The Art of Trading In Your Old Cell Phone

Five years ago I got this Motorola C261 cell phone for P1,050 after trading in an eight year old Nokia 3210 (barely working) and a three year old Sony Ericsson T230 (working but with scratches and which I got as a gift). Last year, I tried to see how my Motorola will be valued and I was offered a P100-300 deal for it. Not ready to part with it just yet, I kept the phone until last week.

After much prodding  from my sister to "puuuleeeaaazzze give it up, it doesn't even have Bluetooth or even Infrared!!!", I traded it in for P1,000 and got a modest Android phone for P3,999. The best part of the deal was that my old phone, they say, will go to charity.  I couldn't be happier!

So, you see, it's not always about having the best or the latest, not even the most expensive phone out there which gives one joy or gives life a sense of beauty. It's about having what you need at the right time and for the right reasons until it's time to say goodbye. By the way, I actually didn't pay for my new phone. It was bought for me as a gift. :)


P.S.
The MyPhone "Trade-in Madness"  is extended until June 3, 2012! Working or not, just bring in your old phone (with its battery pack intact) and get the A818 Duo for P3,999.

Blogger Template and Blogger Background for Dummies

As if you are not having trouble enough thinking what to blog about then here comes the trouble of choosing a blog design. I know newbies like me like to browse the web for that perfect blog to get inspiration from.Then trouble begins. "Oh, I love this blog's design!" " Oh, I love this one, too and this and this..."

Open Google search. Enter "free templates". Click download. Go to your blog's html editor then edit html. Voala! A new design! Not! You preview your blog and some of your widgets disappear. What's worse is that you don't even like the design after all. Well, cry no more. For newbie bloggers who can't get enough of blog designs but do not know how to edit html, here's a fairy for you.

The Background Fairy offers free, yes, free backgrounds for your blog without you changing your blogger template. The problem sometimes with changing blogger templates is that a lot of the codes get lost and deleted. Also, new  buttons  or page elements are created which you don't know how to edit. Even if you know how to edit html, sometimes the task is too difficult especially for dummies like me. It's hard to trade those precious buttons and widgets you made for your blog for a blog template that you may or (God forbid) may not like. The solution is quite simple. You just leave the blogger template alone and just change the background.

I have tried this in Blogger, just go to your Blogger dashboard, click "Layout" then click "Add a Gadget" and choose "Html/Java". Copy the code that the fairy will provide and place it in the "Content Box" of this html gadget. Click "Save", sit back and enjoy your new blogger background.