September 2011

Archive for September 2011

HTC Sim Unlock Scam Experience of my Friend

Here's another scam alert that my friend online discovered. Actually, he discovered it because he was the victim of the scam. My friend received his HTC Mytouch 4G as a "pasalubong" from his parents who just arrived from abroad. Since the phone was locked to T-mobile, he want it unlocked so he can use Philippine networks on it. He was online and found out www.htcsimunlock.com and was very happy about their cheap offer in unlocking the phone. At first, you will actually think that they are legit because of the design of their website. They website's layout was professionally designed. They even have testimonials that can help their visitors decide to buy their product. My friend, who's very desperate to use his brand new phone decided to grab the offer of HTCSimUnlock. Grabbed his credit card and paid them. He was so at ease using his credit card because he thought that this website is legit and yes, they have 100% money back guarantee. After paying for the product, he waited because it says there on their website that it has instant delivery. He waited for minutes, minutes became hours, hours became day and day became 3 days until he realized that he was scammed. He was scammed by HTCSimUnlock. Tried to contact them but none of them tried to get hold of my friend. When he tried to research about the company, he found out that he's not alone in this whole wide world. There's a lot of them who have been scammed by HTCSimUnlock. What's worse is that my friend's credit card was believed to be hacked by the people behind HTCSimUnlock. I advised my friend to contact Better Business Bureau and report the incident to them. Told my friend that next time he'll be purchasing something online, he should research about the website first and check if it's a scam or its legit.

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Was Here Widget for Blogger and Wordpress

A fellow blogger introduced me the Was Here plugin for my Blogger blog. Was Here plugin shows the recent visitors of your Blog who's logged in at Facebook. For you to use the plugin, you should first add the Was Here App in Facebook by simply clicking the Was Here icon on the plugin itself. Try it on my blog there on the right side. Woot! Click on this link to install Was Here plugin on your Blogger blog or Wordpress hosted blog.

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How To Get Facebook Timeline.

Facebook just announced a new layout on the profile page called "Timeline". As of this date, only Developers can be able to use Timeline on their profile pages. Right now, I am creating this post to give you tricks on how to activate your Facebook Timeline without waiting for the invite.

Step 1. Type on "developer" at the Search Box of your Facebook and hit the very first result. It has 1.5M active users.

Step 2. Click "Allow" on the pop up screen of the Developer App.

Step 3. You'll now be taken to the Developer's App or if not, try to check on the left side of your screen then click on it.

Step 4. Create a "New App" and give it a namespace. Remember, namespace should not contain capital letters, symbols and spaces. You don't really have to worry about the name because nobody will be viewing it.

Step 5. Click on the "Open Graph" at the left panel of the screen.

Step 6. You will now have to define an action for your app. Put an action word on the first box and the subject on the second box. Example: First Box = eat; Second Box = sandwich. After doing this, click "Get Started".

Step 7. On the next page, just keep on clicking Save Changes and Next until you reach "Save and Finish".

Step 8. After 2-3 minutes, go back to your Facebook's profile page and you should see an invite at the top of the page asking you to use "Timeline". Click on "Get it now" to start using Timeline.

Once you've done this 8 simple steps, you should now be viewing your Facebook profile page with Timeline Layout just like the picture at the top. Enjoy and don't forget to share this tutorial to your friends!

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AdSense display ads will now feature the +1 button

This is a great move from the Adsense team to put the +1 button on the display ads so readers and visitors of our blog can be able to recommend useful and helpful ads to other users. I was just thinking if we can't lose clicks on our Adsense display ads since people will only be clicking the +1 button instead of the ad itself. What do you think? Anyway, here's the official email from the Adsense team informing publishers about the new feature that they'll be adding on the display ads shown on our website or blog.

Hello,

In the next month, we'll introduce the +1 button and personal recommendations to display ads. The +1 button will begin to appear on AdSense for Content and AdSense for Mobile Content display ad formats -- image, animated gif, and Flash. +1s will be one additional signal to help determine an ad's relevance and we'll continue to show the ads that will generate the most revenue for you.
We previously launched the +1 button on Google search and for publisher sites to make it easier for people to share and discover content across the web. Soon, your users will be able to endorse specific ads and make the ads more likely to appear to their social connections. We believe that these recommendations could help your readers notice ads on your site more, leading to higher returns for you over time.
If you prefer not to show the +1 buttons on display ads on your pages, you can opt out in your account. For more information please visit the Inside AdSense blog.

Sincerely,
The Google AdSense team

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SUN Unlimited TEXTALL20

Sun Cellular, the mobile company who introduced unlimited call and text in the Philippines has just launched a new exciting offer to their subscribers, the SUN Unlimited TextAll20, that allows subscribers to send unlimited text to their friends and family that are subscribed to other network like Smart, Globe, Touch Mobile, Talk n' Text and Red Mobile. It will only cost P20 and is valid for 1 day. To register, just type UTEXTALL20 and send to 247 or you can load it easily to a Sun Xpressload retailer. Promo will be valid until December 31, 2011.

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Nokia 500 Preview

General: GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, UMTS 850/900/1700/1900/2100 MHz, HSDPA 14.4 Mbps, HSUPA 5.76 Mbps
Form factor: Touchscreen bar
Dimensions: 111.3 x 53.8 x 14.1 mm, 73 cc; 93 g
Display: 3.2-inch 16M-color nHD (360 x 640 pixels) TFT capacitive touchscreen
Memory: 2 GB of inbuilt storage, microSD card slot (up to 32GB)
OS: Symbian Anna OS
CPU: ARM 11 1GHz processor, 256 MB RAM
Camera: 5 megapixel fixed-focus camera with geotagging, VGA video recording @15fps
Connectivity: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, stereo Bluetooth v2.1, microUSB port, 3.5mm audio jack, GPS receiver with A-GPS
Misc: Accelerometer, Stereo FM radio with RDS, Flash lite 4.0, changeable colored back-panels, proximity sensor
Battery: 1110 mAh Li-Ion battery, quoted for up to 7h/5h talk time in GSM/HSDPA mode and 500h/455h standby.

