The Power of Information Technology

July 4, 2008

Free Multimedia Seminar at Davao Cyber Expo

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Davao CyberExpo Tech Seminars
Multimedia Series

FREE • Limited Seats • First Come First Served

July 5, 2007 • 1:00pm
NCCC Mall, Matina, Davao City

Seminar Topics
1:00pm    Introduction to 3D animation
by Christopher John Cubos
1:15pm    Blender 3D (Opensource)
by Marlo (Ragingmon) Noval
2:00pm    Lightwave 3D
by Al Ricci (xykoem) Cañada
2:45pm    Autodesk Maya
by Arvin
3:30pm    Introduction to Web Technologies
by Christopher John Cubos
4:00pm    Adobe Acrobat
by Ted Padova
4:45pm    Drupal
by Alan Nise
5:30pm    Joomla
by Moslemen Macarambon
6:15pm    Wordpress
by Oliver Robillio
7:00pm    I.T. Career Guide
by Christopher John Cubos

Davao CyberExpo Tech Seminars
Multimedia Series
July 5, 2007 • 1:00pm
NCCC Mall, Matina, Davao City

supported by
ApoVision
Creative Response
Ionstorm Software
Davao Tech Jobs
Adobe Users Group
Davao Animation Council
SiliconGulf Initiative
Davao Cyber Expo

Who can join?
Students, professionals, graphic designers, animators, illustrators, web developers

Boost Your I.T. Career
Join this very informative and I.T. seminar and help jumpstart your knowledge in I.T. by Davao’s top I.T. practitioners

Organized by
Philippine Global Outsourcing

June 25, 2008

Mozilla Firefox 3: Free Download

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The Version 3.0 of Mozilla Firefox has finally arrived. After months of getting excellent feedbacks from its beta version, the full version is now fully equipped to serve those Firefox fanatics. Mozilla Firefox version 3.0 is expected to provide a tight competition with its Microsoft-based net browser counterpart “Internet Explorer” and Apple-based “Safari”. Equipped with more new features and the fact that it is open-source, Firefox 3 will indeed dominate the Web industry.The following are major features of the Firefox 3.0:

1.)    Password Manager – Manage your passwords on different websites for easy access.


2.)    Smart Location Bar – Provide better search engine for websites you would love to browse.

3.)    Improved Performance – Load web pages faster. (This one I really love)

4.)    One Click Bookmarking – Provide bookmarks to organize websites easily.

5.)    Instant Web Site ID – Provide detailed information on websites to avoid online crimes and scams.

6.)    Full Zoom – See any part of the website to make it more readable and up close.

7.)    Platform-Native Look and Feel – Browse with better GUI and Interface integrated into your OS.


To Download: Click Here.

May 30, 2008

Davao Cyber Expo 2008

Filed under: Information Technology, Entertainment

Prepare your teams, practice your skills, design your strategies and get ready to have fun at Davao Cyber Expo 08. Davao Cyber Expo is a yearly event spearheaded by e2-events.com. The event is mainly focused on both LAN and Online gaming gathering all the best players to compete in different events. The event also aims to unite all gamers and tech-persons all over Davao (The whole Mindanao as well) to gather and share their different skills and talents when it comes to gaming and the use of computers and gadgets as well.  The most popular part of the event is the Davao Cyber Games which organizes a DOTA LAN tournament and which will determine who is the number one team in Davao when it comes to DOTA gameplay. It will surely display the teamwork, camaraderie and the different gaming skills of every team. There are a lot of prizes at stake plus you’ll get to try out the new online games for free. There will also be a LAN Party Xtreme where it will feature competitions with various LAN games. For PC modification enthusiasts, there will be a showcase of modified CPU’s which will really excite you more. There will also be live bands to entertain each and every one who is present at the event.The Davao Cyber Expo 2008 will be held on July 4, 5 and 6 2008 at the NCCC Mall of Davao.

If you and your team want to join the DAVAO CYBER GAMES (DOTA Tournament), click here to register your team.

Visit the e2-events website for more info. Click here.

Modern Surveillance and Tracking with GPS Tracking Technology

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Technology has been on a very fast pace the past couple of years. Technology has offered us humans better and easier living and it enabled us to be more efficient in what we are doing. I want to share a modern innovation which is greatly useful in business companies, cities, in families and at every individual person as well. It is the GPS Tracking mechanism which enables us to pin-point the location of a targeted individual. Imagine company owners will be able to monitor all their employees with ease and determine quickly the location of each one. This would result into better productivity since it would eliminate invalid absences from employees. In every household, parents would feel confident knowing where their sons and daughters are at every moment.

GPS Tracking technology also is very useful in law enforcement. Imagine every single human being is being monitored by a universal tracker made to promote peace and order. Criminals will be easily located and arrested and this will result to lesser crimes. Terrorists will no have no chance of hiding. No evil being can escape from the eye of the GPS Tracking technology and that’s what makes it a cutting edge technology of the new millennium. There are more uses of this technology waiting to be discovered. The future of modern and advanced surveillance has finally arrived.

