Techie Gadgets

Who could forget Vivienne Tam’s pink and red peony design on the HP Mini 1100? It was the first time a gadgets manufacturer collaborated with a designer to create a timelessly fashionable device. Even though the model itself was a little old, Vivienne Tam’s HP Mini 1100 was one of the most highly-coveted gadgets of its time.

Recently, Vivienne Tam designed yet another HP Mini but this time, she was inspired by the delicate figure of the butterfly. To her, butterflies symbolize love, freedom, transformation, and independence – exactly what the modern woman wants out of her devices and out of her life. The laptop first made its debut at New York Fashion Week as part of the designer’s spring 2010 collection, and even made an appearance in Sex and the City 2.

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If my Flip and the Flip ultra HD could talk, it would tell you the story of my first attempts at citizen journalism in early August 2009, during the wake of former President Cory Aquino. It will also tell you the times I interviewed the seven presidential candidates, some national and local candidates, covered the automated elections, the breakdown of the PCOS machines and the long queues. The Flip Ultra HD witnessed the Inaugural and state of the nation address of President Noynoy Aquino. So many historical firsts just using the Flip. It was also probably a historical first for the Flip Ultra HD to take video coverage inside Malacañang. Alongside the huge TV cameras, the small Flip Ultra HD captured the good news that the new administration will acknowledge the role of bloggers as citizen watchdogs. It is also the first time I wrote for a newspaper. Here is the rest of the article, My Buddy, the Flip ultra HD camcorder and my Flip videos at youtube.com/blogwatchdotph or youtube.com/newmediapublisher

Can you spot my nifty Flip?

Covering former President Cory Aquino’s wake, August 3, 2009

(Photo credits to Liyam)

Blog Watch Interview with then presidential candidate, Noynoy Aquino on February 6, 2010 just before the campaign

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Tags: flip camcorder, flip ultra HD

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For those of you who missed out on the Nokia C3, you might want to look into the compact Nokia C5 for your mobile social networking needs. This device allows you access to Nokia’s wide range of mobile services, such as Nokia Messaging and Navigation. The Home Screen gives you direct access to your favorite contacts and lets you open your Facebook or MySpace account with just a press of a button. Email accounts from Ovi Mail and other email providers are also available through Nokia Messaging so that you can stay connected wherever you are. The Nokia C5 is also equipped with a 3.2 megapixel camera, a 2GB memory card, and high speed data connection. Unlike the C3, however, the C5 does not have a QWERTY keypad. I

The Nokia C5 is now available at all Nokia retailers with a standard retail price of PhP 8,540. Comes in white or warm gray.

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Research in Motion (RIM) just unveiled the new BlackBerry 6, a new OS for BlackBerry smartphones that delivers a fresh, engaging experience that’s easy to use. The BlackBerry 6 features a redesigned interface that works with both a trackpad and touch screen, expanded messaging capabilities, a new Universal Search tool, and an efficient new WebKit-based browser that allows you to load web pages quickly for a beautiful and convenient browsing experience.

Old BlackBerry users are going to like the redesigned interface, which is more intuitive and clean. You can easily organize your content and applications on the Home Screen; simply select one of five customizable views (All, Favorites, Downloads, Media, and Frequent). Also new to the BlackBerry 6 are the context-sensitive Action Menus – simply clicking and holding the touchpad allows you to bring out the most common tasks and actions of an application for easy access. Multitasking is also made much easier by holding down the Menu key, which opens a grid of all running applications. Switching from app to app has never been so convenient.

Perhaps the feature that will capture the interest of most is the new Social Feeds application, which simplifies social network management and RSS feeds. It also lets you access Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Messenger, AOL Instant Messenger, Google Talk, and Windows Live Messenger apps for the BlackBerry. In other words, Social Feeds streamlines your social networking experience, giving you an integrated view of your friends’ activities and letting you post updates across multiple networks. The BlackBerry 6 is also equipped with a new Text Messages App. Now you can view your text conversations in a single thread, and share photos, video, and other multimedia content.

For more information on BlackBerry 6, visit www.blackberry.com/6. There are also screen shots in the Inside BlackBerry Blog.

Tags: BlackBerry

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Remember last Friday’s TGIFreeday from Smart! Good news, they’re back tomorrow on August 6 to give you TGIFreeday! Free mobile internet for all prepaid and postpaid Smart and Talk N Text subscribers from 12mn till 11:59pm of August 6, 2010. No registration, no special keywords needed.

So go ahead and tweet, plurk, post, surf, blog, chat, email, Google, Yahoo, Uzzap, GoMail, BBM and do whatever you want FOR FREE!

Read the FAQ for jore details.

Tags: free mobile internet, Smart, Smart and Talk N Text subscribers

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