LG Chocolate Touch: A Social Networker’s Dream

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This phone caught my attention today. I am aware of mobile phones that give the mobile capability to connect to the internet wherever I go, but LG Chocolate Touch wowed me: it lets me connect and interact with various social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. To me, LG Chocolate Touch is a social networker’s dream because I can interact with my online friends to as far as my phone’s signal could reach –without needing a computer to connect to the internet just to interact with online friends!

Another of its strongest feature is its Dolby Mobile technology sound quality, as demonstrated in their site: LG Chocolate Touch

The most outstanding features of this phone are:

  • Dolby Mobile technology for crystal-clear sound quality: the sound quality is not limited to using stereo headphones – even rich quality sound can be heard through a set of external speakers!
  • Sweet Visual Effects and features, including Rhythmical Beat that vibrates the handset to the beat of the music: visual effects truly enhance listening experience.
  • One-touch Social Network Message Key for easy use of Mobile Blogging (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, etc.): this isn’t limited to status messages but it can also include microblogging and blogging services as well as posting pictures taken from the phone camera.
  • Mobile Media – top-notch text, picture, video, and voice messaging, including Visual Voicemail
  • 3.2MP Camera/Recorder–quality pictures and videos, with image editor: the image editor comes with a built-in facial makeover to remove facial blemishes and enhances facial features.

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Apple’s Big Announcement: The iTablet

Today is the finally the most awaited day when Apple’s iTablet will now be released. Remember that over a year ago this gadget (which is also known in other names such as iSlate and iPad) is much talked about so much that there were even fake videos circulating around to demonstrate the power of this new gadget. I really wish hope that the actual features that is to be released is near to what the video had illustrated (remember that I asked in a previous post whether this is real or fake)!

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A Night with the Poetic Doctor

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Eye-Fi. All opinions are 100% mine.

As that lone freelancer at home struggling to keep a balance between doing freelancing work and parenting duties for over two years, the world has become my office. The internet kept me company while I slowly rebuild my riches through online work: I blog and be active on social networks which probably helped me keep my sanity intact.

Lately, I got interested in meeting new online friends for real. Unfortunately, most people I made friends online aren’t based in my hometown here in Baguio City: many of them live in Manila area which is around five to eight hours away from my place by bus, while others live farther down in the Visayas and Mindanao regions.

Last week, I suddenly decided to hop on a bus to attend a blogger meetup which took me more than five hours to Pampanga. This is actually the second one for me to meet bloggers. This one is not just another blogger meetup: it happened to be a despedida party for Doc Z who is leaving the country for Micronesia: I remembered first seeing this poetic doctor online at a live webcast of the 2009 Emerging Influential Bloggers I watched at home. I realized that I’d be actually meeting him along with some of those famous influential bloggers!

I still could not believe that I traveled for hours and endured the change of weather then landed there just to meet, greet, sing and then get drunk with a bunch of people I just met and worked with online and never ever met in real life!

I met others at the party whom I met already online: Jan, Bonnie, Paige, Roel, Novz, Jeff, Yatot, JenaIsle and Roy (together with his birthday daughter Angel). The gentlemen are really awesome and handsome in person.

At the end of the day I was really so excited in seeing the first batch of pictures and videos. Since that was an overnight activity and all of us had to travel back home, I understand that these people are still tired and would not want to spend time sitting down just to upload all of those pictures. Maybe if Eye-Fi was readily available then that should have made it easier for them to upload pictures and videos! The computer and the digital camera simply needed to be turned ON then all the images and videos are submitted automatically to Facebook, Flicker, YouTube without needing a card reader or a USB cable.

Nevertheless, that was truly a wonderful experience that I’ll never forget!

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How Much Should a Freelancer Charge Per Hour?

At first glance $1/hour payout for a freelance data entry provider is better than most office clerical jobs that are offered full time. One can just make a quick computation of how lowly paid an employed worker is by just taking the total monthly salary divided by the number of hours spent on the job each month. But, is being a freelance data entry provider better than being employed as a data encoder or clerk in a huge multinational company?

In getting self-employed, there are other important factors which must be taken into account. Success in freelancing means that one must be able to understand one’s personal and business cash flow – the resulting hourly rate should be competitive as well as still make a good living.

Look at the Freelance Job Marketplace Rates First!

Typical rates of data entry providers run anywhere from $1 to $5 per hour on many freelance sites: most offers seem to favor hiring to those who are willing to take the lowest $1 per hour rate. Personally, I didn’t think this kind of pay is enough for the freelance data entry provider to live comfortably – which is further confirmed with the estimate I had outlined below (assuming that the freelancer is honest and wants to update all contributions).

This computation assumes a single freelancer living alone without any dependents and doesn’t even need to rent a place to stay. Read more