David's New IPAD

Just like what I said on my previous post, here is the picture of David's new Ipad.

David playing with Rhaine and Joshua watching.

Front View

Side View

New Ipad

At last, last Saturday the Ipad that I cancelled online was credited back to my credit card. Exactly after 15 days, wew. We went to SM Southmall then to see if they offer a better installment terms. Anyway, they only have 3 months 0% plan, same thing in SM Bacoor. David changes his mind and decided to have a color black model instead of the white one. Its better late than never. This is David's 7th birthday gift, 9 days after his birthday. I haven't taken a picture of it, maybe one day and I'll post here. I'm starting to like it too and hoping to have one as well, hehe. Not in my budget anymore, anyway I can always borrow his. 

Google Tablet

David will turn 7 this June is requesting for a gadget. An itouch, iPad and laptop are my choices, wew! Kids now a days are really techie that they wanted gadgets at a very small age. We will no longer held a birthday party as what the custom is if the child is celebrating his 7th birthday. Some may think that this is too much as a gift specially we are not a rich family. There are lots of things that I was not able to give him like birthday celebration on his 1st birthday, gift when he got 2nd place in kindergarten and much more. We all want to give the best to our kids and this is something that I know will make him really happy. We just need to discipline him to balance his school and playtime. I hope I still have some available credits on my card on his birthday to buy his request. 

Anyway my mom told me about Google Tablet which I also searched online. The said gadget is plan to be released this coming July. The extension of the release was made to make the said tablet more affordable. I am thinking if David maybe can wait until its released. I am also excited about it and I think its gonna be half the price of an Ipad. 

Free Samsung E1080

Yesterday we went back to Sun Cellular in SM Southmall to have an advanced renewal of my P999 plan. Its not actually me who is using the units but its registered under my name. Anyway I mention before that my mom got a Samsung Corby 2 and she was having a hard time texting. I got attracted to the unit so I agreed to get a plan P350 and swap unit with her, so now I have the Corby phone. The only problem is there is no signal inside our office.

With the P999  renewal they are offering a free Samsung Champ phone with plan P150 for a year. Plan 150 includes unlimited text to sun and 4 hours call to Sun subscriber. You can buy a load if you want to use it with other network. I declined the offer but to my suprise they offer me 3 units of the Samsung E1080 with free P150 plan for the first month. It doesnt have subscription so I can cut the plan anytime, even before the 2nd month. Well not a bad offer, although the unit is dinosaur (very simple phone), its a free phone so why not. I would cut the plan before the next month and just use prepaid. I would teach my 6 yr old boy how to use the phone so at least for emergency we can have communication. I will give the other unit to my mother in law and the other one to my hubby. I've been a globe user for a long time and now we are invaded by sun... I don't have problem with Globe's reception. I hope I would have good experience with Sun since my contract with them is 30months. 

Samsung Corby 2

My mom just got her new phone from sun cellular. Their plan is about to end so as part of the renewal they are given new phones. My phone is a dinosaur one, hehehe. After my Ericson K700i I did not buy any other fancy phone. I no longer use my ericson but I have this old nokia non-camera phone. I also have one nokia with camera which I got free when I got my suntel plan (wireless landline). Anyway my mom's new phone is Samsung Corby 2. It has sleek and elegant design. It uses touch screen and has vibrant color. She was having problem using it since she is not use to touch screen. I told her we can switch phone if she doesnt like it, hehehe. Anyway it makes me think to get a new phone too. Well, its not my priority so I guess it would not be first on my list. As long as I can send text message and make phone calls my dinosaur phone would still be handy.

Family Computer

Well, this is old school but we are able to buy one from SM Appliance store. It is not from Nintendo though. It comes with built-in games, 8800 in 1. When I checked on it, it looks like maybe 20-25 games repeating itself. I don't know what is the difference why it is repeated. It cost 800 php and also comes with a gun. I remember when I was a kid we used to play with our Nintendo Family Computer the whole day. I am not sure if this one  can do that. It shows on the manual to lengthen its life make sure to power off the unit after 1 hour of usage. Well  my 6 year old kid enjoys it and me too, hehe.

Casio Exilim Z80 Battery not Charging

If I am not mistaken I got my Casio Exilim Z80 2 years ago. I used to bring it on different occasions like birthdays, family gatherings, travel, date with friends, school activities, parties, programs etc. Most of the content of my external hard drive are pictures taken by this camera. I use picassa editor it making the size of the picture smaller. I used the highest resolution on my camera so one picture has a size of 1MB or more. I use the picassa software to lessen the pixel and make size around 100-300KB so that I can easily upload over the internet specially in facebook. 

On the manual it says that if the red light turns off on the battery charger then that means that the battery is already full. Usually it takes an hour to fully charge it. The first issue that I encounter was its been charging for an hour or two and still the red light is on. I thought it was charge properly but then after a few shots it is low bat already so that is why I don't have lots of pictures in avilon zoo. This the same thing that happen when we had our team building at work, after a few shots it turned off. One thing I noticed, before when I do the charging the battery gets warm but now it doesn't. I am not sure where is the problem. If its with the battery or with the charger. I hope I can find an owner of the same camera so that maybe I can try charging my battery user his charger. Haaysss....

