Posts Tagged ‘tips’

How To Make A Mobile Version of your Blog

More and more content today is being accessed through mobile; iPhones, iPads, Galaxy Tabs… the works. Currently, your blog (like mine) is most likely not optimized to load (and be read) on the small screen. Besides, having a mobile version of your blog will make it load faster and thus, your readers will more than likely stay and read more of your content. Here’s how to make a mobile version of your blog without any coding needed.

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Blogging Tip: Make Things Easier To Share

It’s been a while since I wrote some tips for fellow bloggers.

With the advent of social media (read: Facebook, here in the Philippines), it makes your articles, ideas or media (video and photos) a lot more easier to share. The question now is: are you utilizing these “sharing tools” to its full potential?

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Using Levels To Make Your Photos Stand Out

During the long weekend, I took time to refresh on some Photography skills. I’d like to share with you something that I found at Digital Photography School. Although I’ve been using Photoshop Levels for some time now, I was amazed at how “tweaks” can make your photos “pop” by using the dropper tool…

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Extraordinary But Useful Items To Include In Your Next Trip

A couple of days ago, we just came from our company outing. When I saw this cool article about unusual items to pack when travelling, I thought, I just HAD to share it.

These are common, everyday items that do uncommon (and often surprising things) during your travels.

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Photography: How To Take Better Photos in Low Light

One of the hardest situations a hobbyist (or maybe even pro) photographer will face is low light. Without a flash, this task is daunting. This will call for longer exposures since your cameras takes in additional seconds to process the lack of light.

Here are some best practices that you can use to take better photos even at low light situations. Although more for DSLR users, point-and-shoot owners can also learn a lot from this.

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New Year’s Resolutions and Gaming

The new year is upon us. And, like last year, I’m off to make another list of New Year’s resolutions… most of which will be just for moot.

I’m sure me, like many others, will be making their own resolution lists. But what if we put a cool spin on it? And treat New Year’s Resolutions like a game? There are many instances where we can compare it to video games… let’s see what those points are, shall we?

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Photography: The Moon and Eclipses

One of the many surprises of my photography hobby was taking this picture of the moon (above). Although a lot claimed it to be their own, I still have friends and supporters who rallied for that. Thanks so much.

Anyways, I’m gonna share with you some tips from Digital Photography School on how to photograph the moon with your DSLR.

Let’s go…

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Gamer Hygiene Tips From The Pros

A lot of people think that gamers are slobs, too lazy to get a bath and stink like crazy.

Asylum.com interviewed 2 pro gamers, 18-year-old pro gamer Brian Rizzo, aka “Legit,” “Halo 3″ master and member of Str8 Rippin, the 2008 MLG national champions; and 35-year-old Steve Sobe, three-time “Golden Tee” national champion, to tell us the lowdown on gamer hygiene tips and how it affects professional play.

Hey, read on, man and let’s prove the critics wrong. Gamers shouldn’t stink, eh?

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9 Blogging Must Haves

If you’ve just started blogging and then decide to “Google” your new hobby (or if you want to blog for money), you’ll be bombarded by hundreds of applications, widgets, platforms and services.

I’ve listed some of the basics and yes – tried and true services, which any blogger worth his salt must have.

It doesn’t matter if you host your own blog or do it via the free sites like Wordpess or Blogger (both of which are the biggest in the world), here are 9 Blogging widgets and services that you can’t do without.

Just hit the jump button, amigo!

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How to defeat Lag

This is an old, original article of mine reprinted here. It was first posted at my original blogger site March 24, 2007. Am reposting it here since I just got a lot of complaints about lag and connectivity issues. I hope this will help.

Picture this:

You and your buddies just visited your local, boring NPC to stock up on pots and stuff and head out to the spot where the Boss respawns. It’s 5 minutes till the bastich appears… a few noob groups are hovering like vultures in the horizon.

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