My Life With IT

Facebook is such a hot site that even hackers want a piece of the pie. Having been using Facebook for a while, I find that there are people who are very good at maximising the use to promote their sites while I have been just using it for other things. Youtube has a long list of how to make use of Facebook. Check out the videos here.

Personally, I have encountered being added by total strangers just because some of my friends are friends with them. It’s even a higher activity level if there are guys adding females and I have seen a few requests with guys having more than 1000 female profiles added. I wonder if those guys do know of them or they are just collectors. I even had one who is out to snag a girlfriend by constantly sending requests for contacting me on a more personal level than just using Facebook’s messages. My avatar? It’s a cartoonised version that doesn’t look remotely like me either.

ProBlogger has a problem with adding strangers and is now limiting the friends list to just real people he knows or has interest in continuing the contacting. While adding friends seems to be showing off the power of your network, I know that there are some I’ve added without knowing them at a personal level and there are some I added just because I was playing certain games and the larger network in the games applications, I have, I have a faster way to progress up the games faster.

Ultimately, I got tired of playing the games since being games, they tend to be repetitive after a while. The games developers have been hard at work trying to add new features to the games every few months just to keep up with the interest. That said, I know why I didn’t choose my career in the games industry. That will kill my brain cells in just a few months.

There are so many applications in Facebook to help promote websites and one of the application I’m using is called Network Blogs. It’s rather simple and much like Technorati in a way. Just a few conditions for it to showcase your blog posts; there must be more than 5 followers and for more tracking, more than 20 followers for the most frequented followers.

To me, Facebook is a tool. A tool that can be used up to the individual’s imagination. It’s a neutral tool just like the Internet. It’s the humans who choose to do what to use the tools for, like what a knife is being used for.

While I admit that I had visions of reading several books using an electronic device such as Kindle, I had no idea that such devices would be big. Perhaps, I had envisioned more of a hologram device that can be activated with the press of a button on a wrist watch or a small PDA like device to read books.

Although there is a price fight currently for Kindle and iPad, I see myself not using them as I realise that I would be carrying around too many devices that may be portable but add them up together, I am torturing my shoulders. What I see for the future is more in software and handheld gadgets.

A seamless integration with the end users understanding how to use the applications easily. There are so many models with different mobile OS these days and each with different browsers of viewing the web. Mobile applications are more popular with those who have the need to be able to surf the Internet on the go.

Applications for connecting to social media sites will be more seamless and there will be ease of installing in any OS without any hassle. As such, mobile phones designs will be consisting of screens as more people use the web for various reasons; travelling routes, book air tickets, buying daily necessities, checking bus arrival times, booking taxis and much more.

In addition, netbooks are also gaining popularity with the tech-savvy. Its lightweight feature adds to its appeal and more cafes will allow such electronic devices to use the power sockets as it drives more customers to them as a win-win situation.

In future, watching movies on the go may just involve a pair of ear piece and holograms being projected from a small device, thus, saving the shoulders and the movies with more 3D feel. Designs may probably have the same feel as the movie, Iron Man did with his armour.

Apparently, mobile phones these days can’t really last till your contract ends or even longer. My Omnia is screaming overwork ever since I started making full use of the data plan. Opera Mobile 9 gave me problems with logins after a few weeks, so I decided to install Opera Mobile 10 Beta to test it out. It worked beautifully until just a day later that the processor is unable to take the heat, literally.

Omnia keeps hanging or lag terribly. I am at my wits just to use basic functions like Plurk, Twitter, Facebook, Gothere and FourSquare! Just surfing using Opera Mobile 10 Beta only! How can do this to me? In addition, IE for mobile is acceptable. Not that I’m complaining but I like to use the keyboard to hit “Enter” and it does nothing. Neither did Opera Mobile 10 Beta react except appear a cursor.

Since it’s nearly 2 years that Omnia has been with me, I have to find a replacement. Unfortunately, Nexus One and HTC HD2 have 1GHz processor with 512RAM. Looks like it’s still quite some time before processors and RAMs can shrink small enough for mobile phones. To think I thought Nano technology was the hot stuff in 1997.

Therefore, I’m uploading photos via mobile and checking road maps for now. There must be a way to have an easier time using Omnia to surf!