by Jovie Cabais | Jun 25, 2011 | Tech Updates
There’s quite a new word circulating these days, and it involves getting more viewers to your website. Whether you want more readers to your blog, or to just promote your products online, the word SEO — which means Search Engine Optimization will definitely be a big plus for you. Here’s why: When internet first made its appearance on the face of the earth, things were not as easy and simple as it is today. Finding information from the vast ocean of the internet was a tough job. The concept of search engines was just taking shape and SEO was something unheard of. Useful and relevant information was often found to be hidden in some deep corner of the internet far from the view of the users for whom essentially the information was developed in the first place. This however has all changed dramatically over the past few years. The use of good SEO marketing services and the efficiency of search engines in better usage of keywords have resulted in information being available on the tips of the users’ fingers within a few seconds. Blog posting sites, social networking sites and common user groups are all steps leading to the direction of enabling easier access to information by all concerned. The concept of search engine optimization is built around a set of complex algorithms used by search engine websites. They dig and crawl into almost each and every website that is available on the internet, based on the keyword used by a prospective customer. Search engine technology today has become highly developed and there is a vast pool of SEO...
by Jovie Cabais | Jun 6, 2011 | Tech Updates
Since its launch in March 2010, Auza.Net’s latest free online server PRCPassers.com (www.prcpassers.com) has served more than 40,000 search queries of names of passers of various Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) board examinations. The website indexes the list of the passers as published by the official website of the PRC and allows the user to search the index very quickly without the need to download the complete PRC list. The results of the Licensure Examination for Teachers in April 2010 was released on May 21, 2010 and generated the largest search traffic exceeding 20,000 queries in less than a week. The website index is updated immediately after any board exam result is announced by the PRC and is one of the most up to date PRC board exam results websites. It is the fastest so far in search capabilities. Auza.Net is encouraging schools and universities to link to www.prcpassers.com to help provide their students a way to search for board exam results. Auza.Net is also accepting list of students from any school or review center in order for the website to be able to include the name of the school or review center in the search results. Share...
by Jovie Cabais | Jun 6, 2011 | Tech Updates
Facebook is probably the largest social network in the Internet today and a few hundred million users around the world regularly post updates about themselves and share information, some of it private, to friends and family. While it is fun and helpful to enhance relationships wherever your Facebook friends may be around the world, users should be aware that they are also exposing themselves to potential danger from identity thieves and malicious individuals. Certain information that can become publicly available on Facebook including your birthday, address, and names of your family members and friends. Facebook has become a venue for criminals to exploit naive users. Users should remove birthdays, addresses, telephone numbers and the maiden names of their mothers as these are information that are used by banks and other financial institutions to verify your identity. Even if you have very strict privacy settings and have limited access to this information to trusted friends, it is possible that one of their accounts can be compromised and your information can become exposed. It is safer not to put such information because it is very easy to compromise a Facebook account, especially if users access their accounts on public computers. You should also be careful when accessing any website at an Internet cafe because some malicious operators intentionally put programs called key loggers which record all characters you typed on the keyboard, thus revealing your account access details. Also, computer viruses may contain code to gather accounts and passwords from Facebook and other popular websites. You should not trust immediately anyone who attempts to befriend you on Facebook because a compromised...
by Jovie Cabais | Jun 5, 2011 | Tech Updates
Microsoft has officially revealed some of the key features of its forthcoming operating system. The new OS which may or may not be called Windows 8, has a completely different user interface. It takes inspiration mostly from the Windows Phone UI which puts a heavy emphasis on touch-based functionality. One of the most obvious design overhauls is on the Windows start menu. It has now been replaced with a colorful tiled design similar to the Exposé Screen of Firefox and other quick- screen-navigation system in most browsers. The colorful tiles however, do not display websites that have been visited, it instead displays static program icons and widgets that are called “live tiles” because they provide constant updates and notifications. Looking for files in the Windows 8 OS has also been made easier by allowing users to view their files in the same way as the programs are being viewed. It is easily navigated with touch alone since its development was primarily geared for tablets, but, it can be also used with a standard mouse and keyboard. The OS also maintained its ability to multi-task. Multiple applications can be viewed at the same time on the same screen by dragging and dropping the app window onto the main screen. It has also been optimized to work with the upcoming Internet Explorer 10. Overall, Windows 8 looks like a good development for Microsoft, it is however, still far from complete and a public release date is yet to be announced. Share...
