Been hearing about Bitcoin lately? If that’s the case, you might have asked yourself the question above. If you’ve just tuned in like me, here’s a graphical explanation of what is Bitcoin and how it works.
In line with the upcoming launch of the BlackBerry 10, RIM has recently announced the new name of the BlackBerry App World which is now called BlackBerry World. Of course, rebranding their app market isn’t gonna be enough to elevate the OS to the next level. So what will? Investing heavily on the devs to [...]
After so many failed attempts to have the recently passed Anti-Cybercrime law be reviewed, some of our fellow countrymen just had enough of the crap and decided to take matters into their own hands by hacking multiple government websites and placing their banner on it. As the saying goes, “Action speaks louder than wordsâ€.
If you got yourself a SIM-locked Galaxy Note (just like I did) and decide to use a different SIM from another telco other than what it came with, here’s a guide on how to SIM unlock your Samsung Galaxy Note (GT-N7000).
The Paragon Software Group is well-known for its hard drive management tools so it comes to no surprise that they’ve ventured into the popular sea of Android devices.
In the past, in-app purchasing (IAP) hacks has only been available for jailbroken iDevices. But recently, a Russian hacker developed an ingenious way to bring that work around without the jailbreak.
Google finally hands over Android 4.1 to the AOSP (Android Open Source Project), currently though, the only proprietary binaries available for devs to feast on are the the ones meant for the Galaxy Nexus and Google’s newly-announced Nexus 7 Tablet.
We know that this may be out-dated by all standards but we never really had the chance to do a full review of the dual-core smartphone from Cherry Mobile locally known as the Magnum 2X. Now that we have a review unit from the Philippine-based cellphone manufacturer, we thought to give it a fair airtime.
TechLocal.com reports that there is a brewing plan for a bill to combat online piracy in the Philippines. A group is said to be lobbying in congress and the senate to pass a bill similar to SOPA or PIPA.
We’ve been playing with the Acer Iconia Tab A500 for over a week now and I must say this is a pretty decent Honeycomb tablet and probably the cheapest dual-core tablet in the Philippines with street prices as low as Php18,500.
The HTC Desire HD is one of the most anticipated superphone this year and it’s coming to town in time for Christmas (or so they say). Check out our full review of the Desire HD after the jump.
Tony of DJI talks about an unexpected outcome from TailRank’s River, a blog monitoring service. A large number of blogs turned out to have been hacked to promote spammy content and affiliate links.
Been receiving emails from readers and fellow bloggers about the alleged hacking of 3 government agency websites, namely the DOJ, PNP-CIDG and ITECC. Investigations were being done by PLDT (or Infocom, the webhost), the DOJ and the management of Enchanted Kingdom. What would have seemed like a hack was actually a server glitch.
The ever expected launch of Apple’s OS X 10.5 (codenamed Leopard) was met with alot of enthusiasm. On top of that, there have been reports of the new OS flying around some torrent sites.
I admire people who has that entrepreneurial spirit. It allows them to see great opportunities during those rare occasions. During the height of the iPhone craze, a group of those business-minded people saw money hawking iPhones. Another group saw money hacking them.
As some of you might have already read the breaking news lately, or even blogged about it, the real identity behind Fake Steve Jobs (FSJ) has been unmasked. As the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. All the fun, humor and mystery will cease to exist for readers of The Secret [...]
Every once in a while, I’d receive text messages or emails from bloggers and website owners asking for advice whenever their site is hacked. Being a blogger myself running dozens of sites and also a web hosting provider, hacking/cracking and other exploits are not new to me. We’ve experienced them on so many occasions and [...]
There were a lot of buzz before about the Google Code Search among programmers and coders. There were also announcements from software vendors like vBulletin that copies of their software can be downloaded from sites of legitimate license holders. All you gotta do was do a search of the software and all vB copies uploaded [...]
Blogging is slowly becoming a popular alternative to mainstream media. Even mainstream media has already recognized blogging as a tool for gathering news while others even use blog entries to quote interviews in their news articles. The social phenomenon that is blogging has already made a significant change on how information is disseminated thru the [...]
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Ever since I had that hacking incident with my Paypal and GMail account, I’ve received lots of emails on how to be more secure with online accounts and doing transactions (the incident was published in the Inquirer). So when I sat down with the reps from Visa, it was also the topic at the lunch [...]
