Archive for the 'Techie' Category

A friend is selling her Nintendo Game Cube (US). It’s silver and in excellent condition. Selling price is Php 8000.

Including:

1 controller
7 Games
1 memory card

Games:

Animal Crossing (Simulation) **BEST SELLING GAME**
Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life (Simulation) **BEST SELLING GAME**
Baten Kaitos (2 disk RPG)
True Crime: New York City (Action)
Mortal Combat: Annihilation (Action)
Legend of Zelda: 4 Swords

Console and games [...]

Question/Problem: Take two similar phones, call the same customer service number, get instant answers (or rather live cusomter support representatives) on one phone and then be put on hold for 30 minutes on the other (yeah, I timed it). What’s the difference?
A simple fact. I was using a postpaid line on the phone which got [...]

I haven’t used a lot of flash disks on my PC for the simple reason that a lot of viruses and worms spread through this medium. To avoid being infected, always have an updated AV software running. If you’ve been infected, you can tell because your PC’s going to be a lot slower than it [...]

How do you ‘creatively’ explain and tell kids to turn off their mobile phones? Try telling them that their mobile phones emit sound waves and that it stops the speaker from transmitting the signal from a lapel mike to the speakers. That’s the gist of what the girl explaining sound waves.
For the record, a mobile [...]

I was having a late dinner with two of my classmates, they shall remain anonymous, for their safety and my own well-being, and henceforth shall be known as #1 and #2.
A little background: #1 is a gamer, but doesn’t look like one (depending on how she poses for the picture), owns her own company, and [...]

On certain days, part of my work involves reviewing documents. Sometimes that just means checking if the content is right and logical, but on challenging days that can go even into the minor detail of spell checking and term consistency over several documents. Yes, we have spell check on MS Word, but for technical documents, [...]

I just got my Smart Gold bill the other day and it included an insert for Airborne Access that said:

SMART Gold individual subscribers can now avail of unlimited WiFi connections through Airborne Access for as low as P99 per month charged to their SMART Gold Bill.
Register from May 3 to July 2, 2007 and enjoy [...]