Category: Technology
Feb
MIT Offers Free Online Course
A couple of weeks ago, I read in Techmeme that MIT or the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is offering a free online course for interested folks all over the world. I thought oh well, just another marketing stunt from a big university until I read that much covete... Read more
Feb
Unbelievable!
I've been going the rounds of appliance stores the past few days to help the significant other in fulfilling some orders from our province. It's a chore sometimes but what we won't do for love right? Heh. Anyway, I'm just amazed at how much the price of flat screen TV... Read more
Oct
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
Steve Jobs passing woke me up from my blogging slumber and had me running to the nearest internet cafe. True, I have my own internet connection at home but somehow, for the past few weeks, sloth has gotten the better of me and I always end up watching old episodes of e... Read more
Aug
Harnessing Wind Energy
For a country that has typhoons in abundance almost all year long, it's a damn shame that the Philippines does not have a lot of wind farms in its shores. The one shining example that we have of anything resembling a wind farm is the Bangui Wind Mills up north in Iloco... Read more
Jul
Water-powered Machine
Here's a Philippine invention that is not getting enough buzz in the third world. This invention is called the tubig-powered machine or water-powered machine. The machine is attached to a flourescent or light and powered only by whisking a few drops of water into it. ... Read more
May
Celebrating The Pinoy Apple Fanboy
I was mindlessly scrolling down my Facebook profile when I saw a little ad to the right of the page showing a silly iphone attached with some sort of a telephoto lens. I thought it was one of those gag ads that take you to some break.com'ish sites. Since I was bored a... Read more
Apr
High Megapixel Mobile Phones Versus Point-And-Shoot Cameras
As an avid amateur photographer, I am sometimes at a loss when I see a picture worthy scene and not have my Canon 7D DSLR camera with me. Let's face it, a DSLR camera is too bulky to be lugged everywhere we go. The best I can do during those times is use either my iPh... Read more
Apr
The Death of WiFi
Here's a newsflash!San Francisco — October 23, 2007 — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies and data solutions, today introduced Gobi™ global mobile Internet, an embedded solution for notebook co... Read more
Apr
Microsoft Stomps on Google To Take a Huge Bite Off Facebook
This is usually not my cup of tea, but I find it interesting nonetheless. There have been rumblings in the internet about that Google vs Microsoft thing. Now Microsoft has finally put one over Google by winning the battle for a stake with Facebook.Consider this: So ho... Read more
Apr
What Do You Do With Your iPad?
A few days after the iPad 2 was launched, I was in real danger of reneging on a promise I made to myself early this year; that I won't buy any gadget in exchange for something by christmas. Good thing I caught myself in time, and now I'm proud to say I'm four months in... Read more
