Almost flipped out when the news broke out that Google Reader is going to close down.. OF ALL GOOGLE SERVICES! As much as I want to rage quit as I'm kind of pissed off, there is nothing that I can do but vent it out here. Google Reader has been my go to for the latest on everything. Blitzing every news feed in a snap and now Google is shutting it down mercilessly. For some they won't seem to care, but Google Reader has had a very loyal following. I can attest to that as I am one and have been a Google Reader user since mid-2008. Google Reader has already been a part of my daily routine since then. The sky is falling for Google Reader users like me but it seems that Google is trying to funnel down all their services into their "go-to-all-around" social networking site Google Plus which I can vouch has been gaining traction for some months now after much of the slow start. As all of these unfolds what I can now foresee is that Feeburner just might be next. Hopefully not but knowing Google and the way they are funneling down their traffic to their Google Plus ...

Dreamhost has just put their cloud storage service, DreamObjects, in a promo of 2 cents per GB per month! Its a limited offer and only the first 1000 signups would be able to avail of the promo which would last while you still have an account active on Dreamhost. Its tempting. It really is... knowing that they have their price set lower than other competing and leading cloud storage services known such as the famous Amazon S3. Although prices for the physical storage are dropping like flies by the day, I still believe that cloud storage is the next big thing. We might even be in the middle of the phase right wherein people are starting to adopt to cloud storage. (Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive, Dropbox etc.) In fact cloud storage has already began a few years back already, most were just oblivious about it since cloud storage comes in many forms. I have been an Amazon S3 user for more than a year now and I am actually satisfied with them. Satisfied with the ease of use, the pricing and the speed and stability and I am entrusting all my backups there to Amazon actually. Then here comes DreamObjects. With their promo ...

First of, what in the world is X-Play anyway!?..... For the uninitiated the news broke when Datablitz branches in certain parts of the metro got raided because they were accused of selling pirated goods, specifically NBA 2K13 game titles. For real? The only store that I can think of when it comes to legitimacy got raided because of Piracy!? Wake me up! I must be dreaming!!!!!! Its just JEALOUSY. For all I know, X-Play is just having tantrums because Datablitz, for the past 17 years, has had a huge following of Console Gamers nationwide and of course that includes me, and there's no need to ask where I'd get my latest copy of NBA 2K13 but from no other than Datablitz themselves. What is X-Play anyway!? This is the first time that I have heard them. In this controversy that they stirred up... Hey X-Play! You just hit a hornet's nest trying to cry "wolf". Your negative publicity against Datablitz won't work. Console gamers nationwide know Datablitz too well. They never sell pirated stuff... EVER! Eliminating the Competition From my point of view you just want to eliminate Datablitz as they are a stiff competition when it comes to selling legitimate game titles. They have been doing ...

Been thinking about the newest PS3, its slimmer than the older PS3 Slim, and it is lighter too. The thing is that it was lighter than before since the Hard Drive was removed from this new model of Playstation 3 and was replaced by a 12GB of flash memory. In my opinion that is not quite enough, really. A lot of new games right now on the Sony PS3 requires you to install something on the unit which takes up much of the space. For example my old RockBand 2 game requires me around 2 GB  of space just to install the songs on the unit so it won't load up through the Blu Ray Disc which cuts down on the load time. If that would be applied on the newest model of the Sony PS3, then you are left with 10 more GB of space. What if you have more than 1 game that needs installation before being playable, which most of the PS3 gamers do have, then the space would not be suffice to support all of the games. Some even use the PS3 to store digital media, movies from Netflix, music from Amazon and some other stuffs that eat ...

