My Gift to the Philippines

God's Word is my gift to the Philippines especially in this time.
North Carolina Baptists

If there is one thing I want to give to all the Filipinos, that would be the Gospel. In this time that we are facing big trials, there is one Guy we can cling to, and that is God. One way to know how the Lord will help us is by reading and listening to His Word. Handing out Bibles is a good start for me to make them feel how God loves me.

Like how having a Bible made my life wonderful, Globe wants you to experience having a wonderful life with the #GlobeProjectWonderful2014. Get connected with the best mobile network and be on a wonderful mood. This is Globe's gift to everyone who continues to patronage the network.

So if I were to ask you...

IF YOU CAN GIVE SOMETHING TO THE PHILIPPINES, WHAT WOULD IT BE? ANSWER NOW BY COMMENTING BELOW.

WeChat 5.1 Launched

WeChat, the most-searched social messaging app on Google Play, makes an upgrade to its latest version, the WeChat 5.1. WeChat introduced the new version at the launching event at the Makati Shangri-La Hotel.

The new WeChat 5.1 features three games, Gunz Dash, 2Day's Match, and Craz3 Match. Gunz Dash, one of the pioneering titles of WeChat Games, lets players choose their favorite heroes and let them embark on exciting adventures in a fantasy universe. 2Day's Match, on the other hand, is a brand new casual puzzle game in which you can challenge yourself by clearing all pairs and work your way to win the crown. Meanwhile, Craz3 Match makes players match tiles in group of three to eliminate some seriously cute animals.

Aside from the games, the latest upgrade also comes with enhanced features like the StoryCam, where you can use your own words to describe the photos you have taken, and the GMail contact integration, where you can connect your WeChat to your Google account.

For more information about WeChat's newest features, visit its website at wechat.com, its Facebook page at facebook.com/wechatph, or its Twitter page at twitter.com/wechatph. WeChat is available for Android, Blackberry, IOS, Symbian, and Windows Phone-powered smartphones.

WD Launches My Cloud EX4

The new WD My Cloud EX4. Ross Del Rosario

Western Digital expanded its WD My Cloud family of personal cloud solutions with WD My Cloud EX4, a high-performance four-bay network attached storage (NAS) solution for creative professionals, prosumers, workgroups, and anyone looking for a reliable way to save, share, back up, stream, and manage massive amounts of digital data. The said cloud system was introduced at the Holiday Inn Hotel in Makati.

“The reception for our WD My Cloud personal cloud platform was extremely positive,” said Jim Welsh, executive vice president and general manager of WD's branded products and consumer electronics groups. “Our single drive WD My Cloud system is the perfect solution for users that want an easy and private way to store all of their data at home and then share, save and manage it from anywhere in the world, on any device. Expanding our WD My Cloud platform to a four-bay system delivers the advanced features, customization capability and capacity that many of our customers are looking for.” 

Featuring the category leading WD Red line of hard drives specifically designed for home and small office NAS systems, WD My Cloud EX4 customers enjoy ultimate reliability from the trusted name in storage. WD Red drives are powered by NASware 2.0 technology, which improves drive reliability and protects customer data in the event of a power loss or disruption. Additionally, WD Red hard drives feature 3D Active Balance Plus, an enhanced balance control technology that significantly improves overall drive performance and reliability. 

WD My Cloud EX4 provides several capacity options, allowing customers to choose from a drive-less enclosure that allows customers to customize their capacity and add additional drives as their library of digital content grows, or an 8 TB, 12 TB or 16 TB model1. With Easy-Slide-Drive technology, WD My Cloud EX4 allows customers to easily install or hot-swap drives in seconds, without the need for a screwdriver, toolkit or trays. Additionally, customers can attach a compatible USB 3.0 hard drives to the USB expansion ports on the WD My Cloud EX4 to instantly expand their storage capacity. 

