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Have you tried Quora?

2016-12-31T13:49:00.000+08:00

I seriously rely on Google for all my searches but then our professor mentioned about Quora and I realized that I'm missing a lot!

"Quora: the best answer to any question" Yes! You can ask or search about different topics and people can vote for the answers.

Questions like:

How do I become a morning person?

Why do the smart CS graduates want to become backend developers?

Life Lessons: What can I learn in one minute that will be useful for the rest of my life?

So aside from the regular techy topics that we find here, you will be amazed how important questions in life are answered here too.

Try it, you will never regret it :)

Exploring Big Data and Tools to Use

2016-05-12T12:26:00.003+08:00

I'm working on Big Data recently for academic purposes and below tools were discussed:

ORA
R
Rapidminer
Hadoop
Pig
Hive
Mahout
Spark

There are so many other tools out there too to help with the analysis. I saw this post about which tools should go together. The author used PCA for this.

For me, I will be using R and Rapidminer. Probably more on Rapidminer since even non-programmers can easily understand this and this is visually helpful. Yet, R is more powerful and most the programmers for Big Data that I know are using R.

This article is for R and Rapidminer integration. I found this from Rapidminer's site too.

LaTeX for Beginners

2016-05-07T18:26:00.001+08:00

I'm just new with the usage of LaTeX and I google and read that it is easier to use MiKTeX. I installed version 2.9 which include TeXworks.

There are pretty much lots of tutorials on how to use it. You just need to have a basic understanding of the markup language like HTML. So since I' have a blog, basically I should get it. You can check out tug.org for more details for the installers, tutorials, etc

The main issue that I encountered was after clicking the green play button and my documents has been exported to a pdf file, it shows great in the internal pdf viewer but not in Adobe Acrobat Reader. The fonts look weird.

Resolution:
Thanks to yrick27 from latex-community, this has been resolved by changing the compatibility settings of the program to Windows XP. Now after the pdf has been exported, it looks great in Adobe Reader :)

Note: I will continue to update this post as I go along in learning this :)

Clocks in Different Timezones

2016-04-07T18:11:00.000+08:00

So when you are working with people from different time zones, it would be really difficult to find a common time. Thankfully, there are tools that we can use to manage out time effectively:

timeanddate.com

worldchatclock.com

Coca-Cola is building what’s next with Google Cloud Platform

2016-04-07T17:44:00.001+08:00

I just saw this today and it is nice to see two great companies sharing the same vision :)

Twitter & Instagram RSS

2016-03-31T22:36:00.000+08:00

There's a lot of tutorial for the twitter RSS and I'm just posting it here for later reference because I don't want to search. I'm using Twitrss to get the rss and Feedly :)

https://twitrss.me/

http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/xxxx.rss

For IG, I'm using websta and adding below link for @mindsetofgreatness

http://widget.websta.me/rss/n/mindsetofgreatness

Try it and have fun!

Moodle for Students

2016-03-28T20:31:00.001+08:00

I'm currently using Moodle and for around 6 months I'm still trying to learn how to use it. Probably I need to use it more often to familiar myself.

I learned that's the easiest way to understand an application is by reading the Help page. It contains a lot of information. Sadly, fewer people bother to actually read it. Well, it seems that I cant see any Help option for Moodle or probably it's a limitation for my current login? I'll check this one further. For now, let's park it.

So far, I have below tips for students using Moodle. I'm sure there are lots for instructors out there.

Calendar

You can sync the Moodle Calendar to Google Calendar.
From the calendar, hover over and you will see the scheduled tasks, assignments, deliverable or exams.

Date & Time/Due

Compare your time to Moodle's time. Same with the date

Messaging

Private Messaging is available.
Just ensure to set the notification methods for incoming messages too.
You can set the "Beep when popup notification is displayed" as well.
Check the message navigation to see your classmates for a particular course. Online status will be indicated.
You can add the student or instructor to your contacts for quick access.

Assignments/Laboratories/Projects

Configure alerts for assignments.
I enabled Popup when I'm online and email notification
Submit before the due date and time. Some don't allow late submissions.

