Photo Op

Yoda desk protector = cool

Thanks auntie Rose!

Human Resource number: 4,397,127,375 from #GitmoNationMango

Chicken joy #foodspotting

Taken at Jollibee JP Rizal Marikina

Frankfurter Breakfast Tray #foodspotting

Taken at Café France

Tempura Soba #japanese #foodspotting

Taken at Yuujin

Unagi & Uni Sushi #foodspotting #japanese

Taken at Yuujin

Ninoy Aquino statue

Taken at Ninoy Aquino Statue

Fish kebab #foodspotting

Taken at Moksha Resto & Bar

Sushi Moriawase #foodspotting #japanese

Taken at Shokuji Bar & Restaurant

.@jooorzzz & shango

Taken at Wack Wack Gardenville Townhomes

Banana ketchup is an abomination

Macaroons

Taken at Wack Wack Gardenville Townhomes

Chocolate

Taken at Wack Wack Gardenville Townhomes

Double Stuff Oreo

Taken at Stefano Footwear Corporation

Reviews // htc ChaCha

I purchased an htc chacha about a 3 weeks ago. I must admit that it was a moment of weakness I have been using an iPhone 4 for about a year already and wanted to tinker with something else. I chose the chacha over a Samsung Galaxy Pro (also a QWERTY bar device but with lower specs). I postulated that the chacha would A.) have more ROM chefs B.) htc Sense. C.) better resale value over the Samsung Galaxy Pro

I've had some experience with htc Sense the skin that the Taiwanese handset maker puts on top of Android and found it beautiful.

The device is a QWERTY bar form factor with the lower portion curved (the htc Hero had a similar chin) the logic for this is to keep the screen elevated and off the surface when you put the phone face down on your desk and to move the mic closer to your mouth when on a call. The screen is a tiny 2.6inch touch screen I must admit that I have been spoiled with the larger screen of the iPhone, and I found myself going back to the iPhone when I wanted to browse.

The device has an 800mhz processor which seemed a bit under powered there was some noticeable lag when moving from screen to screen and sometimes even when selecting or typing. The keyboard reminded me of the palm Treo Pro (also built by htc) I felt the buttons were well spaced and felt very good in use. I am not sure if it is a components or a software issue (or both) but I felt that taking pics was slow and the pics were not as good as the iPhone. The battery life seemed very poor and the straw that broke the camel's back is the low memory errors. The htc chacha comes with 512Mb RAM and ROM, however only about 150Mb is left to the user after a factory reset. htc included an app to move applications to the SD card but most of the htc and GOOG apps (i.e. GMAIL etc etc) could not be moved. There is a workaround for this, but it requires rooting. The bootloader on this device is locked and there was no way for me to root it, therefore I could not move items, therefore I could not install a lot of apps or updates, and I kept on getting the memory error. This was very annoying.

Android 2.3.4 powers this device as mentioned htc has put sense on top, it makes Android pretty and bearable but I suspect it also contributes to the sluggishness. The Philippines now has access to Android Market (the last time I used Android was 2.1 and there was no marketplace for us). I must say that the marketplace is a mess. One of the downsides of being "open" I guess. I stuck to free apps since it was clear that this device was not going to last and true enough I hard reset the device, wiped the microSDHC card and sold it off this weekend. I did not get as much as I wanted for it but I would rather sell it at a lost than keep it and be reminded how bad this device is. I really liked the widgets on Android, as a GMAIL user I was very happy with the built in client however there were still some lag and it seemed the OS lacked polish or the specs were not up to snuff. The only way to say it is the experience was not smooth.

This is the first htc device that I absolutely did not enjoy using, and I have owned a lot of htc devices in the past. It seems that Android is too spec hungry and this device skimped on the specs, a bad combination. The form factor and keyboard could not make me keep the device because the overall experience with the memory errors and small screen was too much of a negative for me.

I do not recommend this phone. Look elsewhere for your smartphone needs. 

If for some unknown reason you are still curious about this device hop on over to htc's website to learn more:
http://www.htc.com/sea/smartphones/htc-chacha/

An ensaymada with almonds on top

Taken at Wack Wack Gardenville Townhomes

Chubby baby hehe

Pocoyized

Taken at Wack Wack Gardenville Townhomes

Iberian Chicken #foodspotting

Taken at Casa Armas

Paella Negra #foodspotting

Taken at Casa Armas

Ham Platter #foodspotting

Taken at Casa Armas

If you slide lockscreen notifications it will open the app #iOS5

I think this is one of the most useful tweaks to notifications (aside
from NC of course)

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Big Daddy's Chicken Chop & Pasta #foodspotting

Taken at Theater Mall Greenhills

Fox's candy

Tips & Tricks // Backing up your iCloud data.

So you moved to AAPL's snazzy new iCloud service, if you value your data you wouldn't trust everything to the cloud. It is still best to have your own copy for safe keeping here's how to do it on Windows 7. 

You need

1. Outlook
2. Apple's iCloud Desktop App
3. Your 3-2-1 backup solution = Storage media (USB sticks, external HDD), online storage (Dropbox, Carbonite etc)

I have most of the stuff turned on. I still use GMAIL and GOOGLE CALENDAR for email and calendaring. One of the most important things for me though is my Contacts list or Address book. 

So install the iCloud desktop app and turn on the items you want.

It should populate your Outlook. 

From Outlook you can export to PST and/or CSV, save it to your 3-2-1 backup system.

http://blog.wisefaq.com/2010/01/05/backups-with-the-3-2-1-rule/ 

I save 3 copies (1 on my machine, 1 on an external HDD, 1 on a USB stick) 2 media types (HDD and USB stick), 1 offsite (I have 2 offsite locations, Carbonite and Dropbox).

This way your data is alive, well and accessible from a myriad of places not just iCloud.

Additional tips: 

1. Use common fields for your data (specialized fields like iPhone etc etc might be skipped by most non-AAPL desktop clients)
2. PST will retain contact pictures (caller ID) CSV will not
3. I suggest doing this regularly like once a month. 

 

 

 

Breakfast

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Isn't this modnoc man? @jek @woofy_man

Unaju Set #foodspotting #japanese

Taken at Toki Japanese Fusion and Fine Dining

A bug lets you move newsstand into a folder #iOS5

From @kengie: make a new folder, drag the news stand really fast. But it doesn't work when it's in that folder http://t.co/bHdRgLma

Took me a couple of tries but finally got it in a folder.

feeling DJ #kegaw

App was on sale no idea how to use it tho... Ha!

Don't forget to vote http://www.podcastawards.com/

Voted for shows that I listen to and love. You should do the same.

You can't put NewsStand inside a folder because it is a folder #iOS5

This is annoying but that's the way it is…

Tips & Tricks // Add an iMessage Link to your blog.

should work on MOBILE SAFARI and iOS DEVICES

Got the latest iOS5 loaded on your device? Enjoying iMessage? Let readers of your site or blog send you an iMessage straight from Mobile Safari.

Basically this is using the same command for SMS. So it's

Send iMessage (try me on mobile safari)

or

Send iMessage (try me on mobile safari)

NB: You can hide or obfuscate your number and / or email address for additional privacy.

http://labnol.blogspot.com/2006/03/hide-your-email-address-on-websites.html

GOOG home page.

This is somewhat creepy... but yeah thanks GOOG

Nilaga ��

This was today's soup…

Reset iCloud Photo Stream... Yes!

I take a lot of crap photos and screen shots so this is very much welcome.

Today's lockscreen

Today's lockscreen

Yub-nub!

It's not a fat juicy burger but it'll have to do

Fixing computer for accounting dept.

Unofficial IT work