+1 BUTTON IS GOOGLE'S LIKE BUTTON FOR SEARCH ENGINE

Google has launched an experimental project for its continuous improvement on search engine algorithm. It is called the "+1" (plus one) button experiment, like the Facebook's like button, it is aim to make recommendations and sharing easy, except that it is focused on search engine results, meaning, more relevancy on the site, more changes on ranking.

This will make your favorite google search results stay on top of the result and will recommend to more Google search engine users.
 

Once you have "+1d" (plus oned) the site in search results it is publicly published throughout the search engine, all Google search engine users that search same results as your "+1d" site, they will see you and the other that "+1d" it, maybe making the site more relevant and popular.

I think that this is just another step of Google against content farming, of course people make the decision if the site is relevant or not, it is then Google's algorithm that will calculate its ranking. This is a smart way in the first place, let people recommend to other people the most relevant site they could find and share it more easily.

How to use this new feature from Google? Well first you got to have a Google account, log in your account on Google and go to Google Experimaental, just click on the "Join Experiment" button and start searching on Google.com.

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HOW TO: MAKE 2D IMAGES TURN TO 3D IN ANY WEBPAGE

3D is really becoming a hit to every images, videos and movies. And now you can also enjoy a 3D environment when you visit any website with images on it. Just got to have a 3d glasses and try this simple trick from Mark Beasley.

Steps:
*drag this link 3D IMAGE to your browser's bookmark bar.
*visit any website with images and click on the bookmarked link
*put your 3d glasses on and enjoy.

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COMPUTER VISION SYNDROME, WHAT IS IT?

Computer Vision Syndrome or CVS is a modern day syndrome due to excessive exposure of eyes on a computer.

According to studies, eyes normally blink 12 times every minute, but when a person uses a computer the eyes only blink at 5 times every minute which causes the eyes to dry and get sore. After more than 3 hours of uninterrupted use of computer, people may start to feel dizziness, dryness of the eyes, blurred vision, double vision, headaches, neck pain and fatigue, these are the common symptoms of CVS.

It is advice that your computer must be lower than your eyes and it is at least 1 feet away from your vision. When you feel any symptoms, it is best to rest your eyes, or put an artificial eye drops. But best practice to be done is to follow the "20-20-20 rule",

in every 20 minutes, focus to anywhere within 20 feet away for about 20 seconds

So to every blogger, webmaster, surf addict, Facebokaholic, online gamer, try these practices to reduce the chance to have a Computer Vision Syndrome.

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GOOGLE SUE SCAMMERS FOR $1.6 MILLION

Many websites serve ads from different companies, ads that promises people to earn easy cash using Google or inviting them to visit their site for proofs that Google paid them thousands of dollars. Well, all of these "too good to be true" ads are scams. Google proved that it is a scam many times and now after all of the companies and websites that are using Google's name coming out all over the net, Google take a step to stop this, they have filed a lawsuit to all of the companies to stop their "modus operandi" and pay them $1.6 million for the damages.

In 2009 Google won one of the same lawsuits they filed on of the company that used their name to scam people, the Pacific WebWorks And now, the lawsuit serves a warning to all running and upcoming scam websites, like Bloosky, Just Think Media, Crush, Hyper Active, Search 4 Profit, and Viable.Also, this serves to be a warning to all people to be more conscious and use their common sense.

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FACEBOOK AND BING WILL PARTNER TO CHANGE SEARCH ENGINE COMPETITION?

Facebook has been testing a new feature on the site, a new search box for web searching that maybe powered by Bing search engine. Facebook still not announced or announcing it but they had made maybe a random test to some users, or would Facebook make it a permanent feature.

As one of the top website, and with over 200 million daily users it would be a crucial and a tight competition for Google and other leading search engine provider for web searching service, although Bing is far behind the competition, a search box in one of the top and one of the most visited website would give them a big change in ranking, though i know it would cost Bing much to be in the competition it would be a smart move to take the risk.

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HOW TO: SYNC YOUR FIREFOX 4 TO YOUR ANDROID

The new feature of Firefox 4 is its fixed bug for syncing, Firefox can be sync to any computer and now to any Android device too. Watch the video for the easy step by step procedure from CNET Blog.

