tricycle-stroller

While surfing the net, came across this new tricycle-stroller combo! Cool... if only we have less of pollution here in Manila. Here are some of the contents from their website http://www.taga.nl/

TAGA is a multifunctional urban vehicle, uniquely deisgned to suit the needs of today's parents and children. Taga combines the benefits of a premium stroller and a carrier bicycle to create a new transportation modality.

Safe, reliable and fun, TAGA lets parents and kids move about the city easily,transforming a typical daily journey into exciting adventure. When reaching a desired destination, whether a shop, cafe, indoor playground or a friend's house, TAGA is converted within seconds into a stroller, allowing parent and child to conveniently enter the premises, ride and elavator or ascend steps.

TAGA has already won a few awards including Eurobike 2008 Award last September 4, 2008.

Some of the benefits:

Continuity: Nonstop motion, indoors and out,throughout the entire day. Always together with your child, always with TAGA.

Maneuverability: Keeps moving, even in the mostdifficult and crowded city spots.

Convenience: Easy operation. Changes modes- from tricycle to stroller-within seconds.

Modularity: TAGA can be fitted with various accessories. Mix and match to attach what is needed.

Fitness: The healthy way to travel, tone up and getback into shape after birth.

Ecology: Completely carbon emission free, TAGA is a smart city substitute for a car. Lets parents reach great distances throughout the city whilecaring for the environment.

Cost Effective: All-in-one solution. Saves ongasoline, parking and congestion fees.

Life Cycle: Reliable and long lasting. Good for newborns as well as toddlers, accommodating one or two children. Can also beused as a bike for teenagers or as a shopping bike.

Specifications:

TAGA is certified with the a few safety standards including: EN1888 -
European stroller standard and EN14764 - European city bicycle standard.

TAGA will be launched in the USA and Canada in mid April 2010. TAGA will be sold via TAGA website http://www.tagabikes.com/ and through selected retails (list will be published soon). The retail price is USD 1495. It can be ordered now, for more details pelase contact info@tagabikes.com.

For Southeast Asia (Singapore/ Malaysia/ Indonesia/ Philippines/ Brunei/ Thailand/ Vietnam): B.I.D. Trading Pte Ltd. +65 68441188; info@bidholdings.com.

tiger text

for those who want to be super cautious with their text messages... here's one application for you. read it from a blog and as she has said, it is a technology product from tiger's scandal. heheh... decided to post it here also cause it's really quite interesting. now i just need to have a new phone .. :) i'm sure this app will not work with my 5110 :)

SEND TEXTS THAT DON'T LIVE FOREVER. MESSAGES ARE DELETED FROM BOTH USERS' PHONES. BE IN CONTROL OF THE RECORD YOU LEAVE. TRY TIGERTEXT FOR FREE.

Get it from appshopper.

how does tigertext work?
When you send a regular text message, the message is sent from your phone, routed through a server, and then delivered to the recipient’s phone. The message you send will live on the receiver’s phone until the recipient decides to delete it. The text message will also reside on the cell phone company’s server for an unlimited amount of time.

TigerText is different because, even though it looks and feels identical to a normal text message, the content of your message is never sent to the recipient’s phone and you control when the message is deleted from our server so you control the lifespan of the message!

how do i know if my messages are deleted?
Messages are displayed on both users (sender and receiver) phones until they are deleted from our server. All expired texts are cleared from our servers every minute of the day. Once you see the TigerText paws, you know your tracks have been covered and the message no longer stored anywhere.

what does "delete history" in setting
mean?
Some TigerText users really want to cover their tracks. Delete History will destroy the record of your conversation on your device once you exit the application. Thus, the next time you login there will no record of your ever having had a conversation on your device.

what happened if i send a message and it expires
before the recipient reads it?
The message is gone forever!

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texting champ

from yahoo news... (photo, contents are from yahoo news, just reworded them cause i don't want to post the whole content here, just click the link to view the entire transcript).
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teen at the picture is kate moore, 16 year old high school sophomore from des moines, iowa. her messaging habit has won her a whopping USD60,000 in prize money in less than a year!

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she joined in LG US national texting championship held in new york and won USD50,000 and a chance to compete in the burgeoning sports's worldwide championships, held last month.

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the phrase that won her the championship which took her less than 60 seconds to type was "zippity dooo dahh zippity ayy.. my oh my, what a wonderful day! plenty of sunshine comin' my way ... zippittydodahzippityaay! wonderful feeling, wonderful day!"

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and i thought our nation takes pride in being the texting capital of the world! i wonder if we had a representative in this contest... she was 2nd place on the world championship, team #1 was from korea, 3rd place was from argentina, see here.

