http://www.makapalm.com Notes from a Filipino Palm user Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:04:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may get a brand-new Treo 680 for as low as P12,500 during the Microwarehouse mid-year sale, which runs today and tomorrow. The brand-new red and silver Treo 680, originally priced at P24,800, are sold with opened box but include complete accessories. Those who prefer a brand-new, silver Treo 680 in ... http://www.makapalm.com/microwarehouse-mid-year-sale-treo-680-for-as-low-as-p1250/ It's Mozilla Firefox Download Day today! Help Firefox set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours by downloading Mozilla Firefox by 12:59 a.m., Thursday. Firefox is a faster and safer World Wide Web browser. *** On another topic, Microwarehouse's mid-year sale is on Friday and Saturday. Its website says ... http://www.makapalm.com/download-firefox-today/ While the Philippines is admittedly a Friendster country, my recent experience with social networking sites shows that Facebook is also now gaining Pinoy members. Both social network sites already have their own mobile interface that allows cellphone users to login to their account. Recognizing Facebook's huge membership -- having been "recently ... http://www.makapalm.com/facebook-for-palm/ In the hope of winning something that I could add to my still-to-be-announced Foleo 2 Fund or to my webhosting bill, I am joining DNExpert.com's 8979-dollar contest, which the organizer dubs as the "Greatest domaining and blogging contest ever." DNXpert.com announced that the contests "comprises of over 62 genuine prizes including ... http://www.makapalm.com/dnexpertcoms-9000-dollar-contest/ I didn't know that there is a way to run Palm applications on Windows Mobile devices until I read about StyleTap's official announcement of its plan to come up with a version for iPhone. StyleTap Platform, I learned, is a mobile software that enables thousands of applications written for Palm OS ... http://www.makapalm.com/will-palm-apps-run-on-windows-mobile-symbian-and-iphone/ I recently created a blog contests blog "where I can write about and post my entries in the various contests that I will join." It's at http://blogcontests.filblogs.com. My second post there, after the intro post, is about Blog Almighty's contest. The posting of links was extended, so I'm copy-pasting my entry ... http://www.makapalm.com/e-contestant-and-the-imperial-contest/ Juliana of Handycase.com e-mailed me this morning to inform me about the Palm OS freeware on their site. I checked it out and I found interesting -- and best of all, free -- Palm games and utilities. Their free games include a series of IPuzzle Basic games, Logic Puzzle, Roman Table, ... http://www.makapalm.com/free-palm-games-other-freeware-at-handycasecom/ Members of Mapalad, the Philippine Palm Users Group, will meet on June 14, 3 p.m. at the Power Mac Center at Greenbelt 3, Makati City, an announcement posted on its website said. Filipino Palm users who want to meet other Palm users may be interested in joining this event. If ... http://www.makapalm.com/mapalad-june-2008-meet/ As I was composing the previous entry, I ran into a problem uploading the accompanying image. While the upload dialog popped up, red x marks were shown instead of file icons. I was able to choose the file, but the upload did not begin. I had to manually do it ... http://www.makapalm.com/wp-251-media-upload-problem-on-hardy-heron/ I learned about the release date of Hardy Heron (or 8.04) --  Ubuntu's latest version -- from my classmate Max last month, but I got to install this user-friendy Linux operating system only last Sunday. I was using Gutsy Gibbon (7.10) before I upgraded. Probably due to the various experiments I ... http://www.makapalm.com/now-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron/