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Top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009

2009-12-27T11:02:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to our top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009!

Our judges from Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao did very well in their tasks and the organizer would like to extend his heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to the three pinoy bloggers judges namely: Jehzeel Laurente, Nancy Cudis and Ariel Lalisan.

Moreover, the organizer would like to thanks the sponsors who made this online event successful.

Here is the complete list of top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 with their corresponding ratings (the final average garnered from the summation of the final ratings of each judges divided by three). The ratings or grades are based on the criteria given in the Nomination post.

1. CEBU: Celebrations. Eats. Bargains. Updates | 94.33 %

Jehzeel Laurente's Comment: Laagcebu.com is a must-read for everyone who wants to know more about Cebu. It contains all the useful and relevant information about festivals, tourist attractions, culture, food, local news and everything you need to know about the Queen City of the South.

2. Hungit Cebu | 91.33 %

3. SoloflightEd | 88.33 %

4. Kevin Ray N. Chua | 88.00 %

5. iBeejing.com | Get A Life! | 87.33 %

6. McBilly dot com on Blogging, Technology, and Self Improvement! | 86.67 %

7. PINOYWORLD Philippines | Pinoy Blogger's Official Blog | 86.33 %

8. d'MusicBox | we’re BLARING through your Monitors and Speakers!| 86.00 %

9. Cebu Festivals - The different festivals in Cebu Philippines.| 85.67 %

10. Cebu's Kiatan | Blogging Queen City Philippines CEBU | 85.33 %

For all the winners, please contact me at email: mmonta(at)dostscholars(dot)org to get your certificate and prizes. And please do grab the Best Cebu Blog Badge HERE.

Once again, thank you very much for supporting and checking on the Best cebu Blogs. Looking forward for the top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2010. Here are the winners of Best Cebu Blogs of 2008.

Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 Prizes and Sponsors

2009-12-26T06:50:00.000-08:00

The top 1 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 will get a Certificate of Recognition, a Thinking Tools Notebook Case, a Blogging from Home booklet and the blogger can grab the official BCB badge.

The top 2 and 3 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 will get a Certificate of Recognition, a Blogging from Home booklet and the blogger can grab the official BCB badge.

The top 4 to 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 will get a Certificate of Recognition and can grab the official BCB badge.

The organizer would like to thanks the sponsors for this online event:

For Mr. Anonymous, who shared his new Thinking Tools Notebook Case for the winner.

For Ms. Janette Toral, who sponsored three booklets of her self-authored Blogging from Home

For Ruben Rallos, who designed and printed the 10 Certificate of Recognition for Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 winners and for the Certificate of Acknowledgement to the 3 competitive judges; Jehzeel Laurente, Nancy Cudis and Ariel Lalisan.

For Prince Ryan Gilig, who designed the official Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 online badge.

To all of you, thank you very much.

We will be announcing the winners this coming December 28, 2009.

Top 20 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009

2009-12-19T11:32:00.000-08:00

Out of 76 outstanding Cebu Bloggers, the judges have decided and ripped down the number to 20. The same criteria for judging was used. But before the top 20 list of Best Cebu Blogs of 2009. The organizer would like to thanks Prince Ryan Gilig for designing the official Badge of BCB 2009.

Note: Please do not grab this badge, this is intended
for the official top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009.

Top 20 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 are the following, in no particular order:

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Kevin Ray N. Chua
Cebu Festivals - The different festivals in Cebu Philippines.
iBeejing.com | Get A Life!
Shutter Guru
McBilly dot com on Blogging, Technology, and Self Improvement!
Adventures & Piggin Out of a Cebuano Nomad!
Hungit Cebu
d'MusicBox | we’re BLARING through your Monitors and Speakers!
EMPRESSOFDRAC.COM, Agnes Embile Jimenez's Official Website
CEBU: Celebrations. Eats. Bargains. Updates
Cebu Events, Festivals, Latest Music and Technology, Celebrities and Controversys
My Name is Hope
www.tianexxtreme.com | The Extrimist's Adventures
Vernon Go's Frustrated Life
PINOYWORLD Philippines | Pinoy Blogger's Official Blog
Sinjin's House
The Extraordinary Kiddo
SoloflightEd
time waits for no one..
Cebu's Kiatan | Blogging Queen City Philippines CEBU

For the Final 10, it will be announced on December 28, 2009 (Monday) and they will receive freebies, certificates and BCB official badge. A specific rating of each top 10 finalists will be defined by the judges using the same criteria. The top 20 listed above are automatically the finalists for top 10 Best Cebu Blog of 2009.

