3 Useful Things About Facebook

People and netizen nowadays are hooked up with Facebook. It's reality at the moment that almost all people have Facebook accounts. So why do people create such account?

• Store And Upload Pictures - You can upload and share your pictures online. Since Facebook is now the biggest image hosting company. Over billions of pictures are being hosted and uploaded.

• Upload and Share Your Videos - With so much applications now a days people are sharing and uploading their videos. Some of the videos are funny and some are also informative kind of agenda.

• Entertain Your Self - A lot of games and applications that Facebook is having. Some of them are quite entertaining and fun to play. You can play with your friends also and keep the interaction with them.

Laptop/Netbooks vs Tablets

Both these two trendy gadgets are still very useful in our current technology. Laptop's and Netbook's had been the second go to device next to your computer. But now tablets are available we can either choose what to use depending on our needs.

Well based on some experiences all I can say that Tablets have an edge over Laptop's and Netbooks nowadays. Recently Tablets are leading when it comes to the services the users are getting.

Work in an instant - When you are using your laptop or netbook the first thing you should do is switch it on. And then you have to wait for it to load to your desktop before you can start. When you are using your tablet it's totally different. Just one click on the button presto! you can start right away.

Traveling - When people are traveling one common rule is followed. "Travel light" bring what you need along the way and if you are a constant traveler tablets would suffice your needs. Practically who wants to bring a bulky laptop with it's charger while traveling for long hours. Plus Tablets are more light compared to laptops and netbook's.

Battery Life Span -  This aspect I assume tablets definitely owned this one. The battery life span of continuous usage around 10 hours. We all know that laptop's and netbooks can have unlimited usage if you directly plug the cord as the source of power. But that's a different story and does not apply when you are traveling.

Heavy applications - Well in this part laptops are way ahead when it comes to tablets. Since laptops are designed to have heavy system requirement's from applications.

Keyboard - When it comes to this part it's a tie and both devices are equal. Since tablets can use a keyboard by inserting it on the USB port. And laptops/netbooks also have built in keyboard for the users to use.

Pirate Bay on it's 10 anniversary

One of the most notorious and relentless torrent sites The Pirate Bay celebrated their 10th anniversary. This has been a milestone for Piratebay and no other torrent sharing site reach this a decade. Piratebay has been tracked down by authorities but someone found it's way back.

And those decade of raids, ups and downs were part of the pirate lives. The site continued their services from sharing copyrighted files(movies, music, etc). PirateBay stood among other torrent sites that failed to continue their services.

As other sites that were taken down were not able to make a comeback. Among other large sites that had the same influence and popularity were:

Mininova
kickass
Demonoid

These sites had a huge online users and active community. But the moment the authorities track them down they were easily dismantled. And these sites were not able to find another way to expand or start all over again.

A lot of challenges for Piratebay  and number one was how they will deal with the authorities. And also how to maintain those intact community that they have. But all those online supporters kept supporting them. Since everyone wants something free that they can download on the internet. And that's their purpose of showing continuous support.

Authorities are still continuing to track down other file sharing sites. But Piratebay stood still and kept coming back as usual. Piratebay continued their services the pirate way bay hiding behind cloak and stealth approach.

How To Avoid ATM Skimmers

A lot of people are now victims of this syndicate that has been a huge bum. This issues is really quite alarming since if you are careless your money will be taken away. Atm skimming is a critical issue for people and also for the bank.
It doesn't randomly hit individuals but only those irresponsible atm holders. People who are not careful enough on the places and ATM they withdraw are the common victims.

SO WHAT IS ATM CARD SKIMMING?

Copying the information of your atm using a magnetic strip without the consent of the owner. The information details would be used to create a fake/clone atm card. And when the necessary information are now being stolen the next phase would be stealing your savings.

How the procedure works?

Scammers attach skimming devices the same size of the ATM/Credit Card. And when the user inserts the card it captures the information. At the same time when scammers also installed different devices to capture the PIN number of the card user.

Usually scammers would use small camera to record the 4 digit pin. Or they also alter the keypad by inserting a fake keypad that automatically saves the Pin number of the user.

