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Sunday, December 26, 2010
Keeping up with multiple sites
There are so many social networking sites today that its hard to keep
up with all of them. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to just stay in
one? Maybe in a perfect world or perhaps when one has no choice. On the
other hand, one would question why bother to keep up with all of them.
For one thing, some friends or relatives are on one site while the rest
are on another or the next.
We would like to keep to one website but there are some many formats to choose and each has its advantages. Also, the other reason for me is that I want to try out different things specially as I need to be able to explain to clients what are available and what does which. So like right now, I have my original site using Joomla and this one using WordPress. I’m trying to get my thoughts posted but unless I can get everyone to remember my site url and visit this, nobody would know what has been updated.
So after some playing around with the wordpress plugin, I found this site called LinksAlpha. This will allow you to post to your WordPress account and once you publish your blog, it will update the different social networking sites that you have linked to it.
Linksalpha prides itself with the slogan “Post Once. Publish Everywhere” and can publish to more than 30 sites so you don’t have to go to each one. But for the free one account, you can have up to 5 sites with choices from Twitter, Facebook. Linkedin, MySpace, Identi.ca, Foursquare, Windows Live, WordPress , among others. The other sites however don’t come free and these include Tumblr, Yahoo, Yahoo Meme, and Google Buzz.
This is my first post with Linksalpha so we’ll see if this shows up in my Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Incidentally, LinksAlpha can be accessed as http://www.linksalpha.com/
We would like to keep to one website but there are some many formats to choose and each has its advantages. Also, the other reason for me is that I want to try out different things specially as I need to be able to explain to clients what are available and what does which. So like right now, I have my original site using Joomla and this one using WordPress. I’m trying to get my thoughts posted but unless I can get everyone to remember my site url and visit this, nobody would know what has been updated.
So after some playing around with the wordpress plugin, I found this site called LinksAlpha. This will allow you to post to your WordPress account and once you publish your blog, it will update the different social networking sites that you have linked to it.
Linksalpha prides itself with the slogan “Post Once. Publish Everywhere” and can publish to more than 30 sites so you don’t have to go to each one. But for the free one account, you can have up to 5 sites with choices from Twitter, Facebook. Linkedin, MySpace, Identi.ca, Foursquare, Windows Live, WordPress , among others. The other sites however don’t come free and these include Tumblr, Yahoo, Yahoo Meme, and Google Buzz.
This is my first post with Linksalpha so we’ll see if this shows up in my Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Incidentally, LinksAlpha can be accessed as http://www.linksalpha.com/
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Huh? – Canon warranty and promo stupidity
I recently purchased a camera and then emailed the scanned warranty
card together with the invoice to their email address as indicated on
the card. I got a reply from them that included this note:
Do they have an exclusive tie-up with Yahoo or Hotmail that we can’t use a different domain?
To register the 3-year warranty, kindly visit our website at www.canon.com.ph and click the Promo Redemption Portal.
By the way, the PS G12 comes with a 2Gb iPod Shuffle. The said items
can be redeemed by also registering online. You may also click the link
below:
Please
note that the email address only accept yahoo or hotmail and the
maximum size to upload the sales invoice is 500kb only. By the way,
please do not use slash (/) or dash (-) in the form to prevent error and
the serial number it must be digits only.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Connection Problem to Livestream using Sun Broadband
I’ve seen Livestream broadcast using Smartbro from the Celebration of Life service for Dr. Luis Pantoja Jr. the other week and thinking of the Sun Broadband can also do the same.
We attempted to do it once before during our high school batch reunion but the signal of Sun is terrible in Taguig where our event was held. Last night, Anvil Business Club had for its guest speaker the former country manager of Procter & Gamble Philippines, Johnip Cua. Since I had my MSI Wind and the Sun Broadband usb dongle, I thought to give it a try. The event was held at the Astoria Plaza Hotel in Ortigas so the signal was fairly good. I got a steady blue light on the dongle.
I was able to connect to the Livestream website but when I tried to setup a channel, I got a black screen. I thought it might have to do with the browser as I was using Google Chrome and so I downloaded Mozilla Firefox there and installed. I would guess the problem might be the speed as even downloading Firefox which initially was estimated at 2 minutes took more than 10 last night. I tried some speed tests and I got a download speed of .63mbps to Metro Manila which points to SkyBroadband and .23mbps to Texas.
I guess Sun Broadband is not yet cut out for heavy duty usage like video streaming.
We attempted to do it once before during our high school batch reunion but the signal of Sun is terrible in Taguig where our event was held. Last night, Anvil Business Club had for its guest speaker the former country manager of Procter & Gamble Philippines, Johnip Cua. Since I had my MSI Wind and the Sun Broadband usb dongle, I thought to give it a try. The event was held at the Astoria Plaza Hotel in Ortigas so the signal was fairly good. I got a steady blue light on the dongle.
I was able to connect to the Livestream website but when I tried to setup a channel, I got a black screen. I thought it might have to do with the browser as I was using Google Chrome and so I downloaded Mozilla Firefox there and installed. I would guess the problem might be the speed as even downloading Firefox which initially was estimated at 2 minutes took more than 10 last night. I tried some speed tests and I got a download speed of .63mbps to Metro Manila which points to SkyBroadband and .23mbps to Texas.
I guess Sun Broadband is not yet cut out for heavy duty usage like video streaming.
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