Ultimate Data Protection

WD My Cloud EX4 arms users with multiple options to secure digital data from a potential loss by providing RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 or allowing users to select from spanning and JBOD modes for even more options to manage data. Customers can also use their WD My Cloud EX4 to back up all of their computers and devices with WD SmartWare Pro software for PC users. Mac users can utilize all the features of Apple Time Machine backup software to protect their data. The WD My Cloud EX4 can also backup itself, either to another WD My Cloud EX4 in a different location, or to cloud services such as Amazon S3 and ElephantDrive. To ensure 24/7 data protection and reliability the WD My Cloud EX4 includes redundant power supplies and Ethernet ports. 

Advanced Streaming and Serving WD My Cloud EX4 serves as a home’s digital entertainment hub, configurable for up to 16 TB of movies and music that can then be streamed to any DLNA/UPnP certified multimedia device such as gaming consoles, smart TVs and WD TV Live™ media players. The Twonky 7.2, DLNA-certified 1.5 media server and iTunes server make for simple streaming of large movie and music libraries. 

Additionally, the integrated file server, FTP server, backup server and P2P download server provide advanced data serving options for WD My Cloud EX4 users. 

Customers can also customize their NAS, monitor system health, manage users and energy saving features with the WD My Cloud EX4 dashboard, as well as use a suite of third party apps, including aMule, Icecast, Joomla!, phpBB, phpMyAdmin and SqueezeCenter. 

Anywhere Access to WD My Cloud EX4

Available for iOS and Android devices, the WD My Cloud mobile app allows users to view photos, stream video and share, save and manage files from anywhere on their smartphones or tablets. The mobile app makes file sharing and collaborating simple, allowing customers to easily email files, share files as a link, and print and open files with third party apps. The WD My Cloud mobile app integrates major public cloud services so that customers can easily transfer files from their Dropbox, SkyDrive, and Google Drive public cloud accounts. 

Price and Availability

WD My Cloud EX4 is available at select retailers and distributed by Iontech Inc. Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) is PHP17,990 for the drive-less WD My Cloud EX4, PHP38,490 for 8TB, PHP 46, 090 for 12 TB and PHP55,190 for 16 TB. The WD My Cloud mobile app currently is available for download from the App Store and Google Play. WD My Cloud EX4 comes with a two year limited warranty. 

Compatibility

WD My Cloud EX4 is compatible with Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, OS X Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard, as well as DLNA/UPnP enabled devices.

Murang Lipad Partners with M. Lhuillier

Mr. Patrick Tan, COO of SEAIR International, Ms. Delza Gochoco, President
and General Manager of Triplestar Travel and Tours, Mr. Charles L. Lhuillier,
MLFSI Executive Vice President, and Ms. Clairene C. Umali, MLFSI Insurance
& Special Products Division Manager formalized the new partnership of Mu-
rang Lipad and M. Lhuillier.

Muranglipad.com announced its partnership with M. Lhuillier Financial Services, Inc. (MLFSI) to accept cash payments for air ticket issuance.

Muranglipad.com, a division of Triplestar Travel and Tours Inc., provides airfare comparison and real time ticketing for all airlines to all domestic and international destinations.

With this partnership, clients can now enjoy expert travel advice online from Muranglipad.com’s website or through its hotline at 849-0100 and the convenience of paying their booked air tickets through any of the 1,600 M. Lhuillier locations nationwide with almost 160 locations operating 24/7.

To find out more about the new and exciting services, you may visit muranglipad.com, any of Triplestar’s ticketing offices nationwide and M.Lhuillier’s website at www.mlhuillier.com.

GoodAh!!! Opens in Metrowalk

GoodAh!!! opens its newest branch inside the Metrowalk Complex.
Wilmar Duldulao

GoodAh!!! shows its gratitude to "every-all" who patronaged the Filipino restaurant chain for 31 years by opening its newest branch at the Metrowalk in Pasig City.

