Smart 4G network opens its doors to pre-paid subscribers

For those who prefer pre-paid over post-paid now you can enjoy a faster internet speed that only post-paid subscribers were able to enjoy. Smart LTE (Long Term Evolution) is now on pre-paid. This was announced by Smart Telecommunications last April 19, 2013. According to Smart Broadband and Data Internet Service Head Lloyd Manaloto, “If you have always wanted to try out the fastest wireless broadband technology in the world but are not keen on subscribing to a postpaid service, Smart prepaid LTE is just the ticket.” LTE uses Fiber...

Read More

HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability disabled

If you have encountered the following during start-up: HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability disabled and you want to enable it, this can be done on your boot menu. Go to your boot menu - Restart your computer then go to your boot menu Navigate on the menu - Look on your boot menu until you see the HDD S.M.A.R.T capability. There are only two options for this Enable/Disable. It should currently be disabled, change it to enabled. Save changes and reboot. Simple enough but before doing so, here are some insights regarding HDD S.M.A.R.T. capability HDD...

Read More

Speed up PC performance with msconfig

How to remove unwanted programs from starting during boot-up? Programs that launch itself while your computer is starting or rebooting normally runs at the background. And any program that is running, whether vital or unwanted programs, uses system resources effectively slowing down your computer not to mention longer restart. One can always stop any unwanted programs that has auto started by manually closing each from the taskbar (right click each icon and click on exit). However, some of their data will still remain on the computer's virtual...

Read More

Google brings Google+ Comments to Blogger

A couple of days ago, Google just made it easier to track your posts' social status in Google+. According to Google, enabling Google+ Comments can let others share their comments to your posts to their circle of friends in Google+. Much like on Facebook. The neat thing though is that "mentions of your posts on Google+ automatically show up right in your blog's comments, so you can see more of people’s public conversations about your content (and private conversations you’re part of)."  All that without having to add any code to your page's...

Read More

Windows XP not updating

Normally Windows XP does the update automatically for you, if you have enabled automatic update that is. However, if this is not the case and when you try to update it through the Help and Support Center (Start -> Help and Support -> under Pick a task click Keep your computer up to date with Windows Update) instead of getting the updates you get this error message instead: Error number: 0x80244019 The website has encountered a problem and can not display the page you are trying to view. Error message when trying to update Windows XP. You...

Read More

Connectify great app or not?

In search for a way to share my internet connection, I come across an app called connectify. It promises to turn your WiFi capable notebook/laptop into a WiFi hotspot for internet sharing. On the download page, it was quite easy get the app. It offers a lite version meaning it is free. System requirements also is not a problem. It did install on my notebook that is eight years old with 1.5 Ghz Intel Celeron processor and 256mb DDR RAM. It does however need a .net framework. After installation of the lite version, it immediately asks...

Read More

Becareful of using site:http://www.yoursite.com to tell if your site was indexed

The short answer is, the command site:http://www.yoursite.com does not indicate  if your site got indexed by Google. Too often, you see people respond to queries like "How to check if my site got indexed by Google?" with typing the above phrase in Google's search bar. That is just misleading. Because such a querry will bring up all the URLs that have been crawled by the spider but not nescessarily mean that it has been indexed already. To support this point, let us look at the difference between the cache and index in Google's perspective....

Read More

Page rank suffers due to redesign or change in domain

Consider this, you set-up a web page. You worked hard on it, wrote original content, worked even harder to get those very hard to get back links and after several weeks or even months of hard work, all your labor paid off and now are enjoying a very good page rank. You continue to work hard to maintain your hard earned rankings. Meanwhile, as what normally happens, some if not all of your original work have been scraped off or copied by other "webmasters" into their site. But of course being the originator of such a content, Google through its...

Read More

Microsoft Windows XP is near obsolete

Actually it is more of Microsoft ending its support for Windows XP and Office 2003. I was browsing Microsoft's support pages when I came across this reminder from Microsoft Microsoft XP SP3 and Office 2003 Support ends April 18, 2014. Based on Microsoft's policy, their busines and developer products, which includes their Windows operating system and Office products, only receives a maximum of 10 years. It was further explained that this  10 years is divided into 5 years mainstream and another 5 years extended support. This means that...

Read More

Improve the appearance of your Facebook status link

How to remove the URL text on your Facebook links Many of my friends tell me they are annoyed to see those URL text links that they paste when they wanted to share a find on the internet. I share their sentiments because it does make your post untidy not to mention redundant. Redundant since immediately after pasting a URL, it creates an icon of sort just below the URL link. How does other users remove it? It is very simple. With just the backspace (or delete key) you can turn your Facebook status link from this: to this: Here...

