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eBooks: Kindle vs iBooks. Price = for some reason Kindle books have a USD 2 markup for non-US residents. Point goes to iBooks Accessibility = Kindle wins this hands-down it's on most platforms. iBooks is locked to Apple, some iBooks require an iPad, not sure if it will work on iBooks OSX. Enhanced Ebooks = On Kindle, I sent a sample to my iPhone but got an error when trying to play audio. App told me to re-download, did it twice no luck - not sure if this is because it's a sample. Could not send sample of iBooks because I don't have an iPad,  there is no option to send sample to iBooks OSX. I am leaning towards getting all 3 enhanced ebooks making of original trilogy star wars on Kindle.

So SMART data has been terrible lately (at home & at the office) for about a week now. I have been tweeting them and also sent in an email. I got their standard response: 1. Sorry 2. Restart your phone 3. Monitor Their twitter staff informed me there was no service interruption in my area. My bill is fully paid. I get better speed at the mall & some parts of EDSA so it's not my phone. So I have to say it's a network issue, are the new buildings along shaw messing up my reception? If so SMART should really add more cell-sites. I have mentioned in another post that it had been 10 months since they launched LTE and still I have no coverage at home or at the office. I have been monitoring their LTE coverage page  http://www1.smart.com.ph/Bro/lte/coverage  and it seems there have been no sites added in the past months that would benefit me. So my complaints have been sent via twitter and email, I am not sure when or if SMART will even add more cell-sites. My f...

Below is my letter sent to SMART to customercare@smart.com.ph dated today 26-October-2013 Saturday at 2:30PM. I have removed the SR number, my mobile and account number before posting this. ======== Dear SMART,  I do not appreciate being lied to.  Last June, when my 6 month contract with SMART ended I went to your Shangri-la branch because I wanted to downgrade or switch my Unlidata 1500 to an iPhone plan 999. I was informed this was not possible and that I had to stay on 1500 if I wanted Unlidata. I had no other option. It was the cheapest Unlidata plan they had. That's that.  24-October-2013, Thursday — I went to SMART Megamall because I wanted to complain about the lack of LTE coverage and inquire about a new line for work, and tried once again. Again I got the "you have no other plan to go to” speech. He explained that iPhone plan 999 was bundled with a phone and could not be applied to my plan unless I wanted to cancel my current plan and get a...

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I'm currently working for a real-estate company which we are investors in. My official designation is assistant marketing manager, since I would like to save the starting company some money I am also taking on the duties of the IT department (which for now are very minor) for said company. The company can hire a full time IT guy when the need arises but for now kegaw ko na muna kung ano kaya. So I registered a domain with godaddy.com and used promo code REV10 to get a discount on the registration cost. For email hosting I decided to go with Microsoft's Outlook.com which is free (for now). I made a few email addresses for the meantime, limit is 50. Honestly I would have preferred Google Apps but since it is no longer a free service I went with outlook. I have a grandfathered-in account for Google Apps which I had linked to gibi.com.ph unfortunately the domain registration for that had expired and it is now being squatted on by some Koreans (according t...