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1st hand-on experience ko yung TIVO na bow ako talaga sa mga features.  Bago pa nauso ang slingshot ginagawa na ata ng Tivo ang remote viewing.  Naswertehen lang talaga na self-proclaimed technical guy and advisor ako sa trabaho ko kaya nakapag-experiment ko ng husto sa Tivo.

Pero sa ngayon ang gamit namin sa bahay ay yung DISH DVR 510 at saka yung DISH DVR 625.  Etong nasa picture Dish 625 na may dual tuner capability.  Pwedeng single user lang na habang pinapanood mo ang isang channel pwede mong irecord yung isa pang channel.  Pero kung hindi ka naman swapang at gusto mong mag-share pwede ring dual user na User no 1 ka with your own remote control and User no. 2 will have his/her own remote control sa ibang TV in a different room. Feeling 2 DVR nga in 1.

Recently nga lang may legal issue sa news tungkol sa pagnenenok ng Dish sa intellectual o copyright ng software design ng Tivo. Sandamakmak na milyones ata ang napabayad sa TIVO!  Pero dapat lang. ano? tatanggalin nila sa Dish subsciber ang DVR? tangna nila! hehehe!  Eh sa time-shifting functions lang sulit na ang binabayad ko pero pinagiiisipan ko pa rin talaga na magbawas.  Activate ko na lang siguro ang isang PVR (Personal Video Recorder) doon sa isang computer para makatipid.

zeenanoko :: Sep.12.2006 :: Technology :: No Comments »

First of all I like my Sony Ericsson w600i phone.  It has all the feature I can ever imagine. Bluetooth, IR port, USB data connectivity, sms, email, still & video camera, mp3 player, radio, IM, alarm, calendar, stop watch, pin light (works like a flashlight!), calculator, internet connection (Media Net), Java games, Remote Control (this feature is awesome!), sound recorder, and it also makes and receives phone calls!

Had this phone since Dec 2005 and never had a complain until around July 2006 when my phone just died on me.  It just quit working. no blips, no sound, not even a goodbye wail or anything. just a black screen.

Of course I was freaking out! Can’t live without my push-email from work! I need to be connected!

So I ventured and visited the 1st Cingular store that I found on the internet and ask the salesperson-”what am I going to do?” Thank God it’s still under warranty. It turns out that my phone has a 1 year warranty on it and it can be replaced BUT not from the store.  I have to call/login to Cingular. Did that done that but they were out of stock on my phone’s model. Offerred me another brand/model - declined and said “I’ll wait.” and waited for just 2 days. I tried to login and check the status and YES! it’s available!

Had it next day delivery-it came-it works…half decent…can’t hear the person I was talking to on the phone. Seems like the main speaker is busted. Called Cingular Warranty again and asked for a replacement. Bing-Bam-Bung. Got the new one-sent back the half decent one. Ok. so now I’m done… for a while at least. Phone is fine. It’s almost perfect. except…

The freaking phone keeps on logging in the internet (Media Net) every freaking 10 minutes!!! the whole freakin’ day and almost everyday! What’s up with that! I found out about this thru Cingular website’s Data usage report.  It list all the activities-voice & data in neat chronological order. I have to check this report everyday to see if it jives with my daily activities.  Last month my bill on the media net went over my allotted quota so I was charged an extra $8+. No way. I complained and they concur that it looks like an error. Tech department got involved. Did that reset thing but it didn’t do crap.  Finally they decided to send me another replacement. Again.  Damn..what a nightmare.

So now I’m waiting for my replacement phone but I still use this possessed phone cuz’ aside from that war-dialer type virus (Cingular don’t want to admit it’s a virus-i say it is!) i still love it.

zeenanoko :: Sep.11.2006 :: General :: No Comments »

Yes….It’s been 5 years now since that dreadful day… 2 months after na dumating ako from Manila and I was at my in-laws house when it happened.  All we can do it just watch TV helplessly and prayed for those people.  Medyo nakakatakot din kasi pakiramdaman kung may susunod pang event na mangyayari.  Ibang klase talaga.  Nag-full alert ang Amerika after that tapos pahirapan ang pag-pasok sa port of entry. Imagine na galing kang ibang bansa tapos mag-to-tourist ka sa Tate ng time na yun? Sorry ka na lang. Balita ko talagang iimbistigahan ka.  Affected din ang economy.  Eh yung time na yun nag-hahanap ako ng trabaho dahil kababalik ko lang dito sa Tate from my long sabbatical leave. Before 9/11 medyo makapal pa ang classified ads ng employement section pero after 9/11 biglang numipis.  Dahil nga siguro uncertain kung ano pa ang pwedeng mangyari kaya on-hold lahat ng business.

Pero first week ng October 2001 may tumawag sa akin at nagbigay ng trabaho! Swerte pa rin dahil referral nga at mukhang hindi naman mahirap ang trabaho (laking pagkakamali).  Sa madaling salita nag-umpisa na akong magtrabaho sa isang wholesaler jewelry store sa World Trade Center in Dallas. What irony you say!  Eh lalo naman ako! At first akala ko nga nagbibiro yung nagpasok sa akin pero bandang huli naniwala na rin ako.  Sa accounting department po (para sa mga usisera) ang trabaho ko pero pag may nagtatanong sa akin kung anong trabaho ko lagi kong pabirong sinasabing…

…Sa tuktok (bubong) ng WTC-taga bantay ng dumarating na eroplano…. style air-traffic controller!

zeenanoko :: Sep.11.2006 :: Personal :: No Comments »

Installed this little widget today and suppose to give all kinds of weather info.  I just now discover this world of WordPress plugins and I have to restrain myself cuz’ I just want to install all that I can find!

nano :: Sep.11.2006 :: Site Development :: No Comments »

ooooiiiii!!! First blog using the Wordpress software! Naka-tsamba na naman sa PHP coding at nasalpak na ito sa website ko! hello!! hehehhe!  happy lang ako!

Kasi naman ano hilo na ako sa kakahanap ng perfect platform para sa dynamic updates pero masyado akong na-ooverwhelm sa dami ng options. I just so happen na I came across this CMS and the installation procedures are easy to follow. I guess there’s a lot more other options around and more robust but I’ll stick around with this one for a while and see.

nano :: Sep.10.2006 :: General :: 1 Comment »