The Android Phone

So are you into the iPhone hype? Get ready for Google's Android phone. T-Mobile's is looking like the lucky carrier, and word is that the phone will be called the G One. We may see the Android as early as September.

Watch the first part of Morgan Webb's report on webbalert.com last Aug. 27.


Read More about android phone on electronista.com and androidguys.com

Winged Cat

Birds, Beware! She might catch you in the air! :D

The cat on the picture is from China's Sichuan province. She developed a wing-like growth that started from just a bump. The harmless growths appeared during a recent spell of hot weather.

Reference:
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No more NBA Live for PC

A very sad news indeed. There ain't gonna be a NBA Live version for PC. I've been waiting for the 2009 version for so long because the 2008 version is a crap. Oh well, maybe they don't want to create another crap version. LOL!

EA Sports said they've got a new helluva gameplay. But nor for PC. haha!

I'm just glad they will still continue other EA Sports games like the FIFA and NHL according to Peter Moore's Q&A with ign.com. I'm still playing the FIFA 06 version and still contented with it. :D

"We're doing two this year – we're doing FIFA and we're doing NHL. For business reasons they're very viable. FIFA in particular, because it's a strong business – and console penetration where soccer is powerful – which of course, is everywhere – is weak sometimes, and people have PCs. I can go to my dev team and I can look at the numbers and say it's worth investing millions of dollars to create the PC version of FIFA."

iPhone 3G in the Philippines to be released on August 22

So many people in the Philippines have been waiting for the Apple's iPhone launch here in our country. On August 22 the long wait will be over as Globe Philippines will launch the iPhone 3G officially on the Market.

But, Apple's promise of "Phone, iPod, and Internet in one fast 3G device. Starting at $199." is out of the way because Philippine telco announced that the company will sell the phone at a starting price of P41,899 for the 8GB model while the 16GB version will be priced at P48,899.

Whew! $199.00 wen converted to Php is just roughly Php 8700 using the current $ to PHP exchange rate. I was excited for about the iPhone launch before and assumed that this pricing will not be implemented here. I said to myself that maybe a doubled price will be the starting price. That's just about 17,400, I guess that is ok with me. I'll have an iPod and a Phone at the same time for just that much, I didn't care until i learned about this news.

For the Post-Paid pricing here's a quick reference:

• Plan 1599 (100 mins and 350 texts free) - P16,800 for the 8GB model, P22,300 for the 16GB variant.
• Plan 2199 (210 mins and 350 texts) - P14,600 / P20,000
• Plan 3299 (350 mins and 450 texts) - P12,300 / P17,800
• Plan 3999 (500 mins and 550 texts) - P5,600 / P11,000
• Plan 4999 (750 mins and 650 texts) - FREE / P5,500

Do you still want the iPhone?


Reference:
http://technogra.ph/20080806/sections/news/iphone-3g-in-the-philippines-set-for-august-22-release-globe-announces-plan-pricing/

Girlfriend

Got this from a local forum site where I’m a member. I don’t know who’s the author though.
To the author: Just a repost.
This is funny stuff! Read on…

Girlfriend 2.0 - 4.0 Upgrade.

I’m currently running the latest version of GirlFriend and I have been having some problems lately. I have been running the same version of DrinkingBuddies 1.0 forever as my primary application, and all the Girlfriend releases I have tried have always conflicted with it. I hear that Drinking Buddies runs fine as long as Girlfriend is ran in background mode and the sound is turned off.

Unfortunately, I can’t find the switch to turn the sound off. Therefore, I have to run both of them separately. Girlfriend also seems to have a problem coexisting with my Golf program, often trying to abort Golf with some form of timing incompatibilities.

I probably should have stayed with Girlfriend 1.0, but I thought I might see better performance from GirlFriend 2.0. After months of conflicts and other problems, I consulted a friend who has had experience with Girlfriend 2.0. He said I probably didn’t have enough cache to run Girlfriend 2.0 and eventually it would require a Token Ring to run properly. He was right, as soon as I purged my cache, and realized that no one in their right mind is installing new token rings, Girlfriend 2.0 uninstalled itself.

Shortly after that, I installed Girlfriend 3.0 beta. Unfortunately, there was a bug in the program and the first time I used it, it gave me a virus. I had to clean out my whole system and shut down for a while. I very cautiously upgraded to Girlfriend 4.0. This time I used SCSI probe first and also installed a virus protection program. It worked okay for a while until I discovered that GirlFriend 1.0 was still in my system. I tried running Girlfriend 1.0 again with Girlfriend 4.0 still installed, but Girlfriend 4.0 has a feature I didn’t know about that automatically senses the presence of any other version of Girlfriend and communicates with it in some way. This results in the immediate removal of both versions.

The version I have now works pretty well, but there are still some problems. Like all versions of GirlFriend, it is written in some obscure language I can’t understand, much less reprogram. Frankly, I think there is too much attention paid to the look and feel rather than the desired functionality.

Also, to get the best connections with your hardware, you usually have to use gold-plated contacts and I have never liked how GirlFriend is “object-oriented.”

A year ago a friend of mine upgraded his version of Girlfriend to GirlFriendPlus 1.0, which is a Terminate and Stay Resident version of GirlFriend. He discovered that GirlFriendPlus 1.0 expires within a year if you don’t upgrade to Fiance 1.0. So he did, but soon after that, he had to upgrade to Wife 1.0, which he describes as a huge resource hog. It has taken up all his space: He can’t load anything else. One of the primary reasons he decided to go with Wife 1.0 was because it supposedly came bundled with a feature called FreeSex Plus.

Well, it turns out the resource requirements of Wife 1.0 sometimes prohibits access to FreeSexPlus, particularly the new Plug-ins he wanted to try. On top of that, Wife 1.0 must be running on a well warmed-up system before he can do anything. Although he did not ask for it, Wife 1.0 came with MotherInLaw which has an automatic pop-up feature he can’t turn off. I told him to trying installing Mistress 1.0, but he said he heard if you try to run it without first uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before uninstalling itself. Then Mistress 1.0 won’t install because of insufficient resources.

P.S. Watch out for the K-I-D-S virus because they have an insatiable appetite for memory and CPU time over and above everything else above.