I met Yugatech in the 2nd session of TrendLabs BlogCon. I was really inspired by his success in blogging and as a sign of my gratitude to him for that wonderful Blogcon session, I am giving some link love and shout-out post for his holiday contest.

Yuga is really big time! He is giving tons of prizes for his The Yugatech Great Gadget Giveaway

Round 1 is twitter time folks and the mechanics goes like this:

1) Follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe on Twitter.

2) Post a tweet “Just entered to win a Modu Phone. Quick! Go follow @abeolandres and @talk2globe and retweet: http://bit.ly/6e2q7O #thanks2yugatech“

If you are not into twitter but you’ve got a blog and want to join in the fun, worry not! Check out his The Yugatech Great Gadget Giveaway post and his  Merry Tweetmas post to know more details.

Have fun!!!

#1. PetVille is a Virtual Pet game in Facebook (and Myspace too). This is a fun game and it has a cute and catchy soundtrack especially the one in the intro.

At first, you will be asked to customized how your pet will look and then you can groom and play with your pet. Some important games concepts in Petville includes the love points, which is very much similar to XP (experience points) and of course Petville coins.

#2. Ok lets go into the PetVille tips: How do you get coins and love points? In your own PetVille room you can feed your pet using the food bowl:

And clean your pet (by rubbing the soap)

and Pick up trash in your room.

#3. Next PetVille Tip is to get many Neighbors and send them free PetVille gifts

PetVille is a social game and neighbors are important in getting more coins and love points and therefore your pet will level up faster. When you start the game there is automatically 1 neighbor for the Petville (her name is Nosie). On the 1st visit to neighbor there will be short demo. But if you did not pay attention, its ok just proceed to the next tip

#4. Next PetVille Tip on getting more coins and love points: When you get to a neighbor’s house the first thing to do is play with the neighbor. You need to pick if you want to high five, gossip, tickle, dance, kiss or handshake the other pet.

My favorite is of course to Dance since they seem to do a cute dance like the Wonder Girls: Nobody Nobody But You

Then you can clean and bathe the neighbor’s pet

And then you can clean the neighbor’s house for unwanted thrash

After cleaning there will be an indicator on how many trash are left

Take note that trash is not just on the ground, some are up there somewhere

Its advisable to clean all trash so that you will have a Good Housekeeping Bonus, for more extra coins and love points

#5. And the next on my Petville Cheats and Tips list: The fastest way to earn love points is to buys furniture and stuffs in the store.

#6. And lastly my final Petville tip: Do not cheat! Why? Similar to what I advised on my Fishville Cheats, Cafe World Cheats, Mafia Wars Cheats, Farm Town Cheats and Mybrute Cheats posts: Cheaters never win! There will be other blog posts out there encouraging you to use some cheat tools and cheat engines but I recommend that you DO NOT run executable programs unless you know 100% what these tools will do to your PC or Mac (on the file, system and registry level via reverse engineering, system monitoring, etc.) There are a lot of malware, spyware, keyloggers, and Trojan downloaders out there that are disguised as cheat engines and cheat tools so better be not the next victim OK?

Hope you like my Facebook Petville Cheats and Tips post. I will be posting some other Petville tips here in my blog soon to so don’t forget to subscribe to my blog.

Also, Zynga released a new recipe in Facebook Café World. One remarkable thing I liked about this dish is the high payoff: 24 coins per serving, the highest in the game as of writing. Yes, the Sweet Seasonal Ham cooks in 12 hours, lets you earn 24 coins per serving. The downside is that 1 cooking package contains 100 servings only.

Since I mentioned in my last Café World Cheats post that I’d like to redecorate my café, I gave into the temptation and I am giving you a glimpse of my Café: ala winter and holiday theme

Main attraction is the Santa Claus and the Snowman at the center of the café.

Hope you like my café world tips and update.

It grows in 3 hours so its comparable to the Blue Green Chromis, but definitely worth more experience points. The catch is that you will need 1 Fishville Sand Dollars each to buy it

Facebook Sand Dollars is for sale at the Fishville Best Value Store. You can reach the Fishville Best Value Store by clicking the Get More Coins Tab.

Fishville Coins pricing info:

Fishville Sand Dollars pricing info:

And they are available via credit card (Visa, MasterCard and Discovery) and Paypal too.

Hope you like my Fishville Tips update post.

and clicking it will lead you to the teaser page

The developers are now encouraging you to collect the following items

in the New York City’s Soldier, Hitman and Enforcer Tier. To know if the jobs will be yielding out the items, look for the elephant icon

The final item to collect to travel to Mafia Wars Bangkok will be the Thai Passport, which will be available during the launch date.