The organizer would like to thank our judges, for their full time support most especially to Nancy who did the judging very early in the morning. To the Top 20, Congratulations and way to go.

Microsoft China's Microblogging Service: A Copycat Of Plurk

2009-12-15T01:28:00.000-08:00

I need not to expand the details regarding this news, but you can find and know more in Plurk's Blog, Microsoft China rips off Asia’s No. 1 Microblogging Service .

Plurk has been a daily site for me since i registered in. I enjoyed the company, laughters and advices from my friends and fans there, and i just don't get it, why the biggest software company do copy the codes and design of the number one Microblogging service in asia, our PLURK. In fact, if they have the best developer in the world, they can make their own microblogging service without copying the codes and the worst, the design and template.

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I am not judging, i am just giving my feelings towards this online incident. So for you my dear readers and visitors, check below screenshots of the similarities of the two microblogging service from Microsoft and Plurk.

Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 kicks off

2009-12-10T04:28:00.000-08:00

Objective:
To promote Cebu through Best Cebu Blogs

Nominations: (Nomination is officially close)
1. All Cebu Bloggers Society Members are automatically nominated for the Best Cebu Blogs of 2009
2. Non-CBS bloggers who are based in Cebu can nominate themselves by posting comments using the format below:

Name: __________________
Blog URL: ________________
Email-Ad: ________________

3. Self-nomination starts on December 10 and ends on December 18, 2009.
4. On December 20, 20 blogs will be shortlisted
5. Judging for the top 10 Best Cebu Blogs of 2009 will be on December 21-25, 2009
6. Judge’s decision is irrevocable and final.
7. Winners will be posted here on December 28,2009.

Criteria for Judging:
1. Content = 30% [Grammar, integration of photos, videos and other media, and blog's influence on its chosen niche]

2. Design and Layout = 30% [user-friendliness and appeal]

3. Relevance to Cebu = 40 % [At least promote Cebu through any featured posts showcasing Cebu Beach, Cebu Events, Cebu’s Pride, Cebu’s Hotel or the like]

Prizes and Certificates:
The top 10 Best Cebu Blogs winners will get a Certificate of Recognition each signed by the organizer and one of the Judges, a BCB Badge and some freebies (to be identified by
our kind sponsors soon)
Updated: For the First place, a Thinking Tools Notebook Case will be given. For the rest, the organizer is still negotiating with SM City Cebu Foodcourt and Jobsdb for possible sponsorship of the prizes.

The Judges:

| Jehzeel Laurente | a professional blogger of Manila, a SEO experts, web designer experts on xHTML/CSS. The creator of the ever famous Blue Stick Man. He received much recognition and awards like:

Featured in Manila Bulletin Blog-O-Rama
Ranked 1st out of 100 Blogs in the Philippines’ Top 100 Blogs for 2008
Featured in Entrepbuff’s WBW: Week 32
First Asia-Pacific Blog Awards Most Influential Blog Category Finalist

BLOG URL: http://www.jehzlau-concepts.com/

| Nancy R. Cudis | an outstanding Sunstar Writer, Journalist and a professional blogger. A fresh recipient of the Best News Reporting in Cebu Archdiocesan Mass Media Awards (CAMMA) for 2009.
BLOG URL: http://nrcblogs.wordpress.com/ | http://nrcportfolio.wordpress.com/

| Ariel Lalisan | a professional blogger and outstanding Physics Teacher of Alabel National Science High School in Sarangani Province. He was the Editor-in-Chief and Web Administrator of OMNIANA, the official student publication
BLOG URL: http://ariellalisan.org

What are you waiting for? Nominate yourself and be proud to be a Cebuano Blogger. You can check last year winners for the top 10 best Cebu Blogs.

RANPX: Ran Online Holiday Treat for Online Gamers

2009-12-05T09:32:00.000-08:00

Online games are existing left and right, different games are showcased by different developers. This is an advantage to online gamers most especially the Cebu Gamers because they have tons of choices to play on. Level up games like RAN online, RPG (Role Playing Game) are some examples of these internet games which are usually catered and highlighted by some internet cafes in their own stations.

So what's with online games? Well, for RAN gamers out there, good news has come. RANPX will have its online Grand Launching this December 15, 2009. Lots of surprises and offers are being cooked for you.
This could be the most and great holiday treat for online gamers out there. You may download the Client side and discuss, talk or speak out with this latest game craze at RANPX Forum site.

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What is RAN Online?