Exams/Quiz

Make sure #2 is done
Take note of the time limit. Check the counter.
Review thoroughly.
Submit prior to time limit
Some exams can be location specific and can't be taken remotely

Courses

Important details are at the top. Make sure to check it out.
Check out the course syllabus and instructor contact information
Some instructors set the week schedule ahead of time, The current week will be highlighted when you access the course.
Take note of the small modules in the right side below the calendar like the latest news and upcoming events

Course Materials and Lectures Section

Check this from time to time for the needed materials
Some instructor upload the materials ahead of time
Best to download all the uploaded materials and lectures for offline access

Forums

There are different forums like the news forum and common discussion forum
Check out the news forums for the course too

Site news

Take note of this since announcements from admin are posted like if you will be able to access your old files, etc

Grades

Current Course> Under Administration>Course Administration>Grades>
2 views: User report(detailed breakdown of the selected course ) and Overview Report (for the current courses)
The course total and percentage will give you an idea of your current grade.

I'll update this as needed since I'm still using it and I might learn few tips and tricks along the way :)

Clash of Clans Maintenance break

2014-08-28T18:48:00.001+08:00

WeChat message for the incoming Tropical storm Glenda

2014-07-14T22:31:00.001+08:00

Got this from WeChat account:

Heads up, WeChatters!

Tropical storm Glenda is coming our way and for everyone's safety, it's best to

keep up with the latest news. Public storm signal No. 1 had just been declared over Catanduanes in the Bicol region. This means everyone should expect strong winds, heavy rains, and possible floods, especially if you're within the vicinity of Eastern Luzon and Visayas. Keep your friends and family informed

and ask them to take measures to keep safe and dry this rainy season!

WeChat PH giving away prepaid cards

2014-07-08T13:39:00.001+08:00

Got this message from WeChat:

Hey WeChatters! Are you ready for another round of big surprises? From July 8 to 13, who make 3 successful video/audio calls to different friends (each one should last at least 5s) will win Php 70 prepaid cards. After completed the basic task, we'll add Php10 if you called every 2 more friends! You earn as much load as you want just by doubling your calls to three of your friends. So Join now! Click the link for more http://t.cn/RvgT4VD

IFTTT: If This Then That

2014-07-02T20:12:00.000+08:00

I'm really loving the app IFTTT: If This Then That!

So far I'm using 5 recipes and they made my life easier.

For blogging, I used the recipe to have my instagram pictures to be posted to my blog and to Pryv (to see a graphical timeline view).

For life logging, I used the recipe to have all my check-ins in Foursquare to be consolidated in a spreadsheet file in my Google drive account. Why do I need this? I wanted to be able to view the history of my check-ins which is very useful when I'm doing my cash flow monitoring.

For the pictures, I used the recipe to automatically upload my Facebook tagged pictures to Dropbox.

Then for my contact management, I used the recipe to backup my contacts to a Google Spreadsheet.

UberSocial new layout

2014-03-18T09:36:00.001+08:00

The new layout seems to be bigger and cleaner. I just saw it today and will post more updates :)

The Coca-Cola Social Media Guard

2014-03-06T19:59:00.002+08:00

Facebook acquired WhatsApp

2014-02-20T09:35:00.001+08:00

I just saw this announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about Facebook acquiring WhatsApp. Well, I use Facebook a lot and for WhatsApp, I think its a great messaging app since even regular mobile phones (non-iOS, non-android) can have it.

Snoppy's Seasonal Update

2013-11-21T08:09:00.001+08:00

The Snoopy Street Fair Seasonal update is now available.

Look at their icon too:

Feedly is over capacity!

2013-07-04T10:48:00.001+08:00

LThere might be a lot of Google reader clients who migrated to Feedly for it to be over capacity.

Too bad for me, I just realized that I needed to try Feedly for my feeds. I dont want to go through the trouble of adding sites/feeds manually again like the first time.

Im actually using Flipboard and Newsify but Im still looking for more.

How about you? Any suggestions?

4 Pics 1 Word: 8 letters

2013-05-03T16:48:00.003+08:00

POLITICS

4 Pics 1 Word: 7 letters

2013-04-24T21:57:00.001+08:00

TRANSIT

SCIENCE

4 Pics 1 Word: 4 letters

2013-04-14T00:21:00.001+08:00

BUST

4 Pics 1 Word: 5 letters

2013-04-14T00:08:00.001+08:00

BLUFF

CLANK

PIECE

Candy Crush

2013-01-14T22:17:00.001+08:00

This game is very addicting like Diamond Dash and Blitz.

