Facebook has the largest population on the world wide web and it has a viral effect on distributing data. They have a lot of ways to pass data from one user to the other and one is by tagging pictures. When facebook started this feature it was so hard to tag friends because you need to tag them one by one and its a time consuming way of letting your friends know that they exist in a picture and now they have this face recognition feature that automatically detects a face when you upload an image. Though its not that accurate but it helps. Another way of doing this is by using an application that face.com developed. The application is called PhotoTagger, the application collects photos from an album and automatically detects faces and you can automatically tag all faces based on what their application has detected. It’s an amazing tool which I find it useful especially when you are trying to tag your friends on a large pile of photos. A screenshot of the application is found below and you can find the application by going to www.face.com and hit BIG go button and give it permission to start tagging your friends on an album.

I have successfully exported Thunderbird email files on ms outlook 2007 on a Windows XP platform which can also be done in windows vista and windows 7 platform.  There are several steps on how to do it.

1.  First, you need to download and install this software:  IMAPSize
2. Locate your Thunderbird emails, usually it is located in this directory C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Thunderbird  or  you can copy paste the directory and change the user to your account name.  When you are in the application data folder of Thunderbird navigate to the mail folder of the email account you want to convert.  Make sure you make full backup on the mail folder before doing the conversion.
3.  Open IMAPSize software and go to the tools menu and select mbox2eml.
4.  Select the files you want to convert, one example is the inbox.  The inbox file that contains all you emails is the one without the .msf extension.  And this also applies for drafts, sent items and templates. Attachment will be automatically converted and goes with the .eml file

5.  After conversion, open Outlook Express on Vista or Win7 platform you can user Windows Live Mail.  Setup your email account on Outlook express.
6.  Highlight all the emails that was converted by IMAPSize which is in .eml format.  This should should store all the emails in your outlook express account.

6.  For the last part of the process, you can import your outlook express account on MS Outlook 2007.  On the file menu select Import and Export and click next, Select Import form another program or file and click next.  Select Outlook Express 4.x, 5.x, 6.x or windows mail.  This will automatically detect you windows outlook express email accounts and download all the mails.

Today, a friend and a colleague of mine called me and questioned me why she can’t send emails using her mail client which is Incredimail which is one cool mail client because of the effects and animation.  It really bothered me a lot because I can’t solve the problem without being there in the situation and it is hard to explain things using a phone. So I went over to her place and to find out that PLDT changed their SMTP port to 587 which is not the usual port of SMTP.  But this is not only the solution, outgoing mail server should also be changed to smtpdsl4.pldtdsl.net instead of using your own outgoing mail server(mail.icpep.org).

This has become an issue but still PLDT has no action for this.  This is really one problem especially to those people who are not that techie.  Hope PLDT will change it back to the usual port and find other ways on how to solve the spamming issues.

To summarize it, you can configure your mail clients using the following information:

Outgoing mail server SMTP: smtpdsl4.pldtdsl.net
UNCHECK – My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication
USE Port: 587

Hope this helps in solving your problem.

Filezilla is an FTP Client used for transferring files from one host to the other or is used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP based network.  It is a free software downloadable on their official website filezilla-project.org.  Filezilla is one secure FTP client and so far the best FTP Client I have used.  I already have tried several software before like SmartFTP.  SmartFTP is easy to use but it is not a free software, you need to buy it so you can use it.

Filezilla has a simple user interface and for the first time I used it,  it feels like I have been using the software for a while.

You can store and manage your Websites using Filezilla with their site manager.  When we have a lot of sites to manage and forget the password we tend to search our mails again and look for the password because as what they say that you can not view your password in filezilla.   We’ll you’re wrong, passwords in filezilla can be viewed. If you have saved the login information on the site manager the here are some simple steps on how to view them .  First open filezilla and on the file menu Click Export and you will be prompted with 3 options, you can click the 3 options if you needed them.  But for now you can check the option Export Site Manager Entries.  Go to the directory where you saved the file FileZilla.xml.  Open the file using notepad or wordpad and there you can view your saved passwords.

I hope I saved your day and always remember not to let anyone access your private files, Stay Secured!

Broadband Internet Connection means a wide range of frequencies that are available to transmit information. This ultimately means that the wider the range of frequencies available, the high the amount of information that can be sent at one given time.   This type of connections is much faster than Dial-up connections which are limited to 56Kbs internet speed which also requires a telephone to work.

Internet is vastly growing and dial up is almost not in use today.  And one good thing about this is that most internet technologies already support Broadband connections.

Before choosing you broadband internet connection here are several tips for you to consider.  First thing is you need to have a broadband speed test so that you will know how fast your Internet Service Provider(ISP) is.  This is the first thing that one should do before deciding which ISP to select.  Failure to check will surely give a lot of pain along the way. 

Another thing to consider is the technical support, make sure technical support is always present.  Like what I have  technical support is always there, they provided me a hotline and I can also contact them on their site for minor problems.  If you are not a techie person I suggest that you should consider this option.

How reliable are they?  Reliability is always in the list when it comes to ISP services.  Reliability should be checked especially when we are use it in business.  They should be consistent with their services and downtime should be almost zero.

Lastly, cost is also considered.  There are a lot of  ISP’s who give all this services and cost me low.

When I was searching for the best broadband reviews, I made several choices and and one of the best was for o2 broadband review.  They have excellent performance among the considerations to take before having you Internet connection.  They provide excellent and reliable services.