RAN Online is an MMORPG with a unique premise. Players take on the roll of students in one of three rival universities and must compete with one another while surviving on campuses filled with possessed AI enemies. Unfortunately, the gameplay in Ran is not as original as the theme. The classes and combat style in the game are nearly identical to the standard fantasy MMORPGs currently available. Even though Ran Online has only recently resurfaced in the West, it has the disadvantage of being an older game and thus suffering from poor visuals and grind based progression.

Classes:

Shaman – These students use wands to channel the spiritual energy known as Qi to heal and buff their allies. Shamans may also specialize to use Spears.
Brawler - Melee fighters who have shunned all weapons in favor of unarmed combat.
Archer - Mastering the bow requires high agility and dexterity. Students may chose to use either the short bow or long bow.
Swordsman - Formidable warriors who must be both strong and agile. Swordsman can specialize in ‘blades’ or ‘broadswords.’

So what is the promo and treat all about? Check this out...

For our First batch of 50 Registrants, you will have the privilege to get 50% discount in all items you want!

For our Second batch of 50 Registrants, you will have the privilege to get 40% discount in all items you want!

For our Third batch of 25 Registrants, you will have the privilege to get 20% discount in all items you want!

So HURRY NOW! Go Register and Get discounts to you items!!!

New friendster, New Logo, New Face

2009-12-04T02:55:00.000-08:00

A green friendster.com was launched early this morning. Lots of feedback and shocking moments scattered all over the net, from twitter, plurk to facebook, all of them is shouting for this new move of Friendster. So why rebranding Friendster?

Friendster, Inc. is targeting Asian Youth particularly at Southeast Asia in which our country, Philippines is located. As reported by Friendster site, they are the leading website throughout the said continent with over 75 million registered users and over 90 percent of daily traffic coming from the specified region.

"We understand our users and our major markets in Asia better than anyone. This is just the beginning of a series of new products and services catering to the needs of our users, and in a way unmatched by any other social network." said Richard Kimber, chief executive officer at Friendster.

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As everyone noticed, Friendster.com is now adapting the greener effect and color combination in their homepage. New logo is also noticed and most of all, the template or format in your profile looks like partly the same with Facebook especially the location of your message, application and other notifications links which can be seen under your profile picture. In addition, i noticed, the shoutout part (which is the same with status in facebook) is being developed and have given an emphasis; located just in the upper center part of your profile.

[Are there any similarities? hmmm]

Lots of changes were made, and new services or product were introduced:

* The Friendster Wallet is a new micro-payments platform that allows users to purchase products and services on Friendster such as virtual gifts, and to send and receive money to one another. The Friendster Wallet enables users to store account balances and supports a variety of payment methods including pre-paid cards, mobile payments, online payments and credit card payments. Moving forward, Friendster will enable users to make purchases surrounding online games and other offerings. The Friendster Wallet is powered via a partnership with MOL AccessPortal Berhad (MOL)*, a leading payments provider leveraging a network of over 500,000 physical and virtual payment channels worldwide.

* The Friendster Gift Shop enables the Friendster community to send virtual gifts to one another, quickly and conveniently. Friendster Gifts are used to send personal gestures of kindness, celebrate significant accomplishments, and recognize friends and family on special days, like birthdays, or just for fun. A variety of gift themes are supported and more will be added over time. Currently, users can choose from virtual birthday gifts, collectible gifts, greeting gifts, premium gifts, romance gifts, seasonal gifts, thank you gifts and more.

* Friendster Games is an online games destination, which will offer Friendster users a wide variety of fun, entertaining games and applications to play online with their friends. Building on the games already available on the site (through the 'Fun' menu on the Navbar), users will be able to easily search and bookmark the games they like to play. Game developers will be able to incorporate The Friendster Wallet into their games, allowing them to participate in the Friendster micro-payments ecosystem.

Logitech Great Festive Deals

2009-11-25T01:25:00.000-08:00

Logitech, a true leader in innovation and design, a world leader in personal peripherals, driving innovation in PC navigation, internet communications, digital music, home-entertainment control, gaming and wireless devices, extends the spirit of the holidays through their Great Festive Deals. In this wired and wireless era, Christmas wishers will be typing their list for this coming Yuletide season, for sure gadgets and other computer peripherals are on the top list. Just like the Free Wi-Fi offers of Google in almost all US airports, Logitech is very happy of helping techie shoppers in getting their hands on cool Logitech peripherals.

From November 25 to December 30, 2009, Logitech is giving free H165 headset for every purchase of V470 Cordless laser Mouse or V550 cordless Laser mouse or Premium Notebook headset. And free Z103 speaker for every purchase of Illuminated keyboard or Webcam C905.

