And it’s history, today was the record-breaking Longest Total Solar Eclipse ever experienced by the Human race – 6 minutes and 39 seconds total at its maximum point.

Most only experienced a partial eclipse like us in the Philippines, but regardless, it was still an experience we will treasure and pass on to the next generation (and those who missed it).

Here’s the report of the solar eclipse, coupled with photos (locally) and video coverage (India, China, Japan).

Enjoy!!

So you think you’re a good blogger eh? Prove yourself worthy in MTV’s Blog Squad. Make an essay around these topics: VJ Escapades, Lifestlye & Fashion, Gadgets and Gaming, and Music & Entertainment. Four winners will be chosen for a 6 month engagement with MTV Asia LDC (“MTV”) as one of MTV’s “MTV Asia Official Bloggers.” Best of all, you won’t need to worry about SEO since they would be the one promoting you!

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The R4i flash cart has arrived.

It’s not yet in the Philippines but I have no doubt that it will soon be.  What’s so great about the R4i ?  First off, it allows you all the wonders of the original R4on your new DSi.  Second?  Free DS Roms.

Read more of R4i for DSi.

(1) Use multiple emails accounts.
Separate subcriptions, work, personal or categorize by company.
Doing this will remove clutter and enable you to work one type of thing at a time. The unimportant emails will be separated from the necessities which is a good thing. [read more]

Catchy title isn’t it? Just made that up myself. But, let’s get down to business. Powerbooks has some awesome promos for all you book lovers out there. First on the list is the Customer Review Promo where you can be one of 5 winners to get a delivery coupon to anywhere in Metro Manila. Second on the list is the Fan Page Promo. All you have to do is join Powerbooks’ Facebook Page and answer “What is your favorite Powerbooks branch and why.” and get to take home one of 3 Powerbooks Gift Packs. The third promo, Book Your Way to a Summer Cruise (clever title), gives you a chance to go on a cruise around Philippine’s best summer destinations when you buy a P2,500 worth of items at Powerbooks (single or accumulated receipt). Last on the list is Jack Canfield Live Promo. Win tickets to his one-day seminar when you buy any of his books at Powerbooks.

More details on Powerbooks’ Power Promos >>>

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I love scrapbooking.

When I got into this vice addiction hobby, I never knew that I’d be putting in so much time, effort, money and emotion into it. Before the dawn of digital scrapbooking, I had already amassed a HUUUGE collection of stickers, papers, albums, scissors, and all sorts of embellishments one can put on a layout. I’ve done my share of printing every picture thru Walmart and Target and even Snapfish. To-date I have categorized my paper into colors, my stickers into small, medium, large and extra-large, my embellishments in neat little tiny boxes and my rolls of ribbons in roll boxes. If not for my husband jokingly warning me that he’d be donating all my stuff to Goodwill (which is his way of saying “ENOUGH!”), I would have filled the green room from top to bottom with no place left to go to.

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“the reckless pursuit of anti-video game legislation like this is an exercise in wasting taxpayer money, government time, and state resources. In the end, common sense prevailed with the court determining that, after exhaustive review, video games do not cause psychological or neurological harm to minors.”

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It has been 10 months now since I started this blog. It never crossed my mind that a simple Boy-Kuripot could change peoples’ perspective of joining Promos and Contests. A good example would be one of my readers, Joy Bahia, The Winner that Won it ALL. She was so overwhelmed by the prizes she have won over the past months that she even visited me and gave me goodies from her L.A. trip with her husband. Yep, she won a Trip to L.A. inclusive of airfare and lodging! And to think all she had to do to win that is send an email at NO COST whatsoever in her part. Amazing isn’t it? Aside from that she won a room makeover from Real Living magazine and lots of other cool stuff. Read more about Joy in her multiply journal

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At last. The long wait is almost over. I’ve always been a Palm fan. Every time there is a new model, I try my best to find an excuse to upgrade and I would do so. (like dropping it on purpose – just kidding)

Here is the list of Palm devices I bought for the last 10 years:
Palm Pilot III
Palm V
Palm M515
Palm Tungsten T3
Palm TX
Palm Treo 600
Palm Treo 650
Palm Treo 680

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A treat for everyone as 2008 comes into a close. Double conjunction will be seen on the eve of the New Year. Watch the night skies on December 31st as the Sun sets.

