Category: Announcements

To those attending the Google-Globe Developer Workshop tomorrow (June 20, 2009), the event will be held at one of the conference rooms found at the West wing of the Tech Portal building of the UP-Ayala Technohub. The Tech Portal building is the horseshoe-shaped building where the shops and cafes are located. Here’s a map: For… Continue reading Google-Globe Developer Workshop Update

HTC Country Manager Mark Sergio officially announced today that the HTC Magicâ„¢, the first Android-powered mobile phone in the Philippines, will be available exclusively through Smart Gold, the postpaid brand of leading wireless services provider Smart Communications, Inc. (SMART). SMART and HTC Corporation will be launching HTC Magicâ„¢ very soon. The HTC Magicâ„¢ is the… Continue reading RP’s First Android-Powered Mobile Phone to be Available Under SMART

To commemorate the country’s 111th anniversary of its declaration of independence, Google announced that it has created the first-ever Google doodle for the Philippines. The unique doodle can be viewed on Google’s Philippine website, www.google.com.ph. A Google doodle is a “decoration” Google makes to its logo every so often. Doodles are designed to celebrate worldwide… Continue reading First Ever Filipino Google Doodle Unveiled on Independence Day

Google and Globe Telecom are sponsoring a developer workshop on June 20, 2009 at the Ayala Technohub in Quezon City. Google Developer Advocate Patrick Chanezon, whom you might remember from last year’s Manila Devfest, is coming back to go in-depth into Google’s and Globe’s API’s, as well as be on-hand to assist you in developing… Continue reading See You at the Google Developer Workshop!

Good thing my friend Jehz informed me about an error he got when he tried to comment on my earlier post. No wonder I haven’t been getting comments lately! Argh! If you know me well, I <3 comments! The problem happens when submitting the comment form. A blank page will appear, save for an error… Continue reading Sorry, No Posts Matched Your Criteria Error When Posting a Comment

At $20 a pop, it’s now possible to register your own .mp domain. It’s quite expensive compared to a regular .com or .net domain so I’m not sure if I’m biting this one. But the number of words ending in “-mp” opens up a lot of doors for creativity, to boot: donaldtru.mp or whitemencantju.mp or… Continue reading .mp Domain Registration Now Open

Mayday, mayday! We all have only about a day to migrate our Feedburner feeds to Google’s servers. Luckily I remembered to do that last week. Alleba Blog’s new feed address is: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/AllebaBlog. Please update your feed readers. Naturally, the migration is meant to integrate our feeds with Google’s infrastructure. We lose our Feedburner accounts but… Continue reading Feedburner Migration Reminder

The funny thing about WordPress is the way it behaves differently across my different webhosts – Dreamhost, Media Temple and A Small Orange. My food blog is hosted on MT. Before I manually upgraded it to WordPress 2.7, it was languishing in the old 2.3 version. Back then when 2.3 was the “in thing” it… Continue reading Some Nagging WordPress Issues I’ll Help You Solve