How To Avoid being an ATM SKIMMING VICTIM?

• Be responsible and careful enough when you withdraw
• Cover the keypad the moment you will type your secret pin combination
• Don't withdraw on those rarely guarded Atm machines. Since scammers can easily install anything they want on those ATM's without security/bank authorities interference.
• Try to touch the keypad and try mo move it. Since if something is attached on it(fake keypad) you will notice it.
• Wipe the keypad or use a tissue after you use the ATM machine.
• Inspect the ATM and other areas for unusual appearance 
• If anything is suspicious on that ATM machine find another one and don't transact.

Here are some of the pictures that a certain ATM machine have skimming devices installed.

 FAKE KEYPAD
The moment the user types the pin combination. It automatically saves the pin. Try to feel the keypad and try to move it. This will allow you to notice if something is installed.



HIDDEN CAMERA ON BROCHURE'S
Criminals would attach something on brochures. A tiny camera would be installed on it to record necessary information's

Importance of System Restore

Here are some of the reasons why System Restore is quite useful and helpful.

1.)When you get into sort of trouble like being infected with a virus today. And in worse scenario your anti-virus can't remove/heal the infected files. Stop trying to fix things the hard way since you can restore your computer the day when it was working properly. Or when it was not being infected by viruses and marlware's.

You can choose a certain day when it didn't have the virus. In my case I usually create a restore point every when a necessary updates have been done. And  when a certain program and driver installation had been made.

2.) Having system restore as your backup can save you time. Instead of consuming it by performing a full scan that would take more than 30 mins or more depending on the speed of your computer and the size of your HDD.

 3.)If you are infected by a virus system restore adds to your options of choices in order to fix the problem.

Usually if you are infected by a virus here are your possible choices and basic actions.

• Scan your computer with your updated Anti Virus. Some anti virus can't detect and can't fix a certain virus especially if the anti-virus is not updated.
• Install another anti-virus and try to fix/remove the trojan, worm,virus, malware. (usually you need to install it during safe mode. Since some virus would not allow you to install new programs when your unit is infected)
• Use System Restore
• Reformat your computer(Last resort when all else fail)

At least you added another option and choice in your steps in fighting off this viruses and malwares. Since no one wants to do that formatting procedure that would delete your important files.

And in just a click your computer would be working the same day you left it. And it would be back to normal so that you can continue using it.

Internet Explorer 9

Internet Explorer or IE beta 9 is up for users who wants to try the latest version of windows browser. What could be the changes about this browser as its leading competitors such as google chrome and mozilla firefox. Now Microsoft has unleashed internet explorer beta 9.

Meanwhile standing strong firefox is still one of the top browsers being used world wide. As it is very dynamic and user friendly. It's versatility could be the top reasons why so many people tend to use it. And even nowadays a lot of users still use this browser for convenient usage.

As for google chrome somehow I found it very disastrous to my computer. As it consumes and eats all the memory. At first impression I appreciated google chrome since its main difference that I noticed was fast browsing. But when I keep observing and after some auto restart of my computer. Without prior notice or unintentional restart because of memory dump. There was one reason came up to my conclusion and it was because of the google chrome.

If the windows browser is planning to make it to the top. They have to consider so many things. And I hope they will base it on user's feedback and they will implement whats for the best.

Pnp Website Hacked?

The Philippine National Police website was being attacked after the hostage crisis that happened. It was reported that the hackers shutdown the website because of what happened to the hostage drama that the police officers failed to rescue.

Angelito Pacia the director of Information and Communications Technology Management of the PNP said in an interview that. They did not shut down the website but the website had glitch and crashed down due to thousands of visitors trying to login.

It was more like 100,000 visitors all the same time want to login to the website that eventually caused the shutdown of the site. Chief Inspector Felizardo Eubra of the anti-hacking department of the Pnp. Said that most of the visitors they traced came outside of the country and most of them came from abroad.

The hackers or probably a lot of them have gathered and coordinated to bog down the system that caused the shutting down of the main website. They also received massive emails in which the topic were blames and hatred. Anger topics were most common issues of the emails.