How to Change Nintendo DS Skin or Theme

I was downloading DS games earlier when I decided to check if my R4 has the latest firmware. I find out that what we have is a TTDS card and not R4. You can check out www.ndstt.com. I saw there some skins available for download. 

My little David loves Mario so I make it the theme of our DS. What I did is I put the mario skin  files into a folder and name it to default. Overwrite the existing default skin folder inside the TTS Menu Folder. It is as easy as that. Below is the skin that I have.

Top Screen

Bottom Screen

Free Nintendo DS Games Download

My son always borrow his cousin's Nintendo DS Lite. His nanay told him that he will also get one on his birthday which is on June 21. Thanks to his Tita Weng who decided to buy him the console so that he would not borrow his cousin's DS anymore.

We stroll around ATC (Ayala Town Center) to look for the cheapest price. Each store has different bundle but we find a New Nintendo DS Lite for only P5700. It already has R4 with 2GB of Micro SD card. We can also go their for 1year and have unlimited download for DS games. I think the store also offers games for PSP. 

What I did is I buy a card reader for P80 at CD-R King and look for free download online so that I don't need to go to ATC every time. I registered at www.unlimiteddsdownload.com for $39.95 to be able to get instruction on how to do it and get a link for a safe downloads. It is a lifetime membership. My neighbor says I should not paid that much since I can actually download for free online. Well I guess that is alright because that money that I pay for is my income from blogging hehehe. At least I can download DS games and not worry about virus and spyware. There is still hassle on this because it takes time to download because of my internet connection and not all games are working. David enjoys it a lot that he no longer bothers me on my personal computer, yey!

Green Laptop

One of my daily activity is browsing the web and playing online or network games. I had a desktop computer with AMD Dual Core Process and 1GB of memory. I have this computer for 3 yrs now. If given a chance I would like to have a Dell Inspiron 17.3" with Intel Pential Dual Core T4300 Processor. This is the very last in my list and consider just a dream which I hope someday would come true. It may not be this model but I dream of having my own laptop. Something that I can bring when I travel which I can use for entertainment or making a blog on the spot. Of course if you have a high quality gadget it should come with a trendy accessory.

UK Best Seller 19 LCD

If you haven't buy something for yourself this holiday season then why don't you get a 19 LCD TV. There are a lot of cheap prices and great deals for the 19 LCD now in the UK. Among the top products that offer this are LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Toshiba.

This 19 LCD from LG cost only £167.74.

This Copy of Windows is Not Genuine

One of my friend at work told me she was getting an error on her computer. She mention that she was getting a message about Windows not genuine and being a victim of software counterfeiting. I told her I will format her computer and reinstall Windows.

Above is the pop up message she was getting on the lower right corner of her desktop as soon as she logged in to Windows. Me being a tech support for Dell before I remember fixing that error by deleting a specific registry. While she was making a back up of her files by moving it to the secondary drive on her computer I tried to search for a solution. I would like to avoid doing an OSRI (Operating System Reinstallation) because it consumes a lot of time. I found the solution and here is the registery that you need to delete. By the way, this is for Windows XP. Go to registry editor by typing regedit on the run command of windows. Then go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\Notify and then delete WgaLogon folder and all of its content. Reboot the computer and tada! its back to normal. She told me when she started getting that error she was not able to change her wall paper and that was fix too.

Gadgets Bidding

For those who love different gadgets like camera, LCD TV, iPods, laptops etc. you can now get them at a Super cheap bargains. For example you can get Sony, PS2, PS3, Xbox, games, consoles for $5.90!. It is really amazing.

Bidhere is an auction website that offers the hottest gadgets and what's good is they are all brand new. This is really exciting and it only cost $0.60 per bid! Every bid placed increased the product price by $0.02. Once you register you get 5 free bids. You can also get 10 free bids for every 100 bids you place. You can start your own auction and you don't need to worry about your personal data because they follow a Strict Privacy Policy. Register now and get the gadget that you've been longing for.

At Last

It has been more than 2 weeks now since my computer break down. I don't know what happen but all of the sudden it would not POST. I've tried fixing it several times and I failed. I thought it was the mobo since it would not beep even if I removed the memory. I told myself I will buy a new mobo once I get back to work.

It was a surprise early this morning when I saw my husband on the computer. I asked him what did he do. He said he just turned it on and it started working. There was a pop up message about avg error which I was able to fix by reinstalling it. He said I he does have good luck.

At last! It's working again. I can go back to my routine of checking e-mails, tweeting, blogging, playing online games, etc. I promised myself I would give my PC a rest every day. It actually break down because it is on for almost 24/7 .... hehehe.

