Have you seen the latest BPI ATM card offer? Yes, you can now enjoy 1% rebates.

You can earn rebates daily. Just keep in mind the minimum purchase of P2,000. You can also earn rebates each time you shop on paydays.

And the best part is, there’s no minimum required purchase.

The validity period is every 15th to 17th of the month, as well as from the 30th to the 2nd of the following month.

To redeem the rebate, simply text the following to 2256:

IM ON EPSREBATE (space) CardNumber/TransactionDate(MMDDYYY)/TransactionAmount

For the Card Number, please refer to the face of the card. For the Transaction Date and Amount, please refer to your E.P.S. transaction receipt.

Take note that the promo period if January 1, 2014 until December 31, 2014 (Per DTI-NCR Permit Number 10552 Series of 2013)

For more info, please vis www.bpicards.com Hmmm… makes me want to go out and get a BPI ATM EPS Card today! :-)

[ First posted on 01/30/2014 by Manuel Viloria ]

http://www.viloria.com/secondthoughts/archives/00001975.html

Should you buy a 13″ Retina MacBook Pro or a Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga 14? It depends on your needs.

Get the 13″ Retina Macbook Pro if:

– Looks are important to you.

– You’ll be crunching large spreadsheets involving thousands of rows (I can almost hear the office people cheering!)

– You’ll be compiling code and other processor-intensive tasks.

– Long battery life is important to you.

– You like to edit images (Photoshop).

– You like to run Mac OS

Get the Lenovo ThinkPad Yoga if:

– You want to use a touchscreen.

– You want to maximize Windows 8 features.

– You want to some light to moderate gaming (dedicated graphics)

– You’re okay with a 6-hour battery life.

– You’ll be using mostly MS Office, surfing the web, and watching videos (and you want to save money)

– You do *NOT* need a digital pen.

Some people get both for their household, so that they can easily shift from one to the other depending on their particular needs.

[ First posted on 12/21/2014 by Manuel Viloria ]

http://www.viloria.com/secondthoughts/archives/00001979.html

The start of the year was a cold and rainy Thursday here in the Philippines, and I experienced some cable signal issues with our Samsung monitor, a SyncMaster SA300. Before I drove off to visit relatives and greet them a Happy New Year, I chose the Shutdown button from the Windows 7 logon screen (even if I hadn’t fully logged out of my account).

Then I swiped my finger across the front, lower right corner of the Samsung LED monitor to switch it off. Around 5 hours later, when I booted my PC, the monitor showed: “Check cable signal.”

I removed then reconnected both ends of the monitor cable, but the error message persisted. I even rebooted and still got the same error message. I then connected the Samsung monitor to the VGA out port of a laptop, and the monitor just showed a black/blank screen (even if I set the laptop up for clone screen).

So I attached the monitor cable again to the desktop, saw the “Check cable signal” message, and switched the monitor off and then on. The error message persisted.

While looking for some other switch, I swiped my finger under the front of the monitor. The blue on/off light of the monitor went off. When I swiped my finger over the front lower right corner of the monitor, the blue on/off light went on, and I saw the Windows log-on screen again.

Is there something about the bottom part of the Samsung SyncMaster SA300? Anyway, I’ll let you know if something like this happens again in the future. In the meantime, Happy New Year! :-)

[ First posted on 01/01/2015 by Manuel Viloria ]

http://www.viloria.com/secondthoughts/archives/00001980.html