Gmail: The Free Replacement for Paid Email Hosting

So you purchased a domain name for your website, and you want a custom email address under that domain. But the registrar requires you to pay for the email hosting monthly. Though they are usually cheap, paying for email hosting monthly when you can use that custom email address for free would be impractical, especially if you are a small business site owner or the like. Forwarding email addresses won't look good either, as when you reply, the Sent From would show the email address the email has been forwarded to.  Solution? Simple. Use Gmail.

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Lolo Luis' Missing Case Solved: The Good Side of Social Media

Filipinos all over Facebook has sure encountered this photo of an old woman with a paper on her back detailing  her missing husband, Luis Matias. We call her Lola Aurelia. (Lola means grandmother in Tagalog, can also be referred to an old woman.) Lolo Luis has been missing since November 10. Yesterday, this photo by Reddie Js has spread on Facebook like wildfire, with almost 60,000 shares as of this writing.

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Free VISA Card from Cashsense Philippines (How To Get Yours)

Today I received my VISA card from Cashsense without paying for anything. Since 2006, Cashsense Philippines has helped Filipinos online in a lot of ways -- online remittances, electronic cash for online purchases, and online payroll systems. I've read about Cashsense months ago while bloghopping. Lately, I was approached by their staff and from there I knew that you can get a VISA card from them for free.

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Work It! Express Business Suits: Your Career, In Fashion

However comfortable a casual attire may be, nothing could be more uplifting when you wear your outfit with overflowing confidence - which starts on looking good wherever you are, whatever you do. On the other hand, doing business means having to communicate with your clients, investors, other businesses, and to the public. Everything starts with yourself. Look good, feel good, do good. But why settle for just good if you can be at your best look? You just need to browse through the Express Suit Collections and see the best you.

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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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TEDxDiliman: How Art and Culture Can Change Our World

TEDxDiliman is a TEDx event held at UP Diliman yesterday, October 8. TED has been one of the major influences why I blog. The first TED video I ever watched was that of Pranav Mistry's SixthSense which led me to post this article titled "SixthSense: Your Digital Life Anytime, Anywhere!" Its tagline, Ideas Worth Spreading, has inspired me to share substantial knowledge I've gained which is what I'm doing on this blog. 

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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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Exploring OddCast: Text to Speech, 3D Photo Face, & Augmented Reality

I'm not sure how many of you have already heard about OddCast. I first discovered about it while bloghopping; I saw a widget from a blog that translates languages and pronounces the translations for you. You can choose from a number of characters available, male or female, with options like pronouncing English the American way or the English (UK) way. Enthusiastic I was, I went to their main site and discovered a lot more technologies from them.

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uCertify PrepKit for EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH)

uCertify is a preparation kit software provider for IT certification exams. As we all know, IT is a vast world where fields could stretch out to different sub-fields and may fall to a thousand categories (and sub-categories). On the other hand, getting certifications for your skills has turned from fancying your resume to being a requirement by most employers. This is probably also related to the numerous IT degree programs and certifications easily accessible online.

That is why it is indeed an integral part to have a trusted resource of information to be prepared with before taking the exams. I was asked by uCertify to test one of their PrepKits, and I chose their prep kit for EC-Council's Certified Ethical Hacker certification exam: E312-50.

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The Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs and Bloggers for 2011 by L-I

The Influential Blogger is a writing project by Ms. Janette Toral where bloggers list their co-bloggers who deserve to be known and be heard around the blogosphere. This yearly project's objective is to bring these new bloggers with overflowing potential to light, where they deserve to be.

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