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Awesome new features for Developers & Users packed in Mozilla Firefox 11 (Beta):

• Tilt
• Style Editor
• SPDY
• Add-ons Sync
• Migration Tools Update

Read the Release Notes in its entirety through here.

You may also follow us in Twitter via @MozillaPH and @TagalogFirefox

About Mozilla Philippines

Mozilla Philippines is the officially recognized representatives of Mozilla, a non-stock and non-profit organization dedicate to building a better Internet. One of the things created by Mozilla is the Firefox browser and it is embodies the specific goals and objectives of Mozilla, which is to promote, openness, innovation and opportunity on the Web.

About Mozilla and What We Believe In

Mozilla is a global community of thousands who sincerely believe in the power of technology to enrich people’s lives.

Mozilla is a public benefit organization dedicated not to making money but to improving the way people everywhere experience the Internet.

And Mozilla is an open source software project whose code has been used as a platform for some of the Internet’s most innovative projects.

We in Mozilla join others who believe that, as the most significant social and technological development of our time, the Internet is a public resource that must remain open and accessible to all. With this in mind, our efforts are ultimately driven by our mission of encouraging choice, innovation and opportunity online.

To achieve these goals: Mozilla is highly transparent; Mozilla believes in a extremely collaborative process that brings together thousands of dedicated volunteers around the world with our small staff of employees to coordinate the creation of products like the Firefox web browser. This process is supported by the Mozilla Corporation, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.

In the end, the Mozilla community, organization and technology is all focused on a single goal: making the Internet better for everyone.

“Alab” is the official mascot of the Mozilla Philippines Community

Set to open in One Archer’s Place on Fidel Reyes St. near De La Salle University (DLSU), the new The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® shop will be ready to open its doors to its first customers starting January 30—serving everyone with their full selection of internationally-acclaimed signature blends and gourmet treats and dishes.

“Manila is a good market for us,” shares Walden Chu, President of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®. “A place that’s right in the center of a burgeoning coffee culture in the country, this new branch will not only compliment the busy lifestyle of people in the area, it will also make it easier for more to enjoy the specialty drinks that our brand is known for.”

The One Archer’s Place store will be located near prominent establishments around DLSU and will cater mostly to students and young professionals working and living in the vicinity. In addition, it will serve as a haven for both cult-like followers of the brands as well as coffee and tea aficionados of all sorts.

In line with its debut, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® branch in One Archer’s Place will be holding a special promotion that will coincide with DLSU’s 100th year celebration. During the promo period that will run from its opening day till February 05, 2012, customers can come to the store from 12:30 to 1:30 in the afternoon and purchase any of their favorite drinks for only Php 100.

Hi there! I am writing to you as an ePass Customer. I had recently bought an ePass tag kit, thinking that it will be more of a convenience to me, especially that the Skyway started charging the exits at Villamor Air Base / NAIA Terminal 3 going to Makati — which is my usual route going home from work. Appreciate if you can respond to this items the soonest possible time:

~ The day after I purchased my ePass tag kit at Shell Magallanes, I tried calling the Customer Hotline 776.7676 to inquire if my account has been activated already, but to no avail! It keeps on ringing and ringing. Thus, I opted to send the customer service email found at your website, and up to this very date, nor an acknowledgement receipt of my message was received from them. Very bad experience for a first time (and excited) ePass customer/user.

~ Why are there NO dedicated ePass lane(s) at the exits towards Makati? The ePass lanes indicate CASH/EPASS, whereas there are three (03) lanes in that area.

~ Most of the time when I pass by this area, my ePass tag kit is indeed read by your scanners at the toll booth, however, the barrier will simply NOT go up. The most recent one was last night, the toll booth teller even told me, "Sir, wala pong load ang ePass ninyo!" — I responded to her that it is rather IMPOSSIBLE, as I had topped up earlier yesterday with PHP500 worth of ePass load (and there’s something like PHP1,000++ of ePass load left prior to that reloading). On the very first week when I started using my ePass tag, there was even a time I was asked to pay PHP35 at the Skyway-NAIA Exit since your sensors were unable to read my tag kit. To my surprise, after paying the toll and passing through the barrier, the ePass tag kit sounded a "beep" — meaning I was charged, AGAIN! I did not complained, it’s just PHP35 anyway …

I do not experience the same inconvenience I encounter most of the time at these newly opened exits and any other Skyway exits, more particular at the Merville Exit.

