Good news for webmasters and blog owners of their respective niches.

There’s been a Google Pagerank Toolbar Update as of May 3, 2012. The new Google Update includes ranked internal pages and posts.

More updates right [here]

Google usually updates its toolbar 3-4 times a year.

Cheers Everyone!

Image Credits:
www.trickygeek.com

The contest give-away is very simple. first; just make a wild guess how many blog posts are there in GeekyFaust in numerical format, second; write a post on why should you win this gadget give-away contest.

So simple right?

The top 3 commenters will get “The New iPad” for free and the rest of the seven will get free a trip to boracay all expense paid, inclusive of plane tickets, itinerary and free meals.

What are you waiting for? hit the comments now!

I’ve done internet/broadband speed test at Mandug, Buhangin District, Davao City and in the city proper. The signal is quite good for browsing no fancies involved.

Here’s the screencap:

taken at 12:00 am on March 29, 2012.

and 8:00 pm at D. Ponce cor. Suazo St., Davao City.

The usb dongle kit is a Huawei Mobile Broadband E153u-1 (SBW 995) an upgrade version right  after Huawei E1552 of Globe Tattoo. It also comes with prepaid card of Php 100 Pesos of free unlimited internet good for three days  and a pouch.

Check out the dashboard.

It’s good to note that Sun Broadband Wireless supports HSDPA and is improving cellular and broadband signals throughout Mindanao.

Disclaimer:
I’ve been a regular Sun Cellular user both for Call and Text Unlimited or CTU 50  for quite some time – that includes 1 week unlimited text for 1 week and 1 hour free call – most of my usage involves texting or sms. Aside from affordable prepaid and postpaid plans, I love their service – the network informs you a day before the prepaid balance runs out.

This is not a paid post. The usb dongle unit is given for free.

Credits:
www.suncellular.com.ph
www.sunbroadband.ph

Few days ago I applied for the publisher network hoping they’ll consider me. But unfortunately I was denied. So here’s the reply from them:

Hello,

Thank you very much for your intereset in our ad network. Unfortunately our application for Filipino publishers are closed. This is due to the high number of Filipino publisher we add in our system last year. Our clients requested to stop accepting publishers from the philippines for now.

Kind Regards,
Ellie

Here’s the screen cap too to prove it: (click the image to enlarge)

For Filipino Publishers out there residing in the Philippines adbeans will no longer honor your application in their publishing network. ciao!

While it may take years to build a sterling reputation online, it can be torn down in an instant. Even if you feel like you have a built-in defense system, there are so many tricks available to online saboteurs that you have to cover all the bases. Still, the path to online reputation repair is no longer shrouded in mystery. Here is the way to handle the job in three relatively easy steps.

1. Meet the assault head-on, but do so subtly and without aggression. Whatever the reason for the attack, you cannot waste time confronting in a war of words online. Trust us when we say a telephone call is far better than a heated email battle. Telephone calls rarely end up getting pasted into a blog.

2. Protect against future vulnerabilities. While it might seem like you were blindsided by an online attack, you left the door open in one way or another. Figure out the opening your attacker saw and make sure you plug it up to avoid future harm. One rule of thumb is to ‘own’ the first pages of search results.

3. Turn the negative into a positive. If you are the victim of a negative attack, the ball is in your court. Take advantage of the spotlight while you have it and get your message across clearly and forcefully. But not on the same turf the negative was placed. Build or buy space on at least ten different sites and have ten different copywriters refute the negative WITHOUT building any links to it or mentioning the author by name.

The job of online reputation repair won’t be difficult as long as it is in the right hands. Make sure you know the company working for you can fix the damage without delay.

Image Credits:
Virtual Assistant Philippines

I’m glad traffic statistics from years 2010, 2011 and 2012 grew gradually or shall I say doubled, tripled and quadrupled in the summary tables!

Here‘s the summary:

The most viewed and popular gadget under the mobile phone category post is Samsung Corby GT-S3653W WiFi I hope Samsung Mobile is listening. Please send me a demo unit that I can review?

It’s interesting to note that some visitors came searching for plants vs. zombies game, samsung corby wifi, sony ericsson galaxy? isn’t galaxy under Samsung? In addition I also won a Sony Ericsson Cybershot C903. Referrers came Facebook, Linkwithin Widget, Superuser.com, ittalks.net and Philippine Blog Awards.

Most visitors came from Philippines, GeekyFaust also has visitors from the United States and Turkey, were seen worldwide and not far behind.