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“We always seek to enhance our customers’ shopping experience,” said Moninder Jain, director, Logitech Asia Pacific and South Asia business markets. “By having a Christmas promotion, we are able to give our customers a chance to own Logitech peripherals .”

Logitech notebook peripherals included in the promotion to enhance consumers’ digital lifestyle during this season.

So how do these gadgets and computer devices look like?

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Logitech had garnered numbers of awards from the previous years. Here are some of them:

Good Design Award 2008
CES 2008 Best of Innovations Honneree
CES Innovations 2008 - "Design and Engineering Showcase Honors"
iF Product Design Award 2008
2007 red dot Design Award
Tone Magazner - Gold Award
Impulse Gamer - Editor's Choice

Truly a leader and indeed customer oriented company.
Here are the contacts and location for the great deals:

[1] SILICON VALLEY (032)234-0456

[2] THINKING TOOLS:

CEBU MAIN OFFICE:
TTI Building, Junquera Ext. cor. R.R.Landon St., Cebu City
Tel. No. (32) 254-2227
Fax No. (32) 254-9791
e-mail: sales@tti.com.ph / service@tti.com.ph

MANDAUE CITY BRANCH:
TTI Building, Cebu North Road, Tabok, Mandaue City
Tel. No. (32) 345-2227, 343-8920, 343-8922
Fax No. (32) 343-8886
e-mail: ttimandaue@tti.com.ph

SM CITY-CEBU:
3rd Level, SM City-Cebu, North Reclamation Area, Cebu City
TeleFax No. (32) 234-1788
e-mail: ttism@tti.com.ph

SM CITY-CEBU Cyberzone:
2nd Level, SM Cebu-Northwing, North Reclamation Area, Cebu City
TeleFax No. (32) 412-1040
e-mail: ttism@tti.com.ph

AYALA CENTER CEBU:
3rd Level, Ayala Center Cebu, Cebu Business Park, Cebu City
TeleFax No. (32) 234-1799
e-mail: ttiayala@tti.com.ph

Microsoft exposes Top 25 Computer Security Threats

2009-11-18T03:04:00.000-08:00

As reported by Microsoft Australia chief security advisor Stuart Strathdee, business institutions must remain vigilant and continue to protect their computers for possible threats. Most of this security threats come from malware or malicious software [70%] and 30% come from "potentially unwanted software"

For Australian computers, the most dominant threat are "Trojans", followed by "Zango Search Assistant" adware. Here is the complete list of top 25 threats.

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1. Win32/Renos - 56,732 (downloads)
2. Win32/ZangoSearchAssistant - 46,266
3. Win32/Alureon - 43,043
4. ASX/Wimad - 27,948
5. Win32/Vundo - 23,352
6. Win32/FakeXPA - 22,867
7. Win32/Zlob - 22,610
8. Win32/ZangoShoppingreports - 21,794
9. Win32/Hotbar - 20,595
10. Win32/Agent - 19,990
11. Win32/Taterf -12,365
12. Win32/Yektel - 11,341
13. Win32/Conficker -10,663
14. Win32/Koobface - 10,625
15. Win32/FakeRean - 10,618
16. Win32/Winwebsec - 10,413
17. Win32/Tibs - 10,373
18. Win32/SeekmoSearchAssistant - 9,555
19. Win32/InternetAntivirus - 9,090
20. Win32/C2Lop Miscellaneous - 7,801
21. Win32/Obfuscator - 5,733
22. Win32/Frethog Password - 5,575
23. Win32/PowerRegScheduler - 5,522
24. Win32/RealVNC - 5,374
25. Win32/Small - 5,108

Google offers Free Holiday Wi-Fi

2009-11-11T02:37:00.000-08:00

As announced last November 10 at Mountain View, California, Google Inc will provide free Wi-Fi service to almost 47 airports in United States as their holiday gift through January 15, 2010. This move is part of their early gift sharing to the people especially this upcoming Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Holiday, which are one of the heaviest travel seasons of the year.

"We're very happy to extend our Holiday Wi-Fi gift to the millions of people who will spend time in airports over the next few months," said Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products and User Experience at Google. "We know that this is a very hectic travel season for people, and we hope that free Wi-Fi will make both traveling and connecting with friends and family a little bit easier."

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[47 participating Airports]

Moreover, users who are accessing the free Wi-Fi service can donate any amount to the three Google's specified charities and their donations will be matched by Google. And the airport network that generates the highest amount per passenger by January 1, 2010 will receive $15,000 to donate to the local nonprofit of their choice.

