Archive for October, 2008

Mac OS X on your ultra-portable


Video Demo of Mac OS X on MSI Wind

As of this writing, the lightest laptop being sold by Apple is the MacBook Air. However, some just would not want to buy it because it’s so expensive for its specifications. The most practical choice would be buying either an MSI Wind or a Dell Inspiron Mini 9. You can just download the installer (Mac OS X that’s customized for the MSI Wind).

VoIP on your iPhone with Fring

Finally, Fring can already be downloaded in the App Store. With Fring, you can make VoIP calls on WiFi using Skype for free. :D Aside from making calls, you can also chat there with your Skype, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, MSN Messenger, and AIM contacts there. If you’re a Twitter user, you receive and read updates from your friends and you could post twits too. :) iPhone users with friends who are regularly on Skype are the ones that are really going to benefit from this especially if their friends are from abroad that would save them the amount of long distant calls.

The all-new Google BlogSearch

Google BlogSearch

Google BlogSearch is now showing popular blog posts around the web. :D It also categorizes the posts if it’s under Technology, Entertainment, Politics, etc. Related topics are grouped in the Top Stories page and contains the number of blogs as illustrated above in the screenshot. Read more »

Nokia 5800 XpressMusic: An iPhone alternative

Nokia 5800
Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, Image courtesy of Nokia-Asia website

Nokia 5800 has a full touch user interface that is optimized for one-hand use. Unlike the iPhone, this one has a tactile feedback wherein you’ll get the feel as if you’re touching physical keys/buttons. Just like the iPhone, it has a music player but it’s better because of its built-in speakers. Nokia 5800 is indeed a better imaging device than the iPhone since it has a 3.2 megapixel camera that uses Carl Zeiss Optics. In addition, this can record videos while the iPhone can’t. Nokia 5800’s browser has support for Flash. As of now, iPhone still does not have Flash support. Read more »

Nintendo DSi Announced

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Nintendo DSi, image via Nintendo website

Nintendo DSi was just announced. With its features unveiled, will it be able to gain more buyers in the Philippines? I’ve gathered some graphs using Google Trends for us to see how is it popular.

psp versus nintendo ds
PSP versus Nintendo DS.

I’ve used the search terms PSP and Nintendo DS in Google Trends (region is set to Philippines), and the above graph shows how Sony’s PSP is popular in the Philippines. In fact, PSP Games are widely searched than Nintendo DS Games. Read more »