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FIREFOX 4 FINAL RELEASE NOW AVAILABLE

After Firefox 4 RC had been around for some time, Mozilla is said to launch the Firefox 4 Final release tomorrow but fortunately you can now download the said release and have not to wait for tomorrow via the links below:

For Mac - Firefox 4.dmg
For Windows - Firefox4.exe
For linux - Firefox 4.tar.bz2

Also watch the video for the feature for this final release

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MAC OS X 10.6.7 NOW AVAILABLE

This updates for Snow Leopard includes fixes such as

• Improve reliability of Back to My Mac
• Resolves issue when transferring files to certain SMB servers
• Address various minor Mac App Store bugs
• Address minor Facetime performance issues
• Improve graphic stability and external display compatibility

The Mac OS X 10.6.7 Update for MacBook Pro is recommended for all early 2011 MacBook Pro models.  It includes general operating system fixes for Mac OS X Snow Leopard that enhance the stability, compatibility, performance, and security of your Mac

The update is best for Macbook Pro 2011 models having numerous issues, that will eventually be fixed after the update.

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APPLE SUES AMAZON.COM FOR TRADEMARK INFRINGEMENT

According to Apple Inc., Amazon.com is improperly using their "App Store" trademark for their mobile software program. Apple filed a complaint on March 18 against Amazon's unfair competition and trademark infringement and ask to prevent Amazon for using the "App Store" trademark.

According to Apple's complaint,

Amazon has begun improperly using Apple’s App Store mark in connection with Amazon’s mobile software developer program

Amazon has unlawfully used the App Store mark to solicit software developers throughout the United States

Stating that Amazon is planning to use the trademark with their mobile software download service. This causes the spark from Apple since Apple's App Store itself offers downloads software service from the company and other third-party developers for their devices such as iPhone, iPod, and iPad.

Apple already contacted Amazon but unfortunate for any response, and quotes,

We’ve asked Amazon not to copy the App Store name because it will confuse and mislead customers

Apple Inc., serious with their competitors, will not let them use their registered trademark to be used in unfair way and sure Apple is serious about this lawsuit.



[source Bloomberg.com]

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DISASTER ALERTS TO BE SENT VIA BLACKBERRY

After a major disaster that struck Japan and some part of the world which is highly not anticipated, a new disaster warning system was launched in the Philippines. According to Philippine Business Social Progress (PBSP) they created the early warning system to immediately alert communities to any minor and major disaster like typhoons, storm, tsunamis, ladnslides and earthquakes. Using a common technology that most people in the Philippines use, the alert would be triggered and delivered via text through BlackBerry.

The project was said to cover some disaster-prone area for now, and would cost around $200,000 to fund by the government and top chief executives. The first province chosen for the project is Southern Leyte where in 2006 hit by a super typhoon that kills over 1,000 and buried an entire village making the Philippines one of the most vulnerable in disasters and also making the project effective and useful.

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.XXX DOMAIN APPROVED FOR ADULT WEBSITES

It has been a controversial argument between the adult entertainment industry and the governing body for top level domains, but today ICANN approved a new top level domain exclusively for adult or porn sites. .XXX domains will soon be available from domain registrar but adult sites owner still have a choice for their domain. The .XXX domain would cost at around $60 when it would be available.

The advantage for this new domain is the filtering or blocking of adult sites for everyone's safety browsing especially the young ones.

We will just have to wait for it to be officially announced by ICANN maybe even the adult entertainment industry are against it.

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DIGG FOUNDER, KEVIN ROSE RESIGNS!

A post from Techcrunch just yesterday saying that Digg founder Kevin Rose don't use Digg much, well today the founder resigns getting ready for a new project that he had founded. Digg was a success when it was founded in 2004, even Google taking it over for its successful service made for all media and social users.

Rose stated that he will still continue advising Digg and maybe still support them with some of his past works and support the now CEO Matt Williams.

Kevin Rose' upcoming project is a website http://fforward.com/ he qouted "as a weekly live streaming tech/geek culture show" you can still follow Kevin Rose on his twitter account and his new project fforward.