Inline to this action, users or people can also win cool prizes from Google by just submitting a photo of them using the Wi-Fi in any participating airport and the winning piece will be featured in www.freeholidaywifi.com [Google's official site for this promo]

Remote Access Software in its Best

2009-11-06T03:21:00.000-08:00

Before I became an IT Support Technician, I already knew Remote Desktop Protocol in every Windows XP workstation. After then, I was introduced to VNC Viewer when I started my first troubleshooting request. These remote tools have been already part of its history. Especially now, lots of IT techniques and tools are spreading online and are ready for download or available for using.

But have you heard of a Remote Access Software with a 256-bit encryption security, the highest in its class? IT support and Helpdesks or even a simple household personnel or family member can use this software not just in troubleshooting purposes but of course assisting your love ones in their project or research as long as they are connected to your network or via internet. Proxy Pro 7 is the number one remote access software nowadays. With its security feature that includes encryption and windows authentication, users feel no worry for their data or connection is well-protected.

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For everybody’s knowledge, lots of technicians, IT professionals or even executives are now upgrading and purchasing Proxy Pro 7. Not just because of their well presented and supported features but of course; Proxy Networks, Inc is a business oriented company that is protecting every data or information in every business entities or party.

MSN New Look: A major make-over

2009-11-04T03:27:00.000-08:00

MSN.com, Microsoft's website, has its new look on Wednesday at the US time. Lots of changes were made, some part of the old stuff were removed and some boxes were added. As advised by Erik Jorgenson, corporate vice president for MSN, the new design aims to address customer or user's feedback and complaints. Some of which are the following points:

Too much Clutter in the old MSN.com
Hard time finding what users were looking for
Dissatisfied with search results prior to the launch of BING
The old MSN had an outdated look and feel

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As i checked it in their preview site, at the bottom right, links to the Facebook and Twitter sites were added in a box. Also, what captured my attention the most, is the slider just above the header part. It contains the latest updates and news featured in the site. I think it follows the latest trends of blogger's template. Generally, the site are divided into sections which in return give the users a fun way of browsing and searching using their bing search engine site.

The enough misery stamps before a star bankrupt.

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) is available

2009-10-29T15:28:00.000-07:00

It was last February 20 of this year, Mark Shuttleworth announced to the offline and online community on the upgrade of its Ubuntu OS from 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) to Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala). It focuses mainly on the improvements of its cloud computing using the Eucalyptus, boot times, improved audio and 3g connectivity, enhanced netbook remix and other related features.

As initially declared, this version is dedicated to the release of new theme but however, the project was just moved to 10.04 in which little improvement was observed in its default theme. Moreover, graphical enhancements, bootup and shutdown splash, login screen, and improved performance on intel graphics chipsets are just some of the added features. And oops, their Firefox is now in its 3.5 version, nice one!

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Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition is already available and is free of charge as confirmed by the Ubuntu team. Click HERE for the free Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop edition download.

I was just dismayed because there is no Philippines selection in its download location but i bet we can try some tricks.

Happy Ubuntu Day to all.

Yahoo Geocities formally shuts down

2009-10-26T10:34:00.000-07:00

October 26 is the formal shut down of 15 years in service Yahoo Geocities. The announcement was made last April of the same year but is realized just today. After 26, lots of personal blog and student's project site are no longer available and users/owners can no longer access their files and sites.

For users who definitely love their websites, Yahoo has options and offers you a premium upgrade with their hosting service in just $4.99.

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Everybody remembered why Yahoo decided to do this move, "We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways", the company explained.

I remembered my Web and HTML programming subject and my personal sites. Goodbye to you! ~sigh~

Windows 7 Upgrade: a problem to Students

2009-10-26T10:15:00.000-07:00

Microsoft offers students an option, instead buying the whole package of windows 7 in a box, they can have it download and upgrade their system in a website in just $ 29. The move was great but several students have reported lots of issues and error encountered upon downloading or with in the process of upgrading.

The most common issue that students encountered is the fact that they cannot easily upgrade a 32-bit version of Vista to 64-bit version of windows 7. At the end, it requires a clean installation thus deleting all previous installed components or simply reformatting and installed the new OS.

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These are some of the errors encountered:

Error “We are unable to create or save new files in the folder in which this application was downloaded.”

Error “This version of the file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.”

Error “An error has occurred. Unspecified error.”

Description of the above errors are being determined at Social Answers of Microsoft and in addition, there is an established thread for possible work arounds of the said errors and others.

