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Category: Technology

Facebook timeline unveiled, beta sign ups accepted

Facebook Timeline, the newest and most radical layout to date, has been unveiled Mark Zuckerberg at the F8 developer conference.

September 22, 2011
Google+ now open to everyone

Google+ is now open to everyone. Apparently, Google has decided that their social networking offering, which bears striking resemblance to Facebook and Twitter, is now ready for prime time. All you need is a Google account to join Google+. Head over to Google+ to join the fun.

September 20, 2011
Fujitsu Lifebook LH531 review

The Fujitsu Lifebook LH531 is my latest baby. I purchased it earlier this month as a replacement for my aging desktop computer. I purchased it at a computer shop in SM Mall of Asia. I had the memory upgraded from 2GB to 4GB bringing the total cost close to thirty thousand Philippine pesos. It came…

September 20, 2011
Google DevFest Manila 2011

Google DevFest Manila 2011 is being held on September 19 at the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati. This year’s DevFest will focus on three bleeding-edge technologies: Android, HTML5 and Fusion Tables.

September 19, 2011
Facebook introduces smart lists and close friends feature

Facebook introduces “smart lists”, a feature bearing some resemblance to Google Plus social circles. Apparently, it came from a common social networking dilemma: “We’re not equally friendly with all our online “friends.” Facebook has now rolled out a new feature where it automatically generates lists for your family, co-workers, schoolmates, and fellow City-zens. In addition,…

September 17, 2011
Send free SMS text messages to the Philippines (Smart Globe Sun) using Gmail

Gmail now lets you send free text messages to the Philippines! Whether your friends are using Smart Globe or Sun all you need to do is type in their number and you should be good to go. To do this simply perform the following steps:

September 16, 2011
Astrovision bloggers blowout features the best audio equipment in the country

Astrovision / Astroplus and Orange Magazine invited 60 of the best music, movie, and tech bloggers in the Philippines in its first ever blogger’s blowout Saturday Sept 3 at Astrovision Greenbelt 5. This one of a kind event showcased audio equipment such as earphones, headphones, sound systems and videoke machines from the best names in…

September 3, 2011
Congratulations to the winners of Western Union Network Challenge!

The winners of the Western Union Network Challenge contest are: Hershel Lim Myke Soon Czaroma Roman

September 1, 2011
Google Plus games ups the competition with Facebook

For the longest time Facebook has without a doubt conquered the social gaming market. Now that dominance is being challenged by Google Plus when it began social games earlier this month. The first batch of titles include games such as City of Wonder, Sudoku, Bubble Island, Bejeweled, Wild Ones, Diamond Dash, Monster World, Zynga Poker,…

August 31, 2011
How to fix positioning problem using the Digg Digg plugin on WordPress

Recently I installed the Digg Digg plugin which allowed me to display some nice social buttons at the left hand side of the site. I was running WordPress 3.2.1 using the Twenty Eleven theme and Digg Digg had some trouble with the display. The floating buttons worked fine scrolling down but would change positions upon…

August 31, 2011