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In line with the advocacy to spread awareness about health and nutrition, Kraft PALAMANTASAN has a contest to encourage Facebook account users to make statements that will help improve their healthy lifestyle. The best answers get to win Kraft gift packs.

Contest mechanics here.

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I saw this article from CNN.com re 8 Feel-Good Websites to Brighten Your Day

I rarely read blogs that have negative blog posts like rants and personal experiences and complaints.

I admit, I myself do rants, especially about our lack of proper water delivery services aka Maynilad’s no water service but since that is an ongoing saga, I think I can rant all I want. Yeah, we have water from Maynilad, 2 pailfuls this dawn, after a week of none coming out of the faucet. Heh.

Anyway, it is such a joy to get “lost” in a virtual world where one feels positive and happy. Who wouldn’t want that, even for just a while?

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I attended the iBlog6 last Friday and I met new blogger friends.

There were a lot of people from the advertising industry on the day I went because the first day dealt with the business side of blogging.

Of course, they were not selling custom travel mugs 😀

They were there to “pulse” the bloggers and to learn how to deal with bloggers or ok, the “new media” or “online media” to some in terms of business deals and events where their products and services are featured and bloggers are invited.

The venue was not filled but I still didn’t get a shirt from so many that were raffled off 🙁 It would have been nice to have a collection from iBlog3 till iBlog6.

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You may be curious if people are Googling your name or anything online about you like your blog or biz site. You want to be alerted if that happened so now you want to learn how to set up a Google Alert.

Let’s say for arguments’ sake that you are not that vain or curious enough to know if someone has been Googling you. Let’s say you are interested in various topics like potted cactus, seo tools, affiliate marketing and other topics of interest, this tool will still be useful in letting you know that a new post/article has been added for your reading pleasure.

How?

There is this application called GOOGLE ALERTS that alerts you in case the key words you find important to you are Googled. This definitely can include your name and who knows whatever aliases you might be using in the WWW.

Here is how to do it:

1. Go to GOOGLE.COM
2. Click on that small arrow on the upper left hand until the menu drops down with “EVEN MORE”
3. Click “Even More” and you will be directed to this page.
4. Under the “Search” on the left column, click “Alerts” and you will be directed to the Google Alerts page.
5. You can now put in the key words that you want to be given an alert.
6. The alerts will be emailed to you gmail account.
7. No gmail? then create your own gmail account now!

If you had a difficult time with my instructions, then watch this video.

How was this helpful to me?

Some significant alerts are about these:

I got an alert about an article I wrote for a site and saw that a Multiply account copied my WHOLE ARTICLE! I let the editor know about it and they dealt with the blog owner.

I got an alert the other day ab out my photo (from another blog) used without my permission. I got an account with that forum  and saw my pic and I was able to take it down by changing the date of the post and putting the pic in my Flickr account.

There. I hope this article was helpful.

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I dread the hear the sound “tu-nut” whenever I am online because that means a worm/virus/what-have-you has been detected and it is trying its best to enter my computer. Hmhp! to that but at least I know my computer is protected during that period.

What I am worried about are the times that these virus go undetected. I have been meaning to transfer photos and videos from my mobile phone to my laptop when I always get this message: VIRUS ALERT! It is so frustrating that I have not been able transfer these files.

I am currently looking for antivirus software that will not cause my pc to slow down  when I activate the program to see if this has done damage on my laptop. A cutting proactive program would be preferable too.

I use this phone for mobile browsing when I’m out of the house and for connectivity when the main internet connection in the house conks out.

There are so many ways virus can penetrate one’s pc and this includes suspicious emails that smell of phishing which can make one a victim of identity theft.

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I have decided to make a 2010 Project 365 in this blog.

To those who just happened to drop by, please visit my entries here.

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