Working with Windows 7 by Voice Commands

2009-10-23T14:29:00.000-07:00

This can be a very interesting post ever in my blog.

Speech Recognition is a feature already available in windows vista and is now in full blast in windows 7, the most talked OS online and offline. So how do Speech Recognition and Voice Commands work? As i did my report in Management and Information System, i learned a lot in the field of Artificial Intelligence most especially its most used subfield in business, the Expert Systems. But as of now, what captured my interest is the other subfield of AI, the NLP or Natural Language Processing in which Speech Recognition and Voice Commands are part of. Truly, technology is getting more and more complicated and oops!, of course, useful.

What is Natural Language Processing? This is a process in which human language will serve as input to NLP programs and translate it into a standard set of statements that a computer can execute. And one of most promising product of which is the Speech Recognition and Voice Commands of Microsoft Windows 7.

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And now, let us tackle more on the voice commands. But first, you need to have a high-quality microphone and i believe Microsoft recommends a USB headset model for wise and best performance. After then, we can start commanding our computer with some of below guides, words and/or phrase with their corresponding actions and outcome.

"Start" - Windows Speech Recognition will open and display the START menu
"All Programs" - Of course, this will display all programs installed in the system and after then, you may continue working with that specified program
"open (program)" - this command is applicable only if you already know the specified program and for that, you may skip that navigation part. Example of this is "OPEN MSPAINT"
"File", "Open" - this is applicable only to windows which has menus available
"Show Numbers" - windows speech recognition tags every clickable object with a number in your screen
"Click" or "Double Click" + NUMBER - this will accomplish the command

With individual Windows, you can work with:
"maximize" , "minimize" , "close" followed by the name of the program
To minimize all programs opened say "Show desktop"

These are some of the common Voice commands available in windows 7. I bet i now have 1 reason to grab that Operating System. What ya think?

Kindle Challenges Nook, QUE and Alex

2009-10-20T14:05:00.000-07:00

It seems E-book reading device is the market target of some IT (software and hardware) related companies nowadays. As Amazon recently announced its Kindle to be available in Australia, Barnes and Noble unveiled its device on Tuesday called Nook which is a challenge to Amazon's Kindle.

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Nook is powered by Google's android software and has a black and white electronic ink display feature which is mainly for reading books and small color touchpad for navigation, storing books or making purchases online. The nice thing is, Nookers (Nook Users) will be given a privilege to lend other e-books to other users for free but up to 14 days only. These specified users must be utilizing the Apple iPhone, the iPod touch and certain BlackBerry and Motorola smartphones.

Aside from Nook, Plastic Logic, a Mountain View, California-based company, said on Monday that they will be introducing an e-reader for business professionals called the "QUE" at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. They will then give users the pricing of the said device and its final availability

In addition to this specified market, A US Company named Fremont, California-based Spring Design Inc. also said on Monday that they will soon be releasing a dual-screen e-reader initially known as "Alex" which is at the same time powered by Android.

The first challenger, Nook costs the same price with Amazon Kindle with 259 US dollars. As reported, this device will be available this coming November end.

Will these devices bring down Amazon Kindle and steal its market share?

Kindle to Australia

2009-10-13T07:53:00.000-07:00

After two years of waiting, Amazon Kindle will be available in Australia next week. This was confirmed by Amazon Kindle vice-president Steve Kessel. With the help of AT&T, the world's top phone service provider, in providing internet access outside the US, Kindle users can now browse the Kindle website with no cost of book downloading.

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As Mr Kessel said, its more than 200,000 books available for download from the Kindle online store for free. And for magazines and newspapers, Mr Kessel proudly presented that they will soon include Australian published books in the online store because of their tandem and connections to over 100,000 publishers.

Kindle gadget comes in two version, first is the Kindle 2.0 and the Kindle DX. Both come from Amazon, the number one provider of ebooks and online reading materials.

McAfee Unlimited Online Backup

2009-10-04T09:47:00.000-07:00

After experiencing a very bad mood due to losing of a 2 GB pst file of my outlook, I was able to receive a news about this online back-up and its not just an ordinary back-up but an unlimited online storage by McAfee which is powered by Mozy.

This service offers an automatic, unlimited storage and protection to all your digital files and memories.

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Protection - it has a feature of encrypting data files for security purposes. Private data will surely be safe
Unlimited - Because of its unlimited storage, users will not be confused of what files are more important to be saved --- "unlimited storage means all files saved"
Assurance - even if you forgot to save all your files but you left your PC idle, no worries - automatic backup will be triggered.
online from offsite - Users can access their files online in a secured offsite server.
Easy restoration - in any case, if users have accidentally experiencing PC crash, then data restoration is as easy as a single click. With this MCafee service plus internet access, files will then be restored in seconds.

