Posted: January 25th, 2007 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
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Posted: October 13th, 2006 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
Pinoy geeks and online businessmen, good news! Paypal has started rolling out its services here. I used the term “started” because what they opened yesterday was really a very basic service — you can only send and NOT receive funds — which, as far as online merchants like me is concerned, receiving funds is all what Paypal means. Sending? Yes, good enough if you want to purchase products abroad. But that’s hardly the case. Anyway, I am optimistic that sooner than later, Paypal will allow us to fully benefit from its services.
Yey!
Posted: April 17th, 2006 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: All in a days work, Techie | View Comments
Pinoy Tech Blog accepted my application to become one of their contributors. While I post some techie stuff in this blog (Better Than Life!), once in a while, I am almost unconsciously limiting my posts to family and church life. So when the guys at Pinoy Tech Blog opened their doors to new contributors and asked to submit 3 sample posts, I readily signed up and did what was asked. I think it’s going to be a great outlet for my techie self — I can write any tech stuff I like that i don’t feel like writing here. So, guys at PTB, thanks for accepting me and I hope to contribute well.
Speaking of tech stuff, I’m pressed with a deadline this Friday for a Web 2.0 based program that I have been working on for a client. It kind of both excites me and pressures me. Busy week ahead!
Posted: March 6th, 2006 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
Lately I’ve been living up to my techie self. I’ve been exposed to some tools that for some aren’t new, but for most are top of the line, new tech tools.
1. Skype — since we had Globe Broadband installed at home, we thought of trying out Skype. I have long been aware that Skype’s a real cool, encrypted (define:secured) and clear (because of their p2p technology) Voice Over IP (VoIP) software. But I haven’t really tried it out myself for the main reason that I don’t need it. My clients chat with me over Yahoo IM and voice chat seems too taxing for a day to day use. My relatives mostly live in Vienna, Austria. That means, I can’t really make use of Skype’s cheap rates (as compared to a call to the US).
This time, I had to try it out with Joy’s pleading. Her sister is California-based. She said, she needs “company”. (Come on. :-) ) I initially ordered a $10 dollar worth of “load”, tested Skype to call her sister’s home number and whoa!, clear as a PLDT phone calling another PLDT phone! — oh well, I’m exaggerating, there are some delays once in a while. But hey, a dollar an hour is not bad at all. That made my wife do a 1-hour telebabad a day to her sister for ten days. After the load has been used up, I had to order a CA based number (thru SkypeIN) for $38 a year. That gave us a US number, which her sister can call up, then the call will be routed to us via Skype on a broadband internet. My US based clients can call me up too using that California number!. Cool, eh!
2. Smart 3g over Nokia 6680. 3G is a relatively new technology here in the Philippines (as opposed to South Korea. They have been a 3G country for years!) 3G basically means 3rd Generation. It’s high speed internet on your mobile phone. With high speed internet, you can do a lot. With a mobile phone, the obvious application is a video call. I’m not so much interested with it yet, there’s no one to call via video call in the first place. Because of my line of job, high speed internet is what I want. Imagine I can access our servers in the US while having a chat with a client on Starbucks or log in to our portal and reset the servers when my buddy Je calls for help while I’m in a middle of a bible study group meeting — all using my new Nokia 6680. (Oh, by the way, I had to trade my old Nokia 7610 just so I can test this new technology).
Smart, my mobile carrier, started rolling out 3G last February. You can see them all over the place promoting it. For a limited time, 3G access is free, too!
Today, I had my first 3G experience. I watched a “The Buzz” clip — and it really works. I tested the internet speed using GlobeQuest’s tool, and I’m amazed, I got a speed of 300+kbps! I’m not sure if that’s accurate though, but at face value, that’s DSL speed. Whew! I’m starting to love being in this industry. ;)
Posted: December 22nd, 2005 | Author: Arnold | Filed under: Techie | View Comments
If you don’t want to shell off $70 for Partition Magic, read on.
I’m messing with my laptop trying to partition it for Kubuntu dual booting with Windows XP Home Edition. I’ve had one reformat already. And after I had some mistakes again in my partitioning procedure during Kubuntu installation, I am determined not to reformat the entire disk again. SystemRescueCD with QtParted (a Partition Magic clone) is my savior. I downloaded the entire 110mb iso, burned it to CD and booted with it. With QtParted, I was able to manage and resize the disk partitions ala Partition Magic, the Linux way.