Mobile eBooks Etc

Finally, iPhone 3G will be launched in the Philippines on August 21, Thursday, 10pm at Ayala Tower One and Exchange Plaza in Makati City. Economically speaking, it may be not a proper timing with the present crisis we have, we can never tell. Have fun to those who will attend the launching party.
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G-Blogs is where I started blogging in 2004, it was a moblog or mobile blog. Due to many glitch of the old g-blogs system, there are rampant hacking of blogs just to prove their worth. Was it worth it? That’s a long story but without g-blogs, I maybe not here blogging. I still love g-blogs even if I did got tired of the old system. If not, I will not be blogging about it now.

Just a short recap of the old system. Old g-blogs can be access to any built in browsers before, it was possible to moblog using third party browser such as Opera, Opera Mini, Netfront etc. Legitimate bloggers can download images, audios, videos from other moblogs for Php 5 per file. I did forgot the rates already. To some, they can upload and download other files such as mobile applications, virus, ebooks and other unsupported files for FREE.
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iPhone 3G, a PDA, Sony eBook Reader or a new symbian phone?

Sony eBook Reader is available in two colors, (PRS-505/LC) blue and (PRS-505/SC) silver. You can also get free 100 Classic titles download. On September 3, I heard there will be 10,000 or more eBooks ready to buy. The Reader Digital Book holds about 160 eBooks or hundreds more with optional removable memory cards. Its nice to know that it reads other eBook formats such as PDF, RTF, TXT, JPEGs, MS Word documents and plays audio books. The specs below sounds fine to me but I still need a new cellphone and have to read Sony Reader reviews first. Its hard to decide when I’m comfortable on reading mobile eBooks on my mobile phone.

Sony Reader specifications:
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Smart Telecommunications has a new baby, UZZAP which they launched last July 7, 2008 for free trial until July 20, 2008. The good news is the free trial is extended until July 31, 2008. Update (7/31/08): The promo is extended again until September 8, 2008.

UZZAP, derived from Filipino word which means usap or talk is a mobile application for all-in-one messenger service. During the trial period when registered, subscribers have 10 free SMS daily. What’s more is UZZAp has chat, email and SMS component. UZZAP allows to connect to your Yahoo and MSN Messenger.

After the trial period, UZZAP has a fee of Php25 for 1 day of UZZAP service with 100 SMS, Php150 for 1 week with 500 SMS and Php400 for 1 month with 2,000 SMS. For Smart users, text UZZAP to 7272 to download the program for free. No Internet browsing charges for Smart mobile subscribers.
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File host offers webspace for our important documents such as images, documents, videos, audios etc. There are many file host sites in the web but some are not accessible to mobile phones (depends on the site and connections). To mobile community, using a file host means sharing our files to others.

During my active moblog days, I have an account at xthost and fsphost. The later closed their site and I lost my files, my xthost accounts are still running until now for so many years. To maintain xthost account, take note of these rules:
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If I wasn’t mistaken, it was two months ago when I setup my favicon at my personal blog, glitchline but I’m sure that I’ve also changed the favicon of this blog. Since it was summer and school vacation, I guess I forgot to correct the link to my php file of this blog. A comment noticed that I’m still using the “default” favicon and I’ve fix it now.

What is favicon anyway? Favicon (pronounced fav-eye-con) is short for “Favorites Icon”. It is a small image or icon before the URL at the address line just like the encirled favicons at the image shown below. Every opened tab also displayed a favicon before the link, same with the bookmark toolbar (using Mozilla Firefox).

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