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Globe Tattoo 4G Tonino Lamborghini Broadband stick

karlaredor — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 01:56:20 +0000

Finally, me and Sha got to see and experience the Globe Tattoo 4G Tonino Lamborghini Broadband stick. With the USB dongle, you can get up to 10Mbps of speed if you are within the areas where HSPA+ is deployed.

In the launch, we also got to see the Globe Tattoo HSPA+’s brand ambassador. Marlon Stockinger is a Filipino race car driver and he is the first Filipino to win in a formula race in Europe.

The Tattoo Tonino Lamborghini Stick is available for at 2,199 pesos per month. You get up to 10Mbps speed if you’re in an HSPA+ site. If not, of course you will get lower speeds. Aside from the unlimited surfing, you may also send 200 SMS to Globe/TM subscribers per month. You also have the option to upgrade to a MyFi device. All you need to do is to add 50 pesos per month on top of your subscription.

Globe Exec. showing the Samsung Galaxy S2

Globe also announced that they’ll be offering the Samsung Galaxy S2 4G-enabled phone. This will be available bundled for free with the My SuperSurf Plan 3799 this coming June 27, 2011. The Samsung Galaxy S2 4G phones shall be shipped with an app called VMS (Video Message Service) which will be free for My SuperSurf Subscribers until July 31. VMS users may upload and share videos. They may also receive and watch videos using their Samsung Galaxy S2.

Left-Right: Coach Rio dela Cruz, Saab Magalona, Marlon Stockinger, Alodia Gosiengfiao, Sarah Gaugler

RIP Google Wave

karlaredor — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:33:51 +0000

When Google Wave was announced, I was eager to try it out since I see its potential of a great collaboration tool. I gave out invites to friends who are interested to try it out. Anyway, Google will stop the developments of Google Wave as a standalone product. However, Google Wave will be still available until the year ends. Even if it Google Wave is still accessible, Google Wave will just die a slow death. Read more about this announcement from Google.

PadPressed: Turn your WordPress blog into an iPad native app

karlaredor — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:43:27 +0000

PadPressed will make your WordPress-powered blog to look like as if it is a native app for the Apple iPad when it’s accessed from it. This is actually a premium WordPress plugin and a theme and you can purchase it for $49.99. Do you think it’s worth the price just to have an awesome user experience when viewing your blog with an iPad? Check out the features after the jump.

Social Sharing Features
This will allow your readers to share your content via Facebook, Twitter, and Email.

Swipe Featured Slider
This will allow you to set a Featured category for your homepage.

Custom Homescreen Icon
If your reader decides to add your blog to their homescreen, you can design and upload your own homescreen icon (your logo) so that it would not display the boring bookmark icon.

Touch Based Navigation for Categories
Its touch based navigation for categories will allow a user to click on an icon associated with a certain category. The set of icons are overlays which are large enough. This makes it easier to press it rather than with text links because you have to do a pinch-to-zoom first before you can properly press a link.

Swipe to Advance
This will allow your users to use the swipe gesture on the iPad to navigate to the previous or the next article.

Accelerometer Aware
When reading it in a landscape orientation, your blog will have 3 columns and it will have a widget area on the homepage. If you’re accessing the blog in portrait orientation, it will only have a single column

Click here to purchase PadPressed

WordPress: to end support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4

karlaredor — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 14:41:51 +0000

WordPress, one of the top blogging platforms used by Filipino bloggers would stop supporting PHP 4 and MySQL 4 after version 3.1. WordPress 3.1 will be released late 2010. This is a signal for developers to be prepared on updating their plugins. In addition, if you are hosted somewhere that does not support PHP 5 and MySQL 5, better ask your hosting provider if they will switch soon.

WordPress 3.2 will be available in the first half of 2011. The minimum requirements for version 3.2 of WordPress are:

PHP 5.2
MySQL 5.0.15

If your hosting does not meet the minimum requirements, it won’t be updated to WordPress 3.2.

How do I know if my hosting meets the minimum requirements?
You can use the Health Check plugin.

Facebook: Now with more than 500 million registered users

karlaredor — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:56:28 +0000

Facebook has reached more than 500 million registered users already. In the Philippines, more people are searching now for Facebook than that of Friendster and Multiply. You’ll notice that in late 2008, the number of searches of Friendster decreased tremendously while the number of searches in Facebook spiked and then increased gradually. Multiply is way behind both Facebook and Friendster.

