Attention to All Facebook Users

I checked my mail today and I found this informative article.. Just to share some knowledge.

7 Things to Stop Doing Now on Facebook

by Consumer Reports Magazine

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

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Using a Weak Password

Avoid simple names or words you can find in a dictionary, even with numbers tacked on the end. Instead, mix upper- and lower-case letters, numbers, and symbols. A password should have at least eight characters. One good technique is to insert numbers or symbols in the middle of a word, such as this variant on the word "houses": hO27usEs!

Leaving Your Full Birth Date in Your Profile

It's an ideal target for identity thieves, who could use it to obtain more information about you and potentially gain access to your bank or credit card account. If you've already entered a birth date, go to your profile page and click on the Info tab, then on Edit Information. Under the Basic Information section, choose to show only the month and day or no birthday at all.

Overlooking Useful Privacy Controls

For almost everything in your Facebook profile, you can limit access to only your friends, friends of friends, or yourself. Restrict access to photos, birth date, religious views, and family information, among other things. You can give only certain people or groups access to items such as photos, or block particular people from seeing them. Consider leaving out contact info, such as phone number and address, since you probably don't want anyone to have access to that information anyway.

Posting Your Child's Name in a Caption

Don't use a child's name in photo tags or captions. If someone else does, delete it by clicking on Remove Tag. If your child isn't on Facebook and someone includes his or her name in a caption, ask that person to remove the name.

Mentioning That You'll Be Away From Home

That's like putting a "no one's home" sign on your door. Wait until you get home to tell everyone how awesome your vacation was and be vague about the date of any trip.

Letting Search Engines Find You

To help prevent strangers from accessing your page, go to the Search section of Facebook's privacy controls and select Only Friends for Facebook search results. Be sure the box for public search results isn't checked.

Permitting Youngsters to Use Facebook Unsupervised

Facebook limits its members to ages 13 and over, but children younger than that do use it. If you have a young child or teenager on Facebook, the best way to provide oversight is to become one of their online friends. Use your e-mail address as the contact for their account so that you receive their notifications and monitor their activities. "What they think is nothing can actually be pretty serious," says Charles Pavelites, a supervisory special agent at the Internet Crime Complaint Center. For example, a child who posts the comment "Mom will be home soon, I need to do the dishes" every day at the same time is revealing too much about the parents' regular comings and goings.

So now, watch out fellas!

How to Create Collage?

Most of the time, I use Picasa 3. Some of my friends like Ila, use Photoscape or some may use Photomix. Some of you may ask, what about Adobe Photoshop? Er.. I'm not so good at it. I just know basic things about Adobe Photoshop. So, since I'm a beginner in editing pics, I prefer Picasa 3. Some of my friends have been asking me, how to use Picasa. So I gez it's better for me to explain a little about this.

So, first thing first, you have to have a Picasa dulu la kan.. Which you can download it from here. And it's free. No worries! Once you've complete downloading it, it will automatically scan your computer for all your pics. It will add it in there.

: A is your album list, B - your previous collage and C is where your album start :

Basically, that is how it looks like. Guys, sila abaikan kecacatan bulatan merah tu eh.. =p.

Then, you can simple choose your pics and click "Collage"

: A will show the pics you choose, and B is the button you should click :




:Another A, B and C :

A is the Setting where you can choose whether you want your collage to be in a Picture Pile style, Grid, Mosaic, Frame Mosaic, Contact Sheet or even Multiple Exposure (which look like a super impose je..). In my collage, I usually use Picture Pile. B is the frame that you want for each photo (I choose instant camera) and please notice C where you can resize and reangel your picture. Boleh senget-sengetkan, besarkan or kecikkan. Bear in mind that B and C is only applied ONLY when you choose picture pile. For other style there's only "Grid" which you can adjust to put a gap between pictures.

: The background option :

For the background, you can choose whether you want it to be a solid color (just like the previous picture that show you black as the background) or any picture as the background. So again, it's your choice. After I choose one picture to be the background, I usually delete it from the collage, will left three picture then. If you are not satisfied with the picture arrangement or with the picture itself, you can click the button below the collage - where you can scramble collage, shuffle picture and you can view and edit every single picture you have. When you're done, click "Create Collage" button (it's under the big red circle on the left hand side).