Now under a new management in Soyamensa Foods Inc., GoodAh!!! launched its bid for a massive makeover and expansion by opening the said branch, its eighth overall since 1983, to cater those along the Ortigas CBD.

The owners of Soyamensa Foods graced the ribbon cutting, formalizing the grand opening of the new restaurant, located just beside The Library.

GoodAh!!! is open "25 hours a day, eight days a week" and serves various Filipino cuisines like tapsilog, pares, and goto.

$100 Paypal Cash 2014 Resolutions Giveaway

Welcome to $100 Paypal Cash 2014 Resolutions Giveaway - Sponsored by The Leaker News and Hosted by Giveaway Monkey together with BloggieAway and Parenting Patch.

It’s that time of year again. Time for us to make a list of Resolutions that we will probably forget about by February. But it is a tradition so let's do it, anyhow.

One (1) lucky reader will win $100 Paypal Cash. This giveaway is open worldwide and ends on February 03, 2014 EST. To enter, simply use the following Rafflecopter form. Good luck!

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AyosDito Says, "Post, Share, Move On"

If love is like riding a bicycle, then the first few tries must’ve hurt quite a bit. Just like Ramon Bautista of the hit web-series Tales from the Friend Zone, maybe you have gone through your share of heartbreaks that made you say “’di na ako naniniwala sa pag-ibig.”

(Welling up with feelings but missed the melo-dramatic launch of TFTFZ Zero? You can watch the complete series here: http://www.bit.ly/TFTFZero WARNING: Masyadong maraming feelings sa TFTFZ Zero)

But don’t lose hope, there’s more to life when you move on. Tama na ang semplang, magmove-on ka na lang. Ayos mag-move on

Take it from brokenhearted Spanky Rigor-Mortiz (Ramon Bautista) who sold a pre-loved tandem bike on AyosDito.ph to move on from the kilig moments he shared with Zooey de Leon (Nikki Veron Cruz), the girl who broke his heart; now you can Post Share Move On from the pain too! Every time you do, you get the chance to win Instax Mini cameras, to create better memories with; limited edition TFTFZ Zero shirts and exclusive advice from Ramon Bautista, so you won’t be friendzoned next time you try it again with love.

To join,

1. Post an ad selling an item that reminds you of a feeling, person, or moment in life that you want to move on from: a gift from your ex (para sa mga heartbroken), your old K-Pop collection (kasi professional ka na), a friendship bracelet (more than friends na kayo), and more. For any type of moving on in life, you can let go of the pre-loved on AyosDito.ph! (For more examples, go here: http://bit.ly/MoveOnSamples)

2. Share your ad on Facebook and Twitter. Use #AyosMagMoveOn when you do. The more you share your ad, and the more your friends click on your ad, the more chances of winning.

3. Win Instax Mini cameras,  TFTFZ Zero shirts and a Ramon Bautista love tip every week from January 9 to February 7, 2013. Five winners will be announced every week! And what’s more, at the end of the promo, the most viewed ad will win the featured Tandem Bike from the web-series, Tales from the Friend Zone!

Ayos ‘di ba?

For more info, visit http://blog.ayosdito.ph

Palanca Awardee Antonio Conducts Playwriting Workshop

Ready to bring your story to the stage? Learn how to write plays from five-time Palanca Award-winning writer, Dr. Joem Antonio, in Amateur Playwriting. This is a three-hour workshop that will be held on January 18, 2:00 PM at U-View, Fully Booked, Bonifacio High Street, Taguig City.

Aspiring playwrights will learn the differences between theater and other media, constructing a story for the script, making a story feasible for stage performance, and formatting a script for directors and actors. By the end of the workshop, attendees will have a basic method to follow in writing theater plays.

For more information, please visit http://playwriting.bluebackpack.com or contact Mia Madarang of Blue Backpack Events Management at info@bluebackpack.com or at 09175861906.

Bonus: Get 10% off on this event! Simply register using this promo code on or before January 11, 2014: Please email joy@magneticnorth.co for the promo code.