I might unnecessarily be showing my age off here but I’m sure many of you still remember the days when almost everybody instead of computer generated color ripples, or family photo slideshows, had toasters flying across their computer screens. The highly popular After Dark screen saver was first released in 1989 for Macintosh users by [...]
This page requires a higher version browser GMA launched a new, News and Public Affairs-specific, Station ID yesterday, called “Panata” (Our Pledge). See if you can find me.
Got an interesting invite from Microsoft this morning (clock included) for Vista’s Philippine Launch this coming February 1, that’s a full 3 days after its US launch (Jan 29th). I’ve been playing with an advanced copy of Vista for a couple of weeks now and things look pretty cheery for Windows users – I think [...]
Since 1998, German-based Ifra through its Advanced Journalist Technology Project has published “NewsGear” – a guide to must-have hardware and software for today’s multimedia journalist. This year, inspiration was drawn from the needs of print journalists to provide content for online and mobile platforms and focuses on putting together an online mobile newsroom. Instead of [...]
Bulletpoint highlights from yesterday. Totally addicted to Twitter and Twitterific. Feeder 1.4 Update released. Calvin Keen needs a new Mac. Recorded Convergent Journalism Podcast Episode 3 with Susan. First McDonald’s burger of the year (will keep it to 1/month maximum).
The only lights inside the Ateneo Art Gallery come from the spotlights which lie nestled inside alcoves on its’ ceilings. It is dimly lit but within its’ confines beckons a painting that shines with as much joy and radiance as the bright world outside. Such is Jose Joya’s “Granadean Arabesque”. One’s eyes are first drawn [...]
A sadist I am not, but there’s just something about seeing Amanda Congdon literally getting the shock of her life that really gets me to smile. You see, the pretty videoblogger, (now doing it professionally for ABC) while covering the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas volunteered to demo the new Taser C2 personal [...]
Was up late (as usual) last night and caught the 1:30am re-run of Jeopardy on ETC’s 2nd Avenue. During the Jeopardy! round I was thrilled at a category called “A Philippines Timeline”. Contestants avoided the category till there was no other choice, and when they finally got to it, were able to answer all but [...]
We all got what we wished for and then some. Everyone had different expectations but nobody (not even Kevin Rose) could have predicted how revolutionary a product would be announced during Steve Job’s keynote address at this year’s Macworld Expo in San Francsico. The show just wrapped up a couple of minutes ago, the Apple [...]
