Your friend who plays in a band suddenly asks you to play roadie in their next gig and help record their music live. He hopes that they’ll get good enough material to send to the local radio rock music station for their “RAW SOUNDS” programs. Being a good friend, and being able to see visions […]

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Like any other person in the room, you are inseparable with your cellphone; your gender doesn’t have anything to do with that. Gadgets are cool – ’nuff said. We love doing things the easy way and you have to admit that SMS or texting has made life so easy. Texting solves your problems: text when […]

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Uh-oh. Could this be Toshiba’s move now that Sony’s Blu-ray has gained the upper hand? Sony just got a nice break in the hi-def format wars when Hollywood studios (like Warner Bros.) have gone Blu-ray exclusive. Toshiba now reacts by slashing up to 50% off the price of HD-DVD players. That means you can […]

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Back to the question that we’ve posted last year on this blog, but with a look at the other side of the story. Our “Has Sony Killed Blu-ray with No-porn Policy?” made its round in some discussions. Many experts say that the hi-def wars is quite moot. How big is is the adult […]

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Computerworld posted this great article on career development for the new year. Call it an option for a new year’s resolution (if you ever believe in that) for IT workers but it brings a lot of insight especially to those who want to advance in their fields next year. Here’s their list with my […]

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More year-end lists as we prepare to flick another digit in our calendars. And here’s one by PC World on the 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007. As I’ve said with my take on Google Zeitgeist list, I prefer stat lists over opinionated ones. Hey, but who am I to prevent people? I might just […]

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It’s not so often that billionaires get to write something for us, common folk. In an article for BBC Business, Bill Gates writes about the skills that a person needs to succeed today.

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Todd Wilkens wrote this interesting piece about his war against Blackberries and laptops in office meetings. Entitled “My personal war against Crackberry,” Wilkens points out how these devices can divide people’s attention to matters. He shares seven ways on how to curb this phenomenon in office meetings.
In this age of wireless Internet and mobile […]

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Now here’s a good indicator of what’s possible with all that technology lying around and if you’re quite ready to mess around with them. Something like your iPhone. So iPhone hackery can turn your precious little gadget (toy) into a brick. Well, that didn’t stop our friendly neighborhood iPhone hackers in turning the iPhone […]

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Now isn’t this interesting. And you have to admire how people actually come up with these ideas. Here’s Tempo, a concept of a 250GB external hard drive that automatically backs up everything you delete.
Some might think it’s dumb to actually have an external hard drive all for the purpose of playing the role […]

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You read it. Yes, a banana. This is surely something that would rock the very fiber of my CD cleaning belief that all you need is a clean lint-free cloth and wipe the darned thing from the center outward in a straight line rotating the disc as you go along. But no, this features a […]

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Thinking about buying yourself a notebook? We don’t blame you! We can think of more than one reason for you to switch from your old PC to a new laptop. Name it: portability, mobility, productivity, plus all the good stuff compacted in a way smaller, thinner, and lighter (whoopee!) computer. Tired of bringing the whole […]

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I don’t have an iPhone and I probably will not buy one. Just like my stance with the iPod. I’m not a Mac hater though. I think. If I had enough resources and loose priorities I may have purchased a MacBook instead of this Asus. I’m just not the type of guy who’d jump […]

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Seems like iPod junkies should take heed of experts’ advice to get indoors as soon as lightning and thunder is heard.
CNN reports of hit-by-lightning-while-using-their-iPods cases. The latest, a Canadian jogger who suffered burns, ruptured eardrums, and a broken jaw when he was hit by lightning and electricity traveled through the wires.
Several other cases have also […]

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Ever since games became more and more interactive, there are now a lot of reasons why gamers should fall into that harsh stereotype of fat and pimply geeks with no lives. Well, save for MMORP gamers. But with the days of Dance Dance Revolution and Wii Sports, we’ve read a lot of reports of […]

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