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PayMaya is a convenient tool to use for purchasing goods online. Usually, vendors would require a credit card for you to be able to buy a product or a service. PayMaya can act as your credit / debit card. You don't need to fill in a long application to apply. All you need is a smartphone and the PayMaya app. How to Load money to your PayMaya virtual card at 7-Eleven 1. You need to send a text message to 292907969. The content of the message should be: addmoney 711 [amount you will load] example: addmoney 711 2000 If I want to load 2000 pesos on my PayMaya account. 2. After sending the text wait for a reply. PayMaya will send you a seven digit money code. 3. Enter this code at the 7-Eleven kioks. Along with the amount you are going to load. Make sure the amount is the same with what you provided in the text or else it will get rejected in the counter. 4. Get the kioks receipt and give it to the counter. 5. Pay the amount in the counter.They will scan the kioks receipt

Device makers and Internet Service Providers are gearing up to roll out 5G. Tech geeks seemed excited though I think 5G won't be fully implement until after 3 to 5 years. But what's the most significant advantage does 5G promises? A PC Magazine article states that standard bodies involved with 5G are aiming for a data transfer of 20Gbps speed and 1 ms latency. 1 millisecond ping rate is huge. It means we will have instantaneous response from one end of the network to another. I can see video gamers being happy about this improvement. Currently, 4G Networks deliver response at about 45 to 75 milliseconds. And people still do complain about lag. Another group that would benefit from 5G are video streamers. Other future uses being floated around is for robotics, remote surgery, and self driving vehicles — anything that would benefit from very low latency. Still, devices compatible with 5G will still have to be made and the networks still have upgraded implem

January 7, 2019. Good morning. This is the first Monday of the year. The first full working week. There's so many days still up ahead. I wonder where we will be by December. I hope we are more successful. New Year’s resolutions. Everybody makes one. Usually by New Year’s Eve. But everyone manages to break them just after a week or a month. But it is always good to aim for something. Let’s do our best to keep them. My New Year’s resolution is — to work harder and smarter. It’s pretty easy to remember and it should help keep me motivated for the rest of the year. And so we begin ...

Instagram recently rolled out a cool new update. It allowed its users to follow their favorite hashtags. How to Follow Hashtags 1. use the search button and type the hashtag. 2. as soon as the hashtag result is displayed you will see a follow button. 3. Simpy click the button and that's it. You will begin to see updates about the hashtag in your timeline along with the accounts that you follow. Some Other things You can Do with Hashtags: You can view hashtag stories and you will be able to check what hashtags other people are following in their profile

How fast time flies. It's been so long since I wrote on this blog. Years? This blog has been a personal technical reference for me in the past. I wrote here so I could remember solutions to some technical problems I encountered while going about my work. I also wrote here updates and observations about the gadgets I happen to have my hands on, software development, and other things related to technology. A lot of things have changed since then. I think one of my favorite technology, Adobe Flash, is almost dead.  It's been replaced by a combination of HTML5, Javascript, and CSS.  I wonder if anybody is still using it for animation. Anyway, I have decided to be active here again. I think I need to update the layout. Because this current one is not good for mobile devices. That has been one on the big changes that has happened in the past couple of years. These days more people are viewing websites on mobile phones than on desktop computers. I will get around to it. Un

One problem with Android Phones is that they are data hogs. If you leave the phones to their default settings they will suck up the bandwidth.  If you have atleast four of those devices using the WiFi in the house everything will grind to a halt.  You won’t be able to browse the internet properly. But What is Causing Android Phones to Use Up All the Bandwidth If you go to the App Store. And you check on the settings. You will see that it is set to automatically update your apps. That is the problem. All the apps on the phone would release updates several times during the week. So your phone or your tablet are constantly updating everyday without you being aware of it. Imagine several devices updating at the same time over your WiFi. How to Stop Android from Automatically Updating Apps 1. Open the App Store 2. Click on Settings 3. You will see that Auto-Update Apps is set to Automatically Update over WiFi 4. Set this to Do Not Auto-Update Apps 5. You will ha

For a long time we've contemplated having a cable tv connection. But the problem is we are so far from the street that regular cable companies would usually say that it is impractical because they would need a very long cable to service us and that the quality degrades as the cable gets longer. So one day someone came along offering Satellite based TV (Cignal) and we decided to subscribe. Cignal Digital TV Advantages 1. No more need for long cables because the service is satellite based. 2. Video quality is better than other cable providers. You are only given a few HD channel depending upon your subscription but even the normal channels look so good, you would think they are also HD. 3. Comprehensive Channel Guide that is built into your remote control. You will find a button on your remote that reads “Guide”. After you press it. It will list the current channel you are watching and you will see what program or movie will come next and the hours. You can slide the g