair si HP at the Mobile World Congress. Located right across the BlackBerry booth, it almost seems like HP is telling RIM something. Amidst the many laptops on display, everybody knew that these were just fillers for the real spectacle: the webOS environment…
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Breach is out! USD $11.00 only on Steam
Breach is a bit left of center from traditional FPS games because it combines 3rd person cover (ala Gears of War) and contextual environment destruction (ala Bad Company 2). The destruction part is rather interesting as ammo types have different effects on the environment. Multiplayer only. BUY NOW: http://store.steampowered.com/app/72300/ Destroy Almost Anything: Welcome to the…
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HTC Mozart: How to set up your Windows Phone 7 device
EDIT: I heard from someone in the industry that Windows Phone 7 devices issued in Asia are not SIM locked. So I tested it. It’s true: a telco issued WP7 device is “open line” and not locked to a provider (i.e. you can stick a SUN Cellular SIM into the SMART-issued WP7 device and it…
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