We recently got clobbered by a Typhoon over here in Manila. It was the worst rainfall we’ve had in over 40 years. A lot of people lost their homes and things. People are saying that this is caused by climate change. I’m starting to agree because typically the end of September should have this much rain and yet in the span of 6 hours we’ve had a month’s worth of rain. This brings me to the topic of my post today. I’m happy about the fact that Apple has shown a lot of responsibility towards the environment and going green. As evidenced by their current line of products plus how they build them. It’s explained in their environment section of their web site. Apple is explaining their environmental footprint and... [Read more]

Typhoon Ketsana (local typhoon name: Ondoy) drowned Metro Manila, the National Capital Region of the Philippines in what is deemed to be the worst rainfall in recent history. In a span of roughly 6 hours Ketsana delivered a month’s worth of rainfall totaling to about 341mm or 13.4 inches. People living in the cities of Marikina and Cainta and Pasig were held hostage by raging flash floods that had them moving to the roofs of their houses to seek safety. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } Bridge... [Read more]

Apple released Snow Leopard into the wild last August 28. As with other releases to Apple’s OS, this is widely anticipated. Much more so because Apple decided to sell it to existing Leopard users at a low price of $29 for a single user license and $49 for the family pack. On the surface it looks like a steal. 29 bucks for a new OS is quite cheap, even if other people say that it’s not much different from Leopard. This price point is normally reserved for independent small apps. Not for full blown operating system upgrades. Snow LeopardHowever, as I am preparing to upgrade to Snow Leopard, I discovered that there are hidden costs to it that will bring the cost of upgrade a little bit higher. There are applications that are essential... [Read more]

In preparation for the coming of Snow Leopard, I decided to purchase a new external hard drive. My 500GB was full and I wanted to make sure I had both a Time Machine backup and a manual backup of my user folder before I do a clean install of Snow Leopard. So off I went to the nearest mall and got myself a 1TB external hard drive. Disk Utility Menu Now, I tried moving my Time Machine back up before from a 200GB hard drive to my 500GB and I thought it was just as simple as dragging the files and resuming it from the new drive. Boy, was I wrong. Lesson learned. Luckily transferring your Time Machine backup to another drive isn’t such a pain. The easiest way I’ve found out how to do this is to make an exact clone of your backup drive... [Read more]

Quoting Apple’s press release statement, Snow Leopard is set to ship this Friday, August 28th. CUPERTINO, California—August 24, 2009—Apple® today announced that Mac OS® X v10.6 Snow Leopard™ will go on sale Friday, August 28 at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, and that Apple’s online store is now accepting pre-orders. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies and out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange. Snow Leopard will be available as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard® users for $29. With pre-orders being accepted it’s just a matter of days before the world has its hands on the latest iteration of Apple’s much acclaimed... [Read more]