With above specialized features of McAfee unlimited online storage, users will soon be worry-free. This service is already available in the US for the 30-day trial version and for a year subscription - it only costs $59.99. This is good for windows-type PC only and it will soon be available at 27 countries worldwide including Asia, Europe and others - this is targeted before the year ends.

Lenovo C100: Atom-Based All-in-One PC

2009-09-20T07:54:00.000-07:00

Last September 16 was the launching of Lenovo's boasted all in one pc, the C100. It comes with an 18.5 inch, 16:9 aspect ratio widescreen and software features. This evolution of desktop computer, from a traditional desktop form factor, is a milestone for Lenovo most especially the C100 provides consumers a one of a kind digital lifestyle and experience with multimedia and content generation.

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Key features of Lenovo C100 includes:

Attractive slim-line design: Compact dimensions of 18.5 inch x14.5 inch x 4 inch, featuring an 18.5 inch, 16:9 widescreen and two-inch screen depth design.
Intel Atom Core™processors: Available with Intel Atom 230 single core or Intel Atom 330 dual core options for fast and powerful operations.
Easy to access multimedia: DVD burner/reader and four USB ports.
Security and peace of mind: The C100 comes with the Lenovo Recovery System including OneKey™ Antivirus and OneKey™ Recovery that scans for viruses before entering Windows and effectively recovers and restores corrupted data.

Source: Lenovo.com

Intel® Core™ i5 Processor

2009-09-09T14:51:00.000-07:00

September 8, 2009 – The Intel® Core™ i5 Processor made its worldwide launching that boast its major boost in PC power with the intelligent performance. With this performance, user can do multitasking more than they expect. And for gamers, they will surely love the speed and how their online character moves faster than their mouse. For office personnel, this is not a cause of delay of any business transactions, this is not just waiting while clicking – this is the Intel® Core™ i5 Processor.

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Here some of its features and benefits:

Intel® Core™ microarchitecture is Intel’s latest generation of dynamically scalable microarchitecture. The Intel® Core™ i5 processor is based on the same energy-efficient processor core as the Intel® Core™ i7 processor, but is designed for mainstream computing.

Intel® Turbo Boost Technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.

Integrated memory controller enables two channels of high-speed DDR3 1333 MHz memory. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry-leading multi-threaded games.

Here are its full specifications:

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Chrome inside Sony PCs

2009-09-04T15:02:00.000-07:00

Google had dealt with Sony PCs for inclusion of Chrome to their computers. This is their first ever bond to a computer maker company just for the Chrome to be more popular and be a dominant tool surpassing Microsoft's IE and the very famous Mozilla Firefox.

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Sony has already started installing the specified browser last May. In parallel to this move, Google is also coordinating and dealing with other PC manufacturer/maker companies.

This deal has marked Google's step for another environment that soon users and customers will be facing .Chrome was officially announced and launched last September 2008 and after a year, it still remain in number 4 spot in browser market share. Microsoft IE has prevails to be in the highest spot with a 67.7 percent market share, followed by Mozilla Foundation Firefox with 22.5 per cent, Apple's Safari with 4 per cent and Google's Chrome with 2.59 per cent only.

But inspite of this ranking feedback, Google Company remains confident and is striving more by this recent move. "Users' response to Google Chrome has been outstanding, and we're continuing to explore ways to make Chrome accessible to even more people," Google said in a statement.

Maemo Software on N900

2009-08-27T12:37:00.000-07:00

Nokia, a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's largest maker of mobile devices, promised a once for a lifetime PC-like experience on a handset-sized mobile device though N900. It was reported today, N900 will be ran by Maemo software, a free software platform which is being developed by the Maemo community through open source.

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With its latest version of Maemo 5 software, Nokia N900 can offer customers to utilize dozen of applications that most of them are the same of that on desktop applications. In addition, it will satisfied users through their full cellular features, touch screen and the QWERTY keyboard. It will run in Linux software and users can browse through the Mozilla technology.

Nokia N900 has 32GB storage memory which is expandable to 48GB using microSD card. It has this technology for camera -- 5MP camera and Carl Zeiss optics. It features high-resolution WVGA touch screen and fast internet connectivity with 10/2 HSPA and WLAN. If you are a fan of youtube and any other flash driven websites and video watching, using the Mozilla browser with Adobe Flash™ 9.4 support, you can feel what it feels when you are doing it in a desktop computer.

