If you are a fan of “Pilipinas Got Talent” then you have seen these two extraordinary talented acts, of course I am talking about Jovit Baldivino from Batangas and the Ezra Band from Davao del Sur.

I was not able to watch the episode where Jovit Baldivino sang his very own version of Journey’s “Faithfully” so I turned to youtube and watch him. While listening to him sings, it felt like listening to our very own pinoy talent Arnel Pineda. His voice is exceptional and he sings from his heart.

On the other hand another talented quartet from Davao del Sur serenaded the judges with their very beautiful rendition of Eric Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight”. Just by listening to the vocalist you would think that its a guy singing the song but it’s actually a girl. Her voice is mesmerizing and you could see that Kris Aquino was captivated from the look in her eyes. Their pianist is also exceptional. You could not imagine that someone like him could play the piano so well. Truly a gifted individual!

The Ezra Band and Jovit Baldivino prove that Philippines have lots of talented individuals they are just waiting to be discovered.

Since getting a 32GB Ipod touch over the weekend, I haven’t been able to fully utilize its features. I only had limited time to explore the device because I can’t afford to just spend all my time in the office figuring out how this thing really works. Nonetheless, those limited time I had with my latest gadget was incredible. I have always been fascinated with its touch screen feature and I can’t help but play around with it. The engineering team from Apple really has a brilliant mind.

Ipod touch is like your all in one gadget because there’s so much you can do with it. It is loaded with the coolest and latest features that a gadget can have. What really drives me to buy an Ipod touch is its WIFI feature. I wanted to be connected to the Internet wherever I go so I thought Ipod touch is the perfect companion. One thing about it is that it is very user friendly, even if you are a first time user of apple products you will not have a hard time using it because it is very user friendly and it is also handy despite of its bigger size.

The 32GB Ipod touch comes with a remote in its headset making it really easy to adjust the volume. Recording can also be done through the microphone attached in the headset. The only problem is that the music does not sound too good if you are not going to use the headset.

For more info about apple’s Ipod touch just visit their official website.

I started making a wish list last year and it was very effective because I was able to get most the things that I have listed. Having a wish list helps me to stay on track with how I spend my earnings. For this year, I have created a brand new list of things that I want to have and they are as follows.

Desktop Computer – I need this one because I don’t want to over use my laptop. I want to use a desktop computer when doing some solid computer works. Another reason why I want to buy a desktop computer is my nephew. He’s learning how to use the computer and he will not stop bugging me if I will not let him use my laptop to watch his favorite cartoon in youtube or paint using the pre-installed MS Paint.

3 in 1 Printer – This was included in my wish list last year but was not able to get it. I don’t see any reason why I can’t get this one this year.

Cell Phone – This is going to be the last time that I am going to buy one. I think I have found the perfect phone for me. It’s not an iPhone but it is more than just a basic phone.

Ipod Touch – My addiction to music gadgets continues with this one. I am aiming to buy a 32GB Ipod Touch before this year ends. Music and Internet in one device is a good combination.

Mountain Bike – Even though I got into a bicycle accident when I was 8 years old I still want to have my own. I am thinking of an afternoon bicycle ride with my nephew since he has his own.

Passport – This is probably the must have document for this year. Getting a passport has been in my to do list for ages now and this year is right time to finally have it.

Eye Glasses – Though my eyes are still crystal clear and perfectly normal I still want to get one for protection purposes (protection is better than cure, right?)

My sister and I is also planning to have our house renovated this year so this means that I will have tighten up my belt a bit and avoid buying things that are not included in my wish list.

If the situation will allow me to have an out of town or perhaps an out of the country vacation then it’s included in my wish list for this year.

People who think that web designing is a large, complicated world may be right in some manner especially if one has to think about how fast innovations happen in the world of web designing. Yet, no matter how much advancement came in, the basics will still not change. Thus, mastering the basic will always help you no matter how many changes web designing undergo.

Size of your graphics. Limit your graphics size to at most 12 KB. Although there is already a lot of fast internet connection available in a much wider scope, you should not take chances. It is better that you get to make sure that your graphics can load fast in any internet connection speed and computer models than find out later on that a lot of your prospect customers are get disappointed with how slow your site loads.