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Smartphone's GPS, To Use or Not To Use?

Most Smartphones coming out of the market right now comes with a built-in GPS or the Assisted GPS (A-GPS). But only a few are using their GPS enabled phone for directions and recommendations. That's my personal observation on people I know who has a GPS enabled phone. They don't even know what GPS is or doesn't have any idea how to use it. My first device that has a built-in GPS is my Nokia N82. My purpose of buying the N82 back in 2008 was because of its high-end camera during those days and of course, the GPS.

In America, only 55% of Smartphone owners use their GPS to get directions and recommendations. Probably here in the Philippines, lower than 55% are using their Smartphone for GPS purposes. With me, I always travel and I use GPS when I'm not familiar to a certain place. Its very helpful when you have a handy GPS device on your pocket. In just a click of a button, you're good to go and you won't get lost in a middle of nowhere!

Here's a tip to those who want to take advantage of their GPS enabled phone, you install applications that doesn't connect to the Internet to download a map. Instead, download a map on your computer and transfer it to your mobile phone. That's what I did when I installed Garmin Mobile XT on my N82 and my Samsung B7300 Omnialite. I used Navphone before for my Nokia N82 but the problem is you only have limits to Manila, Cebu and Davao maps. The only disadvantage that I experienced when using the built-in GPS of my mobile phone is it consumes a lot of battery energy. So you better bring with you a charger or a back-up battery when travelling.

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World's Biggest and Largest Crocodile Captured in the Philippines

World’s biggest crocodile has been caught by villagers of Bunawan, Agusan Del Sur, Philippines. This salt water crocodile is believed to be 21ft long and weighing 2,369lb (1,075kg) and is suspected to be the cause of attacking 2 villagers in the area. The biggest crocodile currently holding a world record is at 18ft male currently residing at Australian Nature Park. Herpetologist, Bryann Barr, said "I'd be surprised if it was truly six meters,” Alligator biologist, Allan Woodward, also said “There’s never been a crocodile longer than approximately 18feet (5.5 meters)”.

Mayor of Bunawan town stretching his arms

Lolong, crocodile's given name, is inviting more tourist to the province

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Does God Exist? Einstein Explains it All

Here's what Albert Einstein, a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, has to say on that question we heard almost everyday from anyone.

Einstein: "Science without religion is lame"

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Nokia Tune Remake Contest! Winner gets $10,000!

Calling all the musicians and music director from the different part of the world, do you want $10,000 for free? Then you better check this new contest from Nokia! Nokia will be giving away $10,000 to the one who could create a remake of the famous Nokia Tune and $1,000 to the five (5) other runner-ups of the contest. Check on the video below and read on the Press Release of the Nokia Tune Remake Contest.

Press release:

Nokia launched a global crowdsourcing campaign to challenge people to get creative and compose their own versions of the iconic Nokia Tune.Entries can be heard, voted on and submitted at http://nokiatune.audiodraft.com.
The Nokia Tune originates from the composition ‘Grand Vals’ by Spaniard Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) and was first introduced as a ringtone in 1994 with the Nokia 2100 series. Since its inception, the Nokia Tune has become one of the world’s most frequently played pieces of music and has been the default melody in hundreds of millions of Nokia handsets. The Nokia Tune is estimated to be heard over one billion times a day.
Get in tune with your inner musicianNokia, together with AudioDraft, world experts in crowdsourcing audio creation,are looking for a tune that is fresh, expressive, original and creative, yet distinctively Nokia. Entrants are encouraged to experiment with both old and new Nokia Tunes and can also create their own musical parts, sounds and arrangements.The tune should be a maximum of 30 seconds in length and the deadline for submission is October 2, 2011.
The finaleThe five most voted or 'liked' entries will qualify as finalists. A further five finalists will be selected by the jury who will then ultimately select one winning entry from the ten finalists.The jury comprises some of the most respected names in the audio branding industry including: Kai Bronner, one of the founders of Audio Branding Academy; Julian Treasure, known for his TED talks and author of ‘Sound Business’; and Mark Dewings, head of Brand & Marketing Communications at SoundCloud. Nokia’s own SVP of Design, Marko Ahtisaari, is also on the seven member jury.
The prizesThe winning tune will be included in select models within the company’s 2012 product portfolio,an estimated 100 million devices. In addition, the winning tune will be made available on Ovi Store and featured in Nokia’s Brand Book. The winner will also be awarded a prize of 10,000 USD. The five runner-ups will have their versions of the Nokia Tune available in Ovi Store and will be awarded 1000 USD each.

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Empty

There are times that I really want to create a sensible post but I am not really certain what topic would I write. I have lots of topics in mind but I don't know where to start. I suppose I need an inspiration and a bit of reflection. I wonder why can't I create such sensible post where in fact my mind is loaded with topics. I envy those bloggers who could create posts almost everyday. I haven't updated my blog for more than 2 or 3 weeks now and that's because of me being empty. I don't know if it is because of a very stressful day that I have no time to think of what to post first and where to start or maybe I'm just very busy of other stuff and at work. My adsense clicks is not that good anymore and my traffic lowered. My blog's PR went down to 2 from 3 and that's difficult to cope up for me. Whew. This is hard, please, help me. I'm even too weak right now to express and to type this. Make me inspired. Whew.

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