Marvin Trilles

Here are few simple ways to make your Amazon Kindle more useful by using it as a Map Repository during your travel. A more convenient way that carrying printed maps on your bag  :) This assumes that your Kindle cannot connect to 3G network and no Wi-Fi signal is around to make google map accessible.

.. i will learn new things, perhaps play a new instrument or go back to school. .. i will find beauty on the open source community. .. i will read more books and listen to more music. .. i will pen more poems and possibly write more songs. .. i will go for new distances and discover new terrains. .. i will continue to pile running miles to stay fit and healthy. .. i will strive to be free and make myself available to unknown future. .. i will go out of my shell more often and be socially more open. .. i will continue to grow and go with the changes of time. .. i will be more patient and hopeful to things that may not even be possible. .. i will be a better son, brother and more importantly a better father. .. i will be closer with the great beyond. .. i will continue to repair , refactor and upgrade myself to become a better version of me.

As I write this blog,  millions of Filipino rock fanatics may have already known what happens after 12:00 midnight tonight. The only surviving station that caters to the rock genre will, sadly, be closing down and permanently signing off tonight. The news came to late to enjoy every second of what is left.  The sad news came to me the last week of October.  Being a follower of the station, I never believed it at first. But online resources would say the station really is nearing its demise.  With several minutes to go, it will be dead air.

Last Friday we had a lunch out at Burger Avenue at The Fort. This joint is "somewhat" famous for its Ridiculous Burger Challenge promo . The challenge  involves finishing up a ridiculous burger in less than 5 minutes. Its a 3 layer burger waiting to be eaten in less than 5 minutes.  This is, however, small compared to the Windows 7 whopper that Burger King promoted in line with Windows 7 release. None of us, by the way, did the challenge ,we had our own reasons or shall I say excuse.

Bloggers often look for the best way to keep their blogs up to date in whatever way they can think of. With iPhone, iPod and iPads coming to view, I would expect that developers would jump into the wagon of building blogging apps for bloggers. I am not really a paid app fanatic, I settle for free apps that satisfies what I need. So I ended up searching iTunes for free apps that could enable blogging on my portable device. The result were not encouraging. No need to shortlist a very short list of results. First on the list is the BlogWriter Lite . Its a simple app and very light at 1.3MB size. The installation is almost as fast as other light apps we have in the iTunes cloud.  Setting up your account is a breeze. Username and password is required and there are 4 available blog type to choose from : Blogger.com , Wordpress.com , Self-host WordPress Blog, and Others. after choosing the blog type, user needs to provide the blog URL and the port number to be used. Once set, you a...

Blogging has been different since my last post. Before, I had an article about writing blog in ms word 2007, today I'm trying out blogging using blogwrite for iPhone/iPod touch. Hence, this rather short blog to start with. A more comprehensive review will follow (?).

After several millions of second from my last post, I'm back. Thus, this post is related to the first geeky stuff I did after coming back from my 5 months of "forced exile" in the US (stuffs that does not involve my work in the office). Once again , Im playing with my Ubuntu, and the first thing I have to do is to update it. which brought me to realizing that I have the 8.10 version and in a few months more they will be releasing the 9.10 version. New Ubuntu version always comes with a new interesting name. Read the list below and be acquainted with Ubuntus version names. 4.10 Warty Warthog 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog 5.10 Breezy Badger 6.06 Dapper Drake 6.10 Edgy Eft 7.04 Feisty Fawn 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon 8.04 Hardy Heron 8.10 Intrepid Ibex 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 9.10 Karmic Koala Funny, they always brand Ubuntu as the Linux for human being but their version names are always referring to animals. Maybe come version 10.10 they will name it after me ...