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Microsoft and Yahoo sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G…

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Big news abound the internet, Microsoft and Yahoo partner up for 10 years. Yahoo will use Bing search technology while still receiving 88 percent of advertising from its sites. NY Times gives a good review here

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A Caravan for a Vacation?

Monday, July 27th, 2009

I believe that design not only encompasses visuals, in which is what I do most of the time, but also experiences. See this summer hideaway, which looks like it was designed to the minutest detail. It definitely makes you feel like you’re a gypsy living a uninhibited life. My standards for a [...]

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Tron Legacy: Sequel to Tron Movie

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

I’m a fan of the futuristic style of the old Tron movies. I think I even had an atari game of it. I have a dvd of the original that I re-watched a couple of years back, and personally I thought it was a bit slow. I guess movies back then were. [...]

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Google Chrome OS looks like Mac OS?

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Pictured above is not the much talked about Google Chrome OS. It is, in fact, just one of the windows inside the Google Chrome browser. While browsing, I right-clicked inside the screen to reveal a menu and saw “inspect element.”
When the announcement of Google Chrome OS came out, it did cross my mind [...]

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Yahoo redesigns its homepage

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Big news on the internets is Yahoo’s brave new look. It is on the rollout globally, but from what I’ve been hearing only some countries can accesses it today. In the Philippines, we can actually click on their “try out our new look” banner which will lead you to the new design, as [...]

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A refreshing look at medicine

Monday, July 20th, 2009

A friend posted this as his facebook status, Help Remedies has created a set of medicines and bandages with awesome packaging. The packaging was alluring and drew me in. I found out that it was made of biodegradable material, another plus for awesomeness.

Instead of simply putting a generic name like “acetaminophen”, it says [...]

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And the winner is…

Wednesday, July 15th, 2009

Drawing was made this July 15th, at 6:21pm

And the winner of the Moleskine Large Ruled Reporter Notebook is…

PETER! :) Congratulations! Please check your email for the details.
Thanks so much to avalon.ph for supplying the prize. Again, you can still get the notebook at 10% discount by going to avalon.ph and [...]

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Win a Moleskine Large Ruled Reporter Notebook!

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

It has been a while since I had a contest, during that time I trolled around the internets and found another website called avalon.ph. It too was giving away free moleskine, but their campaign was bigger and involved several different blogs. I told avalon.ph that I would like to join their “blog-hopping giveaways” [...]

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