Blogs

Link Exchange is not Good for Your Site or Blog

Why? Engaging in link exchange will create too much outbound links on your site. Outbound links or outcoming links are links or URLs found on your blog or website that when clicked lead to another site. Outbound links are usually URLs you collect from link exchange, blog referral banners or widgets, image and html links, and even the webpages you cite on your articles.  Note that too much outbound links decreases the authority of your website.  So what will happen? If you are really willing to build your site and get more traffic or visitors, you must establish higher content ... Read more

CloudFlare Keeps Your Website Running When Your Host Server is Down

With all this time, I wasn’t aware of CloudFlare. I was curious as to where a friend’s blog is hosted because I found it loading fast so I checked his who.is records. I found out that he’s name servers (NS) are set to CloudFlare name servers and then I got this question – Is there such a host? Curiosity also leads me to CloudFlare website. CloudFlare is CDN (Content Delivery Network) company that will help  improve access to the data (website data) it caches by increasing the access bandwidth and redundancy. CloudFlare protects your website data from potential cyber attacks (from hackers suspicious visitors) and spamming. ... Read more

February 12, 2012: Trending Today

Freedom Wall time stamp is based on GMT+8:00 (Manila, Singapore) time zone. Starting February 12, 2012, Freedom Wall will be peeking worldwide trends or the most talked about topic in twitter and the most searched information in Yahoo!. Posted screenshots are randomly taken at anytime of the day covered. On the pilot launch of Freedom Wall’s Trending Today, the sad news about the death of Whitney Houston is the hottest topic on the cyberspace. Twitter trends changes from time to time but “R.I.P Whitney Houston”  is the mainstay on the list. Whitney’s song, I will always love you, is also making ... Read more

Whitney Houston is Dead at 48

The singer-superstar, queen of pop music, multi-grammy award-winner, and Bodyguard star, Whitney Houston died recently and that is according to the singer’s publicist, Kristen Foster. There is no information released about the cause and the location of her death. The sad news is trending in twitter worldwide. Houston, whose career peaked in the middle of the 80’s and 90’s, was a recipient of 415 career awards which includes, two Emmy Awards, six Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards. Her second self-titled album (“Whitney”) debut at #1 on the Billboard Charts, the first female album to achieve ... Read more

Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City (PAGCOR City) 2012 Updates

(Updated: July 2012) Bagong Nayong Pilipino Entertainment City Manila, also called Bagong Nayong Pilipino Manila Bay Tourism City or simply PAGCOR City, is a Las Vegas-like, multi-billion dollar entertainment development at the 100-hectare reclaimed land in Parañaque City, an area south of Mall of Asia. The master plan was shown to the public early 2007 which was initiated by the former PAGCOR Chairman Efraim Geniuno. The US$20B project initially includes a 665-m (2,182-ft) tall PAGCOR Observatory Tower, believed to become the second tallest structure is the world after Burj Khalifa; a breathtaking Manila Eye, Philippine version of London Eye; a ... Read more

“GDrive”: Google Cloud Drive is Coming Soon

Cloud storage, a virtual storage, is the hottest thing in the storage trends. Without using any hard drive, which is prone to physical damage and thieves, you can store your files and share it with your peers anywhere and anytime provided you have an access to the internet. Dropbox and Box.net are the famous names in the cloud data storage services. Amazon has Cloud Drive, Apple has iCloud, Microsoft has Skydrive and finally, Google will have “GDrive”. Google, the company with the most internet-connected servers in the word, will be offering a cloud storage. This will add to the cloud-like ... Read more

Pocket Projector: Bundled with Samsung Galaxy Beam

A cellphone with a built-in project was a just dream few years ago. Now, it is completely a reality when Samsung Electronics released Samsung Galaxy Beam. The phone was announced two years ago as Samsung I8520 Halo and was released last July 2010 in Singapore under a carrier contract with Starhub. Worldwide release was August of the same with its Singapore release, however, it is not making a big wave on the market maybe because of poor publicity. The phone is already available yet rarely seen on the market stands, and only few individuals are aware of such phone. In ... Read more

Skyvi: Your Siri for Android

Imagining to talk to your Android phone? Don’t worry, it is no longer an imagination this time. If iPhone users can talk to their phone, request the phone to remind their users of a certain task, ask for a nearby coffee shop, or even to simply update their Facebook, Android users can do it too. iPhone’s Siri is really a sophisticated Apple technology which is bundled to the newly released iPhone 4S. Android, on the other hand, has Skyvi which was develop after the great success and positive feedback of Siri. Skyvi (unfair to say copycat), through voice command, will ... Read more

Technical Writing as a Career

Would you like to start a new career but couldn’t find a suitable job in the market or the competition may have been too stiff? Why not try technical writing. Do have any idea on the job? You may be reluctant to venture on a work that is unpopular and not-so-famous. The existence of such position itself is your question at this moment. But this is what I can assure you, technical writing is as old as the first television set ever built. It is because the individual who wrote the users’ manual you consulted for you to operate the ... Read more