Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Technology. Show all posts

On School Projects and Website

Sunday, July 6, 2008

My sister is a Computer Science student. She is now on her third year and they are now starting to do hard core programming. One of their projects at the end of this term is to build a website from scratch.

I am no web programmer but I did some simple HTML programming at work. It is already an existing site and all I have to do is do some simple editing to update the content of the site so I really haven’t tried to build web page from scratch. But as how my friend who is a programmer describes it, it is really a tedious job. They subdivide the tasks of doing the website to different teams or groups as one task is big enough to be handled by just one person.

Building a website entails a lot of process. A domain name and a domain host must be acquired to make the site online. Web administrators will take care of the registration of the domain name and select where to host the site. The content should then be discussed which can include the topics, the links, the main buttons that will be included in the page. After determining the subjects and the topics to be included in the site, programmers then have to deal with the website design which covers the look and feel of the site. And lastly, the programmers have to determine the web development tools that they will use so they can start with the creation of the site where real programming begins.

Blu Ray and PS3

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Have you heard of Blu Ray technology? Blu ray is the new media format technology that is used for high definition video. They say that its quality is exceptional compared to the DVDs so Howell wanted to have a Blu Ray player.

But since the technology is new, you can really expect that it is still pricey compared to its DVD player competitor. So when we discovered that the Sony Play Station 3 includes a Blu Ray player, we got interested in buying it. The price of the PS3 is just a few hundreds cheaper than the Blu Ray player but if we buy the Play Station 3, we will have a Blu Ray player and a video game console in one. So it is like hitting two birds with one stone.

We have been checking the features of the Play Station 3 and I think it really surpass its competitor Xbox and Wii. It has great multimedia capabilities and we can even connect our Play Station Portable to it. And if we just buy a PS3 Blu Ray remote control, we can connect it to our Hi-definition TV so we can play Blu ray discs that is really of high definition quality.

We have long wanted our own home entertainment system and buying a Sony Play Station 3 will be the start of building our own home entertainment system.

Crash course on the value of life lock

Sunday, June 8, 2008

I was happy at how my mom is starting to get interested in learning how to use the computer. Yesterday, she asked me and my sister to teach her on how she can use their laptop in typing and printing documents. Then this afternoon I also thought her how she can use their laptop in downloading pictures from her camera and in using the printer to print the pictures.

Then I thought her how she can use the Internet to search for anything, pay her bills or even shop online. I told her that I have done a lot of my shopping online and it is really safe but all I get is a questioning look on her face. She said that even though we live in a very advance world, she is still not confident that doing anything online is really safe.

That is when I told her about the value of life lock. Yes it is true that with the advance technology, doing anything online is not really safe since anyone can just steal our identity and use it to their advantage. But as I read the lifelock reviews, I learned that there are a lot of tools available to safeguard consumer from hackers and from identity theft stealers. And with lifelock promo codes, consumers can even enroll themselves in the lifelock security system at discounted rates.

After explaining all of this to my mom, I got an approving nod from her which made me believe that I was able to convince her that with the proper tools, online transaction is still safe and she can use it anytime for her convenience.

Lifelock: Identity Protection

Monday, May 19, 2008

I was busy surfing the net last night and accidentally, I read an article through my friend’s blog about the very popular identity theft crime. The article talks about some stories of identity theft victims and as well as the disadvantages and the different harms that it bring to people.

I was really distracted by the article and I really can’t believe the catastrophe which indeed affects and ruins the lives and most especially, the personality of every individual who became a victim of the said crime. This can surely leave a negative impact to the victim’s image since their identity was being intruded by someone they don’t even know.

As what we can see, identity theft is one of the vast problems that should be given a lot more focus by the government. They should provide extra protection to avoid this kind of crime, and they should be the first one to guide every individual so they can be more prudent with their actions.

