Half-crazy

Apple updates iTunes and other Apple ramblings

Jofell Gallardo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:30:56 +0000

Apple Releases iTunes 9.2.1 and iOS 4.0.1 After all the iPhone 4 antennagate drama, Apple finally sends out news about their latest iTunes and iOS release. As you can see in the screenshot on the left, the iOS update only has one update, being this: “Improves the formula to determine how many bars of signal strength [...]

Tech for disaster coordination and management

Jofell Gallardo — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 04:34:15 +0000

Raindrops will keep falling on our heads this season of the year, and yet this rainy season’s starter already induced headaches for our new administration with regard to its disaster management tactics. First was the alleged erroneous forecasting by PAGASA, and the most heartbreaking of all is the lack of calamity fund for the rest [...]

Drooling Over Databases: SQLite, PosgtreSQL, and CouchDB

Jofell Gallardo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:50:23 +0000

I’m pretty excited about this article because I’m a database fanatic / addict. For those who don’t know what a database is, simply put, a database is where your data is stored and defined (whether by a schema or by documents). You use databases everyday as long as you use a computer, a cellphone, or [...]

Going data-portable minus the Portable PC

Jofell Gallardo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:36:17 +0000

Last week I got yelled and scolded by my little sister complaining about me forcing her into using OpenOffice.org for her assignments. So while she searched and scoured the net for all her copy-paste work, I was yapping at her about paraphrasing and translating her articles herself instead of searching some content in the Tagalog [...]

Back to school: Free software for little kids

Jofell Gallardo — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 04:59:57 +0000

Vacation is over and it’s time to send (or drag) those little tykes (or monsters, depending on how you see them, of course) to school. I don’t actually know if I should be happy or sad today, the first day of school, because I don’t have my little brothers and sisters around to spend the [...]

Charice’s Note to God Soars High in iTunes!!!

Jofell Gallardo — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:11:58 +0000

Last week, I’ve been getting news that Charice (Pempengco) will be releasing her first single entitled “Note to God”. It was released Monday evening in Oprah, and boy, “AMAZING” (with caps) is an understatement. I mean, I’m not much a fan of Gospel music (it’s like good music thrown all over the place), but this [...]

Pilipinas, Game KNB? Diaries (Part 1)

Jofell Gallardo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:21:30 +0000

Prologue Of course you know by now that we won our very first episode and lost on the second. And even though we didn’t enjoy our losing the game, we did enjoy the entire experience as a whole, thanks for the wonderful staff of Pilipinas, Game KNB? namely Ms. Aida B. Gonzales, Ms. Melanie Navarro, Ms. [...]

Top-bill-a in Manila

Jofell Gallardo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:05:37 +0000

I promised this year I have to watch those big star concerts that will happen here in the Philippines. After the Craig David, Alicia Keys, and John Legend concerts have passed, I still haven’t watched any of those big concerts (sorry, not much of an E-heads fan). On my bro’s birthday, May 16th, 2009, Archie (David [...]

CleanBook Jr. Is Already Out!

Jofell Gallardo — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:37:49 +0000

So you might be asking why junior was born first than his parent app, CleanBook (previously known as Contact Cleaner)? Well… it should be available in a couple of weeks. Anyway, CleanBook Jr. can be downloaded through this iTunes link and description can be seen through its official homepage. Quoting the official website: CleanBook’s offspring that performs manual [...]

Stopped Plurking for Good

Jofell Gallardo — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:55:26 +0000

Plurk has cost me a chunk of my misery today. I don’t wanna handle any of this bullcrap any longer so I quit. Addiction kills, it seems.