Tech Talk

The Internet is a great source of information… as well as good buys. Like what they always say, “almost everything can be found on the net.”  Even tips on how you can save on your expenses.

Just like this interview with Greg Karp published on CBN.com called How You Can Start Spending Smart. It contains tips on how you can be smart in your spending by finding great buys online, and other useful information. Karp is the author of the book Living Rich by Spending Smart.
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Just in case you haven’t noticed yet, there are series of changes in your Yahoo mail, messenger and search facility.

For the Yahoo Mail, several new social networking features have been incorporated. The redesigned Yahoo Mail now allows for status updates, as well as sharing articles with your contacts.

When you sign-in, you’ll see updates of contacts that are deemed important to you. You’ll see if they uploaded new pictures to Flicker, commented on a certain blog, or wrote a new post in his blog.

The series of upgrades unveiled by Yahoo is all part of its effort to make its core Web properties more compelling to users.
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A list of the Dirtiest Web Sites has been made by Symantec calling it “the worst of the worst” when it comes to malware threats.

According to the CNET report, while the dirtiest websites list contains sites that have adult contents (48%), more than half the sites cover a wide range of other categories as well. From legal services, catering, figure skating, and electronics shopping.

Garry Egan, Symantec’s director of security response said, “the number of web attacks is off the charts because it’s the easiest path into a consumer’s machine.” The dirtiest list contains, on average, 18,000 threats per site, but 40 of the site have in excess of 20,000 threats.

The Web “has become the primary delivery of vehicle for malware,” said Egan.
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The new model of Playstation 3 is out, and Sony made sure that it will be really be ‘new.’

The new version is called the “Playstation Slim” and is due to be released in North America and Europe on September 1 fro $299 and €299 respectively.
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CNN published the 12 most annoying types of Facebookers… upon reading them, it looks like I am an annoying Facebooker myself — because I am a lurker.

See if you have any of these characteristics of annoying Facebookers as classified by CNN.

1. The Let-Me-Tell-You-Every-Detail-of-My-Day Bore - I’m sure you have seen these types. Those who post every little muscle-movement. Stuff like “I’m having cereals for breakfast,” “I’m stuck in traffic,” and “Thinking of going to the movies.” Really now.

2. The Self-Promoter - I am partial to this because I do post updates on my blogs. But maybe CNN refers to those who ‘overdo’ it. As the article says: “almost EVERY update is a link to your blog, your poetry reading, your 10k results or your art show.” Sounds like ’self-centeredness’ to me. I guess, anything in excess isn’t really good.
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It is really astounding that international botanists have discovered a rat-eating plant in the Philippines, and it took 20 centuries before it can be found.

The rat-eating plant was found in Palawan by a team of botanists led by UK’s Stewart McPherson.
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Last night, I can’t seem to log in to my twitter account. After a number of attempt, I thought that it was just undergoing maintenance… so I just let it be.

This morning, I tried logging in again… totally forgetting about the problem encountered with Twitter 10 or 12 hours ago… and what surprise I got!

I had a tweet which says “I just earned $152! Will update later http://sumdumurl.org”
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Now, before you panic, this is not a new virus nor a resurrection of April Fools day virus which kept us all on our toes before.

This Virus Alert! is yet another song of Weird Al Yankovic. This is in keeping with the plant of putting a Weird Al song in each of my blog.

Here’s Virus Alert! by Weird Al Yankovic