The use of standard layouts. One of the things that users appreciate when looking at a website is the sense of familiarity that they have with how the website looks. The more familiar a website is, the easier it is for them to make their way through one page to another. Since they already have an idea how a website looks, then they would easily know how to get from one page to another.

The choice of fonts. The main reason why you use fonts in your site is because you have some things that you would want your visitors to read. Fonts are not there only for decorative purposes. That is why when you are choosing a font, make sure that it is something that, although may not look so fancy, is easy to read and understand. Such fonts include Serif for the headlines, Verdana, Geneva, Arial and Helvetica.

The number of advertisements found in your page. Although advertisements may be a good source of income in the online business, you need to make use of them in your site in moderation. Do not crowd pages of your site with ads. This will only make viewers confused and at some point irritated. Always give a breathing space for your readers’ eyes to relax and gain focus.

Valuing time by assuring speed. Speed is one of the major needs of people and your site should be able to fulfill this need. Time is of the essence when loading your website. Every minute that your site loads slower, the more money and possible customer you lose. Also, a slow website creates a bad impression that could be spread using the word of mouth. You don’t want to know feedbacks saying that your site may have good content but it is not good enough to make people wait.

One of the reasons why the Internet has become a phenomenon is because it was able to bridge spaces in a very short period of time. It has made the world a smaller place for people to communicate and interact. Just when we thought that the net has already given us the best offer there is in terms of communication when social media became available, here comes a new face of online interaction – the latest technology from the buzzing world of Google, the Google Wave. The name is actually homage to two science fiction films, Firefly and Serenity, which makes use of the term wave as the form of communication used in the movies.

When it was released though invitations, a lot of people got confused as to how it should work and why it is much better than the good old email system. You would understand it much better if you know the problems that most users experience when using email. First, it was made forty-years ago. Though it might be quite a spectacle before, nowadays, there have been a lot of more advance innovations that are not so compatible with how email works. This has pushed email more into becoming obsolete. Second, communication has already become more demanding. There are a lot of attachments and things that you want to discuss clearly and fast. With the old email system, a lot of information gets jumbled and important flow of conversation gets messed up. This leads to confusion and some errors and delays in tasks and projects. These two problems are what Google Wave intends to solve along with more innovations that it offers.

Amidst its seemingly complex structure, Google Wave is actually patterned to, in its most basic sense, how email works. In fact, the idea is to modernize how email functions. From the much simpler form of mere exchange of messages from sender to receiver and vice-versa, this new technology reinvents a much better way to interact using messages. In fact, aside from reinventing email messaging, a lot of people say that this technology has the potential to go beyond the major popular applications being used today such as instant messaging, forum, blogs, wikis and even social media. They say so because it was able to give people a means to do all of the independent tasks that they do in different applications using one means. To understand Google Wave, one must see it as an all-in-one product, protocol and a platform which allows users to interact not only through messages in the form of texts, but also through documents. And to top all of these, it can be made available may you be using your desktop of mobile phone.

It was fun and tiring! I am talking about my trip to the country’s capital last December 2009. Fun because not only I got to experience the Manila life for three days I also got to visit my sister and bonded with her, speaking of sister, she did make a perfect host. She was our tour guide and she toured us to the most popular places in Makati. I have to say that Makati is truly a business center.

We arrived at the NAIA 3 at exactly 12NN; my sister picked us up and headed straight to her apartment for a lunch. After resting for a couple of hours, we roamed around Greenbelt. We then had coffee at Starbucks (I really wish there’s a Starbucks in Davao). It was past 8 in the evening when we got out of Starbucks. We continued to wander around the busy streets of Ayala and stop at Ayala Triangle Park to have our foot some rest.

After discussing where to have our dinner, we finally settled down at Tokyo Tokyo, a Japanese food chain. It was almost midnight when we decided to go home and called it the day.