After reading the article, I realized that we, as individuals must also learn and manage to educate ourselves to be more aware with the crimes that may happen in our lives. We too, must take some preventions to protect our own identity and for us to avoid the invasion of our privacy.

As early as now, I even started searching for some certain options that can definitely help me to protect myself and I’m very lucky to discover the different benefits that life lock offers. I managed to review every detail and amazingly, I got the best assurance that I’ve always wanted.

To further understand the different advantages, I also happened to view some lifelock reviews by consumers which allowed me to deepen my knowledge about the facts that should be considered just like the lifelock promo code that we can actually avail.

Therefore, we should not take such things for granted. Let’s be ready for the possible things that may happen at any moment of our lives.

Lifelock Protection

Saturday, May 17, 2008

All of the employees received a warning email today from our Management head about a certain email from a credit card company asking users to email back their credit card number together with the three digit verification code found at the back of the card. Our management head informed all the employees that this is a fake email and we should not reply to that email.

I remember I received a similar email before. At first you won’t find the email suspicious since the email address of the sender clearly states email@creditcardcompany.com. But then I know that we shouldn’t just give our credit card number together with the three digit verification code specially through email. And so I called the credit card company and found out that that email is a hoax.

More and more of these types of emails are circulating on the net. I was reading the site of life lock and more and more consumers are being victims of identity thieves and hackers. That’s one disadvantage of technology. Because of the high tech world that we live in, a lot of high tech tools can be used by hackers in stealing someone else identity.

I was reading the lifelock reviews by consumers and all of them enrolled at lifelock so they can be protected from identity theft. I guess living in a modern world really has it pros and cons. But at least there are tools available to protect us from identity theft.

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Today’s generation is continuously improving and changing, as fast as what we can expect. It has indeed a great impact in our society, country and even in our everyday lives. However, such predicaments are bound to happen because of the negative effects of our new generation.

The abyss widespread of crimes is very visible nowadays. Majority of them are murder, kidnapping, rape and identity theft. As what we can see, many people are engaged in such crimes and sometimes, even our higher officials are using their power to participate in such crimes and eventually abuse the rights of the people.

Furthermore, some surveys show that this so called identity theft is the most common crime that may imminent and will surely ruin the lives of the victims. The thieves may intrude the person’s identity and revel with the benefits that they can get. This illicit action is definitely despised by people because of the possible horrendous effects that it brings.

Nevertheless, we do have our prerogative to protect our rights and personal identity to such crimes like identity theft. Definitely, we have to be prudent to lessen the number of victims produced by the said crime and likewise, we can consider other preventions like what life lock offers.

Moreover, we now have different options to choose from which can help us to access our rights as a person. Needless to say, they even offer certain discounts just like in the lifelock promo code which can further assure us for the protection that we always need.

Let’s not waste our time and let’s start taking actions to prevent identity theft as well as the other crimes. With the help of lifelock.com, we can deeply fathom our knowledge about this and eventually, this can surely provide us some benefits that we can use in the near future.

Beware of YM Hackers, Get lifelock protection

I received a weird instant message today from my friend asking me if I can supply her 50 pieces of P500 worth of call cards. Since I have a cell phone store, I initially thought that the person I’m talking to really knows me since he or she knows that we sell call cards on our cell phone store. But then I have this gut instinct that the person I’m talking to really sounds different from how I know my friend. And I get really suspicious when the person I’m talking to told me to send via email the code for the 50 pieces call cards since she really need it right away.

So I contacted my friend and as it turns out, her identity has been stolen and the person I’m talking to is impersonating her and is using her yahoo id to get money from all the people under my friends contact list.

I never thought that identity theft is also rampant here in the Philippines. I read from lifelock.com that Identity theft is one of the most rampant cases in the US and so people from the US are enrolling in lifelock to get help on prevention and protection from identify theft.

I have a friend from the US who just used a lifelock promotion code to enroll to their system and according to her this really gave her peace of mind knowing that she is protected from the threat of identity theft.