Nokia N900 will soon be available this coming October with an estimated retail proce of 500 (Euro).

Maemo Features in N900

Maemo is an advanced Linux-based operating system designed to run on high-end Nokia mobile computers. It has lots of features that can be seen in N900 and the best of the best which i believe will make a buzz to users are the following:

Maemo Browser

With the Mozilla browser that will looks like the version in desktop, then browsing is just as the same as doing it anywhere.

Camera

N900 brings 5MP camera, Capture high-quality photos and video with the built-in 5 megapixel camera and Carl Zeiss Optics that can configure sharpness of an image. Dual flash will complete the camera feature.

Media Player

using this highend Media Player, watching and video streaming will just a touch with a hand. In addition, Video codecs are already added, thus avi, wmv and other video files that need them will play simply. FM Radio and Music/Mp3 playing will also be featured.

Here are the list of the features:

* Panorama desktop
* Dashboard
* Maemo Browser
* Phone
* Conversations
* Contacts
* Photos
* Email
* Calendar
* Ovi Maps
* Maemo Update

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Dell Mini Nickelodeon Edition

2009-08-19T14:16:00.000-07:00

After Disney and Asus teamed up for their very own masterpiece, Disney Netpal, Here comes Dell and Nickelodeon with their Dell Mini Nickelodeon Edition. If you know Spongebob, iCarly or Green Slime, then this netbook is for you, these three different Design Studio designs are the choices available.

Dell and Nickelodeon's Netbook for kids is inspired and based on the popular Inspiron Mini 10v. Here are the features and some of them are slight the same with Disney netpal.
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Safe Computing Experience - these netbooks will be shipped with 15-months subcription to McAfee's Family Security - Which provides guardians set of tools in setting up controls and other online precautions.

Important Educational Content - Games from Nickelodeon and Whyville is just a click away so with educational stuff.

Fun!Fun!Fun! - The team partnered with Stardock Systems Inc to make a personalized kid-themed interface which includes Nickelodeon wallpaper, icons, a custom skin for WMP and Start Menu.

On October, Mini Nickelodeon Edition will be available online and also at Walmart stores. Pricing is not yet available but will be posted soon.

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PS3 Slim this September

2009-08-19T13:28:00.000-07:00

Sony officially announced availability of PS3 Slim this coming September 1st and it will cost for $299. As Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Kaz Hirai unveiled the new model of PS3 in Cologne, Germany last Tuesday, he called the new unit as PS3 Slim.

This is not just another software/program upgrade or a little hardware upgrade touch, the internal design architecture has been totally restyled and improved. PS3 runs the same speed with the previous version of PlayStation but of course, it is smaller and more energy efficient. In addition, power consumption was reduced to two-thirds.
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This 120GB PS3 slim has these features:

PlayStation Network membership
Includes PlayStation 3 80 GB system, Dualshock 3 wireless controller, and free
Internet ready Wi-Fi
Built-in Blu-ray player to give you the best high-definition viewing experience and pristine picture quality
80 GB of hard disk storage for all your games, music, videos, and photos
Play your entire catalog of CDs and DVDs
The new PS3 system will focus on delivering games and other entertainment content
PS3 system software update version 3.00 via XMB (XrossMediaBar)
Vertical Stand for new PS3 (CECH-2000)
"Deep Colour" and "x.v.Colour (xvYCC)" defined by HDMI ver.1.3a are supported.

Here is the Specifications:

CPU: Cell Broadband Engine
Product Code: CECH-2000 (Charcoal Black)
Hard Drive: 120GB Serial ATA
Audio output: 7.1CH LPCM, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD, DTS, DTS-HD, AAC.
GPU: RSX
Memory: 256MB XDR Main RAM, 256MB GDDR3 VRAM
Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0): 2 Hi-Speed USB (USB 2.0): 2
Network: Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 1, IEEE 802.11 b / g, Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller: Wireless controller (Bluetooth)
AV output HDMI OUT Connection: 1
AV output AV MULTI OUT connector: 1
AV output Digital out (optical) Connection: 1
BD / DVD / CD drive (read only) Maximum read rate: BD × 2 (BD-ROM), DVD × 8 (DVD-ROM), CD × 24 (CD-ROM)
Power: AC 220 - 240, 50/60Hz 4
Power Consumption: Approx 250W
Dimensions: approx 290 × 65 × 290 mm (width × height × length)
Weight: Approx. 3.2kg

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