by Penny Angeles-Tan | Dec 5, 2018 | Lifestyle
TRILL: Mattress in a Box, the first-ever mattress that has both a plush side and firm side, is now available in the Philippines! This innovative mattress can simply be flipped to suit your desired support.
Available in single, double, full-double, queen and king, TRILL is compactly packed in a creative and convenient 18’’x18’’x42” standard box using the latest and most advanced technology. It is also equipped with a comprehensive manual and tools for easy unboxing, and the box even has wheels so you can easily push or drag it towards your bedroom. What’s more, TRILL: Mattress in a Box offers a 100-night trial and free delivery to anywhere in the Philippines.
Experience premium comfort and convenience and order your own TRILL: Mattress in a Box, now exclusively available at https://www.trillbyuratex.com.
by Penny Angeles-Tan | Dec 4, 2018 | Tech Tutorials
There are two easy ways to upload web files to your hosting server: via FTP (which I discussed in a previous post) and via cpanel. From personal experience, FTP is still the most efficient way but there are times when FTP fails (such as when the internet servers where you are at have blocked FTP). This leaves us with one alternative … CPANEL.
Note: With both FTP and cPanel you need to be online to be able to access your hosting server.
Here are the steps to uploading web files via cpanel
- Go to your File Explorer (on Windows) or Finder (on Mac) and make sure you are at the folder containing your web files.
- Select the files you want to upload and compress them into a zip file.
- If you are only uploading one file then there is no need to compress.
- If you are uploading a folder then you need to compress the entire folder, not just its content.
- Open your web browser.
- Go to yourdomain/cpanel (ex. www.slvrdlphn.com/cpanel) or, alternately you can go to yourdomain:2083 (ex. www.slvrdlphn.com:2083). This may lead you to a page that will ask you if you are behind a firewall or not. In most cases you can just wait and it will bring you to the login page.
- In the boxes provided input your username and password. These credentials should have been emailed to you by your hosting provider.
- Click on Log In. If your credentials are correct you will see LOGIN SUCCESSFUL appear on top of the cPanel word in the screen and it will open your cPanel.
- Click on File Manager.
- Once File Manager is open double click on public_html. This is where ALL web files are supposed to go.
- If you are opening this for the first time it will look like this:
- Click on UPLOAD on the menu bar on top. Select the file you want to upload to “/home/name of server/public_html” (ex. /home/slvrdlphn/public_html).
- Once the upload reaches 100% you can click on GO BACK located at the bottom and public_html will look like this:
- Click ONCE on the zipped file. Note, you are just want to select the file, not open it. Once selected the file will turn blue to indicate it is selected.
- Click on EXTRACT on the toolbar. In the box, make sure that the path says public_html. If you extract your files here it will place the web files in the root folder. If your web content is supposed to be in a subfolder then type that path. For example, if your project is called “hotel” and it is supposed to be in a subfolder then your path should be public_html/hotel. Click on EXTRACT FILE.
- Once successful it will display the extraction results. Click on CLOSE.
- All that is left is to delete the zipped file and you’re done!
by Penny Angeles-Tan | Dec 1, 2018 | Events
KTM Philippines recently treated motorcycle riders of varying stripes—novice, advanced, and experienced—to KTM track day that allowed them to experience the ready-to-race DNA of the iconic Austrian bikes.
Held at the Batangas Racing Circuit in Rosario, Batangas, a whole line of KTM demo bikes were made available to participants for a test ride, including the 390 Duke, the 690 Duke, the 790 Duke, and the 1290 Super Duke GT. Participants were able to feel the full power and performance of the bikes in a safe and controlled environment.
Aside from the test rides, Joey Rivero, a former Philippine Superbike Championship Factor Racer, shared his biking know-how and riding skills, participants. Rivero conducts precision riding training classes for every type of motorcycle rider – on the track, on tour or on the street.