The most commented post back in 2011 was The Happy Break-Up Iam Very Happy – apologies for such irrelevant post. Active commenters were Lyle Santos of Games and Gadgets, Ivan Saldajeno of Sporty Guy, Sef Gutierrez of Event Lover’s Hideout, RN Salary and Carlo of Lesson of a Dad.

Attractions in 2011 – Post that got most views in 2011 – these were useful in solving technical problems and therefore most sought after.

1. Samsung Corby GT-S3653 WiFi.
2. How to Troubleshoot SmartBro Plug-It.
3. Speeding Up SmartBro Plug-It.
4. Speed Up Globe Tattoo.
5. Sharing 3G Internet Connection thru LAN in Windows 7 environment.

Some of your most popular post were written before 2011. Your writing has staying power! Consider writing about those topics again.

Thank you WordPress - for giving me an opportunity to blog, Blog Davao - for promoting my site, Davao Bloggers – invitations in joining blog events,  Online and Offline Friends, Visitors, Readers and the rest of blogosphere for sharing my passion with you.

Included in the fix is the cross site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3.

Before upgrading to WordPress 3.3.1 backup your database and core files.

WordPress updates are deployed via your Admin WordPress Dashboard.

Source:
WordPress

iPad 3 – Apple’s touted next generation of tablet, packing up same features of iPad 2. The iPad 3 will probably pump up dual high definition cameras, thinner, sleeker, longer battery life.

PLDT’s Chairman Manny Pangilinan acquisition of SUN and Smart will lead in telecommunications at being No.1, Globe will be second in rank in terms of mobile and internet usage.

Hard Drives both internal and external still continue to increase prices but by mid March or April 2012, price will normalize.

More travels in the locals in the coming summer.

Hosting and reviewing a new tech show – It never came to my mind, but who knows? cross fingers.

Image Credits:
DMA Central

Samsung Corby GT-S3653W Wifi - Samsung Mobile released affordable touch phone wifi version.

How to Troubleshoot SmartBro Plug-It – Users been getting compatibility issues with SmartBro Plug-it when it is installed on top of Windows 7. This tweak is a real life save.

Google PageRank Update Schedule – Webmasters and Web Developers find this PR Update schedule handy. This is most true for sites who want to monetize more.

Speed Up SmartBro Plug-It – Tweaks to make your SmartBro mobile internet usb stick load faster.

Speed Up Globe Tattoo – Same as above except it’s for Globe.

Share 3G Internet Connection thru Lan – Allows mobile users to share internet using Globe Tattoo over Local Area Network in Windows 7 environment.

Makeityourring Diamond Engagement Rings –  Keeping fingers crossed, I participated this event way back January 2011, the competition is head to head whoever wins $20,000 get exclusive contract.

iPad 2 Service Center – It’s a one stop shop wherein apple gadgets get serviced and repaired.

Veterans Bank Balance Inquiry – Let’s you check your bank transaction balance inquiry online without having you going to atm machine.

Nikon D3100 Review – My first Entry Level DSLR Camera.

Logitech Z623 THX 2.1 – My first 2.1 Channel THX Speaker System.

SoxBloggers 2.0 BlogFest – Joins the Mindanao Funnest Bloggers with speakers in the field of Technology, Social Network, Mass Media, Video, Politics etc.

GeekyFaust wins Best Technology Blog 2011 – Wins the second time around for best technology blog in Mindanao – the Philippine Blog Awards 2011.

Feel free to browse for any back issues, I’m sure you’ll find something that interests you.

Goodbye 2011, Welcome 2012!

But I was dead wrong!

SOPA – stands for Stop Online Piracy Act – a proposed bill that allows owners of intellectual property to block and disable any website that they consider infringes  on their intellectual property.

Lengthy information worth the read is right here

Namecheap – a domain registrar that provides cheap domain registration, renewal and transfers is marking December 29, 2011 – The Move Your Domain Day.

Make your transfer below:
Move Your Domain Day

The transfer supports COM, NET, ORG, BIZ and INFO Domain Names for only $6.99 with coupon SOPASUCKS and $1.oo for every proceeds goes to Electronic Frontier Foundation to fight against SOPA.

Credits:
Namecheap

Choose any makeityourring diamond engagement rings product of the following:
Accurate Monitor for Search Engines – web ranking and search engine positioning software. Find your rank in a minute!
Site Content Analyzer – an advanced tool to research website content and calculate many content based ranking factors.
SEO Altimeter – a tool to find PageRank, Alexa Rank, link saturation and other crucial data with a click.

