Author: iAn L.

Cloud storage, a virtual storage, is the hottest thing in the storage trends. Without using any hard drive, which is prone to physical damage and thieves, you can store your files and share it with your peers anywhere and anytime provided you have an access to the internet. Dropbox and Box.net are the famous names in the cloud data storage services. Amazon has Cloud Drive, Apple has iCloud, Microsoft has Skydrive and finally, Google will have “GDrive”. Google, the company with the most internet-connected servers in the word, will be offering a cloud storage. This will add to the cloud-like ... Read more

A cellphone with a built-in project was a just dream few years ago. Now, it is completely a reality when Samsung Electronics released Samsung Galaxy Beam. The phone was announced two years ago as Samsung I8520 Halo and was released last July 2010 in Singapore under a carrier contract with Starhub. Worldwide release was August of the same with its Singapore release, however, it is not making a big wave on the market maybe because of poor publicity. The phone is already available yet rarely seen on the market stands, and only few individuals are aware of such phone. In ... Read more

Imagining to talk to your Android phone? Don’t worry, it is no longer an imagination this time. If iPhone users can talk to their phone, request the phone to remind their users of a certain task, ask for a nearby coffee shop, or even to simply update their Facebook, Android users can do it too. iPhone’s Siri is really a sophisticated Apple technology which is bundled to the newly released iPhone 4S. Android, on the other hand, has Skyvi which was develop after the great success and positive feedback of Siri. Skyvi (unfair to say copycat), through voice command, will ... Read more

Would you like to start a new career but couldn’t find a suitable job in the market or the competition may have been too stiff? Why not try technical writing. Do have any idea on the job? You may be reluctant to venture on a work that is unpopular and not-so-famous. The existence of such position itself is your question at this moment. But this is what I can assure you, technical writing is as old as the first television set ever built. It is because the individual who wrote the users’ manual you consulted for you to operate the ... Read more

Do you have your own domain and would like to use it with Gmail? For example, you purchased yourowndomain.com and would like to have an email account such as admin@yourowndomain.com and you need a mail space that is bigger that the usual 100 – 200MB bundled email account from your domain registrar, then Gmail is a good choice for you. The concept is simple, replace gmail.com with yourowndomain.com but continue using Gmail service. With Gmail, you can have 7 GB+ of mail space and can create up to 50 mail accounts for your customized domain. No matter where you have bought ... Read more

I admit, Freedom Wall is hosted at Freehostia, but before that, I was using blogger and I was really disappointed when they (their virtual robot) tagged my blog as spam, thus, they put it offline and I eventually lost all my 200+ articles. Sad thing is, I wasn’t able to keep a backup. So, as a sort of advice make it as a habbit. Blog export is good way of backing up your blog because if you opt to change your host due to disappointment, you can always keep your articles’ publication dates. Yes, it was midst of 2010 when I lost ... Read more

An intensity 6.7 earthquake struck 10 kilometers off the coast of Tayasan town in Negros Oriental at 11:49AM, February 6, 2012. Other reports said 6.8, 6.9, and even intensity 7.0 in Dumaguete City and I have completely no idea which report is saying the exact figure. A tsunami warning was raised after the said quake which had caused panic to the residents which, I believe, was lifted at 2:30PM today. And for an individual like me whose family reside in the affected area was to get an assurance of their safety. I am receiving text messages from my Mom that they ... Read more

BBM is exclusive for Blackberry mobile devices and many individuals are buying Blackberry because of such service and a much cheaper data plans of course. Globe Telecom offers PhP599 for an unlimited data connection for Blackberry (BBMax) users while 400-peso higher or Plan999 is available for an unlimited data service for iOS and Android apps (SUPERSURF).But there are many techies out there that choose Android devices and iPhone instead of Blackberry and this may give the idea of the developers to create an app that will allow users across platforms to connect with each other called eBuddy XMS. Like BBM, ... Read more

I am a technical writer, and MS Word is one of the tools I am using in my job. Since I don’t always bring a laptop with me, I look for an Android app which I can use for my HTC in case there are urgent edits or revisions in my work. I tried Polaris Office, but, aside from the bulk in app size which cannot be moved to SD storage, it has limited editing features and does not support PowerPoint. So I uninstalled the app. I tried looking for similar app and then I found Documents To Go, but ... Read more