My Camera

Yehey! After two weeks of waiting my cute camera Casio Exilim EX-Z80 is now working. If you notice for the past weeks most of my blogs doesn't have pictures it is because my camera is in repair. I was able to get it last Monday. After my check up with my OB we went to SM Southmall to have some groceries. We were already outside the mall on our way home when I remember my camera. I asked my husband to go back instead since I am already tired walking. He was not able to test it because it doesnt have a battery. When we got home I tested it right away and wow the screen is back. It no longer have lines and I am not sure but I find it more clearer, maybe because I haven't use if for a while. So the first thing that I did is take a pictures of Danielle's gift from my baby shower and make a post. I am so glad I got my camera back but its also sad not be able to capture some other events and beautiful moments for the past few weeks.

Broken Camera

It was a Sunday and it's our family day.  Most of the time after attending church service in CCF Alabang we would eat somewhere usually Jollibee (my little boy's favorite) and stroll in the mall.  I decided to bring my camera that day so that I can take pictures of us.  

My mom, who always attends church with us, said we could visit Pag-ibig even on Sunday, so that we can see the house improvement loan being offered by the subdivision where I bought a house.  Their office is in Baclaran.  We rode a jeep going there and because we are on a hurry we did not notice that the jeep's signboard is not Baclaran Coastal.  The travel is longer in the middle of the hot sun and to our catastrophe, the jeep also have a flat tire.  It did not stop to have it vulcanize but I think we stop for at least 5 times to put air in it. Haaaysss @_@!

After I think an hour of travel or more we arrived in Baclaran.  Engr. Raven showed us different plans and designs that can be down in our house.  It also includes some sample pictures.  It was very interesting.  My husband and I like the idea of having one room in the atique and extend the kitchen.  We might apply for this house improvement and by God's blessing hope to move there by next year. Yehey!

After that we went to SM Mall of Asia.  The place is too crowded as usual because it's a weekend.  We decided to stop by at Pizza Hut and have something to eat.  While waiting for our table I took my camera out.  Too my surprise the LCD is broken! I can't believe it because I actually used it last Friday and I don't remember any incident that my camera falls or something.  The LCD is so bright that you can't see image on the screen and there were some lines.  My camera has a hard casing as well to protect it. Huhuhu!

I bought the camera as a gift to myself last Christmas and I am still paying for it.  I think it does have a 1-year warranty so I will bring it to Casio Service Center, which is very very far from our home.  When I look in the box their service center is in Quezon City.... waaaaaa.  I hope they would fix my camera under the warranty.  It quite saddened my weekend. :-(

Charter giving away HDTV all throughout April

Last year Charter give away laptops and Xbox 360 game systems and a grand prize of 2009 Honda Civic Hybrid. This year it will be raining HDTV all throughout the month of April.

If you love watching movies and videos then this is your chance of winning High Definition Television. With HDTV you get better quality image than standard television because it has a greater number of lines of resolution and it has sharper and better picture quality.

This contest is open to current Charter customers and new subscribers. If you order Cable, High Speed or Telephone online at Charter.com throughout April then you are automatically included in the raffle upon the installation.

Charter is giving a away 22" flat screen HDTV everyday all throughout April. The grand prize winner awaits a brand new 52” LCD flat screen HDTV, a Home Theater System, and one year of free Charter Digital Cable® service with HD programming.

So what are you waiting for? Subscribe now or upgrade your existing plan and get a chance to win this marvelous item.

This is one way on how Charter makes fun out of their service. Also, to create a better customer care around their products, aside from their website, you can add Charter on your Twitter (@chartercom).

My Old Ericsson K700i

I have this phone (Sony Ericsson K700i) for I think 5 or 6 years now.  I got this when I was still working in Etelecare in Libis Eastwood.  The price of this then was about 24K in pesos.  I even asked my Uncle to use his credit card so I can pay for it in 6months.  

Now, you can get this phone I think for more or less than 10K. Every year newer model of cellphones comes out and its features are getting better and better. Because of this, prices of cellphones goes down abruptly.  Its value depreciates so quickly.  

I'm not using the phone now because its battery life wouldnt last for the whole day.  It gives me headache because it always goes off whenever I needed it mostly.  Twice the battery has been replace since I got it.  I was thinking of disposing the phone by selling it or buy a new battery instead.

The thought of selling it for 3k hesitates me to do it because it always goes to my mind that I got it for 24k!  I told myself I would never buy a phone again that is too expensive.  How about you, what do you do with your old cellphones?  

Casio Exilim: EX-Z80

25 days before Christmas and I don't have a gift for anyone yet. It was because I paid my credit card when I got my Christmas bonus. I even told my mom that this Christmas I would not be able to buy gifts for everyone unlike last year. We'll I was not able to control myself again yesterday. Every Sunday Robin (my husband), David (my 3yr old little boy) and I would go to church then we would go to SM either to buy some groceries, eat lunch or "merienda" and of course for David because he loves going to SM. He enjoys riding car for kids and most of the time we buy him a single toy. While they were playing billiard I told my husband that I would stroll to look for a new battery for my cellphone. My cellphone which is an Ericsson's K700i is already 2 years old. While looking for battery , I saw some digital camera on display. I've been longing for a digital camera so I told robin I would by the camera instead (twink!). Below is the picture of my new camera. I choose green because its my favorite color. Just a trivia , green was my motif during my wedding. This camera is my Christmas gift to myself.