I purchased and installed it on my iPhone about 6 months ago. So far, it works as intended.

I already used it in Metro Manila, Batangas, Laguna and Cavite. So far, I’ve had no problems. It knows the one-way streets. It gives the right direction, giving you turn-by-turn instructions. It has maps, even inside the subdivisions. And when going to a mall, it points you directly to the parking entrance.

It consumes your iPhone battery fast though, so you need to have a car-charger kit for your iPhone if you plan to use it on a long trip. You must also have an iPhone holder on your car. I bought mine on CDR King.

Quarterly update of maps is already free once you purchased the app. I already updated mine, twice since I bought it.

For a price of only P1,500, this is a cheaper alternative compared to other GPS navigator device which costs P5,000 or more. I highly recommend this for people who have iPhone and doesn’t have that sense of direction, getting lost every now and then when driving.

Purchase Papago Philippines here.

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Now, I’m testing the WordPress App if I can really post properly on my blog using this app. This post is my first post using the iPad and the App.

I’m a little bit confused with the keyboard. I can’t find the arrow keys. I’m still exploring and installing free apps on the app store.

Testing the insert image feature…

Photo taken using PhotoBooth. Wala lang

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Things changed when I started Batangas Today. It was ok on the first 2 months. It was hosted on the same VPS as this blog. It shared resources with this blog and all other blogs and website I have. Then, Batangas Today was accepted on Google News, and before October ended, we were included in the index of Yahoo! News.

Traffic grew from about 500 visitors per day to more than 15,000 visitors per day! There were even days that it went up to 30,000 unique visitors in one day. Then the site went sluggish. The front end usually loads fast, thanks to WP-Super-Cache plugin. However, making a post was a pain in the tutut. Most of the writers complain that it was really slow. Well, really, it was slow.

So, I’ve decided to move it to its own VPS. Adding a new VPS on Dreamhost is as simple as clicking a button. You request for a new VPS, and they deliver it in less than 24 hours. And that’s what happened. I got a shiny new VPS in less than 24 hours.

I scheduled the moving of Batangas Today to the new VPS last Sunday night. It was a smooth transition. We were expecting that after the transition, the site will load faster, both front-end and the back-end. Guess what happened?

After moving, things went wrong from bad to worse. The site seems much slower compared to when it was still on the old VPS! Writers complained. I even complained to Dreamhost. They just told me to optimize my WordPress installation, giving me links from their Wiki on how to do things. But I already did all of those things. Using Super cache. Disabling image hotlinking. Blocking abusive IP address. etc… But still, site was slow. I even adjusted the memory resources to its maximum of 4GB. Still very slow. The memory usage kept on moving up and down like a roller coaster.

After hours of researching and googling about this problem, I think I finally solved it. Yesterday night, memory usage went down from 1GB to 100-300MB. It is even reaching less than 100MB today, with the amount of traffic same as before. See the graph! (Click the graph for a larger view)

So, what did I do? Actually, WordPress is NOT the culprit. It’s my VPS’ configuration. After making the right changes and setting the right combination, memory usage went down as you can see on the graph above. I was like, WOW! I even applied the settings to my old VPS and from 400MB memory usage, it’s now on a double digit most of the time. 50MB to 80MB. So, what change did I make? That will be the subject of my next post. Watch out for it!

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After having several complaints, AVG user jirka82 announced the following in their official forum:

Hello,

I can confirm that the Trojan horse Generic19.TKU is a false alarm which will be removed with the following virus database update (released within a few hours).

Thank you.

The update was made at 2010-09-20 11:56:25 CEST.

If you still can’t play Plants vs. Zombies or Bejewelled 2, update first your AVG antivirus. Then, go to History > Virus Vault in your AVG, select the Plants vs Zombies or Bejewelled 2‘s exe file and click Restore. AVG will no longer flag it as infected with Trojan Horse Generic19.TKU.

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Dreamhost PS Manager manages the memory resources automatically. It adjusts memory resources up or down depending on your needs, basing it on your memory usage history. It can increase your memory resources to maximum when you are getting traffic spike or it can move your memory resources down during idle times. Everything is done automatically without user intervention. It can also be configured to tweet a message everytime it made changes to the memory resources, so that you can see its status online even without logging in to your server.

Installation of Dreamhost PS Manager is a little tricky for people who don’t have that much exposure in Unix systems like me. Downloading the files, configuring the config file and uploading it on the server were easy. Running it on schedule is the tricky part. You need to learn how to setup cron jobs, a feature which Dreamhost PS fully supports in which I’m a total n00b. Admin’s Choice Crontab – Quick Reference helped me overcome this problem. I just learned the basic commands there.

After successful installation and running it for 24 hours, I could say that I’m impressed with its performance. You can see the tweets it made here. During the past 24 hours, it changed the memory resources up to 1166 MB during the peak time and then it slides down back to as low as 364 MB during low traffic, saving me dollars during low traffic time and ensuring my blogs will not go down during peak times.

Here is the screenshot of the adjustments made on my Dreamhost account, the first automatic adjustment was made on 2010-09-20 02:20:54 (click the image for a full size view):

If you are using Dreamhost PS, I highly recommend using this application. It’s free and open source. You can actually inspect the codes to make sure that it’s not doing anything other than what it is intended to do on your server. Visit its official site here to learn more about it. You will save money on idle times and ensure uptime during peak times.

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Download your Dota 6.68 Map now! Select from the following links. Availability of the files is beyond my control. Download Dota 6.68 Map at your own risk!

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What porn-blocking software do I suggest? I’ve tried different porn-blocking software and nothing beats MyPornBlocker.com MyPornBlocker blocks all kinds of porn. It is easy to use and works well with Internet Explorer, Firefox, Netscape and even Opera browsers.

If you think you have a smart child who might be able to stop this software, sorry for him. This software run silently on stealth mode and can be hidden completely from the task bar, system tray, process list, start menu and even on add/remove program section. It cannot be uninstalled by your smart kid!

It’s easy to use and password protected so that only you can access the program. There are still many features available like blocking chat, automatic screenshots and URL logging. Just visit MyPornBlocker.Com to read all the features and download the product.

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Of course if you do some googling, you will occasionally find some software that claims to help you make beats online, although a lot of it is very low quality and if you want to make the sort of sounds that you hear in the charts you will either need to do the above or find a good piece of software which can cost a lot of money.

Well I have some good news! A package has been released called Dub Turbo and it gives you everything you need to make your own beats and pretty much any music that you want online.

The best thing about the software package is that the sounds it produced is like professionally mastered.

You also have thousands and thousands of sounds to pick from and once you have watched through the video tutorials you will be able to get going making your first beats in just 10 minutes!

That’s not all. Obviously you do get access to all the sounds, but you do get more than enough to keep you going for a very long time!

Check it out here!

Watch it in action:

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McAfee already released a statement and already stopped the distribution of the 5958 DAT file. However, lots of PCs are already affected.

McAfee already released a fix for this problem which you can read and get here. It involves copying their fix on a portable media and running it on each affected computer. Yeah, each computer must be fixed manually in person. You can’t send the fix over the network since all the PCs are just shutting down, you know? Imagine if you are an IT Administrator of thousands of computers in your company. You might be cursing McAfee right now. That’s a lot of headache.

By the way, I wonder why the 5958 dat file passed their QA? Seems like someone is not doing their job properly.

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