Free Internet 3G Modems in Guatemala
In February of 2009 I declared that soon enough there was going to Internet Access in Every Corner of Guatemala. Back then …
Internet Access in Every Corner of Guatemala
According to the statistics only 67% of the population has Internet access in Guatemala (source somewhere in elperiodico.com.gt or prensalibre.com.gt), but by …
McInternet in La Antigua Guatemala
It is not difficult to find internet access to check your emails while taking a break from Spanish classes. As you can …
Coffeehouses Are The Original Co-Working Spaces
As I have said before, coffee shops had been and still are the premier co-working spaces in Antigua Guatemala, especially when there’s …
Burning of the Devil in Antigua Guatemala Will Be an Ecological and Virtual Celebration for 2020
Needless to say 2020 is an atypical year, thus no burning of the devil celebration will be held in Antigua Guatemala as …
Co-working Spaces Available in Antigua Guatemala
Officially so far there are only two co-working spaces in Antigua Guatemala: Impact Hub, profiled back in October 2014 and Salina’s Co-working …
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala — Office with a View
As I have said before, coffee houses had been and still are the premier co-working spaces in Antigua Guatemala, especially when there …
Street Photography in Antigua Guatemala — Two phones or more
Guatemala’s National Telephone Company was so bad that land lines only represent less than 5% of all the telephone lines in Guatemala. …
Slices of Daily Life — Wi-Fi Sniffing
Let’s be honest, we all do it, especially so when we’re traveling and need to check something or post the latest update …
Coffee Shops Are The Original Co-Working Spaces
Coffee houses had been and still are the premier co-working spaces in Antigua Guatemala, especially when there’s a plentiful supply of delicious …
Coffee + WiFi in Antigua Guatemala
Back in the day when cyber cafes started back in the U.S., I always wondered why they were called cyber cafes when …
Let Lent Season Begin
Here’s you Spanish word of the day: Cuaresma or Lent. Once again, from the early morning reports started to pour in, around …
Let Lent Begin in Antigua Guatemala
Blip, blip, blip! Alert, alert, we break from our regular programming to bring you this important news update. From early in the …
The Maya and Smartphones
Several times I have covered the usage of technology by the Maya of Guatemala, either here in the archives of AntiguaDailyPhoto or …
Burning of the Devil in Antigua Guatemala
People gather around Barrio La Conception, Antigua Guatemala, on December 7 at 6pm for La Quema del Diablo, the burning the devil …
The Capture vs The Pose on Ash Wednesday in Antigua Guatemala
I love doing street photography and capturing candid images from the streets of Antigua Guatemala. In the almost eight years I have …
No, we don’t have Wi-Fi, Talk to each other.
One of the things that I find interesting is that in Guatemala there are free or semi-free Wi-Fi Internet access points everywhere. …
North by Northwest
Often I see visitors to Antigua Guatemala getting lost or asking for directions. It’s kind of interesting since La Antigua Guatemala is …
Diversify to Survive Approach in Antigua Guatemala
Lots of small mom-and-pop enterprises in Guatemala follow this time-tested diversification approach. I have cover this diversification previously extensively and I believe …
Theme Day: Electricity
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money. —Earl Wilson I …
Interesting Signs Found in Antigua Guatemala
The other day on my way to the office I came across these interesting signs. The sign that pulled me in was …
Maestros del Web in AntiguaDailyPhoto
I am a lucky guy! As I shared with you before, I am so lucky to have among my friends and acquaintances, …
Skyping from the Garden
Since there are so many wireless Internet access points (Wi-Fi) available in La Antigua Guatemala, it’s not unusual to see people calling …
Restaurant & Food Overview
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
Diablo Piñatas for Burning of the Devil
La quema del diablo (Burning of the Devil) used to be this tradition, little known outside of Guatemala. I say “used to …
El Día de la Raza Or Columbus Day
In Guatemala, October 12 is a national holiday known as Día de la Raza or Day of the Race. October 12 is …
Laying Fiber Optic Lines in Antigua Guatemala
La Antigua Guatemala is still working in becoming the first digital city in Central America. The first try which included a WI-FI …
Finca Washbasins and Water Tanks
Don’t ask me, but how did the venerable utilitarian pila (water tank) and lavadero (washbasin) became decorations elements or design accents? In …
The Maestro Behind MaestrosdelWeb
Like I declared yesterday, I am a lucky guy! I am so fortunate to have among my friends and acquaintances movers and …
Guatemalan Geek Squad Lunch
One important goal for me is to show you what’s possible and what’s available in La Antigua Guatemala. Believe it or not, …
Earphone Usage is Up in Antigua Guatemala
A few years back LD ranted about all the people she came across wearing earbuds while riding the public transit buses in …
Living La Vida Digital in Antigua Guatemala
I found the juxtaposition of cutting edge telecommunication technology and colonial lifestyle and architecture so fascinating and that’s why I have covered …
The Young Maya and Technology
On January 4, 2010, in the comments posted under Digital life in Antigua Guatemala, Braaad wondered aloud: “I can’t wait till smartphones …