Our second day was spent in Manila Ocean Park and the biggest mall of Asia none other than the SM Mall of Asia or popularly known as MOA. The Ocean Park experience was fun and I felt like a kid again having those little kids in the same room with us. We also get to watch the famous “The Mermaid Show”. The show was just short but it was entertaining.

Our next stop was the Mall of Asia. The mall was huge and it houses loads of cool stuffs (if you are shopping addict then you’ll know what I mean). When we got to the mall we felt the need to eat and decided to chow at Wendy’s, another famous food chain. Vhong Navarro, Valerie Concepcion and local celebrities were at the mall doing a show. We wanted to have our dinner at the “The Racks” but the restaurant was already full when we got there. According to my sister, their food is superb but we could not wait until there’s a vacant seat because we are all hungry so just decided to eat at the food court. It was still early and none of us wanted to go home yet and we ended up watching Ninja Assassin. The film was great but cinema was too cold that I couldn’t concentrate watching the movie.

Our third day was spent in Greenhills and some other malls in Manila. While on our way to Greenhills, few local bands had a free concert in the MRT station. We saw Sandwich, Sugarfree and some other not so popular bands performed. It was another tiring day yet fun. We had our dinner at the “Old Spaghetti House” which by the way was the best dinner I had. Their food was excellent and so was the ambiance. The restaurant is located inside the Waltermart Mall in Makati, just a walking distance from my sister’s apartment.

After dinner, we headed home and called it a day. We were exhausted from our mall hopping activity. It also marked the end of our Manila trip.

The whole Manila escapade was just the beginning of my dream to travel the whole country and the rest of the world!

If you want to learn another way to drive traffic to your website then you must consider making a lens at squidoo. What is a lens anyway? A lens is a user generated single page that contains one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be just about anything; such as places, people, hobbies, etc.

Creating a squidoo lens is as easy as 1, 2, 3. Here are the steps on how to make one:

1. Create an account at squidoo.
2. Choose a topic related to your site
3. Choose what do you want to do with your lens
4. Choose a URL of your lens
5. Choose a title of your lens and its category
6. Prepare 3 best keywords for your lens

After doing all the steps given, you are now ready to become a lensmaster. A lensmaster is the owner of the lens. He or she can create hundreds of lens. The more lens the better but make sure that each lens you are going to create contains good quality information that will help other lensmaster and visitors, it should always be updated to secure good ranking.

Modules are the building blocks of lenses. The tasks of the lensmaster to populate their lens with contents has become easy because of the presence of the modules. Modules are either automatic or curated. Curated modules, you will have to put the information manually. Automatic modules, you configure the inputs and then the RSS feeds will do the rest for you.

After creating your first lens, don’t just sit back and relax and wait for people to notice your lens. You have to exert a little effort in order to gain popularity. Visiting other lens that is related to yours is the first step, leave comments and invite other lensmaster to trade links with you.

Joining SquidU is another way of letting other member of squidoo know that you just made your first lens. SquidU is a discussion board for all squidoo members. For every new members there is a thread called “Introduce Yourself”, you can start a topic in the thread and start telling other members about your fresh lens.

Replying to existing thread can also increase your visibility in the squidoo community. Be sure to be polite when you leave a post.

Always remember that a lens with good quality contents will always make it to the top.

For more information on squidoo lens making click these Squidoo FAQ and How to Suceed with Squidoo.

SEO experts need not to emphasize how important keyword optimization is. They perfectly know why there is a need to do keyword optimization. But for those who are novice in Search Engine Optimization market, there’s a huge question mark about keyword optimization. Why do we need to understand about keyword optimization, what makes keyword optimization so important? Questions goes on and on.

For beginners in SEO world. Hope this answers your questions regarding keyword optimization. It is important to optimize your keyword so as to increase your search engine results in search engines. Keywords are the building blocks of your articles and contents of your site. No matter how great and informative your contents are if your keywords are nowhere to be found in the top 10 list of keyword used, you can’t expect a good position search engine results.

Before writing an article or putting a content in your site. You must first find what keywords are best to use. This method is known as keyword discovery, in this method you will know what keywords are best to use that is related to your site and a target market or audience.