May 23, 2008

Quality Assured Memory Upgrades with Memorydeal.net

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With the fast paced world of computer innovation, the trend for computer parts and system is constantly changing. In today’s world, a lot of newly developed applications and programs are being introduced everyday but along with it requires more computer capacity, more particularly the computer memory. Computer speed and performance is very much important in business companies because more speed and better performance can result to more transactions processed, gain more profit and minimize or lessen errors. I would like to introduce an online store that sells the latest selection of computer memory or more particularly the RAM. The site is Memorydeal.net and they are totally dedicated to selling the best possible quality of computer memory and provide guaranteed computer upgrades.

If you want to try out the best possible memory for your computer, you might want to try their 8gb memory upgrades which is currently one of the latest technology for computer memory and will provide the best speed and efficiency when running large applications. It is best for large-scale company computers. If you prefer lesser cost but with relatively higher specification, you might want to try their 4gb memory upgrades. This package is best for hardcore gamers and mini-business owners. If you just want an ordinary upgrade for home use, you can try their 2gb memory upgrades and will cost cheaper.

The reason why Memorydeal.net is the best provider of computer memory upgrades is that they make sure that all memory modules are perfectly matched with those originally installed on the computer. This eliminates the possibility of incompatibility and defects in its parts. Memorydeal.net also guarantees their products to be of high-quality with a reasonable price. Memorydeal.net is always updated with the latest computer memory products and they also provide useful information that could serve as a useful guide to the customer. Being a fast growing online computer memory store, Memorydeal.net assures its customers that they will only sell the best products and provide better services to its clients.

May 16, 2008

Web-hosting Geeks.com: A Guide for Quality Web-Hosting

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With the fast growing trend of the internet, business firms and professionals are going online especially with their workplace. Even individuals who want to be known and be heard would just simply have their very own website hosted by web-hosting companies. But finding the best website-hosting provider is not a simple task as it involves decisions on quality and cost-effectiveness.

The best way before choosing a company for your web hosting needs is by visiting a website popular for its reviews and ratings on various major web-hosting companies. I recommend visiting Webhostinggeeks.com which is a site that compiles all web hosting reviews and web hosting articles helping clients to pick and choose the best web-hosting provider for their business or personal needs. There is nothing more effective in giving out details of the services of a certain company than getting feedbacks from the clients themselves. Webhostinggeeks.com compiles all feedbacks and reviews done by clients of a particular provider and keeps them as real as possible.

Webhostinggeeks.com also gives out more detailed information for every provider and is ranked according to its host rating. This is helpful because you will be able to determine the ratio between cost and quality. Cheap hosting is not really a good choice based on numerous bad experiences by people who tried it because often times the compensation for the cheap price is the downgrade of the quality of service. Expensive hosting also is not a good choice if the quality of service and hosting features are not worth it. I strongly believe that a good web-hosting provider is the one that gives out the most excellent quality of service teamed up with a fairly reasonable price.

With Webhostinggeeks.com, you would have an idea about every provider available and its services offered. You would also get valuable and useful information from customer feedbacks and reviews. You also need not to worry because Webhostinggeeks.com is a certified PR7 site and trusted by many people across the world.

May 7, 2008

Gold in Old and Used Mobile Phones

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As I was browsing at Abs-cbnnews.com, I come into a very interesting article that I think is also gonna interest all of you. The article was entitled “There’s gold in your cell phone” and talks about making money on your old cellphone. A study has recently discovered that cellphones and electronic appliances contain various metal and mineral compositions that have market value. The study shows that cellphones and electronic appliances can even have gold inside it. Copper and tin are also materials that are present in phones and have a relatively high selling price. This implies that what you think is old and obsolute can also become a gold mine for money.

“A tonne of ore from a gold mine produces just 5 grams (0.18 ounce) of gold on average, whereas a tonne of discarded mobile phones can yield 150 grams (5.3 ounce) or more, according to a study by Yokohama Metal Co Ltd, another recycling firm.” 

Instead of throwing away such old items, you can now recycle it and you can even earn more money from it. Japan is the number one country who is following this recycling trend yet they are only getting about 10-20% of old discarded cellphones due to the fact that people are keeping their unused phones because it contains valuable information and data inside. Recycling mobilephones and electronics is an emerging industry and can also be of great help to our declining planet.

May 1, 2008

Microsoft to Retire Windows XP to Promote Windows Vista

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"SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp.’s operating systems run most personal computers around the globe and are a cash cow for the world’s largest software maker. But you’d never confuse a Windows user with the passionate fans of Mac OS X or even the free Linux operating system.

Unless it’s someone running Windows XP, a version Microsoft wants to retire.