Facebook Stories

You might want to check out Facebook Stories. You can view stories by location and stories by theme. I’d love to see Facebook Stories from the Philippines. So far, there’s none at the moment.

Add your Facebook story if you haven’t.

View Real-Time Statistics in Blogger

karlaredor — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:48:54 +0000

One of the most popular blogging platform used in the Philippines is Blogger.com. This is great for bloggers who are using the said platform so that they would not have the need to login to their respective Google Analytics account to see how many pageviews they have.

What Stats Will I See?

The Stats section is divided into 4 sections:

1. Overview

You’ll see there a graph of pageviews of a specific blog. I’m quite impressed because the stats displayed are almost real-time. Aside from the graph, you will see there a summary of the other 4 sections.

2. Posts

This is where you’ll learn which of your blog posts are popular.

3. Traffic Sources

In this section, you will see the referring sites, referring URLs and the search keywords used by the visitors of your blog.

4. Audience

In this section, you will see where your visitors come from (which country), what operating systems they are using and what browsers they are using.

As for me, I’d still prefer looking at my blog’s stats in Google Analytics because of the kind of data I can analyze from it.

Do you like to try it? Access Blogger in Draft.

The New Flickr Photo Page

karlaredor — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:04:38 +0000

Flickr redesigned the photo page. I was able to take a quick peek on my Flickr account. You have the option to leave the preview.

What I love about the new Flickr photo page is that the pictures are bigger. The maximum width is now 640 pixels (before it was only 500 pixels). I also like the lightbox feature.

I also like that I can easily share the photos I’ve uploaded in Flickr. I do not have to load another page again just to do it.

Jejemon: Trending Topic

karlaredor — Sat, 01 May 2010 19:11:32 +0000

Jejemon is a trending topic in the internet. And it has become more popular that I’ve chanced upon a segment in “Unang Hirit” about jejemon. I’ve also heard that it was also featured Jessica Soho’s show in GMA-7 last Saturday.

Prior to jejemons being featured in some TV shows, it was heavily sensationalized in the internet. One great example is this photo that circulated around various social networks.

Photo by Angelo Obmana

Even Justin Bieber is curious about jejemons:

Thanks to Karen for the screenshot

If you are still figuring out what’s a jejemon, you can try reading the jejemon series by Marck Rimorin.

Find your Precinct for the May 2010 Elections

karlaredor — Sat, 01 May 2010 18:33:46 +0000

Find your Precinct is a great web application to search for the location of your respective precincts. In order to find your precinct, Enter the name of the city on the text box provided and as well as your precinct number. You can get your precinct number from your voter’s ID.

You can also help by geo-tagging the precincts that you are familiar with.

How to do it? On the website, click the link with the text “Help others find precincts”. Then, enter the name of the city. Choose the precinct you are familiar with. Just click on it’s location on the map to geo-tag it.

Friendster’s New Look

WiniLa Launching at Domination IV

karlaredor — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:16:21 +0000

Domination, is an annual gaming event which also coincides with the anniversary of IP e-Game Ventures Inc. (IP e-Games). Gamers of Runes of Magic, OP7 , Dragonica, RAN Online, Cabal Online, ZX Online, Club Audition, Granado Espada, Nostale and Band Master will surely be excited for this event. This year’s event is dubbed as Domination IV where WiniLa, e-Game’s partner, will be launched.

What is WiniLa?

WiniLa is a new and exciting online auction offering daily discounts on the hottest gadgets and accessories in the market. Developed and maintained locally, the site allows bidders to receive up to 80% savings on pre-selected technology and lifestyle brands such as Playstation 3, Wii, XboX, Blackberry, iPhone, iPod, Mac Mini, Apple TV, Sony digital cameras, and Nokia mobile phones.

Features of WiniLa:

- Choose from different bid-credit packages that suits your budget
- Engage in auctions that start at a price of zero
- Buy an item outright without bidding
- Use an automated Winbroker who will do the bidding for you
- Ease of use with multiple bid windows
- Earn free bid credits for every friend referral

Domination IV will be held on April 10, 2010 (Saturday) at the SMX Convention Center, SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City. WiniLa will hold a special live auction at its booth for their registered users. Items that are up for live auction this coming Saturday are: iPods, Skullcandy headphones, Samsung 19″ LCD, Sony Playstation 3 Slim, PSP Go, and more!

Make sure to register first at WiniLa if you plan to go to this event so that you can easily bid for the items.