by Fleire Castro on February 23, 2010
Use Pip.io and totally define control on who sees your posts through a beautifully created UI. Robert Scoble had recently interviewed Leo Shimizu, the CEO of a new social networking site called Pip.io. I have decided to give the site a try and see if it’s the same ol’ same ol’, you know, social networking [...]
by Fleire Castro on January 30, 2009
I am so not liking Magento right now. Yes, it’s supposed to be a “snazzy ecommerce platform” but I won’t blame this to learning curve. Nooooo. I have already installed WordPress and BANS for the FIRST TIME and didn’t encounter any problems whatsoever by just reading the freakin’ manual. Well, I know those are too [...]
by Fleire Castro on December 19, 2008
www.lijit.com “Uh, I had an adrenaline rush. It’s very common. You can Google it.”- Edward Cullen, Twilight Google has become a household (or office) term for “search”. Even conversations in the big screen can be quoted using such a term. Meeting someone who doesn’t know Google would be a once in a blue moon event. [...]
by Fleire Castro on December 2, 2008
www.ideamason.com IdeaMason is a knowledge management software. From its definition alone, you can derive that is a storage application for your ideas, sources, cited materials and research materials. For an online article writer like me, my portfolio of work is organized as directories or folder on my local PC. This makes it hard to sift [...]
by Fleire Castro on November 29, 2008
http://www.fileride.com/ November 30, 2008 will be the last day for downloading the application. Then it will be in closed beta. The FileRide application looks very good and sleek. For only 11MB of installer, it didn’t take much of my time to download the file and to finally install it on my PC. After setting up [...]
by Fleire Castro on November 29, 2008
http://www.suggestionbox.com/ (Article written for www.crowdsourcing.com) Remember that fancy box labeled “Suggestion Box” that you caught a glimpse at your favorite restaurant the day they gave you bad, substandard service? Haven’t you wished you had a pen and scribbled your comments, questions or requests away? Or did you do such but was left wondering if your [...]
by Fleire Castro on June 10, 2008
Skype call to Singtel, a cellular company of Singapore is VERY cheap indeed. The rate is similar to calling any U.S. number. I got the chance to drop a call to Jade who’s been in Singapore for about 3 days now and she seems to be pretty well and is currently on a job hunt. [...]
by Fleire Castro on March 13, 2008
I am quite happy today! My mom has been asking me to call her cellphone for about six times already. I have been hesitant in dialing her number on our work phone but what the heck! I’m going to have a new camera by next month! My surveys have all paid off and I had [...]