Entries Tagged as 'Highlights'

Sony Ericsson K850i test: Google Maps for Mobile with My Location works

January 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Google Maps for Mobile’s My Location feature works in the Sony Ericsson K850i, the latest in the Cyber-shot line to hit the market. My Location is a cool feature that places your approximate location on the map using GPS (Global Positioning System) or mobile towers.
If you have one of the recent phones that report cell [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Mobile · free software

Using WordPress as CMS of news, magazine sites redux

January 10th, 2008 · 20 Comments

My redesign of Cebu Living, an online magazine on Cebu, is now live. Check it out. It’s using a WordPress theme for news and magazine websites. The new theme still needs a lot of work but if you want to try it out, you can do an anonymous svn checkout: svn checkout http://svn2.assembla.com/svn/cebulivingmagazine. Just go [...]

Tags: Blog design · Highlights · Internet · Journalism · Open source · WebTech

Synchronize Microsoft Office documents with Google Docs using DocSyncer

December 5th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I finally got an invitation to try out DocSyncer, a service that allows you to automatically synchronize Microsoft Office files in your PC—documents, presentations, and spreadsheets—with your Google Docs account.
DOCSYNCER. The service synchronizes your Microsoft Office documents with your Google Docs account. It’s still being tested and far from being a dependable day-to-day application. [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Internet · productivity

New Google Maps for Mobile tracks your position using cell phone towers

December 3rd, 2007 · 10 Comments

Google released last week a new version of its Google Maps for Mobile application. The release, as with many of Google’s products, is designated “beta,” a label used for software that is still being actively tested and not yet released to the public.
I’ve read about mobile maps applications before, including the earlier Google versions, but [...]

Tags: Highlights · Mobile · free software

Smart TextMail and mobile alerts on tasks, website availability

November 26th, 2007 · 50 Comments

One of my longest mobile experiment drew to a close early this month with my rediscovery of Smart’s TextMail.
For more than a year, I’ve been trying one service after another in an effort to get my e-mails sent as text messages to my mobile phone. The answer, you might say, is simple: buy a [...]

Tags: Free services · Highlights · Mobile · WebTech · planner · productivity

Wi-Fi piggybacking widespread, anti-virus firm warns

November 25th, 2007 · 4 Comments

While setting up a Wi-Fi network for the PLDT myDSL connection at home earlier this week, I got a timely warning from a press release. Anti-virus company Sophos said many people now use someone else’s wireless Internet connection without their permission.
Sophos said 54 percent of 560 respondents who took their online survey admitted to using [...]

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