Digital life in Antigua Guatemala
Guatemala is a country of contrasts and extremes. Here is todo o nada (all or nothing); there’s no medium. Here you find …
Stop, watch and observe
Sometimes I forget that I should simply disconnect from the Internet and go outside. This time Rudy Girón took me out, and …
iPhone Twitter Updates from Guatemala
Yes, believe it or not Guatemala is quite modern and Internet capable. Yes, Guatemala has 3.5G wireless Internet Access network in mayor …
The Venerable Colonial Pila is Now Used as Decoration
The venerable colonial pila from La Antigua Guatemala finds a new use as decoration in a fast food restaurant. What’s a pila …
Open Schools: Computer Workshops
Oh there is a revolution brewing down South in Meso-America. This revolution will not be televised. This revolution will be streamed! Let …
I wish you were sitting here
For a long time I did not want to take the same shots from Antigua Guatemala that everybody else does. Also, I …
Wireless Antigua Guatemala
Details, details, details. Oh boy, here are those ugly power lines again. But wait, what’s in the background? Sure enough, now everywhere …
Breaking News: Ash Wednesday In Antigua
pushwigh#@%&?¿… blip! Alert, alert, we break from our regular programing Details, details, details to bring you this important news update. From early …
Public WiFi Zone in Antigua Guatemala
About a month ago I reported that La Antigua Guatemala had become the first digital city in Central America, but I did …
La Antigua Guatemala Becomes the First Digital City in Central America
The above sign about ZONA WIFI (wifi zone) now on display on the four corners of the Plaza Mayor (Main Plaza) of …
Horseback Riding Through Town
Whenever you come across people riding horses or donkeys over the cobblestone streets of La Antigua Guatemala you feel like you are …
The Computer Enters the Guatemalan Market
There’s no coming back. I was surprise to see a computer being used among all the fresh produce in the mercado (market) …
iPhone 3G on Sale in La Antigua Guatemala
Modernity has arrived to the quincentennial Antigua Guatemala. Surely you remember all the talk about the cellular telephones available from Q100 with …
Guatemalan Cuisine: The Kak’ik
Your comments and feedback are very important and often show me the way for future posts or follow ups. Such was the …
Guatemalan Alligators in the Brink of Extinction
That’s right, these poor fellas will be history pretty soon! This variation of the Guatemalan bread is known locally as lagartos (alligators) …
Pirujos Locos of Roy.Com in Antigua
Are pirujos and shucos sandwiches getting out of hand? Come on, who can eat a sandwich this big. Just to clarify, the …
Window view of Mountains around La Antigua Guatemala
As beautiful, cosmopolitan, antique and modern as it is La Antigua Guatemala, many people choose to live in one of the surrounding villages that belong to the municipio (county) of La Antigua Guatemala. There are many reasons for this decision which range from the economics, ‘real guatemalan experience’, or simply to live in a more natural and greener environment.
Arch column in Jocotenango
Okay enough is enough. If you browse the Arches category you can find 22 entries and that is not counting all the arches that have appeared through the 535 consecutive days, but I have not tagged or classified as arches. Not once I have talked about the simple column that supports the arch; that is wrong if you consider that it takes two columns to support a single arch.
Café Y tu Piña También plus WIFI
Boy oh boy, bagels, English muffins, exotic pastries, all the cookies in the rainbow, the best coffee and Wi-Fi internet access can almost make you forget you are in a Spanish colonial town embedded between coffee plantations, flower farms and volcanoes in the central mountain range of this tiny banana baby-exporting republic known as Guatemala.
Coffee, Bagels and WIFI in La Antigua Guatemala
The Bagel Barn is one of those rare places that offer magnificent coffee, light and tasteful bagel sandwiches and free WIFI so you can update your blog or site if you bring a laptop with wireless connection. I showed the Bagel Barn blackboard menu before to talk about WIFI access points throughout Antigua Guatemala. Free WIFI access points —wireless internet access for those who don’t know what wifi is— are actually available in many restaurants and cafes around Antigua. You can check you email, look at some photos on Flickr or watch videos on Youtube, on Pollo Campero, McDonald’s, Burger King and other small bistros. Boy! how I wish I had a new laptop.
McDonald’s Patio and Garden in La Antigua Guatemala
Believe it or not, the McDonald’s restaurant in La Antigua Guatemala is very nice place to meet for coffee with friends and …
WI-FI Around Antigua Guatemala
La Antigua Guatemala, despite its name (Old Guatemala City) and its architecture, is a modern city with cutting-edge technologies like Wireless Internet …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Pirujos antigüeños
This sandwich is called Pirujo and it takes its name from the bread’s name. Pirujos and shucos are the two native sandwiches …
Dichotomy: high tech vs low tech
hi-tech low-tech, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Often in La Antigua Guatemala you find this dichotomy: old against new, high technology against low …
Wireless knife sharpener
Unplugged knife sharpening, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Antigua is a modern city with cutting-edge technologies like wireless internet, satellite television, direct tv, …