Mafia Wars Bangkok will also have some factions. Quoting the game site

For decades, the Japanese Yakuza and Chinese Triads have battled for control over the lucrative criminal markets of Thailand. As a newcomer, you’ll need to choose a side to succeed in Bangkok. This isn’t a one-way relationship, though – as you increase your standing with your chosen faction, you’ll also earn access to additional items to fill out your arsenal.

Exciting!!! So which faction will you choose?

Hope you like my Mafia Wars Cheats and Tips post for the upcoming Bangkok Expansion

If you like other Facebook and Zynga Games feel free to visit my other articles:

• Cafe World Cheats post
• Fishville Cheats post
• Petville Cheats post

Below is GMA Network Voters Education Video Campaign featuring guess who???

For the latest Philippine news stories and videos, visit GMANews.TV

I saw this yesterday in gmanews.tv site and I saw it again TV-CH7 tonight, so I guess this is not new anymore. But I’m sharing here for the benefit of those who are out of the loop in the latest local TV ads/campaign.

Was it effective? Leave some comments here at my blog.

Two new recipes are also released and I believe these are just teasers and there will be new recipes to follow soon.
The Jammin’ Jelly Donuts serves 120 diners, cooks in 20 minutes and yield a coin each serving

And the Macaroni and Cheese recipe that cooks in 2 hours, contains 170 servings each worth some 3 coins.

Walls, Floorings and Decors that are related to the holidays are also released.
Some samplers includes the Holiday Gift Stocking

The Frosty Window

A new set of flooring in the Snow Flakes and Snow Drifts were also introduced

as well as a cool and icy Snowfall wall

Christmas and Holiday decors are plentiful in the new update. Some samplers include the Snowman

And two kinds of Pine Trees

I saw some other decors like the Holiday Menorah and the North Pole Decor so these are all exciting updates for Cafe World.

Honestly, I am really tempted to redecorate my café. But first things first, I need to post this cafe world cheats series article

Hope you like my Facebook Cafe World Tips update.

After 196 posts, 874 legit comments, 6379 spam comments, 49 Feedburner (RSS+Mail) subscribers, 3 Pagerank updates (other stats will go here, not sure what to put now) I am very happy about the first year activities of menardconnect.com. And now my thank you notes:

First of all, thank God for all the blessings He has given my family, my blog and me this year. These blessings will always remind me to blog and make use of technology for good and meaningful things.

Second, I would like to thank Raven, my family and my friends for the support, encouragement and inspiration they have given me. Thanks also to my blogger-friends, office-mates and mentors who shared the passion, knowledge and expertise in blogging and writing. Thanks also to the wonderful blogging community.

Lastly, my thanks and appreciation goes the readers, subscribers and supporters of this blog. I cherish your presence and support, and I will do my best to make menardconnect.com better and better each day!

I consider the whole December as the anniversary month of this blog and will posts on other activities related to this event soon.

Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Phishing Site
by Menard Osena (Solutions Product Manager)

Trend Micro threat analysts recently unearthed spammed messages that purported to have come from Trend Micro. Targeting trusted organizations is not an uncommon technique, used by cybercriminals when carrying out spam campaigns.  In this case, the malicious URL and domain are already inaccessible.

Spammers have found a way to mimic the recipient’s email domain and pepper the email with the said domain in order to look more convincing.

See samples below:

In such an attack, traditional spam filtering using patterns alone will no longer prove effective. On the other hand, the cloud computing technology utilized in the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network, easily protects users as it detects and blocks spammed emails and malicious URLs using reputation-based ratings.  Readers are advised, as always, to pay close attention to the content of and URLs within emails.

Post from: TrendLabs | Malware Blog – by Trend Micro

Spoofed Trend Micro Email Leads to Malicious Site

I decided to post this in my personal blog so that I can add other personal insights to the article. I will gather my thoughts again and update this post over the weekend.

Special thanks to Det Caraig, Badette Irinco and Macky Cruz of TrendLabs Tech Marketing Team for the help with organizing my thoughts and polishing the article (Will link your blogsite/twitter page as soon as I confirmed the URL’s)

I thought its just some one time promotional activity but during the next couple of days the reminders went up again. I curiously check on if this mafia wars tip is true and Yes! it seems that folks from Zynga are really offering a limited time 30% discount on all Reward Point purchases from Visa, MasterCard and Paypal.

Going to the Godfather’s tab you will be welcomed with the message

The Godfather feels generous – purchase reward points below at a 30% discount!

Checking out the prices it seems its 30% less for all Reward Points denominations and this is a cool treat and tip for rich Mafia Wars players.

Hurry and avail of it now since this is limited time offer!!!

Hope you like my mafia wars cheats and tips post