Archive for the ‘TechTips’ Category

A SIM failure home remedy

Monday, October 24th, 2005

I thought it was time to retire Brosia, my Smartphone. But the Internet buys me a little more time and offers a home remedy. A little backgrounder. I use a dual-SIM. This comes in handy when I want to try out a Globe or G-Cash service. I don’t need to ...

Testimony: NTC cellphone blocking

Friday, October 21st, 2005

Update (Dec 14, 2006): Visit the NTC website's "Text 682 (Text NTC) Anti-Phone Theft Service" for more information on how to prevent mobile phone theft. I had a story on Technobiography (while it was still in Blogger) about NTC's cellphone blocking service. NTC offers to block the cellphone handset ...

Cellphone-napped for ransom

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Read this story from a good friend, Randy. He lost his cellphone to a crook. Kakainis. May sentimental value yun, I'm sure. Pati nga ako, nase-senti, eh. But, at the end of it all, I just call on Karma to give the crook what he deserves. And continue to tell ...

Sending big Gmail attachments

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

My friend complained that she wasn't able to send a couple of big files to a colleague. She was trying to send a file via Gmail from her CD of presentations/documents. They were big files and the dial-up connection we have at home resulted in time-out errors in Gmail. I asked ...