: Basic Fixes, Tuning And Effects :

You can click those three tools and apply it to your collage and see how it works. Cut it short, I like to apply some effects on my collage.

: Example - I apply some "Focal B&W" :

A - You can adjust the size of the focal point and how sharp you want the circle to be. B - You can also adjust where you want your focal point to be. When you're done, click Apply (circle C).

: Saturation :

Then I choose saturation to make the object in my focal point looks lighter. You can adjust how light or clear you want it to be.

The final result? Ta-ta-daaa...

: The Final Outcome :

That's how I make my own collage. I hope I'd helped you to make your own. For a beginner like me, this is a lil' something. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3. Till then, happy making collage and enjoy blogging with some cool piccas!!

What is NUFFNANG?

Nowadays blog is like a multi functional stuff which people can use as a platform to gain some extra money, besides being used as a personal diaries. And how do they get some money just with a few clicks on the net? Well basically there are a lot of ways, which I have already explained some here.

Choosing to put advertisements might be a good choice. There are a lot of choices like using advertlets, adsense, nuffnang and lot more.

But, after doing some reading, I thought Nuffnang would be the perfect choice so far. The "seed" is growing. Apparently Nuffnang is the pioneer blog advertising community and IT'S THE FIRST IN ASIA. They started their based in Malaysia, then move to Singapore and only recently they've spread their wings to Philippines. After years of hard work, now they have started to serve ads for some huge companies like Nike, AirAsia, Honda and lots more.

I guess that's a good introduction about Nuffnang. For more information you can visit their website and dig more. May be you can become one of the Nuffnanger and start getting paid while you sleep..Who knows..May be~

Just A Piece Of Thought

I've been having the thoughts of creating my own blog since the past few years, but after trying to have one had made me realize it's not that easy. Yeah, you just need to do a few simple steps within less than 10 minutes to have your own, BUT the facts of having to update and maintain the blog really mean something. *I'm not just a dumb when it comes to write, but I totally can made up tell stories!!~

There are different types of blog - but mostly are like personal online diaries or journals in a textual base combined with photos, a touch of lil graphics here and there and sometimes they link to other websites. Apparently I hafta say there are also some people who monetize their blog through videoblog, photoblog, artblog and lots more. Some says making money from your blog is not as easy as you thought as only 1% is having million dollars while sleeping. And the rest? Fail to seriously generates money from blog! But it's you to prove whether I'm wrong. =) *You bet I'm daymn right! After all, I'm a smart type of woman, remember!

Well, ladies...Here's some good news for you to add some money in your shopping purse without having to get sweat!

If you really want to monetize your blog, there are a lot of ways (obviously without getting sweat but just a little breaking scratch on your newly polished fingernails. What? I believe in No-pain-No-Gain). After all, who will success without getting to sac-cri-fies?

But seriously, you REALLY HAFTA HAVE a serious intention, determination and effort too. Ladies, we're talking about millions dollars here and when it comes to making money, there's no easiest way but to work really hard on it. If you ask me, here's my lil piece:

1. Have your mind, body and soul focus on what you really want and strive for it. If you don't know what you really want, it's not gonna change a thing. (eg: er...like if you are dying for a Fendi B. Patent Leather Shoulder Bag in tulip? *winkwink*)
2. Create your mission and vision in details and write it down so that you will remember, plus it will keep you on track.
3. Have a Master Plan. When I say MASTER PLAN, it hasta be really deep and details as it's gona be your shopping-to-do-list guidance that explains every-single-thing about your strategies, the do's and dont's.
4. Have some back-up plans (so you will know what to do next if your first plan fails didn't work as you want it to be).
5. Implement your plan.
6. If you feel like your plan didn't really work, get back to your Plan Bs.
7. If you plan works well, Gain your money!

The most important part is, never quit your job until you get $1000 a day from your blog. =)

Till then, All the best and HAPPY RAYA SHOPPING ladies~