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Online gaming has been around for more than a decade now. During my college years, Counter Strike was all the rave, with Diablo and Ragnarok following suit. Kids and adults alike go crazy about these stuff. For others who became intensely addicted to it, they spend really long hours in front of the computer just because they got too hooked on the game. There was even a friend of mine who knew an adult guy who met up with a teenage kid (roughly 18 at that time), and traded his car for the character in the game that is being maintained by that kid. Read more…

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Predictive text can sometimes be a good feature in our mobile phones these days, but in some and even most cases, it could be downright inconvenient, and  well quite a headache. Although later on that headache leads to hilarity. Just like that screen capture, I also had my share of these things. A few weeks ago, I called the home spa to book a home service massage. Here’s the exchange: Read more…

Since my husband gave me an android phone and I decided to join the instagram band wagon (just to follow Katie Leclerc hehe), I’m now having so much fun taking pictures using it. No this is not a paid post or sponsored post. Read more…

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Technology is moving at such a crazy rate! Mobile phones are now built with dual core processors, and televisions with 3D viewing Read more…

Technology has indeed changed the way we live today. Ten years ago, I even got to experience walking into offices just to leave my resume. I could almost hear your thoughts and yes I agree, quite a waste of money. But well back in those days, that’s pretty much how things are done. Fortunately, I didn’t have to do it for long with the advent of Jobstreet and Jobsdb. Not only do you get to go through a variety of job postings, it also saves you time and energy, since you’ll only have to leave the house when you already have an appointment with the company you’re applying to.

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I even signed up and uploaded my resume in Monsters, which I find rather silly later on, considering that it is a job posting site for US jobs. Too bad, I actually like the site since it was rather easy to navigate. At the same time, you could customize your search by areas and localities, you simply just have to type the select the city or state, or even put in the keywords like Charlotte jobs and in a matter of seconds, you get a list of the job postings in the said area. That’s something I’ve yet to see with Jobstreet and Jobsdb.

LinkedIn recently came into the picture as well. It’s like a more professional looking Facebook. You can even get testimonials or recommendations from your previous bosses and colleagues. Cool!  I’d say, I’m really glad that I’m a child of my time.

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My mom earned a new nick name – Lola Techie. Why? Yesterday, we downloaded a couple of movie torrentz, along with that I loaded a couple of websites with videos that we wanted to watch, some videotaped webinars.  Before leaving for work, my mom told me to leave the laptop open because she wanted to access her Facebook account. She said she has a couple of friends she wants to poke. Whew! Imagine that! hehe And so we obliged and left the laptop on. My mom is turning into a lola techie.

When we got home, hubby said he saw a couple of other websites. Seems like my mom is actually surfing the net. One website that she opened was www.arthritispainrelief.net, looks like you really can tell a persons age by the literature that they are reading. Amazing how people are adapting to technology. Before, my mom could hardly find her way through navigating a mobile phone, now she sees a new model of mobile phone, she speculates whether it has bluetooth, fm radio and how many megapixels the camera phone has. Lola techie ng lola techie nga! hehe

I’ve been thinking of taking Photography lessons for a long time now long before everyone got interested in owning a DSLR. Back in 2005 I was already dreaming of owning my own DSLR. It was a year later when I got a digicam, as a gift from my husband. Hubby got me a Canon S3 Is. It is a very thoughtful gesture and I was more than happy he did. He just got his hands all over it figuring it out when I unwrapped the box that I lost interest.

During the Typhoon Ketsana incident our faithful Canon got submerged in flood water for 2 days. It was repaired by the ever reliable Quaipo repair guys but it’s having problems again lately with the battery life. And with my son growing up and having a lot of milestones, buying another digicam is a must. I’m currently comparing prices and specs right now and going over reviews. And boy! There’s too many good features now. Sony digital cameras are coming up next to Nikon and Canon in terms of  specs and affordability. It’s all damn too good to look at, if only I could afford you guys right now. Well I guess I have to figure out a way to raise money first before checking them out, huh? Yeah, I guess that would be most wise. And then probably after getting my own cam, that’s the time it would be wise to scout for Photography lessons. Well, in the mean time, for those of you who are looking for some lessons this summer, check this out – Search for PhotoWorld Manila in Facebook for details.

Like the old adage goes: Change is constant! As such, we know for certain the technology will constantly improve. That is why it is not wise to spend too much on gadgets like mobile phones, mp3 players, tv sets etc. We all know that in a matter of one or two years, something much better will come along and the resale value of the items we bought isn’t going to be much.

Since we need most of these things in our day to day living – computer programs for our office work, mobile phones for communication – we need to also adapt to these changes. You can pretty much tell if you’re starting to get old, if you’re starting to become resistant to change. I for one, have been pretty unmindful of the many features that my mobile phone has. But I have to remind myself that I need to learn these things to maximize the use of my gadgets.

Surprisingly, there are older folks who, despite having a hard time learning the ropes on how to use the modern day gadgets that we have now, are eager to learn anyways. One of my friends mom, who already has 3 grandchildren loves surfing the net, with www.best-wrinklecream.com as her favorite site. I remember how challenging it was to teach my folks to use the computer. It is a complete test of patience! But I have to remind myself that one day, I’ll be in their place and I certainly don’t want my son to be impatient when it comes to teaching me how to use new technology. The most important thing to keep in mind is to be open-minded about the new change, not just in technology but as well as the changes we encounter in life in general.

Last November, I told you we finally decided to get a new TV set. The transaction at Robinson’s Galleria Appliance store went smoothly, and we’re actually happy with their staff who assisted us. A few days later, we even got a call from them to ask if we are hapy with the item and if everything is okay. Well, anyway, going back to the TV, well, we’re mostly happy with  this purchase. The picture quality is great, we just have to wait for Sky Cable to upgrade the signal (which I think will take time considering that our area is still serviced with analog signals and we have yet to get a digibox….hmmm, thinking of switching to Cignal), although for our downloaded videos, we don’t have any complains. Just have to also purchase a blu-ray player (hope they become more affordable in time).

The only downside we could think of, is the audio. Hubby already reconfigured the settings but its still low and when you turn up the volume, the sound quality becomes “basag”. So what we did, is just to work around it and bought home speakers instead. Well, we got the TV for a song, so we’re not complaining. Just hoping the manufacturers could take that into account next time.

Updating this post as of Dec 25, 2011.

I wanted to update this post 6 months ago. We do not have any complains about the TV, the only down side is the remote control. The signs especially for playing a movie were all erased. It started fading as soon as 3 months from purchase. Now, you kinda have to press all the buttons to find out where is rewind, forward, pause and pretty much all the controls. Other than that all’s fine.

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Don’t you just love technology? The wave of constant innovation has brought mankind to where we are right now – a creature of comfort! As intelligent creatures, we’ve always wanted to make things easier. At times, it has resulted in us further complicating things, nonetheless, majority of the time, we manage to outdo ourselves and create ways to simplify things and make life easier for us.

The same principle of making things easy and simple is the driving force for Pacific Mobile Modular Buildings. It is the company’s desire to ease up manual labor, reduce manpower costs, which of course equates to cost reduction to the part of the contracting company, but without definitely, compromising the quality. Another benefit that goes with having the said company construct your building, is the time involved. Going modular defintely gives you an advantage in terms of completing the project in a very timely manner, in contrast to the traditional way of constructing a building.

If you are interested in checking out the kind of building designs they have or their past projects, click here.

On the other hand, if you are cynical about switching over to this contemporary way of building construction, or merely have some reservations about this revolutionary method, view our awards – Pacific Mobile.