Atma Xplorer

Xploring Games, Computing, Photography

Wanted: Movie Review

At the theaters, It was a choice (for me) between Hancock, starring Will Smith, and Wanted, co-starring Angelina Jolie, and starring an unknown (to me) actor named James McAvoy.  I’m glad I chose a


ToyCon Day 1 Aftermath

It was just day 1 and Toy Con was already jampacked with cosplay fanatics, toy lovers, frequent event goers and people who bit into the plug by Sir Mike Enriquez last friday. A


Costumes, cosplays, conventions and getting hooked to them

There’s always something about cosplays that draws me to it.  From sexy costumes to amazing feats of creativity and engineering (yeah, it’s not just about the pretty girls), cosplay has gone from a fad


The countdown to Toycon 08

If you’re reading this post then it’s just 10 days to the 7th Philippine Toys, Hobbies and Collectibles Convention 2008, which is still one of the biggest anime/enthusiast event in the country.  Known as


A blog revamp, banner advertising, and a forum on the loose

As you may have noticed, Atma Xplorer is carrying a new design. It’s a trimmed down theme derived from FTW 2.0 by Flisterz. I’m still in the process of tweaking things so


Iron Man: Movie Review

Iron Man, played by Robert Downy Jr and opened to theaters April 30th (May 2 on some parts of the Globe) is the Marvel-related offering from Paramount Pictures. I must say. I’m


Save yourself from Procrastination

Procrastination will always been a difficult obstacle to overcome whether you’re a student, a working adult, a parent, or just a plain bum. Procrastination is next to human nature to some, which typically manifests as


Free PSP Games Download

Free PSP Game Downloads. Everyone’s looking for them and yet most of the sites that offer free PSP games download are asking you money upfront. That’s not fair right? Free PSP Game Downloads Here at Atma


Look out: Spam from Gmail is coming

CAPTCHA—Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart—is an both an annoyance and a safety net for netizens. A large number of web services (blogger, gmail, yahoo mail, live hotmail


Online Etiquette 101 – Online Games

Online Etiquette 101 – Online Games

Online Games has become part of the Pinoy gaming circle every since the Massive Multiplayer Online RPG, Ragnarok was introduced by Level Up Philippines into the wild. Like most of the current games


Gundam 00 – Episode 17 and 18

Gundam 00 – Episode 17 and 18

Episode 17 and 18 gives the slowing pace of the series a much need boost. So much that it’s moved even me =( What’s new? Well quite a lot, but for those waiting


Get paid to blog: Smorty Blog Advertising Network

People use blogs for a number of things, a hobby, an outlet of creative juice or simply a place to vent things out. Now, aside from being all that, wouldn’t it be better


Protecting your content

Scrapers are the worst type of visitors to your site. Why? They “scrape” everything, your posts, your images, even links which are likely at the bottom, and post it as their own.


Gundam 00 – Episode 14

Gundam 00′s first episode of the year starts out with a bang. There’s a new intro (and outro) for the series and like all others before it, spoilers abound but before we get


Phishing Gone Wrong

I love the lighter side of the news in the morning, Especially for things like this. By far this is the worst phishing attempt i’ve ever seen. This is why you should never ever


Guide to Programming Series: Week 4

After a bit of delay here’s the last of the Guide to Programming Series: The Life Cycle of a Typical Program. Why the delay? A lot of personal stuff (like my impromptu


Never keep sensitive information on your emails

If you haven’t been visiting your social media site because of the holidays then you’ve probably haven’t heard of David’s story. While on vacation (like most of us now), his site and ultimately


Merry Xmas from Osaka

Aside from the expensive ($1K+!?!) round trip ticket, the trip was fairly routine. I wanted to go to Akihabara but seeing that the fare was already taken from my own wallet, I doubt I’d survive


Guide to Programming Series: Week 3

I’m a bit distracted as I was editing this (I’ve had the post ready for about a week which awaited minor changes) because I just got to view my grades today. Although it’s


FlatPress; a wordpress alternative?

To host a blog, you need a domain name, a host and a SQL database. Usually, your host servers and your SQL server are hosted on different machines, accidents do happen and without


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