Important:
The coupon works until December 31, 2011 only!

Credits:
CleverStat

I was greeted with this:

Thank you for updating to the latest version! Using WordPress 3.3 will improve your looks, personality, and web publishing experience. Okay, just the last one, but still.

Easier Uploading

File Type Detection

We’ve streamlined things! Instead of needing to click on a specific upload icon based on your file type, now there’s just one. Once your file is uploaded, the appropriate fields will be displayed for entering information based on the file type.

Drag-and-Drop Media Uploader

Adding photos or other files to posts and pages just got easier. Drag files from your desktop and drop them into the uploader. Add one file at a time, or many at once.

More File Formats

We’ve added the rar and 7z file formats to the list of allowed file types in the uploader.

Dashboard Design

Flyout Menus

Speed up navigating the dashboard and reduce repetitive clicking with our new flyout submenus. As you hover over each main menu item in your dashboard navigation, the submenus will magically appear, providing single-click access to any dashboard screen.

Header + Admin Bar = Toolbar

To save space and increase efficiency, we’ve combined the admin bar and the old Dashboard header into one persistent toolbar. Hovering over the toolbar items will reveal submenus when available for quick access.

 Responsive Design

Certain dashboard screens have been updated to look better at various sizes, including improved iPad/tablet support.

Help Tabs

The Help tabs located in the upper corner of the dashboard screens below your name have gotten a facelift. Help content is broken into smaller sections for easier access, with links to relevant documentation and the support forums always visible.

New Feature Pointers

When we add new features, move navigation, or do anything else with the dashboard that might throw you for a loop when you update your WordPress site, we’ll let you know about it with new feature pointers explaining the change.

Post-update Changelog

This screen! From now on when you update WordPress, you’ll be brought to this screen — also accessible any time from the W logo in the corner of the toolbar — to get an overview of what’s changed.

Dashboard Welcome

The dashboard home screen will have a Welcome area that displays when a new WordPress installation is accessed for the first time, prompting the site owner to complete various setup tasks. Once dismissed, this welcome can be accessed via the dashboard home screen options tab.

Content Tools

Better Co-Editing

Have you ever gone to edit a post after someone else has finished with it, only to get an alert that tells you the other person is still editing the post? From now on, you’ll only get that alert if another person is still on the editing screen — no more time lag.

Tumblr Importer

Want to import content from Tumblr to WordPress? No problem! Go to Tools → Importto get the new Tumblr Importer, which maps your Tumblog posts to the matching WordPress post formats. Tip: Choose a theme designed to display post formats to get the greatest benefit from the importer.

Widget Improvements

Changing themes often requires widget re-configuration based on the number and position of sidebars. Now if you change back to a previous theme, the widgets will automatically go back to how you had them arranged in that theme. Note: if you’ve added new widgets since the switch, you’ll need to rescue them from the Inactive Widgets area.

Under the Hood

Flexible Permalinks

You have more freedom when choosing a post permalink structure. Skip the date information or add a category slug without a performance penalty.

Post Slugs: Less Funky

Funky characters in post titles (e.g. curly quotes from a word processor) will no longer result in garbled post slugs.

jQuery and jQuery UI

WordPress now includes the entire jQuery UI stack and the latest version of jQuery: 1.7.1.

is_main_query()

This handy method will tell you if a WP_Queryobject is the main WordPress query or a secondary query.

WP_Screen API

WordPress has a nice new API for working with admin screens. Create rich screens, add help documentation, adapt to screen contexts, and more.

Editor API Overhaul

The new editor API automatically pulls in all the JS and CSS goodness for the editor. It even supports multiple editors on the same page.

Credits:
WordPress

I can’t imagine I already got this far by winning two awards in a row.

I would like to share this Philipine Blog Awards 2010 and Philippine Blog Awards 2011 Technology Category Mindanao Trophies, this is for you.

I hope and pray that this blog may be nominated in the Nationals soon.

1. The blog or website/s must have original content. – 80%
2. Usability, Traffic and Analytics, etc. – 20%

Further reiterated that 80% comes from original content, blog/post updates and 20% traffic, analytics and usability – when you have good content it always equals to good traffic.

During the awards night Ms. Mae Paner graced the awarding of the technology blog and jokingly told to me kiss her! – which I did.. on her cheeks (giggles.. smiled…) and in return she giggled and laughed out loud too. she reminded me of being a kid crazy next door once more..

