Just this month, I posted a blogpost telling you about my encounter with a text-scammer. The SMS scammer was trying to lure me into sending him the prepaid cellphone load credit he’s asking but he failed because I already knew his scheme. In relation to this, a blog-subscriber send her life-story on how the text [...]

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When I logged in today to my GMail account, I immediately noticed the message as shown on the screenshot below saying, “Click here to enable desktop notifications for Gmail.” This Gmail desktop notification is a new feature rolled out by Google that let the Gmail users know when there is new email or chat message. [...]

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This morning I received a text message (below) from someone I don’t know with cell number +639306139953. Scammer: Musta na kayo! E2 na nga pala ang new roaming number ko. D2 na kayo mag ttxt. Inga plage. Mis u all. God bless. (How are you? This is my new roaming cellphone number. From now on, [...]

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Question Hi Sel, I have problems just recently with the traffic of my blog. Three months ago, my blog enjoyed a thousand of daily traffic. But just when the new year came, my blog’s traffic drops to a hundred only. What’s the problem with it? Is it because I am penalized by the search engine? [...]

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IBM has a prophesy! … That by 2015 your cellphone will project holographic image of the one calling you. It isn’t impossible right? ABS-CBN and GMA7 during the 2010 Presidential Election claimed that they were using holographic technology at their own news studios, although tech experts argued that the images that these media claimed to [...]

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I am not really a fan of Skype and I haven’t used it. My friends abroad convinced me to use it but I prefer the Yahoo Messenger or Facebook chat over it. Few days ago, Skype suffered more than 24 hours of outage and its clients or users couldn’t use its Voice over Internet Protocol [...]

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Yahoo’s main websites and services might remain live but few of its popular (acquired) websites and services will be closed after kicking 600 employees out of the company. A Yahoo’s internal presentation that contains the list of the websites that will be closed has leaked the internet on Thursday. Few of the websites included on [...]

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We’ve heard the news about the publishing of the US confidential communications and documents by the WikiLeaks. Different authorities and officials of the US government expressed concern over the leakage for it might endanger not just the military personnels of the federal government dispatched all over the world but also the entire US, and also [...]

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A German news website called, Spiegel Online, captured the image below from the Google Maps – Street View. While we don’t know what really happened to that man in that car’s trunk, I wonder how do you interpret what has been shown on that photo.

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When I still posted my email address at the About page of this blog, lots of scammers were contacting me and tried to convince me to do business with them. So, my remedy was to use the Contact Plugin for WordPress. At least with it, my email address was kept hidden and spammers’ email harvesters [...]

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