I will wait for your prompt response and action on this matter. If there are technical difficulties at the newly opened exits along the Skyway-NAIA, you better check it out the soonest. Based on your website, using the ePass tag kits will lessen the time you spend at the Skyway exits, but what is happening is the exact opposite — it takes a minute or two before I can finally get through that exit!

My message was sent to CWD-BTRCP@dti.gov.ph copy-furnished customercare@skyway.com.ph.

The only response I got from Skyway O&M was through this:

I have already coordinated the matter with the systems provider. They are now working on the software change to correct the problem.

"Sent via BlackBerry from Smart" {ednep@skyway.com.ph} – I assume that this is from Mr. Ed Nepomuceno.

Then, just minutes ago, I received an email message from DTI and they had attached to it the response of Skyway O&M regarding my concerns:

Mr. Ramon Borromeo, what I did not liked about your response to DTI was this:

We are disappointed that Mr. Reyes does not take the time to inform government officials like your good self that complaints he writes about had eventually been addressed by us considering almost all of them were acted upon by us within twenty four (24) hours or even less.

Mr. Borromeo, sorry if my act of sending an email to DTI offended you. But what else do I have to do? If your office was kind enough to advise me of the concrete actions you will take (within 24 hours or less after you had read my complaints), then what is it for me to write the DTI Secretary an email for? Composing an email to a Cabinet Secretary is always my last resort if my issues fall on deaf ears. Please tell your personnel to better shape up, most-especially now that I heard MVP bought stake at the Skyway Corporation.

As I was recently appointed Localization Lead for the Firefox Aurora Tagalog translation efforts of the Mozilla Philippines Community. Two (02) weeks ago, I called for a MozCoffee event to all interested individuals to participate in the Tagalog Firefox project. The meeting was actually held this afternoon at McCafe Greenbelt 1; iced (or hot) mocha was on us!

Upon registration, each of the attendees received their coffee stub, which entitles them to a free hot or cold McCafe Mocha …

It was a very fruitful initial meeting, seeing old and new faces within the local IT circle. Most of them were not that aware of the localization (translation) efforts being made for Mozilla products, more particular: Firefox.

Thanks to the awesome people of McDonald’s Greenbelt 1! They managed to reserve a corner of their busy branch to accommodate the meeting attendees.

All those present during the meeting went home with some swags sent by Mozilla HQ (you are all awesome!).

We are now in the planning stage for the next meeting sometime middle of February this year. I’m thinking of having a hands-on type of walk-through about the Narro. Please do watch out for this event. Details will be posted in this blog soon.

If you want to be part of the Mozilla Philippines Localization Team, you may join our Facebook Group {tagalogfirefox@groups.facebook.com} and be sure to follow @TagalogFirefox in Twitter. Mabuhay!

After entering my Windows 7 user account password, I am stuck with a blue swirl and the Welcome screen on my laptop. I waited for a while, and when it seems that nothing is happening to my computer, I forcibly removed the battery from my laptop and rebooted. Then, it was back to normal.

Just this morning, I encountered the same problem again! The MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional) in me prompted a visit to the Microsoft Support website and I stumble upon Article 2578159 (The logon process stops responding in Windows Server 2008 R2 or in Windows 7). It matches the symptoms my laptop encounters:

When you log on to a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows 7, the logon process stops responding and a blue swirl is shown on the Welcome screen indefinitely. After some time, the computer stops responding to any network-related commands. You must forcibly restart the computer to recover from this issue.

With its cause described as:

This issue occurs because of a race condition between the Windows Event Log service and the Event Tracing for Windows (ETW) tracing functions. When the race condition occurs, it causes a deadlock situation. This deadlock situation then causes the Winlogon.exe process to become unresponsive.

Good thing, a Hotfix file was able for download and my problem is now resolved!

The moment I logged into my desktop machine, I immediately searched for the chatroom using Mibbit. If you’re the type of person who’s always on the go but don’t have a laptop, then Mibbit is for you. It’s a web-based IRC client. To join us online, simply use the following settings in Mibbit:

Or, you may opt to install ChatZilla as an add-on to our favorite web browser, Firefox:

If want to be more sentimental, you can always download and install mIRC on your Windows machine.

Enjoy and see you all online! Join us and help improve Mozilla products the Filipino way.

From this …

To this …

Kung Hei Fat Choi!