More information here.

Do you know the most romantic way of closing 2008? You don’t?! Well, it is watching the Year’s Last Sunset together with your love ones.

This year, as we close 2008, join everyone in the world as we take Photos of 2008 Last Sunset together with our love ones. The mechanics are simple:

* Take a Photo of 2008 Last Sunset together with your love ones
* Your photo must include the following:

[Where you took the photo]
[City], [Country]

* You can add a few messages, your blog URL, favorite game, brand name, anything you want (just keep it general patronage okay?)
* Your message must be part of the photo, no digital editing.
* All photos mus tbe Licensed under: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC By-SA 3.0)
* All photos must be uploaded to Google Picasa Web and/or Yahoo! Flickr
* All photos must be tagged with “2008_Last_Sunset” (without quotes)
* All photos must be tagged with “CC_By-SA_30″ (without quotes)
* And finally, feel free to use the content and create slides of your own.

You can check the sunset for your city here. For my fellow Filipinos, it will be at exactly 5:37pm.

Good Luck and we hope you enjoy the most romantic way of closing the Year 2008.

You must have perfected the art of digital photography by now. You are adept in operating a digital camera, you can probably punch into the settings and menus with your eyes closed! I know I can (well, maybe half-closed). I am attached to my digital camera in as much as I am to my laptop. I never go out without a camera on my purse. I could leave home without a cellphone but never without a digital camera!

But what happens if you are handed a disposable camera? You remember those. You know, that kind where you wind up the wheel on the upper right corner and peek into this tiny window as you point and snap to take a picture at the same time you are pressing on that flash button on the front of the camera. That kind.

I bet that will be a real challenge! Well, are you up for it?

If you only have one photo to take when a camera is handed to you, what would you take? Are you going to shoot randomly or think hard?

A traveling one-time use camera is sent out to the world and asks people it meets to take ONE PHOTO of any thing, any event, or of any one that triggers interest, inspires, disgusts them at that particular first chanced meeting with the camera.

Learn more about the new website and how you can be part of it at: One Photo Project

Have you thought about photographing yourself daily and journalizing each photo? In days, weeks, months, years?! Hard to believe that a lot of people have been doing self-portraits for years without skipping or stopping!! That’s 365 photos in a year and over a thousand photos of yourself in 3 years. Meet some of the people who have been doing this strange but very impacting project with minimum 3 years worth of work!

Read more about the people who popularized the digital Self-portraits phenomenon…

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Tired of looking at boring photos? Jazz them up with Dumpr. This online photo editor has several effects guaranteed to inject pizzazz to your otherwise staid photos. Some of the cool effects are only available to paying members but there’s enough of the free ones for you to choose from. More importantly, Dumpr is very user friendly. Kids can make masterpieces out of lollipops if they wish to. Even your grandparents will have a fun time decorating their photos.

Photo samples courtesy of DiningCebu.com, a blog dedicated to Cebu restaurants and food in Cebu.

Tempura Japanese Grill at the Northwing of SM Cebu opened a few months back. Fedge, one of the Pakalistas, raved about the food despite his misgivings of the restaurant’s policy of not allowing customers to take photos of the food. It was a major HELLO? moment. If you pay for food in a restaurant, doesn’t that make you the owner of such food and therefore free to do whatever you want with it? So it wasn’t okay to take photos of the food within the restaurant, but it’s okay if you take photos of the food if you take it home? The restaurant’s policy should really make sense.

Despite this illogical policy (which did not deter Fedge at all), the Pakalistas would still recommend Tempura Japanese Grill. It is definitely one of the best Japanese restaurants in Cebu.

P.S. Do check out another post in DiningCebu.com about Fedge’s food trip in Tokyo, Japan. Arigato!

It’s Halloween and it’s the last day of Zombie DVD Week! What better way to end this most spooktacular event than with the movie that pushed zombie movies back into the public consciousness? An instant cult classic, I just have to pay my respects to Shaun of the Dead.

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From a Zack Snyder remake of a George A. Romero classic that involves the dawn of a zombie apocalypse, we will now take a look into a movie by the master himself, George A. Romero. Let’s continue this Zombie DVD Week by taking a peek into a world where a zombie holocaust has already taken place. Welcome to George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead!

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