To Two Great Pioneers: Thank you, Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie

This has been a disheartening October to all of us. As most of you may already know, we lost a great visionary who has changed the way most of us live today. That is Steve Jobs, founder of Apple, Inc. and the mastermind to all the i's in the world - the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and the list goes on. Unknowingly to most, we lost another pioneer who also had contributed greatly to the software and application development industry. He is no other than Dennis Ritchie, the creator of the C programming language, and one of the main developers for the UNIX system.

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Dream Recording: Brain Imaging Will Reveal The Movies In Our Mind

Have you ever dreamed of remembering the dreams you had last night? Well, in the near future we will have the ability to record our dreams for us to rewatch later. The researchers from the Gallant Lab at University of California, Berkley made this possible using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and other computational models where our visual experiences are recorded and decoded using our brain activity and reconstructed to video clips.

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Protecting Your Online Content: Five (5) More Things You Still Need To Do

60,000 new websites are added to the web everyday. Google's total indexed pages reached 14.41 billion pages on 2011. In addition to that, there are an estimated of 1.6 million blog posts published daily. That is half a billion new blog posts every year. This is how active online publishers are. The web has been a great medium to voice out ideas, to spread the latest news, and to reach out to the world. However, it has become a haven for an uncontrollable, more often untraced, content distribution. 

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Planking Gone Viral on Philippine Schools and Universities, Beware.

I'm not quite sure if that warning goes to the university administrators OR to the students who indulge themselves to planking activities during free time (or during class hours). But without a doubt, planking has been popular on schools and universities recently - up to the point where the administrators need to implement suspensions to those who were caught in the act of planking on school premises.

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Friendster: Is it even worth mentioning?

Whether you knew it or not, Friendster, one of the social networks most of us may have been addicted to in the past (in addition to the ole MySpace), is shifting its course. I mean by 'shift' by a BIG shift. The word 'social' is still attached to its name. However, add 'gaming and music' to it and voila ~ social entertainment at your service. It would be the future of the said social networking website. I do not want to sound biased on this post but - do we even bother to care?

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How Philippine Officials Should Act Against Cybercrime

Last night, I read a tweet from GMANews that there is a proposal to the Senate that laptops should be registered by the users in order to prevent cybercrimes. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) wants every laptop, SIM cards, and other devices used to connect to the Internet to be regulated. I'll go direct to the point: (Excuse me in advance.) This is plainly stupid. I doubt NBI has look upon this issue very well. If they think they had, well they really haven't.

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Google's New Search Algorithm: Goodbye to Irrelevant Results

Last week, Google announced that it has launched a change in its search algorithm. Their main goal is to return more relevant and more high-quality results. These past few months, Google's reliability has been questioned and doubted as more and more techniques to get into the top ranks are manipulating the results, thus resulting to low quality search results. However, they stated that the change in their algorithm impacts 11.8% of the queries. They said that this will prevent low-quality sites from getting into the top. 

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Should Facebook Ban All Sites Under the .Co.Cc Domain?

Photo: Domo-kun cosplaying as Facebook.

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If you are aware of free domain registration services like Dot.tk, you might also have heard of the Co.cc domain. From Co.cc's website, it is a Free Domain Name Registration + Free DNS Service. However, registering a Co.cc website only provides you a subdomain registration. Because originally, .Cc is a country code top-level domain for Cocos Islands in Australia. And Co.cc is a domain registered under the .Cc domain, which makes another domain under the Co.cc a subdomain. So in reality, you are only registering a subdomain unlike that of Dot.tk's. 

Last year, Facebook won't let you post any links under the .Co.cc domain. 

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Plagiarism Over The Internet: Awareness and Prevention

Photo by JLP/Deimos/Corbis

Plagiarism is a serious offense. But still, many commits on doing it. Whether they know that they are stealing other's works, or they are not aware of the seriousness of the act -  still, plagiarism is plagiarism. In this digital era where texts are easy to copy and paste and publish to the world via the Internet, plagiarism can easily be done compared to other types of theft like shoplifting. 

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Emptying your Recycle Bin Won't Erase your Data

Haven't you got curious why emptying the recycle bin, however large your files are, just took one second to get done?

It has been a great misinformation to Windows users that emptying your recycle bin will permanently remove the files from your computer. Some of us may be aware of this but most users (especially non-techie folks) don't have any idea that emptying a recycle bin won't really remove the deleted files from your hard disk. 

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Huge Solar Storm on 2013 and Its Possible Impact to our Tech-driven life

Photo by NASA/REUTERS

Systems will fail to operate. Electronic devices will stop working. 

Five years ago, NASA released a warning that a huge space storm is coming. A solar storm, to be exact. And October last year, they confirmed they are expecting it to happen on 2013. 

"The Sun is waking up from a deep slumber, and in the next few years we expect to see much higher levels of solar activity. At the same time, our technological society has developed an unprecedented sensitivity to solar storms. The intersection of these two issues is what we're getting together to discuss."

- Richard Fischer, Head of NASA's Heliophysics section.

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CAPTCHAs: Do we really have to suffer?

Photo from CAPTCHArt.com

We are humans, not bots. asfgasfasdsaf 

Recently, my sister tried to log in to her Yahoo! mail account. But she was not successful. She tried entering another password, again, a wrong one. She tried another, and another one...

Then suddenly, it seemed like the system was notified of her continuous attempts of logging in. Here comes the CAPTCHAs.

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Blog Ads: How Effective Are They?

Most bloggers use advertisements to gain income from their blogs. If you have been blogging for years and already have established a name and a readership, this might be a very good way to make money. The most common ad provider is Google AdSense. Almost every blog I see while blog hopping has an AdSense installed on their blogs. There are also other good ad providers out there like Nuffnang, Adhitz, Bidvertiser, and the list goes on.

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Will There Be a Real Window Phone in the Future?

Photo credits: YankoDesign.com

Last year, there has been a popular talk on the gadget world when this Window phone was introduced to the public by YankoDesign.com. This is a concept design of Seunghan Song where a glass phone can detect the weather and portray it on its screen.

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