Technology

If you are thinking of buying a laptop, I would presume that you will go for the price and not much on considering if it is high end. Unless you are rich or a millionaire you would go for the best like those laptops that cost hundreds of thousands of pesos. Before the small laptops (or netbooks) emerge from the market, the only choice we have was either having a cheap but slow laptop computer or a fast state-of-the-art but costly laptop computers. But now the choice we have is to decide whether if we will buy a netbook, a slow cpu laptop or a high end laptop.

Netbooks are cheaper but will it satisfy us? I’m also planning of having a netbook but when I read some articles regarding the disadvantages of it, I soon realized that I don’t need it. I always thinking of buying a laptop because it is less bulky than a desktop but because of the price, it is not possible for me to buy at least a dual core because if I’ll buy the older one like the celeron or pentium 4, it’s like just buying a second hand laptop. Although I want to settle buying a second hand, I’m very skeptical about the true condition when I buy from eBay or from a store. The previous owner could have dropped it or mishandled it. Also, the price of a second hand laptop is not cheap.

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There is new gadget that can accept credit card payment just using a mobile phone particularly an iphone. According to some report it can also be used on a laptop. It is a kind of dongle that you can plug on an iphone audio jack, a tiny square shaped plastic that can read credit card info and can transact just like a credit card terminal. The biggest advantage of this kind of technology is almost every one who has an iphone can avail of this new technology  (not exactly every iphone user because as of this moment it is only available in the U.S.). To accept a payment by credit card, all you have to do is to swipe it in the square dongle and the information will be transfered to the iphone. Then in real time you can charge the card and presto you have the payment, possibly in your bank account. The square plastic device works simple unlike the traditional credit card terminal where a merchant needs to have a merchant account, monthly fee and transaction fee whereas the square is free. Before I forget to mention, this device was a brain child of Jack Dorsey, the founder of twitter. Maybe my post will look redundant for introducing Jack Dorsey over and over again because most of the articles I’ve read always starts with his name.

Anyway I thought this was the first kind of mobile payment system ever invented but there is a predecessor which has been around in the past and still active today. It’s the Iswipe mobile payment system by appninjas.com. The only difference is that iswipe has a monthly fee and transaction fee. So how about you? what do you think? was Square the best mobile payment system?

I accidentally discovered the misspelled keyword “Facaebook” when I was typing the word “Facebook” on Google search. Many bogus sites appeared on the search list but little that I know that this keyword was also being used by other people according to Google Insights for Search as you can see below, and the geographical location were Turkey, Colombia, Canada, United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, France and United States.

Just staring at my keyboard, I ask myself how in the world will I have a misspelling like that? the letter “A” was far from the letter “E” if I will consider it as a typo. I just assume that it might be just a flicker of my fingers.

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I wish I bought Smart Bro prepaid last month (for emergency purposes) since Smart Philippines lowered the price to Php 995 . When Typhoon Ondoy hit our country my PLDT landline lost it’s dial tone but only lasted 2 days so I never bothered buying Smart Bro. But just last month when Tyhoon Santi hit Luzon, I wasn’t lucky enough because up to now our phone line is still not working. So having a back-up broadband connection is essential. Now the question is why choose Smart Bro and not Globe Tattoo or Sun Cellular?  I was hesitant at first if I will choose other brand of prepaid wireless broadband. Since I already tried Smart Bro prepaid from a friend when I fixed their computer and was very satisfied with the speed (and they live near our residence. If they live on other place, I will not be sure if there is a 3G signal in our area), I was decided to buy it.

I also checked the speed of Smart Bro on speedtest.net and below is the result:

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