Renewal of your PRC ID has never been this easy with the expansion of PRC Renewal services to the Malls. One can now renew their PRC License hassle free without having to go to a PRC Branch plus with the extended days as the Renewal services of PRC on SM Malls would be open during Mall Hours. Here are the List of SM Malls that do offer PRC ID / License Renewal SM Mall Of Asia SM Novaliches SM Masinag SM Manila SM Quiapo SM Harrison Plaza SM Sta. Mesa SM Sucat SM Bacoor SM Dasmarinas SM Calamba SM Lipa City PRC Renewal services are open 7 days a week during the mall hours. ID's renewed would be released after 7 working days. Its a lot longer than having it renewed at the PRC Main Branch in Manila but its more convenient. The last time I renewed my PRC License last year (2011) I was able to get my PRC ID Renewed and released the same day. As a matter of fact it only took me around 30 minutes when I renewed my ID at the PRC Main Branch although I did have to queue in long lines but at the same time I took the "Rush" option which helped me get my PRC ID ...

Its actually quite easy to get a FREE Lastpass Premium Account and you won't even need a lastpass student account just to get a free premium account even though it is one of the methods to get one. You can get a Lastpass Premium Account just by signing up over here. Lastpass is well quite worth it if you'd ask me. Security of your accounts nowadays should be one of your priorities and getting tips from various sites like what firefox just recently posted is just as useful but memorizing a lot of passwords for your different accounts becomes tedious as the number of accounts grow bigger and this is where Lastpass comes in.   With lastpass you'd only get to remember one password and the rest would be like a walk in the park as it does the dirty work for you. Lastpass generates uber strict passwords whenever your sign up for something, and also enters username and passwords for you automatically when you visit a site that you have an account on. Stop using your browser to save your username and passwords. Its unsecure! One can just snoop in to your browser, open up its options menu and thats it! Your username and password ...

Im a console gamer but World Of Tanks is keeping me quite busy this past few weeks. This game has been around since 2010 but since April 2012 they have just launched their (South East Asian) SEA Server which made me decide to immediately plunge into the world of tanks and let me grind the pavement all day long. The experience is good and quite addicting actually. There are also a lot of veteran players which have been playing this game from the North American server and transferred to the newly launched SEA Server which quickly helped populate the SEA Gaming community. The learning curve is moderate, depending on your experience of playing online games through PC. The same familiar WASD controls and such. The game also lets you choose the nation to root for with their own set of tanks but its not just tanks but different kinds are available in game like SPG's, Light Tanks, Medium Tanks, Heavy Tanks and Tank Destroyers which have their own purpose in the game. Its actually quite fun if you try it out. Its not the typical FPS games that I have seen for quite some time since the game gives you an above-the-shoulder perspective ...

Ever since I heard of the rumor regarding the upcoming Playstation 4 aka Playstation Orbis, certain things were already running on my mind. New games, new console, and then... new way of handling games... Here are some of my viewpoints on the rumor regarding Playstation Orbis. The Good Of course, a new console, which also means new features. It was told that the new Playstation Orbis would be able to handle 4096x2160 resolution. That's already masssive at the current time since the biggest that I have known so far are just capable to process video resolution on the standard 1920x1080p. Another thing that I do anticipate are much better graphics, though I can already appreciate how great the graphics are nowadays when it comes to gaming not just on Playstation 3 but on any other current generation console. Another plus is the faster Processor and higher GPU as what I have said. Then also the PS Vita that could have something to do with the upcoming Playstation Orbis, maybe something big... I dont have any idea. Speculation says that the word Orbis and Vita which in common english means Circle and Life could have something to do with the two units from Sony. The ...

Never in my mind did I thought of owning a condo, because like me and most people that are quite tight on budget we have this constraints that prevents us to even at least learn what it takes when owning a condominium unit. I can't recount how many countless flyers have been given to me on malls and end up throwing them because of lack of interest thereof.     But then I never thought that owning one can also have benefits. I mean, we have our own home, I even have two rooms, but that does not mean buying a condo means I need to use it all the time, I thought, I can invest in one then reap the profits at a later date. Wouldn't that be much productive right? That's when I found out about the Linear Makati, the usual me would skip all the details and head on right to how much it would take to own a unit, but before anything else, if you'd like to know what the Linear Makati has to offer read on after the jump! The Linear Makati by Filinvest Legacy near Buendia Avenue, Makati City (a joint venture project between Filinvest Land Inc. and the Yupangco Group) The Linear ...