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dell

i'm missing my old non-branded pc. kasi naman, enabled ang usb port nun. branded nga ang pc ko ngayon, di naman ako makapag upload ng pics ko.. wah!

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we are @ shutterfly

i know i'm maintaing way too many sites (i have blogger, fb, flickr and shutterly) than i can manage ... wahahaha...

but i love this site... it houses and will house all of our online pics and videos.

please visit if you have time http://jolen.shutterfly.com/

my lost phone

i blogged months ago that i lost my phone. yeah... lost it, darn.

i have always had a problem with the battery life of my o2. kaya i always bring then the charger. and everywhere i go, i always make it a point to look for an outlet, kasi i really have to charge the phone or else, in an hour, i'll be disconnected from the mobile world.

at megamall's bowling alley, where my current BA team decided to have our team building activity, we were located at about 4 lanes away from the exit door. i saw an outlet under a set of chairs behind the alley. i did not have any insinuation or worry that i might lost it kasi the outlet is kinda hidden. that was i thought. and i was checking it like every 5 seconds. really.

we were all 'bano' on bowling. when there was this time that someone got to hit a strike, we were jumping for joy. i remember before jumping with them in joy (hehe) i checked the phone. after 5 seconds, looked back at it, its gone! i asked the others baka pinag titripan lang ako. wala. actually they didn't know that i was charging the phone there.

but apparently, what they did notice is there was this binatilyo hanging around our area. and true enough, it was captured in one of our pics, he was there. siguro, he saw me going back and forth to the phone, kaya when he finally got the chance.... wahhh! ayun.

he got the phone, the charger and the headset. kumpleto. mabilis siya. and magaling. kasi one would have a hard time reaching under the chair to get the phone, include pa the charger. it was arms length underneath. oh well.

back then, i was cool. yung mga kasama ko pa ang nagwoworry. ang sa akin, nangyari na. wala na kong magagawa. i just called jason, using my other phone, to call my provider and have my line cut off temporarily.

i didn't mind (still don't) losing the phone, really. kasi nga, i was having battery life problems na. never mind din my list of contacts, as i thought, i can still retrieve them from the laptop.

what peeved me was losing all my data. i wish he would return the memory card. or atleast let me back it up first. aquim's milestones were there. dates when he had his tooth. dates when he bumped his head (several times). observations when he got sick. history of the first few weeks of his existence like the times he was fed, how much, description of his pupu. really. it was ALL there.


what worries me lang the most is i've saved important information about myself on the memcard. i'm a potential identity theft victim. you see, i used to work in a bank and it's required to submit this complete info of an employee to the BSP. literally, if someone in the know gets to see and really inspect the data in my memory card, tsk. i'm doomed.

it's been 3 months since and i don't have any problem naman like someone posing as me (knock on wood). or receiving huge debt notice, something like that. i'm hoping he disposed off my memcard na. or sana he just deleted everything on it para ibenta na lang uli.

so right now, im stuck with my old nokia 6610. and i never had my list of contacts back. cause the laptop that i used to synchronized it with has to be reformatted.

that's another story.


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O2

nawala ang phone ko! :-(



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windows vista

we don't have dsl or any kind of internet connection in our home. to keep me connected to the cyberworld, i've been using my xda to browse the net everytime i like to. but the charges are too steep so i tried not to do it as often as i want to. hence the reason of not being around for quite sometime.

since my provider launched this time-based browsing as opposed to per KB browsing, it has given me longer time in surfing, checking mails, blogging, etc.

now that it's cheaper (20pesos an hour), and i can browse all i want, i've decided to use my xda as modem and connect it to our desktop. it would be easier to navigate in a regular desktop than using the xda. by the way, our desktop is running in winXP.

and because i want more mobility, i decided to hooked up the xda to the laptop. that way, i can blog right beside aquim while he is asleep. you see, the desktop is in the living room, so if aquim is sleeping in the bedroom, i have to be inside the room also.

i didn't encounter any problem with the desktop running in XP, but since the laptop is in vista, i am quite not familiar with it. i found some forums explaining how to do it, but i still can't connect.

i've downloaded the Windows Mobile Device Center (WMDC) - the active sync equivalent for vista) and installed it. while i can now sync my xda to the vista, still can't connect to the net.

i can't use the desktop now since its not booting up. i don't know, someone must have put a hex on our devices, they aren't coperating with me.

right now, im using good old xda. thank God.

is there anyone who can help me? do i need a driver? laptop is in windows vista home basic, and i'll be using O2 XDA atom exec as modem..

please..please Ü

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