Friday, November 18, 2005

PUG@D + Microwarehouse+Blugre = PARTY!


Blugre incooperation with Microwarehouse and PUG@D(PDA Users Group of Davao...I promise not to commit the same mistake Jim :D ) held a well attended and very successful WiFi Party the other night, this is supposed to be Davao's first WiFi Party and I've heard PUG@D will hold another one next month. The first 50 registrants via email got free coffee as well as some of the few early birds at blugre cafe.

A two-piece live band supplied the much needed jazz music to soothe the attendees caffeine infused nerves :D Someone took my coffee cup without me knowing hehehe I ordered choco loco instead, my favorite cold concoction at Blugre.

Microwarehouse also presented the new PalmOS PDAs to hit the market(Palm TX and the Z22) along with the previous models like the Tungsten T5 and the LifeDrive as well as Apple products like the iPod family (shuffle, mini, nano, iPod video). Models, wearing skimpy shirts strutt their stuff...err the devices :D generating wide smiles from the male crowd. The fun part was when Andre of 3G-Com announced a contest where anyone with a WiFi device can participate. All we have to do is answer 11 questions and email the answers afterwards. The first email to arrive and got the 11th question right gets the bonus prize. The sender who gets the most number of answers will receive the grand prize...a 512mb iPod shuffle. Honestly, if any of the participants read my blogs they would have gotten 10 of the 11 questions right [laughs]. I'm pretty glad it was a contest because I've never been the one who gets lucky with raffles, I'm as random as one can get (so I'm like the shuffle in some ways hahaha). To make the long story short, I walked home with a wide grin on my face and an iPod shuffle in my pocket. I didn't get the nano for my x'mas.wish.list but hey! I'm not complainin' :D

Thanks to all the event sponsors, especially Microwarehouse, I definitely had a fun night!

Friday, November 11, 2005

computing.zen!

After two days of taking a slightly damaged (long story but everything works) Powerbook 1.5Ghz G4 for a spin, I discovered why Mac switchers never went back to Windows, and why Mac users never bothered to look at other OSes. Everything just makes sense....but don't take my word for it, go and try one out. It might cost you an arm and a leg but with a Powerbook who needs a leg :D

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

High.on.ideas.but.low.on.power?

Firefox.com is giving away a dual-processor, Firefox-skinned Alienware machines (price tag: $4700) to the three developers who can extend firefox in ways that are worthy of such raw computing power. Probably the most amazing bounty I've seen online. Maybe its time for me to really learn XUL :D