Read More

SMART Telecommunications rip off practice

Funny how Smart Telecommunications is too quick to charge you with services not even rendered but to slow to act on a refund. Have you had the MF180 USB modem that is bundled with with a user interface that is very restrictive of what a user can do? Not even to manually connect to the internet? Yes, Smart sells you a USM modem that is bundled with an interface that automatically connects to the internet. This is what happened with me today. I accidentally plugged this modem while still loading it with P200. I am supposed to register it to UNLISURF...

Read More

Share your laptop's internet connection

Recently, I wrote about how to share a desktop's internet connection. This time I will discuss how to share a wired laptop's internet connection wirelessly also known as an ad hoc connection. An ad hoc connection is simply a connection between computers via wifi. If it is a wire connection, it is not considered an ad hoc connection. How does this differ differ from my previous post How to share your desktop internet connection? That post was intended to share a connection via a router that way it is still shared wirelessly via wifi while this...

Read More

Make fonts larger for easier reading

At a gathering a friend asked me, I have trouble reading through my computer. The letters are too small. Please help me to make it bigger. The solution is very simple and it is called zoom. When you are at your browser, just press Ctrl then press the plus key at the same time (Ctrl + plus key). That is it, the next time you open your browser again, it remembers your previous setting and gives you the same bigger fonts like the previous time you open it. If you wish to make it smaller, just do the opposite, press Ctrl plus the minus key at the...

Read More

Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network

I was searching for something using Google on the internet one morning but because it was quite difficult to find, I was searching somewhat actively. By that I mean, I tried diffirent phrases and I did it simultaneously. I had about 3 windows doing searches at the same time. I guess, it is worth noting that at the time of my search, I am having a rather slow internet connection which explains why I had 3 searches going on at the same time. As I move along with my searches, I am also getting that message more often and so I decided to investigate....

Read More

Keywords and Google search

I have read not so recently on some article that keywords are not important to search engines and I was lead to believe that instead of focusing too much on keywords, it is best to focus on creating more quality articles. But recently, I came to the realization that what I have read is false. While it is true that quality posts are important, keywords are quiete as important. This I found after making my review of the tablet I bought. When I made that article, I wrote it keeping in mind my target keywords. No I did not reasearched it but I used...

Read More

Pokoyo and Talking Pokoyo at Playstore

I recently discovered Pokoyo while me and my son are looking for some fun video we can watch together at Youtube. To those who does not know it yet, Pokoyo is the title of a cartoon which is incidentally also the name of the main character. Pokoyo is very likable what with very cute characters. The animation is properly drawn with the correct shadings with which they appear very cuddly. First time I set eyes on it, I am immediately drawn to it. But what makes it unique was the simplicity and how neat things are presented. Most of the scenes...

Read More

One way to create backlinks-Claim your blog in Technorati

As you may have read already, one of the ways to get ranked by Google is to get a link from an authority site back to your site. You do this by either commenting on blogs or guest post on other blogs. Another is by submitting your site to directoris/how to sites. These how to sites put your site to their list and by writing articles for them it will rank you by authority depending on how popular your posts are. If your authority is high enough your site will figure on the top of the list. So in a way this is similar to guest posting. So this is...

Read More

Making a link on Blogger's Dynamic View landing page

As everyone may know by now, I love using Blogger's dynamic view for my blogs. And so this past two days I have been looking around to see what has changed since its inception. Sad to say, there is not much that changed, by that I mean design wise. Since dynamic view was rolled out, users are restricted on using it as it is. No modifications can be done to customize it. Well at least now some gadgets can be added namely Blog Archive, Followers, Labels, Profile, Subscribe, and Link List. These gadgets can be added through the Layout tab....

Read More

Site map for Blogger and how important is it?

I am writing this post in the hope that anyone who will read it will not suffer the same thing that I did. Fist a little background I went to webmaster tools (my first time) and was going through all the tools and when I got to Blocked URLs, I noticed I have a huge number under Blocked URLs. This got me a bit curious so I check my robots.txt to see if somehow there are listed URLs there but there are none. Well there should be none because I have not configured it to not crawl any of my posts/pages. My investigation I don't understand why I should...

Read More

Unlimited Surfing, What is the catch?

The current trend in the Philippines to date when it comes to internet connection is UNLI, short for unlimited, meaning subscribing to this promo entitles you to unlimited surfing until your time runs out for the promo. This was born out of their unlimited texts and voice promos. Owing it to the unlimited voice and text success we now get UNLI Facebook, UNLI mobile surfing and UNLISURF for Smart and SUPERSURF for Globe. What I would like to talk about with you my dear readers is whether they are really unlimited. Here is what I have found out....

Read More

How to share your desktop internet connection?

If you are like me who is using a USB dongle/modem to connect to the internet yet you want to share this internet connection with your other devices via your desktop's ethernet port to a router but don't know how, then read on. I have searched on how this is done and most I have read is to make a bridge connection yet this requires configuring both your desktop and your router which I managed to make it work for a while after working on it for several hours (I am no tech expert that is why I had some difficuly setting up a bridge connection)....

Read More