Then comes the keyword analysis, it involves the use of different tools to determine how stiff the competition is for a certain keyword. It is good to use keywords that has a high average of search volumes with low search results, with this rule in mind, the battle for the top position is not that stiff.

Often times, the site’s ranking depends on several factors, one factor is the page rank. The higher the page rank of your site, the higher the chance to be in the top position. When you do keyword optimization always think about the page rank of your site.

Keyword selection is next in the process. Choose the key phrases that best describe your site. From the long list of you keyword that you have listed choose only those most relevant keywords. Avoid selecting keyword that has a very low popularity and less traffic for the search term. Also when selecting the best keywords, include the plural and singular form of the keywords because search engines has to different interpretation of the plural and singular form of the same word. Another thing to consider is the different spelling of the same word, it will also yield different results in search engines.

Lastly, keyword deployment. It is important that you know where to place your keywords. It is not good to place all your keywords in every page of your website. There are specific areas of the site that is best to put the keywords on. Page title, headings, as links, table summary, body text, meta tag are some of the best place to put your keywords. Search engine also spider sites from top to bottom. Be sure to place keyword from the top left corner and bottom right corner of your site.

If you follow the steps above, in no time the traffic of your website will be at its best. Do not also limit yourself in the above steps only try to explore other methods which you think can improve your ranking. After all, you’re after for the best position in the search engine result.

If you cannot decide whether to build the website yourself or hire a professional then this article should help you. First of all you need to ask yourself whether you are a computer person. If not, then do you think you have the interest and eyes for design. Ok if you have asked no to both of these questions then you probably should hire a professional web designer.

There are many benefits. If you are planning to build just one website then it will most likely cost you less by hiring a professional. Why? Because the time you will need to spend in educating yourself on building a website will be days, if not weeks. Even then, you probably still cannot produce the kind of quality that a professional can, simply because they’ve practicing it for years. If you like doing math you can times the number of hours you think it will take you by your current hourly rate. For example, if your hourly rate is 60 dollar per hour and you think it will take you 50 hours, including learning time, then the total cost would be 3000 dollars.

Having done the math you can now see how expensive it REALLY is if you do it yourself. Depending on your budget but you certainly don’t have to go to the big web design companies in order to get professional results. You can easily get a professional web design for one third of this cost. And the end result will most likely be much better. If you’re lucky you might be able to get the web designer to do the logo, business cards and flyers for a bit extra. It’s always better to use the same person for as many things as possible. This way you can bargain with him/her. Some nice people will even do them for free and hoping you will do business with them again. So it’s definitely something to keep in mind and don’t be afraid to ask. You will find that there are many nice people out there still

The web design industry is getting more competitive each day and if you are somebody who’s just started out you need to learn more and do more in order to compete. Search engine optimization is becoming more important as more people are jumping on the net, and more business owners are aware this. Which means if you are a web designer you need to know at least the basics of SEO. The days when you can just handle the graphics being a web designer are long gone. People are expecting more from web designers now. Not only do they expect you to make the website but also the marketing.

Of course, not every web designers are capable of designing, coding and marketing a website. So if you can you will be more valuable to the clients, which also means you can set your own prices. Learning SEO and being good at it is one of many things you can do to make yourself more valuable. Many web designers in london are claiming they can offer website design with SEO but only a small percentage of them actually know what they are doing. Because SEO is a long and time consuming process, many web designers think they can get away with the claims such as “FREE SEO” with every website. The truth is, SEO isn’t just a one-off task that you can complete in an hour or so, or even day. Instead, it’s an ongoing process that involves a number of different activities.

If you want to be a truly SEO web designer, then you need to investing some time in studying the fundamentals. And you need to test different methods or techniques on your websites before applying them to clients’. The benefit of being a SEO web designer is that you can increase your rates and able to attract more clients. Also, because SEO is an ongoing process you will benefit from the same clients you acquired, which means more profit per customer. Once you’ve mastered the principle of SEO you can then outsource 90% of the work to people who are willing to work for much less. You’ll be the one who put all these pieces together and see the smile of your clients’ face.