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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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  • 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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  • Banned Office XP Commercial

    Too sexy they said. Wonder if it’s true. (more…)

  • 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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  • Google Calendar Rocks. Hard.

    I’ve always been a big fan of calendars. Especially the ones with scantily clad young women peddling cheap liquor, usually found in vulcanizing shops or car garages. Ok, that’s not the point of this post. Focus now. FOCUS.

    Google Calendar recently launched the ability to display itself on any website.

    This means you can create a calendar of activities on your Google Calendar, (don’t forget to activate sharing), then run the process which will produce code that you can slap onto your blog or any site.

    My reaction? FANTABULISTICMARVELOUSIZATIONYIPPEEYEHEY!!

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  • Aklatangpambata.org Gets On PCIJ

    Aklatangpambata.org is one of the NGOs that took advantage of my Free Website for NGOs offer (which I’ve yet to make a page on this blog for to explain what it’s all about. AArrrghh).

    Anyway, I made them a simple WordPress blog and apparently it’s served them very well. The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (a group of true modern day heroes imo), has picked up on their efforts to help teach the value of reading to the kids of Barangay Paltok, Quezon City.

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  • My First Cnet Link

    Joey was once again nice enough to cite my blog, this time re the Alyssa Alano Keys Me post.

    I live to be read by you, Joey! 🙂

    The first time I watched it, I thought it was some Eastern European girl. After I saw the big GMA banner in the back, I was aghast, surprised, and finally, amused. Amused my foot. I laughed my tail off.

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  • A Treasure From Youtube

    I’m Gary, and I’m a Youtube Addict. Youtube’s hooked me good, and with some thanks to PLDT’s unexplained increased bandwidth, I’m having my fill.

    One particular vid’s got me reeling though, and for some odd reason I watch it everyday since I found it last week.

    It’s the Beatles “Rain” from 1966. It was done in full-on MTV style, with the fab four on location, unlike the norm at the time where you’d just see a band performing on stage. I’m not sure if this really started MTV like George Harrison said at the beginning of the clip, but it’s certainly unique esp. for that time.

    And there’s something about them, something about John Lennon in all his youth smiling, singing and looking like he’s enjoying himself, as opposed to all the surliness and melancholy I grew up thinking he represented in the later years. There’s Paul and George singing backup, and the unique Ringo Starr drum work.

    I know their life stories as well as anyone by now. And as I watched them I couldn’t help wondering how’d they have reacted to the way things would turn out. This is Paul years away from the Eagles. Ringgo and George just strumming away and goofing around, and the tall pre-Yoko Ono John, just singing and smiling and doing what obviously to him felt good. A true icon, a legend and musical genius, years away from tragedy.

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  • SE W550i write up out

    My review of the Sony Ericsson W550i finally came out yesterday, rather belatedly since I submitted it about two months ago, but it’s all good.

    I really really liked that phone, and for P15,000.00 (at the time I reviewed it), I think it was a steal with its internal 256mb, built in radio, music player capabilities, and comfortable (sideways) way of playing downloadable Java games. Caveats are lack of expandable memory, a proprietary connector for headphones and USB, its bulk and weight and the sideways opening thing loses its appeal after a few weeks.

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