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IPAD 2 JAILBROKEN!

iPad 2's debut to public was a success, today almost all of the manufactured device are all sold out. But almost immediately after it's released, leaked image from the famous app developer of Spirit Jailbreak and JailbreakMe, comex that he had the now famous iPad 2 Jailbroken, you can see the proof image  and vide below

Via Twitter:

@chpwn: by @comex: http://t.co/osP6lz
@comex: would’ve had it yesterday if I didn’t have to spend 1.5 days looking for a replacement exploit (which came from a most unexpected place…)
@iphone_dev: Congrats to @comex for jailbreaking yet another brand new device (iPad2) while 2500 miles away from it!

This is a good news to all Jailbreak aficionados and a bad news to Apple. But unfortunately there is no ETA yet, comex is still working the exploit and has no further details yet. But for sure we can expect an early development from this new Jailbreak.

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AMAZING: COLLEGE STUDENT SOLD IPAD 2 FOR $900

 After the iPad 2 event, people have been patiently waiting for its first release in New york, and as we may all know gadget enthusiasts always want to be the first person to own a new released gadget like the iPad 2, people would do anything to be the first in line and be the first to buy the product, but not for the college student named Amanda Foote, although she did what a die-hard enthusiast will do, be on the first spot for days, sleepless days and nights, and even enduring the rain and cold weather. But if you think she did this just to be the first person to own an iPad 2 you are wrong, she did this to earn an extra cash, this girl knows how to play it smart, how did she do it? She sold her spot to an app developer that generously hand her $900 for her first spot on the line. The waiting was hard but the earning is easy I should say.

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VIDEO: NEW MAC OS X LION HANDS ON

Mac OS X Lion have just been released for developers but not for the public yet, Mac users would have to wait until summer for its official release. But today we will bring you a look on the new Mac OS X Lion, you can view its features Here, enjoy the video after the jump via CNET.com

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NEW MALWARE HITS FACEBOOK AND ITS ALL ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN

 What's up with Charlie Sheen lately? He is all over the news, and even on the internet, and now someone even made a hoax out of these controversies pertaining to Charlie Sheen's death. Through a scam website spamming about Charlie's death, it has been spread out on Facebook as a malware site. Yes folks it is a malware, clicking on a link would take you to the said headline story and will automatically spread out the message through your profile. Here are some sample profile status post from Facebook about this malware

All users are AGAIN WARNED about this new scam and spam messages. Delete as soon as you saw this kind of messages and spread the words to your friends.

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APPLE IOS 4.3 IS NOW AVAILABLE

What's new in iOS 4.3?

AirPlay Enhancements

More ways to AirPlay.

Get even more play out of AirPlay — the wireless technology that lets you stream content from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch to your HDTV via Apple TV.¹ In addition to music, movies, and photos, AirPlay now streams video from your Photos app. So you can shoot a home video and instantly share it with everyone in the room.

Safari Performance

Surf at the speed of fast.

As you surf the web, your fingers will love the responsiveness of the new Nitro JavaScript engine powering Safari. It runs JavaScript up to twice as fast as in iOS 4.2.² Which means you get more speed behind each page load. And sites with lots of interactive features can appear on your screen even faster.

iTunes Home Sharing

Share over the air.

Now you can play your entire iTunes library from anywhere in the house. If it’s on your Mac or PC, you can play it on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch over a shared Wi-Fi network.³ And not just music. Watch a movie or TV show. Play a podcast. Or listen to an audiobook. On whichever device you want — without having to download or sync.

iPad Side Switch

Switch it up.

Customize the switch on the side of your iPad to lock the screen rotation or mute the volume. So you can lock your iPad display in landscape or portrait. Or quickly go from volume on to volume off. Just configure the side switch in Settings to toggle between your options.

Personal Hotspot for iPhone 4

Get online in more places.

On the road, in an airport, at the park — now you can bring Wi-Fi with you wherever you go. Download iOS 4.3 on your iPhone 4, and the next time you find yourself without access to Wi-Fi but in 3G territory, enable Personal Hotspot and share your cellular data connection with your Mac, PC, iPad, or other Wi-Fi-capable device. 

iOS 4.3 is available for the following devices

• iPhone 3G, iPhone 4G
• iPod Touch 3G, iPod Touch 4G
• iPad and iPad 2

Updating is easy!

