Forget ProBlogging be a ProBlogContester

Most web savvy people have probably heard of problogging (or a problogger), in case you haven’t and been living under a rock it basically means you earn an income by blogging (in case you don’t know what blogging is now would be a good time to click that little X on the upper right hand corner of your browser).

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(More) Money for Nothing, (Still No) Chicks for Free

Want some more free money ? Well lucky you as several blogs are joining Santa and giving away goodies, even better they don’t care if you’ve been naughty or nice…

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Stupid Guy - $1500 = Amazon Kindle on Ebay

As is the practice with whatever newest and coolest gadget out there, people are taking advantage of the demand from early adopters by reselling the Amazon Kindle on Ebay for as much as $1500.

OK I understand if this was a game consoles like the Wii or some other gadget which you can’t really approximate the experience with a different item but a whopping $1500 for a Kindle ?! Who are these people ?

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Google Knol: Do No Evil (?)

Between the Google Video Debacle, the brouhaha over Pagerank penalties and allegations of Google favoring its own products (Youtube and Blogspot) the past few month has certainly been rough for Google PR-wise.

The recent announcement of Google Knol doesn’t help either. Knol (which stands for a unit of knowledge) is Google’s answer to Wikipedia.

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Turn Your PSP Into a Portable TV and DVR

While the PSP Phone might be mere rumor the PSP TV is real and it just got better with the announced 3.80 firmware which will include Digital Video Recording (DVR) features to the PSP!

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Putting Your OS on the Web

A couple of months ago I experimented using several web based operating systems (Web OS) - G.ho.st, DesktopTwo, YouOS and Goowy. Technically most of them aren’t really operating systems but rather online desktops with some applications thrown in.
I didn’t really intend to use them on a full time basis (why bother when you can have […]

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Sony PSP Phone is Coming… Again ?

One of the oft-repeated rumors on the internet is the coming of a Sony PSP Phone though nothing concrete has really come out of it. It doesn’t help though that Sony seems to delight in rekindling the rumors by constantly dropping hints about it’s possible development:
but the idea of such a device has been given […]

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Jetblue offers in-flight Yahoo Mail and Messenger

Budget airline Jetblue has equipped one of their airplanes with wifi so that passengers can access their email and IM via Yahoo and wifi equipped Blackberry devices.
Passengers won’t be able to surf the full Web. But if they bring Wi-Fi-equipped laptops along, they can access lightweight versions of Yahoo e-mail and instant messaging services; BlackBerry […]

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Money for Nothing, (No) Chicks for Free

Want some free money for Christmas ? Well you’re in luck as Yuga is running a contest together with Auction.PH wherein they’re giving away P15,000 in prizes.
Technically they’re not giving away money but rather e-money which you can use on Auction.PH but then again why split hairs it’s still FREE! There’s three ways to win […]

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Cellphone + Theft = 4 More Years in Prison

According to this article by Pinoy Tech Blog the Philippine Senate has just passed a bill which will impose a higher penalty for theft and robbery involving “a portable telecommunication device” (such as a cellphone, PDA or radio).
Now the penalty for theft in the Philippines ranges from one day to ten years imprisonment, depending on […]

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