Chikka the Filipino-owned web2sms service (one of the pioneer in the industry) launched today Chikka v5 – both for the web and desktop versions. continue reading here…

The Barrens was torn apart. Auberdine was thrown up. The massive gates of Gilneas crumbled. Water flowed in the desolate places and turned it into a thick forest. Everywhere you go there were major changes, only a few were not affected this much like the northern continent of Northrend where the Alliance and Horde, while battling each other, are busy trying to bring justice and end the terror of the Lich King Arthas.

This is the new face of Azeroth. It will never be the same again. As a virtual citizen of this planet, there are tasks to do before the world changes forever. World of Warcraft bloggers (and commenters) are posting their “Cataclysm Bucket List”. Exactly what I have been thinking since the official announcement of Cataclysm.

Come and check-out Yarso’s Cataclysm Bucket List.

Southgate Mall opened yesterday – pay day, the new mall located in front of the MRT Magallanes/Mantrade Station in Makati City.

This is the same property that many are very familiar with – the forever under construction Southgate Tower. It isn’t anymore, after it was bought by Alphaland Corp, whose Chair and CEO, the former trade and industry czar Roberto Ongpin.

Continue reading here…

The President Cory funeral cortege took the same road when Senator Ninoy was also brought to his resting place – via Makati’s portion of the South Super Highway or as known today “President Osmeña Highway”.

Since it’s in our neighborhood, I went outside and joined the thousands of Filipinos waiting to give their last respects to the 11th President of the Republic of the Philippines – President Corazon “Cory” Cojuangco-Aquino.

I brought home 426 photos, 332 of which I uploaded online. These photos captured the Filipino people during her time of mourning as a Nation. If you weren’t there, then I hope these photos will allow you to go back in that point in time and be there as well, together with us.

The photos will speak for me and express for me what it was like being there. So join me as I show you: A Story to Tell… A President to Remember.

August 8^th is ASEAN Day, and this morning a thought came to my mind on how we as the ASEAN People can further help in the ASEAN Integration of our region and culture.

Come and join me as we tour an Asean City…

This time, I will show you how you can run Blizzard’s popular World of Warcraft MMORPG on Ubuntu Linux almost as if you are using Microsoft Windows.

Click here to learn the easy simple steps.

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!!

If you are wondering what are the important information that you should know about tomorrow’s Longest Total Solar Eclipse – from what and what not to use when looking at the sun, to how much of the sun will be covered (for those in the Philippines) – just read July 22, 2009 Total Solar Eclipse.

A World of Warcraft player playing on Linux OS have probably encountered some problems in running AddOn clients under WINE (WINE Is Not an Emulator) like Curse.com’s updater.

In this how-to, I will show you how to run the Curse Client on Ubuntu and have an easy way to update your WoW AddOns.

Continue reading: Install Curse Client on Ubuntu Linux.

For my 63rd Philippine Independence Day post or now known as the Filipino-American Friendship Day – July 4, 1946, I’m releasing my adjusted version of Banyuhay’s Baybayin Typepad hereby called as Baybayin Typepad No.01.

Yes, as the name suggests this is the first. This great tool was developed by Banyuhay (a blog site written completely in Baybayin / ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔). This is the first typepad for Baybayin I found and it won’t be the last.

Nordenx is also creating his own Baybayin Typepad. I am also writing my own, two jQuery-based Baybayin Typepad, the first jQuery version is already online (if you can find where I am hosting it, congrats) but it is not ready yet.

Simple instructions are inside, no need to download any fonts as long as you are using Firefox 3.5; Safari 4; and the latest Chrome nightly. Enjoy ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔ and I hope this will encourage you to love and revive this beautiful writing system that we can call our own.

Check it out by clicking here.

Firefox 3.5 is out and Mozilla once again leading in the race of advancing the web to embrace new technologies.  But let’s find out and see examples of the other new features that were not included in the Press Release.  Just click here to find out more.

There’s the new audio and video elements, webfonts, word-wrap, canvas . . .

With the appearance of the Psycho Wolf, there are now a total of eight wolves roaming the world of WolfTeam, the latest online shooter game from Softnyx (the developers of Gunbound) and Mobiusgames (publisher of Mu Online).

Check out this new game that is rampaging the streets….

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Last night (my local time – Asean Common Time) I searched if there are fonts that were updated to include the Peso currency sign which is located at Unicode point 20B1.

I was planning on creating a Peso font if I can not find a one, this was after the availability of Peso sign was discussed during the Philippine Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope Release Party. My search turned-out positive, there’s not just one but countless of fonts already updated with the Peso sign included.

Continue reading this How-To…

Last Saturday, May 9, 2009, I attended iblog5, the 5th Philippine Blogging Summit – finally! This was the 5th time I signed-up online but only my first time to join the fun.

The summit focused more on explaining what blogging is, the different types of it, to bringing your blogging to the next level. It is about the basics of blogging – good for aspiring and new bloggers, and a reminder to existing bloggers.

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Tomorrow is Earth Hour, all those who support the movement against negative climate change will switch off their lights from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time.

This is an awareness campaign and will be presented to the world leaders later this year during the Global Climate Change Conference. If you care for this ONLY Planet of ours, if you care for your children, show your support by switching off your lights.

That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong.

Show that You Care – Vote Earth Tomorrow

It was very late when I found out about the “Boyet Fajardo” Duty Free “scandal”, I do not know who he is! (Now I know) But who was the real winner here?

Find out here . . .

The new Battle.net system will be used in the future to give rewards to loyal Blizzard fans. For example, if you have all StarCraft II, Diablo III, and World of Warcraft releases attached to your account, you may receive a special reward in-game for WoW, or maybe a special status for SC2, or a special item in D3.

Continue reading here . . .

A report from the Dermatologists said that skin sores can develop over long game sessions on the console platforms, like what happened to the 12-year old girl that developed what is now dubbed as PlayStation palmar hidradenitis.

You can continue reading here…

After 2008′s end-of-the-year Worlds.com vs. NCsoft and all Virtual Worlds, this time it is Wall Wireless vs. Nintendo, Nokia, and Sony.

Yes, another Patent Infringement claim. Read it here.

You read that right, you can now Plurk via Yahoo! Messenger thanks to the script developed by Carlo, a 19-yr old from the Los Angeles, California, linking your Plurk to your YM.

It is currently in testing but it works as intended. You can read more here…