You vs Yourself - Safeguard Challenge

As marathons and other physical activities takes the Philippines by storm, the most known brand of hygiene and health concern soap challenges you together with yourself as the competitor!

Safeguard announces the YouVSYourself Challenge which encourages not only those veteran athletes but even those couch potatoes to live life as healthy as possible. From the freakish increase of death toll in crime, health related diseases caused also the death of many citizens not only in the country but also affects the whole world and it was continuously increasing every single day!

So what are you waiting for!?

Why not join the YouVsYourself challenge presented by Safeguard and give yourself a chance to a training session with your selected coach and sport, a GoPro camera, sports gear and gadgets worth Php.10,000, a Safeguard Active gift pack, and Php.15,000 cash would complete that inner athlete in you!

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Choose Your Own Number - Sun Cellular Philippines

As the build up of consumers and entrepreneur takes the country by storm together with the said growth of the Philippine Economy, it's really important that your consumers and contacts easily figure where to get easy access to your side. With this growth comes a first from Sun Cellular Philippines. The "Choose your Mobile Number" was officially announced a few days ago and has already aired in some commercials.

For only Php 59.00 you can have your own personal number with the following format:

0942.1.RFREAK

This first from sun is not only limited to that. Together with your SUN Name UR NUMBER sim are the following:

• Sun Call and Text Combo P50  Promo:
• 200 SMS texts to other NETWORK
• 200 SUN Texts
• 70 minutes (1hr and 10mins) to SUN number

All valid for 5 days!

For more information, you could visit their website.

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New SmartPhones - BlackBerry Z10 and Q10

BlackBerry announced their new platform, the BlackBerry 10 featuring two new devices!
The Full-touch Z10 and the keyboard-equipped Q10.

According to their chief executive Thorsten Heins, The new BlackBerry "will transform mobile communications into true mobile computing." after the announcement that RIM is now officially BlackBerry.

After being a dominant smartphone before Apple and and Google Android operating system, they now hold less than five percent of the global market according to surveys which makes it nearly a life-death situation for the company if they will still standout or be forever be a thing in the past.

Though tech analyst Jeff Kagan said that he was impressed in the lofty number of applications and the overall impression of the device, he added that it was too soon to say if BlackBerry 10 will emerge as a major competitor to Apple and Google.

For the features noticeable in these new smartphones are the capacity for users to share in real-time screens and complex data from two different locales on a messaging system, a single character flick that can generate an entire word and a sophisticated camera for the photo enthusiasts.

Well, while some consumers prefer to use their phones for applications most of the time, there is no need to worry since the new devices also starts with some 70,000 applications including prominent offerings like Amazon's Kindle and LinkedIn.

For those BlackBerry Fans out there, it's time to get your pockets and purses ready as their new devices invades the market!

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Release of Apple's update - iOS 6.1

Apple issues their first major update on Monday (January 28, 2013) to iOS 6 after being announced last September of 2012. After running through five beta test updates, iOS6.1 now includes 4G LTE support for 36 additional iPhone carriers and 23 more for iPad.

Apple has also added a way to reset your Advertising Identifier, which acts as a control room for informing advertisers about your web activity.

Sad thing about it was that, only U.S. users can purchase movie tickets through Fandango via Apple's ever popular assistant Siri while iTunes Match subscribers can download songs individually to iOS devices from iCloud.

To download the app, visit Settings on your mobile device and then select General. The update will be available via the Software Update section within that screen. However, users should not at least 1GB of storage is needed to download iOS 6.1, so you may have to clean up some space on your device beforehand.

With the forecast of Apple's senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing as iOS6 as the most popular new version of an OS in history with nearly 300 million users, do you still prefer iOS or Androids? Share with us your opinion...

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ASANA - Task Management Review

Today I would like to discuss with you this task management web and mobile application that we've been using for some months now. This is the Asana Application. As I've experienced from our previous task management scenarios, most files and reports gets duplicated and not in its proper order. So fortunately, we manage to get along well with Asana. Not that we already tried working with other online task management application so far but we experienced some smooth sailing with this one.

Asana was developed by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and engineer Justin Rosenstein and was officially launched its beta last 2011. Asana is a collaborative task management application. The product has many features, including Workspaces, Projects, Personal Projects, Tasks, Tags, Notes, Comments and an Inbox  that organizes and updates information in real-time.[1]

As for the environment, it's pretty much User Friendly and there were some guides throughout the interface where you could get an idea on what or how to do things. More of a drag-and-drop functionality but of course you should set some sections on where should you place the proper task like this one.

The set up I did was to have a "Task" section, "Bugs" and "To Check" section. So when one of our members were through with what was assigned to him/her, he would just simply move it to the proper section and if our Test Engineer approves it, then it automatically hits the top shelf addressed as done.

If you ever try to create a project? Do you feel that this would deem necessary?
or for those who have tried it? What are your opinions regarding this topic?

References:
[1] Wikipedia - Asana (web application)

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Class Suspension on Feast of the Black Nazarene 2013

As the Feast of the Black Nazarene approaches, schools and universities around Metro Manila announced its suspension of classes during the feast. The Black Nazarene is known to devotes in Spanish as Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno.

The history behind its dark complexion was said to be because it survived a burning ship on its arrival from Mexico. The feast is held annually during the 9th of January and during Good Friday.

Class Suspended for the following Schools:

A. Mabini Elementary School
Geronimo Santiago Elementary School
 Ramon Avancena High School
Manila High School
V. Mapa High School
Araullo High School
City College of Manila
 Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and
Manila Science High School

Class Suspended for the following Universities: 

University of the East (UE) Manila
San Beda College
Centro Escolar University (CEU)
Mapua Institute of Technology (Manila)
Far Eastern University
University of Sto. Tomas
Colegio de San Juan de Letran
San Sebastian College-Recoletos
Adamson University

Route of the Procession:

From Quirino Grandstand (Luneta), right Katigbak Drive thru P. Burgos,left Taft Ave.(P.Burgos) thru McArthur Bridge,right Palanca,thru under Quezon Bridge,left Quezon Blvd.,right Fraternal,right Vergara,left Duque de Alba,left Castillejos,left farnecio,right Arlegui,left Nepomuceno,left Aguila,right Carcer,right Hidalgo thru Plaza Del Carmen,left Bilibid Viejo thru Puyat,left Guzman,right Hidalgo,left Barbosa,right Globo de Oro thru under Quezon Bridge,right Palanca,right Villalobos thru Plaza Miranda to Quiapo Church.

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Drive Check : BLOWBAGETS

The holidays might be over.. (for now) but it doesn't mean that we should continue our lives recklessly without any concern for others or ourselves..

This isn't mine but it sure is helpful for those who have a car.
Here is just a list of the things to check before heading off to your destination.

B - battery
L - lights (headlight, signal lights and brake lights)
O - Oil (check your 2T oil)
W - Water (radiator & wiper washer)
B - brakes
A - air pressure of tires
G - gas (the most important!)
E - early warning device or reflectorized vest (for better visibility especially if its raining and at night)
T - tools
S - SELF (are you fit to ride today?)

Have a safe trip everyone!

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