Experiencing 'A New Breed of Wow' by Intel Philippines

As soon as I've learned that Intel Philippines is currently running a roadshow for their Intel-inspired Ultrabooks, I made a mark in my calendar as to when I could have a visit in one of their venues. Thanks to the Independence Day celebration, which is a non-working holiday to most of us, I able to have a free day to spree with my friends at SM City North EDSA!

'A New Breed Of Wow' Roadshow at SM North EDSA

I've been curious about these new breed of portable computers lately--as they say, "It's neither a laptop nor a notebook but an Ultrabook!" I've been fascinating them that I  always look for some reviews of it and read a whole article about it whenever I have my free time! And before I forgot, I did even promoted them here in my site for some times.

So I went to SM City North EDSA this last Independence Day to hang out with my friends and brought them to the roadshow. We've had a little fun there simply because it's not the typical roadshow we used to visit where we see and have a little hands-on of the gadgets but organizers have also prepared games wherein we were able to easily familiarize the different ultrabook brands, a bit of their standard specifications and a 'slim' chance of having them as we go through the different challenges of the game!

I don't want this post to go into that much details about what we did there as you might find it a spoiler--so you really have to visit one of their roadshows if you're curious enough to learn--but instead, I will leave some photos of our experience here for you to enjoy and to give you ideas how it's fun to visit their roadshows.

Have you already visited 'A new Breed of wow' roadshow too? Share your experiences and thoughts from the event at the comment section. If you want to know more about this event, just click here.

Friends signing up for the Ultrabook slim chance challenge 

Warming up for the challenge!

Too eager enough to have one?

A Slim Chance Ultrabook Dart Board. Pin the Dart on the yellow lane
and you win a cool prize!

I'm pretty good at this Game! Challenge accepted!

I won a mouse pad from the Slim Chance Dart Game!

Can you answer this for me?

Only 1 mistake after the quiz, I must be really good at this! lol

Intel Makes Thumb Noise in Asia With 2NE1

Intel, world's largest and highest valued micro chip maker will make thumb noise starting this May (May 10 to be exact) in an attempt to incite ultrabook lovers and even those who are just starting to love this new array of powerful, extra thin and extra sleek laptop, choose intel-powered ultrabooks.

The latest collaboration with 2NE1 which will begin in South Korea through Intel Korea and will be pursued, hopefully  in nearby countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam proves that Intel is serious about making ultrabooks become common to every tech savvy and ordinary consumers.

Related: DELL PHILIPPINES UNVEILS XPS 13 ULTRABOOK | SPECS AND PRICE IN THE PHILIPPINES

Why common? I say so because intel-powered ultrabooks are truly affordable considering the overall package that includes the beauty (ultra thin and ultra sleek), and power (response in a flash and long lasting) in it. Not to mention the Smart Response and Smart Connect technology that quickly recognizes and stores your most frequently used files and applications where you can access them right away and allows you get friends updates and latest news around the web quickly and on-the-go. Even some of the intel-powered ultrabooks features the Anti-theft technology that helps you protect data by disabling your ultrabook in case it is stolen or lost from anywhere in the world and when it is returned, it can be easily reactivated without harm to your data or digital content!

Meanwhile, the fans of Intel in southeast Asia has just reached 1 million (1,010,065 to be exact) today according to a post in Intel Philippines. Here are the current numbers of the number of likes of their individual facebook page as of May 9, 2012.

• Intel Philippines - 167,001 Likes 
• Intel Indonesia - 538, 759 Likes
• Intel Malaysia - 101, 565 Likes
• Intel Singapore - 9, 495 Likes
• Intel Thailand - 92, 551 Likes and
• Intel Vietnam - 100, 694 Likes

As far as I can remember, this is the second time that Intel has picked a K-pop artist to promote their products. Last year, their iCore series (i3, i5 and i7) microchips was released and successfully promoted by Girls Generation through their Visual Dreams. Will the 2NE1 collaboration likewise be successful? The answer is in the hands of their fans - find out starting tomorrow when they release their commercial movie!

For now you can take a look at these campaign posters and the teaser of the "Make Noise" CM.

A Must Have Tools for Your Windows PC (Part 1)

The secret to a healthy PC lifestyle is to use reliable, efficient and user-friendly utilities for your personal computer and there's no one that could provide that but you as the user and a responsible owner. As I browse through the list of utilities that I could use for my PC, I narrowed down to these free tools below which you could also use for your windows PC.

1. Autoruns (download)

An easy-to-use utility that allows you monitor programs that are configured to run during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the order Windows processes them. These programs include ones in your startup folder, Run, RunOnce, and other Registry keys. You can configure Autoruns to show other locations, including Explorer shell extensions, toolbars, browser helper objects, Winlogon notifications, auto-start services, and much more. Autoruns goes way beyond the MSConfig utility bundled with Windows Me and XP.

Start using this and you might be surprised of how many executables are launched automatically everytime you run your PC.

Autorun for Windows

2. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder (download)

You might haven't noticed it but one of the main reasons why you consumed a lot of disk space is because of duplicate files scattered "everywhere" in your pc. keeping these copycats are definitely a waste of valuable disk space and adds annoyance to you as a user. Auslogics Duplicate File Finder is powerful enough to help you save up to 50% of your disk space. This tool removes useless duplicate files stored on your PC by finding identical pictures, documents and any other files and compare them not only by names, but by their content and allows you to delete duplicates found thus significantly increase free space on your disk.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder also helps you organize your media collections and reduces time needed to defragment your hard drive so as to maximize your file collection.

Auslogics Duplicate File Finder

3. Process Explorer (download) 

Unlock your curiosity about the origin of all of those svchost.exe programs running on your machine and know everything about CPU cycles, memory usage, and I/O using this pwerful executable program. Process Explorer lets you view information about handles and DLLs that are open and all processes as well as sub-processes that are currently running.

Make this your first choice for easy tracking down DLL-version problems or handling memory leaks, and providing yourself insights into the way Windows and applications work.

Process Explorer (1st Window)

Process Explorer (2nd Window)

4. 7-Zip (download exe) or (download msi)

7-zip is an open source file archiver that can read and write several other archive formats seamlessly and with ease. With one right click compress large files with ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip.

Other key features of 7-Zip include

• High compression ratio in 7z format with LZMA and LZMA2 compression
• Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
• Self-extracting capability for 7z format
• Integration with Windows Shell
• Powerful File Manager
• Powerful command line version
• Plugin for FAR Manager
• Localizations for 79 languages

Supported Formats:

• Packing / unpacking: 7z, XZ, BZIP2, GZIP, TAR, ZIP and WIM
• Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, CramFS, DEB, DMG, FAT, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MBR, MSI, NSIS, NTFS, RAR, RPM, SquashFS, UDF, VHD, WIM, XAR and Z.

5. Recuva (download)

Pronounced as "recover", Recuva is another powerful file recovery tool that lets you undelete files on your PC or even portable device such as a flash drive. It's fast, thorough, and most importantly, it's free!

The secret behind the concept of this recovery tool is that when you remove files in the Recycle Bin, the files aren’t actually destroyed but rather, the space they occupy is earmarked for new data. Undelete routines scan the flotsam and jetsam and put the pieces back together. As long as you haven’t added new data to a drive, undelete (almost) always works; and even if you’ve added some data, there’s a good chance you can get most of the deleted stuff back.

Recuva

Check out for the part two of this post to be published later! Just try first the awesomeness of the utilities above and start making your PC healthy!