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People, there’s a new search engine in town, and it’s not from the big-time companies.

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This is the music video of Nyko Maca+Playground’s “Turn My Head” which is featured in last weekend’s iLife ‘08 Exhibit.

No wonder they were featured artists, one of the band members uses a MacBook in producing some parts of the music!

Yesterday I went to the Midtown Wing of Robinson’s Place Malate together with my wife to attend a Mac-related exhibit for the first time. Digital Hub, a local premium Apple reseller, has organized an exhibit to promote Apple products and its latest software for the digital lifestyle, iLife ‘08.
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Some of us play with operating systems just for the heck of it. Some set up their systems to do a multiple-boot scheme where two or more OSes are installed on different partitions of the machine. However there are some who don’t have the time to clear up their existing systems for this scheme, so the alternative would be to use virtualization, where another OS runs on top of what is currently running.

We have Parallels and VMWare to do virtualization. However these are commercial products, so some amount of money is required to be able to use it legally. Just recently, Sun releases its own virtualization product, FREE and OPEN SOURCE!

You can know more about this product at the VirtualBox home page.

Coincidentally there is a video presentation (~16Mb) at MacWorld that discusses what it is, how you can use it, and how it performs.

I’d try using this with an image of Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I’ll be posting the results later.

I sold the Alcatel mobile phone I bought to replace the Sony Ericsson K800i that I lost a few months ago, after I found out that the Samsung D600 that my wife thought to be defective is working once I cleared the address book memory. Apparently after a few months of use, that mobile phone of 2 years is showing intermittent restarts and freezes, causing me to miss SMS messages and some calls.

Looking for an inexpensive phone that I can use to replace it, I chanced upon a phone by LG that seems to be the most inexpensive 3G phone currently in the market.

The LG KU250 was the winning proposal for the 3G For All programme started by the GSM Association. The 3G for All programme’s aim is to produce an affordable 3G handset “that would bring 3G multimedia services and mobile internet access to a mass-market user base around the world”.

If you’re wondering how affordable a 3G phone like this can be, I got it for less than Php5000 (open line, no free prepaid SIM included) from Mega Cellular Network Inc.’s SM San Lazaro shop.

What does a Php5000 3G phone has in store? Read further:
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