Reasons Why You Should Not Get a Smart Postpaid

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So, you finally made the choice to switch from prepaid to postpaid. But the big question is, is it worth the “upgrade”? This blog post enumerates all the cons of having a Smart postpaid subscription.

Smart’s postpaid services will be compared with the competitor Globe Telecom and another network outside the Philippines which I am subscribed to–Olleh KT.

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Getting Started With Sling: 46 Line Blog

This is one of the unofficial guides for Sling. This blog post is for Windows users and for beginners.

This tutorial assumes that you have:

  • Microsoft Windows (10 or better)
  • At least 8 GB of RAM
  • At least 50 GB of hard disk space
  • sling standalone version 7 (version 8 does not work!)

This guide follows the original blog post in https://sling.apache.org/documentation/tutorials-how-tos/46-line-blog.html. Please refer to the original tutorial. This guide only acts as a supplement. Continue reading

Free Upgrade to Office 2016 products

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In case you missed it (like I did), Microsoft Corporation is offering a free upgrade to Office 2016. This offer is valid if you own any standalone Office 2013 products, and if one of the two statements are true:

  •  you are an active Office 365 subscriber; or
  • you have a valid Office 2016 license.

Standalone products are Office products not part of Office suites, such as Office Standard, Professional and Professional Plus.

If you have a retail license of Visio and Project 2013, you qualify for a free upgrade to their 2016 version counterparts. The official lists of products qualified for the free upgrade are:

  • Project Standard 2013
  • Project Professional 2013
  • Visio Standard 2013
  • Visio Professional 2013
  • Word 2013
  • Excel 2013
  • PowerPoint 2013
  • Outlook 2013
  • Publisher 2013
  • Access 2013

Users using counterfeit product keys are not qualified for the free upgrade. This upgrade is being offered because Office 2013 products and Office 2016 have compatibility issues.

Remember that this free upgrade offer is valid until June 30, 2016 only.

What Happens After the Upgrade

Since I have I an Office 365 University subscription, I was able to get the free upgrade offer. The Office standalone product will be linked to your Microsoft account. Just like what happened to mine:

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In my case, I saved almost USD 1,750 from buying new Visio Professional 2016 and Project Professional 2016 licenses. That’s a lot of savings!

To get started, you may visit the official page and follow the instructions there by first clicking this link:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Special-offer-for-customers-with-Office-2016-and-Office-2013-standalone-applications-c32e3cad-e935-4163-a44f-50d896e10bbc

 

Hassles of Being a Smart Postpaid Subscriber

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You may have seen my reviews of being a Globe postpaid subscriber and my reviews of being a Smart postpaid subscriber. This post is about the hassles of being a Smart postpaid subscriber, which is not included in my previous post (Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Get a Smart Freedom Postpaid). These are the inconveniences that you should know that Smart will not let you know. I consider the activities a waste of time because people nowadays are all connected to the internet and can process everything online. Continue reading

Smart Freedom Plan Roaming At a Glance

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After spending almost USD20 of calling the Smart hotline to know the information and sending a lot of e-mail to Smart’s Customer Email Support Group, I asked my mom to process the activation of Smart’s roaming service for Smart Freedom subscribers.

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8 Reasons Why You Should Get a Smart Freedom Plan

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This is part 2 of 3 of my blog posts about my review on the Smart Freedom Postpaid Plan (Plan Zero).

NOTE: This blog post is neither sponsored by Globe Telecom, PLDT nor any telecommunications company.

DISCLAIMER: All contents of this blog post are based on the author’s experience. Some services may have changed. The information provided may be inaccurate at the time of reading. As this blog post was last updated on September 26, 2012.

WARNING: To sales agents of PLDT (Smart and Sun), Globe Telecom or any other telecommunications company, KEEP OUT OF THIS BLOG. You are not allowed to do any form of advertisement here. Your comments that contain advertisement will be deleted as soon as I detect them.

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10 Reasons Why You Should Get a Globe Postpaid Plan

This is part 1 of 3 of my blog posts about my review on getting a Globe postpaid plan. It has been more than two years since I got a Globe postpaid plan. I am almost near bill no. 50. You can find the other parts here:

Part 1 of 3 Getting Started with a Globe Postpaid Plan.
Part 3 of 3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Get a Globe Postpaid Plan

You can also check out my reviews in having a Smart postpaid plan here:

Part 1 Reasons Why You Should Get a Smart Postpaid
Part 2 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Get a Smart Postpaid

It has been more than two years since I got a Globe postpaid and I have compiled all the things that I have found good and bad about Globe’s postpaid services. This guide lists all the things that I find useful when having a Globe Postpaid. The list shows the things that prospective customers of Smart and Globe can use before they decide to subscribe to the postpaid services of the network of their choice. The list contains the things that the agents might not tell you and that you should know.

This post is about Globe’s postpaid plans, not their glorified prepaid product (MyLoad Tipid Plan).

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9 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Get a Globe Postpaid

This is part 3 of 3 of my blog posts about my review on getting a Globe postpaid plan. It has been more than two years since I got a Globe postpaid plan. I am almost near bill no. 50. You can find the other parts here:

Part 1 of 3 Getting Started on a Globe Postpaid Plan
Part 2 of 3 Reasons Why You Should Get a Globe Postpaid Plan

This post was last updated on September 29, 2016.

It has been more than two years since I got a Globe postpaid and I have compiled all the things that I have found good and bad about Globe’s postpaid services. This guide lists all the bad things when having a Globe postpaid plan. The list shows the things that prospective customers of Smart and Globe can use before they decide to subscribe to the postpaid services of the network of their choice. The list contains the things that the agents might not tell you and that you should know.

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