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Google+ iPhone App comes to the Philippine AppStore

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Hooray for patience!

The Google+ iPhone app finally comes to the Philippine AppStore!

It’s been a long, agonizing wait for fangirls like me using non-jailbroken iPhones.

I have been tweeting like crazy the moment I found out that a native iPhone app for Google+ has been released only to be heartbroken when I found out it’s initially available to the US AppStore.

That means you need a US Apple AppStore (iTunes) account in order to download the app otherwise you’re stuck with the web/mobile site until it reaches your local AppStore.

And did I mention how painfully annoying the web app is? Ugh. I will spare you the negative vibes by not retelling my experience with it. Let me just say that it was frustrating to create a web app shortcut (“Add to Homescreen”) option on mobile Safari which persistently asks me for my password each time I tapped on the shortcut.

In fact, I blame my recent absence on Google+ entirely to the lack of a native app.

I don’t have the luxury of sitting in front of a desktop/laptop all day. My online activity, like most people nowadays owes 99% of it from my iPhone.

If a social network requires me to open Safari, it ain’t pretty. Ain’t cool. Because, you know, I’m a busy person (not!).

Anyway, so this is how my main screen looks (before) with the web app short.


See the 3rd icon right there? Yep, that’s my lame version of Google+ then.

Now, look at the same spot below. You see the difference? That’s the super cool Google+ native iPhone app! Fresh off the AppStore! :)


This is how the app’s main screen looks like.

This is my stream. You can swipe between “Circles”, “Incoming” and “Nearby”.

Tapping the Photos menu brings you to your uploaded photos and photos locally stored on your iPhone. All it takes is a tap to upload/share them to your Google+ account.


Wow. It’s like my prayers been heard. Now, let’s see if this actually makes me hang-out longer on Google+ from now on. But I have a strong feeling I will.

Have you downloaded the Google+ iPhone app? How was your experience with it?

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I’m RJ Marmol — writer, musician, and independent creator based in Manila.

I write songs, essays, and books about the messy overlap between money, overwhelm, creativity, identity, and rebuilding. Much of my work circles around what happens when life stops feeling manageable — and how we try to think clearly, make decisions, and keep moving anyway.

I’m also the author of Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur, a nonfiction book published under Steady Hand Press. The paperback edition is listed under my full publishing name, Cecilia Regina Aquino Blanquera.

On the music side, I release work as HeyRJ. On the writing side, this site is where I gather my books, essays, notes, and whatever I’m building next.

Music

HeyRJ is my sonic soul project. I create raw, minimalist-style and deeply personal music interpretations that feel like a late-night conversation with your truest self.

By blending lo-fi acoustic textures with poetic honesty, my work explores love, loss, grief, healing, and the quiet in-betweens of life. Each song is a letter — a journal entry — a gentle companion for when the world feels too loud or too quiet.

While my catalogue began with intimate cover renditions, my work is increasingly being shaped by original writing, drawing from years of poems, lived questions, and emotional survival.

“Stuck Home Syndrome” released on March 20, 2026 is my first original 20-track album written during a period when time felt compressed and days began to blur into each other. The songs came from sitting with thoughts that had nowhere else to go — unfiltered, repetitive, and sometimes uncomfortable. It’s a concept album that isn’t built around singles or polish. It’s closer to a continuous inner monologue, recorded with minimal production and very little ornamentation and meant to be listened to as one cohesive body of work. The goal wasn’t to resolve anything, only to document how it felt while it was happening.

On May 29, 2026 I released new original singles – “Rapturous”, “Uh Huh”, “Look At You”, “All That” and “Blew Print”. I continue to release both original and cover songs and intend to so for as long as I can so check back every once in a while — you might. just find something you’ll like.

For business inquiries relating to music, email me at: heyrjmusic[at]gmail[dot]com or my personal email at: rjmarmol[at]gmail[dot]com.

Books

Rebuilding Under Debt: Thinking Clearly When Everything Is a Blur

A nonfiction book about what debt does to the mind — and how to begin functioning again when financial stress has made everything feel blurred, urgent, and overwhelming.

Rather than treating debt only as a financial math problem, the book explores the emotional and cognitive realities of financial distress: shame, decision fatigue, avoidance, panic, relationship strain, and the difficulty of making sound decisions while mentally depleted.

Published under Steady Hand Press. It’s available worldwide in ebook and paperback formats on Amazon. Bookstores and libraries can also be order it wholesale via Ingram.

Contact

For book-related inquiries, media requests, bookstore questions, or discussion-group invitations, you can reach me through the contact page on this site or send me an email to rjmarmol[at]gmail[dot]com or hello[at]steadyhandpress.com

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