Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year from mytechisland

Sorry for the delayed greeting guys, this is prolly one of the most busiest Christmas Seasons I have ever had, but hey, I am not complaining, I am loving it!!

Wohoooo!!!

New Baby, our first born, and I have two new pets as well, my Bearded Dragons! It's like someone gave me a box full of new Gadgets!

Speaking of Gadgets, let me leave you with my top 10 gadgets on my Wishlist for 2009:

10.) Full Pan & Tile Security Camera System with 16 Cameras that can be monitored online. I currently Just have one Camera due to budget constraints :)

9.) I touch - 64GB I know you are just around the corner!

8.) Dual 24" Multi-Touch Screen LCD Monitors for my Home/Office Setup. Yep, I said, MULTI TOUCH, when I saw and tested them in Computex Taipei 2008, I fell in love. Why 2? Having multiple blog sites, editing my photographs, maintaining my online "friend-connection accounts" and moderating multiple forums is not an easy task :-)

7.) 52" LCD TV to replace my good old 40" 720P Sony Bravia in my HT room.

6.) Logitech DiNovo Mini for the HT room as well.

5.) HTC Touch HD- Need I say more?

4.) Canon 18-200mm Lens, Canon 100mm F2.8 Macro Lens, Canon 10-22mm Wide Angle Lens

3.) A canon G10 for the need for extra portable trips!

2.) A full electronically Operated lighting system for my Bearded Dragons Enclosures

1.) A stand alone Multi-Terrabyte NAS storage device for my Multi-Media Collection shared and can be fully operated all over the rooms of my house. A second one to backup the first one (lol) Yeah, I am not kidding!


Ho ho ho ho hoppping for the New YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Intel Core I7 Launch- The fastest processor on the planet?

Just read this on a forum, to all you intel addicts out there, this is for you :-D


Intel Core i7 Launch

Here is sample of the latest motherboard from DFI.. hopefully my future board!

Silverstone TJ04 Case Christmas Trade in Promo

Silverstone Technologies, one of the best manufacturers of PC casings in the world has just released a Christmas promo here in the Philippines. This will give those people who have always wanted that Sweeet black Minimalist style TJ04 Casing a chance to buy it at a very affordable price.

The Deal:
Bring your old dirty casing with you and trade it for the TJ04, this entitles you to a P1,000.00 Discount!!!

MECHANICS:

1.) Customers
may trade-in their old standard ATX casing with back plate and get
1,000.00 pesos off upon purchase of a brand new & multi-awarded
SilverStone TJ04B or TJ04B-W (non-modified) casing from any Fine Upgrades'
participating dealers.

2.) Once
casing has benn checked, customer may purchase the SilverStoneTJ04B or
TJ04B-W (non-modified) at a discounted price.

Participating Dealers:

CEBU:

Asia Pacific Computers, A.I. Logic Computers, CBX Corp.,
CompuShack, MTO Technotrends, NUTech Marketing, PCQuickbuys, SkyNet, &
Wired Systems

MANILA:

Arriola Enterprises, PC Reform, VIvoCom, Camshow of
tipidpc.com

Here you will find a good review of the casing

For more details of this promo check this link out:
SILVERSTONE TRADE IN PROMO, NEW CASE FOR THE NEW YEAR
Give your PC that Righteous make over it deserves!

Google Android G1 spotted in Greenhills, Manila

About two weeks ago I was in Manila, I found this shop that often times always has the latest HTC Devices available and low and behold, it was there.

The famous T-Mobile Exclusive Google G1, surprisingly it was OPEN LINE. Meaning, you can use it with local networks!.

Google G1 is Googles first flagship PDA/Phone that sports the latest Mobile Operating System called ANDROID.

The HARDWARE of the G1 is also made by HTC, the Taiwanese company known for revolutionizing the Windows Mobile Device.

Its price tag was P37,500.00. Similarly priced to the XPERIA X1 which has also been released here in the Philippines.

For those of you who want try it out, head on over to Greenhills, Theatre mall!

Apples Iphone like winmobile a few years back?

Picture Source: MVP discussion list.

I use to hate winmobile when it started. I was a PALM lover as I mentioned in one my old articles here. For me, it took winmobile a very long time to catch my attention. Even when there was a breakthrough, a really milestone on its evolution, when it was able to store all your data even the battery ran out, I still didn't switch. Well frankly, from PALM I switched to Symbian UIQ with Sony Ericsson's P-series.

After I did an episode with Mr. Brian Chua, a WM enthusiast and my cousing in law, He made me convert, at that time I was suffering from one UIQs biggest disasters, the Sony Ericsson P990, I Spent Php 42k and after 4 months it was down to half the price, after 1 year it was being sold less than Php 20k. As gadget enthusiast, I usually just sell my old gadgets in order for me to have a budget to buy new ones. I couldn't do this with the P990. That experience just sucked.

So I shifted to winmobile, the HTC touch DUAL and I say, I am back to the glory days of palm! All the aps you could ever need. Yes it has the occasional quirks, but bearable, after my experience with the P990, this is heaven.

So to answer to my title, is Apples Iphone like going through what winmobile went through?

I hope not, if so its going to take them years to fix it and they are going to loose their marketing share. They better be careful with what they are doing right now, hiding all those bugs with HUGE MARKETING cover ups.

Apple: Our Ads Don't Lie, But You're a Fool if You Believe Them

Apple in Court Case: No Reasonable Person Would Believe Our Ads

I dont know what went wrong though, their first version of the iphone had some quirks like having to store two phone numbers to get the names to appear both in SMS and when calling someone (+63917.. & 0917..) to being unable to forward messages, which were quickly solved by third party applications.

