Category: Site & Blog News
No Christmas – Typhoon
The low pressure area that follows the track of typhoon BOPHA/Pablo is fortunately not developing. During the first days, it had the potential of organizing around a center, but satellite images show, that there...
We are back
After 5 months of traveling we are back and shall inform you about tourism in the Philippines. Cheers from butch & waebi
Silent Gardens V2 in Beta Test
Silent Gardens (silent-gardens.com) in its present form is now 6 years old. Technology has much changed since 2007. It is time to adapt our website. In 2007 one of the biggest problems for webmasters...
The Philippines photo site
We are pleased to inform you that we have integrated the former www.philpho.com site into Silent Gardens. Here it is: Photos Silent Gardens is growing. Our photographers, programmers and scouts live and work on...
Cyberwar in the Philippines
In relation with the Scarborough Shoal dispute, alleged Chinese hackers defaced the website of the University of the Philippines on April 20. Filipino hackers retaliated on April 22 and the cyber-war has persisted and spread until now. We...
New Philippines Earthquake Maps
We had to create new Earthquake Maps because Google had published a new maps application interface (maps api v3) and disabled the old version. The new maps are a bit different. You now can...
Rate your favorite Resort
Yesterday we informed you that Nara Caligdong has joined our team (see here). Together with Nara, our team developed an entirely new Camiguin Resort, Hotel and Restaurant Guide. There are 3 brand-new features: ...
Nara, the new programmer at Silent Gardens
A week ago, Nara Caligdong, joined the Silent Gardens team. Nara holds a bachelor in computer programming from STI in Kalibo, Panay. Nara is not yet a web-designer, but a very good back-end programmer....
New Pacific wave map included
Some months ago PAGASA stopped publishing their wave forecast maps. We were looking around on the web and found a new map. Our weather page is here
Happy New Year – ???? – Gung Hay Fat Choy
Silent Gardens wishes all the Chinese and Korean visitors in the Philippines a Happy New Year ???? . This year is the year of the dragon: Believe in the dragon. It will bring you forward...
Good bye Kodak
During more than 40 years this little metal can had been part of my journey around the world. Ten thousands of slides are sleeping in their boxes. Time changes but Kodak missed the change....
2011 Typhoons in the Philippines
We have finished the 2011 Typhoons page and prepared the 2012 page. Last year 7 typhoons and tropical storms hit the Philippines. Not strong winds but heavy rains killed lots of people and created...
Merry Christmas from Silent Gardens
The Silent Gardens Team wishes you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2012 Christmas in Camiguin, Barangay Bug-Ong
Tweet this!
You now can easily tweet a headline and link of an article you like. Simply press the “Tweet This!” button under the headline. Happy tweeting! waebi
Silent Gardens and Web 2.0
Sometimes we are overrun with inquiries but also with spam and hacking attempts. But it is still a real pleasure to have a Web 2.0 website, where people can communicate with us but this...
The blog is dead – long lives the blog
Our old blog lived 4 years and 11 months. Then it became too fat. Our hosters kicked us out. So we had to look for another software, install it, test it and configure it....
Currency Exchange Page added
Currency exchange rates are important for both tourists and expats. This is why we have added a Currency Exchange Page . See here a trend chart of the 4 most important currencies in the Philippines....
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