Modern Street

As all Google users know, Google displays our search results according to our location. If we want to view the search results from other countries or regions, we can only do several things.

For example, if you are in the US and want to view Google search results in the UK, you could go to Google.co.uk and do a search from there.

This doesn’t quite work for people outside of the US, who go to Google.com, because the results will be clearly different then the results from going through a US based proxy. You can definitely use proxies, but they are not really quick (or secure). Read the rest of this entry »

Viruses and malware are the biggest risk to our personal information and the safe running of our home and office computers. Unfortunately, even with the best anti-virus software you may still encounter problems and it is always good to have reliable and cost effective computer support.

If you really want to protect your computer, and limit the amount of damage that could be done, you might want to think about ‘Bootable Anti-virus Disks’. Here is a look at what they are and how you can benefit from them. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone who owns a website knows the basic tricks and techniques of search engine optimisation. The most effective and well publicised seo tactic is of course based on exploiting the benefits of key search terms. Most of us are aware of how seo can be increased by spiking the content of website with an assortment of relevant key words and key word phrases – from page titles to sub categories, image names and embedded links. Read the rest of this entry »

The latest major algo update from Google has even hit the headlines this time; unless you don’t surf around a lot, you may have noticed Google has been shaking up its search results again – in a rather big way. This time, the emphasis seems to be on what Google calls “content farms,” hence the nickname “Farmer Update” given by some for this algo change.

But what would be termed content farms? Seems to me, the content farms are sites that churn out large numbers of pages, mostly duplicate or low quality content, although that isn’t entirely clear to me. Content farms? Think of Web 2.0 article directories that receive mass submissions from the public like Ezine Articles, Hubpages, Suite 101, Associated Content, and similar. Read the rest of this entry »

HTC is well known as one of the best handphone brands particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Recently, I just got myself an HTC Wildfire, one of the cheaper HTC Android phones with the HTC Sense installed. So here’s my review of things so far. Read the rest of this entry »

Many people have a very large office space and frequently sit far away from their computer monitor.  If that is the case with you, you probably have a fairly large screen resolution so you can clearly see your monitor from far away.

Because of the settings on some computers as well as the huge amount of programs installed, you will find that after just a few new program installations the icons on the All programs menu will cascade right off the screen. To fix this problem you can restructure the folder system on the All programs menu to store certain programs inside of existing folders. Read the rest of this entry »