This time on the Iphone 3G, it's a system breakdown. Hangups, hiccups, screen alignments issues that result to ALL DATA LOSS, so I've heard.. I have never owned one so it's not really fitting of me to say too much about Iphone 3G issues but this should help you out:

Google

Isn't it just Ironic, when you see all the Anti-Microsoft, Pro Apple ads dissing MS for crashing etc.. and most of it is happening on the Iphone 3G?

Please do not get me wrong, Iphone fans, I like the whole Iphone concept, I just know that there is still a lot of work to be done, and if they don't fix it soon, it's going to get the "Malamine" effect and people will start avoiding their products.


As of the moment, as a power user, I am sticking with winmobile and maybe just get an Itouch 32GB, an iphone without the phone :-D (I am still waiting for them to put Bluetoth A2DP built in, once they do I will get that version)

Three Handed Woman Reviews HTC touch HD

It's a very good show actually, just funny on 4:30+... Check it out!

My two dragons

No not gadgets, real live baby dragons!

After my mom passed away I had the urge to take care of something. Our dog was demoted to the dirty kitchen because of my wife being pregnant and all. So I went ahead and got me some new pets, Two Bearded Dragons. If you click on the link they should tell you everything about it so I wont explain further.

I have always been a reptile lover all since I was in Grade 5. I almost convinced my dad to get me a Green Iguana at a Pet Store in the states but we had a problem on how to bring it back home here.

But when I got to college, I discovered KARTIMAR. A local "All-in-One" Market which specializes in just about everything, Food, Clothes, Tatoo Shops and Exotic Creatures of all kinds. This is where I got my first Mexican Green Iguana names SPUD. SPUD was so cool, I kept him in the dorm with me. Then when it was about time for me to come home, I brought him back to Cebu. I had to secure a permit in Manila to transport him to Cebu. It was so cool the way he popped out of the luggage conveyor belt at the airport in his little Reptile Handy Tank. Everyone was asking me what it was. It was so funny coz the next luggage that came out was my friends Siberian Husky in a huge portable dog tank. After a few months, my best friends brother and mother fell in love with SPUD and asked if they could buy him from me. So I sold him to them. After A few months, I heard he escaped on their beach property.

I took a rest but still always had the urge for a reptile. But after a year of resting I went ahead and got the local Philippine water Dragon othewise knows as "IBID" People were cruelly handling and selling them in the downtown parts of Cebu. I got a few, some died, a few escaped. Then I also got two hug turtles which I eventually gave up coz they had stinky poo so I gave them to one of our helpers.

Later on my Best friends brother got a new Iguana. But after it grew about 8 inches (15" with the tale) they ask me to take care of it and adopt it. So I did. Then I even got another one to keep it company :-D Together with my last remaining Ibid, they lived happily in this huge enclosure that I made for them.

Just this year, there was an accident. Since the cage was an outdoor one and made of angle bars and chicken wires, one of the sides ripped open, the IBID ran off and the smaller iguana followed. The helpers couldn't find the IBID but they did find the Iggy near the gutter, mauled and bleeding :-( My nephew brought them to me and we waited for it to rest in peace.. Poor creature. Really, I almost cried..

None the less, my 4 foot Adopted Green Iguana stayed in the cage and is alive and kicking. My problem is, I don't live with my parents anymore and I had to leave him there because I yet have to find a good spot for him at our new home. His cage should hit the morning sun directly and it has to be in the garden so his poo and pee would wash out by themselves. That is where the problem lies, and until I find a suitable spot for him, he will stay at my Dad's place for the meantime.

Btw, somewhere in between the timeline above I also got a Baby Burmese Puthon, I think this was two years back.. This little guy use to sleep with me in my Bed. He also met a sad faith, after giving him a bath, she dipped in the mildy warm soapy water. He accidentally swollowed some, and after a few hours she passed.. Dammit!! Her name was Sofie.

Now back to Today. Last 3 weeks back I got me some new pets. Like I said at the start of this BLOG and here they are:








Now the nice thing about dragons is they are very Docile and they most of the time even appear to really like the company of Humans. They only grow to about 18"-22" max ( unless you have the German Giant variant which can even grown up to 30" or the Dwarf Rankin Bearded Dragons which only grown to about 10"-12")

If you want to find out more about the Bearded Dragon here's a link to a very good website all about them:

www.beardeddragon.org

That site contains almost everything you need to know on how to take care of them from husbandry, feeding down to emergency medical care.

Some essentials you need to have:
- a good size 50 gal tank atleast, bigger is better, I have a 42"x24"x20" tank.
- UV light (Reptisun 10 or Mega-Ray MVB)
- Heat Lamp ( you need to maintain 100F-110F on the basking area, and atleast 80F on the cooler area of the tank)
- Water Dish
- Basking Spot, driftwood is highly recommended.
- Lots of CRICKETS! Make sure before you get a dragon you have sourced out all its essential food within your area. They kinda are hard to get by here in the Philippines. I do not recommend garden insects because they mite be contaminated with insecticide which can KILL your dragon.

READ THE CARESHEET before you get one, these guys need to be loved a lot!! Don't be cruel animals and let them be. Getting these creatures need responsibility, if you want a reptile that needs less maintenance, get a snake.


Ill add more pics later, gotta go for now! :-D

(This article has not been spell cheked or proof read yet lolz! )

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Watch our for my next blog, about our little princes who was born 111708 :-D