April 2008 - Pinoy Aggregated Tech Feeds

Asus to launch Eee PC 900 in the Philippines

The Taiwanese company will be releasing the new Asus Eee PC 900 next week, May 12. Invites sent out yesterday indicated that several variants of the ultra-portable laptop will be available to the market: This new generation of the ever popular PC packs...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 5:16 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, Gadgets, Personal Computing, umpc, asus, eeepc

Thailand pulls the plug on the Telegraph

The telegraph service in Thailand has come to an end after being operated for 133 years. Thailand’s telegraph operator CAT Telecom, revealed that the service is coming to an end due to lack of use and a lack of equipment and parts to maintain it...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 12:51 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Telecoms, telegraph, telegram

Windows Licensing Links:

Here are some useful links with regards to Windows Licensing TechNet site for Volume Activcation: www.microsoft.com/technet/volumeactivation Product Key information, resources and call center telephone numbers: www.microsoft.com/licensing/resources/vol...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 7:50 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Licensing

Networking for Non-technology Folks

My sister's hubby is planning to work overseas, and her Big Brother (that would be me) is going to Singapore soon. We discussed on getting Microsoft Philippines' One Follow Me service as a low-cost communications alternative. This service uses...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 2:03 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Building Some Web TreeViews

Cross posting from my blog ( Building Some Web TreeViews ) The TreeView control in ASP.NET 2.0 is used to display hierarchical data, such as table of contents or file directory in a tree structure. In most applications that I do, I use the TreeView control...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 12:01 AM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: ASP.NET, Sourcesafe

Aviary’s suite of rich internet applications for artists

Phoenix screenshot Aviary is a suite of rich internet applications targeted to all artists (graphic artists, layout artists, musicians, writers, directors and the like). 1. Phoenix (image editor) 2. Toucan (Color swatches and palettes creator) 3. Peacock...

Published Tue, Apr 04 2008 7:18 PM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: The Internet, Multimedia

Google #1 Top Brand of 2008

Just a couple of days after Google announced its 1st quarter earnings, Millward Brown released the BrandZ Top 100 Most Powerful Brands list. The search giant ended up on top of that list. See below for the rest of the top 10. 1. Google 2. GE 3. Microsoft...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 9:16 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Tech News, The Internet, search, google, stocks, wall street

Astone UMPC to compete with Asus Eee PC

Yet another player is off the shelves — a 7 inch Astone UMPC was just spotted in stores, selling for Php19,500. The ultra-portable laptop was displayed side by side with an Asus Eee PC 701 in an Octagon store at Mall of Asia. The CPU is a Via C7...

Published Mon, Apr 04 2008 8:58 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Gadgets, Personal Computing, laptop, umpc, astone

1st Philippine Open Education forum

The mini-conference aims to inquire upon the feasibility and development of private initiatives to contribute in the Philippine educational or learning system, as alternative else collaborating actors in this matter. — Philippine Commons 23 April...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 6:34 PM by MicroISV Notebook

Filed under: Sideways

Gorilla Pod

A tripod is a cumbersome piece of equipment. It can be awkward to carry. It takes some time to setup. And bringing a tripod to a party can be geeky. Fortunately, I found Joby’s Gorilla Pod in a camera shop in Park Square One, Makati. Some Apple...

Published Sun, Apr 04 2008 4:38 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Gadgets, Imaging & Photography, gorilla pod

Paypal to block Safari browser

Two months ago, Paypal’s Chief Information Security Officer recommends everyone who has a Paypal account to avoid using Apple’s Safari browser. They claim that the Safari browser is still way behind in security features compared to latest versions of...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2008 9:01 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Telecoms, opera, safari, ie, paypal, browsers

Smart Bro Prepaid Kit @ Php4,500

While Smart subscribers can easily hook up to the internet via their 3G mobile phones, Smart has offered a mobile internet plan a few months back. The kit includes a USB dongle, a 3G enabled Smart SIM card and free 40 internet hours every month. Extra...

Published Sat, Apr 04 2008 8:45 AM by Pinoy Tech Blog - The Philippines' Premier Technology Blog

Filed under: Telecoms, smart, 3g, prepaid, smart bro, smartbro

Virtualization, a thumbs up!

The reason why ... Let me tell you a story of mine. I recently had an accident just last Tuesday in our company. Let's say, my darkest day (or night) of my employment in our company. I can't help but think how stupid I was that day. By the way...

Published Thu, Apr 04 2008 11:21 PM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: microsoft virtualization, Windows Server 2003, Virtual PC

Are Updates really meant to update?

I have bought this Lenovo Y410 laptop last February. It has the following main specs: Processors Intel® Core®2 Duo processor T5450 (1.66GHz, 667 MHz, 2MB L2 Cache) Operating system Windows Vista®Home Premium 32-bit Memory 1GB Hard drive 160GB (5400rpm...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 10:26 PM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: Software, updates, Firmware, DFTS, Software Engineering, Hardware, Vista

Websites, better for business solutions.

I have been learning a lot lately from the .NET community. Being active in the community surely pays off nicely. So to go straight into the subject matter, why are websites better for business solutions than windows forms, WPF, and/or other client platforms...

Published Wed, Apr 04 2008 6:02 PM by Microsoft Philippines Community

Filed under: wpf, extranet, .NET, ASP.NET, Windows Forms, Windows Enterprise Library, WCF, intranet, .NET Remoting, Web Services, distributed applications