I’ve had my laptop for over a year and a half now, but I’ve never really given it a thorough cleaning. So you could imagine the kind of dust and dirt that it has accumulated by now.
I decided that it was high time that I gave my overworked tool a decent tidying up.
There are a […]

If you like the lithe form factor of the iPod nano, but feel that it’s way overpriced, here’s an option for you.
The (embarrassingly named) Nanu-pod is a one gigabyte ultraslim MP3/MP4 player that’s currently being sold under the Group Buy option of local goods aggregator E-2-Door. It looks like an iPod nano, though I can’t […]

So what else can you do with SUN’s unlimited-calls mobile service?
How about turning your mobile phone into an extension of your home phone?
Last Saturday, the guy who owns an electronics repair shop near our place nudged me aside and showed me a device that he had just invented. Norman had a long history of tweaking […]

This just in.
Dovetailing with the previous topic about gray market deals, Apple Asia-Pacific has realized that there really is a need to adjust their local prices in order to become more competitive with gray market buys.

Just this morning, Apple has approved the following suggested retail prices for their latest line of dual-core MacBooks:
MacBook 1.83GHz (white) […]

By the time this blog hits the web it may already be too late, and most if not all the stocks may have already been gobbled up. But just the same…
Konica Minolta had long ago announced the cessation of their digital camera business. It was a stunning announcement in the camera world, but that’s reality […]

A PC that you assemble yourself is called a white box. A laptop that you assemble yourself? It’s a white book.
Not too many people know this, but white books have been here for some time now, and they give laptop buyers the power to choose the specifications of their desired laptops. Want a 12.5″ screen? […]

Notice the logo above? It’s a sign of things to come.
Watch for it.

Since last Monday, SMART has finally imposed a fee structure on its 3G service. This is a major development because, for the longest time, people have been wondering just how the industry would price 3G here in the country.
The good news: unlike GPRS in the old days, you are not going to be billed based […]

Cheap MP3 players and related devices now abound. But I am most fascinated with the ones that try to capture the look of the popular iPod products. Here are a couple which I stumbled into at the Compex computer stalls, which is perhaps one of the more reassuring sources of generic digital devices.
First out the […]