The host for the evening were Donna Mae Congson and Romarie Cunanan.

GeekyFaust made a short speech here it goes:

I am speechless! (background applause)

Thank you very much for nominating and making GeekyFaust your choice of blog on technology updates, gadget tips and reviews etc, I appreciate your inputs and value as well.

Blogging is not about making money online through your blogs but helping others share and realize their potential in helping and molding the blogosphere – readers, individuals etc.

Passion in blogging by helping others comes first, money comes second.

Learn Live Blog!

In other blog news, here are the Philippine Blog Awards 2011 winners in their respective categories:

BEAUTY AND FASHION

Chamimay on Flats –  http://www.chamimayonflats.blogspot.com/

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

Eat’s Terrific – http://www.ormanmanansala.com/

LIFESTYLE

Lessons Of A Dad – http://www.lessonsofadad.com

PHOTOBLOG

Lantaw – http://www.lantaw.blogspot.com

TECHNOLOGY

Geeky Faust – http://www.geekyfaust.info

TRAVEL/DESTINATION

The Travel Teller - http://www.thetravelteller.com/

PERSONAL

Anything Goes - http://www.sdumalay.blogspot.com/

Congratulations to all winners!

Thank You Dole Philippines, Smart Communications, Sagittarius Mines, Inc., AirPhil Express, GenSan LGU, GSC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Gaisano Mall of GenSan, ACLC College, Sun City Suites, Sarangani Highlands, SouthCotabato.org Department of Tourism 12, Gensantos.com, GandaEverSoMuch.com, Speakers, Organizers, Friends, Media, Bloggers for making this possible.

PS: Thanks to Guada’s Villa for the Davao Blogger’s accommodation.

Credits:
Philippine Blog Awards Page

I don’t want to spoil the fun either so I’m showing to you the Lists of Speakers and Official Programme of the BlogFest 2.0. Here it goes … tadah!

Happy BlogFest 2.0 Everyone oopps.. Bloggers..

Credits:
GenSan Magazine
Soxbloggers
BlogFestSox

GeekyFaust is nominated again for the second time under the Technology Category for Mindanao. GeekyFaust made its first victory way back 2010 and was very surprised and happy when Orman Manansala broke the news thru Plurk, Facebook and other Social Networking Sites.

Without any further adieu here are the list as follows:

BEAUTY AND FASHION

• Pinoy TV Critic –  http://www.pinoytvcritic.com
• Chamimay on Flats –  http://www.chamimayonflats.blogspot.com/

FOOD AND BEVERAGE

• Eat’s Terrific – http://www.ormanmanansala.com/

LIFESTYLE

• Tilamsik ng Diwa – http://www.akosiisko.wordpress.com
• Mindanaoan – http://www.mindanaoan.com
• Lessons Of A Dad – http://www.lessonsofadad.com
• Turtz on the Go – http://www.turtzonthego.blogspot.com

PHOTOBLOG

• Lantaw – http://www.lantaw.blogspot.com
• Charm Tamba P&S Photography – http://www.charmietambaphotography.blogspot.com/
• Pinoy Mirror – http://www.pinoymirror.blogspot.com/
• The Visual Storyteller – http://www.iamavisualstoryteller.blogspot.com
• Promding Chamimay – http://www.promdingchamimay.com/

TECHNOLOGY

• The Gamedok Chronicles – http://site.gamedok.net/
• GensanBlog.com – http://www.gensanblog.com
• Geeky Faust – http://www.geekyfaust.info

TRAVEL/DESTINATION

• The Travel Teller - http://www.thetravelteller.com/
• Your Travel Guide in the Philippines - http://www.pinasbackpackers.com/
• Way Philippines - http://www.wayph.com/
• Pinay Travelista - http://www.pinaytravelista.com/
• Pinay Travelogue - http://www.pinaytravelogue.com/
• Vacation Leave - http://www.vacationleave.blogspot.com/
• The Geek Travels - http://www.thetravelingnomad.com/
• Olanology: Chronicling a Good Voyage - http://www.olanology.com/
• Journeys and Travels - http://www.journeysandtravels.com/