iPhone 3G not activating

2012-11-07T17:05:00.001+08:00

Try the following:
1. Reboot the device
2. Reinsert SIM Card
3. Toggle on/off

Social Media Leaders

2012-06-02T20:24:00.001+08:00

13 Amazing Facts About Smartphone Use Around The World

2012-05-19T14:36:00.001+08:00

1. Android is most popular in Japan, with 55% of respondents using it,
versus 39% for iOS. Android is also number one in a few other
countries, including New Zealand (41%), the US (40%), and China (38%),
but it does not dominate in any other surveyed country except
Argentina (33%, vs 18% for number-two Blackberry).
2. iOS is farthest ahead in Switzerland, with 52% usage vs. 23% for
Android. Other countries where iOS is way ahead include Australia (49%
vs 25% Android), Canada (45% vs 23% Android and 23% Blackberry), and
France (43% vs 25% Android).
3. In Egypt, Windows Mobile is way more popular than the iPhone. 13%
of survey respondents use the Microsoft smartphone platform, behind
Symbian (19%) and Android (14%). iOS was way down at 4%.
4. In the United Arab Emirates, the Blackberry rules with 42%. iOS was
a distant second at 25%.
5. More than half (52%) Chinese respondents said they use a smartphone
because they can use it "without being seen easily." That was also a
big driver in Egypt (43%), Mexico (41%) and Brazil (39%).
6. Japanese users had the most apps on average, with 41. Saudi Arabia
was second with 36.
7. Mobile social networking is biggest in Mexico and Argentina, where
74% and 73% of users visit a social network daily.
8. But mobile-social is weak in Japan where 34% of users never visit a
social network on their phone.
9. Watching video is most popular in Saudi Arabia, with 59% of
respondents doing it daily. Number-two is Egypt, with 41%.
10. They're really good at ignoring ads in the U.K. 50% of respondents
said they noticed ads "never" (16%) or "rarely" (34%).
11. Chinese users shop from their phones. 59% of Chinese users did
this, compared with only 41% in second-place Egypt.
12. Chinese users also love to write reviews. 41% of them wrote a
review of a local business after looking it up on their smartphone.
Number two, Japan, was way behind, with only 24% of respondents doing
this.
13. North Americans use their phones to search for restaurants and
bars. Exactly 50% of respondents in both the U.S. and Canadian
respondents said they used their phone to search for grub or drinks.

SOURCE: http://articles.businessinsider.com/2012-05-15/research/31709253_1_ios-smartphone-respondents

When did Facebook become so uncool?

2012-04-12T20:19:00.001+08:00

Something strange happened Monday on the Internet.

Facebook -- the once-underdog social network founded by a kid in a
hoodie in a dorm room -- may have officially cemented its status as a
titan of the tech establishment it once challenged.

What changed? Facebook -- no longer a feisty startup but a
3,000-person, soon-to-be-public corporation with $3.9 billion in cash
and an $85 billion to $100 billion valuation -- spent $1 billion to
gobble up a much-smaller competitor, the photo-sharing app Instagram.

When it did so, it stirred up a caldron of ill will that the "People
of the Internet" have been harboring toward Mark Zuckerberg's once-hip
company. Some Instagram users said they were downloading all of their
photos and then deleting them from the app just so Facebook couldn't
get its hands on them.

Pundits weren't kind to Facebook, either. David Horsey of the Los
Angeles Times, writing about the Instagram purchase, noted that the
company is looking more and more like "Big Friend," a gentler
variation on George Orwell's all-seeing Big Brother. Data indicate
others share that view, too. A new poll, conducted before the
Instagram news, found that 28% of Americans have an unfavorable view
of Facebook -- twice as many as disapprove of Apple and nearly three
times as many as Google.

This backlash highlights a new reality: As a technological juggernaut,
Facebook is more Microsoft than Tumblr. To use a musical analogy
employed on Twitter, it's the Nickelback to Instagram's Bon Iver.

Facebook and Instagram's images couldn't be more different, so it's
tempting to say that this Goliath-buys-David event is a turning point
for Facebook. But people have been writing about Facebook losing its
mojo for years now. In 2009, AdWeek ran this headline: "Is Facebook
getting uncool for 18-24s?" A year later, mainstream news websites
noted the phenomenon of parents and grandparents joining Facebook,
scaring off younger people.

"It's official, Facebook is becoming uncool," CBS declared.

It's hard to pinpoint the moment when Facebook's image problem
started. Maybe it was when users realized how much data Facebook was
collecting about them. Maybe it was when CEO Zuckerberg started to
seem less like that geeky, counterculture college kid and more like a
run-of-the-mill billionaire.

