Archive for June, 2007

June 27th, 2007

Google Roadshow in Davao City

Ms. Aileen Apolo of Google.com will be in Davao City from June 29 to July 2, 2007 for a series of talks and meet-ups. If you're a businessman, SEO practitioner or blogger residing or just happen to be in the city, check out her schedule of events: June 29, 2007 ...

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June 27th, 2007

R.I.P. Yahoo! Photos

[photopress:yahoophotosclosing.gif,full,pp_image] Yahoo! Photos is officially scheduled to close down on September 20, 2007 to give way to their other photo sharing service, Flickr. A sad, sad day for its 30 million plus users. What is more sad though is there is no intelligible way to migrate your pictures to ...

Posted in Yahoo! | 1 Comment »

June 25th, 2007

What’s the Best Antivirus for Your PC?

After buying my HP desktop a few months ago, I've been scouring the Internet for antivirus programs that are compatible with Windows Vista. I use Active Virus Shield (AVS) for my laptop, so naturally I would install it on this new desktop. Unfortunately, at that time it wasn't ...

Posted in Software | 12 Comments »

June 23rd, 2007

WordPress Spring Cleaning and Movable Type

I've been slacking a bit on maintaining this blog. Before I recently upgraded to Wordpress 2.2.1, my version was 2.0.4 that was released a year ago. Not even hacking this blog on my birthday would force me upgrade! I dunno what kind of bug bit me, but ...

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June 22nd, 2007

Does the Early Bird Always Get the Worm?

I've been given a hard time practically all my adult life for sleeping late at night. Thanks mostly to my forward-thinking relatives who believe that waking early is the key to success in life and staying up late is the root of all evil. I think that's just ...

Posted in Opinion | 19 Comments »

June 21st, 2007

Blog Design Change

I've decided to give my blog a major facelift using my Darn Slick Gadgets theme. I just realized how easy it is to customize this theme. By changing only a few things, it gets its own unique look. Take a peek at the Mindanao Bloggers Summit blog, Lit Girl, ...

Posted in Graphic Design, Wordpress Themes | No Comments »

June 20th, 2007

How to Get the Hedcut Effect in Photoshop

Looking for my Hedcut Photoshop tutorial? Somehow that post got clobbered in the search engine results. Well, I'm writing this to take my rightful place in the serps! I really had fun creating this tutorial. Hope you learn something from it!

Posted in Tutorials | 3 Comments »

June 20th, 2007

WordPress Guestbook Generator With Paged Comments

First of all, I apologize for the delay as I have been busy lately with some projects and a job I'm applying for. The lack of time simply did not allow me to update my plugins. Anyway, here's something that everyone's been clamoring for. I understand that guestbooks tend ...

Posted in Wordpress Plugins | 2 Comments »

June 18th, 2007

Alexa Train, Technorati Train, Viral Tags: Do They Really Work?

From my experience of running a web directory and blog directory, I've come across dozens of blogs that join these so-called link "trains" to increase their Alexa and Technorati rankings. Some are also in the illusion that it will increase their Google PageRank. At Ratified.org, I know for ...

Posted in Google, SEO | 21 Comments »

June 14th, 2007

I’m a C- Traveller

Always makes me feel good to see Filipinos coming up with cool online applications. Recently, Eugene Villar released Lakbayan, a quiz-type app that rates how well-traveled you are in the Philippines. Being from Davao City, ironically I have not been to many places here in Mindanao. I've ...

Posted in Web Apps | 5 Comments »