KTM Asia Motorcycle Manufacturing, Inc. (KAMMI), the proud local manufacturer of KTM motorcycles in the country, is a joint-venture partnership between Adventure Cycle Philippines and KTM AG of Austria.
by Penny Angeles-Tan | Nov 30, 2018 | Events
The Design Center, an attached agency of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) successfully showcased innovative and revolutionary bamboo products at Manila FAME 2018.
The special bamboo setting was arranged under a canopy of bamboos and was divided into two innovation projects – the Bamboo 360 and the Bamboo Extreme 2.0. The Bamboo 360 featured design-forward home and lifestyle products while the Bamboo Extreme 2.0 focused primarily on mobility concepts for modern lifestyle.
Gracing the innovative bamboo display were (left to right) DTI undersecretary Nora Terrado, Design Center of the Philippines executive director Rhea Matute, Philippine Nickel Industry Association chairman Isidro Alcantara Jr., Olli Consulting Group Inc. chief executive officer Leo Dominguez, Chamber of Mines of the Philippines vice chair Joey Leviste, DTI secretary Ramon Lopez, Bambike founder Bryan Benitez McClelland, and Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions executive director Pauline Suaco-Juan.
by Penny Angeles-Tan | Nov 29, 2018 | Advocacy
Waste disposal is reaching crisis proportions in the Philippines. Landfills and rivers are overflowing with garbage. Piles of garbage obstruct sidewalks or are dumped on vacant lots, left to rot until they smell and attract hordes of flies.
We know that this is an existing concern in our country. What many of us do not know is that this massive garbage problem is, in fact, a P73 billion industry.
In 2016, 40,000 tons of garbage were collected every day. This totaled 14.6 million tons of garbage per year. If each kilo only cost P5 for disposal, the total cost in waste disposal for 2016 was an outstanding P73 billion.
The money is used to pay the local government, the garbage haulers and the gate fee at landfills. It has even increased this year because the usual P5,000 cost per truckload of garbage with five cubic meter capacity is now P8,000.
The yearly volume of waste generated is expected to increase from 13.48 million tons in 2010 to 16.63 million tons in 2020. In Metro Manila, averages of 9,000 tons of garbage were collected per day from 2012 to 2016. In just five years, daily garbage collection in Metro Manila has reached 93.8 million cubic meters. This is due to rapid urbanization, economic growth and development, changes in lifestyles and consumption patterns.
Aside from the massive amount of garbage generated, there are also the problems of improper disposal and lack of landfills.
Metro Manila Landfills
There are more than a hundred garbage hauling operators in Metro Manila but only three landfills – the Quezon City Sanitary Landfill, Navotas Sanitary Land Fill and Rizal Provincial Sanitary Landfill. New sites are hard to find and are much farther away from Metro Manila. The nearest available landfill is in Montalban, Rizal and it has already reached its maximum carrying capacity, way before 2022 when it is supposed to reach its limit.
Uncollected garbage, about a third of the solid waste generated in the cities, often ends up in drains, causing flooding and an increase in the population of rats, mice and other pests. The urban poor suffer most from the health problems resulting from poor management of solid waste.
The government has the main responsibility for ensuring waste is properly disposed of to avert health and environmental problems. But every Filipino can and should help by properly segregating garbage and by reducing, reusing and recycling.
Waste disposal is reaching crisis proportions in the Philippines. Landfills and rivers are overflowing with garbage. Piles of garbage obstruct sidewalks or are dumped on vacant lots, left to rot until they smell and attract hordes of flies.
In 2016, 40,000 tons of garbage were collected every day. This totaled 14.6 million tons of garbage per year. If each kilo only cost P5 for disposal, the total cost in waste disposal for 2016 was an outstanding P73 billion.
The government has the main responsibility for ensuring waste is properly disposed of to avert health and environmental problems. But every Filipino can and should help by properly segregating garbage and by reducing, reusing and recycling.
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