Just connect your device to your Mac or PC and follow the onscreen instructions in iTunes.

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NEW MOZILLA FIREFOX 4 RELEASED

After months of beta testing, Mozilla now released the new version of its popular browser. The release candidate of Firefox 4 for Windows, Mac and Linux promises a new experience of browsing prior to its last releases. Its improved User Interface makes it more user friendly, a new Firefox button, fast tab browsing that i think the most improved feature in this release and its more fast loading scripts that make its performance 6x faster than its past version. Here are some improved and new features for the Firefox 4 RC.

WebM and HD Video

As pioneers of HTML5 video standards, Firefox also supports the WebM format so you can watch open HD quality video.

New JS values

Changes to the C++ representation of JavaScript values allow Firefox to execute heavy, numeric code more efficiently, resulting in cleaner graphics and a better browsing experience.

3D on the Web

WebGL brings 3D graphics to Firefox, opening the door for developers to create vivid games and new kinds of visualizations and experiences for the Web.

Audio API

Firefox is changing the way media is integrated on the web: exposing the raw audio data housed within the <video> and <audio> elements in HTML5 makes it easy for developers to use JS to read and write audio data.

Multi-touch Support

Firefox now integrates multi-touch support for Windows 7, enabling you to interact with your browser in a whole new way.

And many more. You can now download the official Firefox 4 RC.

Download Firefox 4 RC.

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MICROSOFT KINECT, WORLD'S FASTEST SELLING CONSUMER ELECTRONICS DEVICE

Despite Apple's devices such as iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad's popularity, it does not gain a record-breaking sales than the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 does. In a span of only 60 days Apple's devices does not surpass Microsoft Kinect's sales of 133,333 units per day or 8 million units from November 4, 2010 to January 3, 2011. This figure gave Microsoft Kinect a place on Guinness World Records Gaming Edition for 2011.

A quote from the editor for Guinness World Records 2011, Gaz Deavas

The sales figures here speak for themselves.  We can confirm that no other consumer electronics device sold faster within a 60-day time span, an incredible achievement considering the strength of the sector.

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REASONS NOT TO BUY A MAC

Have you been thinking of getting a Mac? Been saving money for it? Want to be one of the Mac user? Well this will help you think about it. We can't deny the popularity Mac has achieved this day but what do you need to know about getting one? Here is a "TRUE" statement that can help you decide whether to have one or have none.

click on the image to enlarge

 Have you thought about it? Still want to get a MAC?

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SONY IS CRAZY OVER PS3 JAILBREAKERS

Numerous news about the war between Sony and Jailbreaker genius GeoHot afloat all around the internet, it has a huge talk since Sony sued GeoHot for Jailbreaking their PlayStation 3. GeoHot even made a video to challenge Sony for the lawsuit and even asked his supporters to support him with it through his official blog. Sony is crazy about this lawsuit, they even asked the judge to grant them access to GeoHotz personal computers, softwares and hardwares he is using for the Jailbreak. What's worst now is that Sony was given a privilege to access and record logs including the IP of everyone who visits GeoHot's website, blog, and even YouTube channel. What does this mean? By now if you ever know and visit one of the said site your IP is logged and captured by Sony, why do they do it? Because they hate Hackers and Jailbreakers who play with their devices, and visiting GeoHot's website, blog or channel means you are one of those, sound crazy? Yes indeed that's how crazy Sony for fighting Jailbreakers.

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TWITTER AFFECTED BY VIRUS SAME AS FACEBOOK DOES

I know some of you know that now Facebook have their own viruses all over their site especially those spam messages both in your inbox and profile updates that automatically sends with a link on it pointing to a malicious website, and the effect? Full access to your computer, passwords, logs and more. But today, Facebook isn't the only one infected by these kind of viruses, the virus that hit Twitter was the same as in Facebook about a site or applications that lets you "see who viewed your profile", Yes, it is a virus in Facebook and now on Twitter. If you ever see one of your friend both in Facebook and in Twitter in their status update or timeline teasing you to click on a link or inviting you to try to know who often see your profile, DO NOT BELIEVE IT. Friendster has the only features of this kind, both Facebook and Twitter still not have the feature.

