Good Buy Laptops

The dropping prices of laptop and the spread of establishments offering wireless internet connection is indeed a sign that today is the age of mobility. The growing number of mobile phones with WLAN capability also verifies this. Cyberspace was never as accessible as today!

I have been thinking of the best buy laptop that one can avail. The key is not only to find the lowest tagged unit but the one with a reasonable specifications. An item may be cheap but it might still be not of best value. Good thing that Yahoo! Shopping came up with a least of best laptops under $500 article. As for me, I would want one that can handle online gaming. Bring on those heavy graphics!

Niche Blogging

Have you ever wanted to start your own niche blog? I sure did. Sadly, Im a jack of all trades, master of none type of person. So I found it best to maintain a generalist blog. I also tend to shift interest easily. I have gone from photography, to running, to crocheting, to web development and the list may go on. With that rate, I might end up producing a number of sites then failing to update them afterward.

That is why I salute those people who manages to come up with a niche blog with good contents. Those people deserves all the hits they’ve been getting be it about photography, blogging, technology, or even insurance blog; writing with a specific subject while maintaining variation is no easy job.

Do you have a niche blog in mind that you want to start with soon?

Advice to Facebook Users

Facebook is a social networking site privately owned and operated by Facebook, Inc. and has been operational since 2006. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg along with Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.

In the Philippines, it is safe to conclude that Facebook is the most popular networking sites today. This is probably due it’s neat layout and cool applications and games. Aside from the usual personal profile, Facebook also serves as fan pages for well-known organizations and personalities. The leading news networks even utilized the site as a means for voters to report complaints and anomalies in the recently concluded national election.

Despite the popularity, there is an issue constantly being raised by critics of the site. Privacy. Consumer Reports Magazine advises users to stop doing the seven things below in order to protect one’s identity from theft:

Using a Weak Password
Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile
Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls
Posting Your Child’s Name in a Caption
Mentioning That You’ll Be Away From Home
Letting Search Engines Find You
Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised

For an elaborate explanation, you may visit this article in Yahoo! Finance.

Online Courses

Ours is a busy generation. It takes great management skills in order for one to perfectly juggle one’s professional and personal life. We have obligation to fulfill while still having goals and dreams to reach.

Good thing that we are seeing more educational institutions offering online courses. It gives us the opportunity to pursue further studies while attending our daily responsibilities. It’s schooling at our convenient time. University of the Philippines for one have their Open University program. I also here of some medical assisting school that help students pursue their medical objectives.

This is one wonder of technology that we all should be grateful for.

Point-of-Sale Systems

One of the most important innovation in the retail industry is probably the Point-of-Sale (POS) System. It can do more than the usual cash register as POS not only keeps track of sales but also your inventory. It can also print informative invoices and receipts that can help you out in making decisions and can also handle credit and debit card payments.

There are three POS systems that are being used. If you are involved in a large retail store, it is best to grab a Controller-based POS System where all computer terminals are connected to a single computer that can handle all information and transactions.

Power Voting For Internet Explorer Users

Some browsers, including IE and Opera, are not able to recognize the coding of the Power Button code. Users of these browsers are then advised to create multiple bookmarks of the site instead. Below is how it is done using Internet Explorer 8 but the same principle can be applied to other browsers including Firefox and Opera.

STEP 1

1. Go to http://heroes.cnn.com/confirmvote.aspx?id=06&lang=1
2. Press CTRL + D to open the Add a Favorite dialog box.
3. Assign a unique name so as to avoid being prompted to overwrite later on.
4. Under “Create In:“, click New Folder.
5. A Create a Folder window will pop-up. Type Power Vote as the folder name.
6. Click Create.
7. Click Add.

STEP 2

1. With the same browser still open, again press CTRL + D.
2. Assign a unique name for the page.
3. Under the title “Create In:“, click the drop down arrow and select Power Vote.
4. Click Add.
5. Repeat this set as desired.

NOTE:
I advise not to bookmark more than 10 as the page loading becomes slow resulting to expired pages.

TO VOTE

1. Go to Favorites.
2. Click the button beside the Power Vote folder to open all bokmarked pages in a tab.
3. Type in the blank field the code as it appears.
4. Press VOTE.

Below is a video tutorial:

Handheld Laptops?

Laptop owners have drastically increased in the past few years. Thanks to the growing popularity of networking sites, internet hotspots, and laptop prices being more affordable; we can now call this generation as the laptop generation.

I think the price war have already been won. Laptop manufacturers are now battling out for mobility. We are now seeing units shrinking down in size yet maintaining a decent specs. In fact, Sony Vaio’s P Series Lifestyle PC only has an 8″ LED Backlit Extra-Wide LCD. Only a few inches bigger than their PSP.

A very handy unit for those people always on the go while needing to stay online.

Space Bound

What could possible be better than weight loss pills? Going to outer space where weight practically doesn’t matter.

Of course there is still no travel package to get us in orbit but NASA have a few more bytes allotted for you to send your name to Mars with their Science Laboratory rover on 2011! Go to this website and add your name to the list. You will then receive a printable certificate with your own unique number.

Be part of history as it becomes our turn to finally say, “Greetings Martians!”

Audio and Video Conversions

My life has indeed gone digital. From maintaining accounts in various websites to owning portable devices, my life (though not hectic) can easily be on-the-go. My workstation have transcend from tables and shelves to a computer with an internet.

However, one of the problems in portability is converting files from format to format that will be compatible with your device. A “one man killing machine” software is hard to get by these days. Thank God for Blaze Media Pro.
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Carry A Big Memory Stick

“I speak softly, but I carry a big stick!”

Portable memory storage has become popular these days that even non-tech savvy people carries them for “just in case” moments. I guess this popularity is also due to fact that a memory stick has become affordable these days. I bought my 256MB stick three years ago for the price of today’s 4GB.

It is indeed handy to carry a storage device especially in a digital era. You can conveniently carry important files and documents around ready for viewing /printing anytime. Plus, you can readily copy your friends’ interesting files stored in their laptops. Just be sure to ask their permission first.

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