Are you a Techie?

There are people who are tech [y] [ie] and there are also those who are not tech [y] [ie]. If I am the one whom you will ask, nope, I am not that techie. I may know some stuffs but not all. I got it through experience and I also study. Truth to be told, technology is running fast paced. We have to keep up in order to level-up or at least we know the basic thing. Ignorance is a cruel word so we strive hard to get rid of it. You know.

If there are technology jobs to be done in my websites, I try to solve it on my own. However, if time is running out, I just pay someone to do it, the quickest and easiest option. There are many advantages if you are a techie (technologically knowledgeable) person. You can work at your own pace, with your own style and it seems that working your ideas is never ending. I admire people who can just tweak and edit the design of their websites given any time. Maybe one day, I will also try to explore that area. I know there is no time in trying and time is gold, so let's see how far can we go, isn't it? We must learn how to use time management. Good luck to us. Ooh time! :-)

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FEEDJIT to Track Blog/ Website Visitors

If you're a blogger or an owner of a website and you like to track your visitor, then I suggest you to get a FEEDJIT Live Traffic Feed. There is a free option that gives the recent 10 visitors city and country address that appears when they're visiting -- the time also. On the other hand, there's that "paid" option which gives more privileges if you want to go higher. 

I have been using this for most of my blogs and it works great. Yes, I am using the "free" option and that's just fine for me. So far, I'm a happy camper!

You can see it in my left sidebar, the very bottom part after my pagerank widget. You can also Google it if you want to check out more.

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Protect Your Personal Data on the Internet

Web site clones can entrap the unwary. They really look legitimate, but are used by hackers to steal personal data. Example: One criminal cloned the site of an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and sent out E-mails asking customers to visit their ISP to confirm credit card data. Each E-mail contained a link to the phony site, where the hacker stole credit card numbers.

Your self-defense is to check a domain name using the WHOIS program, www.nsi.com. Type in the site’s Web address to see who operates it. If details do not match those of the legitimate site you wanted to visit, then you should not entertain that email, or stay away from it. One important thing also is to use Mozilla Firefox browser to which you have to check the website concern's SQL (you can do it by hovering your mouse to the circle just on the left side near of URL, if it says " This website does not supply identity information" then, you must be alarmed! Yes, be alarmed!

Only today, my dearie friend told me that she has an email from Paypal and was asking her to update her bank information or credit card information. Good thing, she knows it is not the legit PayPal. So, what she did was forward the email to PayPal, and had a great reply from them. They thanked her for forwarding that email and they told her that they would definitely investigate who operate such kind of Internet Mail (email).

So, be alarmed! Be cautious and exercise your guts and instinct! We know that our world is full of trickery, so be wary (or else you'll be sorry)!

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Decline of Reading, Computers, TV Breeding Passive Generation of Students

Seems like the advent of computers and the developing TV and movie industry has produced a more passive and less critical breed of students just like from my tiny country. As it has been said that there were random interviews (this happened in Philippines, and what about here in USA? --- it could less, or more? Hemmm.. ) with several public and private school teachers who revealed that majority of the students today don’t read as much as students of earlier generations. Books just can’t compete with TV shows during homework hours, according to my aunt who is a teacher in our place.

While machines and the electronics media have speeded up computing and communication for students. This has been at the cost of inquisitiveness and analytical thinking among young people. The downward trend in reading among students were also due to failure of parents to instill good reading habits among their children, the overwhelming volume of information available today, peer pressure, teachers’ failure to be more creative in motivating students and careerism. Parents should remember that reading together can become a great alternative to the overdose of television watching, computer games, and surfing to the internet that are a major pastime in many homes today.

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