Fans of the six-year-old operating system set to be pulled off store shelves in June have papered the Internet with blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Windows Vista, Microsoft’s latest PC operating system, whose consumer launch last January was greeted with lukewarm reviews.

No matter how hard Microsoft works to persuade people to embrace Vista, some just can’t be wowed. They complain about Vista’s hefty hardware requirements, its less-than-peppy performance, occasional incompatibility with other programs and devices and frequent, irritating security pop-up windows.

For them, the impending disappearance of XP computers from retailers, and the phased withdrawal of technical support in coming years, is causing a minor panic."

Click to read more. (Thanks to Gmanews.tv)

With a very strong competition between OS and Software making companies, it is no doubt that Windows XP is still the most widely used OS in the whole world. Windows XP offers almost all features that any type of person might need. It is also user friendly and has a nice look. But Microsoft is already planning to retire XP to give way to their new OS which is Windows Vista. For me, this would be a bad decision for Windows because as i have noticed, most people who own a PC or a Laptop doesnt have enough resources to run Vista or the resources that Vista needs is just way to expensive. Forget about the look, forget about the great animation and graphics, Vista is still expensive and has compatibility issues. Vista is also very laggy and slow when you have minimum graphics. People are acustomed to using Windows XP rather than Windows Vista. So why force them to something that they dont really like? As the saying always says "The customer is always right!.". Long Live Windows XP .

April 29, 2008

Internet Overload Predicted on Year 2010

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"Doom-filled warnings arrive from AT&T this week. The company says that without substantial investment in network infrastructure, the Internet will essentially run out of bandwidth in just two short years.

Blame broadband, says AT&T. Decades of dealing with the trickle of bandwidth consumed by voice and dialup modems left AT&T twiddling its thumbs. The massive rise of DSL and cable modem service in the 2000s has had AT&T facing a monstrous increase in the volume of data transmissions. And that’s set to increase another 50 times between now and 2015. That’s enough, says AT&T, to all but crash the system."

Click to read more. (Thanks to Yahoo! Tech) 

With our present world problem of Global Warming, the Internet also has its own share of problems. The AT&T Company which is the sole responsible for the Web infrastructure has predicted that on year 2010, the internet will be running on its full capacity and all of its bandwidth will be fully used. This is synonymous to our problem with Global Warning wherein we ate up much of the resources that our planet has thus depletion occurs. In my understanding, this problem arisen because of the growing trend of video uploading and streaming websites which eats up a lot of bandwidth and virtual space. Also, excessive websites are also contributors to this problem as they take up space. As a solution to this problem, companies should spend money on upgrading the infrastructure of the internet. They should also form an organization which will effectively handle and monitor every website hosted on the net. Let’s just hope that AT&T will be able to solve this virtual crisis or we won’t be having the Internet anymore for the next couple of years.

March 26, 2008

Samsung’s New Touch Screen Cellphone

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“ Samsung’s Anycall Haptic looks like a thinner version of Apple’s iPhone, but adds a new dimension to the touch interface.

The phone, launched in South Korea on Tuesday, has a large touch-screen display that also provides haptic feedback, information transmitted via the sense of touch, when using certain functions on the device. It means, for example, that when the volume of the radio is changed, the phone simulates both the sound and feel of the "clicks" on an old-style volume knob on a real radio, said Samsung.

There are 22 kinds of vibration in total built into the phone.

The Anycall Haptic (model numbers SCH-W420 and SPH-W4200) phone has a 3.2-inch widescreen display, a 2-megapixel digital camera, full Internet browser, Bluetooth 2.0 and terrestrial digital TV reception. It will cost between 700,000 won and 800,000 won (US$700 to $800) in South Korea. There’s no word from Samsung on when it might be available elsewhere.

It’s the second new handset launched on Tuesday in South Korea that plays on the sense of touch but the other, LG Electronics’ LG-SH240, isn’t quite as high-tech. The latter phone has a layer of silicon over the front of the phone to give it a little elasticity and make it feel to users like they’re touching human skin. It will cost around 400,000 won. “

 

It is evident that there is really a tight competition between cellphone developing companies. Innovation has gone its heights and is going further. Closely after the innovation of Apple’s IPhone, Samsung also has its own version called Anycall SPH-M4650 Multi Touch. The main feature is its wide screen which utilizes touch screen that emphasizes on the sense of touch. When your try to click using your fingers, you will feel like you are clicking a real button. It also basically has the common feature that every cellphone should contain. The phone has has a 3.2-inch widescreen display, a 2-megapixel digital camera, full Internet browser, Bluetooth 2.0 and terrestrial digital TV reception. Recently, it is still deployed on Korea and announcements on its release to other countries are still tentative. I’m sure Anycall SPH-M4650 Multi Touch would fight a tight battle against its number one rival the IPhone and other new cellphones alike.

Source: Yahoo News






















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