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Trash to Cash at Shoemart

Monday, April 14th, 2008

 Kudos to Shoemart for promoting the recycling of items that otherwise would have gone to the garbage bin and would have contributed to the further deterioration of our environment.
The items that can be brought in are:

Scrap paper and cardboard
Empty ink and toner cartridges
Plastic bottles and plastic scrap
Used lead batteries (from cars, UPS/Voltage regulators)
Aluminum, tin cans, [...]

2008 International Model Your Campus Competition

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Google is hosting the 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition. If you are into 3D modelling or have some good graphic background, why not join the Google SketchUp’s 2008 International Model Your Campus Competition.

Asus “Dress mEee Up!” Eee PC Design Contest

Friday, February 1st, 2008

From February 1 to March 15, 2008 Asus Philippines will be holding a design contest. The objective here is to design the most creative Eee PC notebook skin which will the LCD cover and the palm rest.
Winning designs will be used and applied on a Special Edition Eee PC to be distributed in the [...]

Recent Webbys plagued with controversies

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

The recent 10th Philippine Web Awards concluded with more than its own fair share of controversies. Even before the events night, there were too many issues cropping left and right that made this year’s awards an interesting eye-opener.

Like any other year, contestants have repeatedly questioned the expertise and experience of the panel of judges. That [...]

Call for Papers OS Summit Asia 2007

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

There’s the OS Summit Asia 2007 this November 26-30 at the Cyberport, Hong Kong. It’s a joint conference between the Apache and Eclipse Foundations so there’s definitely a community of people who are passionate about open source and there’d be activities to interact and exchange ideas with each other. If you go to this [...]

2007 Philippine Blog Awards

Friday, February 16th, 2007

The 2007 Philippine Blog Awards is on! Nominations are open until the 28th.
In just two days, 93 blogs have been nominated. Thousands of Pinoy blogs to go.
As expected, Best Personal Blog has taken the most nominations. Fill up the other categories for topic-oriented blogs.
Special awards go out for the Blogger’s Choice award, Best Blog Design, [...]

Are You Running Vista Already?

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

After Microsoft’s Biggest Launch at the Mall of Asia, and their media campaign, are you now running Vista?
Who went to event, and who installed the latest Windows? How is it?

Field Report: Ynzal’s Annual Inventory Sale

Monday, December 18th, 2006

It was a Friday when I got a text message that Ynzal (an Apple reseller and service center in the Quezon City area) was having its annual inventory sale from 18 to 20 December 2006 and they were posting their sale merchandise early Saturday evening.
With some money to burn, I eagerly anticipated their inventory that [...]

More on Philippines’ own ultra-low cost computer

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

From linuxdevices.com:
Puppy Linux was guest-of-honor at an “Affordable Community Computing Workshop” this week in the Philippines, where participants assembled and took home ultra low-cost, PC-like computing devices. The workshop was sponsored by Via and several organizations working to close the “digital divide” in the Philippines.
At the workshop, Dr. Raffy Mananghaya, a professor at the University [...]

Microsoft Loves You with Vista and Office 2007

Tuesday, October 24th, 2006

Just got back from the Microsoft CIO summit, and I plan to share with you some of my thoughts on what Microsoft has in store for us.

Microsoft Vista (due to the delays) will be launched together with Office 2007 in February in the Philippines in the month of love. Globally, they are starting to launch [...]

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