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Archive for May, 2008

Handy USB Cell Rechargeable Battery

  • Filed under: Tech
Tuesday
May 27,2008

A newly invented AA rechargeable battery by Moixa has promoted another way to express efficiency. These cute batteries are created to turn USB port into battery charger, making it portable and efficient to use in this modern time. Other standard sizes as well as camera and phone batteries are set to launch soon, making huge chargers and environmentally hazardous alkaline batteries obsolete.

Jay-R won’t desert GMA 7

  • Filed under: Showbiz
Tuesday
May 27,2008

Regarded as the country’s Rhythm and Blues prince, Jay-R refutes insinuations that he will move to Channel 2 just because his contract has not yet been renewed by GMA 7. His statement was verified by his manager, Arnold Vegafria, who vows Jay-R will stay with  Channel 7 and is hopeful that the contract will be renewed soon.  Jay-R is still in the US with his girlfriend visiting his family in California.  It will be remembered that it was GMA 7 that gave Jay-R a break in showbiz after he was first discovered in America.

Multiprotocol IM: DIGSBY

  • Filed under: Tech
Tuesday
May 27,2008

Digsby is a multiprotocol IM that enables you to chat with AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, and Jabber users. This newest application has created a big connection to different IM provider, chatting with different friends in different IM provider, Wow. It can also performs multi-tasking, minimize the IM window and you see popups of new IM’s. Best of all, you can reply right from the popup and get back to what you were doing. This is perfect to hardcore chatters.

Improved Banjo-Kazooie for Xbox 360

Monday
May 26,2008

Microsoft corporation gave banjo-kazooie a massive upgrade, a more powerful, adventurous, thrilling, and high graphic game. This game was originally from Nintendo. This game will surely clicks who has supported the game back when it was from Nintendo.

XP on the XO Laptop

  • Filed under: Tech
Monday
May 26,2008

Microsoft and the One Laptop per Child project have announced an agreement to work together starting on June 2008 for trials. This is not just another smoke for Microsoft, but this project has made XP Professional fits an XO Laptop using 1 gigabyte as the total space to be consumed. This implementation of Windows XP Professional on the XO laptop will not limit the function and features; the power is totally the same with desktop computers. This project will set an example but will surely help lots of indigent children across the globe.

Kim Chiu in My Girl

Monday
May 26,2008

Tonight is the premier of the newest ABS-CBN kapamilya show, My Girl, starring former PBB teens Gerald Anderson and Kim Chiu. The Kim-Gerald program is the Pinoy adaptation of the hit koreanovela with the same title.

The Pinoy My Girl’s pilot episode will air after another kapamilya hit, Lobo, starring Piolo Pascual and Angel Locsin.

PBB Update: 8th Nomination

Monday
May 26,2008

Three teens are up for eviction this week on Pinoy Big Brother Teen Edition Plus — “In-chick” Nicole Uysiuseng, “Dazzling Doll” Valerie Weignmann, and “True Blue Atenista” Robi Domingo. Nicole and Valerie both got 5 votes, and Robi got 4.

The teen who will get the lowest number of otes will be evicted on May 28 (Wednesday). Scheduled eviction are May 31 (Saturday) and June 4 (Wednesday).

 

Monday
May 26,2008

Four Pinoy Idol contestants got eliminated from the Pinoy Idol Top 24 yesterday. Though eliminated, Dio Paolo, Elliot Andal, Drizzle Muniz and Bev Ejercito still has potential to shine as a singer as long as they will continue to achieve that dream.

Monday
May 26,2008

According to William Martinez, he will not enter into any compromise to amicably settle the criminal case that he and his 21-year old daughter filed against actor Baron Geisler. He wants to teach Geisler a lesson. Baron faces charges of acts of lasciviousness. Patrizcia Martinez complained that she was physically molested by Geisler at a bar in Makati City. At the preliminary hearing scheduled at the Department of Justice recently, Geisler reportedly failed to appear.  

Monday
May 26,2008

TV host Paolo Bediones, through his lawyer, has already promised to return the P200,000 investment of  comedienne/singer Kay Brosas which the latter hopes will be soon.  Kay reportedly was lured by Paolo to invest in his business which eventually went bankrupt due unscrupulous co-investors.  Incidentally, Kay’s contract with GMA 7 recently elapsed and was not renewed. Kay is now with ABS-CBN and has started shooting “My Girl”, a TV fare starring Kim Chiu.

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