Author: Gabriel

Sine Totoo’ back at SM

Press Release:

DUE to the unprecedented success of last year’s “Sine Totoo,” GMA Network is once again bringing the best of its news and public affairs programs to the big screen.

Wanting only the best for its loyal viewers, the network now gears up for a bigger and more spectacular second year offering – the “Sine Totoo Weekend” which will be held from June 24-25 at SM Megamall Cinema 4, as part of GMA’s 56th anniversary celebration.

Get the chance to personally meet some of the biggest names in GMA News and Public Affairs – Mike Enriquez, Jessica Soho, Arnold Clavio, Vicky Morales, Howie Severino, Kara David, Jay Taruc, Sandra Aguinaldo, Jiggy Manicad, Maki Pulido, Rhea Santos, Ivan Mayrina, Paolo Bediones, and Miriam Quiambao.

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Local blogger cited. Doesn’t like it.

In the I-like-my-blog-readership-just-the-way-it-is-thank-you-very-much department, here’s some interesting local blogger news. PDI showbiz columnist Dolly Ann Carvajal recently mentioned a row between local showbiz hottie Alicia Mayer and the bouncer of a bar in Makati, article here.

A local blogger happened to have observed the incident, and blogged about it at length. Someone then informed Ms. Carvajal re said blogpost, which she duly posted on her column, complete with the blogger’s URL.

Local blogger upon realizing this, took down her post and had this to say:

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Vistatorrent.com to MS : But we just wanted to help!

The UK based Inquirer website (not our local Inq7.net!) reports “Vista Torrent site ordered to cease and desist”, with the subheading “What happens when you try to help Microsoft out“.]

I blogged about Vistatorrent.com last week. You can read their official statement here, where they post the letter from a MS representative “Internet Investigator”.

from the Inquirer article:

Chris and Jack thought that they were doing a good thing, especially after a spokesVole (referring to a post on the MS website) said, “Demand for Beta 2 has been huge – which was expected. But we are hitting ceilings on bandwidth. Right now we are serving out product keys 10x faster than we can serve the downloads. Already this is the biggest software download event in history. We are pumping out bits as fast as we can. If we pushed out bits any faster there would be a measureable impact for the Internet”.

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MS Origami Vid

Truly radical new thing in computing? Or just another ‘cool thing to have’? I’ve seen this 4 month old vid twice and over, and my conclusion: this commercial isn’t very good at telling us what it actually does.

Which means I wanna find out, and therefore wanna give it a spin. So I guess the commercial worked! Anyway, check it out yourself:

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Google Calendar At Work!

I talked about how Google Calendar can help folks promote stuff the other day, and I got an example available at my movie blog, Movie Exchange.

Some notes:

  1. Layering calendars is cool. Google Calendar allows you to create new calendars within your existing calendar account, so you can create stuff like Village Basketball League Schedule or Office People Birthdays, and elect to display or ‘layer’ it on top of your ordinary schedule (I use the word layer to steal a term from Photoshop, because that’s what it reminds me of). This lets you share that schedule that (and that alone) with a select few people or the whole world, without bothering them with superflous info such as the basketball team championships weekend.

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Cinema One @ 12 Filmfest Schedules

Cinema One @ 12: Still Celebrating Filipino Movies at its Finest (Focus on Digital Movies)

Celebrating 12 years as the leading cable movie channel, Cinema One pays tribute to the glorious past of Philippine movies and probes into the latest trend in the movie industry, Digital Filmmaking, with Classic Na, Orig Pa Anniversary movie event, which will run from June 21-25 ( Wednesday to Sunday) simultaneously at SM Megamall and SM Manila.

Classic Na, Orig Pa is a film festival which features the best movies of Philippine movie icons like Fernando Poe, Jr., Dolphy, Nora Aunor, Vilma Santos, along with the first theatrical showing of the highly-successful 2005 Cinema One Originals: Mark Gary’s Sandalang Bahay which stars Albert Martinez, Ronnie Lazaro, Nonie Buencamino,a moving movie about a family’s struggle to confront the secrets of their past; Liza Cornejo’s Sitak that features Chanda Romero, Lou Veloso, Gerry Cornejo, a film about seeing the world in a more positive outlook and giving downslopes in life second chances in a story of corporate man turned taxy driver; Topel Lee’s Dilim starring Rica Peralejo, Emilio Garcia, Mario Magallona,about a probing feature on a vigilante who is a kind-hearted manananggal struggling with his existence both as a human and a creature from the Third World; Dennis Marasigan’s Sa North Diversion Road which stars John Arcilla and Irma Adlawan, a movie which focuses on a couple on a road trip as they talk freely and bluntly about a man’s infidelity; Sigfried Barros Sanchez’s Ang Anak Ni Brocka starring Gina Alajar, Philip Salvador, Bembol Roco, Jacklyn Jose, Geoff Eigenmann, Nonie Buencamino, a dramatic search on the true identity of a male teen who tries to figure out if he really is the acclaimed director Lino Brocka’s son; and Jon Red’s Anak ng Tinapa which features Ryan Eigenmann, China Cojuangco, Atong Redillas, Ping Medina, a realistic documentary-style film about two corrupt cops exposed by a group of filmmakers.

Complete Schedules after the jump.

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Exciting Reformatting News

Finally had time to reformat and reinstall the other day, and discovered some amazing revelations. First, I’m still very much a geek, writer aspirations and others aside, and I still actually find such a thing as reformatting and reinstalling apps on my PC exciting. Sad really, and cause to ponder for some I’m sure, but there it is.

Second, I have a healthy 68% dependence on free applications (yay!), and a consistent 31% reliance on proprietary ones (boo!), albeit the latter, diminishing over the years (yay-boo!)

To wit, the installations I’ve installed so far:

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Ring Mah Bling

All you haters out there, listen up.

If you think you’re impressing the shorties with the latest and greatest, well think again, cause this homie’s got sumthin for yall.

Dolce&Gabbana, and Motorola’s come up with the gold or silver V3i DG, and all you fly-mothers better come correct, or this dawg’s gonna get you awwooo awwooooo!

Check it out, you’ll get special ring tones, screensavers, wallpaper, and animation. Specs are 1.2mp. cam, quadband, class 1 bluetooth, etc. etc.

But the honeys don’t need that. The honeys need the matching gold pendant, the gold bluetooth headset, the gold wired stereo headphones and gold wire phone case. After calling the homies, you’ll need to put it somewhere, so you gotta have the gold leather phone case too.

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Bluetooth Usage Guide

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), has released a Bluetooth Icon Program to help “guide consumer purchases of Bluetooth enabled devices”.

Here’s how it goes:

  • Print – The print icon lets you know that printing can be simpler by allowing you to wirelessly print directly from your computer, mobile phone, PDA or any other device displaying the print icon.
  • Input – The input icon shows that you can control as well as input data wirelessly to a device. This makes for fewer cables on your desk and improved control over portable devices without using the tiny, built-in keyboards.

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