Search Engine Optimization is one of the most difficult thing to do to get your site ranked in the top 3 search engines namely Google, Yahoo and MSN. Reaching the top is indeed a very big challenge for all web developers and internet marketers.

One of the strategies being used is article submission. As most of the “optimizers” know that the most important thing in a website/blogsites is the content, as they say “Content is King”. And I would totally agree to that, a site is nothing if we don’t find any good contents in it. But content is not all there is in optimizing your sites, you need also to promote you site by creating good articles and submit them to several Article Submission Sites. I was searching the net and even asked my friends and other web developers on what they think are the best sites for article submission. Well on my survey and based on their rankings, I also agreed in the sites that they suggested. Below are list of sites that worth submitting your articles:

• Ezine Articles – PR6
• GoArticles -  PR6
• A1Articles – PR5
• ArticleDashboard -  PR5
• ArticleBiz -  PR5
• SeachWarp -  PR5

These sites has increased my blog’s and site’s traffic to almost 4O% of what I have currently.  Writing to this sites are extremely effective and helpful.

Google has provided web developers foreign language translation api. Web content translation is not a problem anymore, with google’s Google Translate, research from different countries is now made possible.

This is a big help especially for researchers on the net, we can now easily understand web contents and even text from outside sources which also serves as a document translation services. Google allows us to copy and paste phrases, sentences and paragraphs from outside sources to their google translate and by selecting the language you desire we can now get translation to it.

But how do we add google translate on our website? I have provided 3 different ways on how to achieve google translate on your website. The easiest is for wordpress users, you can add a web content translation by downloading the plugin Global Translator . Follow the steps carefully and you can provide your users translation of different languages according to your choice as set on the administration panel.

The second way of adding a web content translation software by google is by adding a snippet of codes which they have provided on their site Google Translate or just copy and paste the code below and add it on your website. This is also the code I used in this blog.

If you want to have your own design and style you can still add translation to your site below is an example of the code. Make sure you have images of the flags as what I used in the code.

An example of the snippet can be found in this link.

In the past few months I was into gaming online and one of the famous site today is facebook wherein I am playing games.  Facebook has become popular because it is an interactive site unlike other sites.  Facebook is a Social Networking Site that comes in a package.  It has almost everything that is needed in a Social Networking Site.

One of the mostly played game in Facebook is Farmville.  It is mostly preferred by  facebook users because the images are of good quality, pleasant to the eye and navigation is very easy.  It is updated most of the time and it excites the gamers.  every now and then there is an update like new farmville homes and other stuff.  It has also been categorized well giving the users the ease to navigate the items they want to buy.

Lately, I was bored playing the game because harvesting and planting takes a lot of my time.  So I made an experiment on the farm, thinking of Richie Rich the famous rich young cartoon character or the Harry Potter movie, the “mazed” field came into my mind.  I was thinking to clone their “mazed” yard.  After creating the maze, I had a flash of a genius wherein I realized that when you trap your character it will speed up the process.  The time when the character is walking from one field to the other is saved.

This really helped me a lot in taking care of my farm and saves a lot of my time.  I hope this will also help my Farmville neighbors and everyone who is on the game.  Enjoy the trick and build those great looking farmville homes.

Surfing on the net has been trouble some now a days because there are a lot phishing, fraud, syware, malware, trojans on line. I have been using this free online anti virus scanner for a while now and it has been a good help to me. I am sharing this to everyone so that you will also have some ideas on how to make sure the site you are visiting is safe and you can also help contribute in reviewing some site.

The first tool I am using the McAfee Site Advisor which can be downloaded on their site. Below is a better look on how to use the tool.

The image is a sample result in searching search engines. below the result is the status bar where the green McAfee site advisor icon turns green if the site is clean and turns red if the site has a virus. The site advisor also gives warning and the icon turns to orange. So whenever you encounter a site that turns the icon to red that means that the site is harmful and contains bad links that can harm your computer.

Another tool I am using is the Dr. Web on line virus scanner all you need to do is right click on the link and it will scan the selected link then gives the result.

Above all there is one great thing to this on line virus scan, it cost nothing which means we can use it for free.

Apache Tomcat is an implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. But what are servlets? What are JSPs? Servlets are memory-resident Java programs and Tomcat is running inside a servlet container.

Here is a definition from Sun’s servlet site:

“The JavaTM Servlet API provides web developers with a simple, consistent mechanism for extending the functionality of a web server and for accessing existing business systems. A servlet can almost be thought of as an applet that runs on the server side — without a face.”

A definition of JSPs (JavaServer Pages) from Sun’s servlet site:

“JSP technology is an extension of the servlet technology created to support authoring of HTML and XML pages. It makes it easier to combine fixed or static template data with dynamic content.”

JSP can be compared with PHP and ASP, the difference of the three is that PHP uses a C/C++/Java hybrid, ASP uses VBScript, and JSP utilizes the full power of the Java programming language.

Using JSP how can we eliminate enterprise java complexity? We can use SpringSource tc Server which is an enterprise version of Apache Tomcat. SpringSource tc Server is hardened for enterprise use and is coupled with key operational capabilities, advanced diagnostics and is backed by mission-critical support.

It provides a powerful and lightweight benefits of Tomcat along with important enterprise class features and stability. Most of the demanding applications such as banking, manufacturing, health care and mostly all of the industries needed applications is powered by Tomcat and with Spring as the key driver.