Here are some messages and link from Twitter to stay away from,

WOW! You can see WHO VISITS your TWITTER profile. That’s cool! :) – http://bit.ly/tweetviewer

I just viewed my TOP20 Profile STALKERS. I can’t believe my EX is still checking me every day – http://bit.ly/tweetviewer

and some do like it, do not click on it and do not let it access to your profile. And if you ever done it by mistake, immediately revoke its access by going in to your Twitter's Settings > Connections > Revoke Access.


Spread these words not the virus!

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STANDING OVATION FOR THE SURPRISE APPEARANCE OF STEVE JOBS TO UNVEIL IPAD 2

Despite of the illness which lead him to take a medical leave last month and an announcement before the iPad2 Event  that he will not be at the event, Steve Jobs surprises every one in attendance as he surfaces on the stage to unveil the new iPad 2 device. Jobs was welcomed with standing ovation as he walked to the stage at Yerba Buena Theater. It gets more exciting for the unveiling of the next-generation iPad as it was introduced by its founder, Jobs also noted that this year would be the iPad 2 year, meaning, they promise to give a new way of experience for the people that they have never given before.


The new iPad 2 as it was introduced is more thinner, more lighter, and faster than the first edition, even Jobs stating that "The new iPad 2 is actually thinner than your iPhone 4", only weighing for about 590 grams, it is a super light weight when it comes to tablet PC. Also adding to the spice was that it would come in black and in white edition, despite of the still unreleased talked about white iPhone 4. The new iPad would cost at around $499-$899 and will be released in the US on March 11 and will be followed in other countries in March 26.


Here are some images of the new iPad 2

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POINT OF VIEW IN GOOGLE'S ALGORITHM CHANGE ON SEARCH ENGINE

It is floating around the web for the past few weeks and it's just getting more and more interesting. The revamping of Google's search engine causes confusion to some companies, website owners and blogger. Some thinks it is just the right way to do, but for some it is just another pain in their head to cut some changes and improve their websites and services. Google changing its formula on search engine queries is their move to fight cheaters and define websites with poor quality, focusing on the low quality of content, content farming and auto generating traffic, Google's new algorithm will put websites to the test. For some who don't know, Google's algorithm on search engine is not a joke, every time you click that search button on  a certain word or phrase you want to search Google calculate relevance of the website that would be on the top the result, it is calculated in a fraction of a second and can generate millions of result.

The impact of these revamp may cause a big changes on search results, if you are a website owner then by now you might notice the change of your traffic flow coming from search results from Google. Relevance of the content makes the highest ranking factor to now Google's algorithm, this includes researches, analysis and in depth reports. Google is serious to take out any website on their search results which has a poor quality contents, contents that replicated or copied from other websites, websites that only trick Google to their way on generating high volume of traffic, website that have no or useless contents at all but are high in ranking. The content of your website is still the king, other Search Engine Optimization or SEO factor maybe still important but may lower their importance on ranking in search engine.

The algorithm itself makes sense when it comes to relevancy, for instance, from the last Google's algorithm people searched for "proper way to train a dog",  the search generates about a hundred million websites, the first ten websites on the search engine has different URL, Title and Descriptions but has almost the same content, or, content that only points to other website or an advertisement for a product, this is because of the good SEO the site uses, or perhaps a cheating tactics to increase its traffic and popularity were done. In today's Google algorithm, it is more focused on how the website is doing on their viewer, how the reader feedback on the site, how often a visitor visits everyday, how unique the content it has as if there were no other exact information on the other website, how relevant the service was to the reader if it answers the searched questions, and much more (maybe one day a search results have a poll or something for Google to know its relevance to the reader). The competition in today's algorithm is heightened up, more sophisticated but more challenging, a good way to showcase everyone's skills when it comes to providing a good service for the people. So if you're thinking of setting up a website just to monetize it, think again.

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HUMOR: AN UPDATE IS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR COMPUTER

I can't stop myself to not post this.. It's funny and true. This is a funny way to know what people think every time they looked at their computer and a message "An Update is Availble for your Computer"

Agree??

[image from Stickycomics]

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