This morning, I received a call from a representative of Red Mobile. Red Mobile, from what I understand, is the new name of uMobile which has purchased by Smart Communications Inc.

uMobile created quite a buzz a few months back, with it’s free SIM, and P100 monthly free load. I was, in fact, one of its first subscribers, and thought that it had the potential to replace Sun Cellular as everybody’s favorite second SIM or mobile line. However, their distribution of SIM was halted. And my uMobile SIM became dormant, because well, I didn’t have that many uMobile contacts to bother buying a phone for that SIM.

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I took digital macro / close up shots using the Nokia N95 of the details and parts of this table decor at a local restaurant….

Here are the shots:

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According to the Fritz Tentativa and many other sources, the Nokia N82 is the best cameraphone with a 5 megapixel resolution, Carl Zeiss optics, and a Xenon flash. I am proof that the N82 is quite a kick ass camera phone.

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Had a problem today. Had to open an Open Office document, but apparently, I already un-installed Open Office. My simple solution:

1. Email the document to myself through my Gmail account.
2. Open it as a Google document.
3. Copy and paste to a new MS Word document or a notepad file.
4. Save.

THAT EASY!

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No, no, no… Google Chrome is not an epic fail. But I am. While, I tried very hard to be faithful in using ONLY Google Chrome for seven straight days, I FAILED! I failed for some reasons:

• because the shop I frequent only has Internet Explorer;
• because Multiply’s Java Uploader is not working on Google Chrome; and
• because old WordPress versions (I think pre-2.6) are not compatible with Chrome.

Nonetheless, I am standing by Chrome and will be using it as my default browser. Here’s why:

• I love that it has keeps a record of the sites I visit most often;
• it doesn’t have a toolbar on top;
• I can do a Google search just by typing the words on the address bar;


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I am currently using Google Chrome, the latest product of Google. It is an open source web browser by Google.

From today until September 19, 2008, I will only be using Google Chrome in lieu of Firefox 3 which I am used to. So far, there aren’t any major differences that I have noticed, except for the “Most Visited Sites” page that is displayed everytime I open a new tab.

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WordPress is the blogging software that I use for both my free blogs hosted on WordPress.com, and several self-hosted blogs that I own and maintain including this TechnoMaria blog.

Last September 2, 2008, I spoke at the Philippine Youth Congress for IT (Y4IT) 2008 about WordPress. Noting that my audience would be mostly college students who are non-bloggers, and have probably never heard of WordPress, I took the introduction route and decided to take the Introduction route so the students would not be intimidated by WordPress.

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I have never had a hi-tech phone. I have three phones (all Nokia) but none of them have a camera or any such things. For quite some time I have been eyeing a PDA phone because I badly need one to juggle everything I do. Testing an N95 8GB is the next best thing to owning my own PDA phone.

The N95 is a combination of the following:

• an MP3 player
• a handy video/multimedia player
• a PDA (that’s Personal Digital Assistant)
• a cellphone
• a digital camera
• a portable web browser
• a super flash drive with 8gb memory

It’s so nice. Bigger than I’m used too but the features more than compensate for it’s bulkiness.

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About once a month, bloggers go into a frenzy because of Google Page Rank (PR) updates. Some are happy that they have increased PR, while others complain that they have decreased.

I, myself, have experienced the highs and lows of following my blogs PRs. But while I understand (A BIT) what it is, a lot still don’t quite get what it is and what it means.

Enter Blogie Robillo…

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I’ve been blogging and using WordPress (free and self-hosted) for years, but all of my self-hosted blogs were created and installed by Kuya Andrew.

A few weeks ago, the UP ITTC and UP SITF invited me to speak at the Philippine Youth Congress in Information Technology (Y4IT), and my topic is WordPress. Easy, right? I thought so.

But I was challenged to step up and install my own self-hosted WordPress blog so I can fully understand how easy it is to do it. Why? So I can speak with authority, from my own experience during the Y4IT. I sure don’t want to embarrass the people who invited me by being inept. I want to give my best talk, using the best possible resources and doing the best research I could.

continue reading "The Birth of TechnoMaria"