Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

PLDT wireless landline

I availed of the PLDT landline plus promo of PLDT.
The promo provides existing PLDT landline subcsribers of another telephone line.
This second line is wireless like an ordinary cell phone.
You can call from anywhere.
Anywhere you make a call, as long as the called party is in Metro Manila area, there will be no long distance charges.
For instance, if I bring my wireless landline to Cebu or Dumaguete and call a Metro Manila land line number, there will be no long distance charges.
Long distance charges will be billed if I use the wireless land line to contact a landline outside Manila.
If I am in Cebu, and I use my wireless PLDT phone to call a Cebu land line, it would be considered a long distance call.
The PLDT land line plus entails an additional cost of P250 only in addition to my existing PLDT billings.
When I applied at the PLDT main office in Makati, I was given a SIM.
I had an old cellphone to which I inserted the PLDT SIM, and it was operational already, having its own telephon number.
I am using my PLDT wireless (second) land line to make professional calls to land line telephones in Metro Manila.
It's making a lot of difference.

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Mactan WiFi

I am here at the Mactan International Airport waiting for a flight back to Manila.
Mactan airport is a WiFi hotspot. If you intend to purchase WiFi cards, you can choose between airborne access or Globequest.
Airborne access prepaid cards can be bought at The Tinder Box coffee and wines store inside the airport. Globequest pre-paid cards are sold at Bo's Coffee right beside The Tinder Box.
Globequest is far more efficient at Mactan airport so better to buy the Globequest pre-paid cards.
Anyway, I just came from a hearing this morning at the Regional Trial Court of Cebu. It is a very old case that I took over, filed in 1991 when I was still a third year college student in Silliman.
I presented for cross examination Atty. Orencio Gervacio, a provincial board member of Biliran province.
He was my last witness so I will be formally offering the plaintiff's evidence in ten days.
Thus, fifteen years after the filing of the case, the plaintiff is finally ready to formally offer its evidence.
How do the wheels of justice grind in the Philippines?
After the hearing I met a client at the SM Center at the reclamation area.
She looked deeply worried about her case.
Who would not be?
She hired a lawyer who charged her acceptance fees.
But she just found out that the lawyer she had engaged did not even enter his appearance in court.
The case was decided agasint her, as a private complainant. Her lawyer wasn't even there.
She is mad at the lawyer.
She wants me to remedy the situation. She gave me a folder of papers that have turned yellow because of age.
I bet this case was started even before that other case I attended this morning.
I saw that it was filed in 1984 yet.

Sunday, February 19, 2006

Podcasting

I would like to podcast soon. Podcasting is the way to go. If blogging is to be able to express through scribbling, podcasting is expressing using audio facilities. Podcasting means you create your own radio program.

I am learning the ropes. I have gotten free tutorials from the internet as there are kind people who share their knowhow in podcasting.

There is one from New York who gives a step by step instruction into podcasting. He makes recommendations on what necessary facilities to use. So in a few days, I hope to be able to podcast.