The father of netbooks and considered to be the pioneer of cheap netbooks, ASUS, has just launched….(another) powerful nertbook that has a mid end hardware specs and considered to be the most powerful netbook on the market right now. It is actually a full netbook but it is compressed like a netbook similar to ASUS N10JC that has the same design and built but varies on the size. It certainly again raised the bar of the performance of the netbook performance., though it is more pricey than most other netbooks, you could easily procure other regular, more powerful notebook for the same price... Read more »»

On a very, very, very exclusive interview, I have confirmed the upcoming release of a new patch for MU Philippines that will “change the game”. According to my source, the yet-untitled patch (MU 4.0) has several exciting new features which will “definitely pull new players into the game and rekindle interest for MU veterans”. Hmmm… analysing what my source was telling me, I think it’s safe to guess the following: “pull new players into the game” – In PR-speak this means, there will be NEW features that previously haven’t been in effect.... Read more »»

If you want your small business to be successful, eventually you will need your own website. By keeping these five things in mind while shopping for a hosting provider, you can save a lot of headaches down the road. 1. Make sure the provider has a good reputation. Seek unbiased reviews when looking for a provider. How long have they been in business? Are there plenty of customers singing their praise online? If a provider has a lot of downtime or horrible tech support, it won’t take long to find out. 2. Do they offer hosted exchange email services? This will save you a lot of money and problems... Read more »»

PHP Roadshow is an outreach to college students with the goal of reaching the same level of programming competency of our counterparts (Filipino and non-Filipino) outside of the country (including standardizations and value of work). This is an initiated project of PHP User Group Philippines, Inc. (PHPUGPH), in support of the organization’s mission of advocating and disseminating the use of PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor) as well as Open Source technologies in schools and companies in the Philippines. Competitive volunteer speakers from PHPUGPH discuss FOSS topics including PHP and MySQL, Content... Read more »»

Google as you know used to release beta’s all the time for its new browser Chrome, the last “beta” update version was 0.4.154.29 but now Google has announced that in their 15th release (which is already released) that they will be taking off the beta label. So what we have here is a fully functional stable product. Currently there is no change-log available. And I did not see any difference using it either (maybe because I didn’t use it much yet :P)… Anyhow according to Google they have fixed some common bugs found in Chrome, improved the bookmark manger and privacy controls, also they... Read more »»

I am inviting you all to join www.hivepub.com one of the Philippine’s newest blog that talks about anything that has to do with NEW MEDIA. Hivepub.com It is a blog that is worth contributing to and would surely benefit a lot of people in time. Hivepub.com is the online address of HIVE Magazine, by hivepublishing, that is set to be release on January 2009. This print copy project together with IMMAP (Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines) hopes to invite more people to be a part of the community to grow the internet scene here in our country. SUPPORT HIVE! www.hivepub.com  Read More →

There will be World Usability Day 2008 celebration in Manila! WHEN: 13 November 2008, 6-8 PM WHERE: 2VC Tech Bar at the Orient Square Building, Ortigas Road (formerly Emerald), Ortigas Center, Pasig City On this event, there will series of talks on usability and real-life experiences of usability professionals, and is yet to be finalized. The tentative list of speakers include members of the Globe Usability Team, Rey Mendoza and Ely Apao. Regnard Raquedan – Welcome Remarks Rey Mendoza – Usability & Design Break Elymar Apao – Real-life Usability Globe Usability Team –... Read more »»

Go to ‘Run’ then type regedit. The Windows Registry editor will appear. THis time, we just need to tweak just one registry key here. We’ll use fist the pane at the left to navigate to the registry key. Let’s make things easy for newbies. Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main Use the pane at the left just like you’re using Windows Explorer. Click on Edit Menu to add a new String Value then label it as ‘Window Title’ double-click it to add a value in it then type in your desired title. Restart IE, then see the changes..It works perhaps all versions... Read more »»

Automattic, the company behind WordPress, bought the Irish startup Polldaddy (which is my poll service of choice and used in this blog). This is to further push and make WordPress better more than other things, similar to the recent acquisition of IntenseDebate. However, the acquisition, just like IntenseDebate and Gravatar, will not lead to exclusivity of the service to WordPress users. Polldaddy’s stiff competitor in the Poll service space is Vizu, which provide features that daddy’s poll doesn’t provide. However, the same can be said for Vizu, and thus I created a test post displaying... Read more »»

MSN Groups, one of the last remnants of the MSN Brand, is going to shutdown its services on February 21, 2009. All groups in the service will be given a chance to move their group, discussions, files, and histories over to Multiply – the 8th largest Social Network today. The optional migration will hopefully start next week, as MSN and Multiply do the final testing on the scripts. After this, Microsoft will be able to concentrate and pool all their resources to the upcoming Windows Live Groups. Below is the letter posted by Charlotte Jones, Group Product Manager of Microsoft, in the CommunityFeedback... Read more »»