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I am so impressed by this video by a senior student named Bang-Yao Liu, who came from Savannah College of Art and Design. Imagine having multiple stop-play-stop captures with tons of post-it notes on the wall! This is incredibly amazing!

It took 3 months of planning, 4 days of shooting, and 6000+ post it notes to complete this video. View the making of the video in Youtube.

Thanks to Abe of Yugatech for this one.

The pictures you see above are the newly revealed handsets by Nokia. Those are (from left to right) Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, Nokia E72, and Nokia 3710 Fold.

Nokia 5530 XpressMusic is the third S60 5th edition and full-touch phone of the Finnish company, following the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia N97. Jayvee Fernandez has reported that this new phone will only retail for 200 Euros or approximately Php 13,000, as compared to the two touch-screen phones that are more expensive. This, of course, has slight differences in features.

Nokia E72 is the successor of 2008’s Nokia E71 that follows the designs of Nokia E52 and Nokia E55. It’s pretty much the same as with its predecessor, but has a new optical Navi key that serves as an optical trackpad for going through menus and applications. This phone is expected to begin shipping late in the third quarter of 2009. It still has, as seen above, a full QWERTY keypad and 2.4” QVGA landscape screen.

Nokia 3710 Fold is a mid-range phone that runs on the usual S40 user interface, but with nicer features and photo gallery that’s brought about by the 2.2-inch 16M color QVGA display. It also has a 3 megapixel auto focus camera and a GPS receiver with Nokia Maps.

All these and more were announced in the recently concluded Nokia Connection 2009 in Singapore. Jayvee’s wonderful blog made it easier for us to read through the things that happened in SG.

"Falling in love is like falling upstairs. It is possible — I’ve seen people do it, and they look stupid. You have to work your way into love. It isn’t a feeling or a phase. It’s a decision based on an amalgamation of emotions, logic, companionship, trust, devotion, and finally, passion. Love is a place of vulnerability where you put yourself on the line for another to inspect and either embrace or reject. We all fear rejection. But we fear being alone even more, so we step timidly out there where bullets fly and loves are lost. For this rare gift, we’ll pay the cost."

-- God.com, by James Alexander Langteaux

Microwarehouse Inc. will be holding its Mid-Year Sale on June 14 and 15 (Sunday & Monday) at Silver City, corner Frontera Drive and Julia Vargas Ave, Frontera Verde, Pasig City. Registration will open at 10AM on Sunday. The sale will be open to the public from 12PM to 8PM on Sunday, and 10AM to 8PM on Monday. There will be no more queuing to enter the selling area once you are registered.

Huge discounts on Apple Mac & iPod, Belkin, Linksys, Palm, HP iPAQ, Philips, iHome, Samsung & a lot more! Major Credit Cards accepted.

What are you waiting for? Look at the price list and other details now. Nice stocks run out rapidly, so be there in its first day.

Happy 111th year of Philippine Independence to all Filipinos and to Filipinos-at-heart!

Google has been actively promoting renowned events of the world via their site’s logo. I’m happy to see the resemblance of my country’s logo today, June 12, as seen below.

Meanwhile, Cebu Pacific’s way of celebrating this important day is by giving their consumers a chance to fly domestically with a price cheaper than normal rates. They’re offering a P111 all-in ‘Go Lite’ fare for all domestic services. The seat sale is available on June 12 only and is valid for travel from November 1 to 30, 2009.

In addition, they’re also offering the ‘Great Singapore Seat Sale’! One-way ‘Go Lite’ fare for Clark-Singapore flight is at P988 while the one-way ‘Go Lite’ fare for Manila-Singapore and Cebu-Singapore flight is at P1,388. The Great Singapore Seat Sale starts now until June 15, 2009 and is valid for travel from August 1, to October 31, 2009.

Of all the many phones that claimed they are the iPhone killer, I bet this is the closest in terms of functionalities and capabilities. Palm Pre announced last January 8, 2009 has received good media reviews in the US. It is set to be available in the States starting the first week of June, to be exclusively distributed by Sprint until the end of 2009.

Pre’s introduction surely brought increased stock shares for Palm; and as for market share, I do believe it is a good come back for them. How I wish that this comes out globally as fast as possible, so that Filipinos will be able to get hold of it and enjoy it as much as (or more than) they enjoy iPhone.

Below is a video of the Palm Pre being compared to the iPhone. Enjoy!

To people who chose not to purchase the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic to give way to the Nokia N97, your long wait is over.

Yet another touchscreen phone, pre-order your very own Nokia N97 this June 16-18 and get a chance to win 1 of the 500 free Linksys Wireless-G Router worth Php 2,995!.

Retail price of the said handset is again missing from Nokia’s website, but looking at the other phones and Nokia N97’s equivalent foreign prices, it will be around Php 30,000 and above. Nothing’s final, of course, so let’s all keep one another posted.

Not yet decided to purchase one of these for you?  View the making of the phone in Migs Mobile Network or visit The Gadget Blog for some pictures and specifications.

Update (06/16/2009): The price is at Php 34,000 and available only in black.

I don’t know how many of you have actually seen and played this Facebook game called Click Challenge V.2. I have to admit that it’s just a simple game of getting the highest possible number of clicks in 30 seconds, but I’m getting addicted to it. It’s an endless contentment of beating other people, as well as getting a higher score than your previous one.

As of this writing, I have a friend you got 620 clicks! Woah! My highest score is only 248. I wonder is they’re using bots? Is it even possible? Hahaha! Try the game and you just might like it also.

(Photo courtesy of MTV.)

…And another season is over for the renowned singing competition American Idol Season 8. It was a head-to-head battle between Adam Lambert and Kris Allen, who both had equal chances in becoming the season’s champ!

America has voted, with over 100 million votes in four hours. The early favorite and judges’ bet Adam placed second next to the new hailed AI Champ Kris Allen. It was a safer choice to choose Kris as this season’s winner due to the ‘ugggh’ feeling Adam gives to listeners through his endless high tones and rock-ish songs.

Kris Allen performed Ain’t No Sunshine, What’s Going On, and the coronation song No Boundaries yesterday during the Finale’s performance night, which was held at the beautiful Nokia Theater. He was pitchy singing the last song written by AI judge Kara DioGardi, but nevertheless won the hearts of millions.

We shall look at Kris Allen’s journey as a champ and see if he becomes famous unlike the previous winners Fantasia, Taylor, etc. who were beaten by their season’s runner-ups in terms of popularity.

Although many are still not yet using the Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft is about to introduce an improved version of the former with touches similar to Windows 7, and calling it Microsoft Office 2010.

Mango Chico wasn’t able to wait any longer for the Technical Preview of Microsoft Office 2010, so he went with the flow and joined the bandwagon in being a “pirate” by downloading a leaked version of the software via torrent.

Chico revealed that the new version has a (1) brand new splash screen (as seen above), (2) an “autohide” feature of the Ribbon, and (3) a new “screenshot tool” among others. He also happily reported that memory usage is between 50-60MB, which is cool!

Below are the download links from Chico, which I suggest you use at your own risk.

• - Microsoft Office 2010 (x86 - 32bit)
• - Microsoft Office 2010 (x64 - 64bit)

The files weigh about 1.4GB. Microsoft Office 2010 will run in Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.