But it is possible to take a look at the conversation and tease out a
few factors that seem to have led to Facebook's current status as an
inescapable, perhaps Orwellian, Internet giant.

First: Money. Nothing leads to public skepticism quite like a few
billion dollars in pocket change. Compare that kind of situation at
Facebook to Instagram, which as CNNMoney notes, hadn't monetized its
product. It didn't support advertisements and apparently didn't sell
its users' data.

Facebook, on the other hand, is accused of profiting wildly on the
backs of the 850 million people who share personal details about their
lives on the social network. For more on that, see The Wall Street
Journal's recent feature "Selling You on Facebook," which analyzes the
info that Facebook apps collect.

Second: Size. As companies get bigger, people tend to question their
motives. Google is a good example of this view. The Silicon Valley
company once was the darling of the Internet -- the search engine that
didn't have ads on its homepage and declared its company ethos was
"Don't Be Evil." As the tech blog Gizmodo writes, Google "built a very
lucrative company on the reputation of user respect."

That was easy enough when Google was small. As it grew, however, some
people started to lose faith in the company -- and to question its
motives.

Gizmodo: "In a privacy policy shift, Google announced today that it
will begin tracking users universally across all its services --
Gmail, Search, YouTube and more -- and sharing data on user activity
across all of them. So much for the Google we signed up for."

People never talked that way about Instagram, which only had 13
employees and 33 million users. It's the kind of company journalists
love to use the word "scrappy" to describe.

Third: Trust. As the company has grown, some people have come to trust
Facebook so little that they're pulling photos from Instagram in
advance of the takeover.

According to Megan Garber at The Atlantic, 25,000 people visited
Instaport's site in six hours on Monday after the news broke, compared
with 400 people on a normal day. Instaport is a service that helps
people pull photos off Instagram for home storage.

"You could read that spike, on the one hand, as a mass freak-out on
the part of users who don't trust Facebook -- despite Mark
Zuckerberg's promises -- with their networks and memories," Garber
writes. "You could also read it as an insurance play, a
just-to-be-safe move on the part of people who want to feel sure that
their photos are secure."

Mistrust of Facebook stems in part from concern about its privacy
policies, which have been described as overly confusing. Facebook
itself acknowledges that privacy concerns could trip up the company in
the future.

In its initial public offering filing with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission, the company wrote: "We have in the past
experienced, and we expect that in the future we will continue to
experience, media, legislative, or regulatory scrutiny of our
decisions regarding user privacy or other issues, which may adversely
affect our reputation and brand."

Finally: The cool factor. Maybe it's less that people see Facebook as
evil and more that the site just isn't as cool as it used to be --
partly because it's so popular and also because it's not the new kid
on the block anymore. Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004, which is
eons ago in Internet time. MySpace and Friendster -- all of Facebook's
predecessors -- didn't survive (or didn't continue to grow) for this
long.

Instagram, meanwhile, was founded in late 2010 and was only in recent
months becoming part of the zeitgist. iPhone-toting hipster types
liked the app for its mobility -- you cold post photos easily from
your phone -- and filters that gave their pics a retro, vintage vibe.

"Instagram is, in a word, cool. Facebook is losing its 'cool',
rapidly," wrote Allan Swann at the Computer Business Review.

Instagram managed to create a cache in part from its status as an
underground hit. Even with tens of millions of users, the app was
praised by reviewers as intimate -- a place, true or not, where it was
safe to post personal photos and share stories with a relatively small
network of friends. (Just to throw in some data: I have 815 Facebook
friends but only 67 people whom I follow on Instagram, and I actually
know almost all of them.)

It's not clear that any of that will change for Instagram. Zuckerberg
says the app will continue to operate as a product that's independent
from Facebook and that people won't have to post Instagram photos to
Facebook just because the company owns the app. But the backlash
helped crystallize the idea that Facebook no longer is seen as the
always-cool company that everybody implicitly trusts.

"Some Instagram fans are acting as if this is a tragedy," Horsey of
the Los Angeles Times writes of the acquisition. "They liked the idea
that there was a little corner of the online world where they could
gather and be outside the reach of the Zuckerberg empire. ..."

There was a time when people clamored to be part of Zuckerberg's
network, which launched at first only for Harvard students. But now,
as the Instagram backlash shows, Facebook has long stopped being an
exclusive club. It's seen as the big, bland company that the app's
users worry will ruin the cool thing they had going.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/04/10/tech/social-media/facebook-uncool-instagram/index.html