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Tech as enabling disaster preparedness: APSEMO experience
WERE you among the hundreds of people stranded in parts of Metro Cebu Saturday night? A strong and sudden downpour caused waist-deep flooding in several areas of the metro. Flooding has now become all too common not just because of the sorry state of our drainage system and our explosive growth but also because of…
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payITfwd launch in Cebu highlights advocacies of ‘ordinary’ Cebuanos
“Sometimes as a journalist,” Sun.Star Cebu reporter Bernadette Parco said during the payITfwd launch in Cebu, “you have to step out and do something for your community.” For Parco, “doing something” is working with a friend, who is also a journalist, to hand out school bags to poor students to encourage them to continue going…
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1st 30-Day Challenge completed: run at least 5K daily
I just completed a 30-day challenge to run at least 5 kilometers a day. I failed at my attempt to blog daily. One out of 2 isn’t bad for my first month. The idea behind the 30-Day Challenge is that 30 days, according to Google engineer Matt Cutts, are “just about the right time to…
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The BlackBerry Q10 is a great phone
BlackBerry launched in Cebu yesterday its first BlackBerry 10 device with a physical QWERTY keypad – the BlackBerry Q10. I was able to play with the device for several minutes during the launch and found it a great phone for those who want a physical keyboard. Organizers of the event held a game that had…
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Parrot is great voice recording app for BlackBerry Z10
As a journalist, I use my phone extensively for news gathering. Apart from it being my camera, the phone is also my main voice recorder for interviews. I still carry an MP3 voice recorder but this serves only as backup, the quality of recording in smartphones is so much higher. Whenever I set up a…