Sep 3rd 2009greenbucksDigital World & File and data management & For Information & Web Tools
I am on the lookout for new cell phones, not that I can afford to buy one right now. I chanced upon the new Nokia X series and I must say the Nokia X6 captured my attention.
The unit may look boxy to others but for me this unit is definitely something I would set my sight at. Full specs can be read here.
Now if only this is affordable, 😀
Aug 18th 2009greenbucksDigital World & Thoughts & Visualizations & Web Tools
I have written in this post about playing Farm Town. I have been at it since June and it took me almost forever to reach level 30. To those in the know, I was able to get my greenhouse and gazebo yesterday, right after I got my new level. Woohoo!
FT (Farm Town) is not just a virtual game of plowing, planting and harvesting crops. Sure, there is also shopping for equipments, buildings and other things necessary to make the farm look real. There are cute animals too and who knows? maybe soon, we might be able to buy cattle supplies for them tee-hee!
I know of people who scoff at us for being happy with FT. I don’t mind, to each his own and frankly, we (my neighbors and I) are not enamored with this person anyway.
Aug 2nd 2009greenbucksDigital World & Photos & Visualizations & Web Tools
Facebook friends are going gaga over Farm Town, one of the addicting apps in Facebook. Who wouldn’t love this game, it is quite challenging to build one’s own dream farm, acquiring properties along the way by earning coins through hard work (read: plowing and planting one’s own farm and neighbors’ farms). It is also interactive, well, this depends on who your neighbors are of course.
There I am back when I was at level 8, amongst real life friends, having a photo opportunity in a JU’s farm. This was back when we had to do a screen shot of the farms because there was no camera yet 🙂
I must say I am very happy with my neighbors and buddies that I might even enjoy living in my own farm rather than in my own neighborhood in RL, lol!
Aug 2nd 2009greenbucksBlogging101 & Digital World & Visualizations & Web Tools
Jonah Berger, who has been studying trends for several years, cautions people to do research first before doing anything, tweeting or blogging (or Plurking) about something that is interesting.
The topic may be that latest crazy video that has been getting a lot of attention, or the newest trend in diet supplement or maybe that used-to-be-ignored lowly vegetable that has so much health potential.
Whatever is it, Jonah Berger says that it is better to analyze the trend how this topic has penetrated the web or even the real world.
Why so?
You would not want to look like the only person who hasn’t seen nor heard of this interesting thing you found when a lot, say, more than half a million people have already seen or head of this interesting topic.
Yes, this topic is very much interesting and I hope I am not the millionth person to write about it. 😀
Jul 5th 2009greenbucksBlogging101 & Digital World & File and data management & Web Tools
Having your business website index is a good way to have the site easily searched in search engines. One needs to do a free directory submission to be able to be indexed.
Why is it important to be indexed?
People Googling key words and/or phrases are looking for sites that will give them answers to their queries. Your goal should be that our business site to land on the first page, because that is what usually people (like me) read thoroughly.
Submitting your site to a website index is just one of the steps you need to do. There are still a whole gamut of things to do that may be learned along the way.
In the meantime, be indexed first 🙂
Jun 23rd 2009greenbucksDigital World & Thoughts & Web Tools
It is not surprising that a lot of people feel “bare” or “helpless” when they leave their homes without their mobile phones. Sometimes I feel that way too especially when I have appointments and would not have the means to know if they canceled or not.
In the instances I have left my mobile phones at home (I’ve got two for two telco services) I was of course thinking about calls and messages for me. I did not miss the games I can enjoy playing or the music I can listen to.
Come to think of it, the church announces “All cell phone units to be turned off”. Cinemas too ask this from people. Does it mean that people are too much engrossed using their mobile phones that they are being told indirectly that it is rude to hear these gadgets make a noise.
But then, how come we see people rushing out of the church to answer a phone call? How come we hear the familiar beep-beep of an incoming message or a funky upbeat tune of an incoming call while the church service is going on?
What about that annoying person whose mobile phone rings in the middle of a romantic scene at the cinema? You can just grit your teeth and not say “@^%*%&%&$%@!” for this would be stooping down to their level. Whatever that means.
In a meeting? How come a participant is fiddling with his mobile phone? Maybe meetings should be a “No mobile phones allowed inside” zone. This way, participants have no way to conduct a “sub-meeting” in order to oust the chairman of the board secretly or tweet about his tie with an outrageous design 😀
