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January 06, 2010

How to order the Google Nexus One?

So Google has finally opened the curtains to their new flagship Nexus One phone powered by the latest Android 2.1 OS. The unit sells for $529 with free shipping to anywhere in the US.

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Gooooogle, Mobile
December 02, 2009

Core i5, nVidia GTX285 on Asus Clear Case

Asus Philippines put up this dream team gaming rig with the new Intel Core i5 750, Asus nVidia Geforce GTX 285 and Asus Maximus III Formula.

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PC Gaming
January 02, 2008

The Great Firewall of Australia

Looks like Australia will be following China’s footsteps and build its own mandatory state-wide firewall. Aussies will bid goodbye to
smut and say hello to “clean feeds”.

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The Internet
September 08, 2007

10 Ways to avoid the Boy Bastos Treatment

By now, most of you might have heard of the Boy Bastos news and the search warrant made by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) on Mark Verzo’s house earlier. Mark is the owner of the site BoyBastos.com and also a blogger who owns a blog network. The portal is currently down as instructed by the authorities.

I won’t talk about any legalese here as I’m not in authority to discuss those issues. From my point of view, and having dealt with people from the NBI before on a similar situation, here are my tips to avoid the same treatment from them.

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Curious
February 23, 2007

More ways to make money online

Over at Web Worker Daily, Anne Zelenka writes about 10 New Ways to Make Money Online. Some of the items she mentioned have already been around for sometime while others have become too saturated as well.

I’m now thinking of ways to make money online that’s more relevant to our region (or specifically in the Philippines):

  • Buy & Sell items in TipidPC. I look at TipidPC as somewhat like the eBay for the Philippines, even before eBay.ph came into the scene.
  • Work as a Proxy Player. Some games require you to play a certain amount of time before you reach a level or number of points. I have been told by a friend that these players (students and office workers alike) would pay other people just to continue their game play (proxy-play) while they’re away. Rates go as low as Php20 per hour and the player also pays for the net cafe rent. Others do it from home too.
  • Sell mobile wallpapers and ringtones. The telcos and CPs have already dominated this space but as an individual with talents, time and enough resources, this can be done. Here’s how I would do it. Create all your original mobile wallpapers and ringtones from scratch. Set up a small website to upload screenshots or demos of the products you created. Setup an SMS server on your PC (software costs as low as Php5,000 and all you need is a mobile phone and the cable). Start receiving request for downloads and get paid via Smart Money or Globe G Cash.
  • Proxy blogger. I know some network bloggers are doing this. They have too many blogs to write for that they could not maximize their output for a day. So, if they’re being paid $5 per post, they would look for someone else to blog for them and pay them $2 or $3. They reach their daily quota and they still get a cut.

Lots of other niche industries not yet tapped around here.

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Netrepreneur
November 14, 2006

From the Inbox

Several things I’d like to share coming out of my Inbox:

  • Krispy Kreme is really sending me a truckload of doughnuts. They’ve sent email on several of my blogs. Maybe we could all do some Krispy Kreme blogger meet-up? Doughnuts on me.
  • PinoyTravelBlog & PinoyTechBlog both made it to the Finals of the 9th Philippine Web Awards (PR7 links immortalized!). Awards Night will be on December 7, 2006, at the Carlos P. Romulo Auditorium, RCBC Plaza, Makati City. I think I will be in Jakarta on this date. Anybody want to go and proxy me? Free tickets.
  • Luis discovered that the newly launched Makati PNP Website was a one-man operation. Can we safely say kickbacks? The guy has a Friendster blog.
  • The domain speaknsurfcafe.com points (URL mask) to my post here about Globe’s Speak ‘n Surf. Should I thank Victor Martin Mariano for using my blog to point his domain. That’s a neat trick huh?
  • Very fine photos of USN F/A-18 fighters and their Prandtl-Glauert Clouds (c/o my reader who wants to remain anonymous). His very first contribution last July garnered total pageviews close to 17,000.
  • Shout out to Nick of Tingog.com for being very understanding. I respectfully declined his blog tag. If I did, I would have to do the same to a dozen others before him. Thanks, mate.
  • Another reader also emailed me asking for ways to determine if his GF’s blog has been added to Google Sandbox. We did a little poking around and it looks like it. Is there a definite tool to find that out? How about get a link from an old and highly trusted domain? Would that fix it?
  • Another email from a reader asks how to go about after being banned from Adsense. I explained the varying levels and suggested ways around it. This one deserves a whole post in itself.

Anybody else emailed me that I forgot to answer? Please resend them after 48 hours after the first one if I haven’t gotten back to you.

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Daily Dose
December 05, 2005

How to get Paypal in the Philippines


Sign up for Paypal in the Philippines!

Someone emailed me today asking some advice about Paypal. He wanted to ask how to sign-up for Paypal even if he’s in the Philippines.

Paypal will tell you — you can’t. Yuga will tell you — technically, you still can. I call it proxy registration.

If you have a relative or a friend who lives in a Paypal approved country. You can ask them to use your email account to sign-up with PayPal for you. They will also need to have a bank account to tie up the Paypal account and be verified.

Once application has been approved, usually a souple of days, you can now use that Paypal account to receive the send money to other Paypal account holders.

Please be reminded though not to use it right after registration as the IP addresses are being logged for authentication. In the first few weeks, ask your relative or friend to do the transactions for you.

After maybe a month or after several successful transactions thru Paypal, you may try logging in yourself. During login, you may get a warning that you are accessing Paypal from a country where it is not approved then you will be asked to verify or authenticate your account. It will ask for random information like your middle name or your US bank account number so be ready to have this information with you. If you cancel your login because you don’t have this information, your account me be flagged and eventually locked. Don’t use it too often, maybe just once a week. Let the system get used to you but not too much. It’s even better if you have a static IP so the system will at least remember you on that end.

The logic behind this is that you act as if you were in the US (or any Paypal approved country) when you signed-up for Paypal and then you just happen to visit the Philippines when you accessed your account. This is not a sure-fire alibi but at least you are consistent. There are other valid Paypal account holders who have had their account locked just because they accessed it from the Philippines.

And oh, if you are using Paypal just to received payments, do empty it or offload to the bank as often as you can (and you know why). Mind you, this is not a long-term solution but others get by (like me for example).

Update:
Forgot to tell you that this is not a legit method. It’s just a quick way around for you to get hold of a Paypal account.

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The Internet
November 12, 2005

What will it take for Philippine service companies to read blogs?

About two weeks ago, Smart’s Addict Mobile blog portal was reported as not being filtered for nude pictures. The scandal was posted in numerous other blogs but the AMBlog portal went on its exhibitionist spree.

Some newspapers were alerted about this issue but they didn’t pick up the story. I guess, Smart’s on their top and favored advertiser’s list. Or, maybe it’s not really worth their while and they’d rather report about a Philippine Senator’s proxy-blogging history.

Anyway, Max of SunStar Cebu picked up the story in his column “Porn in Addict Mobile’s blog portal“. And true enough, an official of Smart sent them notice about it and closed the AMBlog portal.

The question remains hanging — what will it take for Philippine service companies to read blogs?

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Blogosphere