PERSONAL

• Markable Me - http://www.markable.me/
• Anything Goes - http://www.sdumalay.blogspot.com/
• The Itinerant’s Path - http://www.vinceleste.com/
• Isip-Bata, Isip-Katha - http://www.pilipinong-katha.blogspot.com/
• My Words, My Life - http://www.hannahcarts.blogspot.com/
• Agong, Tales of Development - http://www.ernestocasiple.blogspot.com/
• Journeys & Travels - http://www.jt76.wordpress.com/
• Adventures in Life - http://www.rncn-adventuresinlife.blogspot.com/
• Proud Mommy of 3 - http://www.mommyrubz.com/
• A Teacher’s Journey - http://www.ateachersjourney.info/
• Letters to Mindanao - http://www.letters2mindanao.wordpress.com/
• My Happy Home - http://www.eleanoraguilar.com/
• Tennis Guru - http://www.tennisguru.net/
• Student Blogger - http://www.studentblogger.net/
• Mom Writes - http://www.momwrites.com/

The upcoming BlogFest 2.0 Soccsksargen would like to showcase the speakers for the said event.

Here they are:

• Mr. Manuel Quezon III, more popularly known as Manolo Quezon is an essayist and blogger.  He is currently an Undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO).
• Ms. Mae Paner, also known as Juana Change, is a videoblogger. She is a Film/TV Commercial Director and a Film/TV actress. Paner, as Juana Change, has become popular through her YouTube videos where she portrays different characters in Philippine society talking about the state of politics and government in the country.
• Mr. Jack Madrid, is country manager of Multiply Philippines.  Before joining Multiply, he was Yahoo! Philippines top honcho.
• Mr. Abe Olandres is known in the blogosphere as Yugatech.  He is a tech blogger whose site, Yugatech.com is the country’s #1 resource for electronic gadgets and i.t. stuff.
• Mr. Flow Galindez has a dayjob with ABS-CBN.  He is a blogger and an advocate of the World Food Programme.
• Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio is the Chief Executive of host city, General Santos.  She recently launched the official websites of the city’s 69 public elementary schools and 26 barangay high schools through her administrations SHEEP-Computer Literacy Program, making GenSan the first in the country to have done so.

This is also follow-up of the successful  Blogfest Soccsksargen 2010.
In addition, this event will announce the winners of the prestigious Philippine Blog Awards 2011 by their respective categories.

Show your support by embedding or copy the BlogFest Banner Widget codes paste it in your sidebar if you have registered.

See you soon in the Tuna Capital of the World – General Santos City!

Automotive Sites

• original and well written content (not scraped, not spun)
• approved in the automotive category.
• available linkads, linkposts, banners, etc.

Dating and Singles Sites
signup and approved in the dating category.
google pagerank of 2.
outbound links less than 50
no pharmacy, porn, poker, casino, links on site.

Credits:
Link Worth Requests

While checking my rounds on geekyfaust.info the Avast Internet Security flagged my site infected with malware.

The TimThumb.php is used to resize thumbnail image/s plugins and templates using these features are not spared from the vulnerability.

This attack are used for blackhat seo purposes, some of my blog/s Alexa traffic traffic stumbled, update and replace the codes of your timthumb.php powered WordPress Templates right here.

Re-upload, replace new core files in “wp-includes” inside your WordPress root folder.

Check your blog by downloading this text file, upload it in your site/s root folder and rename sucuri_wp_check.txt to sucuri_wp_check.php

It will look like this “http://geekyfaust.info/sucuri_wp_check.txt rename it to http://geekyfaust.info/sucuri_wp_check.php”

Or you can individually scan your blog/s with this site check scanner

A yet and simple tool will check for possible intrusions or web injections in your site/s.

Credits:
Sucuri Blog

Since the release of the pagerank schedule it seems that its scheduled updates is not  being followed – that’s strange; because google on the other hand makes incremental or mass updates every quarter.

I’m experiencing some pagerank points drop on some of my blogs now, from PR3 dropping to PR2 and a increase too from  Man! how could this be?

More updates at SEO Roundtable

Image Credits:
http://media.smashingmagazine.com

First (1st) Year  High School – PC Operations: basic parts of the computer, ie; monitor, keyboard, motherboard, definitions and uses, etc. assigned each hardware component by group and let them explain in front of the class – students by group assemble a full featured PC.

Second (2nd) Year High School – Photo Editing: discuss photo editing software and commonly used applications and it’s advantages; ie: Photoshop, cite samples of finished product/s.

That’s what’s up right now, 3rd year and 4th year subjects are still pending for review.

Image Credits:
www.chorltonpark.manchester.sch.uk