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Great deals on WordPress themes

18 Jun '09 | 4 Comments

In the market for woot!-inspiring premium WordPress themes? Head on over to WooThemes.com — they’ve redesigned their entire site (calling it WOO2) and are now offering a 4-for-1 special sale.
Ever since I discovered the Woo rockstars, I’ve made over all my blogs with premium WordPress themes from their fantastic collection. They have themes [...]

TV is dead.

15 Jun '09 | 1 Comment

A group of aggressively talented individuals, among them my blogger-friend, Kring E. of FunnySexy.ph, is gearing up for the launch of a bold and exciting project: Flippish.com. Dubbed as “the First Online Pinoy Video Channel”, Flippish promises to be the death of TV.
In fact, that’s what they’re calling their launch: TV is dead.

If [...]

Foodnography.com

14 Jun '09 | 1 Comment

I bought this domain almost exactly a year ago (4 June 2008, to be exact), because my friend Markku jokingly threatened to hijack it after I’d told him about a word I thought I had coined: “foodnography”. I was already blogging about food for some time, and the way we bloggers take photos of food [...]

WordCamp-PH merchandise coming soon!

9 Jun '09 | 8 Comments

Lyle Santos, Chattee Lara and yours truly have been joining heads for some time now to come up with a line of cool WordCamp Philippines merchandise for everyone. Yesterday, the two went out to have a few laptop stickers prototyped. And here they are!
The WordCamp Philippines online store will be open very soon! Please bookmark [...]

A new site on the block

8 Jun '09 | 0 Comments

AyosDito.ph is a fairly new online service that lets anybody who has access to the Internet buy and sell stuff. There are a number of other similar sites, but AyosDito.ph is unique in that it’s very straightforward and it’s not built on top of a bulletin board.
Their no-frills interface immediately makes online buyers aware of [...]

red mobile on 3G

1 Jun '09 | 2 Comments

red mobile, the telecommunications company that has successfully captured the eye of young, technologically-inclined Filipinos, is gearing up to engage an even broader market. Recently, red mobile launched a line of 3G handsets to carry its signal nationwide, in a bid to provide not only affordable mobile communication, but also trendy and cutting-edge devices.
The red [...]

WordCamp RP2009 in the works

30 May '09 | 39 Comments

I’m happy to announce that the gang of Mindanao Bloggers and their supporters will soon be commencing plans and arrangements for WordCamp Philippines 2009! I will be calling the first organizational meeting within the following week.
It has yet to be officially finalized, but I’m excited to let everyone know that we’re working with the Asian [...]

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WordPress plugin for Events

Need to publish events on your WordPress-powered blog? Here’s a great plugin for just that:   Events. It’s what I use for my Upcoming Events section on AngDabawenyo.com. See it in action

There are, however, a few things that I’d like to see added to this plugin’s features. My wish list:

Image uploader and corresponding settings for [...]

Useful plugin for code

Do you blog about geeky stuff like coding how-to’s? Do you publish visible code on your blog posts? Here’s a nifty plugin for that: FV Code Highlighter. See how it works here and here.
It displays your code in its own space, and there’s even syntax highlighting! The plugin author’s site doesn’t say so, but it [...]

WordPress 2.8 rocks!

This newest edition of WordPress is simply awesome! WP2.8 boasts of an automatic theme installer / uploader, color-coded template editor, more intuitive widget management, and plenty more! Not on WordPress yet? Transfer now!!

Link-love to commenters

To the lovely readers who leave comments on my blog, I give you back link-love! (That is, if you provide a site URL along with your comment.) Take a look at the left-hand sidebar, below “Latest Posts”: commenters’ names are linked to their own sites, without the rel=’nofollow’ attribute.

Giving away stuff…

I’m thinking of doing a blog contest to give away some of the premium WordPress themes that I have. I have quite a few that I don’t think I’ll be using anymore, you see… Updates later! Keep tabs on this site by subscribing to my RSS feed.