Chronicles of Kotsengkuba » Gadgets

It’s a great time to unleash your PC’s full potential

Noel Cabacungan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:29:07 +0000

It’s a great time to unleash your personal computer’s full potential. Pack your PC with Windows 7 Home Premium and get a chance to win a brand new Montero Sport. The people at Microsoft believe and understand the importance of (…)

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194/695 Camels: Where people buy gadgets more than paperback novels

Noel Cabacungan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:48:34 +0000

Jarir Bookstore is Saudi Arabia’s largest bookstore chain whose patrons flock the outlets more for consumer electronics rather than school and office supplies and paperback novels. If my calculations are correct, their store inventory has a book and gadget ratio (…)

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Web Host

Noel Cabacungan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:10:10 +0000

Another website is coming up and though I’m not looking for yet another web hosting company, let me let you all know that I’m currently hosting my sites at Hostgator. I’ve been to a lot of web hosts in the (…)

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Online Kid Speling Bee and Reading Contest via Skype

Noel Cabacungan — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:24:19 +0000

That’s my 4-year old daughter Tifa challenging me on a spelling bee and reading contest while video chatting on Skype. She would key-in dog, cat, sun and other three letter words and ask me to read them. In return, I (…)

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32/695 Camels: GMT+3

Noel Cabacungan — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:25:33 +0000

Manila is five hours ahead of Jeddah, i.e. time zone. Manila is at GMT+8 while Jeddah is at GMT+3. In other words, by the time I woke up here at five in the morning, my daughter is already in school (…)

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