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Manage songs in your phone, mp3 player with Songbird
ITunes locks out other devices by limiting synchronization only to iPods and other Apple-approved devices. There are third-party software you can use to be able to manage songs in your phone or non-iPod mp3 player using iTunes but these applications can be complicated to install or tedious to use. SONGBIRD, K750i. The transfer queue of…
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Traffic, flood, crime data on your mobile phone
Apart from Bulacan State University’s Smart Phone Guard, the Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) project that really piqued my interest in this year’s Innovation and Excellence Awards is Ateneo de Manila University’s Smart Safety Assistance (3S). The system packages mobile services, using open source projects, into a system that offers people access, via a…
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Read this and weep
Here’s a quiz for you. Look at the photo below (don’t read the caption yet). Which is more expensive? Is it 1.) the street lamp on this road in Mandaue City in Cebu or 2.) the motorcycle and the bag that contains a laptop, digital camera, and various other gadgets of my trade? Here’s a…
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End of the Affair
(Blogger’s note: This break-up post was written a couple of weeks back.) We go way back, Globelines and I. More than 5 years, if I can recall correctly. I signed up with the company before Globelines became what it is today, one of two giant telecommunications companies that dominate the country. I signed up to…
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Using mobile technology to control entry to houses, spy on intruders
Bulacan State University had the most number of entries to this year’s Smart Wireless Engineering Education Program (Sweep) Innovation and Excellence Award. The school’s Smart Phone Guard application took the top prize. BSU could have taken the top two prizes had it combined its two home security projects: Smart LockInterCom and e-Spy Mobile Security. On…